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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The Death of Almonds
Here's another outrage being hurled at us by the power-mad FDA, USDA and this time the Almond Board of California. Did you hear about this travesty? It is astounding how rapidly and thoroughly we are being put under total tyranny. To facilitate this despotic agenda, our health must be destroyed, and you can be sure this is in the process of being done. Every aspect of our life support system, air, water, soil, food and supplements is under a massive and multi-faceted attack. (Have you looked in the sky lately?) We Americans better wake up quickly and start saying "NO!!!" Patricia
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Mandatory Almond Pasteurization
http://www.westonaprice.org/federalupdate/aa2007/24mar2007.html
All almonds will be pasteurized starting 2007!
No label allowing "truly raw almonds"
Almonds labeled as "Raw Almonds" will still have been pasteurized!
A big lie and fraud!! You are about to be denied your food freedom choices!
Did you know that starting in the fall of 2007, truly raw almonds will not be available in the USA or Canada? See link below for the pasteurization plan.
http://www.almondboard.com/Programs/content.cfm?ItemNumber=890&snItemNumber=450
The FDA, USDA and the California Almond Board has developed a marketing order which mandates that all almonds must be pasteurized. This came about because " two outbreaks of salmonella, associated with conventional farms several years ago". Industry has now overreacted in grand fashion and they do not even know it yet.
No outbreaks have been associated with raw organic almonds to date that we are aware of.
This has everything to do with lack of biodiversity and the sterile farming methods used on conventional farms. On these farms few weeds or grasses grow on the floors and little sunlight reaches the floors. To the contrary, Organic farms support and encourage biodiversity with green floors in the orchards and this discourages pathogen growth.
Unfortunately, organic almonds are shelled and bagged on the same production facilities as conventional and are being subjected to the same rules.
There is an even bigger issue. The FDA has decided not to tell the consumer the truth about this processing step. The almonds you will buy in Wholefoods this fall may still say "raw almonds but they will have been subjected to high heat and a five log kill step...that they are calling Pasteurization". This lie is being permitted by the marketing order!!
The FDA in association with the USDA and the Almond Board is in fact denying you the information required to make informed choices when you buy food. You will not be able to identify a pasteurized almond from a truly raw whole, enzyme rich, unprocessed almond.
The almond board claims that the almonds will still sprout ( still some life in them ) and that the flavor does not change. But yet no research has been performed to see what kind of opportunistic bacteria will take over when the almond has been sterilized. It is not a whole natural food anymore. It will now be a processed food. Millions of dollars are being invested to install expensive pasteurization machines in all Almond plants in order to follow this "sterile foods are better foods edict".
Demand that your source of organic raw almonds be exempted from this short sighted food safety debacle.
Demand that a label be permitted that identifies "truly raw almonds" and if required even put a warning label on them. Also demand that pasteurized almonds be identified as well. It seems that every time a government warning is applied to a food, that in itself becomes a certification that that is the food you should eat.
It is very clear that the FDA does not understand the origins of the massive immune depression epidemic in America. A sterilized diet makes for a weakened immune system. FDA website http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_antibio.html explains antibiotic resistance quite well, but ignorantly and blindly never mentions pro-biotics which prevent disease and infections. Whole unprocessed living foods are in this category of foods.
Weakened immune systems are associated directly with cancer, osteoporosis, asthma, allergies, Crohns, IBS, Colitis, GERD, chronic disease ,infections, antibiotic use and resistance and human death, Ulcers and the list goes on and on.
Raw almonds are a wonder food just as they are. Let consumers make the informed choice and be responsible for the consequences.
The almond farmers do not even know what they have been led into by the FDA. This consumer choice option will surely increase almond sales.
Denial of a choice will be a marketing disaster.
Freedom is lost gradually... bit by bit and bite by bite... with the great assistance of passive unconscious in activism and sheepish.
You are conscious and aware of this path. Lets fight today and send a message. We must have unprocessed food choices.
These are the people to contact....please fax, call or email them and demand:
1. A true almond label that states clearly that " almonds have been pasteurized"
2. A second consumer choice label that warns that the "almonds are raw and unprocessed".
3. That you will not tolerate the pasteurization of your almonds and having them still labeled as a "raw almond". That this is a fraud and a lie.
4. Tell them that the proposed marketing order denies consumers the freedom to identify and choose whole unprocessed foods.
Board of Directors of the California Almond Board
Chairman David Phippen
13909 Leroy Ave.
Ripon, CA 95366 (209) 599-6111 (209) 599-4008 fax
Vice Chair Doug Youngdahl
Blue Diamond Growers P.O. Box 1768
Sacramento, CA 95812 (916) 446-8595 (916) 329-3320 fax
Member Susan Brauner
Blue Diamond Growers P.O. Box 1768
Sacramento, CA 95812 (916) 446-8354 (916) 325-2880 fax
Member Wil Hunter
Hunter Farms 1621 N. Lincoln
Livingston, CA 95334 (209) 277-5840 (209) 394-8007 fax
Member Christine Long
Hilltop Ranch, Inc. 13890 Looney Rd.
Ballico, CA 95303 (209) 874-1875 (209) 874-1877 fax
Member Mike Mason
Panoche Creek Packing 15810 Arabella Ave.
Bakersfield, CA 93312 (661) 746-7877 (661) 746-7875 fax
Member Dean Nelson
Sierra Valley Almonds, LLC 12800 W. Shields Ave. Kerman, CA 93630
(559) 280-2148 (559) 843-9010 fax
Member Dan Cummings
Cummings-Violich, Inc. 1750 Dayton Road
Chico, CA 95928 (530) 894-5494 (530) 891-4946 fax
Member Rick Kindle
Gold Hills Nut Co., Inc. 11805 Newport Rd.
Ballico, CA 95303 (209) 634-2022 (209) 634-0407 fax
Member Doug Wells 16508 W. River Rd.
Livingston, CA 95334 (209) 394-7246
Marketing Committee Members
Scott Hunter, Chairman
Hunter Farms
12237 Rose Avenue
Livingston, CA 95334
Work: (209) 564-9991
Fax: (209) 394-8007
Email: scotthunter@nextel.blackberry.net
Dan Cummings, Vice Chairman
Cummings-Violich, Inc.
1750 Dayton Road
Chico, CA 95928
Work: (530) 894-5494
Fax: (530) 891-4946
E-mail: dcummings@cvinc.ws
Stacey Humble, Associate Director, Global Marketing
www.shumble@almondboard.com
John O'Shaughnessy
Blue Diamond Growers
1802 C Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: (916) 446-8576
Fax: (916) 446-8461
Email: joshaughnessy@bdgrowers.com
Susan Brauner
Blue Diamond Growers
1802 C Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: (916) 446-8354
Fax: (916) 325-2880
E-mail: sbrauner@bdgrowers.com
posted by Vetzine
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