“Why Eden Foods chooses not to use the USDA seal”,
19 June 2006
edenfoods.com

What it says about the USDA is considerably similar to the corruption at the FDA that Jon Rappoport’s article describes, albeit without any mention of death threats.

People can and should trust the USDA to not be trustworthy.

Ever since reading this Eden Foods piece a couple of years ago, and living in Canada, I don’t trust labels saying certified organic unless the logo or seal of an apparently trustworthy certifier, or whatever they’re call, appears on the packaging. If there’s only USDA, then I don’t buy the product.

Food products from the US and that’re certified organic according to what packaging says either always or usually (not sure which) have the USDA seal, but Canada and the province of Quebec have verification organizations.

Ecocert, international,
http://www.ecocert.com/en

Ecocert, Canada
http://www.ecocertcanada.com

The latter has pages or sections for the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, …, plus the Cdn territory of Yukon. NWT and Nunavut territories seem to be excluded, but there must surely be something for these.

Quebec also has an organization specifically for this province’s producers, including for textiles, rather than only food.

http://www.quebecvrai.org

If you don’t read French, then click English towards the right-hand side of the home page and beneath the banner across the top.

The following page provides links for organic certification bodies in Canada, the US, Europe and international. Neither the page for Canada nor the one for the US lists USDA. The one for Canada lists a number of bodies in the US, but not USDA.

“Certification Bodies Providing Organic Certification Services Under the Canada Organic Regime”,
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/organic-products/certification-and-verification/certification-bodies/eng/1327860541218/1327860730201

So, it seems that governments don’t consider the USDA as a certifying body for organic foods. Or maybe it’s different in the US.

The Inspection.gc.ca link was obtained from the “certifying body” link under “Organic Labelling” in the following Canadian Organic Growers page.

http://www.cog.ca/index.php?page=organic-regulations#Labelling

Another resource is the Organic Consumers Association (OCA).

It’s “an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation’s estimated 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers” (cited from the About page).

http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda_watch.cfm

http://www.organicconsumers.org/canada

In the main USDA Watch page of OCA are some articles and the second one today is entitled, “Who’s in the Obama Administration?”.

People listed and described are:

Tom Vilsack, USDA Secretary, who previously was “a leading advocate for Monsanto, genetic engineering, and factory farming” (rotten!)

Michael Taylor, Senior Adviser to the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner on Food Safety, and a “former Monsanto lobbyist” (rotten!)

Roger Beachy, Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and “long-time president of the Danforth Plant Science Center (Monsanto’s nonprofit arm), became the chief of the USDA’s newly created National Institute of Food and Agriculture (a nomination that doesn’t require congressional approval)” (rotten!)

Rajiv Shah, USAID Director (rotten!)

Quote:
Rajiv Shah, a medical doctor in his 30s with a business degree and no previous government experience, was the agricultural programs director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is on the board of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the Danforth Plant Science Center, is one of Monsanto’s key non-profit partners, …

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Another rotten individual mentioned in the USDA Watch article is:

Islam Siddiqui, Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (rotten!)

He’s “currently the US Trade Representative’s Chief Agriculture Negotiator”, after having been “Vice President of CropLife America, the notorious lobbying group that represents pesticide and genetic engineering companies, including the six multinational corporations that control 75% of the global agrichemical market: Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow and DuPont”.

Monsanto, Monsanto, Monsanto, Monsanto and Monsanto again! 5 x Monsanto! How else is the Obama Administration going to vote or act? “Monsanto all the way!” is all we can and should expect from this lot of cons.

Evidently, the “3 strikes and you’re out law” doesn’t get applied when it’s government and Big Corp. that’s striking out.

I get a “little” annoyed by Washington, in part because of being born and raised in the US, in addition to having enlisted in the USN in 1975, but also because of being wholly against corruption of food supplies and unacceptable, destructive exploitation, as well as poisoning, of the natural environment, the Earth’s resources. To put it another way, it’s because of being against being overruled by psychopaths and liars, charlatans, …. It’s downright annoying and frustrating. While we apparently “have to live with it”, we certainly don’t have to accept or support it; no, definitely not.

I wonder what the situation is in Canada, due to not keeping up with Canadian news, except very little. There’s an article I came across over the past two or three months about some rotten crap happening at Health Canada, which is a federal government department “with responsibility for national public health” (Wikipedia) , but I don’t recall what this news piece was exactly about; only recalling that it definitely struck me as rotten conduct.

Actually, I think to now recall that it was about the flu vaccination. HC was sort of like imposing this on all Canadians, or maybe it’s only all medical professionals, so nurses and probably all other hospital employees.

I forget if it’s in the US or in Canada, but there was some report about government forcing nurses, or nurses and doctors, f.e., to receive the vaccination. The government threatened these professionals by saying that if they refused the vaccination, then they’d be fired. Apparently many were wholly refusing.

Their refusals should be a sufficiently clear signal to the rest of us to be wary of these vaccines. Why would they have been refusing if they believed that it was safe to receive the vaccination?

Another article that might be older but which i came across and read over the past few months explains one of the problems with or about the vaccine and it’s that all vaccines contain mercury, which knocks out our immune system. The IS then requires a month or two, some considerable period of time anyway, to re-build itself, say, and until it does, a person who’s received the flu or anti-flu vaccine becomes much more susceptible to contracting the flu than if the person hadn’t received the vaccine. Iow, and due to the mercury, the vaccine is like totally counter-productive for the period of time that it takes for the IS to re-build itself.

If the flu period is shorter, then receiving the vaccine evidently isn’t going to ever help. How long does the typical flu period last, maybe a month or so?

This almost is darkly hilarious and is sickening.

When is it a good idea or recommendation to listen to, like to obey, government? Are there any serious or important examples? Of course weather reports and explanations about climate conditions, f.e., are of value, but there’s nothing at all political, so politically or socially sensitive, about this. It’s not likely that corporatists are going to corrupt meteorological reports. We should also obey driving regulations, albeit safely driving above the speed limits on highways isn’t a problem; except that it can get a driver fined, along with a loss of merit points or whatever they’re called. This also isn’t political though.

Are there any examples of when it’s politically important to obey government?

I can think of what I recently learned about President Eisenhower and it’s that he ordered and and ordered enforcement of racial desegregation, which the Democrat Party apparently wouldn’t do and which caused JFK as well as RFK to become pro-civil rights in order to be able to politically compete; in the case of JFK, for the Presidency. They apparently wouldn’t have done this if it hadn’t been for Eisenhower and, therefore, the Repub. Party forcing desegregation. This is an example of when it was important to support the President.

The following is a recent 2-part interview with Glen Ford, editor and founder of BlackAgendaReport.com, on TheRealNews.com.

“Ford: “The Kennedy Brothers Thought the Civil Rights Movement Was a Nuisance at Best””, part 1 of 2, 21 Nov 2013 (15:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4PC2sr-QU

Part 2 of 2, “Ford: Kennedy Was A Cold War Warrior to the Core”, 23 Nov 2013 (13:36),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOfmAR8lHE

TRN Web index TRN pages for each part:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11070

The two TRN pages include transcripts.

Many pro-Dem. Party supporters will probably be outraged because of what Glen Ford says about the two Kennedies, but I’m politically independent and only seek truth. From what I’ve gathered about Ford, he’s a very honest and knowledgeable individual; and while I certainly learned new things from the interview, I’m not really suprised or shocked.

Anyway, are there any recent or relatively recent examples of when it’s a good idea or conscientious civic duty to obey the government? Even just 1 example?

There should be 1, but nothing is presently coming to mind for me.