There is something seriously wrong with our government for allowing companies to sell toxic products on home shopping channels without specifying what toxins are in them BEFORE people order them. It should not have to be that consumers have no way of knowing about the toxicity before ordering the products, such that once the products arrive, the consumer opens the box and reads the manual where the warning appears. I'm talking about QVC and the Stamina Products Inc. Aero Pilates, and I am furious.

Here is the warning. (If I had known about it beforehand, I never would have ordered the product): "Warning: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm."

That this product is toxic is especially ironic, because this product is sold as a piece of exercise equipment which people buy to have good health. It says on the front of the manual: "AeroPilates: less stress | more heart." Oh, they forgot to say: "More disease."

Declan Joyce, an actor and man about town in Hollywood, is a raw vegan. And, as someone involved in various charities, he had the opportunity to meet Barack Obama at New York City's Waldorf Astoria last September 24, as he told Hippocrates Health Institute's magazine, Healing Our World (HOW). 

According to HOW, Joyce and Obama spoke for five minutes and posed together for photos. HOW included one of them in its Volume 34, Issue 1, which was published in December 2013.

HOW writes:

As RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com has written in our online petition, we wish Barack Obama would hire a raw vegan chef to complement the existing chefs in the White House kitchen. A raw chef could delight guests with tasty, fine dining dishes, making great use of the organic produce the First Lady grows in her organic food garden.

Aside from that, we wish we had been a fly on the wall during Declan Joyce's conversation with Obama. We're most curious to know how the President responded to Joyce's saying he is a raw vegan! The only other details we know of that conversation are what John Petkovic has reported about Joyce in The Plain Dealer: