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Right now, we have a crisis. People have been so brainwashed by climate change fear porn that some people actually believe that humans are a disease upon the Earth and things would be better off if we just eliminated a huge swathe of humans from the face of the Earth. This is Agenda 21 and its unhealthy dogma permeates through even the top levels of society.

People have every reason to fear getting stabbed with a vax when Agenda 21 is on the table. It is claimed that vaccines are for your health and benefit, yet it could just as easily be mis-used as a vector for evil Agenda 21 plans.

With the amount of profit surrounding cancer treatments

So, how much profit is there in cancer treatments? Articles I found trying to google the subject spent a lot of time conflating "cost to patient (or insurance company)" with "profits" (no, income is not the same as profit, even if you don't like the people you're giving money to), without bothering to provide any numbers for actual, you know, profits....

The numbers are a bit dated (2014), but greed has been brought into question for years when it comes to the Cancer Industrial Complex. Here's an interesting read on it:

http://healthimpactnews.com/20...

We've poured billions into cancer research, and what do we have to show for it? 1 in 20 people got cancer a century ago. Now it's 1 in 3, and Greed will never allow a cure.

That's not making any pharmaceutical companies rich.

In 2012 it was making them $29 billion per year.

By 2014 it was $100 billion.

If that's not making anyone rich, they need better accountants.

Well, again, I just want labels so "I" can make my own decisions. I can't see that it would be the end of the world just to label them.

If that's all you're after, then it's simple: Food manufacturers who go out of their way to make GMO-Free products label them as such just to make an extra sale. So just follow those labels. Meanwhile, the GMO food doesn't have to be stigmatized by your religion.

There, problem solved, no legislation required.

If I was not a GMO product..then, I'd not be worried about glyphosate levels in my food.

I thought we went over this earlier: If you have an issue with glyphosate, then make your issue with glyphosate, not GMO. While I'm here, I'll take this opportunity to point you to one of your fellow religious zealots who points out that glyphosate is sometimes found in organic food:

http://healthimpactnews.com/20...

then maybe just label the ones where they splice in genes from such disparate species as a jellyfish into corn.

Except no such food exists. Nobody has ever spliced genes from an animal into a plant and then sold it in a grocery store. When you hear about that kind of thing happening, it's for research purposes to understand what the gene does.

So any such "law" wouldn't serve any useful purpose.

I have my doubts on the long term safety of this, as that we don't fully know what problems it may also cause further up and down the dna chain, and other proteins being coded.

This technology just hasn't been tested long enough to know it is safe...we've been guinea pigs for these years, and it often takes a LONG time to see really bad things happen, or have things slowly build up in the environment and in peoples' bodies.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit A: A classic example of FUD.

Much of the problem GMO things I've been discussing have to do with the same companies that brought us Agent Orange, and DDT...which were perfectly safe*.......till decades later when we found out they weren't safe at all.

So now you're equating the technology with one company. This is like saying that Microsoft has done evil things in the past, so we should ban all personal computers. A completely idiotic thing to say, but it is your opinion nonetheless.

All I"m asking for is a label so I can make my own decisions on what I'm buying at the store and putting into my body. That should be a basic piece of information for anyone....

I can't see your objections to just adding a simple label? I'll pay the extra $0.01 it may take to change the labelling.

Why is it so bad to just let folks know? No one is advocating for anyone to hold a gun to the consumer's head to force them to buy or not buy the foodstuffs.

This is like saying "All I'm asking for is a label on all Jews so that I can make my own decision on whether to associate with them." It creates needless stigma even though it doesn't impact you one way or another, except for maybe bothering your religious viewpoint. I mean why is it bad to just let folks know?

And, at the very least...if there is a consumer push towards more non-GMO's, it might push the industry to have more food diversity, which cannot possibly be a bad thing. Right now, the monoculture of many of our foods, could potentially be a problem. What if a new bug or bacteria comes and wipes out all of one strain of wheat/corn/tomato/ and it is all gone because we don't have other strains of the foods that might be resistant....

Monoculture is a problem, however it's not unique to GMO. We've been doing this for millennia. Look at the papaya problem in Hawaii; they were all dying out because of a single virus. You know what solved it though? Genetic modification to insert a gene that would make them resistant. The very technology you are hating on solved a HUGE agricultural problem in Hawaii.

Show me someone from the open source community who has helped and donated more towards charities than Bill Gates. Uh huh, that's what I thought.

Bill - is that you? Don't forget to lodge your claims for charitable donations - we filed it under "the spit shield fund".

the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Both entities are tax-exempt private foundations that are structured as a charitable.

One good thing Bill Gates has done. Though not everyone agrees.

Show me someone from the open source community who has helped and donated more towards charities than Bill Gates. Uh huh, that's what I thought.

Bill - is that you? Don't forget to lodge your claims for charitable donations - we filed it under "the spit shield fund".

the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Both entities are tax-exempt private foundations that are structured as a charitable.

One good thing Bill Gates has done. Though not everyone agrees.

That is a myth: check your facts.

On topic: I eat trans-fat-containing foods in moderation, and am vegetarian and exercise, so my risk for too much LDL and for diabetes, etc, is very low. I am exactly the kind of person who can eat trans fats safely in moderation.

I am afraid that this ruling will result in many foods that I occasionally eat replacing the trans fats with lard, which isn't on my diet. :(

I can't have my trans fats because all of YOU eat too much of it.

Thanks a lot, jerks.

read the product monographs. more than 20% of vaccine recipients report adverse reactions, including death.

the monographs compare the vaccine with a placebo, and claim the adverse reactions are better or no different from the placebo. but this is a placebo that causes vomiting, fever and diarrhea. it's not what i'd normally think of as a placebo. then you find they've either used an older version of the vaccine as a placebo, or some brew that has all the same stuff as in the vaccine, except not the virus pieces or whatever.

autism was almost nonexistent before 1990 when we started injecting our children with a known neurotoxin (mercury). now it's 1 in 50, an epidemic.

serious allergies were also almost non-existent. nobody had peanut allergies before 1990. now it also 1 in 50, an epidemic. by the way, peanut allergies do not exist in countries that do not do pediatric vaccinations.

if you're going to give the andrew wakefield thing about autism, i'm going to give you back william thompson.

In this story, which one is the Ancel Keys?

All they think about is their own paranoid delusions of a grand conspiracy "out to get them."

Why shouldn't they?

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The grand parent poster said quadrupling *vegetables* (many of which are leafy greens like Kale) not "complex carbs"... And there are much healthier things to eat than cancer-implicated processed lunchmeat if you want to eat meat...

Also, exercise does not help much with weight loss because it stimulates the appetite, even though exercise in general is good for health...

Also, for yet another different perspective (on how the recommendations decades ago to avoid fat on the theory it made people fat have instead led to an epidemic of obesity and heart disease by leading people to eat too much sugar):
http://healthimpactnews.com/20...

Good luck staying with what is working for you and maybe even going further which might then free up energy for your titanic plans! :-)

They talk about it being more environmentally friendly, however how many of these ingredients that you growing, then cutting, and processing the hell out of them are you using. You "egg" is made from an acre of Soybeans, don't you feel good about yourself, with a good portion of it going to waste. While my Egg is from a chicken that has eaten 1 acre of feed and produced hundreds of eggs during its lifetime. And the chicken works as a rather efficient little factory of making eggs.

If you're going to argue that using pea protein instead of eggs is less environmentally friendly, you'll have to do better than just making up some numbers. The chicken seems rather inefficient since if all you want is the egg, doing things like growing, moving around, maintaining life, etc. all are inefficiencies in the plant to egg process.

On first glance, it would seem that it's more efficient to use the plant-based version. Hellman's Mayo is 8% eggs while Hampton Creek's mayo is under 2% pea protein. Even if the chicken was ultra-efficient and converted 1g of feed to 1g of eggs, you'd still have to show the that process from pea to pea protein was at least four times less efficient.

Given that one of their main points / goals is to be less expensive than using eggs, it seems unlikely that the plant-based version would be less efficient.

This what I found for their "Just Mayo" product.
http://healthimpactnews.com/wp...

Original site.
http://healthimpactnews.com/20...

This what I found for their "Just Mayo" product.
http://healthimpactnews.com/wp...

Original site.
http://healthimpactnews.com/20...

In Dr Irving Kirsch's book "The Emperor's New Drugs Exposed" he described how they are as effective as a class of anti-depressants, and of course they have fewer side effects! http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/fact-antidepressant-drugs-no-better-than-placebos/ Ben Goldacre in "Big Pharma" has written similar stories. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irving-kirsch-phd/antidepressants-the-emper_b_442205.html

All your credibility went out the window when you posted AC, Are you debating the facts in the article?
Because where you get the facts from is so much more important than the actual facts...Riiiightt

Are these more "politically correct? :
http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/anti-depressants-linked-to-suicide-and-violence
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/antidepressants-probable-cause-in-german-school-massacre/
http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/colorado-mass-murder-linked-to-prescription-drug-use/

Indeed. Back in the 50s they started telling the world that all fat was unhealthy. People started eating low fat foods, and instead going nuts with sugary drinks/foods, refined carbs and fries. I hate when something says "low fat!" on the front, but it's like 50% sugar. Who cares about the fat content then?

Read up on Ancel Keys and the Seven Countries Study if you want to see where the idea that fat is bad came from.

Actually they do, but don't let facts get in the way of your argument.

http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/europe-has-gm-food-label-law-but-consumers-concerned-about-food-produced-with-gm-feed/

The law requires that any direct ingredients involving genetically modified food must be labeled as such. It does not require indirect use of GM foods for farm animals, but that's irrelevant for potatoes.