The Stanford review I cited found no difference in pesticide residue between food labeled organic and conventional food. Pesticides and herbicides are commonly used in organic food--paraquat and pyrethrin, for example. Because they're "organic" (like arsenic, mercury, and cyanide), they don't count when organic food advocates publish reports of chemical contamination. What's more, organic food contains more pathogenic bacteria than conventional food due to the use of "organic" fertilizer. Unlike pesticide residue, which can be easily washed off by rinsing fruits and vegetables, sterilization of infectious disease residue requires chemicals like chlorine bleach. Conventional farming relies on nitrogen-based fertilizers, which are far safer, less expensive, and improve crop yield and nutritional content. They also require less energy for crop production.
Glyphosate is commonly known as Roundup, and it has been shown to cause disease in humans. So have paraquat and pyrethrin. I suggest consumers avoid all foods that have been adulterated with unhealthy substances (organic or not) that cannot be easily removed from the food before eating. Organic labels do not offer a solution to this problem.
This is interesting, when I have some time I'll read the article, do some research, and write up something soon (remind me if I get busy and forget). Thank you.
I was misdiagnosed and over- (and improperly-) medicated by psychiatrists and psychopharmacologists for years. So many lost years (turns out to be severe, but garden variety ADHD).
I was heavily drugged from the early-90s through the ‘10s. That’s a long time.
Still drugged, but now appropriately so (as far as I’m concerned), and that makes all the difference. But there’s a stimulant “shortage” and I suspect they’ll eventually go the way of opiates. Or they’ll be used as a weapon of control (“Do what we say or no meds for you!”).
Even after qualifiying to practise medicine (and now adjacent health services) one must join the local guild for permission to work in (or alongside) an officially recognised instutition. This grants insurance and protection from legal disputes but also places the yoke around the practioner, who now can be threatened with the loss of the livelihood that they have invested so much time and money to attain.
By establishing themselves with governments as the 'one' official body that can represent a class of health professionals, they establish a sanctioned cartel. I have started to refer to this as the white-coat cartel.
Majority of people are influenced by another's wealth and prestige. Doctors are generally granted both, and have the advantage of bulk billing patients. It then often is more expensive per visit for a patient to go to a practioner working outside of the guild, who is then easily judged as lesser (patients also follow their financial incentives). Few take the time to really consider the long-term costs of (possibly endless) ongoing treatment vs correcting the root cause. When they do, propoganda is heavily weighted in favour of the cartel's 'standard of care'.
I'm not sure it ever was valued. As western poverty increases, seeing a practitioner is now too costly and that person is too often working alLopathically and with a saviour complex. The old time healers have died out. I miss them.
I've been a natural medicine fan for 40+ years. The move away from it, like almost all the other societal movements, is disconcerting. I don't know how much sci-fi has to do with it but the other 3 factors are clearly relevant.
I truly think “scientism” is seductive and sophisticated. I sold pills and chemo for 15 years.
Learned the difficult truth reluctantly from developing asthma, allergies.
I seldom watch tv, but at gym while on exercise bike
Get thrown a big pharma commercial like 20 different drugs in my short workout.
I’ve gone 180 degrees on pharma.
Pills are convenient. After all a doc wrote the RX
it is really about taking charge of your own health.
How can a doc in 15 minutes assess your true needs?
Gods immunity is FREE that’s taken way too lightly
And besides it’s not profitable. Here try one of these: you’ll be better looking, attract the opposite sex, or perhaps your soul mate, and your life will
Another interesting one. Remember to always blindly follow what your doctor says.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/795-000-americans-die-permanently-152426756.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201404/prescription-drugs-are-far-more-deadly-street-drugs
What do you make of this article concerning organic foods?
https://markmcdonaldmd.substack.com/p/human-filth-in-organic-food?
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Mark McDonald, M.D.
2 hr ago
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The Stanford review I cited found no difference in pesticide residue between food labeled organic and conventional food. Pesticides and herbicides are commonly used in organic food--paraquat and pyrethrin, for example. Because they're "organic" (like arsenic, mercury, and cyanide), they don't count when organic food advocates publish reports of chemical contamination. What's more, organic food contains more pathogenic bacteria than conventional food due to the use of "organic" fertilizer. Unlike pesticide residue, which can be easily washed off by rinsing fruits and vegetables, sterilization of infectious disease residue requires chemicals like chlorine bleach. Conventional farming relies on nitrogen-based fertilizers, which are far safer, less expensive, and improve crop yield and nutritional content. They also require less energy for crop production.
Glyphosate is commonly known as Roundup, and it has been shown to cause disease in humans. So have paraquat and pyrethrin. I suggest consumers avoid all foods that have been adulterated with unhealthy substances (organic or not) that cannot be easily removed from the food before eating. Organic labels do not offer a solution to this problem.
This is interesting, when I have some time I'll read the article, do some research, and write up something soon (remind me if I get busy and forget). Thank you.
I was misdiagnosed and over- (and improperly-) medicated by psychiatrists and psychopharmacologists for years. So many lost years (turns out to be severe, but garden variety ADHD).
I was heavily drugged from the early-90s through the ‘10s. That’s a long time.
That sucks. What are you doing about it now?
Still drugged, but now appropriately so (as far as I’m concerned), and that makes all the difference. But there’s a stimulant “shortage” and I suspect they’ll eventually go the way of opiates. Or they’ll be used as a weapon of control (“Do what we say or no meds for you!”).
Even after qualifiying to practise medicine (and now adjacent health services) one must join the local guild for permission to work in (or alongside) an officially recognised instutition. This grants insurance and protection from legal disputes but also places the yoke around the practioner, who now can be threatened with the loss of the livelihood that they have invested so much time and money to attain.
By establishing themselves with governments as the 'one' official body that can represent a class of health professionals, they establish a sanctioned cartel. I have started to refer to this as the white-coat cartel.
Majority of people are influenced by another's wealth and prestige. Doctors are generally granted both, and have the advantage of bulk billing patients. It then often is more expensive per visit for a patient to go to a practioner working outside of the guild, who is then easily judged as lesser (patients also follow their financial incentives). Few take the time to really consider the long-term costs of (possibly endless) ongoing treatment vs correcting the root cause. When they do, propoganda is heavily weighted in favour of the cartel's 'standard of care'.
I'm not sure it ever was valued. As western poverty increases, seeing a practitioner is now too costly and that person is too often working alLopathically and with a saviour complex. The old time healers have died out. I miss them.
I've been a natural medicine fan for 40+ years. The move away from it, like almost all the other societal movements, is disconcerting. I don't know how much sci-fi has to do with it but the other 3 factors are clearly relevant.
Sadly, big pharma-gov is openly feeding on the creation of human misery in a manner analogous to the military-industrial complex.
I plan to join your group! Will need my laptop.
I truly think “scientism” is seductive and sophisticated. I sold pills and chemo for 15 years.
Learned the difficult truth reluctantly from developing asthma, allergies.
I seldom watch tv, but at gym while on exercise bike
Get thrown a big pharma commercial like 20 different drugs in my short workout.
I’ve gone 180 degrees on pharma.
Pills are convenient. After all a doc wrote the RX
it is really about taking charge of your own health.
How can a doc in 15 minutes assess your true needs?
Gods immunity is FREE that’s taken way too lightly
And besides it’s not profitable. Here try one of these: you’ll be better looking, attract the opposite sex, or perhaps your soul mate, and your life will
Be superbestawesonesauce. Approved by Mary
Poppins and your fantasy.