So, there’s this guy named Richard Brill that is a professor of science at the Honolulu Community College that wrote an article for our Hawaii newspaper about GMOs that was relatively innocuous. The article was entitled, “GMO crops could trigger another Green Revolution.” What caught my eye was a comment at the end of the article that said,
“Critics also assert that GMO crops have not been proven universally safe. This criticism is without validity since nothing can be proved scientifically. Science is a process of verification and disproof, not one of proof. Yet, decades of research have failed to find conclusive evidence that GMOs are a health risk.”
Now the fun started. So I replied to his article with the following:
“I really liked your article. You say that illness from ingesting GMOs has not been proven and that is correct. But, with so many illnesses arising from diet, how can we specifically say where heavy metal poisoning has come from?
We know that heavy metal poisoning is a reality. We know that when our armed forces were exposed to Agent Orange in Viet Nam, many came home with severe debilitating illnesses that stayed with them. And yet, our government denied responsibility and their care for them
We know that 2-4-D, the active ingredient in Agent Orange, is now being sprayed on the cornfields in the contiguous U.S. So, despite the lack of being able to specifically pinpoint the culprit, would it not be safer to allow people to be able to make a choice with regard to what they eat? This is why labeling GMOs is essential.
HIM:
“Thanks for reading and writing the note Hesh. I agree with what you say. I am personally neither for nor against GMO labeling. That there may or may not be numerous dietary illnesses does not relate to GMO labeling in my mind. Why not label food with complete chemical analyses down to POB levels? Then a complete transcription of the genome?”
ME:
“This is why organics are labeled. To give people a choice in purity vs. chemicalization.
HIM:
“What about labels for food that is grown adjacent to fields where 2-4-D is sprayed?
ME:
“It’s all part of the scam. If a GMO seed blows over to a neighboring field, Monsanto sues them for theft and patent infringement.”
HIm:
“Where does heavy metal ingestion come into the conversation about GMOs?”
ME:
“2-4-D and Roundup Ready pesticide are heavy metals that are enormously sprayed on GMO crops. For me, I tell people if it does not say “organic”, do not buy it.”
HIM:
“The danger with GMO labeling is ignorance and a supernatural fear. Because of uninformed or ill informed activists, GMOs have become the equivalent of McCarthy’s communists in every closet. You can help by spreading knowledge about GMOs to people who may not take the time to become informed and who act out of emotion and fear.”
ME:
“I do this by telling people if soy, corn, or cotton products do not say organic or non-GMO, they should not buy them. And, under no circumstances should they buy any type of canola oil.”
HIM:
“If I thought that people knew what is really involved, and how broad the range of transgenic food, there would be less fear of poisoning and government conspiracies. Yes, people should be able to make choices about what they eat. But they should be informed choices, not based on myth or superstition.”
ME:
When you buy a food, do you check the fat, sodium, or sugar content or the calorie count? If so, why can’t they know if it’s a GMO or not? If the stuff is so good and so beneficial and safe, wouldn’t people buy it in droves if they knew what and where it was?”
HIM:
“I agree with all of this, although I’m not convinced that the ‘organic’ label makes food any ‘better’. Besides, most people can’t afford to pay the premium for organic foods. The only bad thing about GMO labeling are the emotional issues. Are all GMO foods a bad thing, or is it that activists have brought too much mysticism to the label? When the average person sees GMO on the label he/she is scared away because the only view typically held is one of ignorance of the pros and cons. Who is going to feed the world’s growing population? Is it better to keep relying on petroleum based fertilizers, or to revert to 19th century ‘organic’ farming that cannot produce enough food to feed the population and which costs more. GMOs may not be all bad. Obviously the core problem is that we are making too many babies. Although population growth is slowing markedly in Europe, less so in North America. Africa and Asian populations have yet to get the message because famines still reduce the size of families unpredictably. Yet, birth control is still an issue. Then there is the abortion issue. By 2050, the world will have to produce 70 percent more food, including a billion tons more cereal to keep up with population growth. Where does one suppose this food will come from? Not likely from organic farming.
Global population is predicted to reach 10 billion by the end of this century. The carrying capacity of Earth is estimated at 9 billion. It is the ability of the planet to cleanse itself, not merely a battle between population and food supplies. FYI: 90 percent of corn, soy, and cotton grown in the US are genetically modified in some way, 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically engineered ingredients, and thousands of unlabeled products containing foreign or altered genes have been eaten by millions of people.
As you seem to be anti-GMO, I am neither for or against GMOs. I just go with the facts as best I can.”
ME:
“Here’s the deal: Former Monsanto employees head government agencies in charge of food and agriculture;
Monsanto pays off local politicians to keep them on their side.
Big Agriculture lobbies like crazy to make sure things don’t change.
Big Food poisons people every day because of insuring shelf –life for, if you will pardon the expression, “foods”, they produce.
In India, thousands of farmers committed suicide because GMO seeds are “terminator seeds”, which can only be used once. Being poor, they were in no position to buy seeds every year.
Then there’s the animals – in a forest in India, foods were hung from two trees. One tree had dangling ‘regular’ food and the other tree had dangling GMO food. When the people came back the regular food was gone and the GMO food was untouched. If the animals wouldn’t eat them why should people? Unless it’s a method to decrease the over-populated population. But committing suicide?
What has happened is that the weeds the GMOs were designed to kill have morphed into “superweeds” that are impervious to what they are sprayed with. Monsanto’s answer? Spray more or create more weed lethal poisons.
But people don’t really have to worry about eating the foods sprayed on it because the world is so over-populated that someone has to take responsibility for feeding them, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if Monsanto open the first “Soylent Green” factory.
As far as feeding the word’s growing population goes, making it so that seeds cannot be harvested for the next crop is certainly way counter-productive for a struggling farmer.
As far as birth control goes, in China people are killing female babies because they want boy babies. How’s that for admirable parenting?
But, then again, we have Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, and Ted Turner funding the eugenics program. I guess we should praise their humanitarian efforts, huh?
Maybe if more small, local farms were supported and maybe if the large food had reductions in their subsidies, and maybe if the chemical companies were not paying off the politicians, the people would have a better shot.
What has happened is the government of, for, and by the PEOPLE has been transformed into a government of, for, and by the CORPORATION.
This is certainly not the time for complacency, apathy, and lack of compassion.
HIM:
ME:
I am still waiting for a reply. Such is the world of science?
Aloha!
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Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a "plastic" community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, " let's become vegetarians". I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, "okay"! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, "The Little Kitchen".
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I'll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to "The Little Kitchen". Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, "Let's make a deal. You do our tax return and we'll feed you as well". So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, "Hawaii". Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called," Mr. Natural's". I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at "Mr. Natural's." To make a long story short, that's exactly what happened.
So, I'm working at "Mr. Natural's" and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle - it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka'anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn't really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that's exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I'm asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn't thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, "You expected anything less"? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, 'enchilada's at "Natural's" tonight'. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That's when they found out I was an accountant and "Down to Earth" was born. "Down to Earth" became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD's that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii's premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn't refuse. She said," If you want to be with me you've got to stop working on naked women". So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a "chicken" or "egg" or "fish" or "pig" or "cow" was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
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Namaste!
