Please write your federal congressmen and women?

Okay.  So anyway, I, myself am looking to eat healthier.  No, this is not a new years resolution.  This is just something I need to do for myself, and for my family.  My son and I have a chromosome disorder that makes it so that not only do we have increased appetite, but also a sluggish metabolism.  This anomaly makes it so that even if we were to eat the perfect combination of food in the exact proportions, we could still be overweight.  The fact that the insulin sensors can be affected, that's a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes.  My husband's side of the family has other issues, such as diabetes and pancreas issues as well.  So, being healthy is important.

With a bad back, it's not so easy to just say, oh, I'll go exercise.  I won't go into details, because this is NOT a feel sorry for me blog.  The concern is, with all of these various produce items that are GMO, as well as the hormones and antibiotics injected into our food, as well as other poisonous waste being dumped into our oceans, I just think it's high time that we take our health back by insisting that farmers go back to the greener ways to farm the old fashioned way, where the food was 100% legit, and no junk needed.  the food will even taste better, also, because there is just no comparison.  This also has a lot to do with being humane to our fellow earth species.

Just remember, it's not necessarily about being vegetarian or vegan.  It's about being healthy and being humane to our fellow earthlings.

So, if you don't mind, please use this as a guide.

Dear Representative or Senator (fill in name),

I am writing in regards to our farming practices becoming toxic for the health of our fellow Americans in bad ways for the sake of the dollar.  Our food is literally causing health issues, such as obesity, early puberty of our children, heart disease, etc.  The ailments are costing more in medical expenses than what is being earned by corporate farms.

Here is a video that shows the in-humaneness of our livestock. Earthlings - Full length documentary (multi-subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce4DJh-L7Ys

The images in the video is not for the faint of heart, but,it is a sad reality of how we treat the animals we eat.  It is not only inhumane, it is abusive.  And it’s not just our pets, but, every animalwe can think of.  Cows, including thecalves, pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, etc. are tortured on so many levels thatit isn’t funny.  To call ourselvesChristian is hypocritical, because God commands us to take care of what isgiven.  Having dominion does not meanabuse another.  That would be like sayingthat because the husband is the head of his wife, that domestic violence andrape should be legal.

Factories are abusive to the animals that go toslaughter.  It’s high time that we goback to a more traditional ways of animal farming.  Especially in cases where factory farmingpractices also end up injecting hormones and antibiotics into the livestockthat are sold for food.  Our children,especially our girls, are hitting puberty at a younger age every year.  This is also feeding into MRSA and othersuper bugs that end up being resistant to antibiotics, and is making our healthrisks raise.  This isn’t about just our health;it’s also about the greed of the dollar being the bottom line, rather thanpeople, as a community.  Jesus commandsus to love one another, and poisoning the food and food sources is not the wayto love anybody, except the money god. The way the babies are taken away from their mothers’ bosoms; is thisthe way to honor the planet that was so generously given to us?

I am giving you, as an elected official, to view this wholevideo, before commenting back.  This isnot just an isolated incident.  Our farmbill condones these corporate farms, both on land and at sea shore.  The waste that gets dumped into our watersources is also a bad thing.  Again, wetry to say that the earth heals itself, yet we are caving to some of the worstwaste in the name of the capitalistic dollar. After such, the poor people who are at the highest risk of obesity arethe ones that are at the mercy of low prices while the wealthy factory farmsare looking for more money.  Just look atthe Farm Bill to subsidize them to give us hamburger at low prices.  Hamburger, bacon, chicken, etc. that has beeninjected with the antibiotics to ensure that the overcrowded stalls to ensurethat if one cow gets sick, they don’t lose the whole herd.  To have chickens in crates where they are defecatingon each other is also a disgusting practice. Here, too, if they were in regular spaces, you wouldn’t need antibioticsto prevent disease, either.  Maybe if thecows were kept more naturally, the sickness would not be a problem.  Or the hormone injections to make themplumper to sell more meat, is causing girls as young as 8 already needingtraining bras.

Here are links that show how the hormones in our foodcontribute to early puberty.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/10/05/hidden-hormones-can-bring-about-early-puberty-in-kids/

http://thegrio.com/2013/02/12/hormones-in-food-may-lead-to-early-puberty/

http://www.webmd.com/children/guide/causes-symptoms

http://nutritionfacts.org/2013/08/15/why-are-children-starting-puberty-earlier/

Here are links showing how the uses of antibioticsnegatively affect our ability to fight infection.  This includes information from the FDA.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/safe/overview.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/science/antibiotics-in-livestock-fda-finds-use-is-rising.html?_r=0

http://www.cdc.gov/narms/animals.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/safe/overview.html

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture/prescription-for-trouble.html#.VLxxUntRI8I

There are other articles on federal and departmental levelsthat also point in this direction.  As aconstituent who is actively voting as well as a public advocate, I urge you tolook into this and act on it.  This is for the health of all of our people, not just for the wealthy, but for those who live in poverty and are enslaved by budgets that limit how and what we can afford.

Thank you for your time, and for doing the right thing. 

Sincerely yours,

First Name MI. Last Name