April 1, 2009

Contents:

1. HANS Events
2. Global Lindane Ban Campaign Seeks Stories
3. Study: Cancer Prevalence in the Canadian Population
4. Tell Congress to Track Cloned Animals

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HANS Events

Apologies on the delay of sending this issue of the eNews. We're all recovering from the one-day conference that we hosted in North Vancouver on March 29th. About 200 people attended "Cancer: Prevention & Healing." Thank you to everybody who contributed to the success of this event - volunteers, attendees, organizers. We'd also like to thank our speakers, who donated their time to relay such important information about cancer prevention and healing from a holistic perspective: Lisa-Marie Bhattacharya, RHN; Gurdev Parmar, ND; Michael Wakeman, BSc, MSc; Caroline Markolin, PhD, and Julie Hardy. DVDs will be available for sale in about a month ($10 for HANS members, $15 for non-members, FREE with a new HANS membership or renewal). For more information, or to preorder, call us at 604-435-0512.

Next month, we're hosting a presentation by the well-known Dr. Lee Pulos - "Visions of a Future Mind." Don't miss out on this great opportunity to hear Dr. Pulos's message about understanding and utilizing the power of the mind - our greatest tool in healing and in life. Tickets are going fast, so purchase yours now by following the links under the Calendar of Events to the right.

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Global Lindane Ban Campaign Seeks Stories

by Pesticide Action Network of North America

Policy-makers listen to community voices. To make the right decision on lindane, officials at the US Food and Drug Administration need to hear from parents who refuse to use a pesticide-laden product on their child. Pesticide Action Network is inviting parents to join in sharing their lindane-free lice control success. Stories, photos and videos submitted to PAN will be presented to key FDA officials who are considering the US position on an upcoming global ban of lindane under the Stockholm Convention.

"They need to know that we don't need toxic chemicals to control lice," says Kristin Schafer, PAN's Associate Director for Advocacy. "Your stories will also give campaigners in Michigan the real-world evidence and encouragement they'll need to protect children from lindane as a statewide ban is considered there this spring. We'll then carry your stories with us to Geneva, Switzerland as PAN International makes a final push for a global lindane ban in May."

California PAN activists have already submitted their lindane-free lice control stories; lindane products were banned in the Golden State in 2001.

Share your story at http://action.panna.org/t/5185/questionnaire.jsp?que...

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Study: Cancer Prevalence in the Canadian Population

by Statistics Canada

Because of increases in the detection of cancer and improving survival, the number of Canadians living with cancer is rising.

Of all persons living in Canada on January 1, 2005, 695,000 had been diagnosed with an invasive cancer at some point in the previous 10 years. Some individuals experienced more than one invasive cancer over the 10-year period, with the number of cancer cases totalling 723,000.

The most common cancers were breast, prostate and colorectal cancer, which together accounted for just over half of all cases on January 1, 2005, that had been diagnosed in the previous decade.

More at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/090318/dq09...

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Tell Congress to Track Cloned Animals

by Food & Water Watch

Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration announced its decision that meat and milk from cloned animals were supposedly safe to eat - then it asked the cloning industry to follow a voluntary moratorium on putting these products on store shelves. But how can consumers be sure the moratorium is working? We can't, because there is no system in place to keep track of cloned farm animals and their offspring.

Unless the US Department of Agriculture creates a DNA-based tracking system, cloned animals will be invisible to food companies and will inevitably end up in the food supply. Many food companies have pledged to avoid cloned animals in their supply chains - but without a national tracking system it is hard for them to verify this pledge. Cloned animals and their offspring cannot be certified organic, but if we don't know where the cloned animals end up, this claim won't help much either.

Tell Congress to establish a national DNA-based tracking system for cloned animals and their offspring before these products end up in our food supply at http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/5915/campaign....

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