A Sterile & Dead World, Brought to You by Agribusiness

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'The end of Agribusiness insanity can only be destruction of the system that truly provides food: the earth’s ecology. When that has been well and truly subverted, Gaia will strike back in the greatest passive-aggressive display ever seen: The earth will simply stop providing.

Agribusiness would like to sterilize the world. It is, of course, a business decision. If the goal were to improve health, then they would long ago have focused on growing healthier foods—but they don’t. It’s all about profits. 

When their bottom line was hurt by food poisoning outbreaks, they had to find a way to suppress it. So, instead of sterilizing foods just before purchase, such as milk that’s pasteurized milk and irradiated foods, they’re now focused on sterilizing the farms themselves.

Growers are being forced to do insane things to continue selling to major markets:'

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Organic Food Is Not Cheap Big Agribusiness Food and Never Will Be

Farmers Market, by Paul Collins (cropped)

'Organic food isn’t cheap, and the real thing never will be. The concept of mass-produced organics is fraudulent. It runs counter to both the ethos and reality. They cannot be produced by Agribusiness-style farmers who keep producing the same crop year-on-year. As long as food is treated as a commodity, then we have degraded the basic substance of our bodies and minds'.

On top of the recent horsemeat scandal, we now have human DNA found in meat produced by Agribusiness. Lest we forget, the horsemeat scandal started in exactly the same way. First, it was announced that traces of horsemeat DNA had been found in some beef products. Then, we heard about how it was actually more than DNA, but significant percentages. Finally, we learned that some “beef” products had no beef at all—they were 100% horsemeat!

Of course, we were informed that there was no need to worry about it. Government agencies assured us that it was perfectly safe.'

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Why American & European Fruits And Vegetables Have No Flavor

Farmers Market Tomatoes, by Isa Sorensen (Mapless In Seattle)

'GMOs aren’t the only nasty thing from Agribusiness. Breeding for mass production instead of taste and nutrition has cost us. Little produce in supermarkets has flavor worth the trouble of eating, & the lack of nutrition is destroying health.'

'Now think about this.  There are two broad categories of tomatoes.

Type 1 is full of nutrition and flavor, but this type ripens inconsistently, and comes in all kinds of colour shades, shapes and textures.

Type 2 looks perfectly shaped, is in a uniform color, shows perfect behavior and ripens uniformly, but it also happens to have no flavor and little nutrition.

If you were a big US grocery chain, even a purportedly organic one, which type of tomato would you stock?

If you guessed Type 2, you would be right, and you would also solve the mystery of why not only American tomatoes, but the vast majority of fruits and vegetables in the USA have no flavor and are less nutritious compared to fruits and vegetables found in, say, a much-poorer country like India.'\

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Study Reveals That 1 in 10 Teens Suffers from Liver Disease

A shocking report shows that one in ten American teens are now suffering from liver disease—a direct result of the distortion and pollution of our food system that allows fructose to be treated as if it's perfectly safe.

'High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is known to be associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Now that we're seeing this once-rare disorder affecting one in ten teenagers, one must wonder how health agencies like the FDA can continue to ignore the devastation resulting from out-of-control Agribusiness, which is clearly profiting from the devastation of the people's health.

Instead, though, Dr. Vos is advocating the creation of community and school programs to promote healthy food, exercise, and weight loss. This is not addressing the root cause. It is, in fact, effectively blaming the victims for their poor health.'


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