Andreas Moritz
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 Cattle are now fed corn, which they are unable to digest, but it makes them fat very quickly. cattle feed also contains chicken feces. The millions of pounds of chicken litter (feces, feathers and all) scraped off the floors of chicken houses are recycled as cattle feed. The cattle industry considers this "good protein." The other ingredients of cattle feed consist of ground-up parts of animals, such as deceased chickens, pigs and horses. According to the industry, giving the cattle natural, healthy feeds would be far too costly and so unnecessary. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In a scenario reminiscent of cattle round-ups, the state’s attorney has issued summons to more than 1600 parents of children who have not provided certificates of immunization for their children. But instead of toting a cattle prod, this state’s attorney chooses to wield a syringe to keep the “herd” in line.
Read the rest of the press release at: http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nr-11-16-07. |
| Yet, amazingly, most parents just lined up like cattle ready to be branded, not bothering to question the sanity or legality of the very system in which they were now agreeing to participate.
A health freedom blog called Center for the Common Interest (www.CommonInterest.info) also covered the event, and it reports that a local activist named Donovan Hubbard videotaped the event and plans to make the video available online. (NewsTarget would like to contact Donovan and / or publicize his video. If you know of a way we can contact him, please call us at (520) 232-9300 to let us know... |
| But instead of toting a cattle prod, this state’s attorney chooses to wield a syringe to keep the “herd” in line.
Read the rest of the press release at: http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nr-11-16-07.php
Gunpoint Medicine: Why drug pushers must now rely on Gestapo tactics
Conventional (pharmaceutical) medicine is the only system of medicine in the world that is so unpopular with informed consumers that it must be administered at the barrel of a gun. There is no other system of medicine anywhere in the world that resorts to such tactics to recruit patients.
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Melody Petersen
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 South Asian farmers had begun to give their cattle a drug called diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory pain reliever that is prescribed to Americans suffering from arthritis. The farmers used the drug in their cattle because it was cheap and they believed it would ward off lameness and fever. The farmers depend on vultures to eat the carcasses of cattle that die. But when the vultures ate the dead animals, they also ingested the drug, which proved to be an acute poison in their bodies that caused their kidneys to fail. Many of the birds died within days of eating the drug-tainted beef. |
Jack Challem
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 Meat from wild game, the mainstay of most Paleolithic peoples and hunter-gatherer societies, is considerably leaner than meat from modern domesticated cattle. For example, grass-fed cattle (whose diet would be similar to that of wild game) have six to eight times less fat than do grain-fed cattle. In addition, beef from grass-fed cattle has two to six times more omega-3 fatty acids, compared with meat from grain-fed cattle. A similar pattern occurs in other types of livestock. Grass-fed bison have seven times more omega-3 fatty acids than do grain-fed bison. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Although in 1997 the FDA established some controls, there are significant loopholes such as farmers being allowed to feed cow's blood to cattle, even though research shows the blood can transmit the prions of Mad Cow Disease, and factory farms are still allowed to feed pigs and poultry the remains of slaughtered cattle and the remains of these slaughtered, cattle-fed animals can be fed back to cattle. The Center for Disease Control refuses to make CJD a reportable disease. At least one U.S. company that wants to test all its cows has not been allowed to by the U.S. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Farms that specialize in grass-fed cattle are also better for the environment. cattle allowed to graze on large areas of land are easier on the land and pollute less than do factory farm animals.
Where chicken (and other poultry) is concerned, you'll not only want to look for the meat (and eggs) of grass-fed versus grain-fed animals, you'll also want to be certain that the animals are "free range," meaning that they roam freely in the outside environment, rather than being cooped up in factory farms where they are overcrowded and often subject to inhumane conditions. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The problem is, when cattle handlers fatten their cattle for slaughter, they send them to the feedlot and give them unlimited corn and grain, which marbles their meat and liver with saturated fats and increases their body mass, just as it does in humans. Conversely, a vegetarian cow is a lean cow whose meat is higher in omega-3 fats, monounsaturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats. These fats improve your kidneys' ability to excrete acid, lower your blood pressure, lower your triglycerides, and raise your good cholesterol. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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 In theory, free-range and free-roam cattle should offer a better alternative to meat raised in feedlots. cattle are ruminants, which means their digestive systems are primed for grass, not grain, but it's faster and easier to fatten them up on corn. A corn diet is rich in omega-6 fatty acids (which we get too much of), and so the meat of corn-fed cattle becomes high in this fatty acid, too. Corn-fed cattle will also tend to have higher residues of hormones and antibiotics.
Antibiotics are often used as growth promoters in farm animals. |
Melody Petersen
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| The farmers used the drug in their cattle because it was cheap and they believed it would ward off lameness and fever. The farmers depend on vultures to eat the carcasses of cattle that die. But when the vultures ate the dead animals, they also ingested the drug, which proved to be an acute poison in their bodies that caused their kidneys to fail. Many of the birds died within days of eating the drug-tainted beef.
The case of the dying vultures showed just how quickly a single drug could devastate a species and upset the ecological balance. |
Hyla Cass
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 Factory-farmed cattle eat grain, which causes the fats in their meat and milk to accumulate more inflammatory omega-6 fats. In the days when milk and meat came from pasture-raised cattle, that milk and meat were full of those wonderful omega-3s, which are made into anti-inflammatory chemicals in the body. Omega-3 oils are found most plentifully in fish, flaxseeds, and walnuts; vegetables and algae also contain some omega-3s.
Think of omega-6 fats, sugars, and refined grains as slow-burning fires and omega-3 fats as cool, fresh, quenching water. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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— Gale Lush, Nebraska
"A n< eighbor had been rowing Pioneer Bt corn. When the cattle were turned out onto the stalks they just wouldn't eat them. "in
— Gary Smith, Montana
1. When given a choice, several animals avoid eating GM food.
2. In farmer-run tests, cows and pigs repeatedly passed up GM corn.
3. Animals that avoided GM food include cows, pigs, geese, squirrels, elk, deer, raccoons, mice, and rats. |
Jack Challem
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| For example, grass-fed cattle (whose diet would be similar to that of wild game) have six to eight times less fat than do grain-fed cattle. In addition, beef from grass-fed cattle has two to six times more omega-3 fatty acids, compared with meat from grain-fed cattle. A similar pattern occurs in other types of livestock. Grass-fed bison have seven times more omega-3 fatty acids than do grain-fed bison. The grasses and leaves eaten by animals contain substantial amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, which are eventually deposited in the animals' muscle and fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Harvesting and growing spirulina, for example, takes 1/100th of the acreage required by cattle for the same amount of digestible protein. And raising soybeans only takes 1/10th the acreage of raising cattle. Spirulina, by the way, has twelve times the digestible protein of beef, ounce for ounce. Raising cattle is one of the least efficient ways to feed the world. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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| In theory, free-range and free-roam cattle should offer a better alternative to meat raised in feedlots. cattle are ruminants, which means their digestive systems are primed for grass, not grain, but it's faster and easier to fatten them up on corn. A corn diet is rich in omega-6 fatty acids (which we get too much of), and so the meat of corn-fed cattle becomes high in this fatty acid, too. Corn-fed cattle will also tend to have higher residues of hormones and antibiotics.
Antibiotics are often used as growth promoters in farm animals. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| No safety studies had been conducted on the proteins, none were planned, and the cotton plants, which were part of field trials near his home, were being fed to cattle. Azevedo "was afraid at that time that some of these proteins may be toxic." Azevedo asked the PhD in charge of the test plot to destroy the cotton rather than feed it to cattle. He argued that until the protein had been evaluated, the cows' milk or meat could be harmful. The scientist refused.
He approached everyone on his team at Monsanto to raise concenrs about the unknown protein, but no one was interested. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Factory-farmed cattle eat grain, which causes the fats in their meat and milk to accumulate more inflammatory omega-6 fats. In the days when milk and meat came from pasture-raised cattle, that milk and meat were full of those wonderful omega-3s, which are made into anti-inflammatory chemicals in the body. Omega-3 oils are found most plentifully in fish, flaxseeds, and walnuts; vegetables and algae also contain some omega-3s.
Think of omega-6 fats, sugars, and refined grains as slow-burning fires and omega-3 fats as cool, fresh, quenching water. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| The problem is, when cattle handlers fatten their cattle for slaughter, they send them to the feedlot and give them unlimited corn and grain, which marbles their meat and liver with saturated fats and increases their body mass, just as it does in humans. Conversely, a vegetarian cow is a lean cow whose meat is higher in omega-3 fats, monounsaturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats. These fats improve your kidneys' ability to excrete acid, lower your blood pressure, lower your triglycerides, and raise your good cholesterol. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| U.S. cattle going to slaughter are tested. In 2003, only 0.001 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the U.S. were tested for Mad Cow Disease. Throughout the U.S. there are also significant reports of "mad" elk, deer, and fish. Friends of the Earth suggests there may be at least 120,000 cases of CJD unreported in the U.S.
Cow's milk can serve as a vector for other disease. A study in Denmark found that there was a correlation between an increased incidence of leukemia in cows and of the children who drank their milk. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 The cattle operation never made a profit, but government write-offs sheltered huge profits earned off of logging other land in the Brazilian rainforest owned by the same investors.
These generous tax and credit incentives have created more than 29 million acres of large cattle ranches in the Brazilian Amazon, even though the typical ranch could cover less than half its costs without these subsidies. Even these grazing lands do not last forever. Soon the lack of nutrients in the soil and overgrazing degrade them, and they are abandoned for newly cleared land. |
David R. Montgomery
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 He built barns for cattle in order ro harvest manure, and instructed reluctant plantation managers to sptead the waste from livestock pens onto the fields. He experimented with crop rotations before finally settling on a system that involved interspersing grains with potatoes and clover or other grasses. Washington also experimented with deep plowing to reduce runoff and retard erosion. He filled gullies with old fence posts, trash, and straw before covering them with dirt and manure and then planting them with crops. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 In veterinary medicine, the drug is used as a vermifuge for tape worms in cattle and dogs as well as for intestinal colic in horses.
The drug is widely taken as a recreational drug. Fresh slices of the seed are part of the ' 'betel titbit'' used in eastern Asia. (Arecoline is converted in the central nervous system to the stimulant arecaidine through chewing). It is taken by an estimated 450 million people.
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Due to its arecoline content, the drug appears parasympathomimetic. |
David R. Montgomery
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| The modern cycle of forest clearing, peasant farming, and cattle ranching strips off top-soil and nearly destroys the capacity to recover soil fertility. The result is that the land sustains fewer people. When they run out of productive soil, they move on. The modern Amazon experience reads a lot more like the history of North America than we tend to acknowledge. Yet the parallel is as clear as it is fundamental.
Between forty million and one hundred million people lived in the Americas when Columbus "discovered" the New World—some four million to ten million called North America home. |
| Sheep and cattle turn parts of plants we can't eat into milk and meat.
Domesticated livestock not only added their labor to increase harvests, their manure helped replenish soil nutrients taken up by crops. The additional crops then fed more animals that produced more manure and led in turn to greater harvests that fed more people. Employing ox power, a single farmer could grow far more food than needed to feed a family. Invention of the plow revolutionized human civilization and transformed Earth's surface.
There were about four million people on Earth when Europe's glaciers melted. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 The dioxin falls on the grass that cows and cattle eat and accumulates in their fat and milk. Because of their longer life, dioxin accumulation is more critical in milk cows and beef cattle than chickens or other animals. Being at the top of the food chain, humans accumulate even more dioxin in their blood than the animals they eat. Taking that one step further, infants are at an even higher plane of the food chain because they consume the milk of their mothers'. While this is a major health concern, recent studies have shown that it is still better to breast feed than any of the alternatives. |
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