Eggs with “Superior Nutrition” from “Humanely” Caged Hens Packaged in “Environmentally-Friendly” Polystyrene?
Organic Consumers Association Sues Eggland’s Best Over Misleading Claims March 26, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association Organic Consumers Association and Richman Law & Policy filed a complaint against Eggland’s Best on Thursday, March 14 in the District of Columbia Superior Court. The complaint alleges that Eggland’s Best, in violation of the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act, deceptively markets its “Classic Eggs” with claims concerning packaging recyclability, animal welfare, and nutritional superiority. Eggland’s Best, the complaint alleges, misleads consumers by marketing its eggs as: Coming from caged hens that are “always handled … humanely” and have space “adequate for normal function and behavior.” Delivered “in the most environment-friendly way” in polystyrene cartons that are “recyclable” and accepted by “more and more communities . . . in their recycling programs.” Providing “Superior Nutrition” including that the eggs contain fewer calories, and less cholesterol and total fat, than “ordinary eggs.” Contrary to Eggland’s Best’s claims that its eggs are superior to “ordinary eggs” in environmental sustainability, animal welfare, and nutrition, Organic Consumers Association alleges that Eggland’s Best eggs are: Produced by hens raised in cages that are not adequate for normal function or behavior; Packaged in polystyrene that is not “environmentally friendly” or generally recyclable; and Not nutritionally superior to other eggs. To view the complaint, follow this link. A summary of the facts, as outlined in the complaint, is below. If you don’t appreciate Eggland’s Best’s misleading claims about its eggs, let them know by commenting on their posts on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Subscribe Donate Take Action Eggland’s Best eggs are packaged in polystyrene that is not “environmentally friendly” or generally recyclable. Eggland’s Best’s website contains a bold “SUSTAINABILITY” header and states that it pledges to deliver its eggs to consumers “in the most environment-friendly way.” Eggland’s Best states that it chose to package its eggs in polystyrene because its polystyrene foam cartons are “recyclable” and “more and more communities are accepting this packaging in their recycling programs.” These recyclability and sustainability representations are misleading. Most curbside recycling programs in the United States do not accept polystyrene materials or have the capability to recycle them. When sent to a landfill, polystyrene can take 500 years to decompose and can leach chemicals into the surrounding environment. The District of Columbia, where we filed our complaint, and many states, including Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont have banned the sale and distribution of polystyrene foam entirely, or in certain circumstances. Specifically, the District of Columbia prohibits any “food service entity [from] . . .sell[ing] or provid[ing] food in expanded polystyrene food service products, regardless of where the food will be consumed.” The District of Columbia similarly prohibits any “retailer [from] sell[ing] or offer[ing] for sale an expanded polystyrene food service product, expanded polystyrene container, or expanded polystyrene packing material.” In the District of Columbia, polystyrene
Farm Bill Priority #1: Fewer Factory Farms, More Grassfed Meat!
March 19, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, has reintroduced a package of bills geared towards reforming the country’s agriculture sector. One of these bills, the Farm System Reform Act, would mean the end of factory farming and more grassfed meat. The Farm System Reform Act: Untangles the wicked problem of factory farming by getting to its root: the power imbalance between the companies that control the meat industry and the family farmers who do their bidding; Makes the Big Four meatpacking companies liable for the waste, pollution and adverse health impacts of their factory farms; and Restores mandatory and meaningful country of origin labeling to protect American beef and pork farmers from unfair competition from overseas, while expanding this protection to dairy farmers. Before we tell you more about what the Farm System Reform Act would do, let us tell you why we need it. Life would be a lot better if we had more grassfed meat. Subscribe Donate Take Action The American Grassfed Association lists the reasons grassfed meat is the healthy choice for people, communities, animals and the planet: Grassfed and pasture-based farming restores natural ecosystems and wildlife habitat, reduces reliance on petrochemicals, improves the soil with organic matter, and reduces greenhouse gasses, especially C02. Research shows that grassfed meat is lean, contains a high percentage of good fats – Omega 3s and CLA — and beneficial antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Small family farms provide jobs and strong economies in rural communities and create sustainable businesses for succeeding generations. Cattle, goats, sheep, and bison evolved to eat grass.Feeding them a diet of cereal grains creates an acidic environment in their digestive systems, and can lead to disease and the need for treatment with antibiotics. This is the meat people want to eat. Sixty-two percent of Americans say they would prefer to eat grassfed meat. But that’s not the meat U.S. farm policy is delivering to consumers. The Farm Bill subsidizes corn-fed factory farms and does little to support ranchers and farmers who graze their animals from start to finish. Every ruminant animal in America spends some of its life on grass, but approximately 95 percent of the cattle in the US are still finished or fattened on grain for the last 25 to 30 percent of their lives. The biggest obstacle to farmers and ranchers raising 100 percent grassfed beef is the processing bottleneck caused by the stranglehold the big-four meatpackers have over the industry. American grassfed farmers also face competition from imported beef. The problem has been so bad that imported beef has been falsely labeled “Product of the U.S.A.” On March 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized a rule that limits voluntary “Product of USA” or “Made in the USA” label claims to meat, poultry and
Tennessee’s “Lettuce Vaccine” Bill: What You Need to Know About HB1894
Congress made adding drugs to food illegal in 2007, but open air tests have contaminated food crops since the 2002 ProdiGene scandal. HB1894 does nothing. Demand a ban on testing pharma crops instead. March 5, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association All of this talk in the mainstream media about the Tennessee legislature’s fight against the “lettuce vaccine” is much ado about nothing—but not because vaccines in our food supply isn’t a real threat, as the “fact-checkers” would have you believe. Edible vaccines might not be approved for the produce aisle yet, but we’ve known that pharmaceuticals and vaccines are grown in food crops—and are contaminating the U.S. food supply—since 2002 when news broke of the ProdiGene scandal. (More on that below.) Congress made adding drugs to food illegal in 2007. In Section 912 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, “Prohibition against food to which drugs or biological products have been added,” Congress forbade adding pharmaceuticals, including vaccines, to food unless the FDA “has issued a regulation, after notice and comment, approving the use of such drug or such biological product in the food.” The FDA never created a process for this, so no pharmaceutical food has ever been commercialized, but many have been tested. Pharmaceuticals and vaccines might not be added to food legally, but they are contaminating food illegally. Subscribe Donate Take Action Even though Congress made adding drugs to food illegal, it continues fund research that could contaminate the food supply. On November 14, 2023, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), got the House to vote “unanimously to stop funding transgenic edible plant vaccines [see below], but that prohibition was left out of the new omnibus. So your taxpayer dollars will be funding edible plant vaccines, if the enormous spending bill passes this week,” he tweeted on March 4, 2024. Amendment No. 115 Offered by Mr. Massie The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 115 printed in part B of House Report 118-272. Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund any grant related to any transgenic edible vaccine. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 864, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Kentucky. Mr. MASSIE. Madam Chair, I rise in support of my amendment, which states: ``None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund any grant related to any transgenic edible vaccine.'' Madam Chair, does the term transgenic edible vaccine sound like something out of a science fiction dystopian novel? Does the term
Nazi Coal Butter
The world's first synthetic food. March 5, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association If you’ve seen my timeline of the plot to replace real farms with synthetic Frankenfood, you known that the first synthetic food was coal “butter” invented in 1937 and used by the Nazi’s to feed their U-boat crews. The illustration on this slide is from a 1935 photo collage by John Heartfield, an anti-fascist German artist. It’s called “Hurrah, There’s No Butter Left!” and satirizes the words of Hermann Goering who said, “Iron has always made an empire strong. Butter and lard have only made the people fat.” Subscribe Donate Take Action I first heard about the Nazi’s coal “butter” reading the article, “Ultra-Processed Food: how it’s making you sick and unhappy” by Andrea Hill where she wrote: Ultra-processed food doesn’t start with food and add something to it, it starts with chemicals. I really grasped this when I read the example of ‘butter’ made for the Nazi regime in the 1938. Two scientists at the Kaiswer Willhelm Institute found a way to create fuel from coal. It left a waste product: paraffin. A man called Arthur Imhausen was working on turning that waste paraffin into soap, when he realised that chemically soap is a lot like fat. By adding glycerine the scientists could produce an edible fat instead of soap. The trouble was this fat was white, tasteless and waxy, so nobody in their right minds would have eaten it. A easy problem to fix if you’re a chemist: they added diacetyl to create a buttery taste, salt and beta-carotene for colour and created the first ever totally synthetic food. Now lots of right minded people eat all sorts of ‘butter products’ happy that those industrially manipulated chemicals make it magically spread straight from the fridge. Top tip: do what your grandmother did, buy real butter and keep it in a butter dish in the cupboard. Nazi coal “butter”?! I suspected there was a connection to I.G. Farben, the conglomerate that Bayer, which merged with Monsanto in 2018, was part of during World War II, and indeed there was. Coal “butter" inventor Arthur Imhausen was half-Jewish (by his mother), but he was shepherded into Nazi circles by Wilhelm Keppler, founder of a group of German businesses that funded Hitler's rise to power, including I.G. Farben, known as the Keppler Circle. Keppler was chairman of the board of two I.G. Farben subsidiaries: Braunkohle-Benzin A.G. and Kontinental Oil A.G. When Imhausen opened his coal “butter” factory Deutsche Fettsäure-Werke in Witten in 1936, Keppler arranged for Hermann Göring to attend the ceremony. To deal with Imhausen’s Jewishness, Keppler and Göring went straight to Adolph Hitler. In a letter dated the 18th In June 1937, Keppler reported to Göring that he had discussed Imhausen with “the Führer and he said that if the man really invented the thing, then we will make him an Aryan.” In July 1937,
Timeline of the Efforts to Replace Dairy Farms with SynBio “Milk” Proteins Goes Back to 1894!
Got Milk? Nope, It's Fungus! Archer Daniels Midland & Bayer Want Us to Drink SynBio "Milk" with 92 Compounds Humans Have Never Eaten Before! February 26, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association TAKE ACTION: Ban New GMO Frankenfoods Made with Synthetic Biology! National Public Radio calls it a conspiracy theory, but there’s no denying that the World Economic Forum has been promoting eating insects as part of its Great Reset. https://youtu.be/zKvXtUHyZZ0 Subscribe Donate Take Action Obviously this is real and even government funded, but it's a distraction from synthetic biology, aka precision fermentation, which is the most profitable monopoly-controlled technology of the Great Reset of food and farming. As bad as cricket farming is, it's low-tech and requires human beings to manage. Production could be decentralized and local. The most powerful World Economic Forum company in food and agriculture is Monsanto (now Bayer). It has long been implementing a controlled demolition of the profession of farming in favor of a single, high-tech system that can be controlled on a global scale. When Bayer ran Auschwitz "for Hitler" as I.G. Farben's largest factory, one of its products was "butter" made from coal. This is what U-boat sailors subsisted on. Currently, their favorite synthetic food production model is the genetic engineering of microbes like yeast, fungi and E. coli to produce small molecules (proteins and nutrients) for highly processed Frankenfoods like "non-animal" whey and egg protein. The dairy and egg industries are the first two agriculture sectors slated to be wiped out, dairy farmers by crushing debt and "environmental" regulations, and egg farmers by the bird flu. It is fascinating to me that Metabiota, one of the bioweapons defense contractors involved in the creation of the pandemic virus (the other being EcoHealth Alliance), after being linked to Joe Biden and Ukraine labs through Hunter's laptop, was absorbed by Ginkgo Bioworks, Bayer's synbio partner in this plot to replace real food with the synthetic products of genetically engineered microbes. And, that Bayer's favorite spokesperson for this brave new world is George Church, a scientist funded by Jeffrey Epstein and DARPA, who gave an Edge Masterclass for colleagues including Metabiota's Nathan Wolf and Google's Larry Page, at Elon Musk's Space X. These guys aren't going to run the world on crickets. They're going to run it on an automated and robotic system where artificial intelligence designs genetically engineered microbes as factories for the production of synthetic food, medicine, chemicals and fuel. The U.S. Department of Agriculture that might fund crickets, but it's the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that's been funding what will ultimately be the Great Reset's choice Soylent Green: using microbes to turn waste into fuel. Archer Daniels Midland is the company that gave us textured vegetable protein, high-fructose corn syrup, trans fats and other unhealthy vegetable oils—all made from Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops genetically engineered to be soaked in toxic glyphosate-based herbicides. Now, they’re partnering with Perfect Day, New Culture and Ginkgo
Why Is Blocking the Sun Being Quietly Normalized?
February 21, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association Officially, there’s an international moratorium on attempts to block the sun, as well as a U.N. Environmental Modification Convention, but rogue “Greenfinger” billionaires like Bill Gates have continued their dangerous experiments. Since the Vietnam War’s Project Popeye scandal, the U.S. government has positioned the Pentagon’s weather modification work and DARPA funding as countering the potential “security threat” geoengineering posed. Recently there’s been a shift. The U.S. has begun to normalize solar geoengineering as a “climate solution.” In 2021, the National Academies of Sciences issued a report calling for a $200 million 5-year investment in solar geoengineering research, and in 2023 President Biden released a solar radiation modification (SRM) framework, claiming that “SRM offers the possibility of cooling as the planet significantly on a timescale of a few years.” Around the same time, the European Union floated “a potential international framework” for solar geoengineering. Subscribe Donate Take Action Meanwhile, climate-profiteering corporations are lobbying for solar geoengineering to be included in the offset market being negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Even “environmental” non-profit advocacy groups are in on it! The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)’s official position on geoengineering is that, “Deliberate climate interventions such as albedo modification should not be undertaken for the foreseeable future as they present serious ecological, moral and geopolitical concerns.” But, EDF has publicly supported research into geoengineering since 2010, when it co-founded the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative with the Royal Society and The World Academy of Sciences. In early 2024, Climate Wire reported that EDF organized a private two-day meeting of climate scientists, environmental activists and philanthropists “to prepare for an expected surge of Silicon Valley funding related to last-ditch measures for slowing global warming.” What is solar geoengineering? According to Dr. Chukwumerije Okereke, director of the Center for Climate Change and Development at Alex Ekwueme Federal University in Nigeria, in his New York Times essay, “My Continent Is Not Your Giant Climate Laboratory”: The solar engineering technology attracting the most attention would use balloons or aircraft to spray large quantities of aerosols — tiny particles of, for example, sulfur dioxide or engineered nanoparticles — into the stratosphere to dim the sunlight. It’s called solar radiation management and it’s highly speculative. … Other proposed techniques include covering deserts with plastic; genetically engineering plants to have brighter, more reflective leaves; creating or making clouds whiter; and deploying millions of mirrors in space. The point of all of them is to counter warming by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet and reflecting it back to the stratosphere. … These technologies would also theoretically need to be deployed essentially forever to keep warming at bay. Stopping would unleash the suppressed warming of the carbon dioxide still accumulating in the atmosphere in a temperature spike known as “termination shock.” One study found that the
Why Are Bees Dying? Because of Bayer’s Business Model.
February 13, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association In the 1980s, Bayer invented synthetic neonicotinoid compounds that could be applied to the seed of a plant and remain effective for the plant’s entire lifespan. By 2004, Bayer had agreements with the top genetically modified seed companies to coat their seeds with massive amounts of neonics. By 2007, 80 percent of the corn seed sold by market-leader Pioneer (Monsanto’s rival-cum-partner) was treated with Bayer’s clothianidin-based Poncho. By 2008, Colony Collapse Disorder was a worldwide problem. Today, nearly all corn seeds and about half of soybean seeds are coated in neonics. Bayer takes advantage of the fact that, in the US, seed treatments aren’t regulated as pesticides. Seed treatments used to be measured in overall neonic use, but the US Geological Survey started leaving them out in 2014. That’s crazy, because just one corn seed can hold enough neonics to kill a quarter-million bees! This is what’s causing honey bee colony losses. In the 2022-2023 season, commercial beekeepers saw a mortality rate of 48.2 percent in their hives, almost as bad as the 2020-2021 season with the highest loss rate ever reported (50.8%). Subscribe Donate Take Action What began with the collapse of bee colonies has become a full-on insect apocalypse that scientists say is “tearing apart the tapestry of life”, devastating bird populations, harming deer and rabbits, impacting human health and threatening the future of foods that rely on pollinators. The U.S. agricultural landscape is now 48 times more toxic to bees than it was 25 years ago and crop yields for apples, cherries and blueberries are already being reduced by a lack of pollinators. New York State made history in 2023 when Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Birds and Bees Protection Act to ban neonicotinoid (neonic) coatings on corn, soybean and wheat seeds. The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators has stepped up to address the crisis with legislation to restrict the use of bee-killing neonic insecticides . Across the country, bills to ban, restrict or regulate neonics have been introduced in 23 states and passed in Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Most of these laws target home lawn and garden use, but the victory in New York is inspiring action targeted at the larger problem of agricultural use. In 2024, Vermont is the state to watch, with lawmakers there considering a ban. TAKE ACTION: Tell your state legislators to ban neonic seed treatments! Related Posts
The Matrix Is Here. Have You Already Plugged In Without Realizing It?
February 7, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association How did everybody end up in the Matrix? They plugged themselves in. One day they were using it to connect with friends, work, shop online, read the news and watch movies. The next thing they knew, they were trapped and couldn’t get out. They refused to line up for brain surgery, but happily bought virtual reality goggles, smartwatches that measured biometric data and brain-training “neurofeedback” headsets. Brain surgery? Never. Non-invasive mind control device? Sure, if it makes life a little easier! Let’s plug in the kids! They thought that if they weren’t actually plugged in physically, they could leave anytime. The trouble is, they underestimated the mind-control powers the corporations would have over them simply by monitoring and responding to their brainwaves and emotional states as they learned, worked and played online. The algorithms played each person like a fiddle, able to accurately predict and then subtly alter each decision, while always keeping up the illusion of free choice. Most of the “technology” used to do this was the old-school Cambridge Analytica method, the same employed in advertising and confidence tricks. But, the ability to merge behavioral data with realtime biometrics and brainwaves trained the algorithms to accomplish human goals with machine-like precision. It was like when humans taught computers to play chess; the ability to quickly compute every possibility made them invincible! So, why are we hearing so much about Neuralink brain surgery? Could it be a psyop? It certainly got my attention! Subscribe Donate Take Action My heart broke and a shiver went up my spine when I heard about “Animal 21.” The day after this female rhesus macaque had Elon Musk’s Neuralink drilled into her skull, “she lost coordination and balance, experienced paralysis in both legs and was suffering from ‘depression.’ The day after that, she was seen ‘gasping/retching’ and ‘collapse[d] from exhaustion/fatigue.’ When staff finally euthanized her and conducted a necropsy, they discovered BioGlue was ‘covering and compressing a large area of the left cerebrum’ and blood had built up on the surface of her brain.” And yet, in May 2023, the Food & Drug Administration approved Neuralink’s request for permission to pursue human trials! On January 29th, Elon Musk tweeted that “The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.” The news hasn’t been independently confirmed by Neuralink, so Musk’s tweet might just be hype targeted at investors or aimed at making money off a future IPO. With all the buzz about this, I was surprised to learn that other companies already implanted brain-computer interfaces in humans long before Musk tweeted, including Synchron, Blackrock Neurotech, Precision and Motif. According to the Daily Beast, “Neuralink was beaten to human trials by numerous other neurotechnology competitors such as Synchron, which successfully implanted its brain-computer interfaces in a human using a much-less invasive procedure.” CNBC
Fauci Admits COVID’s Origin May Be Lab as WEF Preps for “Disease X”
January 16, 2024 | by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association Now that Anthony Fauci isn’t running the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases anymore, and is no longer doling out grants for “gain-of-function” bioweapons research, he’s no longer dismissing the idea that SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab. Meanwhile, corporate and government leaders meeting in Davos at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum this month are “Preparing for Disease X.” Subscribe Donate Take Action Fauci Admits COVID May Have Originated in a Lab On January 10, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) reported from the subcommittee’s two-day closed-door transcribed interview with Dr. Fauci that: Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory. This comes nearly four years after prompting the publication of the now infamous “Proximal Origin” paper that attempted to vilify and disprove the lab leak hypothesis; and Dr. Fauci played semantics with the definition of a “lab-leak” in an attempt to cover-up the inaccurate conclusions of “Proximal Origin.” It is impossible for Dr. Fauci to defend the conclusion of this publication while simultaneously acknowledging that a lab-leak is possible. COVID doesn’t have a natural origin. SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t found in the farms that stocked the Wuhan wet market, and it has never been found in the wild anywhere in the world. Virus hunters like Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance are still out there claiming to be looking for the natural origin of SARS. On January 9, 2024, Daszak presented at a World Health Organization event. (Here are his slides and a video of the session.) He claimed to have found, in Thailand, a new bat virus very closely related to SARS-CoV-2. Naturally, he took it back to the lab to study how well it infected human cells. What could go wrong?! He didn’t say whether he shared it with Ralph Baric, the scientist infamous for his “no-see’em” “gain-of-function” genetic engineering techniques for weaponizing pathogens. Gain-of-function research continues around the world. In China, scientists published a study on January 4, 2024, where they infected humanized mice with a mutant pangolin coronavirus that infected the brain. Every single mouse died. (Here’s a video from Dr. John Campbell on the risks of this kind of “gain-of-function” bioweapons research. The World Economic Forum is Preparing for Disease X “With fresh warnings from the World Health Organization that an unknown ‘Disease X’ could result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic, what novel efforts are needed to prepare healthcare systems for the multiple challenges ahead?” That’s the description of a January 17 session at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos entitled “Preparing for Disease X” sponsored by the WEF’s Collaborative Surveillance Initiative. When the WEF says it’s preparing for “Disease X,” we should pay close attention, remembering that, in October 2019, the World Economic Forum was one of the