by: Jonathan Landsman
Showing posts with label poison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poison. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Dentist speaks out about the dangers of mercury fillings
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the United States, there are approximately 87,000 dentists and, tragically, most of them never learn about the dangers of amalgams (mercury-based filling). Nearly half of these dentists still place highly-toxic mercury fillings in the mouth of unsuspecting people – it’s time to speak out about this crime against humanity.
Friday, 25 October 2013
Thousands of Dogs Have Been Poisoned, FDA Fails to Issue Recall
Thousands of family dogs across the USA have been sickened by pet jerky treats made in China, and nearly 600 dogs have died. The FDA has issued a warning over the deadly jerky treats but has not forced any sort of product recall.
So far, the cause of the fatalities remains a mystery. The FDA says it has tested jerky treats for heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics, chemicals and even Salmonella but cannot find the cause. The agency is warning pet owners to watch their pets for symptoms of poisoning which may include “decreased appetite, decreased activity, vomiting, diarrhea (sometimes with blood or mucus), increased water consumption and / or increased urination.”
Click here to view the FDA’s fact sheet on contaminated jerky treats.
Click here to view the FDA’s fact sheet on contaminated jerky treats.
According to USA Today, the deadly jerky treats “come mostly from China,” and the number of dogs sickened or killed by these treats has been rising all year.
The treats causing this epidemic of death, says USA Today, are “made of chicken, duck, sweet potatoes or dried fruit.”
The treats causing this epidemic of death, says USA Today, are “made of chicken, duck, sweet potatoes or dried fruit.”
BEWARE OF PET TREATS MADE IN CHINA
Most consumers do not fully realize that pet treats do NOT have to list their country of origin. Many pet treats are highly deceptive on their packaging, sometimes showing a logo of the continental USA and claiming to be “made with beef from the USA” even though the treats themselves are manufactured in China using toxic chemicals.
The FDA has not issued a recall on the brands it suspects are causing these deaths. This is one of the problems with the agency: it already knows which products are killing dogs, but it has so far failed to release that information to the public. As a result, as more and more people learn about this, all pet treat manufacturers will suffer because consumers will shun the entire product category.
In truth, there are perfectly healthy, safe and even nutritious pet treats made in the USA and other countries, yet due to a lack of labeling laws, it is virtually impossible for consumers to know which country the pet treats they buy are coming from.
This is why we need stronger labeling requirements that mandate the disclosure of things like country of origin, GMOs and even heavy metals contamination. Currently none of these things have to be listed on the label.
Even those of us who believe in smaller government recognize the important role of government in enforcing a “level playing field” through honest labeling. Only with this information can consumers make informed decisions about what they wish to buy (or avoid buying).
Until that happens, countless more dogs, cats and even our own children will die from contaminated food products. These are deaths that could have been avoided if we only had honest labeling laws in place that, for starters, clearly list the country of origin. While that regulation is in place for human foods, it does not exist for pet foods.
Friday, 26 July 2013
More Than Honey (A Bee Movie): The Not So Talked About Factory Farming of Bees
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“If the bee disappears off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.” Albert Einstein
More Than Honey is a new documentary
written and directed by Markus Imhoof. In his new documentary, Imhoof travels
the world to take an in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California,
Switzerland, China and Australia. Imhoof is more than qualified to make this exposé on the harm being done to bees as he
is a second generation bee keeper. This movie sheds light on the not so
talked about aspect of moving bees all over the country to pollinate
monoculture crops. After watching this documentary, one can only “bee” left
feeling sorry for these poor little buggers as they represent an entire other
scale of factory farming that is equally as harmful as the over crowded cattle
yards or chicken houses.
Official synopsis from the film’s
website: ”
Over the past 15 years, numerous
colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world, but the causes of
this disaster remain unknown. Depending on the world region, 50% to 90% of all
local bees have disappeared, and this epidemic is still spreading from beehive
to beehive – all over the planet. Everywhere, the same scenario is repeated:
billions of bees leave their hives, never to return. No bodies are found in the
immediate surroundings, and no visible predators can be located.
In the US, the latest estimates suggest that a total of 1.5 million (out of 2.4 million total beehives) have disappeared across 27 states. In Germany, according to the national beekeepers association, one fourth of all colonies have been destroyed, with losses reaching up to 80% on some farms. The same phenomenon has been observed in Switzerland, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Poland and England, where this syndrome has been nicknamed “the Mary Celeste Phenomenon”, after a ship whose crew vanished in 1872.
Should we blame pesticides or even
medication used to combat them? Maybe look at parasites such as varroa mites?
New viruses? Travelling stress? The multiplication of electromagnetic waves
disturbing the magnetite nanoparticles found in the bees’ abdomen? So far, it
looks like a combination of all these agents has been responsible for the
weakening of the bees’ immune defenses.”
Source: http://www.realfarmacy.com
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