The most dreaded train of death in past history took a race of people to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, which was merely a holding pen until people were sent to one of the gas chambers and their bodies evaporated in a crematorium.
We know that all wars are started over language, religion and ethnic background. Or is that just an excuse for power, control and wealth? Most wealth was created by exploiting the poor.
The worst example was . . .
the use of slaves to work the tobacco and cotton fields to make their owners filthy rich.
Many of the universities that educate everyone from farmers to doctors were started by grants and endowments from these slave traders or owners. Some of them are named after these rich philanthropists.
When tobacco was declared by doctors as a major cause of cancer the tobacco industry began to invest their profits in other ventures. The most addictive substance on earth is sugar which also happens to be legal. Sugar looked like an excellent venture for the tobacco industry. A substance more addictive than cocaine that is used in everything from Halloween candies to table salt looked like a good investment.
Today, sugar can be found in most processed foods, pop, and even peanut butter. Obesity, diabetes and cancer are the largest money makers in the modern health care world. The poor are the hardest hit, but no one is immune. There are few natural sugars. Real Maple syrup and pure honey that is 100 per cent made by the bees are the most common. Ask a bee keeper where he likes to let his bees collect? It will be a field where no chemicals are sprayed.
The train of death that we are on today is legal but maybe not too ethical. After Word War II, and the death camps were only a memory never to be forgotten, the chemical companies that supplied the death camps with gas turned to making chemicals and feed additives for agriculture. Companies that supplied deadly chemicals to the allied forces did the same.
Most research done at universities is funded by chemical companies and Big Pharma, with some matching funds supplied by governments. Residue from the most common chemical used on crops in North America can be found in a mother’s breast milk at levels higher than those allowed in drinking water in Europe.
Those companies like to see positive results and sometimes a project is not completed or results are not published. You will notice that research is targeted at finding cures or treatments that are salable and never are they looking for a cause of a disease in people or animals, or pests in agriculture. The money that we gladly donate for research on a variety of terrible diseases is almost totally used for finding cures or treatments and very seldom to find the cause of the problem. Big Pharma alone has an enormous annual lobbying budget.
At the time of World War II, farming and forestry were the two main employers in our county producing healthy food to feed us and lumber exports. Today in the same rural community, health care to help keep us healthier and more comfortable as we die is our main employer.
Please, eat healthy food and know where your food comes from and what it contains. Salt, sugar and fats are the cause of most common diseases in North America today. Our grandparents also ate salt, sugar and lots of fats but they were not the same.
Chris Judd is a farmer in Clarendon on land that has been in his family for generations.
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