My mother and her fourteen or so good friends who made up the originating Garden Club in her area called themselves the "dowdy-dirty-sneaker-do-gooders." They weren't dowdy by any means, but they thought it was funny, and giving themselves that name gave a levity to the seriosity of what they were dealing with in the late fifties and early sixties - getting DDT banned.
I remember one day when some small planes flew overhead, and an evil-looking green cloud emerged from each one as it overflew our woods and pond. Within three days, we noticed that there wasn't a single bird, cricket or frog singing day or night. Within a week, the leaves had withered from the trees and grass on our property. Within a month, people were sick as dogs. Within the next month, the dowdy-dirty-sneaker-do-gooders had formed and were getting everyone and his left brother and sister to write congressmen and anyone else "in power" to get them to stop the continuation of using and selling DDT.
At the time, I was about 10. I didn't know what the full economic or political implications of the use of DDT were, but I could clearly see that without taking care of the planet, it certainly couldn't take care of us! I was proud of my ma and the tireless work she and her buddies did. Within five years, DDT was no longer a part of our world where we lived, and although it did take longer for the rest of the world, without that kind of dedication and higher values, no movement would have been made.
By now you have probably been inundated with as many emails of alerts about this Codex Alimentarius thing as I have. As you know, I sent out one, myself, last week. I don't ordinarily get involved in big send-outs like that because I usually feel there are enough people who are awake to get things straightened out without my adding to the fray.
This morning, though, as I thought about this Codex monstrosity, and followed all the probability-strings it winds around each of us who take vitamins and supplements and health products, and who benefit by or practice any sort of energy work, I felt myself wondering what is UP with our gov that it can't leave well enough alone and allow us to get and be the healthy, well and wealthy beings we are.
I also wondered what it is - or what we lack - that makes us complacent enough that we'd just sit here and allow something like that to go through - an enactment of a set of laws which will result in not just US ramifications, but world-wide?!?
Why on earth do we allow a governing body to say what we can and cannot do with our bodies? Pisses me off, to tell you the truth. I sincerely and vehemently get very riled up when my natural right to make choices on my own behalf get curtailed. And if this soon-to-be-enacted pardon-me-but bullshit set of laws gets through, I can tell you we are really in for it.
Now, some people have written me saying that the whole campaign was "too fear-based," and they didn't want any more to do with it.
As if fear is a bad thing! Fear, in truth, is a very useful dynamic.
Fear keeps us from running up and petting that beautiful big fuzzy bear.
It keeps us careful when we are driving.
And hopefully, it riles us up enough to do something about stupid greedy narrow-minded politicians, lobbyists and corporate bodies who want to corral the general population and ply it (us) with their products and their products only, no matter what we think we want for ourselves.
Fear is only dangerous when we let it keep us from intelligent choices.
In this case, I hope enough of you who don't want to be controlled by a body of people who are blindly bigoted-in-favor-of-pharmaceuticals and corporate power, get motivated enough to actually take 28 puny minutes out of your busy day to pay attention to a highly informative and important movie that was made TWO YEARS AGO (hello? Have we had enough time to do something?): HERE
And, if you have not already done your very small but radically important part by signing the petition and sending the email to speak up, do it RIGHT NOW.
OK, you don't want to. Stop a minute.
Do you honestly think you are going to like waiting an hour to get in and see your doc so you can get permission to get vitamin C?
Are you thrilled about paying from 50 to 175 bucks for an office visit to ask for a prescription for a protein shake because it has supplements you cannot now without his "official" prescription?
Do you think your doc is going to refer you to your regular Reiki or EFT practitioner? Ha! I don't think so! Get real.
The very thought of being controlled like this simultaneously repulses and scares the living daylights out of me!
Most medical docs are traditionally not trained in nutrition. Sure, there are some who have good vitamin and supplement info, but I bet you can't count them on more than one finger - if you know any.
Imagine all the people who know and practice EFT, TAT, EMDR, and all the various energy modalities being considered federal criminals. Is that what you want?
Did you know that ANY and ALL, modalities that are outside the purview of the AMA - Feldenkrais, Reiki, Hypnosis, Magnetics, radionics, EMR intervention devices - ANYTHING that has a bioactive effect - is listed as something that will not be able to be practiced without a doc's consent? You gotta be kidding me!
Please watch this little, power-packed video. Weep. Get mad. I don't care - just DO something - anything you can. Sign the petition. Write emails. Go HERE right now and play your part - don't run off crying "it's too fear-based, I don't want any part of it!" Your input is necessary and important right here and right now - don't be a slacker!
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