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"Sicko" Premiere Night

Whether or not you are a fan of Michael Moore's work, you have to admit, his latest film "SiCKO" is doing a pretty darn good job to either enlighten or make those with vested interests sicker. The film will undoubtedly be watched by the majority of the medical community and all the ill people who might afford a movie ticket. It will also be watched by all of it's critics who want to have a voice against the campaign. It is doing an outstanding job of bringing people together regardless of stance to cure the widespread disease of GREED and CORRUPTION and pointing towards the serious need for repair to the current healthcare system.

A Letter From Michael Moore
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Today is the Day for "Sicko" 

Friends,
This is it! Two years in the making! The day that our new film, "Sicko," arrives in theaters all across North America! Click here to see where the nearest one is to you. 

After you go, let me know what you think. Oh, and send us a photo or a video from your cell phone to show us what it looked like at your theater. We'd love to post a photo from each of the 440 movie theaters showing "Sicko."

Hope you enjoy the movie!

Yours,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com

Check Out Mike on T.V.
'NOW' on PBS at 8:30 PM EST/9:30 PM PST
  'Larry King Live' TONIGHT at 9:00 PM ET

Watch the trailer if you have not yet:

Read about the 'Scrubs for Sicko' Campaign, and don't be surprised to see one of the 17,000+ nurses co-hosting at tonights premiere:)

Looking forward to the future

Once we all have the privilege of good healthcare, the next step will be to integrate unconventional methods for medicine. The day will come when physicians provide more natural options for healing rather than sticking to the sometimes cold nature of standard medicine. Doctors will persistently teach various and useful PREVENTION METHODS rather than just attacking immune systems, suppressing symptoms with pills, and destroying our machines. Educational health classes in schools will be taken more seriously and the children of the future will be born into healthier homes and lead sound lives. There will be no tolerance for unnecessary and preventable diseases in the coming days. With the aid of technology, old school healers and conventional doctors will continue to come together to work it all out.

There is hope for the 9 million uninsured children in the U.S.

And whether or not we are directly experiencing the impact of the film, Sicko, we must not continue to blindly feed the vein of GREEDiness inherent in so many of the tobacco industries, slaughterhouse corporations, and fast food industries. Eating crap food and poisoning our precious bodies is a major determinant for illness and drives the need for healthcare to begin with. Far too many of us are dying from preventable diseases based on diet and lifestyle.

And sure, not all the people who work in the sectors: fast-food, tobacco,  pharmaceutical, slaughterhouses, insurance companies, and government agencies aim to cause harm anymore than we aim to harm the ants we step on everyday. Yet, the corruption of a few eventually seeps through and in one way or another trickles down the stream to distract, disturb, and ruin the lives---body, heart, mind, and soul of so many. We are all in this together and we all have personal choices to make in every moment which effects the health of the whole Earth. So for starters, keep your body moving, make time for peaceful reflecting, cut the junk out of your lifestyle, and try eating organic nourishment as much as possible.

I'm joining the crowds energy to watch the movie tonight, if it's not sold out yet:)

2007 Farm Bill

Center For Food Safety: Consumer, Environmental, Farmer and Animal Welfare Groups Protest Clause that Wipes Out State and Local Authority on Meat, Poultry, Biotechnology

For Immediate Press Release
Washington, June 19, 2007 - Forty consumer, environmental, farmer and animal welfare groups today announced their opposition to a sweeping provision in the 2007 Farm Bill that wipes out critical state and local authority to protect food safety, the environment, and humane animal treatment.  The provision, Section 123 of Title I, was quietly inserted in the House bill several weeks ago by the Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee.

Consumers Union, the Sierra Club, the Humane Society of the United States, the Center for Food Safety, the Union of Concerned Scientists and three dozen other organizations today called for deletion of Section 123, in a letter sent today to the House Agriculture Committee.  The full Committee will hold its mark up of the 2007 Farm Bill later this month.

"At a time when we have seen repeated food safety failures at FDA and USDA, we need more food safety protection, not less," states Jean Halloran, Director of Food Policy Initiatives at Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports).  "This clause would tie the hands of states on meat, poultry and genetically engineered food," she said.

Section 123 would prevent states and localities from passing any laws prohibiting commercial use of USDA-inspected products.  "This could prevent a local health inspector at a supermarket from condemning rodent-contaminated meat or poultry that has begun to go bad," states Jean Halloran.

"Section 123 will subvert the principles of federalism and states' rights," states Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.  "If this appalling and outrageous measure is approved, agribusiness will accomplish what it could not achieve in state legislatures - the evisceration of state laws to protect horses from slaughter and a raft of other democratically approved animal welfare reforms.

"Section 123 would also get in the way of state laws on biotechnology.  No state could prohibit use in commerce of a product that USDA has determined is "non-regulated."  Both supporters and opponents of the measure agree that this refers to genetically engineered crops, which USDA "deregulates" after considering whether they might be a plant pest.  "California, Arkansas and Missouri have passed laws creating state committees that review whether genetically engineered rice should be grown in the state," notes Joe Mendelson, Legal Director of the Center for Food Safety.    "These laws, which farmers support, would be preempted."

"This poorly conceived provision should be dropped immediately," states Mendelson.  "Just in the last several months we have seen problems with melamine in animal feed and ground beef contaminated with E. coli.   Section 123 takes us backwards by removing existing protections we have at the state and local level.  We need increased, not decreased food safety efforts," he said.

This dangerous attempt to radically alter doctrine would prevent states and communities from passing laws against some of the most cruel and inhumane factory farming practices, including confinement by crate in the veal and pork industry and foie gras production, as well as horse slaughter and other inhumane practices such as the mistreatment of animals at puppy mills.  Additionally, the policies will create an unfair playing field - one that works at the expense of local markets, family farmers, and the environment.

Learn More Here:

Food & Water Watch

Full Farm Bill Proposal in PDF

Farm Bill discussion drafts (prepared in anticipation of business meetings to be held by Subcommittees of the Committee regarding the 2007 Farm Bill)

And take Action by sending emails or making phone calls to your state reps and senators easily with:

Farm Sanctuary

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Action Farmland Trust

The Humane Society

The Consumers Union

Healthy Farm Bill (for every 100 messages sent from your state, The Farm & Food Project will hand deliver a package of healthy, local food to State Senators and Representatives:)

He who practices Ahimsa develops strong will-power. In his presence, enmity ceases. In his presence, cobra and frog, cow and tiger, cat and rat, wolf and lamb, will all live together in terms of intimate friendship. ~Swami Sivananda

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