Filed under: biological warfare, Chemical Warfare, chlorine, Eugenics, european union, fda, food ban, food contamination, food market, food poisoning, food safety, Genocide, health and environment, Russia, toxic earth, toxic environment, toxic food, toxicity, USDA
Russia Bans U.S. Poultry Treated With Chlorine
Food Safety News
January 7, 2010
With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports on New Year’s Day.
Russia joins the European Union in prohibiting the use of chlorine as an anti-microbial treatment in poultry production, which is commonly used in the United States.
As for birds in the pipeline, USA Poultry and Egg Export Council President Jim Summers said he thinks based on earlier assurances from the Russian Veterinary Service that poultry in transit will be allowed to enter.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture defended the use of chlorine by the American poultry industry.
“Since chlorine has been used as an anti-microbial treatment for more than 25 years, this resolution effectively blocks U.S. exports of poultry to Russia, has a devastating impact on the U.S. poultry industry and trade, and raised the costs of poultry products for Russia’s consumers,” says USDA spokeswoman Katie Gorscak.
She said there is overwhelming scientific evidence that chlorine is safe and effective as a disinfectant for poultry.
American poultry exports to Russia are the biggest component of U.S. agricultural exports to the former Soviet Union. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Russia has grown to become American’s tenth largest Ag export market for a total of $1.8 billion in 2008. Poultry was almost half of that amount.
Losing another near billion-worth of exports to Russia over chlorine comes as the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has also been unable to open the EU to U.S. poultry for the same issue. For trade disputes with the EU, complaints go to the World Trade Organization (WTO). But, Russia is not a member of WTO.
In 2009, Russia accepted poultry from the U.S. under a quota lowered from 2008 levels. Russia’s domestic poultry industry has improved greatly over the past few years, but experts say the country will still need U.S. birds to meet the demands of its consumers.
The EU ban on bathing chicken in chlorine has been in effect since 1997. The US-EU dispute was a test case for the Transatlantic Economic Council, which was formed in 2007 to facilitate trade and business between the two economies. A plan to end the ban was vetoed by EU veterinary experts.
The U.S. and Russia plan to hold technical talks over the chlorine issue. As written, there is more chlorine in most U.S. public water systems than Russia would allow for chicken baths.
Filed under: big pharma, Codex Alimentarius, depopulation, Eugenics, food ban, Genocide, global government, Globalism, government control, government regulations, h1n1, h1n1 vaccine, health and environment, herbs, infanticide, malthusian, malthusian catastrophe, medical industrial complex, New World Order, NWO, One World Government, Population Control, Propaganda, Rima Laibow, swine flu, swine flu vaccine, vaccinations, Vaccine, vitamin supplements, vitamin-c, vitamin-d, vitamins, WHO, world government, WTO | Tags: DSHEA
Codex Alimentarius Update: Vitamins and Herbs Becoming Illegal
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, California, Dictatorship, Empire, Fascism, fat ban, food ban, gavin newsom, health and environment, nanny state, Nazi, Neolibs, Oppression, Police State, san fransisco | Tags: cigarette ban, city hall, trans-fat ban
San Fran Continues Nazi Anti-Smoking Agenda
San Fransisco Chronicle
August 4, 2008
Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to make the city the first in the country to ban the sale of cigarettes in pharmacies such as Walgreens and Rite Aid.
And that’s only the city’s latest effort to make us all healthier.
The supervisors also voted to require chain restaurants to post nutritional information, including calories and fat content, on menus. This follows the creation of a program to recognize restaurants that don’t use trans fats and an idea by Mayor Gavin Newsom to levy a fee on retailers of sugary sodas.
The board is also taking up legislation to dramatically curb where smokers can light up, including prohibiting puffing in taxis, lines for ATMs and common areas of apartment buildings. And Newsom wants to close some streets to cars on select Sundays so people can jog, hula-hoop and lay out their yoga mats on the pavement.
What’s next from City Hall? A mandate to eat your broccoli and hit the treadmill 30 minutes every day?
“Next, it’ll be if you’re fat and eating sugar, you’ll get a ticket,” scoffed Chris Carillo, a 41-year-old software engineer who lives in Polk Gulch. “There’s crime on the streets, homeless people congregating, a lot of grime. I’d rather see them concentrate on that.”
San Francisco famously became the first city in the nation to attempt to provide universal health care to its residents and requires employers to provide paid sick leave, both of which are mostly popular ideas in this progressive city.
But when it comes to legislating good habits, some San Franciscans have had enough.
They say they can manage their health just fine without Newsom and the supervisors wagging their fingers at them. And some think City Hall has more important matters to take up.
“The city’s looking very shabby. I’d rather have clean sidewalks than not be able to buy a pack of cigarettes in a pharmacy,” said Bobby Kiel, a 60-year-old retired real estate broker who lives in the Marina. He doesn’t smoke. “It’s not any of their business. They’re not the surgeon general or the Centers for Disease Control.”
But health experts say these kinds of measures are needed, especially as obesity rates in the country skyrocket and secondhand smoke continues to be a killer despite education about the dangers of tobacco.
Filed under: 1984, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Big Brother, California, Dictatorship, Empire, Fascism, fat ban, food ban, health and environment, nanny state, neocons, Oppression, Police State, soy, Surveillance | Tags: trans-fat ban
California Bans Trans-Fats
ABC News
July 25, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it official: California will be the first trans-fat free state in the nation.
All-natural palm, rice and soybean oils will soon be king, and life in the Golden State will be forever altered.
The California legislature pushed the bill through last week, and Schwarzenegger signed it into law Friday, July 25.
The ban will require food providers to begin phasing out trans fat oils by July 1, 2009. Thereafter, noncompliance with the ban will result in fines of up to $1,000.
Banned: Welcome to Nanny State Nation
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