Friday, March 27, 2015

Sorry, Monsanto. The Science Is on Our Side, Not Yours


By Katherine Paul
A few weeks ago, I spoke by phone with Cathleen Enright, executive vice president of the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO). (Long story).
During the course of our conversation, when we touched on the subject of the science behind the debate over whether or not GMOs are “safe” (me arguing that there’s no scientific consensus) Enright said, “Then you must not believe in climate change, either.” 
I glossed over that accusation, though it struck me as odd. And random. Until less than a week later, on March 9 (2015), an article appeared in the Guardian under this headline: “The anti-GM lobby appears to be taking a page out of the Climategate playbook.”
That’s when I realized what I should have known. Enright’s comment wasn’t random at all. It’s just a new twist on an old talking point—from an industry on the verge of crumbling under the weight of an avalanche of new credible, scientific evidence exposing not only the dangers of GMO crops and the toxic chemicals used to grow them, but the extent to which both Monsanto and U.S. government agencies like the EPA, FDA and USDA have covered up those dangers. (Side note: Turns out the authors of the Guardian piece all have ties to, surprise, the biotech industry).
READ HERE for the rest of this article and a few examples of the latest reports, articles and books exposing the dangers of GMOs, Big Ag’s toxic chemicals and evidence of a decades-long cover-up to keep consumers in the dark.

More Black Racism Not Covered By Mainstream Media

Now, had this been a WHITE (and I put this title loosely to rapping) musical artist saying this about BLACK Americans, there'd be shouting from the roof tops, looting, news reporters reporting ad nauseam about racism, media stations and newspapers making it front page news, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others of their ilk profiting off from it and all of this, just keeping the race wars alive and well!

BUT...when it's the other way around, where are all of these people? Why is it okay to be racist against WHITE folk? Why is it okay to put down people just because of the color of their skin, if it's white? RACISM IS WRONG...not matter what color of skin it is being racist about...PERIOD!

And I whole heartedly agree with the writer of the article that wrote this...Azealia Banks should just go ahead and buy that plane ticket to a foreign country NOW....instead of waiting to make her millions in a country (America) that she hates so much! (She said that she hates "fat white Americans" and Jesus).

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo Kansas - A Monsanto Puppet


Doubling Down

fund raiser
As soon as the newswires lit up last week with the report from the World Health Organization (WHO) that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, “probably” causes cancer in humans, Monsanto doubled down on its efforts to deny the truth about what’s in your food.
We doubled down, too. And so did an anonymous donor in New England who stepped up to match your donations to our March online fundraising campaign.
DEADLINE MARCH 31: Support GMO labeling laws today and your donation will be matched by an anonymous donor.
When the damning report on glyphosate broke, the Biotech Bully’s public relations flacks flatly denied the claims, and immediately set out to attack the report and the scientists who wrote it—just as they’ve attacked every other credible scientist and study questioning the safety of the world’s most widely used herbicide.
Meanwhile this week on Capitol Hill, a bill written by industry lobbyists to preempt states’ rights to pass GMO labeling laws, was reintroduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.). The bill, dubbed the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act, is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and Big Food to keep consumers in the dark about what’s in their food—including “accepted allowable” residues of cancer-causing glyphosate.
It is critical that we keep the pressure on Monsanto and the Junk Food Giants by continuing to launch state GMO labeling campaigns. That’s why OCA is leading the new GMO labeling campaign in Maine this legislative season, and lending background support to other New England states, including Massachusetts, whose grassroots coalitions are working fast and furiously to pass GMO labeling laws before Congress moves to stomp them out.
This latest report from WHO should have every consumer alarmed—and ready to fight back.

It's Back. And It's Worse.

Pompeo
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) didn’t like the fact that consumer groups renamed his bill to kill state GMO labeling laws the "Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act." So, in order to appear to be on the side of consumers who want the right to know if their food contains GMOs, Pompeo has reintroduced the bill, [LINK TO COME] with a new plan.

The new-and-improved (but really much worse) DARK Act would still do what it set out to do—strip states of their century-old rights to pass food labeling laws. But the bill now also includes a scheme for a national, uniform standard for labeling products non-GMO—a new program that would be overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Really? Pompeo, a member of the Republican Party which purports to stand for states’ rights and is allegedly anti-big government, wants to create yet another federal government-run program? This time, to certify non-GMO? We fail to see how that's preferable to just requiring food manufacturers to do what they already do in more than 60 other countries—simply state whether or not their products contain GMOS?

The DARK Act 2.0 was introduced on the heels of a hearing held this week by the House Committee on Agriculture to, the committee said, examine the “Cost and Impacts of States Implementing Mandatory Biotechnology Labeling Laws.” During that hearing, industry trotted out all of its talking points, including false claims that labeling will cost food manufacturers millions of dollars, a cost they’ll have to pass on to consumers. Never mind that study after study has proven otherwise. That food manufacturers change their labels all the time. And that in countries where GMO labeling is required, costs have not been passed on to consumers.

Pompeo’s bill has nothing to do with protecting consumer or states’ rights, and everything to do with protecting the profits of those companies—like Monsanto and Coca-Cola—who have essentially written this law. It’s an outrage. And we will do everything in our power to stop it dead in its tracks.

Read the OCA press release

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Representative: Support Consumer and States' Rights. Reject Rep. Pompeo's DARK Act!:


Iceland Jails Its Bankers And Economy Does Better...So Why Can't America Do The Same?

Why do Americans STILL put up with a president, a Congress, a DOJ department and other governmental authorities who are so BLATANTLY corrupt and in bed with the bankers? Can you say...GOVERNMENTAL CORRUPTION? So will someone PLEASE tell me, why aren't the American people standing up and taking charge, and doing their DUTY as described in our Declaration of Independence? 
Here it is in case you're not educated enough to know because it hasn't been taught for a LONG time in our PUBLIC (another word for governmental) schools: 
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

If little old Iceland can jail the corrupt economic problem makers, so can America. Don't listen to those corrupt politicians who are in bed with them, and MAKE THEM do the correct and right thing, or DO YOUR DUTY as Americans and get rid of the vermin (both political & economical)...pure & simple!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Hidden Toxins In Your Laundry Detergent That May Be Wreaking Havoc On Your Health

According to the University of Washington, your laundry detergent releases banned cancer-causing chemicals that may be affecting the health of you and your family.

On July 23rd, 2008, the University of Washington did a study on leading detergents. What they found is that 99% of laundry detergents released cancer-causing chemicals that are legally hazardous and toxic by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).

Most of them were NOT on the label. These chemicals is so toxic…
  • It is a major ingredient in pesticides. It's used to kill insects.
  • It is extremely harmful to your body because it imitates the hormone 'estrogen'
  • When these artificial hormone like chemicals get into your blood stream through your skin, they may start to cause serious damage to your body.
  • The Journal of Pesticide Reform shows strong evidence that these chemicals cause severe damage to heart and muscle function .
PLEASE STOP: Do not do another load of laundry until you watch our video below. If you take a couple of minutes to watch this crucial presentation, it may change your life, take your health to a new level, and save you a great deal of money that most people simply flush down the toilet...

Friday, March 13, 2015

Muslim/Islamic Faith - One Of Peace?


And this is from a religion of peace and respecting ALL people? This only goes to show the disdain of Islamic men towards women.
There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, taqiyya and kitman.  These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.

Taqiyya - Saying something that isn't true.

Kitman - Lying by omission.  An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief."

Though not called Taqiyya by name, Muhammad clearly used deception when he signed a 10-year treaty with the Meccans that allowed him access to their city while he secretly prepared his own forces for a takeover.  The unsuspecting residents were conquered in easy fashion after he broke the treaty two years later, and some of the people in the city who had trusted him at his word were executed.

Another example of lying is when Muhammad used deception to trick his personal enemies into letting down their guard and exposing themselves to slaughter by pretending to seek peace.  This happened in the case of Ka'b bin al-Ashraf (as previously noted) and again later against Usayr ibn Zarim, a surviving leader of the Banu Nadir tribe, which had been evicted from their home in Medina by the Muslims.

At the time, Usayr ibn Zarim was attempting to gather an armed force against the Muslims from among a tribe allied with the Quraish (against which Muhammad had already declared war).  Muhammad's "emissaries" went to ibn Zarim and persuaded him to leave his safe haven on the pretext of meeting with the prophet of Islam in Medina to discuss peace.  Once vulnerable, the leader and his thirty companions were massacred by the Muslims with ease, belying the probability that they were mostly unarmed, having been given a guarantee of safe passage (Ibn Ishaq 981).

Such was the reputation of Muslims for lying and then killing that even those who "accepted Islam" did not feel entirely safe.  The fate of the Jadhima is tragic evidence for this.  When Muslim "missionaries" approached their tribe one of the members insisted that they would be slaughtered even though they had already "converted" to Islam to avoid just such a demise.  However, the others were convinced that they could trust the Muslim leader's promise that they would not be harmed if they simply offered no resistance.  (After convincing the skeptic to lay down his arms, the unarmed men of the tribe were quickly tied up and beheaded - Ibn Ishaq 834 & 837).

Today's Muslims often try to justify Muhammad's murder of poets and others who criticized him at Medina by saying that they broke a treaty by their actions.  Yet, these same apologists place little value on treaties broken by Muslims.  From Muhammad to Saddam Hussein, promises made to non-Muslim are distinctly non-binding in the Muslim mindset.

Leaders in the Arab world routinely say one thing to English-speaking audiences and then something entirely different to their own people in Arabic.  Yassir Arafat was famous for telling Western newspapers about his desire for peace with Israel, then turning right around and whipping Palestinians into a hateful and violent frenzy against Jews.

The 9/11 hijackers practiced deception by going into bars and drinking alcohol, thus throwing off potential suspicion that they were fundamentalists plotting jihad.  This effort worked so well, in fact, that even weeks after 9/11, John Walsh, the host of a popular American television show, said that their bar trips were evidence of 'hypocrisy.'

The transmission from Flight 93 records the hijackers telling their doomed passengers that there is "a bomb on board" but that everyone will "be safe" as long as "their demands are met."  Obviously none of these things were true, but these men, who were so intensely devoted to Islam that they were willing to "slay and be slain for the cause of Allah" (as the Qur'an puts it) saw nothing wrong with employing Taqiyya in order to facilitate their mission of mass murder.

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) insists that it "has not now or ever been involved with the Muslim Brotherhood, or supported any covert, illegal, or terrorist activity or organization."  In fact, it was created by the Muslim Brotherhood and has bankrolled Hamas.  At least nine founders or board members of ISNA have been accused by prosecutors of supporting terrorism.

Prior to engineering several deadly terror plots, such as the Fort Hood massacre and the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was regularly sought out by NPR, PBS and even government leaders to expound on the peaceful nature of Islam.

The Quran says in several places that Allah is the best at deceiving people.  An interesting side note is verse 7:99, which says that the only people who feel secure from Allah are actually those who will perish in Hell.  Taken literally, this would mean that those Muslims who arrogantly assume that they will enter heaven are in for a rude surprise (such are the hazards of worshipping an all-powerful deceiver).

The near absence of Qur'anic verse and reliable Hadith that encourage truthfulness is somewhat surprising, given that many Muslims are convinced that their religion teaches honesty.  In fact, it is because of this ingrained belief that many Muslims are quite honest.  When lying is addressed in the Qur'an, it is nearly always in reference to the "lies against Allah" - referring to the Jews and Christians who rejected Muhammad's claim to being a prophet.

Finally, the circumstances by which Muhammad allowed a believer to lie to a non-spouse are limited to those that either advance the cause of Islam or enable a Muslim to avoid harm to his well-being (and presumably that of other Muslims as well).

It is well to keep this in mind when dealing with those of the Muslim faith. Especially when they are fundalmentalists. Those who don't follow Sharia law or strictly adhere to the Quran tend to be as honest and peaceful as anyone else. But it's hard to find them as remember, they can lie to the infidels as to their true belief to save themselves and become the wolf in sheep clothing among the sheep herds on behalf of Allah & to further the Islamic faith!
Read the articles below for examples of Muslim belief that infidels should be killed.

ARTICLES/RESOURCES:
Guide To Understanding Islam

Muslim Shouting “Allahu Akbar” Does Something INSANE at Miami Synagogue

Viral Video Shows What it Takes to Stop ISIS Terrorists Yelling “Allahu Akbar”

Monday, March 9, 2015

ATTENTION Mainers...ACTION NEEDED: 4th Amendment Protection Act

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE 10TH AMENDMENT CENTER - ACTION NEEDED

There is an important bill that has been introduced in the Maine state legislature. It is LD531, the Maine 4th Amendment Protection Act. If enacted, would ban “material support or resources” from the state to any federal agency collecting electronic data without meeting one of three conditions:

1) That person’s informed consent;
2) A warrant based upon probable cause that particularly describes the person, place or thing to be searched or seized; or
3) Acting in accordance with a legally recognized exception to the warrant requirements.

These additional protections would go a long way toward protecting the privacy rights of Maine citizens. We really could use a grassroots push to help get this measure off the ground.

Please send the following action alert to everyone in your circle, and urge them to take the measures outlined in it: http://tracking.tenthamendmentcenter.com/issues-by-state/4th-amendment-protection-maine/


  • We must prohibit state and local agencies within their jurisdiction from providing any material support to the NSA.
  •  That is perfectly legal to do under the Constitution. The states do not have to assist the federal government on any regulatory program, including NSA spying.
  •  The NSA was revealed in 2013 to be spying on all Americans without proper warrants, an obvious and flagrant violation of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.
  •  Washington D.C. refuses to act to reform these habitual abuses. That means it is a necessity for Maine legislators to take decisive action.
  •  Remember to urge your legislators to honor their oath to the Constitution, do what is right, and pass this measure that lawfully protects our sacred freedoms against federal overreach.

This is a good article that details exactly what the NSA is doing to violate our privacy rights: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail or call me any time.

Thanks,
Shane Trejo
Tenth Amendment Center
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com

ATTENTION Mainers....Call to oppose lowering compulsory school attendance age from 7 to 5!

Scott A. Woodruff, Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association, March 4, 2015:

Your calls and emails are needed immediately to stop LD 311, which would expand state control over children and families in Maine. Current law requires school attendance beginning at age 7. LD 311 would give every local school board the power to lower this to age 5.

If this bill passes, homeschooling parents will have to comply with Maine compulsory school attendance law a full two years earlier than now as soon as their local school board okays it. Two more years of your child's life would be under a government mandate. A parent's freedom to decide concerning their 5- and 6-year-old will be lost.

This bill would also result in an inevitable tax increase because incoming students would increase. More expenses means more taxes, sooner or later.

Action Requested

A hearing is scheduled for Thursday, March 12. They need to hear from you before then!
Call 1-800-423-6900 to leave a message for a senator, or 1-800-423-2900 to leave a message for your representative.

emailsendPlease contact Senator Langley and Representative Kornfield (they serve as committee chairs) if your own senator or representative is not listed below.

Your message can be as simple as: "Please vote 'no' on LD 311. It would give school boards the power to lower the age of compulsory school attendance from 7 to 5. Parents, not the government, know when it's best for their young child to start formal education. Taxes will go up for everyone to pay for it."

Contact Information

Members of the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs:
Senator Brian Langley, Senate Chair
207-667-0625
email: Brian.Langley@legislature.maine.gov

Senator Peter Edgecomb
207-496-3188
email: Peter.Edgecomb@legislature.maine.gov

Senator Rebecca Millett
207-415-3903
email: Rebecca.Millett@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Victoria Kornfield, House Chair
email: Victoria.Kornfield@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Matthea Daughtry
email Mattie.Daughtry@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Richard Farnsworth
207-874-6399
email: Richard.Farnsworth@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Brian Hubbell
Brian.Hubbell@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Joyce Maker
207-454-2327
email: Joyce.Maker@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Michael McClellan
207-655-4438
email: Michael.McClellan@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Teresa Pierce
email Teresa.Pierce@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Matthew Pouliot
email Matthew.Pouliot@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Paul Stearns
email Paul.Stearns@legislature.maine.gov

Representative Ryan Tipping-Spitz
email Tipping-Spitz@legislature.maine.gov

Background
Requiring children to attend school at age 5 is a very bad idea for the following reasons:

1. LD 311 forces children into school too soon. For an excellent summary of what the empirical research shows about putting 5-year olds into a school-type setting, read here.
There are no long-term replicable studies proving that mandating attendance at age 5 rather than 7 is better for the educational development of the child. Much research indicates that early childhood education does not improve the child's potential for being a better student in the future, because early gains disappear in a few years. This is especially significant for boys, because their cognitive and verbal skill development generally lags behind that of girls at this age.

2. LD 311 decreases beneficial parental contact with their children. Two extra years of development in contact with the parent before the onset of leaving home to attend school can be critical for a child at this early age. Parents, not school boards, should continue to have the authority to decide what is best for their children.

3. LD 311 would have an adverse financial impact on all Maine families. Right now, parents can send their 5- and 6-year-olds to school if they wish. Many don't This bill will force many of those children to attend, inevitably raising expenses and leading to a tax increase now or for the next generation.

4. This would definitely apply to homeschool families.  HSLDA and Homeschoolers of Maine are united in opposing LD 311. Thank you for standing with us for freedom!

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Are Pharmaceutical Companies Paying Your Doctors?


Glaxo-Smith Kline's historic $3 billion settlement for off-label marketing revealed more than fraud. Its $275,000 payment to TV celebrity Dr. Drew Pinsky (pictured, left, HLNtv.com) to promote Wellbutrin highlighted the questionable relationship between doctors and drug companies. See this NY Times article.

Doctors Are Paid To Sell You Poison


When Maine Leads The Nation

Child pornography is, unfortunately, quite an active past time for MANY governmental leaders and officials. So much so, that our illustrious governor, Paul LePage, felt the need to issue an executive order on February 20, 2015, prohibiting Maine state employees from accessing pornographic or sexually explicit material on both state computers or devices even when they were off-duty on personal time.

This executive order is the first of its kind in the USA. It is a very sad state of affairs when a governor of a state has to pass an order to his state workers directing them that they can't use state property to watch (and thus participating in) the abuse of children! Not only are our state employees corrupt, but they are also so sick minded, that an official order must be given to protect our children from the very people who are supposed to be protecting them in the first place!

And the reason for Governor LePage's executive order shows further the corruption in the offices of Maine's state officials. He has been waging a public battle with Maine’s AG, Janet Mills (D). Our state is the only state in the country where the attorney general is neither elected by the general population nor appointed by the governor. Here, the AG is elected, solely, by the state representatives. This is a huge problem in that it enables and protects massive state-level corruption among state legislatures who are protected against prosecution for their crimes under “prosecutorial discretion” by the AG they elected to office.

The structure is essentially a legalized protection racket for Maine politicians. It is a structure that has been working very well for Maine Democrats who have controlled Maine politics, more or less, for the past three or four decades.

It is highly likely Governor LePage issued this executive order, in part, out of frustration for prosecutorial discretion and misconduct in Maine, which is extensive. (Read here and read Unmasker4Maine, for more information of this).

By all accounts there is both a national child porn crisis and, within that, a crisis of American federal and state employees engaged in child porn. In what appears to be epidemic numbers men are down-loading child porn often on their work computers at The Pentagon, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), The Department of Justice (DOJ) (of which York County's newly elected sheriff, William King, has worked for 26 years, hails from!), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), The Department of Transportation (DOT), The Transportation Security Agency (TSA), The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) not to mention state-level police departments from our state of Maine to California.

So, my point? The saying...as Maine goes, so does the nation...is a double edged sword in respectability in this case. Because even though this executive order is good in providing SOME safety measures for our children and a good example for others to follow and Governor LePage is to be commended for doing something to address this evil corruption, the very fact that it is needed to be written in the first place speaks volumes of how twisted and corrupt allot of our state employees/officials really are! 

RESOURCES:





Our Constitution, Obama's Inconvenience


"This is a president who acts without any sense of executive restraint. The Constitution is an inconvenience to him." Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton discusses President Obama and the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. The Obama administration signed the treaty in 2014 and it awaits ratification from the Senate. But as Bolton notes, Obama could make an end-run around Congress and use an executive order to get it signed. "The real agenda has always been domestic gun control in America."

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Your food, health and medicine, have all been bought!


You're about to see how Wall Street has literally "BOUGHT" your and your family's health.
The food, vaccine, drug, insurance and health industry are a multi-BILLION dollar enterprise... focused more on profits than human lives. The BOUGHT documentary takes viewers deep "inside the guts" of this despicable conspiracy...
Featuring exclusive interviews with the world's most acclaimed experts in research, medicine, holistic care and natural health... Bought exposes the hidden (and deadly) story behind it all.

Go to the link below to enter your email address and watch the FULL video (over an hour & a half)!


Thursday, February 26, 2015

Who Died And Made WHO And The UN The World Food Police/God?

UN Unveils Plan For American Advertisement Guidelines

By Blake Neff Published: February 23, 2015
Fat kids are serious business. So serious, in fact, that the United Nations is urging countries to let its bureaucrats micromanage what foods are allowed to advertise on TV.
The European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), the health arm of the U.N., is trying to stop childhood obesity by urging countries to adopt an international blueprint that would ban almost all food advertisements targeted at children and place substantial regulatory influence in the hands of the UN.
Advocates of advertising restrictions argue that children learn to identify brands early in childhood, and that those who see lots of junk food advertising ultimately eat more of it and wind up becoming obese in higher numbers.
The WHO’s international bureaucrats believe that abolishing food marketing towards children is a helpful step to rolling back obesity, and last week’s announcement complained that individual governments are not acting fast enough to please them.
“Despite progress in some countries, government action to restrict such marketing remains less than optimal,” the group’s announcement said. That is simply unacceptable, and WHO officials hope that by taking care of all the actual work in deciding what foods to ban, national governments will more easily follow their lead.
With that in mind, last week, WHO’s Regional Office for Europe released a “nutrient profile model” that it recommends as the model for how countries go about deciding what foods should be locked out of advertising to children. Such a model is currently only used in a handful of countries, including Norway, the U.K. and Denmark, but WHO is hoping that with its nudging more countries will imitate these policies.
The exhaustive model breaks foods into 17 different groups, ranging from processed fruits and vegetables to cheese. Each category is evaluated on its nutritional content per 100g of food. Foods that exceed thresholds for sugar, fat, salt or calories would be barred from any marketing that would increase the food’s appeal to children. For example, a cheese would fall under the ban if it contains at least 20g of fat or 1.3g of salt per 100g.
If adopted, the model would totally prohibit all advertisements for chocolate, candy, cake, sugary soda, ice cream and fruit juice. The only foods subject to no restrictions whatsoever are meats fresh fruits, poultry and vegetables.
While that level of suppression may strike some as a heavy dose of statism, especially when pushed by a transnational organization, WHO argues that it’s long overdue.
“Given the current epidemic of childhood obesity across Europe, there is no justification for marketing products that have little nutritional value and contribute to unhealthy diets,” WHO official Dr. Gauden Galea said in the organization’s statement. “The tool that we are offering to countries to adapt and use would protect children from the harmful effects of marketing of foods high in energy, saturated fats, trans fatty acids, free sugars and salt.”
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