Category: Interesting Information

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Interesting Information: Infograph: Vaccines

Interesting Information:  February 23, 2015

Infograph:  Vaccines

I brought home the latest Free Press today and saw there was another article by a local doctor promoting vaccines.  Said doctor acknowledged that the current flu shot (which is full of mercury) was not at all effective, but promoted it anyway, especially for children.  There was a touching story of a school nurse who sponsored a vaccine clinic that vaccinated lots and lots of children in her school.  The information that followed was totally anecdotal information, a repeating of the idea of herd immunity, and so forth.  There was not one mention of the fact that everyone in power (government, courts) has had to admit that vaccines are NOT safe for all people.  Or, effective for all people.

Most Americans today have this blind trust that what’s being said about the efficacy and safety of vaccines is true.  That trust is being built by people like this local doctor, whose article contains emotion, but no science.

I wrote to this doctor several months back and begged him to watch THE GREATER GOOD, to dig deeper into the vaccine “evidence,” to acknowledge the potential danger.  Clearly he has not done any homework at all, or he could never have written the article I just read.  Clearly he’s just going to go right along contributing to this growing problem of the chronic illnesses so many of our children today have–a problem he cites in what he wrote.  His solution:  Let’s just give them more and more vaccines.

My academic background is the study of how the market and culture relate, of systems of cultural power.  This whole vaccine thing is a poster child for the market effects that derive from the highjacking of science, from the endless repetition of lies that work to sell products (profit at any cost), from the people we should be able to trust repeating these lies over and over without ever investigating them at the most basic levels (and many of these people are also profiting from vaccines), and from the creation of lots and lots of fear at multiple levels.  The vaccine situation represents for me a massive breakdown of human sanity.  That so many people, people who love their children, could fall into such mob hysteria is certainly not a new thing in history.  But it is super sad, nevertheless…

Here’s a nice little infograph that came in over the email.

Maybe it will help people start to look deeper–and that’s all I care about really.  I believe that if they start to look deeper, they’ll see the problems for themselves.  I hope that happens before one of their children gets hurt.

Health Freedom Alliance – Vaccines Don’t Work. Here Are The Facts..

Interesting Information/Books: Commercial Bread Yeast: A Monoculture

Interesting Information/Books:  February 23, 2015

Commercial Bread Yeast:  A Monoculture

Michael Pollan, in COOKED…

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…explains that “commercial yeast is a purified monoculture of S. cerevisiae, raised on a diet of molasses, then washed, dried, and powdered.  Like any monoculture, it does one thing predictably and well:  Feed it enough sugars and it will promptly cough up large quantities of carbon dioxide” (218-219).

Commercial yeast is an INDUSTRIAL product and bears no resemblance to traditional sourdough cultures.

So, what’s wrong with that?

Nutritionally, commercial yeast is very limiting.  Combine it with white flour, which is mostly just dead starches, and you’re eating something that fills you up, but provides very little in the way of nutrition.

Whole grains are much more biologically active and complex–think living cells–and much harder to control in an industrial setting (220-221).

A sourdough culture is a whole ecosystem, containing “at least twenty types of yeast and fifty different bacteria” (221).

Basically, baking with whole grains and a sourdough culture is all about “managing fermentation”–which can be tricky depending on the weather, the temperature, the strength and point of development of the sourdough culture, and when and how one feeds the sourdough culture.  It’s a process that can only be done by a dedicated, skilled baker.  The communities that are created in the traditional bread processes cannot be reduced to the “efficiency” that occurs in a factory.

Traditional whole grain sourdough bread can supply a lot of nutrition.  It’s too bad that there is so little of it available to most of us today.  It’s too bad that we’ve lost the taste of it in favor of the “white felt” we have instead.

Seek it out.  Bake it yourself.  Find substitutes for the factory bread as it’s not doing you any good at all.

Books and Interesting Information: More on Michael Pollan’s COOKED

Books and Interesting Information:  January 22, 2015

More on Michael Pollan’s COOKED

 

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I think the most exciting part of this book for me was the section on fermentation, called “Earth.”  Fermentation undergirds so much of what we eat.  Here are a few foods that are fermented:  sourdough bread, beer/wine and other bubbly drinks, cheeses, fermented meats (like salami, for instance), all the lacto-fermented foods (like sauerkraut) and on and on.  Sandor Katz has a great list that is much, much longer than I am recalling here.

As an aside, the breakdown of Pollan’s organizational schema here is that sourdough bread falls under the “Air” section, not the “Earth” section, but it’s still a ferment…

The most exciting section of “Earth” for me was when Pollan writes about the excitement scientists who are studying the microbiome of the human body have at their recent discoveries.  Here’s how Pollan puts it:

The scientists working today on “microbial ecology” are as excited as any I’ve ever interviewed, convinced, as one of them put it, that they “stand on the verge of a paradigm shift in our understanding of health as well as our relationship to other species.”  And fermentation–as it unfolds both inside and outside the body–is at the heart of this new understanding (322)

Here’s the shift:

In the decades since Louis Pasteur founded microbiology, medical research has focused mainly on bacteria’s role in causing disease.  The bacteria that reside in and on our bodies were generally regarded as either harmless “commensals”–freeloaders, basically–or pathogens to be defended against.  Scientists tended to study these bugs one at a time, rather than as communities.  This was partly a deeply ingrained habit of reductive science, and partly a function of the available tools (322)

It is still astonishing to me how destructive this artifact of modernity–this focusing on parts rather than wholes–has been.  The hubris involved in acting without fully understanding how the whole functions, how the parts relate to each other as well as to the whole, blows my mind.  How can you know how something works if you can’t even see all its parts?  Pollan continues:

Scientists naturally focused their attention on the bacteria they could see, which meant the handful of individual bugs that could be cultured in a petri dish.  There, they found some good guys and some bad guys.  But the general stance toward the bacteria we had discovered all around us was shaped by metaphors of war, and in that war, antibiotics became the weapons of choice (322-323).

And, I want to add, pesticides, herbicides, and anything that kills what got deemed as an enemy by THE MARKET, which has happily sold us its products for years and years now without any regard to unintended consequences of NOT FULLY UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WHOLE.  (Yes, I’m yelling because the consequences to humans, to our babies, to our earth are…nothing short of dire.)

Pollan continues:

But it turns out that the overwhelming majority of bacteria residing in the gut simply refuse to grow on a petri dish–a phenomenon now known among researchers as “the great plate anomalluy.”  Without realizing it, they were practicing what is sometimes called parking-lot science–named for the human tendency to search for lost keys under the streetlights not because that’s where we lost them but because that is where we can best see.  The petri dish was a streetlight.  But when, in the early 2000s, researchers developed genetic “batch” sequencing techniques allowing them to catalog all the DNA in a sample of soil, say, or seawater or feces, science suddenly acquired a broad and powerful beam of light that could illuminate the entire parking lot.  When it did, we discovered hundreds of new species in the human gukt doing all sorts of unexpected things (323).

We are, it seems, a kind of superorganism.  And our health depends on the health of the microbial species within us.

To their surprise, microbiologists discovered that none of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of our gut), and that 99 percent of the DNA we’re carrying around belongs to those microbes.  Some scientists, trained in evolutionary biology, began looking at the human individual in a humbling new light:  as a kind of superorganism, a community of several hundred coevolved and interdependent species.  War metaphors no longer made much sense.  So the microbiologists began borrowing new metaphors from the ecologists (323).

The survival of these microbes depends on our health, writes Pollan, “so they do all sorts of things to keep their host–us–alive and well.”  We can no longer think of ourselves as individuals, but as part of a community.  Look at the word microbiome itself:  micro  bio  me.  Kill the microbes, kill yourself.

These guys are really smart, as Pollan notes:

One theory is that, because microbes can evolve so much more rapidly than the “higher animals” they can respond with much greater speed and agility to changes int eh environment–to threats as well as opportunities.  Exquisitely reactive and fungible, bacteria can swap genes and pieces of DNA among themselves, picking t hem up and dropping them almost as if they were tools.  This capability is especially handy when a new toxin or food source appears in the environment.  The microbiota can swiftly find precisely the right gene needed to fight it–or eat it (325-326).

Feed your gut microbiome properly.  Lacto-fermented foods are a good start to restoring gut health.  There are recipes on this blog, and this food is easy to make and delicious.

Interesting Information: “Researchers Conclude Wireless Radiation Causes Cancer After Latest Scientific Findings Announced”

Interesting Information:  February 21, 2015

“Researchers Conclude Wireless Radiation Causes Cancer After Latest Scientific Findings Announced”

This press release shares that The National Association for Children and Safe Technology (NACST) has determined that wireless radiation is dangerous, especially for children.

NACST is asking that technology, especially in schools, be hardwired and not wireless.

It’s something to think about for homes as well…

Scientists and studies are named in the press release below:

Researchers Conclude Wireless Radiation Causes Cancer After Latest Scientific Findings Announced | PRLog.

Interesting Information: “Antiperspirants Can Make You Smell Worse”

Interesting Information:  February 20, 2015

“Antiperspirants Can Make You Smell Worse”

Like many of you, I suspect, I have been using a “natural,” aluminum-free deodorant for well over fifteen years now.  My current brand has been a Tom’s “long-lasting” product.

I’ve never had much body odor.

And I don’t sweat a whole lot, and I’m past the “hot flashes” stage.

So, about two years ago, I began to notice that at night when I woke up, I had really, really strong body odor under my arms.

And, for about two years, I’ve had some off and on swelling of the lymph nodes under my left arm.  (I worked with my local homeopath on this issue.  We’d clear it, but it would come back–especially in the winter.  Think layers of clothes, including lots of wool, and less showers.)

I LOVE sleeping in a cool bedroom with a lot of heavy cover on top.  I’ve been known to crack the bedroom window right at my head when the temps are in the 20s.  I crave the clean, clear, crisp Maine air–as long as there is enough cover.  But, at some point, the cover is too much, and I wake up sweating in my warm cocoon.   And, stinking…

It took me quite a while to connect the dots.  The Tom’s was causing the odor.  And, maybe the swelling.  And it was worse on the left side because I’m right-handed and was likely putting more of the deodorant under my left arm.

I stopped the Tom’s and went back to a very light dusting of some baking soda mixed with a bit of corn starch (which cuts the baking soda’s scratchiness).  I have this mixture in a small glass jar in the bathroom, put two fingers into it, and just lightly dust under my arms.  I don’t think I even have to do it every day…

The odor immediately stopped.

The swelling stopped and is gone.

For good measure, I stopped wearing a bra around the house, too.

(Saw a bit of a story on tv about young women wearing the most constrictive “body shapers” under their clothes and wanted to cry for them.  Back to the Victorian age…  And it all has to do with all this form-fitting clothing today where athletic clothes are now dressed up for every day.)

Within a few days, I got a Mercola post on the importance of our bodies’ surface microbiome and how important it is to good health.  (That’s a great example of synchronicity–which I’ll talk about in another post.) And you can read the Mercola below.  DO READ IT.

In addition, the post discusses the fact that we are washing away our bodies’ first line of defense when we use so many commercial soapy products every day.

For a long time now, when I shower, I don’t use soap.  I might take a loofah product and give my skin a scrub–it seems to like that stimulation.  But I don’t use soap unless I have gotten really dirty outside.

So many of these commercial products have really seriously bad chemicals in them–from cleansers to scent chemicals.  They dry our skin.  They kill the microbiome colonies.  They are just bad for us.  And, apparently, with the deodorant, they are causing odor, not curing it.

When I came back from Charleston on my last trip, I went for a haircut.  My hairdresser said “have you been swimming in a chlorine pool?  Your hair is so, so dry.”  I had been using a commercial shampoo rather than the baking soda/water “shampoo” and vinegar/water “conditioner.”  It took some weeks for my hair to get its gloss and shine back–a gloss and shine on which people comment.  Lesson learned.

Next time you are in a crowd, take a close look at the hair you see.  How many people have dry, lifeless hair?

Here’s a little quote from the Mercola article:

Science is clearly showing that your body’s microbiome plays a major role not just in your health, promoting or warding off skin diseases for example; it can also dramatically alter things like body odor. So, it’s really in your best interest to work with your microbiome, rather than against it. Doing so could help you avoid all sorts of chemical toxins that most people slather on themselves without thinking twice about what it’s doing to their microbiome, or their health.

Antiperspirants Can Make You Smell Worse.

Go through your cosmetic regime.  Read the labels.  Look for the parabens, the chemicals, and get rid of that stuff.  It’s expensive and dangerous.

I use unheated coconut oil as a moisturizer, Burt’s Bees “lipstick” sticks, baking soda/cornstarch deodorant, and a 1 to 4 baking soda/water ratio for shampoo and about the same with vinegar for a rinse.  I also use baking soda and sea salt as a toothpaste.  I “oil pull” coconut oil for teeth and gum health when I slow down to think about it.  If you want more scent, you can go to the essential oils for support.  Young Living oils are great, but you can find good ones in a health food store or a health food section of something like Whole Foods.

Good Luck!

 

Interesting Information: “10 Banned Foods Americans Should Stop Eating”

Interesting Information:  February 15, 2015

10 Banned Foods Americans Should Stop Eating

Mercola Web Site Infographic

 

Shopping and eating gets more difficult every day.  We have to read all the labels, know the food issues, be careful about what we buy, feel sad and frustrated, etc., etc., etc.

It’s all just a mess.

But, here’s a good infographic from the Mercola web site.  At least it simplifies information a little.  Thanks, Julie Monahan for originally posting this information on Facebook.

10 Banned Foods Americans Should Stop Eating – Infographic.

Interesting Information/Books: Tetyana Obukhanych’s THE VACCINE ILLUSION

Interesting Information and Books:  February 14, 2015

Tetyana Obukhanych’s

THE VACCINE ILLUSION:

How Vaccination Compromises Our Natural Immunity and What We Can Do To Regain Our Health

Yesterday’s post on vaccines sparked a spirited discussion on Facebook between two of my nieces.  I promised them–and have been intending to do so anyway–to post the links to Tetyana Obukhanych’s book THE VACCINE ILLUSION.

As I said yesterday, the news is full of vaccine stories lately, mostly around the recent measles outbreak.  These stories often uncritically repeat (mindlessly) the same old crop of myths.  Clearly, the media is not remotely doing good journalism.  Instead, as is the case these days, the media is creating sensation and fear, rather than trying to uncover and share the many, complicated facets of our current vaccine policy.  This situation, too, is how the market works.

For me, vaccine policy is a poster child for Cultural Studies work–my field.  Current vaccine policy is mostly all about the needs of the market–not about the needs of humans.  And plenty of well meaning, kind, caring folks are caught up in promulgating the current general vaccine knowledge.  But that knowledge is simplistic and terribly flawed.  There is a place for vaccines–especially if one is going to a foreign nation where diseases exist that are not in our ancestral template (as friend Meg Barclay puts it).  There may be a place for other kinds of vaccines as well.  But there are, also, genuine and terrible risks–which are being ignored.  Worse, there are many, many unintended consequences to vaccines that are not being thoughtfully explored.

That’s where Tetyana Obukhanych, a stone-cold scientist in immunology comes in.  (See her credentials below.) Her little book is clear, blessedly easy to read and understand, and cuts to the chase of what is wrong on a number of fronts.  She wrote it to help parents think about what to do about vaccines and is very clear that these are decisions parents have to make and with which they have to be willing to live.  She also blows the whistle on the box that the field of immunology finds itself enclosed–a box that will not allow for genuine exploration and discovery.

The biggest thing that needs to be discovered is exactly how naturally acquired immunity to diseases occurs.  (There is no money in the system for this work–which is, in my terms, another effect of the market at work.) Obukhanych argues, also, that we need to recognize that our current vaccine policy not only cannot simulate naturally acquired immunity, it only provides a short-term “fix”–leaving teenagers open to getting the “childhood” diseases when these diseases are more serious for them.  She argues, too, that the vaccine policy is creating the unintended consequence of disrupting the maternal imuno-protection of infants–which is why some are getting measles.  And, there is much, much more.  She discusses the history of the development of vaccines and explains that vaccines derive from flawed theory that has never been adequately tested.  She discusses the dangers of using aluminum in vaccines as alum is famous for producing allergic reactions (another unintended consequence) and may be a root cause of all the allergic reactions our children have today–1 in 13 children today has a serious food allergy.  Aluminum in vaccines can produce skin eruptions, esophagus problems, asthma, and anaphylactic shock (a blood reaction).  She also discusses the fact that vaccines target certain strains of a disease, but that diseases are biodiverse so that other strains get stronger as one strain is diverted.  I suppose it’s a bit like the superweeds and superbugs that have evolved in response to herbicides and pesticides.   

Here’s a quote from the book with Obukhanych’s credentials:

Tetyana Obukhanych earned her Ph.D. in Immunology at the Rockefeller University in New York, NY with her research dissertation focused on understanding immunologic memory, perceived by the mainstream biomedical establishment to be crucial to vaccination and immunity.

During her subsequent involvement in laboratory research as a postdoctoral fellow within leading biomedical institutions, such as Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Obukhanych realized the flaws and limitations of current immunologic paradigms. Key to her realization was taking a broader look at scientific findings from many related disciplines, rather than confining her search, as customary in her professional circles, strictly to basic immunologic literature.

After parting with the mainstream biomedical establishment and dissolving her prior allegiance to its doctrines, Dr. Obukhanych continues her independent in-depth analysis of peer-reviewed scientific findings related to vaccination and natural mechanisms of immunity. Her aim is to bring a scientifically- substantiated and dogma-free perspective on vaccination and natural immuno-enhancing approaches to parents and health care practitioners involved in making vaccination decisions. Dr. Obukhanych has been a frequent guest speaker on natural immunity and vaccines and is available for private consultations to share her accumulated knowledge.

I hope that before you or your children get one more vaccine, that you read this book, which takes less than an hour.  And I hope that you share it.  Obukhanych is very, very brave to take on this issue.  And she is already being demonized.  (Remember this familiar pattern from the cigarette industry.)  Ask yourself WHO is denigrating Obukhanych’s work, what are their credentials, who is paying them or supporting the web site.  There are a number of so-called “scientific” web sites that are nothing more than shills for industry.  So, beware…

The Vaccine Illusion: How Vaccination Compromises Our Natural.

Interesting Information: “Studies Show that Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease”

Interesting Information:  February 13, 2015

“Studies Show that Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease”

The measles epidemic and vaccines are all over the news at the moment.

Rampant among the many news stories is the mindless repeating of vaccine myths.  The media is simply NOT doing its job with regard to the vaccine issue.  Neither are the local doctors who mean well, but are uncritically accepting what they are being told.  There is plenty, plenty of research out there that throws up red flags about vaccines in many ways.

Here’s a statement put out by the Weston A. Price Foundation, refuting the myth that unvaccinated children are somehow infecting vaccinated ones.

Folks!!  The real culprits spreading measles are anyone who got a recent vaccine AND, possibly, all the adults who have not had boosters…ever.

Here’s a quote–those numbers are footnotes to studies which are listed at the end of the article:

Scientific evidence demonstrates that individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many weeks or months afterwards and infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Furthermore, vaccine recipients can carry diseases in the back of their throat and infect others while displaying no symptoms of a disease.11,12,13

Let’s be clear that babies are at risk for getting measles.  Why?  Their mothers are no longer passing along their (the mother’s) natural immunity–which is new in history.

There have been no measles deaths in the United States for ten years.  Zero.  Nada.  And maybe these babies getting measles will be, in the end, lucky since they will acquire an immunity that will protect them in their adolescent years, when measles is much more severe.

By the way, the other dirty little secret is that none of these vaccines has lasting protection,and the protected time might be just a few years.  Vaccines do not work at all for some people–and that might be due to a specific vaccines ingredients.

And then there is the issue of what strain of a disease is in a vaccine and the effect those choices are making on the wild disease viruses…

Studies Show that Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease | Weston A Price.

Interesting Information: “Shedding Light on Three Big Lies About Systemic Pesticides and Bees”

Interesting Information:  February 4, 2015

Shedding Light on Three Big Lies About Systemic Pesticides and Bees

So, first of all, who’s lying?

An industry shill, of course.

Does this work?  Yep.

You might want to go back to my Tipping Points 7 Essay about raw milk lies, as it details just how effective industry can be when promoting lies.  Back in 1945, when the developing milk industry was trying to eliminate competition, they hired a writer to create stories about an “epidemic” of undulent fever, said to be caused by drinking raw milk.  The writer even made up a fake town where the “epidemic” was said to occur.  And sixty years later, when I started drinking raw milk in Maine (and loving it), my mother, then in her 80s, raised the undulent fever risk.  She had stopped drinking raw milk, a victim of the scare tactics of industry.  One of my fondest memories of her when I was a child was her standing on the back porch of my grandmother’s home, her long legs bare in the heat, her wild black hair curling every which way, as she dipped a steel ladle into the tall silver can of milk that had just come from the farm, pouring the milk into a glass, and drinking it all down in long, delicious swallows.  She used to drink buttermilk like that, too.  And clabber, or soured milk, was one of her favorite things to drink back in those “old days.”

Industries lie all the time.

And they do get away with it.

Here’s a really, really good debunking of industry lies about pesticides and bees.  I’m assuming you know that if we lose the bees, we lose an enormous amount of the food we so take for granted.

(Thanks Beedy Parker for sending this article along.)

One tactic industry uses was learned from the cigarette industry–and I have Tipping Points essays on that topic as well.  By claiming “the science isn’t clear,” when it is really clear even though objective scientists are being fired and demonized, industry can keep the issue unresolved–while they continue to make tons of money.  Neonics are extraordinarily toxic.  Period.

Do take a moment and read this very interesting article.

Shedding Light on Three Big Lies About Systemic Pesticides and Bees.

Interesting Information: Food From China And Far East

Interesting Information:  January 23, 2015

Food From China and Far East

Friend and former neighbor Tutty Fairbanks sent me this impassioned email from a friend of her sister’s.

George, as you can see, is outraged by our global food system–in which, industry has figured out ways to escape regulation.

Unfortunately, I’ve been reading that much of what George is writing is…true.

READ LABELS.  And keep reading them because they can change often.

SHOP AND EAT LOCAL–find a farmer/some farmers you know.

If I am not mistaken–I think I read recently that the laws about displaying “country of origin” on produce have been voted out…

Here’s what George writes about what he has learned:

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Food for thought…

Smithfield Farms, the largest pork producing farm in the USA was sold in
September to China with the unanimous support of its stockholders!! The hogs
will still be raised here, but slaughtered and packaged for sale there
before being sent back here. 

This includes labels of:
.    Morrell
.    Eckrich
.    Krakus
.    Cudahy
.    Premium Hams
.    Cook’s
.    Gwaltney


The same with many chickens.  They can now be shipped there, but when they
come back all that needs to be labelled is that they  WERE RAISED IN THE
USA .  Not that they were processed in China !!!


Our great FDA at work again.  The chickens will be all processed and most
sold to fast food restaurants for sandwiches, along with schools and
supermarkets.  The China slaughter and processing are not nearly equal to
the requirements here.

*BAD FOOD.*
We recently learned that Starkist Tuna is now owned by Korea , and is in big
conflict with the U.S.concerning quality, safety, and records, which Korea
refuses to produce.

Read several articles on Google about this, and even one that was defending
the eating of tilapia said to avoid the fish that came from China ?


Also, I had just returned home from buying  Albertson’s 4-day special of 4
bags of frozen tilapia for the price of one?  Sure enough, on the top of the
bags, it read “farm raised”, and on the bottom in small print it said,
” China “

read all the way to the end…..

Recently a Food inspector on TV… said he had lived overseas and he had
seen the filthy conditions their foods are raised and processed in. It is
enough to make you throw up.  Some foreign workers have to wear masks as
they work in these places, because the food is so rotten and filthy, it
makes them want to throw up.  Many of their fish on Fish Farms are fed raw
sewage daily.  He said he has seen so much filth throughout their food
growing and processing that he would “never” eat any of it.  They raise this
filth, put some food colouring and some flavourings on it, then they ship it
to the USA & Canada for YOU to consume and feed to YOUR families. They have
no Food & Safety Inspectors.  They ship it to you to buy and poison your
families and friends.

Imported food we eat and the junk we buy:
…    Green Giant frozen vegetables are from China ,
…    and so are most of Europe ‘s Best.

…    Arctic Gardens are OK so is
…    Birdseye.

*Never buy the grocery store garlic unless it is clearly marked from USA or
Canada *, the other stuff is grown in people poop (even worse than chicken
poop). China is the largest producer of garlic in the world; U. S. is next.

*Buy only local honey*, much honey is shipped in huge containers from China
and re-packed here.

Cold-FX is grown and packed in China and is full of fecal bacteria.  Doesn’t
work anyway, big scam.

If the country of origin is not clearly marked beware.

If produce, ask an employee.

Watch out for packages which state “prepared for”, “packed by” or “imported
by”. We don’t understand the lack of mandatory labelling, especially the
produce.

The country of origin should be clearly shown on the item in the store.

Go to the local farmers’ markets in season and keep a wary eye open the rest
of the year.

Please read this very carefully, and read to the very bottom.  It’s
important for all of us.

How is it possible to ship food from China cheaper than having it produced
in the U. S. or Canada ?

FOR EXAMPLE THE “OUR FAMILY” BRAND OF MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN
‘FROM CHINA ‘. – SO, for a FEW MORE CENTS, BUY THE  * LIBERTY *  BRAND.

*GOLD BRAND or THE DOLE IS from CALIFORNIA *.

Beware, Costco sells canned peaches and pears in a plastic jar that come
from China ..

ALL “HIGH LINER” AND MOST OTHER FROZEN FISH PRODUCTS COME FROM CHINA OR
INDONESIA .  THE PACKAGE MAY SAY “PACIFIC SALMON” ON THE FRONT, BUT LOOK FOR
THE SMALL PRINT.  MOST OF THESE PRODUCTS COME FROM FISH FARMS IN THE ORIENT
WHERE THERE ARE NO REGULATIONS ON WHAT IS FED TO THESE FISH.

*Recently The Montreal Gazette had an article* by the Canadian Government on
how Chinese feed the fish: They suspend chicken wire crates over the fish
ponds, and the fish feed on chicken poop.

If you search the internet about what the Chinese feed their fish, you’ll be
alarmed;  eg: growth hormones, expired anti- biotic from humans?  Never buy
any type of fish or shellfish that comes from these countries:
…    Vietnam
…    China
…    Philippines

Check this out personally.

Steinfeld ‘ s Pickles are made in India – just as bad!

Another example is in canned mushrooms.  No-Name brand came from Indonesia .

Also check those little fruit cups.  They used to be made in Canada in the
Niagara region until about 2 years ago. They are now packaged in China .
Most sold in Aldi stores.

While the Chinese export inferior and even toxic products, dangerous toys,
and goods to be sold in North American markets, the media wrings its hands!
Yet, 70% of North Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to
the Chinese should be suspended.

Well, duh ! Why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?

SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, CANADA and the U. S.

Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says ‘Made in
China ‘ or ‘PRC’ (and that now includes Hong Kong ), simply choose another
product, or none at all.  You will be amazed at how dependent you are on
Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.

YOU’VE BEEN INFORMED
BAD FOOD

 Cheers…..George

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