Ride the Wave of Health!

This screen provides a listing of major environmental/health/food and other issues around the planet. If you are interested, these links provide information on subjects vital to survival of the earth, its inhabitants and eventually to each of us. At least, check them out and see for yourself. We will update and add to these links as information becomes available to us.

Link	Description
Major Food Supply Threat	Check this one out!
World Trade Organization	World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, the Earth Action Network (over 1,700 citizens groups in more than 150 countries) has launched a major campaign entitled "Take the World's Forests off the WTO Chopping Block". In their material, it is said "In the time it takes you to read this Action Alert, an area of rainforest the size of 50 city blocks will have fallen to chain saws, bulldozers and flames. Now a new international trade agreement threatens to accelerate the destruction. You can help to stop it." More information can be had at: http://www.earthaction.org You are stongly urged to read their action package at this address and get involved to help stop the magalomaniacs soon meeting in Seattle and bent to destroy the world for their own selfish profit.
Europe To Require Labeling Of Biotech Foods	EUROPE TO REQUIRE LABELING OF BIOTECH FOODS BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 21, 1999 (ENS) - Food producers will have to indicate that their products contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients if the GM content exceeds one percent, European Union member state food experts decided today. Published in cooperation with ENDS Environment Daily. Go here for full text and graphics.

Genetically Modified Foods (GM or GE)	UNLABELED, UNTESTED AND YOU'RE EATING IT! In secret, genetically engineered foods are showing up on American grocery shelves. Though other countries now label biotech foods, the U.S. FDA still does not require labels or safety tests. Don't you have the right to know what's in your food? And if it's safe for your family? You have the right to know if your baked potato contains bacteria genes...or if the tomato in your salad has genes of viruses spliced in. But at the very place where you encounter genetically engineered (GE) products - your local grocery store - there is silence. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the biotechnology industry have prevented the labeling of GE foods, effectively subverting your right to know! And so, every day, millions of American infants, children and adults eat genetically engineered foods without their knowledge. Are these unlabeled foods dangerous? Nobody knows. The FDA refuses to require any safety testing of genetically engineered foods. This, despite the fact that there is significant scientific evidence that inserting novel genes into foods can sometimes create dangerous toxins. For example, this is the possible cause of the thousands of illnesses, and deaths from the GE food supplement L-tryptophan several years ago. Failure to require testing or labeling of GE foods has made millions of consumers into guinea pigs, unknowingly testing the safety of dozens of gene altered products. For more, go to: GM Foods Part 2.
Aspartame	Major UK Grocery Chain Bans Aspartame Over Brain Tumor Concerns, By Dominic Rushe, The Sunday Times (London), http://www.sunday-times.co.uk, 10-25-99. For more information Go here Mission Possible.
Cancer and Cow's Milk!	A growing list of individuals will refuse all food until FDA removes Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone from America's food supply. Okay... Thousands of things cause cancer, but one makes it grow: a hormone that we produce called IGF-1 (insulin growth factor 1). This hormone is identical between cows and humans, the only hormone in all of nature that is identical between two species of animal. Drink their milk, and you drink the one hormone that makes cancer grow. Since that date, researchers have reported IGF-1's involvement in both prostatic cancer and breast cancer; what they've reported is consistent with what Robert had said -- and it appears rBGH (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, (also known as "Posilac") tends to increase the IGF-1 (and other things) in dairy products.

Mexico's Online Gray Whale Page!

The fight was won to stop big business from stealing the calving area for these whales. Check out these other web sites devoted to the gray whales and other sea creatures: International Marine Mammal Association International Fund for Animal Welfare's Gray Whale Page NRDC's Gray Whale Page