I have the power to know what my body will do, of what my mind is capa­ble, the gen­eros­ity of my heart, and the great­ness of my soul. I will make this known in its true light to all the world. Paul C. Bragg

State Try­ing to Take Away Par­ents’ Right to Decide on Vaccines

If pend­ing leg­is­la­tion passes the Cal­i­for­nia State Assem­bly, par­ents will be forced to gain per­mis­sion from med­ical doc­tors or school nurses before send­ing their chil­dren to school with­out cer­tain vaccines.

Cur­rently, par­ents may send their chil­dren to school with­out vac­cines if they file a let­ter or affi­davit stat­ing the immu­niza­tion is con­trary to the family’s beliefs.  

Spon­sored by a strong advo­cate of the med­ical pro­fes­sion, the bill, AB 2109, would take away that decision-making power from par­ents and hand it to the med­ical prac­ti­tion­ers.  If passed, par­ents will be required to receive writ­ten per­mis­sion from the doc­tors or school nurses.  Most often, this will require med­ical office vis­its, which must be paid for by the par­ents.  The par­ents will also have to explain to the med­ical pro­fes­sion­als why they object to the vac­cines.  The pro­posed bill has rightly angered many par­ents’ rights groups and others.

“We do not believe doc­tors or health care work­ers should be the gate­keep­ers for what essen­tially has to do with the par­ents’ con­sci­en­tious beliefs,” said Bar­bara Loe Fisher, co-founder and pres­i­dent of the National Vac­cine Infor­ma­tion Center.

Cal­i­for­nia activist, Tim O’Shea, who is lead­ing a cam­paign against AB 2109, said:  “This bill is not just another bad idea…it is the sin­gle most rad­i­cal attack on med­ical free­dom in the his­tory of Amer­i­can jurisprudence.”

Said Tim­o­thy Feul­ing, pub­lisher of The Chi­ro­prac­tic Jour­nal: “Peo­ple have the right to decide whether or not they want to sub­ject them­selves and their chil­dren to poten­tially dan­ger­ous and inef­fec­tive vac­cines.  To pre­vent chil­dren from going to school unless they are injected with a drug or get ‘per­mis­sion’ from some stranger des­ig­nated by the gov­ern­ment is absurd.  This should not be allowed to happen.”

The argu­ment in favor of the bill, of course, is based on the belief that all vac­cines are safe and with­out them chil­dren could become sick and con­ta­gious to the other chil­dren.  There is much evi­dence to sug­gest, how­ever, that not all vac­cines are safe for all children.

If you believe that par­ents should remain free to make this deci­sion on behalf of their own chil­dren, please con­tact the Cal­i­for­nia State Leg­is­la­ture imme­di­ately and express your strong oppo­si­tion to AB 2109.

To find the name and con­tact infor­ma­tion of your Assem­bly mem­ber, go to:  www.Assembly.ca.gov.   For more infor­ma­tion on the sta­tus of the bill, visit bit.ly/TCJvaccinealert.

I will express myself firmly in the light of my true sin­cer­ity. Paul C. Bragg

TOMATO JUICE DRESSING

1 cup tomato juice, fresh or can

1 tsp chives, mince

shake of Bragg Kelp

3 Tbsps fresh lemon or orange juice

shake of Bragg Sprin­kle (24 herbs & spices)

⅓ cup Bragg Olive Oil

½ tsp Bragg Liq­uid Aminos

1 tsp red onion, mince

1 clove gar­lic, crush

Mix all the ingre­di­ents and blend well in a blender, Vita­mix or Jack LaLanne Health­Mas­ter 100 (see page 51 for blender list). Then refrig­er­ate 4 hours before using. Makes 12 cups.

I will express myself truly for the sake of my loved ones. Paul C. Bragg

TAPENADE VINAIGRETTE DRESSING

This dress­ing can be green or pur­ple: the green made with green olives, pur­ple (clas­sic ver­sion) made with black olives.

2 cloves garlic

3 Tbsps Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar

3 Tbsps tape­nade (recipe follows)

⅔ cup Bragg Organic Olive Oil

2 Tbsps capers, drained

Bragg Liq­uid Aminos (to taste)

Rub gar­lic thor­oughly around inside of a wooden salad bowl; then dis­card gar­lic. In the bot­tom of the bowl, com­bine the oil, vine­gar, capers and tape­nade; whisk together until emul­si­fied. Sea­son to taste with Liq­uid Aminos. Deli­cious for salad greens, sprouts and veg­gie sal­ads. Makes 12 cups.

I have the courage to express my true self for the sake of my own progress. Paul C. Bragg

Patri­cia Receives Global  EBook Award!

Here’s Patri­cia with her well deserved Global EBook Award!

Here’s Patri­cia ready to receive her EBook Life­time Achieve­ment Award

Patri­cia arrives at Uni­ver­sity Club EBook Award Ceremony

Here’s Patri­cia receiv­ing her  Life­time Achieve­ment Award  from Actress Mar­ilu Henner

Patri­cia with Estelle Fos­ter,
Pub­lisher Going Organic Guide Mag­a­zine and
John Fos­ter, Gar­den Edi­tor
Edi­tor Going Organic Guide Magazine

Patri­cia with Mar­ilu Hen­ner — Both Award Winners

Patri­cia with Michael Brown,
hus­band of Mar­ilu Hen­ner,
and Stephanie Chan­dler
2012 win­ning author of Own Your Niche

Patri­cia Bragg with Dan Poyn­ter, Founder Global eBook Awards

MAPLE — CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

3 medium sweet potatoes

½ Tbsp Bragg Organic Olive Oil

¼ cup dis­tilled water

¼ cup 100% pure maple syrup

½ cup unsweet­ened apple juice

Steam pota­toes in jack­ets 20 min­utes. Then put 1 inch slices into bak­ing dish. Heat remain­ing ingre­di­ents to boil­ing, pour sauce over pota­toes, bake 300°F for 15 min­utes. Serves 4.