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The Farm & Ranch Guide
Pet food mishap shows reason for COOL
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The Pet Connection
Pet-food recall: Country of origin labeling

Agriculture Guide website
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A Blog with all pet related news and information

Consumer Rights for all (human) food ingredients labels to have country of origin listed
For more information see
USDA site - Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)
and
Americans for Country of Origin Labeling
Labeling Law and Information

Food manufacturers have long held the belief that American consumers want the cheapest food available.
This mishap with pet food can serve as a wakeup call that using the cheapest food ingredients can actually become a costly mistake.
The wheat gluten that caused the deaths of the pets did not come from the United States.
Country of Origin Labeling is one way to assure that Americans have the opportunity to purchase food raised in the United States.

The Pet Connection http://www.petconnection.com/ Pet-food recall: What Pet Lovers need to know The site who is organizing for pet lovers a mass of resources and reporting databases. Pet-food recall: Get the food off the shelves

The Pet Connection Blog

Itchmo

Howl911

Pet Food Tracker

PetSitUSA

The Pet Food List

Spocko’s Brain

Dogged

Dog Aware

Pet Lover Sites and Blogs more current than the FDA, News Media, Veterinarians, and Congress for resources and breaking news!

"Every day since the first recall was announced on March 17, we here at Pet Connection have been informal members of a team of Web sites whose owners wanted to help. None of us ever heard of the other before, but we all somehow found our niche and together, we provided more support than any one of us alone could have.

Rivoting Pro Bono Blogs and Sites that have been working tirelessly to get out the word. Make sense of this monumental tragedy visited upon our innocent beloveds.

Pets Need A Voice Too (PNV2)
Nationwide March Plans A gathering and information portal
Pictures of the babies who died

Notable Quotes Read quotes from Independent thinkers Center For Individual Freedom (CFIF) Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

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scottishterrier — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:31:28 CDT

Mr. Moose, Independent Scottish Terrier, Speaks Candidly!

What Moose wrote Fred Thompson and will write all Presidental Candidates.
Former Senator - Tennessee Fred Thompson says he wants to earn votes.
Moose is a fellow Tennessean. It makes sense to start the discussion with Fred first.
Will former Senator Thompson support positions of Independent Centrists like Moose?
Moose's personal policy is NO vote earned without answers to questions that concern all Americans.
Moose wil be asking all Democratic and Republican Candidates probing questions.
Who will earn the Independent centrists support?

Fred08
http://fredfile.fred08.com/2007/on-the-road-fred-takes-questions/

Dear Fred,
Please explain your membership, as of 2002, in the Council on Foreign Relations, a group founded in the 1920’s with the goal of promoting world socialism.
Today, this same group is advocating for the North American Union, which calls for the merging of Canada, US, and Mexico.
As a conservative Republican, the concern about our rightful sovereignty is an issue that is of vital importance to us, and is going to come up over and over again, until we the voters understand your position.
Dori Devereux

Dear Fred,
Agreed.
When will you renounce The Council on Foreign Relations that are for the North American Union?
Partnering with Mexico and Canada is a mistake.
Allowing Mexican Trucks in this country with total freedom to go where they please a mistake!
We need to produce foods and goods in this country.
No longer allow imports of food from Mexico.
Foods from Mexico are produced in many cases from fields that use human feces for fertilizer.
No longer allow American businesses to locate in Mexico.
No longer ignore Mexicans flowing into this country illegally.
Local law enforcement such as in Nashville, TN. deserve federal assistance to continue to take illegal aliens and criminals back where they belong, back to Mexico.
Hold Canada to our strict standards on food safety. Tainted food has been recalled from their country also.
As an example –
The beef industry in the United States needs to be protected from Canadian imports of beef. Canada uses human growth hormones in their meats.
Monsanto is lobbying Congress and the Administration to require our beef for export be treated with human growth hormone. We need not follow Canada’s example!
Monsanto’s Genetically Altered Seeds from India are responsible for killing bee populations worldwide. No bees, no pollination. As an example — the devastation of bee populations in Ohio. Farmers are pushed to use Monsanto’s GE seed corn!
Be less pro business and more looking out for the citizens of our country who deserve to come first — as part of our fundamental rights were most certainly deserve clean foods. Without clean water, foods, and shelter human life cannot be sustained.
Partnering with Mexico and Canada leaves all American citizens vulnerable.

Mr. Moose, Fellow Tennesean, Independent Centrist

Republicans cannot win the 2008 General Election without the support of independents.
Please consider positions drawn on this bipartisan, independent organization:
Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF)
http://www.cfif.org

Mission
Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
The Center seeks to focus public, legislative and judicial attention on the rule of law as embodied in the federal and state constitutions. Those fundamental documents both express and safeguard society’s commitment to individual freedom, not only through specific protections such as the Bill of Rights, but also through structural protections that constrain and disperse governmental authority.
An example of policy:
China, the Threatening Giant
http://www.cfif.org/podcasts/Bruce-Herschensohn.htm
China is in the news a lot. The news is not good. First it was the pet food scare. Then, it was tainted toothpaste. Now, it’s the Thomas the Tank Engine series, manufactured in China, and subject to a recall because of lead paint use. Legitimately, this has many consumers questioning America’s open-door policy on Chinese imports.
Couple that with the reported $230 billion U.S. trade deficit with China and that country’s continued practice of undervaluing its currency and other alleged unfair trade practices, and there’s ample justification for punitive action by the United States against China, currently being considered on Capitol Hill.
Fred, please support a bill on a standalone basis to be passed in Congress and not coupled with the Farm Bill.
Country of Origin Labeling (COOL).
The American people deserve to know all ingredients for food. Where they are grown and by whom.
Once passed this bill needs to be FULLY funded by Congress. Just mandating without funding useless. They must perform oversight of the USDA and FDA to make sure funds earmarked for COOL be spent only for COOL implementation and enforcement.
The Administration must follow through with their job to require the FDA to trigger mandatory recalls vs. voluntary. The Administration must immediately require all companies in America and the World to give us truth in labeling!
For information on Safe Foods see:
Safe Foods
http://safefoods.wetpaint.com

Mr. Moose, Fellow Tennesean, Independent Centrist

The Importance of Border Security
Posted: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:17:26 +0000
I find your post here inconsistent with your membership in the Council of Foreign Relations given they stand for merging of Canada, US, and Mexico.

Mr. Moose, Fellow Tennesean, Independent Centrist

Most, regardless of their opinion on the war, criticized the full-page ad, apparently run by the Times at a deep discount, for what it was: A slap in the face to all of our brave men and women in uniform and their families.
As Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently said on the Senate floor, “The ad was, by any standard, abhorrent. It accused a four star general who has the trust and respect of 160,000 men and women in Iraq of betraying that mission and those troops, of lying to them and to us. Who would have ever expected anybody to go after a general in the field at a time of war, launch a smear campaign against a man we’ve entrusted with our mission in Iraq.”
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Why wasn’t the vote correctly reported by news outlets that OBAMA and HAGEL voted NAY?
Shouldn’t you point this error to the media?
I already sent FoxNews the correction.
We need to check to see if they have written an article and broadcast the following:
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:7:./temp/~c110alakVA::
To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force–Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemns personal… (Introduced in Senate)
SRES 315 IS
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 315
To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force–Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemns personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the members of the United States Armed Forces.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 11, 2007
NAYs —45
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
I prefer FoxNews over any national news outlets. I do believe they make an effort to be balanced and fair versus all other television and online media.
http://safefoods.wetpaint.com

Mr. Moose, Fellow Tennesean, Independent Centrist

Former Senator Edward’s wife at least came out in opposition to the MoveOn.org ad. We have yet to hear from him however...

We may guess accurately however how he feels about the Betray Us Ad in the Times by MoveOn.org:
John Edwards, 2008
John Edwards For President Campaign Announces Communications Staff
…
“Director of Online Communications and Organizing, Ben Brandzel
Brandzel joins the campaign after working as Advocacy Director at MoveOn.org. He also founded the MoveOn Student Action organization. Brandzel has also worked as an online engagement consultant for the United Nations World Food Programme and Oxfam America. He also worked as an organizer on Governor Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign.”
…
Rolling Stone: John Edwards Profile
Aug 10, 2007 4:00 PM
http://johnedwards.com/news/headlines/rs-20070810/index.html
…
“Such unabashed progressive stances have made Edwards a hit among the party’s Netroots activists. His climate-change plan was the runaway favorite in a MoveOn.org straw poll that followed the Live Earth concerts. And in a recent survey of more than 16,000 Democrats on Daily Kos, Edwards emerged as the top choice, registering forty percent support to Obama’s twenty-two percent. “Edwards’ proposals go the furthest – they’re like the ideal,” says Moulitsas of Daily Kos. “Everybody else is playing it so safe it’s dreadful.”
…
“Elizabeth Edwards has emerged as the campaign’s liaison to the activist base, reaching out to constituencies that the candidate can’t court directly. In June, ignoring her husband’s nuanced support for civil unions, she openly endorsed gay marriage at San Francisco’s pride parade. She also serves as the campaign’s chief attack dog. In our couch-side chat at The Tonight Show, she launches a broadside against Clinton, accusing the senator of “not addressing women’s issues. Health care is a woman’s issue; the face of poverty is a woman’s face. Yet she’s got nothing on these issues. Where are the programs? They’re completely missing.”
…
But the pivotal question is how the candidate’s progressive stance will play in Iowa: Unlike Clinton and Obama, Edwards has no other options. “He’s only got one strategy – he’s got to win Iowa,” says Carrick, who was a key adviser to Dick Gephardt in 2004. “If you get that slingshot effect out of Iowa, you can really take off in New Hampshire.” Win them both, history suggests, and you’re a lock for the nomination. “Edwards has a game plan,” says Lehane. “You can see how it can work if everything comes into alignment.”

...

John Edwards, 2008
John Edwards For President Campaign Announces Communications Staff
http://johnedwards.com/news/headlines/communications-staff/index.html
“Director of Online Communications and Organizing, Ben Brandzel
Brandzel joins the campaign after working as Advocacy Director at MoveOn.org.
Brandzel is obviously very effective organizing the far left ( communist progressive ) sites and blogs in support of John Edwards forwarding moveon.org’s agenda.
Shouldn’t Senator Edwards seeking Veterans’ votes decry the Betray Us Ad rather than pander and receive the large funds by moveon.org?
Mr. Moose, Fellow Tennesean, Independent Centrist

Why Fred haven’t you produces an issue paper regarding the importing of dangerous goods from countries who have no interest in protecting their own people let alone the well being of the American People?
All Democratic and Republican Candidates need to define their stance to support American owned businesses located in the United States who have no plants or management in foreign countries.
Fred, you have a chance of winning the Republican Nomination for President IF you vows to protect United States citizens from all enemies foreign and domestic as well as provide for the common defense and the common good and general welfare.
Preventing poisonous and toxic products being imported to this country obviously will protect us.
Other more concerns:
Absolutely a must to stem the flood of illegals crossing our borders by smuggling and unfortunately by free flow of trucking.
Absolutely a must to stop all imports of dangerous foods and products from China (who exports products from North Korea and North Vietnam to the United States), Pakistan, Mexico and a number of countries who do not live up to USA product standards.
Absolutely must remove all incentive for companies such as ConAgra, the largest grain exporter, from exporting their ten Communist China plants’ products into the United States.
China supplies 70 percent of all grains sold in the United States.
Nestle (a Swiss Company) was able to purchase Gerber Foods (our last baby food company that was US owned).
Why did the FTC allow this purchase?
Nestle has 5 new plants in Pakistan.
One product for instance is Nestle’s “Good Start” baby formula.
Need I remind you the Pakistan is the home of bin Laden?
We no longer afford poisons being sold in the United States in form of food and toys as an example. Have we forgotten the poisons of innocents, our pets who have died and continue to die in the hundreds of thousands? The same poisons in pet foods were also sold to human food producing companies.
See wiki Wetpaint Safe Foods for instance as a not for profit sharing site meant to promote the general welfare of US Citizens.
Please support the administrative duty to immediately enforce Country of Origin (COOL) Legislation.
http://safefoods.wetpaint.com
Do this former Senator of Tennessee and fellow Tennessean — you will be very much favored for President of the United States of America should you remember to support our people over global, greedy corporations.
This can be a pivotal election in this watershed moment in time — the American People need a strong leader that remembers our citizens first.
The Independent Centrist
http://independentcentrist.wetpaint.com
I would like to vote for you and recommend to my family, friends, and fellow Americans we vote for you in the Primary and General Elections. Please earn our votes addressing the above.

Mr. Moose, Fellow Tennesean, Independent Centrist

Sincerely, Mr. Moose of the Dunlap Crew Clan

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Name of Resource	Material Type	Description	Comments
The Farm & Ranch Guide Pet food mishap shows reason for COOL _____________________ The Pet Connection Pet-food recall: Country of origin labeling	Agriculture Guide website _________________ A Blog with all pet related news and information	Consumer Rights for all (human) food ingredients labels to have country of origin listed For more information see USDA site - Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) and Americans for Country of Origin Labeling Labeling Law and Information	Food manufacturers have long held the belief that American consumers want the cheapest food available. This mishap with pet food can serve as a wakeup call that using the cheapest food ingredients can actually become a costly mistake. The wheat gluten that caused the deaths of the pets did not come from the United States. Country of Origin Labeling is one way to assure that Americans have the opportunity to purchase food raised in the United States.
The Pet Connection http://www.petconnection.com/	Pet-food recall: What Pet Lovers need to know	The site who is organizing for pet lovers a mass of resources and reporting databases.	Pet-food recall: Get the food off the shelves
The Pet Connection Blog Itchmo Howl911 Pet Food Tracker PetSitUSA The Pet Food List Spocko’s Brain Dogged Dog Aware	Pet Lover Sites and Blogs more current than the FDA, News Media, Veterinarians, and Congress for resources and breaking news!	"Every day since the first recall was announced on March 17, we here at Pet Connection have been informal members of a team of Web sites whose owners wanted to help. None of us ever heard of the other before, but we all somehow found our niche and together, we provided more support than any one of us alone could have.	Rivoting Pro Bono Blogs and Sites that have been working tirelessly to get out the word. Make sense of this monumental tragedy visited upon our innocent beloveds.
Pets Need A Voice Too (PNV2)	Nationwide March Plans	A gathering and information portal	Pictures of the babies who died
Notable Quotes	Read quotes from Independent thinkers	Center For Individual Freedom (CFIF)	Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.


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