Posted April 4, 2018
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Get Informed on U.S. Legislation That Could Restrict Your Health Freedom
Vaccine Laws
Posted September 30, 2019
Welcome to NVIC’s webpage on vaccine laws. Here you will be able to access resources that will assist you in making educated vaccine decisions. For example, you can learn about the differences between vaccine requirements that govern being able to attend school or daycare and a federal vaccine recommendation. There are also resources below that will help you find out which types of vaccine exemptions are available in your state, how to protect and expand vaccine exemptions, and much more. Read more.
Action Alert: Object to the USDA’s Phony-Baloney “Animal Welfare” Rule
What part of the current regulations does the USDA not understand? The producer of an organic livestock operation must establish and maintain year-round livestock living conditions which accommodate the health and natural behavior of animals, including: Year-round access for all animals to the outdoors, shade, shelter, exercise areas, fresh air…. [emphasis added] Instead of enforcing the spirit and letter of the law, subsequent administrations in the White House and at the USDA have spent years delaying, with the excuse that new rulemaking “was needed.” After a decade of foot dragging, a draft rule is available for public comment — and it makes things worse! Read more.
Consumers Score GMO Victory
In a recent victory, a federal court has told the USDA it needs to go back to the drawing board on an important aspect of the GMO labeling law. Action Alert! When the sham GMO-labeling law was passed by Congress, consumers were outraged because the “labeling” law allowed companies to hide the contents of their food. Instead of plain language labeling, it allowed companies to include scannable QR codes on packaging that consumers would need to scan with a smartphone to discern if the food contained GMO ingredients. Now, a federal court has ruled that a QR code alone is not an adequate GMO disclosure, and will need to be accompanied by a disclosure option accessible to all Americans. Significant problems remain, but this is an important victory. Read more.
Bill Gates: The Planet’s Unofficial Minister of Health
An in-depth Politico report shows how powerful non-governmental organizations wielded incredible influence in shaping the global response to the COVID pandemic—with almost no oversight. The report notes that four global non-governmental organizations, all with ties to Bill Gates—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, Gavi, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)—took on the role often played by national governments, except they aren’t accountable to democratic institutions. Read more.
Update: Major Supplement Victory
…but we’re not out of the woods yet. Let’s keep up the pressure to protect access to the supplements you need to stay healthy. Action Alert! Last week, Congressional leaders reached an agreement for the reauthorization of FDA user fees—and the package does not include mandatory product listing for supplements, a regulation we’ve been writing about for the better part of a year that would bring us closer to a system in which quality supplements are regulated out of existence. Read more.
Organic Chicken Fraud
While pretending to score a victory for real organic eggs and poultry, a new rule is just another gift to industrialized farms that are running regenerative farms out of business. Action Alert! The USDA’s rule, known as the Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards rule, is being applauded by some because it would set standards for outdoor and indoor living requirements for poultry, in effect prohibiting what are referred to as “porches”—small, screened in enclosures that allow CAFOs to game the organic system. But this is smoke and mirrors. There are far more problems with the rule that allow the status quo to continue. We must urge the USDA to do much, much better. Read more.
Cancer Moonshot — Good Idea or Pharma Giveaway?
Why pinning our hopes on developing costly new drug treatments for cancer and other diseases is not effective or sustainable. Last week, on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s proposal to send someone to the moon, President Biden touted his Cancer Moonshot initiative. The initiative was officially re-launched in February of this year, when President Biden called on Congress to fund his effort to reduce cancer mortality by 50 percent in the next 25 years. Read more.
Homeopathy: God Save the Queen’s Medicine
Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) passed away at the impressive age of 96…and her mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900-2002) lived until the even more impressive 101 years of age. This longevity may not just be happenstance or even genetics, but it may in part be due to the fact that they had both been active advocates for and users of homeopathic medicine. Read more.
Court Rules “QR” Codes Alone Unlawful for GMO Food Labeling
A US District Court has held that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s decision to allow genetically engineered (GMO) foods to only be labelled with a “QR” code was unlawful, and that USDA must instead add additional disclosure options to those foods under USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The Court sent back to the agency the QR code portions of the 2018 Trump administration rules for GMO labelling that went into effect on January 1, 2022, which hindered consumer access with burdensome electronic or digital disclosures. Read more.
