“In times of great change the power shifts from all things big and goes back to the small. The power waivers in that which has become conglomerated, that which was built upon the old. Power reverts back to the individual. All truth can then only be found with the individual. Such it is in this time of greatest change in all history.” -Pila of Hawaii
One’s liberty to exercise freedom of speech is only as powerful as those who put it into use. Many food industries will not exercise this use of freedom of speech because they want to leave the American Population in the dark. That is why we, as a country, must speak out against putting these chemicals and food-like substances in our mouths.
Barbara Kowalcyk has devoted herself to passing “Kevin’s Law”, a law giving the USDA the ability and power to shut down plants that repeatedly produce meat containing E-coli and other deadly pathogens. After her 2-year-old son died from eating a hamburger that was tainted with E-coli, this became her life long mission. Kevin’s Law has yet to pass because the beef industry has such tight control of Congress. Only through people like Barbara who speak out against large industries, are we using our liberty of freedom of speech and changing the world the way we want it to be changed.
As a nation, we are naïve and are taking advantage of our Freedom of Speech rights. It seems that we do not care about the health and diet of our country. We as a nation must exercise our freedom of speech in order to see change. We need to know what is going into our foods, and only then will we stop putting the chemically produced, pesticide filled garbage in our mouths.
It's unfortunate that Congress is so strongly linked with industries such as this. If only politicians would serve the people rather than their careers, we might have solutions to these kinds of problems. A law such as Kevin's Law should have no problem passing in Congress, but unfortunately this is not the America of the founding fathers.
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