Organic Farmer Stands Up For Raw Milk - NewsGrabs 25 May 2008
Raw versus the law - Canadian Authorities Raid Organic Farmer
Since the 2006 raid on his farm, Schmidt has seen a groundswell of support from raw milk proponents, a land owner association, celebrity chefs, some Ontario MPPs – including former finance minister Greg Sorbara whose family has consumed his milk – and even renowned pianist Anton Kuerti.Today, the chat between customers is all about the upcoming trial. "It's ridiculous, this whole thing," says Abrahams. "It seems absurd to go to so much trouble to prevent us from drinking milk. I just don't understand it. People have not gotten sick."
Why is it the health authorities believe they have to protect us from our own (allegedly irrational) desires, such as drinking raw milk? Is government not there to serve the people?
The Truth About Milk: Raw vs Pasteurized
Even when produced under the most sanitary conditions, he said, it is normal for milk to contain some bacteria, and human societies have been coexisting and benefiting from these bacteria in the milk for thousands of years. Fermented milks are and have been important foods in many cultures for their nutrient value, McAfee informed the crowd, for their superior digestibility, and for the preservation that fermentation, a bacterial process, provides.
Monsanto's Bullying Increases Sales for Louisiana Dairy
Following the publication of an article in Vanity Fair titled "Monsanto's Harvest of Fear," detailing how the agri-chemical giant attempted to prevent Baton Rouge dairy farm Kleinpeter Farms from advertising that their milk is free of rBGH (an artificial growth hormone injected into dairy cows to increase milk production), owner Jeff Kleinpeter says emails started flooding in from all over the world.Since the article came out, milk sales increased, says Kleinpeter. Some of the emails he received were from people in other states, wanting to buy Kleinpeter products.
Latest Attempt to Discredit Vitamin Therapies: Is it Criminal?
As was similarly the case with the 2004 Cochrane review and Lancet study, the publication of this latest Cochrane meta-analysis comes at a critical time in the global battle to maintain free access to non-patentable vitamin therapies.Frankly, we think that the evidence presented here is already too strong for any reasonable person to dismiss out of hand. So much so, in fact, that we are confident the organizers of the “vitamins lead to a premature death” campaign will eventually be called to account for their actions.
Canada: Is Bill C-51 a crackdown on natural health?
“There are good recommendations when you look at it under the lens of the drug industry, the pharmaceutical model,” MacWilliam said via cellphone from a speaking engagement in Montana. “It is when you look at it under the model of the natural health product that it doesn’t make as much sense. It is the equivalent of using a hammer to squash a fly.
Video: Ireland: Save our supplements
This brief (2 minutes) video clip asks a pertinent question: Why is it that, while there are so many legal ways to ruin our health, protecting it by using nutrient supplements should be made illegal?A world wide push to regulate supplements by the European Union and Codex Alimentarius is clearly afoot to forward such an irrational agenda.
Canada: No label for GM foods
(sorry, link vanished)
A private member's bill giving consumers the right to know if the food sold in Canada contains genetically engineered (GE) ingredients was defeated in the House of Commons today by a vote of 101 to 156. The defeat of Bill C-517 effectively protects the economic interests of GE companies like Monsanto over the rights of Canadians to know what they eat.
Action: Bio-identical Hormones under FDA attack - write to Congress
We have heard that Wyeth is gearing up to fight this tooth and nail. We have also learned that Wyeth is coordinating women's groups, often funded by Wyeth, to write letters in opposition to the above resolution. It is worth noting that Wyeth uses estriol in at least one of its European pharmaceuticals.
Action: Stop the Dangerous and Invasive 'Mothers Act'
Amy Philo reports that more than 7,800 people from around the world and every state in the US have signed her petition. The "Mothers Act" is Big Pharma's latest marketing scheme to peddle powerful psychoactive drugs to new, nursing, and expectant mothers. This piece of legislation provides federal moneys to screen and "treat" these new moms.
UN Criticizes India Gov't for Forcing GMO Seeds on Small Farmers
"The Committee is deeply concerned that the extreme hardship being experienced by farmers has led to an increasing incidence of suicides by farmers over the past decade. The Committee is particularly concerned that the extreme poverty among small-hold farmers caused by the lack of land, access to credit and adequate rural infrastructures, has been exacerbated by the introduction of genetically modified seeds by multinational corporations and the ensuing escalation of prices of seeds, fertilisers and pesticides, particularly in the cotton industry."
Smoked: Chantix May Cause Many Serious Problems
The smoking-cessation drug Chantix is suspected of causing a “wide spectrum of injuries,” including serious accidents and falls, potentially lethal cardiac rhythm disturbances, severe skin reactions, acute myocardial infarction, seizures, diabetess, psychosis, aggression and suicide, the authors write.
FAA bans anti-smoking drug Chantix
The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday removed the smoking cessation drug Chantix from the list of medications considered safe for pilots and air-traffic controllers after a new study linked the medication to mental confusion and other problems that could put passengers at risk.
Critics say drug firms' payments to doctors are conflict of interest
Drug companies have given $88 million in gifts, grants and fees to Minnesota doctors and caregivers since 2002, according to state payment records, including $782,000 to the two University of Minnesota psychiatrists who oversaw Dan Markingson's participation in a clinical drug trial.A lawsuit over Markingson's suicide, which happened during the drug trial, accused Dr. Stephen Olson and Dr. S. Charles Schulz, chairman of the U's psychiatry department, of coercing the schizophrenic Markingson into the study.
Antiflea Pet Shampoos with Pyrethrin May Play a Role in Autism
(link from stephentvedten.blogspot.com - blog censored by Blogger)
Compared with mothers of typically developing children, mothers of children with autismspectrum disorders were twice as likely to report that they had shampooed their pets with pyrethrin-containing antiflea/antitick shampoos around the time of their pregnancy, in a Californian case-control study that looked at household pesticide use.
Japan: Autism Linked to VaccinesThe paper shows not just a "rechallenge" in an entire population sample in Japan, but a dose-response relationship on a population level. "Rechallenge" is one of the strongest methods of proof known in pharmacology to prove a drug causes a harmful effect. Seeing a dose-response relationship on a population level is more unusual.
When Honda/Rutter is compared to Terada it can be seen that ASD numbers appear to have been directly proportional to the total number of measles and MMR vaccines given in any year. In other words, the number of Japanese children who developed autism was directly related to the number who received MMR and single measles vaccines.
Study Shows Link Between Thimerosal Vaccines And Autism
A new epidemiological study suggests that a link exists between vaccines containing Thimerosal and several neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD).“These findings are important because they demonstrate that children in a birth cohort with higher average mercury exposure than other birth cohorts had rates of neurodevelopmental disorders that were on average 2 to 4 times higher than the rates in the birth cohorts with lower exposures,” Heather Young, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and study’s lead author, say in a statement.
Federal Vaccine Law Challenged By Georgia Family
Seven of eight courts to consider challenges to the 1986 act have ruled in favor of the manufacturers. Last year, the Georgia Court of Appeals became the first court in the nation to rule the act did not pre-empt state law allowing such lawsuits, according to the newspaper. The manufacturers are appealing that decision to the state Supreme Court.“Did Congress really intend to create an opt-out provision that allows the child to be thrown out of court?” he asked the justices. “I think not.”
How Scientific are Orthodox Cancer Treatments?
In cancer research, success—expressed as a five-year survival rate—is established by comparing other forms and combinations of treatment with the results from surgery alone. However, the success rate of surgery has rarely been compared with the survival rates of untreated patients and never with patients who adopted natural therapies. Therefore, orthodox cancer treatment is basically unscientific. The overall supposed cure rate is not higher than can be accounted for by spontaneous remissions and the placebo effect.
23rd April 2005 = AIDS CRITICS DAY
A precedent to Rethinking Aids Day
On the 23rd April 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo declared on a press conference in Washington, that he had discovered a Virus (HTLV-III later on renamed as HIV) the probable cause for AIDS. During the 21 years gone by since then, billions of Dollars have been spent on scientific research to find a vaccine or a cure. So far with no adequate result. So wouldn't it be time perhaps to apply the same principles of "controlling" as in any other industry? Isn't the time ripe for some kind of rethinking with regards to the whole "HIV causes AIDS" theory?
India: Mobile phone towers cut down to size
The new rules bar cellphone service providers from installing towers on the roofs of schools and hospitals because children and patients are more susceptible to electromagnetic radiation than others. Towers also cannot be set up in narrow lanes.“The base station antennas should be at least 3 metres away from the nearby building…. Access to (such) sites should be prohibited,” states the guideline, which also calls for warning signs to be put up near the towers.
Scientists say radiation from cellphone towers can cause cancer and genetic defects. Birds are affected, too.
DNA damage 'caused by pesticides'
This new study discovered that the DNA of farmers in Punjab has been altered, making them susceptible to cancer."We found significant change in the DNA, so the cancer risk is greatly increased when the extent of DNA damage is very high," he said.
30 Agrochemical Products Banned in Nigeria After Deaths
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale and supply of 30 different agrochemical products in the country. NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Dora Akunyili, explained in Abuja that the ban became necessary when it was discovered that the pesticides were causing food poisoning that had resulted in the death of many after they consumed food crops preserved with the chemicals.She said: "We got report that many people in Bekwarra LGA of Cross River State suffered from food poisoning due to ingestion of moi-moi and beans. A total of 112 people were hospitalised and the death of two children were recorded.
"The moi-moi and beans from the homes of the victims and from open markets in Taraba and Benue states were collected for laboratory analysis. The laboratory report revealed outrageously high levels of organophostate, carbamates, fenithrothion and chloropyrifos that are highly toxic pesticides.
Corn-Based Ethanol About Corporate Profits, Not Reducing Greenhouse Pollution
In 2005 the Bush administration under pressure from agribiz interests suddenly made their corn-ethanol subsidies a lot more generous, which meant a lot more American corn started going to ethanol - something like a third of the total crop. And that proved the catalyst for first the price of corn to start rocketing and then other price rises, some of them directly assisted by the rush to corn as farmers cultivated less acreages of other crops - for example, soya and wheat.
Venus Project: The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
Commercial interests - the same petrochemical interests that brought us pollution, wars and 4 to 5 dollar-a-gallon gasoline - eliminated hemp from the list of "growable plants". They made and continue to make good profits from this. Perhaps it is time we found out about hemp's history (follow the link) and started to take our heritage back from the petrochemical crowd. With hemp's help we can voluntarily limit or even end our addiction to petrochemicals.
Twilight of the Psychopaths
Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been based on slavery and “warfare.” Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism for mass murder.- - -
More information out there...
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Dr Mercola's health blog and Mike Adams' Natural News have great health information.
The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group is a place where you can discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.
For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emfrefugee group on Yahoo.
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A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://rawstory.com/
http://www.truthout.org/... and remember:
The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday May 25 2008
updated on Wednesday August 15 2012URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/05/25/organic_farmer_stands_up_for_raw_milk_newsgrabs_25_may_2008.htm
