Issue 9 – Hysteria

Hysteria – Letter From the Editor

There are such extremes in our society. Take politics for instance. No matter what the left side does, Fox news will inevitably find a flaw with it. If Obama said exactly what Bush would say or acted exactly as Bush would act in any given situation, Fox would scream that he is an idiot. (In fact, in some situations, Obama does seem to act exactly like Bush).

You’ve got the same extremes with so many issues. Take vaccinations. A small portion of the population believes that any and all vaccinations are bad. Nearly everyone else thinks children should have 40 or more vaccinations by the time they’re 18. Some guys will refuse to go to the doctor unless they’ve lost an appendage, while others will rush to the emergency room for a fever of 102.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that people are becoming more and more divided, more and more extreme, and consequently, more and more hysterical. A perfect example is the bill HR 875. You have, for the most part, three sides to this issue; those who don’t know anything about it, those who believe it to be a much needed law that can protect us from the evil bacteria that plague our nuts and vegetables, and others who believe the bill will outlaw organic farming.

With arguments from vaccinations, to global warming, to politics, I tend to disagree with both sides. People seem to choose a side in popular arguments just to shore up their identity. I’m usually left shaking my head, thinking that both sides are missing the whole point. Consequently, people on both sides often think I’m a crazy radical who just doesn’t “get it”. But I’m cool with that.

Michael Edwards

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Monsanto Company Profile part II of IV

Monsanto is a new company. No longer a chemical company, the new Monsanto is an agricultural company, a leader in biotech and GMO technology. Their pledge begins with these words:

We want to make the world a better place for future generations. As an agricultural company, Monsanto can do this best by providing value through the products and systems we offer to farmers.”

Sustainable Yield Initiative

Monsanto states its goal is to increase yields while maintaining or reducing inputs of energy and pesticides through the use of genetically modified crops. Monsanto’s Sustainable Yield Initiative puts forth a goal to double crop yields in corn, soy, and cotton by the year 2030, from the baseline year, 2000. “That’s in countries that have bio-technology, that have adapted that,” says Brad Mitchell, Director of Public Affairs. “And do that using 1/3 less inputs, so nitrogen, water, etcetera… And by doubling those yields we will improve farmer’s lives because more yield means more money in their pockets, and profitability increases.”

Mitchell brags that their biotech is “…skill neutral technology. A farmer in the middle of Iowa will use it and then you can also have a farmer in Argentina use it and it will yield pretty well. It’s something that both can use on their farm no matter how much–if he has 500 acres or 5 acres, they both benefit.”

Monsanto’s biotech seeds are patented. Farmers are not allowed to retain patented seeds from a crop. Each season they are required to purchase new seeds. For this, Monsanto has come under attack, with critics claiming this practice to be unnatural and unsustainable. Mitchell says, “… a lot of people make a big deal about Monsanto patentingseeds, and how this is going to lead to control over the seed supply and that sort of thing. I have two responses to that. One is, first, patenting of seeds is not new and it’s not unique to either Monsanto or biotech. And if you don’t believe me, go google raspberry and patents and see what you come up with. There are plenty of patent varieties of raspberries out there, and everything from asparagus to zucchini. Basically if people Genetic Modification didn’t have the ability to patent the result of their breeding, there would be no incentive for them to do so.”

Mitchell continues, “The other part of it that I find a little bit amusing and a little bit disheartening is that when people say, ‘Oh well, you can’t save patented seeds. This is the end of the world.’ Well, we’ve had hybrid seeds in production and available to farmers for just about 70 years. And with the vast majority of hybrid seeds, you can’t save those either. And nobody’s made a big deal about that. And the reason you can’t save hybrids, some of them are patented, but more importantly, the offspring seed doesn’t have the genetic consistency of the parent, so no farmer will ever save a hybrid seed because they are not going to know what they are getting. Farmers who have had hybrid seed available for over 70 years they choose them because namely because they give better yields. Some of them have some other traits that they appreciate.”

Due to patent protection and patent infringement investigations, Monsanto employs a number of investigators. Mr. Mitchell could not tell us the exact number, but he estimates the number to be around 40. “And those aren’t all full time, doing this for us, they’re private investigator firms, so a good part of the year they’re not doing save-seed stuff, they’re doing other whatever else investigators do. These are private firms.”

Lawsuits Against Farmers

In films that criticize Monsanto and their relationship with farmers, Monsanto is accused of using their investigators and lawsuits to harass and intimidate. Mitchell says that out of half a million customers, Monsanto has filed 138 lawsuits for patent infringement and nine went to trial; the others settled out of court.

“Now, we kind of have to do this for three reasons,” Mitchell says. “One is we’re not going to make any money if people aren’t buying our products. I mean there’s the patent infringement issue. Two is we owe it to our stockholders, because they invest in this. And a good part of it is, you know, frankly, we put ten percent of our money into research and development, so the third part of this is really if people are getting this technology without paying for it, we’re not going to be able to do that. And we’re not going to see the state of technology today…probably a lot of your readership would like that but not necessarily a lot of the farmers out there.”

“So we’ve got about half a dozen people who have claimed that we have committed these misdeeds. I don’t see it. I was actually outat a farm the other day and we had a seed patent investigation in the neighborhood, and he goes, ‘You know, my neighbor is really upset with you guys. He’s furious with how you handledthis seed patent infringement case.’ (Against the farmer we had a case against and we settled.)’ And I said,’Uh-oh. What’s his problem? And he said, ‘He doesn’t think you went after enough.’ So what we typically hear from farmers is, “Look, I gotta pay for it. Yeah, I’d rather not pay for it and I’d rather not pay for gasoline or my taxes either, but if I’m going to do it, the other guy better, too, because it’s not fair.” Farmers who have
settled cases with Monsanto have said they cannot discuss the terms of the settlements, that Monsanto insisted on non-disclosure clauses. Mitchell insists the opposite is true, that the farmers were the ones who asked for the non-disclosures. “Unfortunately what’s happened is that people have turned that against us and said, ‘Well, Monsanto requested these.’ We don’t request nondisclosure and we never have. We, in the past, have agreed to it, but we don’t do it anymore for that very reason.” The money from all of the settlements has been donated to agricultural charities and scholarships. “The ones that actually went through full trial [9 cases], we do retain that, mainly because trials are expensive.”

Human Rights

Hugh Grant, Monsanto Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, is quoted on Monsanto’s website. He states, “As an agricultural and technology company committed to human rights, we have a unique opportunity to protect and advance human rights. We have a responsibility to consider not only how our business can benefit consumers, farmers, and food processors, but how it can protect the human rights of both Monsanto’s employees and our business partners’ employees.”

Monsanto identifies nine elements in its human rights policy: child labor, forced labor, compensation, working hours, harassment and violence, discrimination, safety, freedom of association, and legal compliance.

Forced, indentured, or bonded labor is unacceptable to Monsanto and Monsanto rejects corporal punishment of any type. Compensation is to meet or exceed minimum wage standards, regardless of performance measures. Monsanto states they will comply with all laws and industry standards with regard to working hours. Harassment, violence, and discrimination will never be tolerated. Monsanto is committed to safety, to the rights of workers to join or not join organizations of their choosing, to associate
freely and bargain collectively. And last but not least, Monsanto states that it “will comply with all applicable local, state and national laws regarding human rights and workers’ rights where the company does business.”

While Monsanto supports young people working within the agricultural business, it wants to ensure that all applicable local, state, and national laws are followed and that none of its business partners practice exploitive child labor practices. To this end, in India Monsanto has added “no child labor” clauses into farmer and third party contracts, has instigated a massive farmer awareness campaign with posters, door to door visits, leaflets, postcards, field audits 10-12 times during the 45-60 pay pollination period (auditors conducted more than 10,000 field visits in 2007), and written farm attendance reports.

Monsanto has also employed incentive/disincentive schemes, paying farmers an incentive if they employ only adult labor. If a farmer is found to be in violation, the child(ren) are removed from the field, the farmer becomes ineligible for incentives, and Monsanto discontinues production with the farmer the following year. The Monsanto Fund, established in 1964, gives funds to communities in the United States and around the world in the company’s areas of operations, including a residential learning center for child laborers, in a further effort to stop the practice of using child labor.

In 2007, The Monsanto Fund pledged 12.6 million to numerous causes around the world.

In our final report on Monsanto, we will discuss seed monopolies, Indian farmer suicides, conflicting reports on crop yields, Roundup safety, and bans on GM crops.

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The Origin of Swine Flu – The Porcine Crucible

Swine flu viruses were first detected in North America in 1930. Pigs are susceptible to influenza, be it porcine (pig), avian (bird), or human, and they are well-known crucibles; just add a few viruses, stir, and voila! You’ve created a new virus!

Artealia Gilliard, Press Officer for the Center for Disease Control says, “In a setting such as a farm where chickens, humans, and pigs live in close proximity, pigs act as an influenza virus ‘mixing bowl’. If a pig is infected with avian and human flu simultaneously, the two types of virus may exchange genes. Such a “reassorted” flu virus can sometimes spread from pigs to people.”

Smithfield, a U.S. company, runs an industrial pig farm with 950,000 hogs near La Gloria, Mexico, first said to be ground zero for this virus. While Mexican authorities claim the Smithfield pigs were tested and found free of disease, Steven Trunnell (whose wife Judy was the first U.S. resident to die from novel H1N1) remains unconvinced. He filed a petition against Smithfield Foods to investigate claims that the massive industrialized farm with its overcrowded conditions and poor hygiene was the source of the outbreak.

New information released by the media on July 24th states that a new patient zero has been identified, a baby girl from Northern Mexico with no known contact with pig farms.

Whether or not the Mexican pig farm is the source of the pandemic, industrialized pig farming is not exonerated. Scientists know hogs that novel H1N1 was derived from several viruses circulating in the swine population for the last several years. Overcrowded, unsanitary conditions of industrialized animal farms perpetuate and spread disease among the pig population and the human population.

Overflow from animal sewage contaminates water supplies, and insects such as flies carry disease from open sewage cesspools. Overcrowding increases the spread of disease within a herd. Overflow from animal sewage contaminates water supplies, and insects such as flies carry disease from open sewage cesspools. Overcrowding increases the spread of disease within a herd.

Two large industrial pig farms have since reported outbreaks of novel H1N1. The first, in Alberta, Canada, reported that an outbreak began on April 21, 2009. Of 2020 pigs, 450 were infected. The farm’s report to The World Animal Health Information Database states: “A carpenter hired by the farm owner (ALB-001) travelled to Mexico recently and returned to Canada on 12 April 2009. The carpenter, producer and the producer’s family had been ill with flu like symptoms between 14 — 29 April. Investigation of human cases by the Public Health authorities is underway.” The Alberta Health Department ruled out the farm worker as the source of the infection.

The second report, dated June 6, 2009, sad pig reveals the pig count had grown to 3013 pigs. The farmer culled (killed) 500 pigs due to overcrowded conditions and later destroyed the entire herd. The report states that the animals recovered from the flu, but no slaughterhouse was willing to take them. “…the owner petitioned the Alberta provincial government for the destruction of the herd for economic reasons, to allow him to exit the situation and resume operation with a replacement herd. The culling of the herd was NOT an ordered destruction as the result of animal or human disease considerations.”

A new strain of influenza A which contains seasonal flu genes and swine flu infected pig farm workers in Saskatchewan.

In Buenos Aires another large industrialized pig farm has verified novel H1N1 infection. Of 5586 pigs, 1676 are infected, a 30% morbidity rate, and Australia has reported one farm’s pigs to be infected, suggesting human to pig transmission.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will no longer quarantine pig farms with novel H1N1. Their reasons are as follows:

There is no food safety risk associated with the virus;
There is no evidence at this time that animals are playing a significant role in the spread of the virus in the general human population; and,
The virus does not behave any differently in pigs from other influenza viruses commonly detected in swine herds.

After the quarantine of the Alberta herd ended in destruction because slaughterhouses refused to process the animals, this new decision not to quarantine seems to be driven by monetary concerns. How have we had enough experience with novel H1N1 infected stock to decide they pose no health risk?

Humans are susceptible to animal diseases ranging from mad cow disease to novel H1N1 flu. Our current farming practices of feeding animals unnatural foods that cause acidity and disease, overcrowded and cramped conditions that cause disease and the spread of disease within a species as well as species to species, and the problematic over accumulation of waste products due to industrialized farming display a clear and present danger. How many lives will be lost before we reverse this trend? Or will big business prevail, ignoring basic animal rights while killing our citizens with industrialized farm born disease?

Swine Flu Hysteria

Is it time for face masks, vaccinations, and quarantines?

Influenza, or flu, is a highly contagious viral respiratory infection which results in fever, headache, fatigue, body aches, sore throat, and congestion. Diarrhea and vomiting may also occur; children are more likely to suffer from these gastrointestinal symptoms.

Chronic health conditions such as asthma, heart disease, or diabetes increase the risk of complications such as sinus infections, ear infections, dehydration, bacterial pneumonia, and respiratory failure.

Each year an average of 200,000 Americans are hospitalized with seasonal flu; an average of 36,000 die. The CDC’s July 24th update reports 43,771 cases of novel H1N1 (called Swine Flu) in the United States (this number is not indicative of hospitalizations) and 302 reported deaths. So if we currently show a Swine Flu mortality rate that is .00838% of the annual seasonal flu rate, why the hysteria? There are many reasons. But in order to understand the current frenzy, it helps to start with a basic understanding of influenza.

Influenza isn’t limited to humans. Birds and other mammals including ducks, chickens, pigs, horses, ferrets, seals, whales, dogs, and minks suffer from the flu as well. Each influenza virus strain spreads easily within its natural hosts (bird to bird, pig to pig, and so forth) but an influenza strain can shift and jump to another species–bird to pig, horse to dog, pig or bird to human.

Since the 1990s, a particularly virulent strain of bird flu (avian flu) has spread from wild birds to chickens and turkeys. Millions of birds were killed by the flu. Hundreds of millions more have been killed in an effort to stop the spread of the disease. This virus has infected humans; however, to date, it has not evolved to efficiently spread from human to human.

In 1918 the worst recorded global flu pandemic–an avian flu–killed between 50-100 million people world wide. This horrific flu struck hard and fast, sometimes killing its victims within hours. In addition to death by pneumonia, a secondary infection, the flu itself was deadly, causing edema in the lungs and hemorrhagic complications. In many cases, the afflicted bled from the lungs, stomach, intestines, eyes, nose, and ears. Petechial hemorrhages (bleeding under the skin) were so severe, bodies were tagged for race, as it became difficult to differentiate a victim’s race post mortem.

Influenza viruses mutate and change over time. Artealia A. Gilliard of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta explained through a written Q&A that the two ways influenza viruses change are through antigenic drift or antigenic shift. Antigenic drift refers to the “small changes in the virus that happen continually over time. Antigenic drift produces new virus strains that may not be recognized by the body’s immune system.”

H1N1

If an influenza virus sweeps across America infecting Mary Smith, Mary’s immune system will produce antibodies that recognize this influenza, antibodies that provide immunity if Mary is later exposed to the same virus.

The next year when the virus comes back around, Mary’s immune system still recognizes this virus. Even though the virus will have undergone antigenic drift, it will remain very similar to the previous year’s strain. Over time (over a number of years) antigenic drift will render the virus unrecognizable to Mary’s immune system and re-infection can or will occur. “The other type of change is called ‘antigenic shift.’ Antigenic shift is an abrupt, major change in the influenza A viruses,” writes Ms. Gilliard. “…[Antigenic] shift results in a new influenza A subtype. When shift happens, most people have little or no protection against the new virus.” “While influenza viruses are changing by antigenic drift all the time,” she writes, “antigenic shift happens only occasionally.” Novel H1N1 is a type A influenza. Genetically, it is a combination of avian, porcine (pig), and human flu. “In a setting such as a farm where chickens, humans, and pigs live in close proximity, pigs act as an influenza virus ‘mixing bowl’,” writes Ms. Gillard. “If a pig is infected with avian and human flu simultaneously, the two types of virus may exchange genes. Such a ‘reassorted’ flu virus can sometimes spread from pigs to people.”

This is an antigenic shift, which results in a new influenza A subtype, to which most people have little or no immune protection. “If this new virus causes illness in people and can be transmitted easily from person to person, an influenza pandemic can occur.”

We have seen combinations of avian, porcine, and human influenza before, but Ms. Gillard tells us that we have not seen this combination before.

Swine Flu Vaccine…H1N1 virus, has spread to 70 countries…

In the 1918 pandemic, three waves of the virus swept across the United States within one year rather than the usual one wave per year. The first wave’s mortality rate was lower than a typical seasonal flu. The second and third waves were deadly. The first wave struck in spring, the second in fall, the third in winter. The 1918 pandemic was caused by an influenza A, H1N1 virus.

Now, in 2009, novel H1N1, a highly contagious influenza A, H1N1 virus, has spread to 70 countries around the world within 4 months of its identification. And while the morbidity count has been low and the vast majority of people infected with novel H1N1 have recovered without medical intervention, we need to remember that flu season has not yet begun.

We don’t know if we have only seen the first wave of the year or if novel H1N1 will behave as the majority of influenza viruses in the past have behaved, circulating in a drifted form a year later with no discernable change in virility. Will we be hit with a second or third wave? Will its severity increase like the pandemic virus of 1918? No one knows.

So, once again, why the sense of panic? Some fear the disease, some fear the lack of vaccine, some fear the vaccines and fear the Vaccine Lab government will force us to take the shots, while others are convinced by conspiracy theories, believing the influenza to be manmade, created for profit by unscrupulous drug companies.

Newscasts remind us that flu shots are being produced, but there will not be enough initially for everyone. Those most at risk will receive the first shots. This approach, of course, makes the shots more desirable to those not deemed high risk and strikes a bit of fear into the hearts of everyone eagerly awaiting a shot.

Many fear the hurriedly produced novel H1N1 flu vaccine will be rushed to market without the usual precautions, especially since new laws have granted further protections to drug companies should their vaccines prove dangerous or fatal.

Those opposed to vaccines fear the government may mandate vaccinations for adults and children. In the wake of controversy regarding vaccine injury and links to autism, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurologically-based diseases, mandated vaccinations, especially shots with thermisal (mercury), are unacceptable to many. Though the drug companies removed thermisal from most of the childhood vaccines, flu shots have remained the exception.

Others have spread theories that novel H1N1 is a manmade virus, created by drug companies for profit, while those familiar with genetic re-assortment believe the origin of the disease to be an industrial pig farm in Mexico, where 950 hogs are raised in filthy conditions, which provide both the animals and the environment to breed disease and spread it through water contamination, flies and other insects.

If either the morbidity or the mortality rates rise sharply, our government may close schools and day care centers, limit or ban sports events and concerts as well as any other congregations, and recommend that businesses stagger working hours and encourage telecommunicating. Those with active infections will be asked to stay home for 10-14 days, their unaffected family members for 7 days. We will all be encouraged to wash our hands often and to get a shot–or two–or three. One is for seasonal flu, one or two will be offered for novel H1N1.

Your best defense is to get healthy and stay healthy. Don’t eat sugar; it depresses your immune system. If you do contract the flu, remember to rest and drink a lot of fluids. Try lemonade sweetened with stevia; it’s great hot or cold.

So, once again, why the sense of panic? Some fear the disease, some fear the lack of vaccine, some fear the government will force us to take the shots, while others are convinced the influenza is manmade, created for profit by unscrupulous drug companies.

Only time will tell whether the Swine Flu hysteria was justified.

Mandatory Vaccinations

Who Owns Your Body?

If you think the U.S. Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to refuse a compulsory vaccination program, think again. It never has. Mandatory vaccination laws date back to 1809, giving states and municipalities the right to enforce compulsory vaccination under police powers, which are designed to protect the public health and safety. Children are required to be vaccinated to attend day care centers and schools, young adults are required to show proof of vaccinations to attend college, and soldiers must submit to vaccinations required by the military.¹

Currently exemptions are allowed for medical and religious reasons. Some states allow exemptions for philosophical or moral convictions. But what will happen if we face a public health emergency—real or contrived? The governor, the state board of health, or the state health officer may expand compulsory vaccinations for children and adults in response to bioterrorism or a pandemic and can choose to levy fines and/or force quarantine for those who refuse.

On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the flu pandemic alert for the influenza A virus H1N1 (called Swine Flu) to a level 6, the highest level. WHO’s July 6th update reports 94,512 laboratory confirmed cases and 429 deaths worldwide. The United States of America reports the highest number of cases with a total of 33,902 laboratory confirmed cases and 170 deaths. To clearly see the increase rate, compare these numbers to the CDC’s July 24th update report of 43,771 cases of novel H1N1 in the United States and 302 reported deaths. ²

Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO’s Director General,reports, “…the overwhelming majority of patients experience mild symptoms and make a rapid and full recovery, often in the absence of any form of medical treatment.” So far, the pandemic is of moderate severity, though this could change. “The virus writes the rules and this one, like all influenza viruses, can change the rules, without rhyme or reason, at any time.” Severity can also vary from one country to another due to many factors.

Though most of the severe and fatal infections were reported from adults 30-50 years of age, the majority of cases in areas of “large and sustained outbreaks” have occurred in people under 25. Dr. Chan warns we are still in the early stages of this pandemic and that countries who have seen a peak in cases should prepare for a second wave. She also states, “I understand that production of vaccines for seasonal influenza will be completed soon, and that full capacity will be available to ensure the largest possible supply of pandemic vaccine in the months to come.” ³

Influenza pandemics can indeed result in widespread morbidity and fatalities. We have only to look back to the pandemic of 1918-1919, the Spanish Flu, which infected one-third of the world’s population and killed 50 million of the approximately 500 million it infected.4 (Wikipedia and the CDC ⁵ state that the number of deaths could have actually been as high as 100 million). Many died within hours of their first flu symptoms from virulent pneumonia. The Spanish flu was a H1N1 Influenza A subtype, as is the current Swine Flu (or novel H1N1),⁴ though the current pandemic flu is obviously a less virulent strain.

If you follow news reports on the current pandemic, you will notice nearly every report reminds us that a vaccination is in development and will soon be available.

Though the historical and legal precedence was already in place for mandatory inoculations, fears of an avian flu pandemic early in this decade set government wheels in motion. President Obama was one of five senators to introduce the Pandemic Preparedness and Response Act in October of 2005, a bill that was not passed. However, the fear of an avian flu outbreak and the looming threat of bio-terrorism did result in recent laws that further pave the way for compulsory vaccinations if the government declares the need while holding the drug companies harmless if death or illness results from vaccinations: The Project BioShield Act of 2004 (S. 15) and The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act (2006) are two examples.

The Project BioShield Act further erodes safeguards for safety of vaccinations by expediting and streamlining the approval process in case of a health emergency. The three main components of Project BioShield are:

Ensuring that resources are available to pay for vaccines and other drugs
Speeding up NIH research and development by authorizing NIAID to accelerate the normal contracting, scientific peer review, and approval processes
Providing new emergency-use authorization for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical treatments that have not been formally approved and licensed ⁷

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act allows the Health and Human Services Secretary to declare an epidemic or disease to be a national emergency. The current pandemic has been declared a national health emergency and anti-viral drugs which have not been approved for young children will now be allowed due to the emergency. Some believe this act allows the HHS secretary to mandate vaccinations. The language is unclear. There is no question that HHS purchases the vaccine, stockpiles the vaccine, pays the states to distribute vaccines, decides who will first receive vaccines, and so forth.

A level 6 pandemic is characterized by the person to person spread of disease with community level outbreaks, in at least 2 countries in more than one WHO region. The level system does not take into account severity or mortality.⁶ The United States has declared the pandemic to be a national emergency. The question now is what criteria will be used to mandate vaccinations?

12 Things We’d Say about Health If It Weren’t for Lawsuits

Disclaimer: Only a doctor can diagnose and treat disease. Consult with your physician before making any significant health decisions. Be wary of published articles such as these. These are not statements we are making as fact, only as things we would state as fact if we had no fear of being sued.

1. Conventional doctors are egotistical, brainwashed drug pushers who know nothing about health.
Yes, there are some good doctors out there, but unfortunately doctors typically don’t know anything about health. Their expertise lies in disease management and whatever the drug companies have told them.

2. Alternative health doctors and practitioners with their potions, herbs, creams, and supplements are typically no better than conventional doctors.

You may think that OLM is all about the alternative medicine practitioners. While we do feel that the best doctors in the world practice alternative medicine, we prefer a holistic naturopath who understands how the whole body works together. You can’t fix one symptom and/or one organ while ignoring a toxic lifestyle and expect the body to work right. The biggest problem with doctors of both the conventional and alternative varieties is that they tend to think that their one area of expertise, be it drugs, surgery, herbs, or chiropractic, is the answer to everything. First and foremost, if you want to be healthy, you need to adopt a natural, healthy lifestyle. And if your doctor doesn’t address this, he or she’s not the doctor for you. It should be noted that most doctors who say they take a holistic approach do not, and they still have a lot to learn about what really is a healthy lifestyle. You’d be surprised to know how many doctors don’t even know what essential fatty acids are (they think they do, but they don’t).
3. Complementary alternative medicine is for people who can’t make up their minds.

In most cases of complementary alternative medicine, the “alternative” part is so weak and’ half-assed” that there would be no positive results without the conventional medicine. However, with the conventional medicine, it’s extremely hard to get anywhere with alternative medicine because you are too busy adding chemicals to your body.

4. Medicine is very rarely used to restore health.

Whether it be alternative or conventional, medicine is typically used to cover up symptoms so that one can go about a toxic lifestyle unhampered.

5. Health and fitness are not the same thing.

Look at Lance Armstrong! While he is a remarkable man, and a hero in many respects by most standards, he had to be in extremely poor health to get cancer. Health and fitness can go very well together, but they are not synonymous. Powerbars, gelpacks, protein powders, creatine, Gatorade, and caffeine are not healthy.

6. Healthcare in America and most of our modern societies is all about illness –
not about health.

It’s about treating and managing illness. The goal is to make patients feel good enough
to carry their illness through their toxic lifestyles. When is the last time you heard of the
modern medical establishment coming up with a cure for anything?

7. The majority of supplements sold are ineffective.

Synthetic vitamins, fillers, undigestible minerals; the list goes on. Forget buying quality supplements at your local drug store, GNC, multi-level marketing sources, or even at most health food stores. At best, most supplements are weak and ineffective. At worst, supplements are toxic and actually cause deficiencies.
8. Vaccines do more damage than good.

This article is not here to argue whether or not vaccines can eradicate disease. But there are too many vaccines, they contain toxic ingredients, and they are damaging the health of our children. It’s out of control! Why more people don’t see this is absolutely amazing!

9. Pharmacies are the unhealthiest places to be.

There isn’t anything healthy at a pharmacy!

10. There is a cure for cancer, diabetes, and most of the other illnesses plaguing us today.

The cure is a natural, healthy lifestyle. Raymond Francis says it best, “There is only one disease, cell malfunction. There are two causes, toxicity and deficiency.”

11. You and only you are responsible for your own health.

The easy part is accepting this. The hard part is undoing the brainwashing most people have had. Health is much simpler than we make it out to be. Eat mostly raw, nutrient dense foods as free of toxins as you can find. If most of your diet consists of raw fresh fruits and vegetables that have been grown properly (in rich soil), you will prevent almost every disease plaguing man today, and eradicate most as well.

12. Ignore the top disclaimer. That’s only for us not to get sued.

Note: Please remember, the entire list, including number 12 is what we would say only if we had no concern of lawsuits, but we do.

Issue 9 – Hysteria

Monsanto Company Profile part II of IV

Hysteria – Letter From the Editor

The Origin of Swine Flu – The Porcine Crucible

Swine Flu Hysteria

Mandatory Vaccinations

12 Things We’d Say about Health If It Weren’t for Lawsuits

Obscene Drug Profits

Sugar and Testosterone

Miracle Berry

Raw Avocado Mushroom Burger Recipe

Shillington’s Eye bright Formula Product Review

Tooth and Gum Formula Product Review

Eaurganic Skin CareProduct Review

Doctors Mentality

Children, Cell Phones & Health

Tilvee Eco Ethical Skincare Product Review

Hysteria – Letter From the Editor

Monsanto Company Profile part II of IV

Sustainable Yield Initiative

Lawsuits Against Farmers

Human Rights

Recommended Reading:

The Origin of Swine Flu – The Porcine Crucible

Swine Flu Hysteria

Is it time for face masks, vaccinations, and quarantines?

H1N1

Mandatory Vaccinations

Who Owns Your Body?

12 Things We’d Say about Health If It Weren’t for Lawsuits