Posted March 27, 2020
We must oppose the FDA’s actions against homeopathic medicines now. Action Alert! For many months now, we’ve been telling you about the FDA’s latest actions with regard to homeopathic medicines. These actions upend decades of successful regulation of these important products that have been used safely for centuries. The wording of the FDA’s draft guidance threatens all homeopathic medicines and gives the FDA the ability to go after any homeopathic drug it wants to. Read more.
Get Informed on U.S. Legislation That Could Restrict Your Health Freedom
SpaceX Gets FCC Approval for One Million Satellite Terminals
Posted March 27, 2020
The FCC has granted SpaceX a license for up to a million terminals that will allow Starlink satellites to deliver broadband service. The decision was shown in a 71 page public notice from the FCC on March 18. The notice states: Consistent with SpaceX’s space station authorization, these Earth stations will transmit in the 14.0-14.5 GHz band and receive in the 10.7-12.7 GHz band. The Commission’s rules specifically contemplate blanket licensing for earth stations operating in these frequency bands. Read more.
USDA Advisory Committee Recommends Suspension of Dicamba Use
Posted March 27, 2020
The USDA Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee has recommended the suspension of dicamba registration to prevent produce crop harm resulting from off-target movement when the herbicide is applied to non-produce row crops. Read more.
PFAS Chemical Producers Under Criminal Investigation
Posted March 27, 2020
It may sometimes look like alphabet soup when scientists begin writing about perfluorinated chemicals, historically abbreviated PFC. Interestingly, the abbreviation PFC refers to two similar, yet distinctly different chemicals: perfluorinated chemicals and perfluorocarbons.1 Perfluorinated chemicals include perfluorocarbons and other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, such as PFOA and PFOS. To reduce confusion, the EPA made the move to use “PFAS” to refer to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that describe chemicals in this group, including perfluorocarbons. Read more.
Keep Health Food Stores Open!
Posted March 27, 2020
State and local governments are starting to force many stores to close—let’s make sure those that protect our health stay open. Action Alert! In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, local governments are putting restrictions on businesses in order to prevent the virus’ spread. In many cases this is appropriate, but it is equally important that essential businesses, such as health food stores, stay open. Read more.
Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine to Skip Animal Testing — Test Directly on Humans
Posted March 27, 2020
Standard clinical trials of any new medicine require scientists first test the vaccine on animals (normally mice) to determine its safety and effectiveness. Only after surviving iterative tests in animal models can a candidate medicine then be tested in human trials. This step has been dispensed within the case of mRNA-1273. Read more.
CDC — Centers for Disease Control
Posted March 13, 2020
Here are some plain, nonhysterical facts: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is a bloated federal government agency with a long history of incompetence, fraud, secrecy, mission creep and shady alliances with both social justice causes on the left and private corporations on the big business right. The “deep state” of entrenched bureaucrats embedded in the Beltway bowels is alive and thriving at the CDC. The unelected elites who’ve occupied top offices at the public health-industrial complex are hostile to public scrutiny while clamoring for ever-ballooning budgets. Their recommendations have often been detrimental to citizens’ well-being and freedom. Read more.
New Lawsuit Aims to Remove Soilless Crop Production Systems from Organic
Posted March 13, 2020
A coalition of organic farmers, certifiers, and NGOs recently sued the USDA for denying a 2019 petition to prohibit hydroponic operations from organic certification. Plaintiffs include the Center for Food Safety (CFS), OneCert, the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, and some of the longest-standing organic farms in the US: Swanton Berry Farm, Full Belly Farm, Durst Organic Growers, Terra Firma Farm, Jacobs Farm del Cabo, and Long Wind Farm. Read more.
Iowa Bill Requires Infant Death Certificates to Include Vaccine Information
Posted March 13, 2020
A bill is working its way through the Iowa legislature that would require medical examiners to include information on the medical examiners form used to fill out the death certificate about recent vaccinations given to any child under age three who dies of any cause. The bill, SF 2302, passed the Iowa Senate’s Human Resources committee on February 18 by a 8-5 party-line vote with Republicans voting in favor and will proceed to the full Senate for approval within the upcoming weeks. Read more.
CDC Admits in Federal Court They Have no Evidence “Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism”
Posted March 13, 2020
This is truly a bombshell story when you understand the full implications of it, yet major media likely will not touch it. Headlines could read “In stunning lawsuit, CDC admits they have no evidence vaccines don’t cause autism” – but instead, crickets. Independent media organizations like CE are left to have to tell these stories, and at the same time risk more demonetization for telling the truth that the public should know. Read more.
