House Bill: HR 875

Regards to Bill HR 875 which is going to be voted on within the next few weeks...

There is a farm in Ohio that is producing food for chefs' (Chef's Garden in Huron, Ohio: http://www.chefs-garden.com/about.htm) that is using sustainable agriculture techniques to grow flavorful, nutritionally sound foods without pesticides. An excellent model against such a bill...

I received an email several weeks ago suggesting that organic farms are going to be required to use a certain chemical/insect sprays as line of defense against
"dangers to the food supply"

As a health care professional, I see this bill as a HUGH threat to what is left of our food supply.

My main concern is that is looks like the main backer and lobbyist is Monsanto - chemical and genetic engineering giant corporation (and Cargill, ADM, and about 35 other related agri-giants).

They say this bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by a newly formed agency to "make sure there is no danger to the public food supply". This will include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.

If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds will be allowed, but only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected diseases in humans.

As I see it, when the body has proper nutrition (which is hard to come by because of the air, food and water polluted by chemical, insecticides already), it has the utmost ability to sustain a healthy life.

Those of us who spend our hard earned dollars to buy (though sometimes twice the price of conventional) as close to what is labeled "organic" as possible to maintain our health, rather than depending on drug therapy to repair us, are the ones that are keeping the health care costs down.

We are the ones that understand that health is preserved and restored through good quality food. That since our food, and thus our nutrition, has been dismantled by the misunderstanding and eventually greed of the seed business, etc. to the tune of cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, to name only a few biggies.

It is commonly understood that even if we carry a gene that marks us as being prone to one disease or another, good food and food based nutrition is one thing that can prevent it from affecting our bodies. Which is why some people with the same gene do not become victim. In fact stress is not even a factor if proper balanced nutrition is followed.

If there needs to be anything enacted in a bill, I suggest teaching and educational programs for food handlers to wash their hands. I believe this could be the answer to the issues they are trying to avoid with their misplaced self-serving direction of adulterating the food sources.

Also small farms from what I understand have not been sited as having been the source of any health issues publicized.

When your body is nutritionally sound, you also are able to withstand anything that can enter your mouth more easily and pass it through your body rather than have it affect you. Without good nutrition, the health care system will be extremely overtaxed, as no one will be able to withstand a sneeze in their direction.

As far as farming goes, it is in the best interest of big business, to find a way to use sustainable farming that actually has flavor and nutrients:

Lack of nutrients make people want to supersize, why? because there are no nutrients and the body is looking for them in another empty hamburger which only feeds their waist size and not their cells. Better food would mean people would naturally get full faster and would not need more food. The food needed to feed the world would be less, that would solve a big problem! Everyone can win.

Let me illustrate my point about food quality that I commonly use and see...every year students come from all over the world to the US through a student exchange visa. They come with clear eye and clear mind, of normal weight...after 4 months of the American diet, they leave busting at the seams of the clothes they brought, their eyes and thinking are dull. They are what I refer to as Americanized! And this does not have a positive meaning. Within a few months of returning to their countries, they report they are back to normal.

As human beings, we have the inalienable right to nutritious food. I believe as a species, it is necessary for our survival.

I would love any feedback
pahner@healingx.org

Health Care Blog

I have been working on my website lately and trying to link it all together when I came across some great information to help people to get started on their own health care.

With just a few simple changes to your habits, you can affect your health in a very positive way.. Most of us are already aware of the poor quality of the food we eat and issues with tap water that contains choride and fluride. Some of us know that most Milk product are not something you should be feeding children along with anyone else. I am continually amazed, with all the information available, that people are still drinking diet drinks with artificial sugars and putting in their HOT COFFEE!

Now with the new Health Care System lurking in the forefront of the political campaigning, I am hoping that natural, healing, Food Therapy, Alternative Thereapies or Nutrition are going to be part the the program that we will be required to pay. To get you started...here is a webpage to check out... healingx.org/GettingStarted.htm and if you want more detailed info email me and I have alot more. pahner@healingx.org