October 2008

On Monday, a Canadian biopharmaceutical company, Bioniche Life Sciences, Inc., announced it has received full licensing approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)—an analogue to the USDA—for the world’s first cattle vaccine designed to reduce the shedding of E. coli O157:H7 in cattle feces.

The vaccine works by preventing the E. coli O157:H7 bacteria

What if I told you the above images were recently released by the US government to confirm that, in fact, UFOs do exist? Would you be shocked? Well, sorry to disappoint but they are not UFOs. What they actually are, however, is just as shocking.

The above images are thermal shots of the same product

Whatever China may have bought in world respect by hosting the spectacular summer Olympics may now be lost by the way the People’s Republic is handing its adulteration of milk with the industrial chemical melamine.

Item One:   According to Reuters: The government has not updated figures issued on September 21, when it

Bryan Salvage at Meat & Poultry, the business journal for meat and poultry processors, today reports on the demise of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank.

It was used by veterinarians, livestock producers and state and federal regulatory and extension specialists to ensure that drug, environmental and pesticide contaminants do not end up in meat

Melamine-tainted milk powder has contaminated products world-wide, from infant formula, cookies, tea, and candies.  The contamination has been blamed for the deaths of four children and kidney ailments among 54,000 others.  More than 13,000 children have been hospitalized, over 1,400 with kidney failure.  There have been four deaths.  And guess what?  The tainted powder can

 
To the Members of the California State Senate:
 
I am returning Senate Bill 201 without my signature.
 
This bill weakens food safety standards in California, something I cannot support.
 
Last year I signed AB 1735, which passed the Legislature unanimously and put into law food safety standards for raw milk.  Those