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March 22, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Join the petition for clean rice protein!
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Welcome to the petition effort here at naturalnews.com for cleaner rice protein products that have lower levels of heavy metals.
If you'd like to see this petition, just go to naturalnews.com.
Here's the petition page and I'm going to explain the problem with heavy metals in rice protein products and then the solution because it's really very simple.
So here's the problem.
Our laboratory tests have found significant levels of heavy metals in rice protein products, including tungsten.
We found tungsten at over 10,000 parts per billion in a rice protein product.
Here are the other levels of tungsten.
We also found cadmium, lead, and mercury in rice protein products at these levels in some of the products.
Very significant concentrations here.
Now, when we announced this, some of the industry leaders immediately agreed to limit their heavy metals in products to these levels.
And they were responding to customer concerns, even though all these companies say their products are perfectly safe at the current levels.
They did listen to customers and they agreed to voluntarily agree to these limits to be transitioned into place by July 1, 2015.
Now the good news is that some of these companies' products already beat these limits.
They're already lower than this level.
But here are the companies who said yes to these voluntary limits so far.
Garden of Life, Sun Warrior, actually here's some of their websites, Garden of Life here.
Sun Warrior also said yes.
Boku Superfood also said yes.
And some other companies as well that we've listed here.
And they said, yeah, we are very interested in clean food.
We want customers to have confidence in what we're doing.
And so, yeah, we're happy to agree to these voluntary limits right here.
But now there are companies that have not agreed to these limits.
And there are some companies that appear to be more interested in pushing out spin rather than agreeing to these limits.
There's a PR spin effort underway now to tell you that heavy metals are safe to eat.
I know, it kind of sounds like Monsanto, doesn't it?
Saying GMOs are safe to eat, or the milk producers saying, well, what's a little bovine growth hormone in your breakfast cereal milk?
Nothing wrong with that.
Or how about the drug companies saying, yeah, how about some mercury in your vaccines?
It's good for you.
It's really good for you, yeah.
So that's what this sounds like.
With some of these companies.
So, what we want to do, and this is where we need your help, to have a mass grassroots activism campaign for this petition.
Sign your petition, sign your name here, and sign the petition.
We will deliver all these petitions to all these companies on or before March 7, 2014.
We are going to petition VEGA, Nutribiotic, Jaro Formulas, the Organic Food Bar Company, which I'm sure most of these will be happy to sign on.
Maybe they're not even aware of this effort yet.
And other companies, we're going to petition them with your tens of thousands of signatures, whatever the number happens to be by that time, to say, hey, why don't you all agree to these really common sense, reasonable limits on lead, tungsten, cadmium, and mercury in your rice protein products?
So we need your help because we all want clean food.
We want clean superfoods.
Some of these are certified organic foods.
And yet they have some of these levels which are really concerning to people.
Check it out.
Whoops, that's sea vegetables.
Let's go to proteins.
If you look at labs.naturalnews.com, you can see hemp proteins, pea proteins, rice proteins, sprout and whey proteins.
If you click on rice proteins, you can see some of the products, some of the current levels that we've found in our testing for these products.
Now this list is always changing.
Right now we're expecting new formulations from Boku and Garden of Life, which will update the chart.
We also have some Vega proteins on the way, so we'll update the chart when we have all that.
And right now we're seeing concentrations up to 0.533 parts per million or 500 plus parts per billion of lead in rice.
We're seeing cadmium over two and a half parts per million in rice and some mercury, although all these levels are below the current 50 parts per million voluntary limits.
Not too concerned about the mercury levels.
They all are kind of on the low side already.
But nevertheless, these are the levels that we're finding, and we want clean food, right?
It's not a crazy thing to ask for, is it?
So we want clean food.
We want GMOs labeled.
We want to know how much lead is in our protein products.
We want cleaner food.
It's very, very simple.
So to do that, we're going to gather petition signatures and we're going to petition these companies and get them all to come on board.
Now, I would say about this effort here, because there is a PR spin effort is underway.
To convince you that eating all this lead, cadmium, mercury, and tungsten is okay because it's, quote, naturally occurring.
Well, guess what?
That's not true at all.
In fact, if you look at our charts on sea vegetables, you can see that wakame seaweed grown in New Zealand has zero lead in it.
Zero lead.
And then wakame seaweed harvested near China has, wow,.851 parts per million of lead, which is way, way beyond Prop 65 limits and is really the highest we've seen in any seaweed.
Well, it's the same seaweed.
It's wakame.
What's the difference between the zero lead and the.851 lead?
The difference is where it's grown.
It's the water.
Whatever's in the water ends up in the plant.
So, cleaner water?
Lower levels of lead.
Dirtier water near China?
Higher levels of lead.
It's not rocket science here, folks.
So, if you want to have clean rice, you gotta grow rice.
In clean soils.
It's not complicated.
So don't believe any of the SPIN efforts that are being organized by public relations people, not scientists or researchers.
These people don't have laboratories like we do.
They don't test like we do.
And they're trying to convince you That it's okay to just eat more lead.
Have a little lead for breakfast.
How about fruit leads or Captain Cadmium cereal for breakfast?
Yeah, it's good for you because it's in the soil.
That's what they say.
Yeah, give me a break.
Come on.
How did it get in the soil?
Makes you wonder.
Why is it higher in some soils than others?
Because of industry, friends.
Because of industry.
You think soils had that much lead and cadmium and mercury before the Industrial Revolution?
I don't think so.
Why is rice different when it's grown in the United States versus rice that's grown in China?
Why are the levels different?
Because the levels of environmental concentrations of these metals are different in different soils depending on where it's grown, depending on how close or far it might be from other industry sources that emit these metals and coal-fired power plants and things like that.
I've seen, in fact, one of the excuses that I've heard so far is from some of these companies, not all of them by any means, but a few, have said, well, gee, you know, we grow rice way out in the country, far, far from any industry.
It couldn't possibly be contaminated or polluted.
Well, guess what?
Coal-fired power plants in China emit mercury, cadmium, and lead that falls on the United States.
It can go thousands of miles.
It can surely go a couple of hundred miles.
This stuff is in the air and it falls on the soil.
So, you gotta demand cleaner products.
And I want to commend, by the way, Garden of Life and Sun Warrior and Boku Superfood, Living Fuel, all these companies.
Who have stepped up to the plate and said, yeah, we agree with you.
We want clean food for all our customers.
We're listening to our customers.
We're doing the responsible thing.
We operate with ethics.
And we have a good moral compass.
We want to have cleaner food.
So yeah, of course we agree to this.
It makes sense.
We want cleaner food.
We all want food with lower levels of heavy metals.
Everybody does.
So, I think that companies that don't sign on to this are going to lose customers left and right.
They're going to lose trust.
They're going to lose loyalty.
They're going to lose customers, is my guess.
Because I think people vote with their dollars.
When they see that companies have signed on to this, they're going to say, yeah, that's a company that I want to buy from that I want to help support because they're doing the right thing.
Oh, and by the way, guess who's going to enforce this?
We are, right here at Natural News.
We are going to be the enforcers, in a sense, because we are going to do the testing, the laboratory testing, and we hope to publish all the good news of all these companies meeting or exceeding these limits even before July 1, 2015.
We'd like to see it happen sooner rather than later.
So it's good news.
Everybody wins.
The companies get...
Good trust factor from their customers.
They have cleaner raw materials and products on the shelves.
The customers are happy because they see they have full transparency.
They know what's happening.
They know that these levels are going to be met or even beat by these companies.
So everybody wins in this case.
So what's not to like, you know?
It's a good thing for everybody across the board.
So all you've got to do is sign the petition, share it with others, use the share buttons here, and we will collect the names and send them to these companies on or before March 7th.
And with that effort, our goal is to, of course, get all these companies to come on board.
Right now we've already got over 90% of the protein market that has agreed to this in terms of volume of sales, because Garden of Life is really the dominant player in this space.
But we want 99% or 100%.
We'd like all these companies to sign on, including Vega.
They may not yet be aware of this petition.
I don't know.
But we think that if they're going to be responsive to their customers, they should sign on and agree to this like these other companies already have.
So sign the petition.
Spread the word.
And if you'd like, you can subscribe to my email alert list here where you get updates on this.
We will announce the companies that have joined this, adding their names to this list and publishing articles on naturalnews.com.
This is good news for everybody who wants to join in.
And you've got to ask, why wouldn't they want to join this?
Any company that doesn't join it is essentially announcing, no, we're not going to meet these limits.
So that probably wouldn't be a very popular move to do.
In any case, thank you for your support.
Spread the word and sign this petition today so that we can all have clean food, cleaner superfoods, lower heavy metals in protein products across the board and we all benefit as a result.
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