it’s just the icing on the cake. “ A T-shirt
has to look good and have a message
healthbrief
you feel good about wearing,” George
quips.
People feel good about wearing
Ten Things Missing from
Green Label Organic shirts for another
reason too. “For every person who loves
Health Care Reform Debate
our message, there is another who com-
pliments us on how our shirts feel,” says
George. The low impact dyed shirts,
“I
f we’re going to fix our health care crops like corn, which make high-fruc-
system, we have to come up with tose corn syrup the cheapest sweetener
processed within 200 miles of Floyd, are
something that actually addresses the for manufacturers to use.
made of ring spun organic cotton, which
root cause of disease in America,” says
gives them a super soft feel.
Mike Adams, founder of NaturalNews. n Affirming health freedom for parents
When the Lipson’s launched their
com, an online news source for person- who wish to opt out of the current
business nearly 5 years ago, only hard
al and planetary wellness. “The current system of forced vaccinations and
core environmentalists were interested in
health care reform debate in Washing- gunpoint-enforced chemotherapy.
organic cotton clothing. George’s friends
ton is really just… a ploy to keep ev-
in the clothing business were concerned
eryone focused on all the wrong topics, n Requiring honest food labeling that
about the possibility of his success,
while quietly refusing to talk about the clearly identifies foods that are irradiat-
based on past failures of organic cotton
big issues that threaten the health of an ed and genetically modified organisms
lines in the industry. But the Lipsons felt
entire nation.” (GMOs).
that the tide was turning green. “We set
out to take organic cotton from plain,
Adams cites these top 10 reforms miss- For more information visit the source
vanilla and boring, to colorful, afford-
ing from President Obama’s health care at NaturalNews.com/health_care.html.
able and fun,” Rain emphasizes. One
plan: Read and sign the petition for genuine
look around their outlet store reveals a
improvements at HealthRevolutionPeti-
rainbow of T-shirt colors, ranging from
n Ending the Food and Drug Admin- tion.org.
eggplant, poppy, and navy to bluebird
istration’s suppression of natural cures
blue, green moss and brick red.
and safe, effective nutritional supple-
“Our mainstay of design ideas,
ments.
99.9% of the time, come from George,”
Rain notes. For George, who at one
n Educating the public about how to
time considered a career as a writer, a
prevent disease with nutrition.
T-shirt is an empty canvas waiting for
an artful message. He relishes any chal-
n Ending big pharmaceutical
lenge to condense a message into an
corporations’ monopoly on drug
image and a few words. For instance,
prices and patents.
his Hummer design features a Hummer
vehicle captioned with ‘Bummer.’ “The
n Restoring the ability of
Hummer is a symbol of conspicuous
local doctors to practice medi-
consumption, a lack of care for the en-
cine without being controlled by
vironment and for each other,” George
bureaucrats in Washington.
remarks. Other designs include a guitar
paired with the words Organic Rocks
n Cracking down on ads for junk
and a buzzing honey beehive that says
foods, sodas and pharmaceuticals that
Respect Labor.
convince people to purchase harmful
Interest in Green Label Organic’s
products.
creatively designed shirts for men,
women and children has been growing
n Banning dangerous chemical ingre-
alongside the global movement to “go
dients that cause diseases in the first
green.” Keeping their local clientele,
place, such as aspartame, sodium nitrite
online customers (greenlabel.com), tour-
and monosodium glutamate (MSG).
ists, travelers off interstate 81 and their
wholesale markets supplied in shirts
n Improving school lunches by serv-
keeps the Lipsons working overtime.
ing nutrition foods, instead of what’s
“Green is not a fad. It’s a way of life, a
cheap and convenient.
lifestyle that more and more people are
embracing everyday,” Rain says.
n Ending bizarre food subsidies on
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