SPROUTS ILLEGAL FOOD
FDA CREATES PANIC

In July 1999 the FDA issued a press release warning EVERYONE to stop eating sprouts in order to avoid getting sick. We think this is unfair and misleading. The science linking sprouts to contamination is often sloppy and the risk of sickness is LESS than for most other foods. Yet because we are small and weak the FDA has gone on a witch hunt for sprouts!

Sprouts are a wonderful, nutritious food. Seed producers and sprout growers have been working with the FDA right from the beginning of these alleged outbreaks in 1995 to pinpoint the causes and find solutions. But now some high stakes bureacrats are out to make names for themselves, and they have stabbed us in the back!

YOU CAN HELP
Before the FDA makes sprouts illegal (and they have already been banned from the deli at Whole Foods in Madison, WI by the Dane County Health Department), you can grab a clipboard below and sign your name or send a letter--or both! Help get our side of the story told before it's too late.
You WILL be heard. Help to save a small organic business. THANK YOU!!

ABOUT US
Hi, we are The Sproutpeople and we have been supplying the Madison/Milwaukee and Twin Cities areas with fresh, certified organic sprouts since 1993. You may have seen us at our stand at the Dane County Farmer's Market in Madison, running after our two small children while talking about the virtues of sprouts. The relentless attacks from the FDA over the last year and a half have cut our sales by 30%. It is our belief that the FDA has launched this smear campaign in order to drive small growers out of a food market ever more dominated by mega-industries with deep pockets. That's the way the government wants it but WE WON'T GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!
We know many of you care and will do what you can. Please take a copy of our report and find out that this is really a battle over who will control our food supply. Thanks again.

Sproutingly,


Gil Frishman
Lori Tooker


©1993-Today

SPROUTPEOPLE®

170 Mendell St.
San Francisco, CA 94124

Toll Free:
877/777-6887
(877/SPROUTS)
We only use the phone for emergencies.
Back in 2001 we were still using the phone. One day I was talking to a long-time customer while pushing my (then 4 year old) daughter on the swing in our backyard (this is what a mom n' pop business is like on the internet). It dawned on me that my priorities were severely messed up, so I stopped using the phone. I love to talk and I love to help, but my family would never see me if I picked up the phone again, and that's just wrong don't you think?!

The very best way to contact us is through E-mail =:-)
We are quite fast and VERY thorough. We love to help.

We have been an internet only business since 2001. We are not a big corporation. We are but 2 people, Mom n' Pop Sprout. We decided after years of juggling our family's (kids, dogs, cats and even our own) needs, and the needs of Sproutpeople, that we had to make more time for our kids, so we stopped talking on the phone. All calls go to voice mail and have since 2001.

We are very fast to fill orders and answer e-mail, and though we wish we could make the time to talk, we just can't seem to get more minutes into a each hour. We are many years older than when we started and our days are too short and made up of too few hours to do everything. This limitation in our business has not kept us from pleasing our customers, nor from growing (as we have every year since 1993). We do what we do as well as we can, and we think we do it very well indeed.

We appreciate your patronage more than we can say. We ask that you use the phone for emergencies only and that you search our site for answers before e-mailing us. This site is bigger than any 4 sprout books put together, it is always available and it is free, and we know that almost all questions are answered here.

Thanks again for your support and your many kind words.

Sproutpeople