I’m always struck, when I travel to far-off places like Europe and Asia, with how good the food tastes and looks, compared to what I’m used to in the U.S. The egg yolks are orange, the butter is yellow, the meat dishes flavorful. In Europe, especially, raw milk is easily available and high quality.
When I made plans last year for a March trip to southern Africa, I didn’t think much about the food. I mean, Africa connotes drought and famine and political upheaval, where farming can’t be very stable, or high quality. My mind was more on the wild animals I expected to observe, along with the relics of apartheid I was curious to view.
Was I mistaken about the food. Now granted, I was eating at upscale restaurants and hotels, but still, most everything I ate was denser, prettier, and tastier than the same food at upscale places in the U.S.
It started at the first place we ate out at—the Butcher Shop and Grill in Johannesburg, a mammoth 600-seat restaurant on the second floor of a busy mall in the middle of town, Prior to actually ordering, each of us–my wife and I and two friends– was guided by a butcher at the meat counter pictured here about our choices. The Butcher Shop has beef from Argentina and Europe, and even the U.S.—either grass fed or grain fed.
Given that I was in South Africa, I wanted local grass-fed beef. The prime rib I selected was the best prime rib I’ve ever had, a large dense and tasty piece of tender beef that was a joy to devour. Everyone else felt the same about their cuts of beef. Indeed, if you look at TripAdvisor, most everyone who has reviewed the place loves the meat.
The good food times continued from there. At a restaurant operated by a French-style winery outside Cape Town, the slices of grass-fed Black Angus beef at a lunch were similarly succulent. A store at the winery offered many cuts of grass-fed beef for sale.
Even in neighboring Zimbabwe, a country that has experienced years of terrible turmoil, including debilitating inflation under a brutal dictator, a locally produced steak served at a group dinner held at a local hotel was on a par with the prime rib in Johannesburg. When I expressed surprise to a local doctor who was present at the dinner, he said, “We may have lots of problems. But our farms are now producing much good food.”
I guess I shouldn’t have been entirely surprised with the emphasis on good food. Most African countries have European roots from colonial days that stretched into the 1950s or so. The trends aren’t necessarily encouraging, though; since returning home last weekend, I read that American-style feed lots are expanding in South Africa. And raw milk seems to be severely limited in availability.
For now, I’m not sure what makes the African beef so superior to grass-fed beef I regularly have at home. Perhaps it’s the dry aging? Or the quality of the soil and resulting grass that cattle feed on? Whatever it is, I sure hope they are able to keep it.
By the way, the wild animals we saw in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa were, if anything, more magnificent than expected. Seeing hippos, elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, baboons, and wild cape buffalo in their natural habitats was truly awe-inspiring. A trip to savor.
Safe travels. Sounds like you are having a great time.
I’m back, after 2 1/2 week trip. The main down side is that it takes 20+ hours each way from the East Coast. Now, trying to get over jet lag.
I guess I should have said sweet dream. Sounds like it is time for rest.
Yes, one usually comes back from a vacation more tired then when they left. At least I do… It feels nice to get home.
I’ve been to Ghana once and my wife nine times. Not so lucky there for beef. Even hamburger tasted off – heavy taste like liver. Since there were no beef cattle visible and few “beef” items on menus, we suspected the source to be the “grasscutters” (groundhogs), but no-one would confirm that, or the actual source. A wonderful country, and very hospitable to westerners, but we ate a lot of chicken!
David,
Glad to hear you enjoying Africa ! You deserve it.
Meanwhile back in the USA, we got real problems.
Yesterday we posted our 9th Case Study of real and normal people that had used raw dairy products ( mostly raw Kefir ) to recover from severe gut problems. Today, all of the Vimeo links were shut down. Vimeo giving us a notice that “ content was inappropriate”.
All content was kind, considerate, backed by Pubmed peer reviewed science. No medical claims are made. Simple Case Studies of video taped people and their stories. No promotion of brands or products. 100% Nutritional Information based on gut biome Genomics.
Our first amendment rights are dying!
This happened. 2 months ago with You Tube.
How is information supposed to get out to people??????
See. Farmers over Pharmacies.com
According to some self appointed internet nazi, talking about nutrition is super radical.
Mark
Mark, have you tried steemit and dtube? It’s a block chain technology so no one can shut it down.
Mark,
The following statement is increasingly making the rounds of the Internet these days, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Voltaire
Amazon, Google, YouTube and the mainstream media are also censoring discussions centering on vaccine and climate change issues that are not considered “appropriate” or “politically correct”. It’s being referred to as electronic book burning in Amazons case… Indeed, it appears that Amazon is applying the Church of Rome’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Index of Forbidden Books)…
That should read “politically incorrect”…
Mark, it could be they are trying to gently (or not so gently) steer you into presenting your messages via ads….that you pay for. I do know that all these social media platforms are reviewing content much more closely, for political/promotional slants, and also to generate more advertising revenues. They are hiring people to manually go through content, and weed out the free content they judge shouldn’t be there. Radical political content is high on their priority lists, but it could be that radical scientific content is up there as well.
Censorship applauded by an academic:
Netflix’s decision to pull root canal documentary a win for science and facts | Opinion
https://www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/root-cause-netflix-remove-dentists-20190401.html
Cecile A. Feldman is dean of Rutgers School of Dental Medicine.
David, I’m curious. Did you have to get a lot of vaccines to go to Africa? I just had friends go who did get several. Not sure I could do that even for that prime rib!
Good question, Sally. I consulted with an infectious diseases physician before I left, as suggested by the tour operator, and he recommended for me hepatitis A/B and typhoid vaccinations, along with a flu shot and taking anti-malaria medication (which involves taking a type of antibiotic for a couple weeks). I went along with it all, even taking a flu shot for the first time in many years. My main rationale is that I want to reduce the risk of getting sick while far away. Flying on planes for 20 hours is a good way to get the flu, and eating in underdeveloped countries is a good way to get exposed to hepatitis A.
As things turned out, no one in the group of 18 people I was traveling with got sick during the trip. I was told by a rep of the tour who was on the trip that participants on a past trip had rebelled against having lunch at a restaurant in Soweto, the huge mostly-black township outside Johannesburg, because of concerns about food and personal safety. I was sorry to hear that; we toured around Soweto and, while it is very poor, it also has its more modern areas. (It’s essentially a city of 3.5 million people.) Our group walked around in a number of places, including touring the small home where Nelson Mandela lived for several years. (He is the equivalent of South Africa’s George Washington, with monuments honoring him in many places.) We had lunch at a restaurant back in Johannesburg rather than in Soweto as a result.
Here is the CDC’s recommendation for Botswana (one of the countries I visited): “The CDC and WHO recommend the following vaccinations for Botswana: hepatitis A, hepatitis B, typhoid, cholera, yellow fever, rabies, meningitis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis), chickenpox, shingles, pneumonia and influenza.”
Egads. Chicken pox, shingles, pneumonia, mumps, measles? Why would you need all those for a visit to another country? I can understand Hep B and cholera. I’ll pass on a trip to Africa if it requires so many potentially harmful vaccinations. The effects will stay with you long after you return home. All contain so many other harmful ingredients–Aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG, squalene, antibiotics, phenol, human DNA from fetal diploid cells, cow serum, pig serum, infected dog and green monkey kidney cells, Polysorbate 80, egg albumen, gelatin, glyphosate. Kind of negates the healthy beef you ate. Just my opinion.
Bob, I’m with you, not sure why you’d need all those other vaccinations that CDC is recommending. The infectious diseases doc I consulted with didn’t mention those other vaccines. Could be because I’ve had chicken pox, mumps, and measles, so don’t have to think about immunity. I don’t know if those diseases are still a concern in southern Africa. If they are a concern and you haven’t had the diseases or been vaccinated, then it’s really a personal decision you have to make. I could have taken the trip without the hepatitis and other vaccines I took. As you suggest, it all boiled down to a personal matter of how badly I wanted to take the trip and how concerned I was about getting sick. And you may well be right, that the vaccinations I took negated the healthy beef. But at this point, I’m comfortable with my decisions.
Have a nice trip! Very good food can even be in Africa. It is very nice 🙂
You were wondering why USA grass fed beef is not as good as in Africa. I bet the genetics of the animals have a lot to do with that.
I think you are probably correct about the importance of the genetics. There are still lots of small cattle operations, and thus less factory production, compared with the U.S., from everything I’ve read, which suggests that more operations focused on quality.
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David,
You have some immune protection given that your gut has biodiversity being fed by raw dairy!!
Well. How things get better when you send an email to the right place. I dug deep into the Vimeo contacts and found their legal complaints area. I sent an email with a CC to our lawyer explaining that Farmers over Pharmacies was a website dedicated to education. No brands were promoted and everything was generic and protected under the First Amendment. Everything is also backed by Pubmed and NIH published studies.
20 hours later, I get an email from Vimeo legal. He aplogized for the blocking of the video content and said it was an error.
All blocks lifted and FOP website was approved with no problems.
Interesting. It appears that robots or automatic filters ban videos based on algorithms.
People matter. I am very happy to see that good nutritional case study information is not being sensored.
All good for now. Mark
Joe,
We worked for a year with Open Farm to create a raw pet food based on Kefir. Open Farm tested the product on dogs and the dogs thrived. This was a vet controlled medical study.
We now know that dogs get sick on pasteurized dairy but do very well on raw. Kind of like people do.
The feds and CA even gave their approval to the label. It was a lot of hard work.
Funny how that works! We have really screwed up our guts and even our pets guts.
Hi Mark,
Can I get a copy of the study on raw milk for dogs?
Wish I had it. This study was done by Open Farm and not shared with us. We were contracted to produce their proprietary frozen Raw Milk Kefir for dogs. We never saw the written results of the study. We supplied the raw Kefir and they did the dog feeding under their control and conditions.
They just shared with us the results verbally saying the dogs loved it.
Draconian ban overturned by judge in Rockland County…
“As of November 30, 2018, there have been more than 92,844 reports of measles vaccine reactions, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths following measles vaccinations made to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), including 457 related deaths, 6,902 hospitalizations, and 1,736 related disabilities. Over 50% of those adverse events occurred in children three years old and under.” NVIC
Meanwhile measles back in the days before a vaccine was introduced…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDb0ZS3vB9g
If children have access to healthy food such as raw milk and are therefore healthy, measles is an innocuous illness that primes and strengthens a child’s immune system for life.
I had both the measles and the mumps when I was a child and as a result I acquired permanent lifelong immunity as apposed to those who were vaccinated that acquire only a quasi short-term immunity at best. My two eldest children who were fully vaccinated both acquired measles, mumps and whooping cough.
As the late Pediatrician Dr. Robert Mendelsohn stated, “After frightening you with the unlikely possibility of measles encephalitis, your doctor can rarely be counted on to tell you of the dangers associated with the vaccine he uses to prevent it. The measles vaccine is associated with encephalopathy and with a series of other complications such as SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), which causes hardening of the brain and is invariably fatal.
‘Other neurologic and sometimes fatal conditions associated with the measles vaccine include ataxia (inability to coordinate muscle movements), mental retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizure disorders, and hemiparesis (paralysis affecting one side of the body). Secondary complications associated with the vaccine may be even more frightening. They include encephalitis, juvenile-onset diabetes, Reye’s syndrome, and multiple sclerosis… I would consider the risks associated with measles vaccination unacceptable even if there were convincing evidence that the vaccine works.”
Ken, when you were a child, did they hold measles and chicken pox parties in Canada trying to get “it over with” if a child became ill with either of these childhood illnesses?
I was born in 1959. In California they did this? I was five when there was a measles outbreak in our neighborhood. Children went to the sick kids home and drank off his/her cup. Despite doing this, I don’t think me my brother or sister got the measles. At least I don’t remember having them. A few years later, we did all have the chicken pox. No big deal back then. It was an expected part of childhood. No big fears about contracting them. More like, OK it is your turn.
From what I hear, measles and chicken pox parties did occur in Canada… that said, I do not know if some of the parties my brother and I went to as children in the early to mid 50s were meant to encourage exposure to measles or chickenpox. If they were… my parents certainly didn’t go out of the way to tell us. Next time I see my mother I’ll have to ask her.
They are here!!!!
Bacteria were the first forms on life on earth and have learned to adapt and resist everything for all time.
We are such fools.
Biodiversity is critical. It builds immunity. If we stand apart from the earth….we lose immunity and worse… if we try and sterile earth she will win in the end.
C. Aurias. The newest emerging threat. Would not be a threat if stopped trying to kill bugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/
any evidence that “bacteria were the first form of life on planet earth?” Like … the kind of facts that we can put to a scientific test? I thought not.
all the surmise-upon-surmise for your presumption of ‘Evolution’ comes from the very same guys whom you fault for putting their faith in the germ theory. Scientists who can produce electron photos of strands of protein forming diribonucleic acid … yet are suddenly at a loss for an answer when asked if that DNA means that a baby in the womb is a human being. So much for the over-educated idiots upon whom you rely for that foolish-ness
Gordon,
Who do you think created Bactera? And DNA ? And everything else? He or she was pretty darn smart.
the Bible tells us the name of the God who created Heaven and Earth, and everything in it. I strongly recommend you read it – from cover to cover. It’s the handbook of government for our race. It has more than a couple of references to a baby in the womb, as a Person know unto God. The way mammals depart from their mothers, in a way which bestows on them the very bacteria our digestive systems need, is part of His grand Design. The notion that all the inter-dependent systems … including bacteria in support roles … are just trillions of “evolutionary flukes” at one moment, is scientifically impossible. .
Gordon
My bible has space for all colors, all peoples and all races. My god is far greater and all encompassing and non racist. Religion has blood on its hands if it condemns others. Anyone that degrades other’s is not a spiritually enlightened human and should reconsider their beliefs and broaden their perspectives.
Let’s just leave it at that.
Mark
Mark,
“Religion” per se is not the problem… it is these religious institutions or churches established by egocentric men who arrogantly believe that they are acting on Gods behalf. It is they who indeed, “have blood on their hands. That being said, anyone that truly believes in Jesus Christ and the church that He established are called to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them; an immensely difficult task to say the least that can only be haphazardly fulfilled by flawed human beings even if they do have faith in Christ. Jesus certainly hit the nail on the head when he stated, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing”. If there is no faith in Christ Jesus then what hope do we have?
Mister McAffee …
suffice to say : God is the original racist. He made them all, for His own purposes. In the Christian Bible, He pronounced that “of all the families of the earth, only Israel, have I chosen to be my servant”. Us – white people – being that servant race in modern times
I’m fine with “leaving it at that”, but any time you fold-in to this forum expression about the main tenet of your religion – “evolution” – I’m going to rebut that nonsense.
Same with your cowardice in refusing to give a straight answer about artificial abortion, meanwhile going on about “science”.
as Bucky Fuller taught me, a half century ago = ‘human beings can learn at any age’. Take in some new and better information : watch the movie “UNplanned”. see if you can muster the courage to admit you’ve been wrong on something as profound to America, as = liquidating the next generation
Gordon,
Your focus on the “white” race as privileged does a disservice to your well-taken arguments on the topics of abortion, evolution and raw milk consumption …
God is not a racist… God established a father son relationship with the Jewish people and likewise with all of mankind, through Jesus Christ. “For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.…” Galatians 3:26. God certainly has a special place in his heart for the Jewish people; it did not however bestow a privileged status upon them… Indeed, to the dismay of the Pharisees who saw themselves and the Jewish people as privileged and who were clearly insulted by and took offence to what Jesus taught.
You correctly stated, “Of all the families of the earth, only Israel, have I chosen to be my servant”. “Servant” meaning helper, supporter and follower of God’s salvation plan… As the disciple Paul pointed out, “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise…”
Avi Snyder, author of following insightful article entitled, “Why Are the Jewish People Called the “Chosen People?” states, “At Sinai, we received more than the Law of Moses; we received a mandate, rooted in God’s desire to see his revelation go out to all the families of the earth”.
https://jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/issues-v17-n10/why-are-the-jewish-people-called-the-chosen-people/
“I guess I shouldn’t have been entirely surprised with the emphasis on good food. Most African countries have European roots from colonial days..”
Cringeworthy statement in an otherwise lovely aeticle.
Char, I kind of cringed as I wrote it–definitely could have been expressed more elegantly. that I was referring to the quality of food I was used to.
a precis of ‘what’s going on?’ is ; as explained by Charles Hugh Smith :
Assange and the Unforgivable sin of of Dis-emboweling Official Naratives,
found at the URL below = “The single most damaging revelation to all the elaborate lies that make up official narratives is the truth …
If the entire contraption wasn’t so vulnerable to exposure and so dependent on lies, why the infinite paranoia? This paranoia extends past the present system of lies into the past, as exposing the lies in decades past calls into question the official narratives of today.
Any doubt is extremely dangerous, as if even a single thread is pulled loose, the entire fabric of ginned-up statistics, false assurances, half-truths and outright lies unravels. Once the Pentagon Papers revealed the facts of the war in Vietnam, support for the official narrative collapsed essentially overnight.
In the immortal words of Jean-Claude Juncker, when it becomes serious you have to lie, and it’s now serious all the time.
The entire global status quo is on the cusp of the S-Curve decline phase. Hence the vulnerability to disruption of its official narratives and the panicky paranoia of its handlers.”
https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/assange-and-the-unforgivable-sin-of-disemboweling-official-narratives.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=261946cdc1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-261946cdc1-387808525
I urge everyone to support this Children’s Health Defence legal challenge against New York City’s April 9, 2019 forced vaccination order. If the government gets away with this act of tyranny it will be just a matter of time before raw milk is equally singled out as a public health threat and its sales and consumption banned altogether.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/chd-launches-immediate-legal-challenge-against-new-york-citys-public-health-emergency-due-to-measles/
Wake up and LIVE!!
If anyone has been watching the news? The leading story recently has been the superbugs that are killing people. These superbugs are drug resistant and only effect the immune compromised!! 85% of your immunity comes from the activity of the biodiverse bacteria that live in your gut. No good bacteria in your Gut…NO immune strength.
To build immunity, it is simple. You must feed into the gut the good whole foods that support the growth of bacteria. Bacteria starve if not fed well.
What kind of whole food does this best???
Raw whole milk.
It is the “first food of life” ( breast milk is raw milk ), and its role is to build immunity where an immune system did not exist before.
Raw milk can do this for all ages.
So when the news is breaking that more people got sick…do not be in those numbers. Act today and build your immune system and be strong!! There is no cure for these superbugs, they have grown resistant to treatment with drugs. The only pathway for treatment is prevention and that means thinking and eating ahead!! Build your immune system and stay well. No regrets! Drink-up! It must be raw for this to work well. Pasteurized milk does not contain the living bacteria or the food for the bacteria or other elements that are needed to build that immune system.
Mark, As a follow-up to your comment you should find this article written by Joel Salatin very interesting…
He states, “The smoking gun has not been definitively found, but most researchers think the sudden appearance and pervasiveness of this deadly superbug stems from agricultural fungicides and overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture. Interestingly, the article never encourages anyone to eat only food grown without any of these things. In fact, it never mentions food.”
“That so much attention could be devoted to this superbug without a major alert to quit patronizing agriculture that uses these deadly methods indicates a profound abdication of reasoned safety.”
https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog/4/12/2019/killing-ourselves#comments-5cb07b26ee6eb05e9cdb79e2=
Are you aware… The following is a presentation on vaccine-injured or killed children to Toronto’s Board of Health on vaccines. As the speaker correctly points out, “You will not silence these parents through shaming, censorship, mandates and manipulation”. (Click on the video below to hear his powerful words.)
http://vaccinesafety.ca/2019/04/09/toronto-board-of-health-april-8-2019-are-you-aware-vaccines/?fbclid=IwAR2RtR_9dgyvFZjucw4OsDBiYItAiYFKo00nvniP5nLYL3O0IC_rBMN5wBA
With all this, many questions arise. For example, we can say that the lack of food remains a big problem for Africa. I hope that the presence of meat is one of the highlights … so I hope that work on this problem will resume in the future.
I am just sick of it.
Ground beef has another recall and 109 are sickened, and the CDC lists raw milk as a terrible food. What ?????????
The CDC has stink on their hands. Bias to the heavens. Have they no grace. Have they no focus. Raw milk is beaten like a whipping boy, cause they can not beat their precious pasteurized dairy products that have killed more than 84 in the last 35 years. Oh… to be the whipping boy!! ( in the royal sense of the meaning )
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/e-coli-outbreak-ground-beef-suspected-source-but-no-common-link-between-meat-found/
Mark, In the Words of Robert F Kennedy Jr. “The CDC is a cesspool of corruption”…
The “Centre for Disease Causation and Perpetration” in conjunction with the Pharmaceutical industry uses its extensive media partnerships and captivated bureaucrats to effectively censor the scientific debate about vaccines. Indeed, and if they owned the patent on pasteurized milk as they do in the case of many if not most vaccines you can bet your bottom dollar that they would censor the debate about Raw Milk as well. Who knows, maybe they do have a vested interest in the pasteurized milk industry and if opposition continues to grow against the harm caused by pasteurized milk as it has against the harm caused by vaccines they may very well attempt to muzzle the raw milk movement…
Ken, maybe you, or others on this blog, can answer a question for me, and I mean this sincerely. You mention Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was supposed to lead a commission on vaccination under our new president. Yet nothing seems to have happened. Indeed, the hysteria over measles has just increased, and NYC has threatened tough action against those who don’t vaccinate. Not a peep that I’ve seen from the prez, the commission, or anyplace else official questioning the assault against those who don’t vaccinate. I raised this Q on a Facebook posting from someone who used to be active on this blog, and my question was deleted and I was accused by the poster of “trolling.” Can anyone explain what’s going on, or not going on?
I did find one article from a couple weeks ago where RFK Jr. is quoted as complaining that Trump & Co. shut him out after initially encouraging him: ““I was very optimistic about it,” he said, adding that he initially was given “high level meetings” with “agencies” and presented a powerpoint detailing his group’s belief that vaccines were harmful to children.
“We left convinced the White House was going to follow up and then the White House went dark,” Kennedy said.Kennedy put blame for his ostracism on the administration’s hiring of “pharmaceutical lobbyists who are very pro-vaccines” to run the Centers for Disease Control and other healthcare-related agencies. “Policy, the president likes to say, policy is personnel, well, he put in those positions, personnel that represent the policies that he wants which is very, very pro-pharma agenda,” he said. “I’m sorry to report.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-kennedy-jr-the-trump-white-house-has-shut-me-out-on-vaccines
Is this the real story?
“Can anyone explain what’s going on, or not going on?”
I think the consensus is that the Pharmaceutical industry basically owns Washington…
I am certainly disappointed that the Vaccine Safety Commission, which was supposed to be headed by Robert F Kennedy Jr. did not materialize… that said it doesn’t surprise me that it petered of into obscurity… I suspect that Trump was read the riot act by Pharmaceutical industry lobbyists.
Take for example the following New York Times article that states with respect to Trumps plan to lower Drug prices, and this equally applies to whatever plan Trump had to establishing a Vaccine Safety Commission… “Not if the pharmaceutical companies can stop it”… and they certainly have no qualms about going out of their way and spending very large amounts of money to do so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/us/politics/trump-drug-prices-lobbying.html
Over the past couple of months, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has been calling on companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to address anti-vaccine claims on their platforms. It appears that those companies have taken heed to his requests… a clear and dangerous assault on free speech.
The following is what Robert F Kennedy Jr. had to say about censorship on his facebook page, “He who stifles free discussion secretly doubts what he professes to believe in is really true.” — Wendel Phillips. GoFundMe today shut down Dr. Christopher Exley’s crowd funding campaign to study aluminum in vaccines. Dr. Exley, the world’s leading authority on aluminum toxicity angered the Pharma Cartel when his autopsies discovered astronomically high aluminum concentrations in the brains of children with autism. His other studies link aluminum in Merck’s Gardasil and other vaccines to dementia, Alzheimer’s and autism. Exley joins a long list of scientists silenced for questioning the Vaccine Orthodoxy. While White House Republicans censor climate science at the EPA, congressional Democrats clamor for censorship of vaccine science. It’s strange, to me, that these politicians don’t understand that censorship is incompatible with democracy. Given purchase, censorship will spread virally until it infects and kills democracy. SCOTUS Justice Potter Stewart called censorship “the hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” Heinrich Heine’s observed, “Where they have burned books, they will, in the end, burn human beings.”
David,
This statement by Robert F Kennedy Jr. at a rally in Sacramento California on April 10 2019 provides a clear answers your question…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmrEuvpXF94&feature=youtu.be
In regards to the rally… It wasn’t good enough in 2016 for Democrat Senator Richard Pan to remove religious and philosophical exemptions via SB 277. Now he is attempting to amend SB 277 via the introduction of a new law, SB 276 imposing oversight over doctors whom he claims provide “fraudulent and phony exemptions” for children from vaccinations to attend school. The guy (Pan) is a dictator and he won’t be happy until he has absolute control over children, their parents, and their doctors… on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies.
Persons that do not vaccinate themselves or their children , put other children at risk when they get an illness such as measles, and then pass it on to innocent young babies that have not been vaccinated. I would not like to have caused a child to get ill or possibly die as a result of my ignorance. Vaccines have been proven safe in spite of the charlatans and hucksters that prey on uninformed and misguided persons. These hucksters use their phony information to sell their books and merchandise to gullible and uninformed general public . I do not understand why on this blog we are so against the medical profession that has saved millions and millions have and prevented many illnesses over the last 120 years in this country we have the finest Medical institutions in the entire world to say otherwise just shows complete stupidity on the part of some individuals .Yes medical care and pharmaceutical products are expensive but without them where would we be .BY the way raw milk at $20-25 a gallon is also expensive for any small benefit thatmight be obtained over pastuerizd milk .The same goes for organic products do you think the benefit of say chicken legs at $5.95 is that much better or healthier than the one for $.99 all you are paying the extra $$$$ is the hype.In closing if you need information about illegal drugs you should contact Robert F.Kennedy Jr ,but I would not put any trust in anything else he claims to have knowledge of ,he gets attention only because of who he is .
If hamburger meat is cooked to 160 degrees internally and checked with a meat thermometer, the E.coli will be killed. I wonder if there is one chain of fast food that does not have their grills set to the correct temperature?
Mary,
The temp is 165. Not 160 F. For hamburger.
David. To answer your question here it is.
Trump loved Julius Assange, raved about Wiki leaks. 140 times on the campaign trail he thought Wikileaks was the greatest thing. Our intelligence agencies now know that the Russians used Wikileaks to release stolen emails and etc. and this was Trumps biggest tool to win the election.
When asked about Wiki Leaks now…..he denies any knowledge of them. Says he does not know them. Knows nothing of them.
Biggest liar to ever breathe air on earth.
Does that answer your question ? It sure does it for me.
Mark, It would be helpful if you would reference some of the outlandish statements that you make…
The American People and the world owe a huge debt of gratitude to Julian Assange and… Edward Snowden as well for exposing at great sacrifice to themselves and their families, the lies, corruption, and covert activity exhibited by your government.
Julian Assange stated, “Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice”. Does this sound like a man that lacks credibility???
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/367059-every-time-we-witness-an-injustice-and-do-not-act
There are no doubt, tremendous institutional forces at work that have a vested interest in attempting to undermine Assange’s credibility. Crucify him, they may very well do, in the end however, what they say or do is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, the man upstairs will have the last say…
At first I thought as you do, Ken, that we owed a debt of gratitude to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. But I think it remains to be determined if both are, in fact, part of Russian intelligence. Assange seems to have worked closely with the Russians to distribute the hacked emails of the Dems; no one seems to have thought about fair play, and to similarly hack the Republicans. And the fact that Snowden, when all was said and done after his release of NSA documents, wound up settling in Russia. Well, strange coincidence. As I said, remains to be determined. He’s apparently going to claim at his trial that he is simply a journalist, just another member of the hated media, and entitled to First Amendment protections. We’ll see what a jury decides.
https://www.cdc.gov/features/befoodsafe/index.html
160 degrees hamburger meat
165 degrees poultry
Pathogenic pathogens are killed when cooked to the correct temperature.
Mary and Mark
As if 5 degrees is going to make a difference to an e coli or salmonella microbe in beef versus poultry!
While you two bicker over what temperature to cook meat to, I will continue to engage as I always have, every opportunity that comes my way, to eat raw meat and fish dishes. A couple of months ago when at a restaurant in Ottawa I ordered steak tartar with a raw quail egg on top… it was delicious! Bon Appétit…
Ken, I respect your lifestyle and choices. If you believe it is worth the risk eating “high risk foods” for pathogen contamination, that is your choice. However, there are many people who may want information on food safety.
Much was learned from the Jack in the Box 1993 E.coli 0157:H7. At that time E.coli/HUS began showing up in the 1980’s. I would have to do a Google search, but I believe the “hamburger illness” first showed up in Canada. Anyway, in the U.S. cooking temps for hamburger was changed from 140 to 155 degrees. Unfortunately Jack in the Box ignored the new mandated temperature change and as a result over 700 became ill and 4 children who died (one had a secondary infection and did not eat a hamburger). So that 15 degree difference was the difference between life and death for these children. Along the way over the years, the CDC changed the cooking temp to 160 degrees for hamburgers.
This was recently published. Raw milk consumption and thermometer use in one article. LOL
https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=91109
Ken,
I respect the first amendment and defend it 100%. I understand the wiki leaks release of data as being protected speech.
What I was referring to was Trump.
He spoke with great reverence and gave the highest accolades to Wikileaks during his campaign. 140 times he praised Wikileaks.
When he was asked about the recent arrest of Assange, Trump said he did not know Assange or Wikileaks.
That was my point. It was about Trumps incessant lying!! And total lack of integrity. Assange was a tool used by Trump during his campaign to spread information discovered in stolen emails.
That’s an established fact.
What blows my mind is how people can support Trump when he lies, every day many times each day. It is part of him.
How can anyone support an in immoral and unethical person? Especially the religious. I just don’t get it.
When he dies he is going into moral “time out” before he goes to hell. They will have to create a very special place for him. He breaks all the molds.