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Mandatory Almond PasteurizationAll Almonds will be Pasteurized starting 2007! No label allowing "truly raw almonds" Almonds labeled as "Raw Almonds" will still have been pasteurized! A big lie and fraud!! You are about to be denied your food freedom choices! Did you know that starting in the fall of 2007, truly raw almonds will not be available in the USA or Canada? See link below for the pasteurization plan. http://www.almondboard.com/Programs/content.cfm?ItemNumber=890&snItemNumber=450 The FDA, USDA and the California Almond Board has developed a marketing order which mandates that all almonds must be pasteurized. This came about because " two outbreaks of salmonella, associated with conventional farms several years ago". Industry has now overreacted in grand fashion and they do not even know it yet. No outbreaks have been associated with raw organic almonds to date that we are aware of. This has everything to do with lack of biodiversity and the sterile
farming methods used on conventional farms. On these farms few weeds
or grasses grow on the floors and little sunlight reaches the floors.
To the contrary, Organic farms support and encourage biodiversity with
green floors in the orchards and this discourages pathogen growth. There is an even bigger issue. The FDA has decided not to tell the consumer the truth about this processing step. The almonds you will buy in Wholefoods this fall may still say "raw almonds but they will have been subjected to high heat and a five log kill step...that they are calling Pasteurization". This lie is being permitted by the marketing order!! The FDA in association with the USDA and the Almond Board is in fact denying you the information required to make informed choices when you buy food. You will not be able to identify a pasteurized almond from a truly raw whole, enzyme rich, unprocessed almond. The almond board claims that the almonds will still sprout ( still some life in them ) and that the flavor does not change. But yet no research has been performed to see what kind of opportunistic bacteria will take over when the almond has been sterilized. It is not a whole natural food anymore. It will now be a processed food. Millions of dollars are being invested to install expensive pasteurization machines in all Almond plants in order to follow this "sterile foods are better foods edict". Demand that your source of organic raw almonds be exempted from this short sighted food safety debacle. Demand that a label be permitted that identifies "truly raw almonds"
and if required even put a warning label on them. Also demand that pasteurized
almonds be identified as well. It seems that every time a government
warning is applied to a food, that in itself becomes a It is very clear that the FDA does not understand the origins of the massive immune depression epidemic in America. A sterilized diet makes for a weakened immune system. FDA website http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_antibio.html explains antibiotic resistance quite well, but ignorantly and blindly never mentions pro-biotics which prevent disease and infections. Whole unprocessed living foods are in this category of foods. Weakened immune systems are associated directly with cancer, osteoporosis, asthma, allergies, Crohns, IBS, Colitis, GERD, chronic disease ,infections, antibiotic use and resistance and human death, Ulcers and the list goes on and on. Raw almonds are a wonder food just as they are. Let consumers make the informed choice and be responsible for the consequences. The almond farmers do not even know what they have been led into by the FDA. This consumer choice option will surely increase almond sales. Denial of a choice will be a marketing disaster. Freedom is lost gradually... bit by bit and bite by bite... with the great assistance of passive unconscious in activism and sheepish. You are conscious and aware of this path. Lets fight today and send a message. We must have unprocessed food choices. These are the people to contact....please fax, call or email them and
demand: Marketing Committee Members Dan Cummings, Vice Chairman Stacey Humble, Associate Director, Global Marketing John O'Shaughnessy Susan Brauner Board of Directors of the California Almond Board Chairman David Phippen Member Susan Brauner Member Wil Hunter Member Christine Long Member Mike Mason Member Dean Nelson Member Dan Cummings Member Rick Kindle Member Doug Wells 16508 W. River Rd.
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