Conventional food may not be good for your health

If we had philosophers like Plato and Aristotle alive, they would be besides themselves. They would see things in America's countryside one of us, blinded of the reality next door, would consider as science fiction.

Imagine this reality -- evident in California's Central Valley, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, New York and the rest of "rural" America -- immense farms growing one crop, helicopters spraying this territory, and almost all farm animals concentrated in cement enclosures fed corn and soybeans coming out of the farms.

Then extend your vision to see how the government approves terribly toxic poisons to kill every animal potentially threatening corn and soybeans, including honeybees, Monarch butterflies and myriad other invertebrates, birds, and other creatures.

If you are honest about preserving your health, you will want to go below the surface of supermarkets and TV advertisements. You will want to investigate the history of agencies like the US Department of Agriculture, the US Federal Drug Administration and the US EPA: environmental Protection Agency. This investigation will open your eyes, seeing the controlling influence of the chemical / pesticide industries, and agribusiness. You will ask: What happened to our small family farmer? Why do farmers (large agribusiness) spray our food with so many sprays? And how come EPA has been approving these "pesticides" / biocides?

I have been answering these questions for a very long time. But here's another article that touches on these realities affecting our lives and the natural world:

https://www.honeycolony.com/article/epa-contributes-tainting-americas-food/

Comments

Pesticides Are Making Children Aggressive

Spraying fungicides on tobacco in a greenhouse in Jalapa, Nicaragua. Photo: courtesy Peter Essick. Pesticides cause a multitude of adverse effects on humans. However, they are especially harmful to children . They may have something to do with the mass-shootings in schools all over America because some of them are neurotoxins. This means they affect and damage the central nervous system and the brain – of all animals, including humans. Warren Porter , professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Wisconsin, conducted experiments with ground water – water drawn from the ground of farms with typical levels of pesticides and fertilizers. He chose farm water contaminated with the insecticide aldicarb, the herbicide atrazine, and nitrogen fertilizer. He tested that mixture on white mice and deer mice. The concentrations of the fertilizer with each of the pesticides (aldicarb and atrazine) in the ground water were of the order of magnitude the Environmental Protection A...

Searching for Aristotle in Lesbos

Map of Lesbos by Giacomo Franco, 1597. Courtesy Wikipedia. Like most Greek islands, Lesbos has been lost in the obscurity of global wars, politics, and the insignificance of modern Greece. Greece without sovereignty Since 2009, the country’s debt to European and American banks has dragged Greece to the Third World. The lenders demanded Greece abdicates its sovereignty to them. Greek politicians obliged and Greece has become the first European country to submit to the humiliations of being a dependency of Brussels. To the eternal shame of “civilized” Europe, anonymous bureaucrats from the troika – a cabal of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission – have been running the country. Rubble and war refugees in the Middle East Lesbos would have maintained its silence had it not been for the American invasion and destruction of Iraq in 2003. This American war gave birth to Moslem civil wars. The civil wars in ...

Η Ιερά Ελλάς στα Οράματα του Αλέξανδρου του Μέγα και του Ιωάννη Καποδίστρια

Του Εὐάγγελου Βαλλιανᾶτου Ο Αλέξανδρος στον πόλεμο εναντίον των Περσών. Δημόσιος Τομέας Οι προσπάθειες του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου και του πρώτου Προέδρου της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας Ιωάννη Καποδίστρια να χρησιμοποιήσουν τον Ελληνικό πολιτισμό για το καλό της ανθρωπότητας αντικατοπτρίζουν το μεγαλείο της αρχαίας Ελλάδας. Πρόλογος Ο Αλέξανδρος νίκησε την Περσική αυτοκρατορία τόσο σύντομα σε τόση νεανική ηλικία που δικαίως κέρδισε την τιμή του μέγα ήρωα. Ήταν και στρατιωτική και πολιτική ιδιοφυΐα. Η μητέρα του Ολυμπιάδα προσπάθησε να τον πείσει ότι ήταν γιος του Δία . Ο Αλέξανδρος αγαπούσε και εμπιστευόταν τη μητέρα του. Μάλλον διαβεβαίωσε τον εαυτό του ότι ήταν γιος του Δία. Ο ήρωάς του, ο Αχιλλέας, ήταν γιος της θεάς Θέτιδας. Όμως ο νεαρός αγαπούσε τον Αριστοτέλη που τον δίδαξε την Ελληνική ιστορία, πολιτική θεωρία, φιλοσοφία και διεθνείς σχέσεις. Επιπλέον, ο Αριστοτέλης μετέδωσε στον μαθητή του την τεράστια γνώση και σεβασμό που είχε για τον Όμηρο, τον δάσ...

Search This Blog