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"This One's For All the Ladies Out There "If you have $200 burning a hole in your pocket and you live in the Dallas area, you too can fork over your money to HSUS's "puppy mill" program on March 26. That's when the HSUS "Spotlight Humane" gala will gobble up donor dollars like a politician in October. The only thing missing will be the rubber chicken. "Events like this don't just hap- pen by themselves. Someone has to advertise the tickets, rent a hall, pay a dance band, and hire a bouncer to keep the fur-wearing riff raff out. And that takes sponsorship money. "Here are the corporate sponsors for this little HSUS soiree: Mary Kay Cosmetics, Wolfgang Puck Catering, Sewell Auto Dealers, Cafe Pacific Dallas. That last one's a doozy, considering that this land- mark restaurant's specialties include "fresh fish and seafood, flown in daily, [and] prime beef from the Midwest." I wonder if any- one from HSUS did a tasting. Prob- ably not. "But the real surprise for me was Mary Kay. I have to believe that it's not too late for that fine cosmetics company to "walk this back." What do you think? "p.s. HSUS has nuked its gener- ic online list of corporate support- ers. I wonder why?" Amanda Nolz is a former National Beef Ambassador and wrote: "My friend Anna Aja, an Arizona cattle producer and a for- mer National Beef Ambassador tipped me off to this event as she is also a Mary Kay consultant. "Aja was deeply upset by the company's new tie to HSUS, a slick organization with a main mission to eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from the American diet while simultane- ously pushing farmers and ranchers out of business. "Rightly so, she has rich ties to the agriculture industry, and she is urging others to join in her efforts to reach out to the cosmetic company and set the record straight. Like [yellow tail] wine, I do think this company can right itself, but only if we speak up and share our story with the brand. "In an email blast yesterday, Anna wrote the following: As an agriculture community, we united and stood tall educating [yellow tail] wine about HSUS, and they vowed not to work with them again. I believe we can do the same here by letting Mary Kay know they are working with crooks. I wrote a mes- sage to them on my personal con- sultant website. However, you can drop them an easy line and just say that you will not use their cosmetics if they affiliate with HSUS, an orga- nization that only gives 0.5 percent of their $100 million plus budget to hands-on shelters. "We have to speak up in agriculture and not let them hoodwink all these people. Thank you for your help! Just a quick line or two will help! Empha- size that you will no longer use their products if they continue to associate with HSUS. Anna Aja 'Thanks, Anna, for the heads up on this one. I appreciate your leadership, dedication and passion to the agriculture industry, and I'm proud and lucky to call you my friend! "Join Anna in her call to action to reach out to Mary Kay and share your thoughts on why its partner- ship with HSUS is going to result in a loss of customers from the agri- culture community. I plan to write my letter today, will you?" *** The follow-up the next day in BEEF Daily Blog, "Caught In The Act, HSUS Takes Advantage of Mary Kay Label by Amanda Nolz March 10th, 2010 "Mary Kay cosmetics is a brand women across the country have learned to trust, and rightly so. With a mission statement of 'enriching women's lives,' this company boasts a wide range of beauty prod- ucts from fragrances, to makeup, to skin care, to sunscreen. More than just a brand, countless farm and ranch women have added supple- mental income to their livestock operations by working as Mary Kay consultants, selling the products to women in their communities. "So, it was no wonder when the company was listed as a corporate sponsor of the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) in an upcoming 'Spotlight Humane' gala in Dallas, TX, that farm and ranch women were upset. The agriculture com- munity was shocked to hear this trusted beauty company was team- ing up with HSUS, an organization with a $200 million annual budget and a main mission to abolish ani- mal agriculture and eliminate meat and dairy products from the Ameri- can diet. "However, Mary Kay cleared the air late yesterday afternoon to announce that they were not a spon- sor of this organization, which is good news for all around! "Here is what the company had to say on their Facebook Fan Page yesterday: Some fans of Mary Kay products and independent beauty consultants have expressed con- cerns over a recent sponsorship of a Dallas-area event. Thank you for bringing your concerns to our atten- tion. We have heard you and want to clarify any confusion. First and foremost, Mary Kay is not a sponsor of this event. Mary Kay's owner's wife was approached to make a personal contribution towards a local event here in Dallas sponsored by the Dallas chapter of the Humane Society. This event specifically supports efforts to stop puppy mills and the orga- nization's stop puppy mills campaign. Out of caring and compassion for addressing puppy mills, our owner's wife agreed to make a personal contribu- tion. Mary Kay has contacted the Humane Society to clarify that we are not sponsors of this event and the company logo is being removed from the website. As a company, we sincerely apologize for any con- fusion or causing any offense to members of the Mary Kay commu- nity. "It appears the slick engine, HSUS, monopolized on an opportu- nity to use the Mary Kay brand to appeal to a different group of peo- ple, and I'm glad the rumor this lob- bying giant started isn't true. How- ever, it's still important that the owner's wife, every Mary Kay con- sultant and every customer they have is educated and informed about the true intent of HSUS. After all, they still got money, right? Looking on the bright side, Mary Kay is still a brand women can trust, and I encourage you to share your positive agriculture story in the comments section of the MK Facebook Fan Page today. Also, be sure to thank the company for clear- ing up confusion about HSUS and encourage them to continue to sup- port America‚s food producers." Humanewatch.org wrote on Mar 10: "Enriching Women's Lives (Not HSUS's Bottom Line) "Kudos to everyone who spoke to Mary Kay cosmetics yesterday. In the time it took me to get from Washington, DC to San Francisco yesterday, the roster of corporate sponsors for HSUS's upcoming Dallas fundraiser got one (pink) name shorter." Farm and ranch women across the United States wrote, and they were heard. Jean Barton can be reached at jbarton@theskybeam.com. Jean Barton Mendocino National Forest OHV program Organic activists protest San Francisco compost SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco wears its environmental consciousness like a green badge of honor. A city department even gives away processed sewage sludge for use in community, backyard and school gar- dens. The bio-solids compost has drawn the ire of a public interest and environmental advocacy group. The Organic Consumers Association doesn't think the variety used in gardens or the one laid on farmlands is test- ed enough and is waging a national campaign against its use. The sludge, they say, could potentially include thou- sands of industrial, pharmaceutical and chemical toxins and carcinogens. ''This sludge belongs in a hazardous waste dump,'' said Ronnie Cummins, the group's national director, before he poured some of the compost on carefully laid out plastic sheeting at the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Thurs- day. In San Francisco, a utility spokesman said federally mandated testing shows that the compost it distributes to the gardens has far lower levels of nine pollutants than the Environmental Protection Agency deems acceptable. ''We're in the business of protecting public health and the environment,'' Tyrone Jue said. ''That's our mandate and our mission statement. That's what we do. If for even a minute we thought one of our activities was going against that mandate we would absolutely stop.'' Several cities in California have bio-solid compost giveaways, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Rosa, Fortuna, Carlsbad, and Calabasas, according to the Organic Consumers Association. Sewage or bio-solids compost is also packaged and sold in major house and garden centers across the country. A different category of fertilizer made from bio-solids is used on millions of acres of land all over the United States to grow plants, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That fertilizer is not treated and heated to where it becomes compost and is not used for human food crops, though it is used for animal food crops. The organic advocates group chose San Francisco because it is so environmentally aware. ''San Francisco as the greenest large city in the country should be the first to stop this,'' Cummins said. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which manages the city's sewage treatment, says that the one percent of the city's 80,000 tons of sewage that is convert- ed into compost each year is treated and tested to the point of sterility. But the problem, say groups like the Organic Con- sumers Association and the Center for Food Safety, is the EPA only requires testing for nine metals, when there are potentially thousands of chemicals in the compost. The EPA is evaluating if more pollutants need to be regulated, and believes additional studies are needed, said Lauren Fondal, an environmental engineer for the EPA Office in San Francisco. ''I don't believe there have been any major studies of all these chemicals that we've begun detecting,'' she said. There is no hard science that the compost is safe, the organic groups say, while there is anecdotal evidence that it is not. In 2008, for example, a federal judge in Georgia ruled in favor of farmers who sued the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture when their cows became ill and died after eating silage grown on land upon which the compost had been applied. U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Alaimo concluded that ''the EPA cannot assure the public that current land application practices are protective of human health and the environment.'' Last fall, The Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group with offices in Washington, D.C. and San Francis- co, tried to raise awareness of the bio-solids issue when it petitioned San Francisco to end the compost giveaways. The city made no promises. But the PUC stopped call- ing its free compost ''organic.'' Under USDA rules, no sewage sludge compost, or farms that use bio-solids, can be called ''organic.''