I may have been overly pessimistic in my previous two posts in anticipating the logistics of the forced testing and tagging of Greg Niewendorp’s cattle by the Michigan Department of Agriculture.
Greg told me this evening he feels confident he will receive three days notice from the county sheriff before officials from the MDA actually show up and attempt to do their deed. That means it may be realistic for a large crowd to gather and have the “big cookout” he’s planning for supporters. I’m sure the beef will be wonderful.
Based on the posts on this blog of people wanting to attend, and reports like that from Ron Klein (following my Sunday post) indicating that farmers increasingly understand the importance of showing their displeasure with government enforcement excesses, there could be a good crowd gathered between MDA officials and Greg’s barn.
“It’s one thing to get a warrant from a judge, it’s another thing to serve it,” says Greg.
In the meantime, Greg is in the process of completing a legal appeal to the search warrant. The fact that it is an “administrative inspection warrant” rather than a criminal search warrant apparently puts it into hazy legal territory. Greg says he hasn’t been able to obtain a copy of the warrant from the state court—he has only seen what Sheriff George Lasater showed him last week. He was first advised by a lawyer to seek a copy via a Freedom of Information Act request, but then advised by a court official that courts aren’t subject to FOIA requests. (Only executive agencies are subject, in this view.) He questions whether he’s being given “due process.”
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Now, it’s one thing to put the kibosh on my swimming, as Steve Bemis did in nifty fashion with his mouth-watering description of chlorine chemicals (following my previous post). But to suggest that we may be capable of producing our own E.coli 0157:H7? Miguel does as much in his comment on my Friday post. When I summarize it, it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but Miguel puts it much more elegantly:
“Why is it easy to believe that cattle on the range can be free of e-coli 0157H7 and become infected when changed to a diet that is mostly grain? Where did the e-coli 0157H7 come from?
”When common e-coli reproduce by dividing into two new cells , they can produce variations on the original cell or a different strain of e-coli.. This the strength of these microbes. They can adapt very quickly to a changing environment. The strain 0157:H7 is more successful in the acid environment of a grain-fed cow. Or in a grain-fed person.”
A few readers were left shaking their heads, but look at it this way: The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 76 million Americans contract a food-borne illness each year, with most of the victims and their pathogens never being identified. Might human-produced E.coli 0157:H7 be the missing link? Does a Nobel Prize lurk here?
I wish I had had Miguel as my high school science teacher. My life might have turned out a lot different.
The fact that cancer cells occur anywhere from 6 to 10 times in a person’s lifetime shows us the that when a person’s immune system is weakened, cancer grows and multiplies. It feeds off of sugar, meat, milk, coffee, chocolate, tea (except green tea), caffeine and water that is not purified. For people who have cancer they need to stay away from livestock treated with antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites which are harmful.
Cancer patients need to stay away from pesticides and herbicides as well and only eat organic fruits and vegetables since these chemicals feed cancer cells. The same goes for what we put on our skin- staying away from parabens and chemicals in our makeup and body lotions and soaps/shampoos.
The logical argument is that if we already have cancer inside of our bodies, we want to do everything we can to stop it from spreading when our immune system is weakened. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body and spirit/soul. Cancer cannot live in an oxygenated environment, so people such as Lance Armstrong have been able to lessen their cancer cells through exercise.
So, to get back to what Miguel said- I think he hit the nail on the head by stating that what we ingest can change bacteria inside of us, most definitely! If cancer cells can grow and multiply with what we eat and a lot of it has to do with being more acidic vs. alkaline, then why can’t e-coli change in our bodies when we feed it the wrong foods and let it grow/multiply into a stronger and more deadly strain? I think this is a good argument and Miguel opened my eyes to his insight on e-coli and how it is closely or could be a mirror image of what cancer does in our bodies. Miguel’s a pretty intelligent man, I must say.
Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you can murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Ideas for signs?? Photo-ops??
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
– Gandhi, on the course of movements for social justice.