Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) When Michelle Obama first entered the White House, she wished to share her spirited persona – her style, beliefs, and pet projects. This included growing an organic garden with children and in order to inspire a connection with deeper nature as well as to help a nearby food bank. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt grew a Victory Garden at the White House during World War II had a First Lady again tilled that soil. But it was the first time the garden was distinctively postured as organic, thereby “breaking new ground.”
Ms. Obama teaching a lesson to children
The intention of Mrs. Obama was simply to educate children about growing their own pure, unadulterated whole food – and at a time when the opposite, or processed foods contributed and were causing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the United States. This was a valuable lesson in nutrition and growing food to high and pure standards. The Obama White House garden was grown organically and using the methods of farming this country has used for centuries to yield the most nutrition and “clean” foods to Americans.
Setting an inspiring example
- with the whole family involved
The garden was 1,100 square feet, and 23 children from Bancroft Elementary School from Washington D.C., helped her dig the garden and plant the vegetables near the Obama swing set. Barack Obama, the President promised to pull the weeds when necessary and even Michelle’s mother was involved as a supervisor. Michele Obama broke the ground with her own foot, tilled the soil with the children to produce a magnificent garden that yielded fresh, organic and non-pesticide food for her own First Family. Many Americans were inspired because they naturally prefer produce that is locally grown – the way it was a century ago in usually extended-family and small farm settings.
Big Ag and the chemical/GMO industry didn’t see it that way
Quickly, the lobbyists went to work to stop our President’s wife’s blasphemy and they have successfully silenced her – stopping her forever for uttering the following most verboten or banned and banished words:
Organic Food
Organic Gardening
Pesticide-Free Food
The lobbyists correctly instructed Michelle Obama instead to use the term:
“Crop protection food products” – with Round Up, Monsanto GMO seeds and non-traditional chemically agriculture being more essential.
Why Mrs. Obama grew her “nasty” garden
Mrs. Obama noticed the family was eating too much processed foods so that her girls, Sasha and Malia, were gaining weight. Then her pediatrician advised her to have them move away from eating junk foods – those that included excessive salt, sugar and fat.
But Mrs Obama succumbed to “better” advice from political forces
Her family needs soon became secondary to the required political messages enforced by lobbyists who pay big mullah to elect politicians. They silenced her misguided zeal about organic gardening.
Who pulls the puppet strings in Washington, DC.
This so dramatically illustrates the reigning power of lobbyist in the Obama administration. So does the fact that Obama hired Tom Vilsack, a hard-core supporter of GMOs, to head of the USDA.
Michelle should have known better!
Though Mrs Obama caved to lobbyist, she long ago should have known better . Having a nation of healthy children is not what the pharmaceutical industry has in mind for American – especially if the children start out in life to learn such healthy, organic nutrition lessons. The resulting good health would bankrupt the industry’s game. It would put thousands of chemists out of work, adding the the nation’s already strained unemployment roster.
One of the greatest “successes” of the Big Pharma industry is seeing 1 in 4 children regularly taking medical drugs. They are not ingesting organic foods – come on now, what a yuk idea! From a business point of view, half of all teenagers in America wonderfully suffer from some chronic illnesses that needs treatment – like diabetes, obesity and the four A’s, asthma, allergies, autism, and attention deficit disorder. The statistics have doubled over the last 30 years and so have the profits. We don’t want America to go backwards now, do we ? A whole nation shifting to a nutrient rich diet would play havoc with the great gains of pharmaceutical stocks on Wall Street.
Mrs Obama’s dangerous and maverick project thus had to be stopped
Michelle Obama must have been taking hallucinogens when she said: “You can begin in your own cupboard by eliminating processed food, trying to cook a meal a little more often, trying to incorporate more fruits and vegetables.” (2009) The First Lady was thus chastized and corrected by the biggest agriculture corporations. Michele Obama’s garden first yielded 80 pounds of vegetables from seeds before Ms Obama yielded to lobbyists.
The Obama Obama’s infamous organic garden- shame on her!
Whose telling our government what best to do
Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) and organization that lobbies for the pesticide and Big Ag industry sent Mrs. Obama a letter to instruct her about living in a different world than our grandparents. It advised her that their lifestyle was not what most Americans want anymore.
Mrs Obama had to be “set right”
The First Lady should fall in line and serve her family only pesticide-rich foods to promote a future population suffering from cancer and other high-maintenance systemic illnesses. Corporate profit interests must, after all, come first – far before health, safety, eating nutritious foods. Thus Mrs Obama had to be “set right” by MACA. This same group represents Monsanto, Dow AgroScience, Dupont Corporation and so on. The fact that Michelle Obama did not use pesticide-sprayed seeds at all, and did not need to spray chemicals on her plot shows she needs some serious “re-education.” The group advised her not ever to use the word organic or to promote organic gardening in any way.
Better living through chemistry
One shouldn’t believe that pesticides or pesticide-sprayed seeds, plants, foods, and processed foods containing GMOs all are linked to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and birth defects. Rather we should follow the greater leadership of Tom Vilsack - a former defense lawyer for Monsanto. We should applaud that Vilsack was named Secretary of Agriculture by the Obama administration and for reasons not of influence peddling by big agriculture and campaign donations – but because it was the right thing to do.
Obama’s “wisdom” and trying to be with the times stretches only so far
Obama’s wisdom apparently guides him to keep his doors wide open to corporate interests, and so much so they even dominate the kind of garden his wife is allowed to grow and what ends up in his kitchen cupboard or on his dinner plate.If we can force people to have vaccinations, this doesn’t see like such a bad thing.
Still hush, hush, the Obamas are not perfect.
Sometimes they indulge themselves and dine out at an organic restaurant.
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) Just because those cute little bear-shaped bottles in the store say “honey” doesn’t mean there actually is any therein!
Under-palate Honey Investigation
A comprehensive investigation conducted by Food Safety News (FSN) found most so-called “honey” products had the feel and look of honey, being golden and syrupy….but did not contain any pollen. According to the FDA, this means the products are not truly “honey” – not the healthy, unadulterated product consumers expect.
Vaughn Bryant, one of the nation’s leading melissopalynologists and director of the Palynology Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, evaluated 60 or more products labeled “honey” but found that 76 percent of major grocery chains and 77 percent of big box chains like Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart, sold “honey” that contained no pollen. Also so-called “honey” sold by drug stores like Walgreens and CVS, and fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and KFC, were 100 percent pollen-less.
What’s In this Adulterated “Honey”?
It is difficult to say for sure what is in this processed food. Pollen is a key ingredient used to verify honey’s identity. According to FSN, the imposter honey is probably imported from China, and may further be contaminated with antibiotic drugs and other foreign and coloring materials. Most conventional honey products have also been ultra-filtered illegally.
Rendering Honey Pollen-less
According to FSN, ultra-filteration means that “honey” products have been intensely heated, forced through extremely tiny filters, and potentially even watered down or adulterated. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) again considers such ultra-filtered products not to be honey. Yet the agency, being a handmaiden of both Big Pharma and the processed/junk food industry, doesn’t halt this inflow. It stonewalls petitions for a n effective national standard to verify the integrity of honey.
Why It Matters
Ultra-filtering destroys most all the medicinal properties of honey. The removal of pollen and other healing ingredients renders the end product medicinally dead and health-worthless.
Health Benefits of the Real McCoy Honey
Raw honey is a healthy food that is an energy and immune system builder. It also alleviates stomach problems, anemia, allergies, and many other health conditions. Its an natural remedy for hangovers, insomnia, and sore throats. Some say its the highest natural source of living enzymes – exactly what ultra-filtration destroys. In other words, ultra-filtered honey equates with the opposite, an unhealthy food – a mega-processed, denatured, harming “phood” like white table sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup.
The Good and Sweet News
All the honey FSN tested from farmers markets, food cooperatives, and “natural” stores like Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods did contain pollen along with antioxidants and other nutrients. Local beekeepers are a further direct and local source of such raw, unprocessed, real honey. pure honey, buying honey, honey products, healing honey,
Great short video on the amazing and magical benefits of honey and other bee products
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) What’s in a cup of coffee?Coffee bean grindings and water of course. But when commercially-processed, coffee has much more. Some yukky stuff. Want only the goodies? Bored by the same old routine brown concoction?
There are some great organic coffee choices…and ways of creatively making superfood, superhealthy organic coffee!
Good Stuff
Water
Water is a super solvent, helping to extract flavors and oils from coffee beans. A good cup of coffee is 98.75 percent water and 1.25 percent plant matter. Caffeine is a diuretic, so coffee newbies pee out the water quickly; java junkies build up resistance.
Caffeine
16 billion pounds of coffee beans are grown annually to deliver this most powerful of wake-me up ingredients. It’s an alkaloid plant toxin (like nicotine and cocaine), a bug killer that stimulates us by blocking neuroreceptors for the sleep chemical adenosine.
3,5 Dicaffeoylquinic acid
This is an anti-oxidant acid. Protects cells from free-radical damage.
Trigonelline and Niacin
A molecule of niacin and methyl group that breaks down into pyridines (these give coffee its sweet, earthy taste and also prevent the tooth-eating bacterium Streptococcus mutans from attaching to your teeth). So coffee can help fight the Cavity Creeps! Trigonelline breaks down the most when coffee is hot,. This releases niacin or vitamin B3.
Yukky Stuff
Acetylmethylcarbinol
Its a skin and eye irritant.
Putrescine
What makes spoiled meat poisonous? Ptomaines like putrescine are produced when E. coli bacteria in meat break down amino acids. Naturally present in coffee beans, it does smell wicked.
2-Ethylphenol
Creates a tarlike, medicinal odor. Yuk…it’s also a component of cockroach alarm pheromones, chemical signals that warn the colony of danger.
Dimethyl disulfide
A product of roasting the green coffee bean, this compound is just at the threshold of detectability in brewed java. Respiratory system irritant.
Video
Willing to try something different and superhealthy? Check out Dianna’s raw, organic coffee frappe:
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient listed there as L-cysteine.
This is a non-essential amino acid added to flour and baked goods as a dough conditioner and to speed industrial processing of breads. It’s not added in home use but rather for making of commercial breads, pizza dough, bread rolls, pastries, and the like.
How L-cysteine Is Made
L-cysteine is usually either synthesized in laboratories or extracted from a natural protein source: human hair. The hair is dissolved in acid and L-cysteine is isolated chemically, then packaged and shipped off to commercial bread producers.
Other Source of L-cysteine
L-cysteine can also be made from chicken feathers, duck feathers, cow horns and petroleum byproducts. But most of the hair used to make L-cysteine is from the floors of barbershops and hair salons in China.
While the thought of eating dissolved hair might make some people uneasy, most Western consumers have no principled objections. though some do.
Religious Objections
For Jews and Muslims, the hair-derived L-cysteine poses significant problems. Muslims are forbidden from eating anything derived from a human body, and many rabbis forbid hair consumption for similar reasons. Even rabbis who permit the consumption of hair would forbid it if it came from corpses — and since much L-cysteine comes from China, where sourcing and manufacturing practices are notoriously questionable, this is a real concern. In one case, a rabbi forbade the consumption of L-cysteine because the hair had been harvested during a ritual at a temple in India.
Source: 25 Amazing Facts About Food, authored by Mike Adams and David Guiterrez. This report reveals where your food comes from and what’s truly in it! Full report here with 24 more surprising facts about foods, beverages and food ingredients.
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) Canned foods were originally invented by Nicolas Appert, an obcure candy-maker and to help members of Napoleon’s army survive difficult fighting conditions with little or no fresh food. However, if we now decide to eat canned foods on a regular or long-term daily basis, and rather than in an emergency, what are the health implications?
First we no longer are eating fresh whole foods with optimal vitality. Secondly canned foods tend to be highly processed and may contain toxic additives.
Testing of Canned Foods
The Breast Cancer Fund recently tested 12 popular brands of canned soup and pasta products and found bisphenol A, or BPA, in all of them.
BPA is a hormone-mimicking toxin recently found to impact our DNA and to kill off female ovarian cells in ways that cause Down Syndrome and fertility problems for generations.
While BPA shouldn’t be in any of us, children are most susceptible and the soups and pastas tested were marketed toward children.
In the testing, 34 to 148 parts per billion of BPA were found in the soups and 10 to 34 ppb in the pastas.
A few months ago, the FDA also found BPA in 71 of 78 canned goods they tested. The FDA also tested different types of foods, including canned tuna and vegetables, and in these foods they found much higher levels of BPA – ranging from 300 ppb to more than 700 parts per billion. Some research shows that BPA is eliminated quickly from the body, but the problem with this research is that it looks at it from a one-time dose situation, as opposed to a more true to life repeated exposure situation. And with continual exposure, it tends to accumulate.
Canned foods are also not the only foods contaminated with BPA; it’s also in plastic wrapped food products. And according to Environmental Working Group research, it’s in the blood of 9 out of 10 infants at birth.
BPA Bio-accumulates
Cheryl Rosenfeld and her colleagues from the University of Missouri, Columbia looked at BPA exposure from a different angle and tested mice with a more true to life scenario. They fed these mice food laced with a little BPA each day and found that with chronic dietary exposure, the animals exhibited “the potential to bio-accumulate BPA over time.” Then Rosenfeld tells us that there’s no reason to expect the human body would respond any differently.
The researchers also found that BPA absorbs in the body in a greater degree when it is consumed with food, rather than taken as a one-time dose without food. “What we found,” Rosenfeld said, “is that when animals are exposed through the diet, they actually show increased absorption of BPA” as opposed to when they get a single larger dose.
Evidence E.Coli Super-bug Spreading in Europe Was Bioengineered To Produce Human Fatalities
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) To move the public’s attention away from the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs (causing more annual fatalities than car accidents)…a straw man distraction is needed. Something else has to appear more dangerous in the public’s mind.
Not surprisingly, the very best of organic foods, namely sprouts and fresh fruits and vegetables , are so targeted to instill fear of eating in the public’s mind!
We see this time and again. We see it most recently with the engineered publicity around a strain of e.coli in Germany. The media is thus ripe of talk about the great dangers of this e.coli. But they are not talking about how it came to be. The fact is that it had to be lab created, and intentionally.
Here is the story.
Dangerous E.Coli Intentionally Man-Made To Harm?
If we become curious about the origins of such a highly pathogenic strain, then what clues can we find in our investigation? Well let’s play the game of an astute “Sherlock Homes” genetic detective.
The best tool for this at our disposal is to reverse engineer the genetic code of this bacteria. With such a lab analysis, a fascinating picture comes to the light of day.
Genetic code history of this E-coli
Scientists at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany decoded the genetic makeup of the O104 e-coli strain and found it:
Resistant to common antibiotics – Penicillins, tetracycline, nalidixic acid, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazol, cephalosporins, amoxicillin / clavulanic acid, piperacillin-sulbactam and piperacillin-tazobactam.
Able to produce enzymes calledESBLs – Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase 0ESBLs) provide further resistance to cephalosporins (cefuroxime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime) which are the most widely used antibiotics in many hospitals. (http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/Infect…).
Could a single bacteria become resistant to over a dozen major antibiotics in eight drug classes and with an added two gene mutations and the ability to produce ESBL enzymes? Not likely at all in the wild. But there is a systematic way to lab produce the same e-coli artificially. A laboratory can simply expose a strain of e-coli to a series of drugs, in a procedure that is highly precise.
You expose the strain first to penicillin, then take the few survivors and expose them to sulfa drugs. This creates unique penicillin/sulfa resistant e-coli strain. The next generation is then subjected to a third exposure (like tetracycline) and in order to create a tri-fold rare beyond rare resistance. This process can go on ad infinitum. The end results become ever more rare and progressively unlikely to occur in the wild. To take this to 8 steps and expect this to occur in nature by itself is virtually unthinkable.
The intelligent conclusion is that such genetic selection has to be lab engineered.
This is similar to the intelligent conclusion that building #7, never hit by any jet, could only come down at free-fall speeds if it had been intentionally dynamited. Daahhh!
Bioweapons are similarly engineered, as hard as it is to imagine anyone could be so evil to do such a thing. [i]
Again the odds of this occurring naturally is virtually nil.
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger added that “if this bacteria originated in the food (as we’ve been told), then where did it acquire all this massive antibiotic resistance if antibiotics are not used in vegetables.”
It makes the odds less than nil. Or it defies any scientific logic or the laws of natural genetic permutation and combinations.
In short, this superbug e.coli strain was “man-u-factured” or humanly lab created, and then released.
Engineered E-coli Released For An Agenda. How Diabolically Brilliant!
Again it really makes countless more sense that this e.coli was lab engineered indeed and then released for a specific purpose.
What could such a purpose be?
Do you remember reading in the history books about how Göring and Goebbels, with Hitler’s approval, hatched a plan to cause panic throughout Germany by burning the Reichstag or parliament building and blaming the Communists? The purpose? It was simple. This is what allowed the Nazis to take ruthless political control, to subvert a humane democracy in a cultured society and turn it into a ruthless dictatorship!
Here the super-fear creating threat or event appears likewise manufactured, and this is not even an isolated case. As such things are introduced into our food supply, it offers a means also of taking control over the global supply lines and even outlawing organic produce grown with animal manure – blamed such a natural source of this outbreak!
Not the First Time
We have seen this tactic now several times being fostered in recent years. See our articles on the listeria out break and the supposed threat of raw milk – likewise manufactured threats.
The FDA used a similar focus to further push the “Food Safety Modernization Act” which threatens to outlaw small family organic farms. The FDA was able to crush farm freedom and democracy by spreading vast fear of e.coli outbreaks. When people are afraid, they do irrational things. They accept a loss of rights or tyranny. Making people afraid is not difficult when you a small elite controls both political lobbying and the media.
Same ploy used in modern medicine
Make people fear invisible bacteria or viruses and they run to the doctor to get their antibiotic or vaccination shots. They do not focus on building up their immune system with fresh fruits, vegetables and natural supplements for immune support – but rather run to the doctor for drugs, surgery and raditation.
Via what is called CODEX, there is a concerted effort by the largest of pharmaceutical firms, Big Pharma, to require impossible-to-meet testing so as to remove natural herbs and nutritional supplements from shelves – especially the most effective. This process has already begun. Make no doubt about it. This thrust is being introduced incrementally, though at ever greater speeds, and always with a scare tactic attached – so that the public is more fearful than rational. In the process, health freedoms are little by little stripped and taken away, as if unnoticed.
Helping the Sale of Processed Foods
If we become afraid of fresh, organic whole vegetables, what is the alternative. You got it. Processed, chemically polluted, bio-engineered dead foods and which better connect with economic gain and corporate control. The fact that these same foods create degenerative diseases is actually a plus. We then have to run to the doctor to get our latest drug fix, selling thus more pharmaceuticals. How convenient!
So the overall ploy is to keep us sick by making us avoid what is healthiest of all, and then profit from the resulting suffering to offer us toxic foods and chemicals!
Example of Spain
This country was targeted in a recent e.coli scare besides Germany. Why ? Spain resisted the introduction of GMOs, even as the U.S. government threatened political consequences. This false blaming of Spain for so many e.coli deaths, devastating their agricultural sales in the process, was a form of ruthless political payback (http://www.naturalnews.com/030828_G…)
It’s what Mike Adams calls “one of the subplots being pursued alongside this e.coli superbug scheme.”
Adulterated Food as Weapons for Big Pharma
Who else but Big Pharma has access to all the antibiotics and equipment necessary to manage such rarer-than-rare mutations, requiring experiments with probably thousands if not tens of thousands of e.coli colonies? This needs a huge amount of financing and engineering. Only bio-weapons labs and drug companies are capable of such a monstrous ploy. and to also profit therefrom to justify the investment.
They have the means.
They have the motive.
They have the past history.
Doctoring and hiding negative scientific research has been the norm for Big Pharma, not the exception.
The proof that somebody certainly bioengineered this e.coli strain is written in the DNA of the bacteria as forensic evidence.
It cannot be denied. Its like genetic evidence in a rape case, and this is a kind of health-rape of the public.
This strain underwent prolonged exposure again to eight different classes of antibiotics, and then managed to appear in the food supply among the healthiest of foods, namely sprouts. My God, what a coincidence!
There is really no such thing as “spontaneous mutation” into a strain that is resistant to ALL the major eight humanly-created. best selling antibiotic drugs sold by Big Pharma.
Such mutations have to be deliberate, had to be engineered, had to be man-u-factured. No buts about it. Otherwise it had to happen accidentally! The odds are far past one in mega-trillions and that would mean our world is so vastly antibiotic-contaminatedthat such such a strain could develop on its own to form a natural superbug apocalypse. If that’s what people dare to believe, go for it.
Imagine this virtually impossible scenario.
New Ploy: Bioweapons in Our Food
Mike Adams here makes another observation. If we are facing a new era of global super-bug strains 9created to scare the living day-lights out of us because they can’t be treated with any majorly-known pharmaceutical) then let’s turn to colloidal silver and natural antibiotics (like garlic, ginger, onions, and medicinal herbs) and probiotics that are so much more effective.
But this is why the FDA and world health regulators simultaneously have tried to push out of business the producers of such remedies. He writes:
“They can’t have the public getting its hands on natural antibiotics that really work, you see. That would defeat the whole purpose of making everybody sick in the first place….They much prefer you to remain a helpless victim lying in the hospital, waiting to die, with no options available to you. That’s “modern medicine” for ya. They cause the problems that they claim to treat, and then they won’t even treat you with anything that works in the first place…..
Nearly all the deaths now attributable to this e.coli outbreak are easily and readily avoidable. These are deaths of ignorance….from a new era of food-based bioweapons unleashed by either a group of mad scientists or an agenda-driven institution that has declared war on the human population.”
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healikngtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) Ever wonder what’s really found in Chicken McNuggets?
Some of the ingredients in Chicken McNuggets, it turns out, seem to belong more to an industrial factory of some kind, not a food retailer.
What’s Really in Chicken McNuggets?
According to the McDonald’s Corporation, its famous Chicken McNuggets are made with ingredients including
Autolyzed yeast extract (which contain free glutamate, similar to MSG), sodium phosphates and sodium aluminum phosphate. But that’s not the freaky part.
“Hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness” and
At least two of these ingredients are artificially synthesized industrial chemicals and are only allowed in the American Chicken McNuggets, not the British version of Chicken McNuggets- due to lax American food regulations and/or oversight. TBHQ, a petroleum derivative, is used as a stabilizer in perfumes, resins, varnishes and oil field chemicals. Laboratory studies have linked it to stomach tumors. “At higher doses, it has some negative health effects on lab animals, such as producing precursors to stomach tumors and damage to DNA. A number of studies have shown that prolonged exposure to high doses of TBHQ may be carcinogenic, especially for stomach tumors.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBHQ)
Dimethylpolysiloxane, a type of silicone, is used in caulks and sealants, as a filler for breast implants, in cosmetics – and as key ingredient in Silly Putty!
Says Wikipedia: “PDMS is also used as a component in silicone grease and other silicone based lubricants, as well as in defoaming agents, mold release agents, damping fluids, heat transfer fluids, polishes, cosmetics, hair conditioners and other applications. PDMS has also been used as a filler fluid in breast implants, although this practice has decreased somewhat, due to safety concerns. PDMS is used variously in the cosmetic and consumer product industry as well. For example, PDMS can be used in the treatment of head lice…” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimeth…) And just one gram (one-thirtieth of an ounce) can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse,” according to “A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives.”
More Questionable Ingredients in Chicken McNuggets
Not surprisingly, other ingredients in Chicken McNuggets are no better.
Cottonseed Oil may contain chemical pesticides (because growing cotton is not food-regulated) and that are banned in food production. It is almost always genetically modified. Hydrogenated oils, of course, typically contain trans fats, the artificially produced fats that are unusable by the body and that studies have linked to a number of detrimental health problems.
GMO Corn – Actually Chicken McNuggets is more than 50% corn, which is genetically modified, found in 13 of the 38 ingredients in Chicken McNuggets
Autolyzed Yeast Extract is a chemical taste-enhancing ingredient containing free glutamate that manufacturers use as a friendlier-looking replacement for MSG.
A Few More Chemicals – sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. Yumm!
Chicken Itself in Chicken McNuggets
What about the chicken itself in Chicken McNuggets?
It’s factory-farmed chicken, not free-range chicken. So it’s the kind of chicken that’s typically treated with vaccines and hormones while being fed conventional feed products that are medicated with pharmaceuticals and grown with pesticides.
Yum!! Don’t forget to ask for extra dipping sauce. We haven’t even talked about what you’ll find in there…
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) The listeria scare in the major media is being promoted by the very same group of institutions that are trying to scare our population away from eating the healthiest of foods like sprouts, celery, raw milk, etc – ignoring the astronomically greater dangers of processed food, including pasteurized milk (a cause for millions, rather than a handful, suffering from arthritis and arteriosclerosis). The truth is that deaths and illnesses from raw-food borne conditions are so rare that they are not statistically significant as being causative. What the media reports is really mass deception. Rare cases where deaths are attributed (and by whom, reliably?) generally affect those with highly compromised immune systems. The outside trigger then cannot be any definitive cause. There may be potentially hundred others, what supposedly they ate over the last week or month and because most such individuals have been eating junk diets that are chemically polluted for decades if not their entire lives. Such totally fabricated stories, and one can tell they are manufactured just by the list of the institutional authorities quoted – the Mayo Clinic, the American Cancer Society, the CDC, the FDA (organizations controlled by huge corporate interests) are distributed to promote an agenda – to buttress processed, non-organically grown and pasteurized foods as healthy and safe – and thus not to support real health interests of the general public.
So the public beware.
The following is based on a typical article of this terrible kind published by AOL and Huffington Post owned by AOL.
THE OFFICIAL LISTERIA STORY
The recent listeria outbreak in cantaloupes has been called the deadliest outbreak of food-related illness in more than a decade in the US. At least 16 deaths and 72 illnesses have been reported with this infection according to recent news reports.
Because symptoms of listeria infection can take weeks to become apparent, “we will see more cases likely through October,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told the Associated Press.
PREVENTING LISTERIA
To prevent listeria infection, people should not try to wash any suspect cantaloupe because the bacteria can also spread to the inside of the fruit. The CDC rather recommends that consumers throw away the cantaloupes. If they are sure the cantaloupes are not from Jensen farms, they are supposedly OK to eat.
SPREAD OF LISTERIA
The affected cantaloupes — recalled by Jensen Farms on Sept. 14 — were shipped between July 29 and Sept. 10. The cantaloupes were shipped to 25 different states, but listeria cases have appeared elsewhere in many more states.
SYMPTOMS OF LISTERIA
But just what are the symptoms of listeria, and how dangerous is it?
Listeria infection is dangerous to pregnant women and people with impaired immune systems (such as elderly people, people with AIDS, people undergoing chemotherapy or organ-rejection medications, or people with diabetes or kidney disease). For people with weakened immune systems, listeria infection can even lead to pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. If the infection reaches your nervous system, additional symptoms can include headache, convulsions, confusion and loss of balance. Babies can also become infected with listeria from the mother, which could lead to miscarriage or stillbirth, premature birth or a fatal infection after the baby is born, according to the Mayo Clinic. For babies, signs of listeria infection include fever, vomiting, low interest in being fed and irritability.
AVOIDING LISTERIA
The food-borne illness is most common in deli meats and other foods that have been improperly processed, milk products that were not pasteurized and produce that was grown with contaminated soil or manure. However, it can be killed by cooking the food or pasteurizing it.
The problem with listeria is that the bacteria isn’t killed by freezing or refrigeration. For many healthy people, symptoms are flu-like — fever, muscle aches, diarrhea and nausea — and can appear a few days after you’ve eaten the listeria-contaminated food, to a couple months after you’ve eaten it.
In the past listeria outbreaks have occurred in sprouts and in celery.
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ABSENCE OF VIDEOS
Have not been able to find a decent video on the sham listeria media campaign. The controlled media control is so monolithic, so able to broadcast propaganda, it is a bit scary. If any reader finds or has a decent counter-stream video on this subject, please email us at healingtalks.
THE PLOY IS ALWAYS THE SAME
Every few months, especially when some major food regulation is pending, the corporate elite in America who control the media start a food scare. The agenda is to create a problem and offer a solution that shuts down organic competition and helps create processed food monopolies. It is the best of organic foods that are usually under attack.
Based on an article by Chelsea Green‘s Makenna Goodman
(Healingtalks) In recent years, there’s been a crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk, designed as an obstacle to the growing legions of consumers demanding healthier and more flavorful milk. Raw milk has been deemed “unfit” for human consumption by the FDA and other government sting operations, and the public propagandized into fearing it. According to some fear-mongers, for example, raw milk causes rabies.
David Gumpert, author of popular blog The Complete Patient and forthcoming book Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights (Chelsea Green, Oct 2009), asks an important question: How much of the fear-mongering from the pro-pasteurization people is real, and how much is propaganda from Big Agribusiness? Gumpert says the anti-raw-milk campaign is just another governmental technique to sanitize the food supply—even in the face of ever-increasing rates of chronic disease like asthma, diabetes, and allergies.
Here are 10 things you should know about raw milk that the government won’t tell you:
Raw milk is healthier: Pasteurized milk is accused of causing everything from allergies to heart disease to cancer, but back in the day, these diseases were rare. In fact, clean raw milk from grass-fed cows is chock full of healthy amino acids and beneficial enzymes, and was used as a cure.
Raw milk does not make you sick: That is, if it is properly collected from cows fed good, clean grass. Grass-fed milk has natural antibiotic properties that help protect it from pathogenic bacteria. But it’s worth noting, if you’ve been using pasteurized dairy products, you might want to eat small amounts of yogurt or kefir for a week or so, for a dose of probiotics, just to be safe. I did, and it helped.
Not all raw milk is the same: The cow’s diet, how and where it’s raised, and how the milk is collected are all factors in the safety and quality of raw milk. Cows pastured on organic green grass produce milk with good health benefits. It’s good to know where your milk is coming from.
Pasteurization was instituted in the 1920s to combat TB, infant diarrhea, undulant fever and other diseases caused by poor animal nutrition and dirty production methods. But modern stainless steel tanks, milking machines, refrigerated trucks, and inspection are enough of a precaution, and pasteurization has become irrelevant.
Pasteurization destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and cancer.
Calves fed pasteurized milk don’t do very well, and many die before maturity. Scary, considering the milk originally came from their mom.
Raw milk sours naturally but pasteurized milk turns putrid; processors must remove slime and pus from pasteurized milk by a process called centrifugal clarification. Gross.
Inspection of dairy herds for disease is not required for pasteurized milk. This means, pasteurization is used as a nifty way to wash away all forms of bad bacteria that are allowed to flourish freely before the process. Imagine that for a second.
Raw milk has more butterfat, which is rich in fatty acids that protect against disease and stimulate the immune system. Skim milk doesn’t necessarily mean it’s better for you, in other words.
Pasteurization laws favor large, industrialized dairy operations and push out small farmers. When farmers have the right to sell raw milk directly to their consumers, they can make a decent living even with a small number of cows. Support small farmers!
(Healingtalks) Consumers increasingly must take the lead in avoiding GMOs, or genetically modified organisms because our government is not doing the job, rather the bidding for large corporate interests.
These GMOs have been quietly introduced into our food stream on the promise of increasing food yields and creating super foods that would resist pests and offer many other benefits. Mounting evidence, contrary to what the FDA and food industry claims, shows that GM foods are not safe and harbor many hazards. Thus there are critical steps a consumer can take to avoid consuming such GMO foods.
Prevalence of GMO Foods
Currently 70% or more of food in the US are genetically modified. Children`s foods are the number one GMO containing products.
Many processed foods contain 90-100% GM ingredients. Most all non-organic breads and other baked goods contain GM ingredients. Most non-organic chocolate, sweets, candy, gum, etc. contain GM ingredients. Most non-organically raised animal (meat, dairy, eggs) products contain GM ingredients. These animals are typically fed a diet that is 90+ percent GMO. Most non-organic beverages (beer, wine, soft drinks, juices) contain GM ingredients.
Warnings About GMO Foods
In May of 2009, The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) sent out a press release that called for an immediate moratorium on GM foods. They asked physicians to educate their patients and provide educational material about the health risks associated with GM foods. They proposed that physicians consider the role of GM foods in their patients` disease processes.
In their position paper, the AAEM sites several animal studies that indicate extreme health risks associated with GM foods. Some of the health risks include infertility, immune dysfunction, allergic reactions, accelerated aging, insulin dysregulation, organ malfunction and digestive dysfunction. AAEM further warned consumers:
“There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation, as defined by recognized scientific criteria. The strength of association and consistency between GM foods and disease is confirmed in several animal studies.”
Steps You Can Take To Avoid Purchasing GMO Foods:
Buy organic , go organic
Buy non-GMO - or foods with the Non-GMO Project seal
(Healingtalks) “Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth…For if you eat living food the same will quicken you. But if you kill your food the dead food will kill you also….”
“For life comes only from life, and from death comes always death. For everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies also. And your bodies become what your foods are…”
“Therefore eat not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burnt, frozen and rotted foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also. But be not like the foolish husbandman who sowed in his ground cooked and frozen seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. And great was his distress. But be like that husbandman who sowed in his field living seed, and whose field bore living ears of wheat, paying a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted. For I tell you truly, live by the fire of life, and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls also.”
Jesus – Essene Gospel of Peace
COMMENTS
(Healingtalks) The life force in our foods is best carried in the fluids of living plants and animals, including in our own bloodstream. This is because at the root foundation of life is “consciousness” – the universal relationship of connection” which also makes living nature ultimately One. The opposite of connection is separation. Only in fluids do separate drops of liquid connect optimally connected as One. This is why fluids physically display how consciousness, at the root of life, works. It is via liquids, from living sources, the life is best carried into and throughout our bodies. However, the rest of the universe also wants that same connected living energy, so once a liquid is extracted and exposed it spoils most quickly of all foods. For that life force cannot be selfishly preserved when a fruit or vegetable is cut open or even milk and blood are likewise exposed to the air.
The truth about pasteurization is that it kills this same living force in order to make a more commercially viable product. The reasons for pasteurization, which is subjecting foods to the killing force of fire, are all economic. The end result is a actually and very really a health-harmful product.
Given the epidemics of arthritis and arteriosclerosis in our society, from which millions suffer and are harmed, and fed by countless devitalized foods – such as pasteurized milk and pasteurized juices – this is what really and massively threatens our collective health and should by all reason and seriously be outlawed or made illegal.
In an ideal society, the sale of pasteurized foods ought to be criminalized because of their immense and widespread harm…. if only we lived in a more enlightened and less unconscious society – which we do not.
Our core spiritual worldview, the mathematical/mechanical of the 17th century, has long make a diabolical marriage with commerce, with capitalism, to preserve and deaden our foods for financial reasons – and thus to deaden our lives, our bodies, our spirits and our souls – as ancient wisdom knew too well, especially in the light-filled words of the Essene Gospel of Peace.
Louis Pasteur may have had something else in mind when he came up with the process of pasteurization back in the 1880′s (said to be created for purposes of preventing sickness from consumption of milk and wine).
But today, past all the government and industry lies and deceptions, the process of pasteurization is solely for killing the life force (enzymes) in a living food.
Killing Our Foods Living Enzymes
Nature puts enzymes in all raw and living foods, including milk. Certain enzymes are responsible for causing the food to naturally spoil or go bad. This is why you see fruit naturally fall from a tree in Nature when unpicked. The fruit will automatically spoil, shrivel up, and fall to the Earth and biodegrade.
Raw milk will naturally spoil after a few days. So will orange juice. So how do companies get milk and orange juice and other beverages to remain unspoiled in caskets (cans, jars, boxes, etc.) for periods of weeks and months at a time?
Again, pasteurization!
Pasteurizing the food (or beverage) kills the enzymes, including those that cause spoiling. Then, so that the food won’t spoil, preservatives are added to preserve the shelf life of the so-called food. Now the food (beverage) can sit on a supercasket, oops, I mean ‘supermarket,’ shelf for a few weeks if necessary and no one has to worry about the product spoiling.
The simple fact that preservatives are added to certain foods and beverages should let us know that the thing that contains preservatives and that we are about to consume, is DEAD! After all, you only preserve that which is dead, right? Of course? You don’t have to preserve that which is alive. Dead human bodies are preserved with embalming fluid (formaldehyde) to keep them from spoiling (rotting, decaying) before the funeral. Well, when you add preservatives to food and beverages, you’re basically embalming the thing (food) because it too is dead. Only dead things are embalmed (preserved).
Anytime you see the word ‘preservative’ on something you are about to consume, it is a sign that the product is DEAD! For more detail about preservatives, see the article “Half Dead” which you can find atwww.dherbs.com/articles.
Now you know that that pasteurized milk (liquidized cow snot and pus) and fruit juice (i.e. orange juice, apple juice) in your fridge is not pasteurized to kill bacteria, but to keep it in a casket (carton) for a few weeks for purposes of profit.
Truth About Flash Pasteurized
That ‘flash pasteurized’ orange juice or apple juice is flash pasteurized to keep the dead juice in the casket (jar or carton) for a few weeks as well.
Flash pasteurized is nothing but a fancy name that still implies the thing has been heated up to kill enzymes or enzymatic activity in it. Pasteurization has to be at least 145 degrees to be effective but living foods are killed at temperatures beyond 118 degrees, so 145 degrees clearly kills all life in a natural food, be it fruit, vegetables, or animal milk (which humans really should not be drinking by the way).
Truth About UHT – Ultra High Temperature Milk
And what about UHT (ultra-high-temperature) milk?
This stuff is completely DEAD!
UHT milk is sold off the shelf at room temperature. However, UHT milk is ultra-pasteurized at 280 degrees. Now you know anything processed with this much heat is really dead. This is why UHT milk will keep up to six months unrefrigerated.
Like I tell people: consumption of processed foods will most certainly process you in the process of unwisely consuming them, at least in the long run.
To process means ‘to change’ and you will most certainly change (for the worse) from consuming all this processed so-called food (and beverage) out here today.
Pasteurization Equals Dead Products
Pasteurization is a code word for ‘dead products.’
Don’t be fooled by such terms (usually serving as suffixes) such as ‘ultra’ and ‘flash.’ If the word ‘pasteurization’ follows these terms, it still denotes pasteurization has taken place, and thus the killing of the thing food has also taken place.
Ultra simply means ‘high high’ and ‘flash’ means ‘quickly processed.”
Remember people in the United States are controlled with and by words. Americans are a word-controlled people and this is the major reason why Americans are kept dumb downed, functioning mentally on a 2nd grade level as far as reading, comprehension, and communicating. If you can’t read, then you can’t decipher and understand the words being used to control you.
Pasteurization is a word used in order to deceptively carry the prestige of a famous scientist, and thus the prestige and authority of science as such. But actually pasteurization equals dead foods that harm.
Evidence in Health Pandemics
Arthritis – Few people know that “dairy farmers tend to suffer from arthritis more than any other sector in agriculture.” See Farmworldonline for the source of this quote. Living in a dairy farming region I know this first hand. Dead products equal health pandemics. This primarily occurs with the drinking of pasteurized milk. Altogether about 50 million Americans alone suffer from arthritisaccording to the CDC - the very corrupt organization involved in trying to ban raw milk.
Osteoporosis – The same applies to osteoporosis, as brought out by a report of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. As our bones die, so also do our arteries fed with dead liquids rather than living food. In the US, over 12 million people over the age of 50 have osteoporosis, and about 200 million around the globe suffer from this illness – according to the International Osteoporosis Foundation.
Cardiovascular Diseases - Finally, and what what needs no reference as it is so widely known, cardiovascular diseases rival cancer as the leading causes of death in the US.
Remember the words of the Essence Gospel
From life comes life and from death…. death.
What You Can Do
Transform your own diet to a living, raw, local, whole food diet.
Also activists for real public health, and in view of the recent thrust of the FDA, CDC, and Department of Agriculture to criminalize the sale of raw milk, please distribute this article and link to it - to help this information go viral.
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(Healingtalks) Back in April of 2010 the FDA conducted an armed pre-dawn raid on a gentle Amish farmer selling his raw milk from a couple dozen cows and to a few faithful customers. This, and dozens of similar incidences, have set the stage for a more recent and second armed raid of Rawesome Foods in Venice California where, for the first time, the government upped the ante. Not only did the FDA, in a joint raid with other corrupt government agencies, thwart the sale of raw milk and confiscate the proprietors’ inventory and cash, they now want to criminalize the sale of raw milk with multiple pending felony charges – and in a state where raw milk is legal to sell!
This is a critical turning point in the whole establishment of a food police state, sending a very frightening, chilling message to all other raw milk farms, distributors and retailers in our entire nation and all along our food chain supply channels.
All the while the government is becoming ever more militant in its campaign and armed raids on small local farmers. According to Gary Cox of the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund: “I’ve seen numerous search warrants being carried out; I’ve even seen it where a SWAT team would come into a family’s home in Northern Ohio and hold the family including the children at gunpoint for six hours while the agents searched the home for food,” says Gary.
The incident with the gentle Amish farmer in Pennsylvania, and actually dozens of others, have long set the stage for the creation of a heinous “food police state” and this has been brewing for over two decades – at least since the FDA regulatory ban of raw milk interstate sales in the late 1980′s
Every reader should be informed, alerted and rightly alarmed that this process is now accelerating.
The sample Amish incident, preceded by a year and a half sting operation, ended in a lawsuit in 2011 attempting to prevent the Amish farmer from selling his raw milk to his small faithful cadre of customers across state lines.
PA Undercover Raw Milk Sting
The agency began its investigation of Mr. Daniel Allgyer’s farm (Rainbow Acres Farm in Kinzers, PA) in 2009. This was when an undercover FDA agent in Baltimore placed an order under an assumed name to sign up for the Yahoo user group tied to Allgyer’s Rainbow Acres.
His milk orders went to a residence in Maryland where the milk could be picked up.
By crossing state lines the milk became part of “interstate commerce” and thus presumably subject to the FDA’s regulatory ban on the sales of raw milk. The court papers noted that the jugs of milk were not labeled – forming a second violation of FDA regulations. FDA investigators then came to the farm in February 2010, when Mr. Allgyer turned them away from his farm.
The armed encounter and harassment wasdocumented by Ellen Marie, also privately interviewing the Allgyer’s family about the trespassing involved. She reported that other dairy farms and their families in the area had similarly been subjected to FDA intimidation. In April the FDA sent a warning letter from the Philadelphia district, signed by Kirk Sooter, the director, telling Allgyer to essentially cease and desist or they might face an injunction as well as the seizure of his property. This warning letter can be found on the FDA website.
How FDA Got Such Orwellian/Nazi Police State Powers
The FDA now has immensely expanded new powers due to the so-called Food Safety and Modernization Act approved by Congress last year and signed by President Obama in January, 2011.
Starting July 3, 2011 the agency gained the ability to confiscate any food at any farm that it deems s0-called “unsafe or mislabeled.”
This is what has tipped the scale for far more aggressive and unconstitutional FDA actions – in the spirit of Bush’s Patriot Act. It essentially treats farmers in the same way terrorists might be treated in the Patriot Act, and with no rights at detention centers across the world.
The Saga Continues
FDA agents thus returned in April of 2010 to Allgyer’s farm with a warrant submitted by Joshua Schafer, the FDA investigator) and then U.S. marshals and a state police trooper made apre-dawn raw milk raid (at 5 am) but which the FDA called a “lawful inspection.”
The FDA claimed they spotted coolers labeled with Maryland town names, and with dairy products. The inspection again led to a letter dated 04/20/2010 from FDA informing Mr. Allgyer that he had to stop selling across state lines.
Mr, Allgyer instead formed a private club where members could be shareholders in the farm’s produce, paying only for the farmer’s labor. This was to avoid the FDA’s regulation of “commerce.” The FDA investigators continued to take shipments and in April of 2011 week filed suit in Federal Court to stop Allgyer’s sale of raw milk.
The FDA this year filed for a legal injunction against Allgyer and accused him of “contributing to the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases” at his farm where he tends just three dozen cows and sells their raw milk to a very small buyers’ club in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
For decades there has never been any real evidence whatsoever that raw-milk forms a health hazard.
Not an Isolated Incidence and Prelude to Criminalizing
There is alist available on the Web of 20 small farms and enterprises, especially dairy farms and their distributors, who have been raided by federal agents since 2004 and in eight different states in US. This includes a previous gunpoint raid on Rawesome Foods in 2010. likewise confiscating their property. The list also gives ample details of many other unconstitutional, horrific and intimidating actions of the FDA.
Interestingly the initial seller of raw milk on that list is Organic Pastures Dairy, raided in the spring of 2004. At the time the agents even illegally went through customer files and photographed them.
Organic pastures is no small operation to be targeted. In fact, it is the largest dairy operation subject to FDA intimidation. Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, sells raw milk to 50,000 customers a week and through 400 stores in the Bay Area and the rest of the state. He endured a long undercover investigation. All the while “they refuse to acknowledge raw milk can be done in a safe manner,” McAfee stated. “The state of California is very effectively doing that… There is no recorded evidence anywhere, any place – the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, anybody – that shows anybody has ever died from raw milk in California.”
What’s Really Behind the Raw Milk Suppression – $$$
Despite raw milk’s tiny market share, McAfee (owner of Organic Pastures Dairies) stated that milk processors are behind efforts to ban raw milk because they see the product as a competitive threat. He said demand for pasteurized milk is falling about 1 percent a year, and farmers can earn as much as 10 times more for raw milk than they do selling to processors. The processors then denature the milk via pasteurization and in order to extend shelf-life. They don’t want the public to know they are denaturing the milk to create an inferior product because it would be a death-knoll and financial disaster.
Furthermore when milk is in the raw state, not all the milk is the same, pooled from different farms. Some of the milk will lose its fresh taste more quickly than others – sometimes in as little as a week. Unlike eggs, meat and fish, dairy milk can’t be refrigerated or frozen for months without adulterating its taste. Without pasteurization of pooled milk, there is a loss of control of shelf-life. This equates to a loss of control of the market as such.
Pasteurization is critically necessary and must be justified at all costs, and through all possible info-wars or mind-deceits of the public – even if it means fabricating health scares or all kinds of fear-mongering about raw milk… all of which is scientifically indefensible. The very survival of large dairies depends on maintaining this consumer infowar deceit. Thus they solicit corrupt government and scientific support.
A careful study of pasteurization shows it truly denatures the milk.
It makes milk significantly deficient. Pasteurized dairy consumption leads to long-term arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and arthritis, all of which are among the most common diseases in aging dairy farmers who drink pasteurized milk for decades. Among farming populations, dairy farmers have the highest rates of arthritis.
There is also short-term allergenic or lactose-intolerance reactions to pasteurized milk. This is because the pasteurized milk simply becomes heat-harmed and dead food. Our bodies require living foods for optimal health. Like chemically-preserved staples deadened to increase shelf-life, the end result is the true health-hazard at the altar of making more money.
If the public knew all of this, it would fatally threaten billions of dollars of conventional dairy sales. These are maintained only via this huge market deceptions. In the meantime, illnesses like arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and arthritis are pandemic. Statistics show these three ailments affect literally hundreds of millions of people over the age of 50, which then helps allopathic medical and pharmaceutical industries thrive.
Dairy Industry’s Thrust Toward Total Market Control
“The fluid milk markets are already dying on the vine because people can’t digest , it’s too allergenic and it’s got lactose intolerance,” McAfee continued by saying “Raw milk is an out-of-control milk. It’s by the farmer directly to the consumer, so all the dairy industry people are upset that they are losing control of the market.”
Reactions to the Raw Milk Sting
Coming back to our example of the Pennsylvania-Amish dairy sting operation by the FDA, one of the customers, Liz Reitzig, president of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, said she started looking into raw milk because her oldest daughter showed signs of not tolerating pasteurized milk. Thus she sought out what they call “cow sharing” or where a group of people buy shares in owning a cow, and pay a farmer to board and milk the cow.
But Maryland outlawed that practice and so she turned to Mr. Allgyer’s farm.
“We like the way they farm, we love their product, it’s super-high-quality, they’re wonderful. It’s just a wonderful arrangement,” she said. ” The FDA really has no idea what they’re talking about when they’re talking about fresh milk. They have no concept – they really don’t understand what it’s like for people like me who have friends and family who can’t drink conventional milk,” Ms. Reitzig said.
Other customers were likewise furious, especially those from the District of Columbia and Maryland.
“I look at this as the FDA is in cahoots with the large milk producers,” said Karin Edgett, a D.C. resident who buys directly from Rainbow Acres. “I don’t want the FDA and my tax dollars to go to shut down a farm that hasn’t had any complaints against it. They’re producing good food, and the consumers are extremely happy with it.”
Members of the Grassfed on the Hill group reacted by planning a rally in Washington DC, raw-milking a cow as pictured below with the Capitol building in the background.
Author David Gumpert, writing for the website Grist, wondered whether those who took part in the raid felt “remorse or shame” in an “official effort to deprive people of food.”
Action Center:
What Readers Can Do
Bill to Stop the FDA from Banning Raw Milk
On May 11, Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, introduced H.R. 1830, the Unpasteurized Milk Bill, which would end the FDA’s ban and permit the sale of raw milk across state lines. This would reverse the mandate given in 1987 FDA regulation to ban interstate commerce in raw milk.
Suit Against FDA in Iowa
Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, said undercover stings are a matter of course. “It happens quite a bit. It’s almost like they treat raw milk as crack. It happened in a number of states, and at the federal level,” he said. His organization has now sued to try to halt FDA enforcement, and the case is pending in federal court in Iowa.
Getting Raw Milk Locally
One way support raw milk for real optimal health is to seek out a local raw dairy. A new resource called Finding Your Safe Local Raw Milk offers an instantly downloadable $7 ePaper to help you find such dairies in your area quickly.Read more about the $7 ePaper
Helping Friends and Allies
NICFA (National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
Fresh (website for award-winning film that supports non-industrial farming)
The Complete Patient (blog of David E. Gumpert, with an intense coverage of the issue)
Take back control of your health and well-being. Don’t let our government destroy your collective health rights through fear-mongering mind-control efforts and food police state tactics – all pursued to serve profit interests of consolidated corporate behemoths.
Today the issue is the sale of raw milk.
Tomorrow the issue is the sale of all the rest of our food supply, and ever more artificially processed, bio-engineered and thus denatured for profit.
First they came after the raw milk producers
and I didn’t speak out because I drank no raw milk.
Then they came after the non-GMO farmers
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a farmer.
When they came for natural food supplement manufacturers and health food retailers I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a manufacturer or store owner.
When they arrested naturopaths and natural healers, I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a doctor or healer.
When they hauled away organic home gardeners
I didn’t speak out because I grew no gardens.
When they handcuffed and jailed breast-feeding women who refused to pasteurize their own milk, I didn’t speak out because I had no children
Finally when they came for me there was no one left to speak for me.
Listen to this important, uplifting message from the Health Ranger, called Hold your head high: How to stay positive during difficult times.Click here to listen now or click the PLAY button in the following object:
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(Healingtalks) Welcome to the new food police state!
Above is an actual picture of an LA policeman raiding Rawsome at gunpoint, among many others, and prior to confiscating $70,000 worth of organic, raw, wholesome food and handcuffing and arresting the proprietors without even reading them their rights.
Protesters outside the Los Angeles Courthouse on Thursday denounced the police’s moves against Rawesome, which offers especially raw milk products. Thanks to the FDA, the proprietors face multiple felony charges for selling the healthiest on the planet!
Baed on an article by IAN LOVETT in the NYT
Raw food enthusiasts fit right in here, in the earthy, health-conscious beach communities of Venice and Santa Monica, along with the farmers’ markets, health food stores and vegan restaurants.
But this week, the police cleared the shelves of Rawesome, an establishment in Venice Beach, loading $70,000 of raw, organic produce and dairy products on the back of a flatbed truck.
And then, on Thursday, James Stewart, the proprietor, was arraigned on charges of illegally making, improperly labeling and illegally selling raw milk products, as well as other charges related to Rawesome’s operations. Two farmers who work with Rawesome were also named in the district attorney’s complaint.
Though it is legal to sell unpasteurized milk products in California, Rawesome, which has operated in Venice for more than six years, never obtained a license to do so — or, indeed, any type of business license.
Lela Buttery, a trustee at Rawesome, said it had no license because it was not a store. Instead, she called it a “club.” Club members paid an annual fee, which allowed them to peruse the produce, milk products and honey on Rawesome’s shelves, which they paid for — $7 for a pint of raw goat’s milk — to cover the cost of production. Members also signed waivers to signal they understood the risks of consuming raw food.
Rawesome is staffed by volunteers, who take home food for their efforts, and no one, Ms. Buttery said, is making money from his or her work there.
The raid on Rawesome has riled people here who say that unpasteurized milk is safer and healthier. About 150 raw food advocates gathered at the Los Angeles County Courthouse on Thursday to oppose the crackdown.
“It’s our right to choose what we want to put in our bodies,” Ms. Buttery said. “When members filled out an application, they were saying they wanted natural bacteria in their systems. We don’t want labeling. We don’t want animals full of antibiotics.”
Siobhan DeLancey, a spokeswoman for the federal Food and Drug Administration, which participated in the investigation of Rawesome, said the administration banned the interstate sale of raw milk products because they could be dangerous for those with compromised immune systems.
“Our biggest concern is really with children, because pathogens that can be in raw milk can be extremely dangerous for the classically at-risk,” she said. “We’ve seen people wind up as paraplegics.”
But raw food enthusiasts are convinced of raw milk’s healthfulness — and still have plenty of options around here.
“I drink it all the time,” said Laura Avery, who runs a farmers’ market in Santa Monica where raw milk products are sold. “I believe it’s a safer product.”
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(Healingtalks) This is a breaking story from Naturalnews.
First the FDA tries to outlaw the most nutritious supplements on the market to help Big-Pharma.
Then agents come to arrest the employees and owners of distributors/retailers of raw, organic, non-GMO wholesome foods, and at machine-gun gunpoint. Next and no doubt they put these long-haired “food criminals” in jail to then reform them, to feed them grub straight from McDonalds.
Welcome to the New
Food Police State!
Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Police State Raid
A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). This story is now being followed and widely reported on InfoWars (www.InfoWars.com) and the Drudge Report (www.DrudgeReport.com). See updates below…
Rawesome Foods, a private buying club offering wholesome, natural raw milk and raw cheese products (among other wholesome foods) is founded by James Stewart, a pioneer in bringing wholesome raw foods directly to consumers through a buying club. James was followed from his private residence by law enforcement, and when he entered his store, the raid was launched.
Law enforcement demanded that all customers (members) of the store vacate the premises, then they demanded to know how much cash James had at the store. When James explained the amount of cash he had at the store — which is used to purchase product for selling there — agents demanded to know why he had such an amount of cash and where it came from.
James was handcuffed, was never read his rights and was stuffed into an unmarked car. While agents said they would leave behind a warrant, no one has yet had any opportunity to even see if such a warrant exists or if it is a complete warrant.
Law enforcement then proceeded to destroy the inventory of the story by pouring the milk down the drain and / or confiscating raw cheese and fresh produce for destruction. Video now posted at NaturalNews.TV: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…
Note to NaturalNews readers: We believe this was an ILLEGAL raid being conducted mob-style by government thugs who respect no law and no rights. This is an all-out war by the government against people who try to promote healthy raw and living foods.
James is now being held at the Pacific division police department at Centinela and Culver in Los Angeles. He is being held at $123,000 bail with no possibility of using bail bonds. Law enforcement has demanded that if he comes up with the money to cover bail, he must disclose to them all the sources of that money. (This is an illegal demand!)
Public Protest and Funds Needed
Massive public protests are needed to teach these criminal law enforcement agencies that they cannot illegally arrest and persecute individuals merely for buying and selling raw milk and cheese. We are organizing a public protest day in cooperation with James. Please watch NaturalNews for an announcement of that. Story is developing…
Right now, James needs help raising money with his legal defense needs. Our non-profit Consumer Wellness Center is currently serving as the collection point for donations. You may donate right now at www.ConsumerWellness.org (100% of the donations go directly to James’ legal defense needs, the Consumer Wellness Center keeps nothing).
Info on Healthy Family Farms in Santa Paula, California
Here’s background on Healthy Family Farms which was also targeted in the raid:
“Healthy Family Farms is a sustainable, pasture-based farming operation. We raise all our livestock on pasture. We raise all of our animals from birth. We do not feed any of our animals soy, choosing instead to feed animals as they are designed to be fed. This results in healthy, sturdy animals needing no hormones, antibiotics, or other artificial “enhancements.” We harvest our animals humanely by hand before they are delivered to the farmers markets. We never freeze our products. In addition to farmer’s markets sales, we have an active CSA, which offers discounts to our valued members.”
Are You Fed Up Too?
We are fed up with these illegal mob-style raids against the raw foods community! It is time to protest and fight back against tyranny!
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The USDA nearly destroyed US raw organic almond business by forcing the toxic fumigation and pasteurization of their product. A federal appeals court just ruled that California farmers have a right to challenge the USDA’s “nutty” regulation in court – overturning the view that farmers had no rights and that the power of the USDA was dictatorial, beyond challenge or absolute!
Here is the story from the Cornucopia Institute press release
WASHINGTON, DC – A federal appeals court ruled today, overturning a lower court decision, that a group of California almond farmers have the right to challenge a USDA regulation requiring the treatment of their raw almonds with a toxic fumigant or steam heat prior to sale to consumers. For the past three years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has denied American consumers the right to buy raw almonds, grown in the USA, when they shop in grocery and natural food stores.
A group of almond growers sued the government to challenge USDA’s rule, but the federal district court ruled that courtroom doors were closed to the growers’ claims. The controversial rule has cost individual farmers millions of dollars in lost sales since it was enacted in September 2007.
“We are delighted by the court’s decision,” said Will Fantle, Cornucopia’s Research Director. Cornucopia has been coordinating the legal strategy for the farmers’ lawsuit. “At long last the farmers who have been injured by this rule will have the opportunity to stand in court and state why this poorly thought out regulation should be thrown out,” Fantle added.
The USDA and the Almond Board of California imposed the treatment scheme to minimize the risk of salmonella contamination outbreaks like those that had occurred with almonds in 2001 and 2004. USDA investigators were never able to determine how salmonella bacteria somehow contaminated the raw almonds that caused the food illnesses but they were able to trace back one of the outbreaks, in part, to the country’s largest “factory farm,” growing almonds and pistachios on over 9000 acres.
Family-scale growers have argued that the onerous and expensive mandated treatment regime is only needed by the giant industrial producers, who have less control over the quality of their nuts, and has hurt their market because it consumer resistance.
Many in the industry have questioned the logic exempting foreign-grown almonds from the treatment scheme. Imports have displaced raw domestic nuts in many major markets and retail locations across the U.S. This regulatory loophole is part of what has been crushing California producers.
“I am very happy with this first step in overturning this destructive regulation,” said Nick Koretoff, an almond farmer and plaintiff in the lawsuit. “The treatment mandate has been a financial catastrophe for me. My consumers want raw, untreated healthy almonds and I have been denied the opportunity to sell them what they want.”
Attorney John Vetne, who has been representing the almond farmers, said the Appeals Court made a “very strong decision affirming farmers’ rights.” The USDA had been arguing that farmers did not even have the right to legally challenge the USDA regulation. “We are pleased that the Appeals Court rejected USDA’s argument that courthouse doors are closed to farmers. We now intend to demonstrate to the federal district court that USDA acted outside of authority granted by Congress when it denied California almond growers a consumer market for raw almonds,” Vetne added.
Tens of thousands of consumers have expressed their discontent with the raw almond treatment rule in comments to the USDA. Organic and raw foods enthusiasts were particularly incensed that the nuts, despite being processed with propylene oxide (identified as a carcinogen by the federal EPA) or steam-heat, were still allowed to be labeled as “raw” — many believe that essential nutrients in food can be destroyed by heat, radiation and toxic chemicals.
The Cornucopia Institute, an organization known for its research and defense of family farmers involved in organics, artisan and local food production, was impressed with how many consumers have a real passion for maintaining the availability of raw food and nuts, including almonds, and have been willing to financially support the farmers in their legal challenge. “Contributions continue to flow in supporting this effort,” Fantle noted.
“I and many of my friends look forward to the day when we will once again be able to easily purchase truly raw, authentic almonds from California in my local store,” said Joan Levin, a Chicago resident and raw foods consumer. “We hope this Appeals Court ruling brings that day closer,” she said.
This fellow with a Bush-like smile is pretty scary to me!
MAKING ORGANIC GARDENING A MENACE? Remember when First Lady Michelle Obama was recently attacked for championing a wonderful little organic garden at the White House? The organizer of that protest is now unbelievably being nominated as America’s chief agricultural negotiator for our international trade agreements.
SIDDIQUI’S CAREER Isi Siddiqui career has been fighting bans on various environmentally hazardous pesticides. He worked to minimize or eliminate restrictions on pesticides in NAFTA, advocated for pesticides as a treatment for bee colony collapse disorder though pesticides appear to be a leading cause. As a lobbyist he succeeded in exempting US farmers from a worldwide ban on anti-fungal methyl bromide, a rather powerful contributor to ozone depletion in our atmosphere.
Siddiqui’s defenders point to his having implemented the original organic label at USDA. However, under Siddiqui, the USDA actually attempted to weaken — some say kill — the original organic standards by using overriding guidelines that Siddiqui had proposed. The USDA organic label as given to us by Siddiqui’s office would have allowed sewage sludge, irradiation, GMOs, and some synthetic pesticides! It would have mad the label meaningless. DROP THE NOMINATION We need to stop Siddiqui again. Ask President Obama to drop the Siddiqui nomination.
The Obama Obama’s infamous organic garden- shame on her!
This fellow with a Bush-like smile is pretty scary to me!
