Consumer Alert 00101-C AVOIDING DANGEROUS FOODS, Part 3 of 3
ELIMINATING FRANKENFOODS: JOIN THE FOOD FIGHT!
You can help your loved ones, family, friends, and associates by forwarding
them this three-part communication. The next step will be to send parts
one and two to consumer groups, writers, editors, media people, journalists,
teachers, food producers, organic food producers, food retailers, network
marketers, restauranteurs, small companies, and large companies. Send this
communication to anyone that eats food. Especially be sure to forward parts
one and two to the best, brightest, most creative, most successful, and
most well-educated people that you know. Forward this information to people
that you respect, to people who are knowledgeable and well-connected. Interested
and motivated consumers will request that you send any missing section(s).
By not sending everything at first, you qualify them and learn about their
level of interest. We need to systematically, step-by-step get this three-part
communication to the top people in society. They can easily spread this
information far and wide through their network of associates and contacts.
If you have cut, copy, and paste ability with your e-mail program, you
can create clean copies of this three-part communication. If you are new
to e-mail and the Internet, get help from a personal friend or computer
whiz who knows about such things. If you need a new clean copy of this
three-part communication, you can order one from your Leader, a person
taking a consumer leadership role. Your Leader's e-mail address should
be at the bottom of each section of this three-part series.
If you, like many other consumers, feel that this situation regarding the
food supply deserves immediate attention and immediate action, then take
the first step. Proceed to make a list of everyone that you know. First
list loved ones, relatives, family, and friends. Then list associates,
everyone else that you know on a first name or on a more formal basis.
Pull out your personal phone directory, and your Christmas card list and/or
other social register. Then use paper and pen and the phone book to jog
your memory about people that you know that you may have temporarily forgotten.
Be systematic. Examples: Use the white pages. Ask yourself: Who do I know
with the last name Adam; Anderson; Atkinson; etc... Also use the yellow
pages. Ask yourself: Do I know any accountants? bankers? commodity brokers?
etc...Psychologists have discovered that virtually everyone knows at least
1000 people on a first-name basis. You do too! Bring these people to mind.
Make a list of everyone that you know, and send as many of them as possible
this three-part series by e-mail.
If you live in a small town, or if most people that you know live nearby,
you can simply print this three-part series and hand it out. Teach people
to teach others to make copies and give them out to all of their loved
ones, relatives, and connections. If you want to send someone this three-part
series, but you don't have their e-mail address, try calling them briefly
and asking them for their e-mail address. If they don't have e-mail, you
can arrange to send this information to one of their nearby friends or
relatives who may have an e-mail address. You can also print this three-part
communication and mail the printed copies. After giving or sending this
communication, follow up with a note or phone call. Use the power of your
personal influence. Personally encourage all of your loved ones to avoid
genetically engineered foods. By following these suggestions, you will
easily find your three Leaders and you will build your own consumer action
group. (See "Defeating Dr. Frankenfood" below) In any case, try
to get this three-part communication out to at least 50 people that you
know personally, and into the hands of as many other consumers as possible.
If you have experience with e-mail and the Internet, then you know that
a "flame" is an angry e-mail, and "spam" is generally
defined as any unwanted commercial e-mail. You can send part one and part
two of this three-part series to on-line mailing lists and to other people
that you do not know personally, but this takes more care and more attention.
For example, if you send the first section or two to people that you do
not know, you may occasionally get "flamed" by people who do
not appreciate the message. They may feel that you have "spammed"
them.
For every person that flames you, there will be two or twenty who will
appreciate this information. As more and more people receive this communication,
some may complain that they have already seen it. You may consider e-mailing
flamers with a polite note explaining that reading the three-part communication
is not enough. People need to change their eating habits and to inform
their loved ones. You can prevent flames by first sending short and sweet
e-mail notes telling consumers that you will be sending some important
information about the food supply. Don't wait for a response, simply go
ahead and send the first section or two of this communication.
Leaders, people taking a leadership role, will network together and keep
each other informed about events as they happen. They will also have supporting
documentation and other information that they can hand out or forward to
each other. Leaders will always have the best and most current information.
They can work either on-line or off-line or both. Many Leaders will be
fundamental to our success in stopping Dr. Frankenfood.
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER
If you feel inspired to become an on-line Leader, record your own Leader's
e-mail address. E-mail to your Leader, and tell him or her of your intention
to take a leadership role. Ask for his or her list of ancestral Leaders
and their e-mail addresses. Leaders can also get information from the mailing
lists, websites, and information sources at the end of this third section.
New Leaders should use cut-and-paste, creating a new fresh version of the
three-part series and then delete or cut their own Leader's e-mail address
at the very bottom of all three sections and carefully write or paste in
their own e-mail address. They should also proceed to make their own personal
list and then continue with the plan as previously outlined. As a Leader,
you will receive periodic requests to forward fresh copies of this three-part
communication. You can expect to receive, on average, one or two requests
to forward every day.
If your Leader has changed his or her e-mail address, and if you therefore
cannot find your Leader or your ancestral Leaders, you can still make good
of the situation. You can build and create your own group. You can use
the information in this three-part communication and those resources and
websites listed at the end of this third section. You can find other Leaders
who will be happy to work with you. They will probably be subscribed to
the mailing lists listed at the end of this third section.
FEEL FREE TO PRINT ANY INFORMATION
You can print this entire three-part communication and give it out to consumers
off-line. They can go to their computer, if they have one, and they can
contact their Leader. You also may wish to print the first two sections
and hand them out to people in health food stores, supermarkets, or anywhere.
If consumers make request, give them a copy of this third section. Be sure
to teach everyone working off-line to make their own list of contacts,
to make copies of this three-part communication, and to give copies out
to all their friends, relatives, associates, and connections. A more detailed
consumer action plan for working off-line will be available. Check with
your Leader to see if he or she has it or can get it for you. People can
use their local copy machine and should teach others to use their local
copy machine, etc, etc....If many people tell many consumers about this
situation, soon we will have many Leaders and soon consumers everywhere
will know about this situation, therefore we will all be able to protect
ourselves. Everyone has permission to use this three-part series to write
press releases, magazine articles, booklets or books. Request help from
your Leaders and your Leader's Leaders. Creative people will be able to
build huge consumer information networks on or off-line using this information
by utilizing the general duplication strategy, and by utilizing the contacts
and information sources at the end of this section three.
DEFEATING DR. FRANKENFOOD USING THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
Imagine if an evil Dr. Frankenfood had an evil plan to secretly rage biological
warfare against the world population. It's really happening! Well, they
are not really so evil intentioned, but Monsanto, DuPont, Calgene, Ciba-Geigy,
the rest of the bio-tech industry, the USDA, and the FDA are doing exactly
what an evil-intentioned genius would do. They are almost worse, because
they do not even know that they are doing something wrong. They have narrow,
limited, short-range vision of what they are doing. We have to react to
what they are really doing, not to their stated good intentions. Along
these lines, it may be interesting to note that the Internet was originally
started as an experiment by the U.S. military. The original purpose of
the Internet was to create a non-centralized network, an evenly spread-out
communications network for military use. A non-centralized network would
be impossible to stop, because an enemy could never locate and knock out
its central operating intelligence. If some part of it was stopped, the
rest would just keep going and going....
This consumer action plan, designed to take advantage of this natural strength
of the Internet, has no center that could be knocked out. Therefore, it
cannot be stopped. This plan is to systematically create hundreds of thousands
of consumer Leaders worldwide. The plan also uses the principle of exponential
growth. For example, if three Leaders get three Leaders, who in turn get
three Leaders, etc.....3 x 3 x 3 x 3... through 15 levels, equals hundreds
of thousands of Leaders who in turn will inform millions of consumers.
Since this information will be going out over a period of many months all
throughout 1997 and 1998, this would not be any kind of burden on Internet
bandwidth -- on communications traffic flow. It will come out at peak to
be quite manageable, with many hundreds of e-mails per hour worldwide.
Exponential mass marketing in this case becomes highly ethical and necessary.
Sometime in 1997 or 1998 this issue of genetically engineered food will
become a big story on television as well as in magazines and newspapers
in the United States and every part of the world. That will be the sign
that we will be on the verge of succeeding in our mission to first label
and then ban genetically engineered foods. But we have to continue until
we have total disclosure and total labeling of all genetically engineered
food products, including complete information about all additives and production
agents. Then we must continue towards a worldwide ban and moratorium for
50 years.
To be most effective, this consumer action plan needs speed. Your loved
ones, your friends, your family, your relatives may be eating genetically
engineered Frankenfoods right now. Do not procrastinate. Once begun, this
global consumer movement cannot be stopped. New Leaders will be constantly
created. The bio-tech industry, made up of multi-billion dollar companies,
will try to save their Frankenfood project. They will lobby the government
and create new laws. They will work with the USDA and do multi-million
dollar pro-genetic engineering campaigns. They will do everything and anything
possible to stay in business, to try to stop us from informing our loved
ones and fellow consumers about what they are doing. But rest assured:
they are doomed. We will not fail. By joining in, by taking action, by
making your personal list, by becoming a Leader, and by forwarding, printing,
and handing out this three-part communication, you will be completely in
harmony with the original purpose of the Internet. We will quickly create
an invincible, unstoppable, global communications network. Together, we
will use the Internet to stop Dr. Frankenfood from destroying our health,
our families, and our planet.
ELIMINATING FRANKENFOODS: WHAT CAN I DO?
1. Learn all you can about the dangers of genetically engineered foods.
2. Learn how to shop to avoid these foods. Boycott companies using these
foods.
3. Tell all your friends family and loved ones about this problem, both
on-line and off-line. Your job is not done until they change their eating
habits and they teach their loved one's to do the same.
4. Start or join consumer groups to label and ban genetically engineered
food.
5. Send letters to your political leaders and representatives.
6. Write and send letters to the organic food industry, media, writers,
editors, networkers.
7. Join the food fight to eliminate Frankenfoods. Systematically forward
this three-part communication to your personal contacts and influential
people all over the world.
8. Take a leadership role. Create at least three new committed Leaders.
Contact the sources at the end of this communication.
9. Request parts one and two of this three-part communication from your
Leader, who should be listed at the end of this communication.
Relevant Websites About Genetic Engineering:
(Easily accessible with Netscape mail programs)
http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/cbio/geneng.html
http://www.demon.co.uk/solbaram/articles/clm505.html
http://www.natural-law.org/issues/genetics/ge_hazards.html
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rone/Genetic%20Engineering.htm
http://www.netlink.de/gen/home.html
http://www.fairfield.com/edit/mothers/
http://www.mum.edu/Fagan.html
http://www.mum.edu/PRESS/genetics/ethical_stand.html
http://www.mum.edu/PRESS/genetics/Fagan.html
http://www.bio-integrity.org
http://www.lisco.com/mothersfornaturallaw
http://www.lisco.com/mothers
http://www.greenpeace.org/~usa/reports/biodiversity/roundup
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1527/
http://www.natuurwetpartij.nl/genmanipkampanje
http://www.essential.org/crg/
http://www.peg.apc.org/~acfgenet/
http://www.indians.org/welker/genome.htm
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ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO STOP GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD
Greenpeace
1436 U Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009 U.S.A.
Telephone in U.S. (800) 381-4712
Tell them you want to join the crusade against genetically engineered foods.
http://www.greenpeace.org/~usa/
The Foundation on Economic Trends
1660 L Street, N.W., Suite 215 Washington, D.C. 20036 U.S.A.
Telephone in U.S. (202) 466-2823 Fax in U.S. (202) 429-9602
Mothers for Natural Law
P.O. Box 1177 Fairfield, Iowa 52556 U.S.A.
Telephone in U.S. (515) 472-2809 Fax in U.S. (515) 472-2683
They have a "Safety First" Information pack -- They need $3.00
U.S. for shipping and handling. Make checks payable to "Mothers For
Natural Law."
IMPORTANT:
Your Leader's e-mail address:
E-Mail: pmligotti@earthlink.net
Consumer Alert 00101-C AVOIDING DANGEROUS FOODS,
Part 3 of 3