Swine Flu Vaccine on 60 Minutes

60 MINUTES, Sunday Nov 4, 1979.

Mike Wallace

Documentary on the swine flu epidemics of 1976 in the U.S. It went on air only once and was never shown again... until now.

This is a must see video before accepting any vaccine, especially a swine flu shot.

Need the transcript for the 60 Minutes Swine Flu story?

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/swine.html

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Thank you.

Food Inc Review

I went to see the movie Food Inc over the weekend at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, MI.

Two thumbs up! I think they did a great job at covering a lot of ground in 94 minutes. It is definitely worth watching if you have any interest in food/nutrition.

I was glad to see people coming into the theater holding giant cups of soda pop and big buckets of popcorn. You hate to always be preaching to the choir - so hopefully this movie will attract lots of "normal" people (not just the granola crowd).

I am glad it didn't focus on health, or animal rights, or becoming a vegetarian, nor did it belabor any point too long. The message was primarily aimed at informing the public that the food supply (from seed to shelf) is almost entirely owned by four or five mega corporations, and there are a multitude of implications from that.

Some of the areas the movie covered:

• Crop subsidies (for more great info, check out King Korn)
• Genetically Modified Organisms (farmer's can't save seeds to plant next year)
• Industrial farms and mega agribusiness
  
• Local farms
• Food safety
• Health
  
• Human rights
• Revolving door in the government agencies - from agribusiness
• Illegal workers
  
• Monsanto and the power they wield

Being a member of the Weston A Price Foundation, I was pretty familiar with all of the information covered in the movie. Although, there were a few things that jumped out at me. One of which is that they something that looked like a mini version of the NASA control center. Basically, this mega company had a control center that had real-time live video feeds from about 6 food processing factories around the country. It was kind of "neat" to see how these places operate.

Another eye opener was a meat processing plant that developed a system where they run all the meat through an ammonia bath and then grind it up press it into a rectangle that is about 2 feet by 3 feet, and right into a box. This hamburger meat looked awful (and I am sure it tasted awful too). But, their claim to fame is that there won't be any harmful e coli in the meat. (just other toxins and anti-nutrients)

It was pointed out, that a grain fed cow that is harboring harmful e coli, can effectively rid itself of e coli within a week of eating grass. Hmmmm... Maybe instead of doing all of this chemical processing, they should just let cows eat grass. What a concept!

Another thing that surprised me was the food libel laws. I guess I forgot about the public outcry that was caused by Oprah (beef) in 1996 and the Alar (apples) scare back in 1991. Food libel laws really put a crimp on anybody talking about the awful state of our food.

The final message of the movie was that we can "vote" three times per day by choosing what we eat. They encouraged viewers to buy organic and to buy local. The example of this working was the fact that Walmart started carrying organics, because that is what people were buying. The only downside of "voting" at the supermarket, is that the mega food giants have the government in their back pocket and they don't want foods labelled correctly. They hide the fact that foods are made with genetically modified organisms or that meat is made from cloned animals, etc, etc. So, the only way to truly vote, is by buying direct from farmers.

One last thing, during a part of the movie where they showed this family that eat 3 meals a day of fast food partly because they needed to save money for their medications, a lady sitting behind me asks her husband "Why doesn't Obama focus on the food industry instead of health care?".

Here are two Food, Inc. videos:

Filmmaker Robert Kenner and Michael Pollan explain their new film, "Food, Inc." to John Dickerson.

Food Inc - Official Trailer: An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.


Enjoy!

Immediate Moratorium on Genetically Modified Foods

Press Advisory May 19, 2009

Contact Information:
Dr. Amy L. Dean, D.O.
Public Relations Chair Member,
Board of Directors American Academy of Environmental Medicine
734-213-4901
environmentalmed@yahoo.com

The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine Calls For Immediate Moratorium On Genetically Modified Foods

Wichita, KS - The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today released its position paper on Genetically Modified foods stating that "GM foods pose a serious health risk" and calling for a moratorium on GM foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes "there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects" and that "GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health."

The AAEM calls for:

• A moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labeling of GM food.
• Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GM foods.
• Physicians to consider the role of GM foods in their patients' disease processes.
• More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GM foods on human health.

"Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public's health," said Dr. Amy Dean, PR chair and Board Member of AAEM. "Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions," said Dr. Jennifer Armstrong, President of AAEM. "The most common foods in North America which are consumed that are GMO are corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil." The AAEM's position paper on Genetically Modified foods can be found at http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html

AAEM is an international association of physicians and other professionals dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health. More information is available at http://www.aaemonline.org

Genetically Modified Food and Pregnant Women

Pregnant Women and Babies at Great Risk

Spilling the Beans, May 20, 2009

http://www.seedsofdeception.com/GMFree/AbouttheInstitute/NewsletterSignup/index.cfm

Among the population, biologist David Schubert of the Salk Institute warns that “children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems” related to Genetically Modified (GM) foods. He says without adequate studies, the children become “the experimental animals.”

The experience of actual GM-fed experimental animals is scary. When GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died within three weeks—compared to a 10% death rate among the control group fed natural soy. The GM-fed babies were also smaller, and later had problems getting pregnant.

When male rats were fed GM soy, their testicles changed color—from the normal pink to dark blue. Mice fed GM soy had altered young sperm. Even the embryos of GM fed parent mice had significant changes in their DNA. Mice fed GM corn in an Austrian government study had fewer babies, which were also smaller than normal.

Reproductive problems also plague livestock. Investigations in the state of Haryana, India revealed that most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, infertility, and prolapsed uteruses. Many calves died. In the US, about two dozen farmers reported thousands of pigs became sterile after consuming certain GM corn varieties. Some had false pregnancies; others gave birth to bags of water. Cows and bulls also became infertile when fed the same corn.

In the US population, the incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.

My Comment:

Almost all processed foods contain genetically modified foods. It is imperative that people demand foods to be labeled, so we can make intelligent choices.

More info here:

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/

Insurance Now Covers Autism Therapies

Blues plan to cover autism therapies for children 2-5
Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20090512/METRO/905120330/Blues-plan-to-cover-autism-therapies-for-children-2-5

Detroit -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Monday it plans to offer coverage beginning July 1 for autism therapies that provide intensive early intervention.

The new benefit option covers children 2 to 5 years old who use a treatment called applied behavioral analysis.

The benefit coverage, which consists of up to 60 treatment sessions, can be used once per child, and will be available for purchase by groups -- such as employers -- that already have outpatient mental health coverage.

My Comment:
Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) can be a key to making dietary changes work. So many parents say "The only thing he will eat is _________" or, "I could never could get him to eat _______".

Here's an article about using ABA to introduce new foods into an autistic child's diet...

"Working with Jeff’s behavioral therapy team (using Applied Behavioral Analysis) principles and occupational therapists together we developed a plan to get Jeff to eat new, natural foods in their natural form. This entire process took six months, but the efforts have paid off."
http://gfcf-diet.talkaboutcuringautism.org/picky-kids-eating-autism.htm