For some weeks now, Ive been following the treatment and custody battle over Sarah Hershberger, the 10-year-old Ohio Amish girl with leukemia. It is a heart-breaking story–her parents brought her to begin a two-year round of conventional treatment at a Ohio hospital and then, when she reacted badly to the treatments, decided to discontinue them. Except the hospital said the parents couldnt make such a decision, and convinced a court to order the conventional treatments to continue, putting her treatment under the auspices of a hospital custodian. To keep control of their daughter, and to obtain more natural treatments, using herbs and vitamins, the parents left the country.
David Augie Augenstein (under the pen name, David Michael) has been providing ongoing coverage of the situation, including interviews with the girls parents and grandfather, via his web site and on Facebook, and his aggressive reporting has led to the story being picked up by national media, including ABC News and the New York Daily News.
Ive wanted to write about this situation, but I havent been sure what to say. Augie has been playing up the contention of Sarah Hershbergers parents that she has recovered via the natural treatments, and seems to be cancer free. That is a big leap, since leukemia, like many cancers, can return. I have seen conventional doctors quoted as saying that the initial hospital treatments were showing progress, and those may be responsible for the apparent remission of the disease.
Part of my concern with focusing on the conventional-versus-natural treatment superiority is that most of us cant say for sure, in advance, what we would do if faced with a situation like that facing the Hershberger family. Would we choose to force our child to endure the brutal conventional treatment, for which there is data showing good long-term survival rates (though little about serious side effects, like sterilization), or natural treatment, for which there is anecdotal evidence of favorable outcomes?
I’ve come to realize that, however the question is answered, the choice should be up to the parents. And that is where this situation, and more like it, have crossed a boundary–in expanding State authority over parenting rights.
It is a big deal when the State intervenes to overrule decisions made by caring and committed parents, as seemingly well intentioned as the State might seem to be. It seems as if such intervention should only be allowed in the most exceptional cases, involving abuse, negligence, and other exacerbating circumstances.
Yet State intervention in serious parental medical decisions seems to be happening more routinely. Augie has also chronicled a case of a Connecticut teenager he says has been imprisoned at Boston Childrens Hospital for nine months because of a disagreement between parents and medical practitioners over treatment.
Fox News in Connecticut did an investigation, and came to pretty much the same conclusion about the application of excessive State power in the situation.
What kind of threw me over the edge on this subject is an article in a current New Yorker magazine, about how an Egyptian woman in California lost custody of her three-year-old son–initially over an instance of neglect on her part– and then spent years in a losing battle to get him back from judge-ordered foster care. What is infuriating are the decisions by social workers, confirmed by judges, that somehow the mom didnt pass parenting tests, try as she did to satisfy State concerns. The State even went to the trouble of entrapping the mother on charges of conspiracy to kidnap her child by getting an undercover officer to offer to help the mother plan for a way to take her child. (Fortunately, a jury saw through the State conniving, and acquitted the mother of serious criminal charges.) Beyond the State’s excesses, it is such a sad story because it runs counter to all norms and tradition about separating a mother (or father) from a young child–once again, in anything except the most extreme circumstances.
There seemed to be no such extremes in the California case. The little boy made clear he wanted to be with his mother, who made a heroic effort to mend her ways, yet she couldnt satisfy the State officials, who seemed to have decided early on they didn’t like the woman. She eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to get her son back–nothing doing. She was reduced to a half-hour goodbye meeting when the boy was six, and then afterward watching for him to walk by at nearby grocery stores and such in hopes of catching a glimpse of her son. According to the New Yorker, this case isn’t unique.
Since when did social workers and judges become the arbiters of proper parenting? When did doctors and nurses become the arbiters of which of several possible medical treatments to provide to ones daughter or son in the event of serious illness? Maybe around the same time they became the arbiters of what we eat, deciding in their infinite wisdom that certain foods that many sensible people deem healthy are too risky, and that certain foods many sensible people deem risky are okay.
Isnt this what the most authoritarian states do, take over the parenting power for parents who somehow fail to meet ever-more-arbitrary State standards of proper social, medical, or political behavior?
“Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly. 1) No gods worth having exist; 2) no life after death exists; 3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists; 4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and 5) human free will is nonexistent.”
William B. Provine, Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, from his 1998 Darwin Day Keynote Address.
Thank you David, your story and coverage is very timely. A close friend of mine just had a child sickened by luekemia and is facing these kinds of questions and dramatic choices.
“Highly unusual” they said. I’d say highly illegal whether they had a court order or not. My God. If gubment departments – whether american, british or whatever – can get away with something like this, there is literally no end to what they can get away with. And they do it legally, mind you.
Un-be-liv-able.
http://www.newsforage.com/2013/12/woman-has-child-taken-from-her-womb-by.html
No wonder no names were mentioned.
Under the Biblical model, a child belongs to his father. Under the communist system, a child is just a production unit of “human resources” … all of which are owned by the state. Proved by the fact that title to that unit was submitted to the appropriate govt. Registry. And since the 1st plank of the Communist Manifesto, is = elimination of all private interest in property … then who do you think you are – little man! – to tell the state what it can do with its property?! Thinking you know how to feed yourself, better than what’s diktated by state-certified “experts”, is the sin of presumption
Mark, appreciate you clear focus. Just one technicality: you are assuming your grandchildren’s parents would agree with you. One thing you sometimes find out when it comes to health issues–I know I have– is that different family members have different opinions and approaches, and in the final analysis, the parents call the shots (as well they should).
Fear of a child’s illness or death drives a parent in ways that can not be imagined or wished on anyone. I nearly lost our beautiful daughter Kaleigh when she was just 9 years old. It still chills my spine to this day.
But it’s a win-win situation for the profiteers in the corporate world! They get money either way.
I hope I’ll have the guts to literally say “Over my dead body” to these creatures, when they come looking to kidnap my kids.
That’s the only possible position in this completely insane and depraved system.
In our outrage, let’s also keep in mind the coercion that health insurance corporations force upon parents and children everywhere, on a daily basis. There too we’re hostages and prisoners, amid a medical system which was built by the creativity and work of no one but the people. Just like with agriculture and food.
As everywhere else, both government and corporations (together, the corporate state) are nothing but predators and parasites.
No wonder the elite/government wants to disarm the populace. I suspect these abusers would think twice about inflicting their abuse on an armed citizenry (because, of course, they’re cowards at heart).
Many patients and their families make adjustments to diet, lifestyle or environmental issues when a cancer diagnosis is given, whether they chose conventional treatment or not. Clinical effectiveness data doesn’t usually track these important aspects of a patients life.
There are really only two causes of disease: 1) lack of a needed nutrient or 2) excess waste materials in the bodily tissues.
The waste materials can build up for a variety of reasons such as inefficient digestion that allows metabolic waste to build up when tissues and organs are not able to function efficiently, an exposure to a toxic substances beyond the body’s ability to cope etc. Andreas Moritz offers a very readable and interesting discussion of terrain vs germ theory of disease and the dynamics of cancer in his book “Cancer is not a disease, it’s a survival mechanism”.http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/true_story_dominik.html
The practice of doctors and their government allies forcing unwanted harmful treatments on a child with a cancer diagnosis is not limited to the US, as is shown y the case of Dominic Feld in Germany.
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/true_story_dominik.html
Some of the conventional medicine institutions tried to discredit Dr. Rath over this case. He has successfully sued them for libel. Yes, Dr. Rath earns income from the sale of nutritional supplements. He also funds a lot of research on the nutritional approach to disease that would otherwise not receive funding, and he has also donated supplements to people who could not afford them.
Ideally, we would all get the nutrition we need from nutrient dense food that is produced cleanly. The continued battles over the right to obtain raw milk and to develop a supply of other nutrient dense foods makes supplementation necessary for many people. Nutritional supplements do have their place.
When a patient dies under a conventional doctor’s treatments or care, the patient is deemed “incurable”. If the patient dies while receiving traditional medicine or other alternative treatments, they are deemed to have been irresponsible or the victim of a “quack”. Some patients are going to die anyway. It is more difficult to reverse a disease that is well advanced than to address the issues in the early stages. This is true in traditional medicine as well. If Sarah Herschberger’s doctors were really interested in her health (versus their own profits), they would allow her parents to use the alternative treatments of their choice and monitor her progress under the alternate care.
Personally, if I or a family member had a terminal disease, we would opt for the best quality of life possible during my final days/years. Chemo and radiation is not going to give us a quality of life. We would be leaving the US for treatment elsewhere.
Breaking up a family to force the treatment on the child is the real child abuse.
I have come to the conclusion that the words “cure” and “expert” need to be stricken from the dictionaries. Neither exists.
“This hearing concerns proposed TOWN regulations that will further regulate RAW Milk in the town of Foxborough, (MA) particularly the sole remaining dairy in Norfolk county, Lawton’s.
“This hearing was postponed to this date due to the overwhelming turnout and support for Lawton’s on the original date, now moved to a significantly larger space it is critical that supporters of
Lawton’s, Raw Milk and local agriculture show up to send a clear message to the Foxboro Board of Health that these proposed regulations are not warranted nor desired by consumers of raw milk.
NOTE NEW LOCATION
Paul Mullins, Chairman
Paul Steeves, Vice-Chairman
Eric S. Arvedon, Clerk
Pauline Clifford, Health Director
MEETING NOTICE
December 16, 2013
Ahern School Auditorium, 111 Mechanic Street
TIME APPOINTMENT SUBJECT
7:00 p.m. William Gottwald Septic Variance
7:15 p.m. BOH Business
7:30 p.m. Proposed Rules and Regulations Relative to the Sale and Distribution
Of Unpasteurized Raw Milk
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David Scanlan
508-409-1534
dsca995@cs.com
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
Deborah, thanks for posting this. It isn’t yet on the Foxborough Board of Health site–can’t imagine they would want to delay dissemination of this info–but I did find it in a local pub:
http://foxborough.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/new-date-and-location-set-for-board-of-health-raw-milk-regulations-hearing
Sauron is not evil because he wears black armor. Sauron is not evil because he is warlike. Sauron is the embodiment of evil because all of his strength and power is deployed to bend every living creature to his will.
We have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, says the professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. Kids belong to whole communities, she insists, and once we realize this well make better investments in government indoctrination of children.
Your children are not yours anymore, our country is dying and morphing into a state reminiscent of what Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Chavez, and others have done in the past. Liberty or slavery is the choice we need to make as individuals and families. Do you like living in fear and being a slave to the collective? We only have ourselves to blame if we do not resist to the fullest the planned destruction of the family unit and our once beloved America.
Concentrated economic power itself is the tyrannical evil, not any particular form of it.
I agree completely with this.
Why does excess waste material buildup around the cells of our body? Because we lack the minerals that buffer the acidity of the waste products. Without those minerals those acid wastes cannot enter the blood. Dumping unbufferd wastes directly into the blood would make the blood acid enough that it could not carry enough oxygen. When waste products build up to a level where our bodies janitors ( viruses and bacteria) cannot function, viruses and bacteria that can tolerate these toxic conditions increase in number and begin to break these toxic wastes down to something that is less toxic that can be excreted somehow. These microbes that tolerate the buildup of toxic wastes in the body and begin the cleaning up process,are really the cure for a health problem not the cause of a problem. When the symptoms of excretion begin our body is eliminating the buildup of toxins.
Through the ingestion of bacteria and viruses in our food we acquire the microbes that can tolerate and clean up toxic waste materials in our bodies. Raw milk has both abundant minerals and microbes.Together they can remedy the buildup of toxic waste. The resulting “illness” is a cleansing crisis due to a toxic buildup somewhere in our body.
Think i’m exaggerating? Look at Scotland, where every child now assigned a social worker at birth who monitors that family and removes the child at will. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10214975/Lawyers-warn-against-Big-Brother-plans-to-give-every-Scottish-child-a-state-guardian.html and http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=25305 . And people with mild disabilities such as Asperger’ Syndrome are already at risk of losing their children in U.K. (see http://janloxley.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html). And you’re at risk if social workers decide you just might yell at your child later on (“likelihood of future emotional harm”)/
Golden words for life!!
By the way….did any of you know that Idaho does not require a warning label on retail approved and store sold raw milk!! I just spent a day with a young couple that produces retail sold raw milk in Idaho and I was amazed that this was the case. They shared with me that their dairy inspector actually supports their operations and wants to see them suceed! What a breath of fresh Idaho air.
One more breaking piece of news!! The California Dairy Campaign Board of Directors just formally endorsed the 2014 California “Family Cow Milk Safety Act”. The bill is being authored and sponsored by Assemblyman Mariko Yamada. That means that 275 conventional dairymen support raw milk sales from the family cow in CA!!
This is a huge win and a political shocker!! It is however, right in-line with the 2013 NFU policy changes that occurred this year in MA that support good standards for the responsible production of raw milk.
This is what progress looks like everyone!!
OPDC sent off 14 milk filters from seven days of milking last week to be tested for pathogens. The results came back today….all negative.
RAWMI RAMP & LISTING works!!! Let me also say that no one rests on our RAMP plan and that we never get a false sense of security from this type of great and very affirming news. But it sure makes you feel great that your plan is working. We are trying our best to use new and innovative approaches to pathogen detection and high quality raw milk production. This is our new angle and it appears to affirm our plan is working from a different angle and theoretical approach.
“A Milk Filter is a Net to Strain the Entire Haystack and Catch a few Needles”. 14 milk filters all negative is pretty amazing. EU studies show a fairly high percentage of raw milk ( for human consumption ) milk filters when tested show pathogens!!
A bad bug in a milk filter does not mean a bad bug is in the finished products….but it does mean that it may be in the flow of the milk. Bad bugs behave and accummulate in milk filters. It is the go-to-place to catch the bad bug….if you got one!
Hint to Foxborough….cancel all of your Draconia regs and just ask for one milk filter per month…DONE!!
Lactic acid bacteria do much of the janitorial work to keep our cells waste products from accumulating. They are inhibited and decrease in number as wastes accumulate because of lack of minerals to do the buffering. One of the roles of the bacteria that you call “pathogens” is to clean up this mess when the LAB are inhibited. Salmonella,Ecoli o157:H7 etc. specialize in doing their work in acid conditions. What they are doing is breaking down toxic substances so that they can be excreted,commonly through the bowel. What looks like a bacterial infection is actually a case of these specialized bacteria stepping up to remedy a very toxic situation in our body. They should be supported in their work rather than attacked with antibacterials. The real problem is NOT these specialized bacteria it is the buildup of toxic wastes in the body.Your attempt to eliminate these microbes is misguided. What we should encourage is to prevent the buildup of toxic wastes by consuming foods high in minerals and containing diversity of microbes. And most importantly avoid toxic additives to food which inhibit the work of our janitor bacteria in the first place.
Missguided as it may be….years from now, you may very well be correct. Science has a hard time with separating reality from actual science. The reality is this, if OPDC products presented to the public with pathogens in them, there would be no access to raw milk for the CA masses that dearly need, want and depend on OPDC raw milk in CA. This can also be said of any raw milk producer in the USA. Bad bugs in your products means immediate shut down and no consumer access. That is our current reality. The actual reality could be much different. We do not know for sure??
Aajonus Vanderplanitz used to say what you are saying all the time. Time and time again he said that pathogens are the janitors and our body needs them to stay healthy. Who knows if this is correct….I think there is a far bigger story buried in all of this. Meta Genomics will probably unravel this soon.
I would argue that raw milk that does not contain pathogens but does contain the lactic acid producting biodiversity of great and awesome desparately needed bacteria, is the bargain we will have to settle for in this raw milk life time. If not….there will be no access to any raw milk adn us raw milk producers will be jailed or worse!! Your proposed position is an unacceptable position for our current reality and the shamefully suppressed current status of the common US immune system.
It does not work.
How do we get “bacterial janitors” in our raw milk with out the “kill you” part?
Why does excess waste material buildup around the cells of our body? Because we lack the minerals that buffer the acidity of the waste products.
This is very true. The nature of the North American highly processed junk food diet coupled with conventional medicines toxic vaccine and drug regimen, nurtures an increase overall body acidity thus pretty much guarantying poor health and susceptibility to disease.
We definitely need more bacteria and neutralizing substances in our life in order to turn things around.
Mark there is no such thing as a bad bug. There is such a thing however as bad habits, bad diets, bad chemicals and bad drugs.
Ken
I would also suggest that the routine testing for pathogens in the milk can be a way to monitor the health and nutrition of the cow that is producing the milk.
From your perspective, if the cow is getting the minerals/nutrition that she needs for her own cellular metabolism to function properly, would one still see in the milk (and/or manure) those microbes generally thought of a pathogens?
Those bacterial janitors are already in all of us. They are waiting for the right conditions to clean up those toxic waste sites. Even though the milk may be “pathogen free” when the body has sufficient minerals available and the toxic wastes are broken down to a form that can be excreted ,the cleansing crisis will take place. You can be sure that for some people who have considerable toxic waste stored in their bodies ,the minerals in the milk may begin the healing crisis.The minerals in raw milk is what brings about the elimination of the toxins. The bacteria that you label “pathogens” don’t have to be in the milk.They are in our bodies waiting for the minerals to be available in order to begin the clean up. The elimination of a great quantity of toxins over a short period of time might be life threatening. This healing crisis needs only to be assisted, not prevented.There are ways to manage or slow the elimination.The cause is the build up of toxins NOT the bacteria. You can jump through all of those hoops and still the milk will be associated with the elimination of toxins.That is it’s value to us.It supplies us with the minerals needed to eliminate toxin buildup.
Those microbes that are labeled “pathogens” are everywhere.In milk and manure,they should be there but dominated completely by the lactic acid bacteria that naturally thrive under normal healthy conditions.It is the suppression of the LAB that makes those toxic waste removers proliferate. In detectable amounts those “pathogens” are an indication of an unhealthy environment.
Most cows are kept in an unhealthy environment. Modern agriculture has been very destructive of the life in the soil and the pressure to maximize milk production of the cow has put great stress on their ability to supply their own mineral needs let alone have much left to put into the milk.
The hospital in Toledo, Ohio, has decided to stop pursuing Sarah Hershberger, the Amish girl with leukemia, described in my post. Good judgment on the hospital’s part.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/06/ap-ohio-amish-girl-wont-be-forced-to-have-chemo/
This article actually says The guardian, an attorney who’s also a registered nurse that was given the power to make medical decisions for Sarah Hershberger has asked to stop pursuing Sarah The hospital in Toledo, Ohio, has decided to stop pursuing Sarah if the court agrees.
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The article also says the beliefs and convictions of the girl’s parents can’t outweigh the rights of the state to protect the child.
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The beliefs, convictions, and special interests of a hospital administrator or state official can’t outweigh the rights of the girl’s parents to protect the child. We don’t have the right to tell our neighbors what or who to believe and what kind of medicine to buy. This action was initiated by a hospital administrator not the state. The state can be given authority but does it have rights? Who decides what’s right? The state is obligated to protect the child. on behave of the parents not on behave of someone with a conflict of interest like a doctor or hospital administrator.
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It says Hospital officials have said they are morally and legally obligated to make sure the girl receives proper care.
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A hospital doesn’t have moral obligations, they are how ever legally obligated to have a parents consent before treatment. They’re certainly not obligated to dictate what that treatment is. A doctor can give his personal opinion but proper care is that care agreed to by the girl’s parents.
You might want to consider the following article, and while reading it keep in mind that all these baits have the antibiotic tetracycline incorporated in them.
http://dr-jordan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Rabies-Waiting-With-Baited-Breath-by-Dr-Jordan.pdf
The USDA recommendation with the unlikely event that an animal consumes the vaccine within the ORV bait block that animal would lose organic status
In a case where a cattle producer in Ohio who reported an increase in abortions of pregnant cows following an ORV baits distribution, it was apparently determined that the increase in cattle abortions was coincidental and not related to V-RG ORV.
I dont know about you Mary, but I dont have a whole lot of confidence in what these so called officials are saying
As well, when reading the next article it is imperative to understand that apples are regularly sold to anyone who wishes to feed deer on their property. The article states,
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is poised to approve a genetically engineered apple, called the Arctic Apple®.
The actual genetic engineering process includes insertion of nptII, neomycin phosphotransferase type II gene from E. coli Tn5. This gene allows the transformed apple tissue to grow on a medium containing the antibiotic kanamycin but confers no benefit to the apple plant.
Every cell of every GE apple tree, including the fruit and the tree roots, will show resistance to kanamycin. Kanamycin is a commonly used antibiotic in human medicine, used to treat a wide variety of infections.
http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/12/crushed-nutsrotten-apples-pasteurized-nuts-gmo-apples-tell-fda-usda/
These antibiotic resistant markers (ARM) are used in most GMO products and represent an insidious threat to human health that parallels the prophylactic use of antibiotics in the livestock industry and medicine. The nurturing of micro virulent organisms is inevitable if we continue down this path.
Ken
Is this what defines a healthy immune system? Is this a mineral or biodiversity balance or bandwidth issue or antibody issue?
In the last 10 years the NIH human genome and human biome studies tell us that our basis for knowing these answers are wrong. Just stating the un-obvious one more time to remind us all that we really do not know if the world is round, flat or some other strange shape!
We must keep our minds open and our food farm direct, unprocessed, simple and our immunity strong.
Many people have potentially fatal anaphylactic responses to many of the antibiotics. If these Arctic Apples are released, the apple will become yet one more food that boosts the sales of EpiPens.
Here are some great guideposts to consider if you want to lead and pioneer in this era of sick dumbed down followers. Something to start your holidays and the new year with.
I can not agree more with each of this considerations!
The big problem is that most people don’t know that their child has cancer until the symptoms get so bad that they take him or him to either a medical doctor or an emergency room. Once you do that, you’ve lost control and the state from that point on is in charge of the child’s medical care. And like the Hershbergers discovered, even if you manage to sneak out of the country to get alternative cancer care in Mexico, you can’t come back. You’ll be arrested, your child will go into foster care and treated with cut and burn.
The key is to make sure your child never gets a medical diagnosis. That’s the only way parents can retain control over their child’s health care.
Paul sums it up well in 1 Corinthians 1-13. King James Bible
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Ken
It is a sad commentary of our times when a childs welfare is subject to court rulings and/or social worker discretion over that of Mom and Dad.
Ken
Deans Foods ( White Wave ) buys organic brand, Earthbound Farm for $600 million. Wow….that is a doozy!! and not associated with organic milk or dairy industry. Looks like they see an end to profits from ripping off dairymen.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/whitewavefoods-acquisition-idUSL3N0JO2PT20131209
Earthbound started out a generation ago = a few hippies with a noble purpose, when the received wisdom of the business world was youre nuts. They succeeded by actualizing the classic advice find a need and fill it. Now, when its undeniable that they guessed right = correctly positioning themselves and also, creating the market for high-quality products which the Marx-ist system was failing to deliver = the money-power steps in, creating $$ out of nothing wrapping its tentacles around someone elses real work.
The corporate monster buys respectability in the form of Earthbounds brand, and so converts that reputation into dividends. Meanwhile, White Wave is in the business of destroying the public health of America, purveying soy milk. Deans and its ilk are dinosaurs with pea-sized brains. They do not create anything ; all the anti-christs can do is steal kill and attempt to destroy vitality.
I hope all you milk-maids, milk-matrons and dairymen & yr cows are nice + warm in the barn, tonight, as the snow comes down … Regardless of the financial games played by over-educated idiots in the high places, keeping the REAL MILK flowing for our nation is what matters
Buffetts investment strategy is wary of tainted advice.
I no longer bother to buy organic. It’s far too expensive to rely on a company for a decent product and then all of a sudden it’s gone and we end up with regular food anyhow. What good is it to buy from – and try to help support – these organic companies (and swallow hard for the fact that we paid quite a bit extra for their product because it WAS organic) only to have them dump us? The dollar sign shoves ethics out the window, I guess.
The Cornucopia web site has a graph showing which organic companies are now owned by large corporate firms. It makes me queasy to look at that chart. It also makes me queasy to think of what actually happens to the organic companies and their employees once they are taken over.
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2013/01/22/dfa-joins-1586m-milk-price-fixing.html?s=image_gallery
Deans foods is the Milk Mafia!! They are also shrewd and smart and know where dead fluid milk sales are going and would love to buy up the next good bet…. Organic vegetables.
To fresh vegetable buyers….organics meant raw, composted, mineral rich soils, earthworms, sunshine, the smell of humic acids, no GMO and not sprayed.
To the dairy industry, organics means ultra dead, homogenized, standardized, longest shelf life of all and non digestible. This was the organic missmatch!!
Organic dairy ruined the word organic for everyone else. Kinda sad.
The fluid milk comeback is from RAW, natural ( maybe organic or not ) and knowing your farmer!!
White Wave genuis market idea….secret irradiation of veges. Thats the kind of crap they do.
Payback time:
Where do you live, Mark?
This is interesting: http://www.purefood.org/rBGH/rbghlist.cfm
This article is just old enough that many of the companies listed are no longer independent – they are part of the corporate monster I mentioned in an earlier post. But it’s still good reading BECAUSE of what’s changed . . .
http://on.aol.com/video/parents-say-hospital-kidnapped-their-daughter-518018598?hp=1&playlist=127158&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing5%7Cdl14%7Csec1_lnk3&pLid=408319
Published on Oct 25, 2011
Dr Abdul Alim Muhammad is the Nation of Islam’s Minister for Health and Human Services and Director of the Abundant Life Health Attainment Center, Washington D.C., USA. Dr Muhammad shares some of his expertise and experiences in relation to the benefits of untreated milk otherwise known as raw milk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEF42ogYek&list=FLBKAVgV3LpTQk4ENfIYVbYQ&feature=mh_lolz