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09.07.11 UPDATE FROM OUR SUPPORTER COORDINATOR
ORGANIZING FOR FREEDOM!
Hello Health and Food Freedom Action eAlert Listees!
Kathy here! I am behind responding to Dr. Laibow emails because my computer had to be fixed three times in the last month. Ah! technology!
First, what is our Action eAlert List and, second, what is an Action Item?
The List is where you can receive important health and food freedom information. These emailings go to the List. If you are not on the List, please join here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187
Second, the Action Items are our Internet-based system that allows you to easily send emails to your Congress-critters, State legislators and other decision makers… so we can all “educate” them together… this is what we have been calling “Push Back!” Current Action Items are below, in this emailing.
We are still getting some mail from a few of you, who are complaining that we are “writing articles promising information” and then “we try to sell you something instead”.
Go back and look again! Those are NOT articles by us- those are advertisements. Marketing companies purchase advertising space from us (but never see your personal information!), and that helps us to pay our Bills.
I wrote the following to one person who complained:
“WE” are not asking you to buy anything. The advertiser who purchased advertising space from us is doing that. We do not own the rights to the books, etc., that are advertised and do not receive any profits from any sales of these items. We are being paid a set fee to send advertisements to our List, like the ads in magazines, radio and tv. We did not write the advertisements – the company that placed the advertisements did that. We would have to purchase the books and/or product and put its contents in an eblast to “give you” the information contained therein—- and that would be stealing.
We would have to steal the author’s research and hard work to “give you” what is not our’s to give. The authors put a great deal of time and research into these books/products. And they also have living expenses that must be paid for from that work. So if we steal their efforts and give them to you, they will not be able to pay their own expenses
Now some say that info that might help sick people should be given – not sold – because they “need” it. But people also need food and clothes and shoes and they pay for those. They also pay for books. I have never met a person who took a book to the cashier and said, “I want this info for free- do not charge me for the book!” Further, if those who write books about health cannot be paid for their efforts (because sick people must get things for free), then few writers will write about health because writers have living expenses, as we all do. That means that those very sick people will have to do their own research, which, I suspect, will cost much more than any book.
You don’t like the ads?? Personally, I ignore ANY ad that requires me to listen to something for more than one minute. I cut out at that point! Some of you have complained that we criticized unions in a recent eblast.
WE DID NOT! That comment was part of an advertisement- which an advertiser wrote.
Tell THEM off! If you believe that some of the ads are insulting to your intelligence – our Listees are an intelligent group of people who clearly understand what is going on in this world! Advertisers would do better if they considered that! Well, we are trying to separate these advertisement eblasts from our regular information eblasts so that those who do not like
them can simply take three seconds and trash them.
Our regular weekly Wednesday and Saturday emailings always have “Dr Rima Reports” in the subject line.
Those of you who are so horrified by advertising that you sanctimoniously inform us that you can “no longer work with us” — get real! Put things into perspective.
There are HORRIBLE things happening on this planet! There are far worse things that could happen to you than receiving an unwanted advertisement. And please understand that we are grateful that someone wants to advertise with us, because we have about $12,000 per month in expenses and our Listees do not donate enough to cover our debts.
Yes, we do not charge for the hundreds of thousands of emails our Listees click to Washington each month, but we have to pay thousands for that service alone, to the company that sees to it that the emails go where they are supposed to and maintains and updates our List. We also have to pay for many websites, a webmaster, trips to Washington over Bills…
Trips to Codex meetings that Dr. Rima tapes, participation in lawsuits- the list grows and grows- the money doesn’t. Since we are the largest health freedom organization in the country and we generate more mail to Washington than all the others combined, it would be horrible if we had to close down for lack of funds.
So please be happy that the advertising is helping to keep this work alive and going strong! We have major battles ahead! Spread the info and help this movement to grow for your own future and the future of those you love. We will continue to work hard and hope that enough funding comes through to bring us to victory!
And remember, you can donate here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
July 13, 2011 message from Our Supporter Coordinator
Hi Listees!
My name is Kathy Greene and I am the person who answers emails for NSF. I answer as many as I can, of the hundreds of emails that come in each day.
I have been answering NSF emails for several years, and each month, we get one or two letters complaining that we “sell” things in our eblasts. Apparently, some of our readers are unaware of the costs involved in running an organization like this and find advertising “offensive”, without giving thought to how we must pay the Bills.
Still, I was amazed that since we have run these ads, we have received about two dozen letters critical of them, for various reasons. Since we are concerned that others who have not written may also be upset, we decided to explain our decision to work with this company.
Every month, we at NSF have to come up with about $12,000 to pay Bills. Yes, we have a big mailing list. We are the largest and most vocal health freedom organization in the country. Our eblasts DO have an affect on policy.
When Senator McCain was forced to drop his anti-supplement Bill a couple years ago, he said it was because he received close to 200,000 emails against it within two days of it going public. We know that 192,000 of those emails were sent by our Listees and congratulate them for their ‘quickness’! Still, those emails had to be paid for. We know that if everyone on our mailing list just sent in $1.00 per year, we would easily pay our Bills and we could take on more projects. A dollar a month would increase our capacity even more!
You can Donate here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
But less than one per cent of our mailing list have ever contributed anything to this cause. Have you? If so, we thank you! If not, please do not complain if we are able to meet our debts through advertising. Everyone wants us to continue this effort– but everyone wants their neighbor to pay for it. Yes, we understand that there are many on our list who are struggling right now, in these hard times, who simply cannot donate. But we also suspect that there are many who can afford to give up some inexpensive item each month and contribute to this cause. Donations ARE tax deductible.
Every month, our Listees send hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of emails to Washington, through our eblast service. We make it easy- just a quick click- and your message is on its way to your representatives. You don’t have to sit down and write the letters yourselves. We make that service free to get as many messages to Washington as we possibly can. But it is NOT ‘free’ to us! We note here, that other organizations using the same or similar eblast sending services, charge as
much as $25.00 for each letter clicked on! And while we do not charge for this, we have to come up with thousands of dollars every month to have those eblasts sent out and to have our Elist maintained (with each Listee being assigned their proper and regularly updated representatives).
Further, we maintain two websites, a webmaster, we pay for research and trips to Washington via Amtrak, we pay for trips to Codex meetings (usually held out of this country), we pay for involvement in lawsuits – the list goes on.
That is why we have a Marketplace and why we offer our wonderful coffee as an incentive to donate funding. So when these health freedom oriented businesspeople approached us, offering to pay NSF to advertise their products, we accepted their offer. Understand that Dr. Rima, General Bert and Counsel Ralph read through each advertisement to determine that it meets our purpose of educating and advocating health and health freedom issues. But we did/do not write any of the advertisements and the subject lines ourselves. The advertiser designed them and wanted them presented as they were, including the recordings.
This was another problem to some of our Listees. They simply could not stand the lengthy recording. I must admit that I agree with that complaint. I have no patience for such recordings and find myself clicking them off. We are letting the advertiser know that there were such complaints so that they can consider making changes in future advertisements.
There were some who wrote to us insisting that the information that the advertiser was selling should be given away for free. Some qualified that and said it should be given freely to sick people. One person wrote that “writers do not actually produce anything”, an opinion that I do NOT agree with (unless
we are talking about bureaucrats). Writers work long hours and do much research producing their books. Their efforts make research easier for others.
One person wrote that the ad was exploitative and the information should have been “free” and that the ad was “preying on the vulnerability and ignorance of people”. I answered:
Unfortunately, people have to pay bills and buy food to survive, and researchers and writers are no exception – they also have needs. If they are expected to give their work away freely, you will find them looking for work elsewhere! Then, each person who is sick and needs information will have to spend his/her own money and time doing research.
When I was sick from DDT poisoning (it took three years to figure it out), I had to do a lot of research- the medical establishment had no answers for my symptoms. I would have been happy to purchase information that would have saved me money and much time! I do not think that providing an important service is necessarily “preying on the vulnerability and ignorance” of people. Sometimes one is actually providing a service that they know will help others- but they still need to buy dinner.
Further, ignorance is not a good excuse for expecting handouts. Much stupidity is due to laziness and a refusal to take responsibility for one’s self. The knowledge is out there. But someone who prefers listening to MTV, watching football, reading trash or watching it on tv should not expect someone who diligently researched to have to “give them” the answers. I think charity is wonderful. But I have met far too many people who have made it a life choice to live off of charity, rather than add to it for others’ sakes.
A few people complained that the book was too expensive, and the word “exploitative” came up again. Well, enough info was given in the ad that anyone willing to give time to a search could probably find the book elsewhere for less money- or simply purchase it with friends chipping in and sharing the info. Exploitive? Big Pharma selling a pill that costs them five cents to make for $50.00 or more is exploitative. A book that saves a person much time and money in research, is not.
We were told by three people that “there are other health newsletters where the “advertising is up-front”. Yes, we have seen and receive such emails from wonderful people in this movement who support themselves from their health info/health store emails. Understand that these people are spending very
little on “activist” initiatives. Their email is their store. They may tell their readers to “write to your representatives” but they do not pay money to get those letters out. There is nothing wrong with that – these are very decent people – but that is not what we are doing. We are raising funds to make SURE that letters get out- and lots of them. We are raising funds to see to projects and research and to expand the numbers of people who are demanding their right to good health!
Finally, there were those who criticized us for not simply “putting up the book’s information for free”. Of course, we had/have no right to do that – it would be flat-out “theft”! Yes, some people’s research has come into the public domain and been printed over and over again. But this author’s work is NOT public domain. She put a great deal of research and time into the book and needs payment for same. Still, some expected her to work for free. Do THEY work for free? I doubt it. Certainly, most people can’t! Finally, one person wrote “Shame on You” for not giving away what was not ours to give. I asked, “Would you think more highly of General Bert and the rest of us if we stole this person’s work for you?” Not gonna happen!!
So if you are planning to write to us, complaining about these ads, please read this first- it will save me an answer!! And understand that the people who advertise with us are not “evil” — they are selling decent products and information, and helping NSF keep afloat!
For Health and Food Freedom,
Kathy
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