Alternative Medicine, Lobbying

You want that or you want this?

My favorite M.C.. He gives a brief introduction and it's enough by way of introduction for myself. I have lobbied now since nineteen fifty five for health freedom. And the one thing that I find most difficult is to get people to realize that the system works. It works.

We live in the most wonderful country in the world and our congressmen will do what they're asked to do. Our problem is we have to ask them. Not ask them what to do. I prepared a form letter which will be passed out in addition to this little packet of.

Information. Be sure the minute you get the form letter, you read it quickly, it's made so you can read it quickly, sign it and when it's done, pass it to the center. I'll pick it up because these will be given to your senator and to your members of Congress. This particular letter, which I'm going to ask you to sign. Let's read it together. And if you see these people going down the aisle and you've got not got a letter. Be sure you raise your hand. It says, please hold hearings on USDA is plan to require all raw almonds to be pasteurized. Did you know that the United States Department of Agriculture has now got a regulation to require that every raw almond that is sold in the United States be pasteurized? How many of you knew that? How many of you didn't know it? This is one of the worst regulations that has ever been published. Now, this was announced just recently by a press release. And we're going to read this so you get the scope of it. It says, Almond Rule has some farmers going nuts. Associated Press. Now, this was just a couple of months ago. Madera, California, raw, organic Colman's formed the basis of Karen cases, sees garlicky nut patty, her vegan pie crust and vanilla ice cream custard's. But under the new federal rule requiring that virtually all almonds be pasteurized. The Chicago restaurant here will have to substitute a new nut or go to vast lengths to import her raw almonds from across the globe. Industry representatives say tightening the food safety rules to sub ject almonds to heat treatment. Now heat treatment, the way they plan to do it is to give it five burse of very high heat. And their argument is that this in no way destroys the value of the almond. How many of you believe that? How many of you believe that five burse of steam will not hurt the nutritional value of the almond? By show