Liberal fear of diseases and trust in science. A totalitarian's dream.

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http://snipurl.com/92h5k [OpedNews]December 22, 2008Liberal fear of diseases and trust in science. A totalitarian's dream.By Linn Cohen-ColeI have been writing for sometime that liberals are being jerked around by their fear of bacteria and disease in the service of the FDA and USDA getting totalitarian regulations in place which are MEANT TO destroy our small farmers.  But it is not easy reaching urban liberals who have such a blind faith in "science" they miss the politics altogether as well as the suffering of other human beings who are being wiped out by the liberal desire for 100% certainty they won't get sick when they eat a sandwich.  Just as the Right has sold American civil liberties down the river for an attempt at "safety from terrorists" - not minding the CENTRALIZATION of spying agencies set up with huge data banks to spy on lefties/commies/pinkos/Muslim/terrorists who threaten this country with their lack of obedience to authority/patriotism, the Left has sold American civil liberties down the river for an attempt at "food safety" - not minding that a CENTRALIZED "food safety" Department is being planned which will have huge data banks for spying on the right/rednecks/racists/farmers who threaten this country with their lack of scientific/hygienic practices.We know what the Patriot Act did to this country.  We needed to challenge the whole "terrorism is causing everything" myth to begin to see what was really going on - the fake WMD scare, the oil contracts, the Halliburton and Blackwater contracts, the undoing of civil liberties to destroy political dissent.  Some on the right, such as Ron Paul, see as well having stood up to their fear of terrorism and decoupled it from a blind faith in the authority of the president and military.The point is to see the rest of the plans to take control.  Those plans are happening in the countryside.  And to begin deconstructing them, it is time for the Left to give up its fear of diseases and its blind faith in the "authority of science."Both authorities are manipulated and controlled by corporations.  Both fears are as well.  But right now, the Left, which has done such a powerful job of exposing the lies about the war and the dangers of the Patriot Act, is caught way behind in seeing what is happening through the lie of "food safety" - which sounds so mundane and harmless but is the Nazi- trick of using hygiene, once again, to take control.  The most advanced science is seeing bacteria as amazing and exposure to it, even bad bacteria, as critical for strong immune systems.  click hereNot so oddly, farmers know this already.  Farmers know a lot of science that doesn't come from books but in being grounded in life itself ends up being way ahead of the fragmented "modern science" that is used as the basis, for instance, of pasteurization, badly outmoded as a scientifically valuable tool.  click here It was, of course, "modern science" which devalued breast feeding, promoted bottle feeding and corporate baby formulas.  The objections from mothers were treated an "anti-science" and disregarded.  It took a great deal of time of and more advanced science to prove what mothers have known for thousands of years, that breast feeding is miraculous on many levels.  And that milk is not pasteurized.Farmers know things about the relation between farming and our immune systems that I had never heard and which certainly doesn't jive with the USDA's pushing the idea that indoor facilities are cleaner and thus better than a small farmer letting his chickens run loose outside in the "dirt."  One told me that one of the problems with factory raised chickens (and there are so many problems ...) is that they don't get out in the dirt and so they don't get exposure to a range of bacteria and so then can't build up their immune systems.  He said the eggs of those hens are worthless in terms of passing on any immunity to people.  We have been told a whalloping lot of nonsense about cleanliness and bacteria, and by corporations that benefit at each fear they can create.  Here is the US, when Bill Clinton got into office, leaving behind Arkansas rivers contaminated by waste from Tyson poultry factories and boosted to the presidency by large donations from Tyson, his USDA immediately and significantly lowered contamination standards for poultry in the US, easing Tyson's poultry-factory expansion.  http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2006/0828.html).  His USDA head, Espy, a close friend, was indicted for bribes, money laundering, and much more.  Tyson was the largest corporate offender.click here Meanwhile, in Asia, where there have been outbreaks of Bird Flu, the small farmers there were blamed - them and their 5- 10 chickens running around outside in the dirt.  But it turns out the Bird Flu is related to contaminated waste from transnational poultry factories being spread out on fields there.  Do they clean up the waste?  Noooooo.  Come on.  Instead, the small farmers' stocks are eradicated by the health departments and the poultry corporations move to substitute genetically engineering birds.  That is, they substitute "privatized" birds so the small farmers then don't own the birds, they are merely renting them and now work for the corporations.  Bird Flu, something intelligent liberals would feel justified in fearing.   A terrible disease so a time to listen to scientists and doctors and take precautions.  But alerts about diseases is just what liberals need to start to be as suspicious of as alerts on WMDs."Donald Rumsfeld and other major stock holders of Gilead Sciences or Roche Inc., the marketers of the much-hyped Tamiflu (see previous articles, ‘Is Tamiflu another Pentagon Hoax? ;‘Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Industry’) are reaping nice gains, as sales of the medication are booming thanks to promotion by the Bush and Blair governments.Agribusiness companies stand to reap huge gains in the event that scientists at Cambridge University and elsewhere are able to replace the entire world chicken population with genetically-engineered chicks allegedly resistant to H5N1 virus.Little-noticed beneficiaries of the current Avian Flu scare, however, are the giant agribusiness chicken producers based in the United States, who claim ‘their’ chickens are safe. Their sales are booming and all indications are that Avian Flu, paradoxically, has come like a Godsend to their corporate balance sheets. Are they also responsible for breeding unsanitary conditions and exporting the product worldwide causing disease, illness and even deaths?"click here  The poultry industry thus used the crisis they had created through their filthy, cost-saving, profit-gouging methods, to push out small farmers and make them laborers.  click here   Herds of cattle were wiped out in the UK over Mad Cow.  But the corporations disgusting practices caused Mad Cow while small farmers' heritage breeds of cattle were lost forever, being slaughtered when there was evidence that animals were not sick.click here Then, here, to prove it was "on the job," the USDA went after a small farmer in Vermont to make a show of its fake diligence - not increasing inspections at or going after the squalid conditions and activities corporate factory farms, giant feedlots, and slaughterhouses."Slaughtering healthy animals on suspicion -- this has been a horrific week for livestock worldwide. In Vermont, the suspicion was that health of beef exports might be adversely affected if the US did not hunt down perceptions of risk from European live imports. The sheep seizure is an alarming precedent for abuse of government power: no convincing evidence was ever put forward that the sheep had any form of TSE, much less BSE; the seizure is taking place despite an appeals court agreeing to finally give the sheep their day in court. The USDA can be ashamed of itself for this cold-blooded, hypocritical seizure -- which may signal abandonment of science-driven TSE policy for the United States. Do the mistakes of Britain really need to be repeated here? Livestock producers large and small, cattle and sheep, have a very special stewardship relationship with their animals. Farm animals are not viewed as faceless production units in some overarching global economic trade agenda, and rightly so. Massive culls in Europe have been extremely wrenching experiences for affected farmers, experiences that compensation does not even begin to address. So it behooves us to be careful -- whether it is foot-and-mouth, the over 30 month grass fed cow, or healthy sheep -- to make the decision for the sometimes necessary cull only when there is a solid scientific basis for them. This scientific standard has not been met in Vermont."http://www.mad-cow.org/00/mar01_last.html Meanwhile, the FDA and Homeland Security have Orwellians regulations already in place to allow for "surge capacity" for destruction and seizure of farmers' crops and animals in case of "bioterrorism."  And they will use NAIS, their centralized corporate data bank which is for surveilling any farmers with animals 24 hours a day, to get hold of those stocks.  Though those animals make up only a teeny portion of the American food system, and are isolated in many ways from it so would be the last place any terrorist with half a brain would bother with, I suspect that those will be the animals seized.  The threat, though lies with the corporate industrialization of farming - the "efficiency of scale" of cramming of millions of corporate chickens, millions of corporate hogs, millions of corporate cattle, together.  They would be easy to attack and already live in degraded, disease-inducing conditions, with costs being cut at every point in terms of their feed and health.  While it is alarming to think the government might go after small farmers and destroy them on a scare based on lies Agribusiness and the Pharmaceutical industry has already been known to us to ramp up fear and then mop up control and profits, we can at least be reassured that corporations will not have their animals wiped out or equipment seized or be destroyed.  Particularly since the Left is so fearful of diseases, it can't see the destruction of real people - our farmers - for jumping on cue at diseases alerts and for demanding regulations to ensure its 100%-guaranteed-"food safety" sandwich.Nazis and hygiene win again.  To get it clear about the relation between how science is being manipulated by government in a way that it terrible for real farmers and for your health, look at what the FDA did to the cherries growers when they found out their cherries were potentially 10 times stronger than aspirin or ibuprofen in controlling pain.  http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/mar2006_cover_cherries_01.htm Remember, against the backdrop of the FDA protecting you from even knowledge of cherries and threatening cherry growers with prison for merely putting links to peer-reviewed studies on their websites, that "Each year, use of NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) accounts for an estimated 7,600 deaths and 76,000 hospitalizations in the United States." (NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, ketoprofen, and tiaprofenic acid.)" http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm#item1 This is the same FDA that is currently pushing regulations that will disallow the shipping across state lines of any natural supplement about which there has EVER been a study showing its effectiveness.  "If the FDA determines that Section 301 applies to dietary supplements, ... t would create a 'Catch 22' situation in which supplement producers who undertake scientific research on new supplements will find that their very research will lead to a ban on the proposed supplement. This is totally senseless. This is too senseless even for the FDA," said Gretchen DuBeau, AAHF Executive Director.Dr Robert Verkerk, executive and scientific director of the ANH emphasized:"Unlike Section 201 of the FDCA, the proposed new Section 301 of the FDA Amendments Act doesn't just limit the ban to supplements that have been subject to drug applications, it applies a ban to some of the best researched and most useful supplements and ingredients on the market today.  This is clearly nonsensical and if enforced, would represent one of the most severe restrictions seen in any country at any time.""There will be no shortage of big corporations that will exploit this situation to their benefit unless the scope of Section 301 is both clarified and narrowed",commented Gretchen DuBeau, "one such company is already trying to use it to ban the natural zero-caloric sweetener stevia, given that stevia has been subject to scientific research and has been a thorn in the side of the sugar and artificial sweetener giants for years."  http://www.healthfreedom.org.  And to get really down and dirty for liberals who have their identities bound up in being educated and modern and "scientific," they need to look at  how science is being manipulated in a truly life and death way.  Recently, the NCI just did in a study on vitamin E and selenium for treating prostate cancer, something that the alternative health people now value.  The NCI started the study then halted it out of concern for patients, saying that vitamin E and selenium were not effective.  But what they didn't say is that they used a coal tar-based vitamin E.  Instead, they did a very professional scientific debunking of the use of natural substances to cure cancers, all the while knowing in advance that they had used a synthetic vitamin E that had NO anti-oxidant value whatever.  They used tar.  They then reported to doctors the vitamin E is worthless.  Or perhaps they thought the synthetic was just as good, not knowing anything about antioxidants? http://www.naturalnews.com/024639.html The attacks on vitamin C and Linus Pauling were equally egregious, but with this one enters the territory of unfathomable immorality when one considers the lives that were lost and the pain that was suffered and that both are continuing, all based on corporately-biased (and purchased) lying science.   http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109 & STORY=/www/story/07-06-2004/0002204911 http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/34551244.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU  The fear of disease and the risk-aversion of the liberals has left them vulnerable to these astounding manipulations by corporations and there is one coming at all of us that most liberals have never heard of and yet farmers have known about it and feared it for years -Codex Alimentarius. http://www.healthfreedom.org/   Which brings me after a terribly long introduction to the FDA just approving stevia.Hurrah.  Maybe. Just to give a little background to this news.Under the Clintons, the FDA was run by Monsanto employees they had appointed.  That Monsanto FDA approved Monsanto's Aspartame for use as a sugar substitute despite strong evidence of brain damage and other diseases.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgW4KBY-o4At the same time, the Clinton's Monsanto FDA also kept synthetic Aspartame's competition, all-natural stevia, out of US, though more than 900 studies indicated NO problems WHATSOEVER.http://www.stevia.net/safety.htm   Aspartame (Nutrasweet), is still legal despite heroic consumer fights up which must go up against Monsanto power, and though Aspartame is strongly  associated with diabetes, MS, many cancers, epilepsy, and more .... http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/ How Aspartame got approved and the connection to Donald Rumsfeld.http://www.wnho.net/how_aspartame_got_approved_in_england.htmThe FDA destroyed incriminating records on Aspartame.http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=1546541401 & & page=article Hawaii has been embroiled in a consumer battle to stop Aspartame for some time.http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=56179  In its natural form, it is actually helpful to diabetics. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/33422/diabetes_and_stevia.html?cat=5Now the FDA has finally approved Stevia.  The question is now whether it has been or will be genetically engineered so the corporations which blocked it originally in favor of their own known-to-be dangerous product, can now "own" stevia.  Genetic engineering is all about patents and control - the corporate privatization of nature itself.  The added bonus the corporations have built in biologically is linking GE-crops to require pesticides which they also sell.  Monsanto is a chemical company which originally made chemicals used in war (Agent Orange), and then PCBs until the world banned them as EXTREMELY cancer-causing, and also pesticides for agriculture.  It holds the largest number of patents in the world on seeds and alters the seeds to require its own pesticides, specifically.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonsantoHere is the news on Stevia and the details:http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000626_stevia_Truvia_FDA.html  Authors Bio: I'm a mother and grandmother. There is no way I can leave my family or anyone else's children, things as they are now. =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.