At Wise Coffee, we take our role as members of the organic, sustainable food movement very seriously. Nothing is more important to us - and to our customers - than to provide a product that is unadulterated and produced sustainably and responsibly and in a way that protects our environment. As part of what we do, we stay informed about the government's role in protecting - or potentially destroying - our efforts to maintain good and trustworthy food supplies. It's our responsibility to speak out about injustices that we find and to call upon our customers, friends, colleagues and fellow members of the sustainable food movement to take action wherever possible.In an article on NaturalNews.com entitled "FDA targets free-range, pastured poultry and eggs with ridiculous new draft guidance pushing for all chickens to be raised indoors," they expose an FDA threat to the pastured poultry and eggs. According to NaturalNews.com, "America's small farmers are once again under attack, this time by a new draft guidance issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that threatens to eliminate truly free-range and pastured poultry and eggs. Entitled 'Questions and Answers Regarding the Final Rule, Prevention of Salmonella Enteritidis in Shell Eggs During Production, Storage, and Transportation,' the new agency report basically suggests that all egg producers with 3,000 or more laying hens be forced to raise their birds indoors to avoid bacterial contamination, which would eliminate consumer access to chicken and eggs from birds raised naturally outdoors on pasture."
If put into law, this change would effectively shut down the free-range and pastured poultry and egg small farmers throughout the United States!
The good news is that there is STILL TIME TO ACT! "This new FDA guidance is only a draft," says NaturalNews.com, "which means the agency is still receiving public comments on the issue. This means that, as an advocate of natural health, you have the opportunity to help guide the process along and ensure that pasture-based egg and poultry producers are not unfairly targeted and forced to convert their methods to unscientific ones that have been concocted to reflect the interests of factory producers.
You can urge the FDA to reevaluate its position on pastured poultry and instead go after the factory-scale producers responsible for nearly all disease outbreaks by submitting a comment through the Federal Register. The FDA will accept public comments on this issue until September 23, 2013:
http://www.regulations.gov
You can also take action through this ANH-USA comment submission portal:
http://www.regulations.gov."
Please join Wise Coffee in taking action today. Don't let this draft go through. We have to work together to make sure that we protect pastured poultry from the irresponsible and profit-driven conventional factory farming practices that pervade throughout the US.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/041996_FDA_free-range_poultry_pastured_chicken.html#ixzz2ed6JJVCC
