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"This attitude also pervades the u.s. congress, where most members would rather not bother with a health issue unless the cause is easily traced and the deaths and injuries easily quantifiable. While it may seem trite to say that consumers must assume responsibility for their own safety and health, the reality is that, in the absence of leadership from the various states, until Congress legislatively forces the Food and Drug Administration to do its job, we have only ourselves to rely upon." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"A town meeting in New England is a long way from the u.s. congress. Both are, broadly speaking, forms of democracy. But the folks voting on where to put the new town dump are acting on information that is very close to hand. They don't want to put the dump in the wrong place, because they are the ones who will have to live with it. The u.s. congress, by contrast, routinely votes on legislation it hasn't even read. It spends money that hasn't even been earned by taxpayers who haven't yet been born." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"In his address to a joint session of the u.s. congress, Havel said, "Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better ... and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed—the ecological, social, demographic, or general breakdown of civilization—will be unavoidable." Havel's point was well taken, but it is not a reason for despair: human consciousness can evolve. At the innovative frontiers of society it is already evolving This could empower the shift to a new civilization—a civilization of Holos." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"David Graham, an FDA employee who, in his testimony before the u.s. congress in November 2004, identified the five currently approved drugs with the most potential to cause harm. Before Meridia was approved in 1997, an FDA advisory panel voted five to four that the drug's benefits did not outweigh its risks; however, despite the five-to-four vote, the FDA approved its use. (The FDA isn't required to follow the recommendations of its advisory panel, although it's almost unheard-of for it not to.) Meridia leads to a 4.45-kg (9-lb) weight loss after twelve months of treatment." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"As large corporations made similar in-roads into organic foods, they lobbied the u.s. congress to dilute organic standards so they could use more synthetic ingredients and still call their products organic or natural. The only insurance consumers have against these changes is the maintenance of rigid and dependable standards that determine what is and is not organic, along with product labeling that accurately and completely identifies product ingredients." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"They also began to lobby the u.s. congress to pass a bill that would make it much more difficult for school systems to insist that children take Ritalin, against their parents' wishes. The bill passed by a landslide vote and became a federal law in 2005. At this point, more than 2 million people have visited their website, which is named ritalindeath.com. Due to those high numbers of website visitors, and due to the passage of the law that they sponsored, Larry and Kelly Smith believe that their work, on behalf of Matthew, has probably helped to save the lives of many children." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In 1966, the u.s. congress passed the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, requiring that all consumer products be honestly labeled. • In 1972, possibly harmful levels of lead were found in three major brands of toothpaste. The FDA took no action because it received assurances from manufacturers that the leaded tubes believed to be the source of the contamination would be phased out of use. • In 1977, the FDA banned the use of six carcinogenic color additives from cosmetics: Yellow #1, Blue #6, and Reds #10,11,12, and 13, which were used in lipsticks." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The u.s. congress passed the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996, which required the Environmental Protection Agency to start the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program to test chemicals and environmental contaminants for their potential to disrupt the hormonal systems of wildlife and humans. Since that time, an increasing number of hormone disrupters have been shown to cause abnormal hormonal effects in many species of wildlife at very low levels and so been recognized as environmental pollutants." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"I can't help wondering whether human flourishing at still larger scales—in organizations like schools and companies, in governing bodies like the u.s. congress and the United Nations, or in vehicles of culture like television and the Internet—will also obey this apparent law for the positivity ratio tipping point. Now You See It, Now You Don't o Seeing positivity ratios as subject to a tipping point is a powerful idea. It can explain why the effects of positivity are at times so hard to locate." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"A pro-business u.s. congress has cut corporate profits taxes, and a pro-business Bush administration has created an environment in which businesses have felt more free to avoid taxes. But it cannot be assumed that this situation will continue forever; corporate tax cuts cannot continue without risking some public backlash. Cost cutting cannot go on ad infinitum. Cost cutting by laying off workers is a controversial move that has a good chance of a political response, such as raising taxes on corporations. It also carries with it the possibility of disrupting pretax earnings in the future." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"I was on the advisory council to the u.s. congress Office of Technology from 1974 to 1980. We knew all about global warming back then and I used to say, 'well why can't we get ahead of this?' The problem is politicians who are trying to override the public's common sense. When I started Citizens for Clean Air, I used to go on radio and TV shows to debate economists from energy companies. They would say, 'Oh no, we can't really afford to do any of the things that this nice lady wants us to do. She's a very nice lady, but she doesn't understand economics." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"In 1793, the u.s. congress passed the law that established the Patent Office and allowed for the granting of patents to inventors, including aggressive cottage-medicine manufacturers. Thereafter, promoters of all sorts were able to secure patents on medicinal concoctions designed to solve every physical or psychic ailment. Some patent medicines were over-the-counter imitations of Galen and Paracelsus's potions; others were simple herbal remedies. While the simple herbal medicines were effective, lamentably, most of the other concoctions were useless fakes, like Coca Cola and Hires Rootbeer." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"SIXTEEN Risking Everything The Washington Post article caught the notice of several lawmakers in the u.s. congress. Within a day, I received a call from the office of Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT). His aide told me that a bipartisan group of senators and members of Congress wanted me to come to Washington to participate in a panel to discuss reimportation of drugs." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, urged the u.s. congress to abolish his office, with the conviction that "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." His position seemed reasonable at the time: After all, for transportation, we had railroads that traversed continents, and steam ships that could cross the Atlantic in less than a week. For communication, we had telegraphs that could relay messages in Morse code around the world. Yet within a half a century of his prediction, a flood of inventions—the airplane, the automobile, the telephone, the computer?" - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Donkers invited me to consider the reverse scenario: European officials descending on Washington to lobby against a bill being considered by the u.s. congress. "It wouldn't be tolerated," he exclaimed. "We wouldn't last ten minutes!" American Missionary in Brussels In an Environment Committee hearing room at the European Parliament, I watched, one morning in the fall of 2005, as more than seven hundred amendments that had been appended to REACH were voted on in rapid succession." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"For decades drug companies have used their giant profits to manipulate the public and influence legislation, including that from the u.s. congress and the White House. Now that the deadly consequences of the pharmaceutical fraud business have been unmasked the survival of this industry depends on the protectionist laws. The current push of the Bush administration for so-called "medical liability reform" is not about protecting gynecologists and medical doctors from medical liability lawsuits." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"In 1977, the u.s. congress specifically legislated that MMT could be marketed as an automotive fuel additive only if the EPA granted a formal "waiver," which required a conclusive finding that the manganese additive did not worsen fuel emissions. In 256 emerging toxins 1978, Ethyl sought such a waiver, and the EPA turned the corporation down. The EPA reevaluated MMT in the mid-1980s and again in 1990, 1991, and 1994." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Bauman is an endowed professor at Cornell University, and consultant to Monsanto Company and the u.s. congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). He authored the biologic basis for the OTA's economic predictions for rBGH (1991) as follows: "Catastrophic effects such as ... mastitis have been postulated to occur. However, no such effects have been observed in any scientifically valid public health studies" (OTA, Special Report, F-470, 1991). This industry consultant also had substantial input into a USDA economic study in 1987." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"U.S. Congress and made to face angry politicians. Imagine the cigarette hearings of the 1990s, with an even angrier citizenry. We could see international lawsuits from communities most affected by global warming (and least to blame for it), backed by the threat of economic sanctions from bigger powers. Inuit groups have already filed suit [see Polar Regions, p. 527] against the United States for causing the melting of Arctic lands; even if that lawsuit is thrown out, it won't be the last one filed." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Despite the troubles in foreign markets, arsenic advocates in the 1920s and 1930s held important positions in the United States Bureau of Agriculture and in state departments of agriculture, and support for arsenic in the u.s. congress and farm-state legislatures continued through the 1950s. For example, Congressman Clarence Cannon from Missouri eliminated scientific testimony about the arsenic dangers from the Congressional Record in 1937. He blocked arsenic residue research at the Public Health Service and successfully demanded an increase for arsenic and lead tolerances on U.S. produce." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"A few months later, after just one day of consideration, the incoming u.s. congress in 2001 negated the new rules.45 In their place, the secretary of labor under the new Bush administration promulgated a set of rules for industry's self-monitoring of cumulative trauma. The principal guidelines were entirely voluntary. sick building syndrome Sick building syndrome serves as another ideal illustration for the presumed recent history of environmental illness, perhaps even better than carpal tunnel syndrome." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) "A month and a day later, the u.s. congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the Vietnam War's escalation.65 The physicians who wrote to JAMA also published a more complete report of their work in a dermatology specialty journal.66 That article contained even more disturbing information. Many of the same workers with chloracne also suffered from an otherwise rare liver disease called porphyria. This condition is marked by severe metabolic dysfunction that can be manifest in a variety of symptoms, including pain and mental disturbance." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"She was later tried and convicted of violating the Health Claims Law, a law that did not exist at the time of the raid and was never passed by the u.s. congress. Nonetheless, likely due to FDA pressure on the presiding judge, she was sentenced to 179 days in prison and fined $10,000 for daring to say that vitamins are good for puppy dogs! 1990 - The Highland Laboratories raid In 1990, Ken Scott ran a vitamin business in Mt. Angel, Oregon, a small rural town." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"According to PFI's literature it is "the [pet food] industry's public and media relations resource, representative before the u.s. congress and state and federal agencies, organizer of seminars and educational programs, sponsor and clearing-house for research, and liaison with other private organizations." Over the years I have communicated with the executive director of PFI, Duane Ekedahl, and the Vice President of Technical and Regulatory Affairs, Nancy Cook." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"And, amazingly enough, the u.s. congress agreed. In 2002, mainly because of con- About 75 percent of the fish (and 90 percent of the shrimp) sold at supermarkets and restaurants in the United States is imported, and most comes from developing countries in Asia and Latin America. cerns about mad cow disease in beef cattle, Congress directed the USDA to develop rules for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for meats, produce, and peanuts, as well as for fish and shellfish." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"More promising results of the REACH effort occurred when the u.s. congress got involved and introduced its own version of the REACH bill, after politicians realized that the Toxic Substances Control Act, FIFRA, and FQPA were not sufficient to get rid of toxic poisons and that something more needed to be done. Stay tuned, we shall see what happens with this effort." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Everett Koop had this to say in his 1988 Surgeon General's report to the u.s. congress. "The top 10 causes of death in the U.S. are diet-related degenerative diseases. 94% of deaths in America could be directly linked to degenerative diseases that resulted from nutritional deficiency." That pretty much says it all, wouldn't you think? It's time to wake up and "smell the nutrients" before it's too late, folks. Get involved with your health and give your body what it really needs. I encourage you to take a stand now, and start reading to find out how you can keep your body healthy, long-term." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"In their eagerness to get rid of me, Pfizer not only embarrassed the United States Attorney's Office by terminating a federal grand jury witness in an ongoing investigation, but also showed blatant disrespect for u.s. congress and the Congressmen who on September 30, 2004, sent an open letter to Pfizer's CEO and Board of Directors, stating, "We are writing to express our serious concerns at the intimidation being directed at Pfizer Vice President Peter Rost."6 I ought also to give Pfizer's side of the story." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"It was her tear-jerking I-was-there account on the floor of the u.s. congress that got the war started. The psy-op was directed not against Iraqis but mainly against the American public and Congress. And as atrocity stories go, it is the gold standard of them all. Another firm, Rendon, was hired by the CIA in 1990 to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Rendon went on to earn a hundred million dollars in government contracts in just the five years following." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "They don't want to put the dump in the wrong place, because they are the ones who will have to live with it. The u.s. congress, by contrast, routinely votes on legislation it hasn't even read. It spends money that hasn't even been earned by taxpayers who haven't yet been born. And recently, members of Congress went along with Bush's war in a country they'd never been to, for reasons they didn't understand, paid for with money they didn't have, and fought by soldiers who weren't their own sons and daughters." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

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