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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] The Food Irradiation Plot
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:20:14 -0600


The Food Irradiation Plot
Why the USDA Wants to Sterilize Fresh Produce
and Turn Live Foods into Dead Foods
By Mike Adams
4-23-8
http://www.rense.com/general81/plot.htm


(NaturalNews) -- There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and
destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are
the usual suspects: The USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization
rules now in effect in California) and the American Chemical Society -- a
pro-chemical group that represents the interests of industrial chemical
manufacturers. The latest push comes from USDA researchers who conducted a
study to see which method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy green
vegetables like spinach.

To conduct the study, they bathed the spinach in a solution contaminated
with bacteria. Then, they tried to remove the bacteria using three methods:
Washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Not surprisingly, only the
irradiation killed nearly 100 percent of the bacterial colonies. That's
because radiation sterilizes both the bacteria and the vegetable leaves,
effectively killing the plant and destroying much of its nutritional value
while it kills the bacteria.

The USDA claims this is a huge success. By using radiation on all fresh
produce, they claim, the number of food-borne illness outbreaks that happen
each year could be substantially reduced. It all makes sense until you
realize that by destroying the nutritional value of all fresh produce sold
in the United States, an irradiation policy would greatly increase the
number of people killed by infections and chronic diseases that are
prevented by the natural medicines found in fresh produce!

Why fresh, living produce helps prevent sickness

The USDA, you see, has zero recognition of the difference between living
produce and dead produce. To uneducated government bureaucrats, pasteurized
or irradiated vegetable juice is identical to fresh, raw, living vegetable
juice. They believe this because they've never been taught about the
phytonutrients, digestive enzymes and life force properties that are found
in fresh foods, but that are destroyed through heat or irradiation. This,
the USDA is operating out of extreme ignorance when it comes to food and
nutrition.

Even a simple leaf of spinach contains hundreds of natural medicines --
phytonutrients that help prevent cancer, eye diseases, nervous system
disorders, heart disease and much more. Every living vegetable is a
powerhouse of disease-fighting medicine: Broccoli prevents cancer, beet
greens cleanse the liver, cilantro removes heavy metals, celery prevents
cancer, berries prevent heart disease and dark leafy greens help prevent
over a dozen serious health conditions while boosting immune function and
helping prevent other infections. But when you subject these fruits and
vegetables to enough radiation to kill 99.9% of the pathogens that may be
hitching a ride, you also destroy many of the phytonutrients responsible for
these tremendous health benefits!

This means that while irradiating food may decrease outbreaks of food-borne
illnesses, it will have the unintended consequence of increasing the number
of people who get sick from other infections (and chronic diseases) due to
the fact that their source of natural medicine has been destroyed. For many
Americans, you see, salad greens are their one remaining source for
phytonutrients. Given their diets of processed foods, junk foods and cooked
foods, there are very few opportunities for these consumers to get fresh,
phytonutrient-rich foods into their diet. And now the USDA wants to take
that away, too, by mandating the irradiation of all fresh produce.

Let me make a rather obvious prediction, on the record: If the irradiation
of fresh produce goes into effect in the United States, rates of infection
among consumers will sharply increase, not decrease, due to the removal of
immune-boosting natural medicine from the food supply. Consumers will also
experience higher rates of cancer, heart disease, dementia, eye disorders,
diabetes and even obesity. By destroying these thousands of healing
phytonutrients, irradiation will leave many consumers defenseless against
modern society's many health challenges.

It is no exaggeration to say that a policy of mass irradiation of fresh
produce is as blatantly stupid as the Romans building their aqueducts with
lead-lined waterways. As historians have explained, after the aqueducts were
built, the water delivered to the Roman population was contaminated with
lead -- a heavy metal that causes numerous health problems, including
insanity. Many historians blame the lead-lined aqueducts as one of the
primary reasons why the Roman Empire fell: Its leaders went mad, and the
rest is history.

I would argue that America's leaders are already mad, but that's beside the
point. If we start irradiating our food, thereby destroying its nutritional
value, we are going to unleash a cascade of unintended consequences even
greater than the Roman's aqueducts. Absent the protections of phytonutrients
found in plants, the health of most consumers will rapidly decline, and
we'll see the U.S. thrust into a quagmire of chronic disease and medical
bankruptcy. (It's already heading there, of course, but killing the food
supply will only accelerate the downward spiral of health.)

Let's sterilize all the food!

The USDA has never met a food sterilization plan it didn't like. It backed
the recent almond sterilization law that went into effect in California last
year, forcing all almond growers to sterilize their almonds by subjecting
them to toxic chemicals or cooking them at high enough temperatures to kill
anything that might have been alive (such as the almond itself). Now, all
the raw almonds consumed in America are purchased from overseas growers,
where raw still means raw.

Raw milk has also been under attack in California and elsewhere. The USDA
supported laws that essentially banned the sales of raw milk, requiring milk
to be sterilized, too. If you now irradiate all the fresh produce, you have
a food supply that is predominantly sterilized -- otherwise known as "dead."
And dead foods lead to dead people.

That a society's health regulators would want all foods to be dead should be
downright shocking to anyone who knows anything about health and nutrition.
Live foods keep people alive, but dead foods make people dead. It's really
not a complicated concept. The USDA's definition of "food safety," however,
is based on the idea that the health of one immune-system-compromised
individual who can't handle a little E. Coli is more important than the
ongoing health of the entire population. Thus, all foods must be killed for
everyone.

I strongly disagree with this approach. Foods should not be expected to be
sterilized. In terms of food safety, emphasis should be placed on boosting
the health and immune systems of individuals so they can survive occasional
contact with E. Coli rather than trying to create a sterile environment in
which nothing is alive. As it turns out, the people susceptible to
food-borne illnesses are precisely those individuals who have compromised
immune systems due to their intake of vaccines and antibiotics. Thus, it is
modern medicine that has made these people vulnerable to food-borne
illnesses. Blame the drug companies, not the bacteria.

But the USDA would rather blame the food. Blaming conventional medicine for
the harm it has caused to the human immune system is not politically
correct. It's better to blame the food, then use scare tactics to announce
yet more outbreaks and hope for a public outcry for widespread food
irradiation. And that brings me to the "final solution" on food irradiation.

How the USDA plans to join the FDA in keeping everyone sick

There is a corporate-sponsored plot underway in the U.S. today to keep
people sick and deny them access to information about natural cures (such as
medicinal foods) that would prevent disease and keep people out of the
hospitals. In more than 1,500 articles on this website, I've documented the
FDA's criminality, the USDA's indefensible actions, and the criminal
behavior of drug manufacturers who only earn profits if they can find a way
to keep the entire population sick and diseased for another generation or
two.

Destroying the natural medicine in the food supply sure would be a highly
effective way to create more customers for Big Pharma, wouldn't it? I think
it's all part of the "keep the population sick and diseased" plot being
carried out by an evil partnership between drug companies and the U.S.
government. We already know that the FDA and USDA work for the corporations,
not the People. We already know that they will do practically anything to
boost their profits (including conducting medical experiments on infants,
drugging schoolchildren, lying to the public, fabricating clinical trials
and more). Is it any surprise that they would now attempt a "final solution"
on the food supply that kills the food and thereby results in a huge
reduction in the population's intake of the disease-fighting nutrients found
in fresh produce?

The social engineering recipe

Pulling this off, of course, requires a bit of social engineering by the
USDA in order to force the public into demanding something be done. If
you're the USDA, you can't just suddenly announce a national food
sterilization plan; you have to prime the pump with a bit of dirty work.
Here's the simple plan for accomplishing that, if you're the USDA:

1) Conduct poor inspections of fresh produce on purpose, in order to cause a
large increase in food-borne illness outbreaks. (We've seen this increase
happen over the last 12 - 24 months.) This can be easily accomplished by
reducing the budget of food inspection offices, or removing inspectors from
the payroll altogether (which has already happened).

2) Wait for the outbreaks to happen. When consumers get sick, run national
press releases announcing how dangerous the food supply is.

3) Watch the consumer reaction as people and lawmakers demand "something be
done!"

4) Fudge a study with the American Chemical Society to show that washing
doesn't work and that irradiation is the only solution. Time the release of
this news to coincide with the public outcry that "something be done!"

5) Once the public is demanding a solution to food-borne illnesses, roll out
a national produce irradiation requirement that sterilizes all the food.

Mission accomplished! This, of course, leads to point #6:

6) Watch the population become increasingly sick and diseased (thanks to the
lack of phytonutrients that used to be found in the fresh produce), and cash
in on your Big Pharma shares as the population is herded into hospitals for
lucrative treatments with monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.

It's the same old social engineering trick that's been used to hoodwink the
American people hundreds of times. How do you get the public to support a
war in the Middle East? Stage an attack on U.S. soil first, and wait for the
public outcry. How do you get the People to support the mass sterilization
of their own food supply? Lower your inspection standards, let the sickness
spread, and then wait for the public outcry. It's the way governments get
things done these days: They manipulate the public into demanding the things
they wanted to accomplish in the first place. These are sometimes called
"false flag operations" in a military context, and they've been conducted by
the U.S. government on numerous occasions, just like they were conducted by
Hitler in Nazi Germany to justify his invasions of neighboring countries.
You can read about False Flag operations on Wikipedia:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

What "they" really want: A dead food supply

Let's be blunt about this: The corporations running this country (which also
run the U.S. government) want the U.S. food supply to be dead. They don't
want foods to be used as medicines, and they sure don't want the natural
medicines found in foods competing with their own patented pharmaceutical
medicines (that just happen to earn them a whole lot more money than any
food ever did).

Don't you find it curious that this attack on the food supply is coming out
now, right after all this incredible news about the healing power of foods
has been hitting the science journals? Every week, it seems, we find out
about another amazing health property in a food. Black raspberries reverse
oral cancer. Pomegranates halt prostate cancer. Green tea halts breast
cancer. The list goes on. Just on this website alone, we've probably
published 1,000 stories over the last two years on the disease-fighting
properties of foods.

The thing to realize here is that many of the healing properties of these
foods are destroyed through pasteurization or irradiation. If you're a
government that wants to "take away the People's medicine," the fastest way
to accomplish that is to mandate the sterilization of the food supply. Kill
the foods and you take away the People's medicine, and that forces the
population to use pharmaceuticals instead.

The FDA, for its part, has for many decades conducted its natural medicine
censorship campaign, whose only purpose is to deny the People access to
accurate information about the healing properties of natural medicines found
in foods and herbs. But apparently that wasn't enough: The Internet came
along and people found a way to educate themselves. So since the FDA
couldn't keep the truth about natural medicine bottled up and censored, the
government has now apparently decided to just sterilize all the foods,
thereby destroying the natural medicine and transforming Mother Nature's
gifts into dead calories.

The USDA's decisions here are not based on public safety, folks. They're
based on corporate greed. Just look at how they handled the raw almond
controversy in these related articles:
http://www.naturalnews.com/almonds.html

The USDA as operated today is a front group for wealthy corporations. It is
not interested in helping the People. It's interested in protecting the
profits of corporations... even if that means destroying the food supply and
turning the population into "dead eaters" who die from other diseases caused
by the lack of phytonutrient protection.

How you can help stop this latest atrocity against our food supply

What can you do to stop this? Be prepared to fight irradiation plans with a
massive outcry that demands our food supply be protected from radiation.
There are two things that need to be accomplished, and of course the USDA
and FDA oppose them both:

1) Require the labeling of all irradiated foods with a large "Irradiated"
label or sticker.

2) Block any attempts to mandate the irradiation of fresh produce.

Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com for more on this story. We'll be joining with
other pro-consumer groups (like the Organic Consumers Association) to rally
our readers in opposition to this food irradiation effort.

I believe we must keep our food supply fresh and alive. (Sounds kinda
obvious, huh?) And if there's a little extra bacteria on the spinach, it's
nothing that a healthy body can't handle anyway. Take some probiotics and
avoid antibiotics, and you'll be just fine. E. Coli is really only a threat
to the health of individuals who have had their immune systems (or
intestinal flora) destroyed by pharmaceuticals in the first place. There's
nothing wrong with some living organisms in your milk, on your almonds or on
your spinach. Wash your food, get plenty of sunlight and avoid using
antibiotics.

The human body is NOT a sterile environment. To try to make our food supply
sterile is insane, and anyone who supports the irradiation of the food
supply is, in my opinion, supporting a policy of genocide against the
American people. To destroy the vitality of the food supply is a criminal
act of such immense evil that it stands alongside the worst crimes ever
committed against humanity.

You see, it's not enough for them to poison our water (fluoride), poison our
children (vaccines) and lie to us about the sun (skin cancer scare stories).
Now they want to destroy our foods... and thereby take away any natural
medicine options that might actually keep people healthy and free. Remember:
A diseased population is an enslaved population.

Now go eat your Big Mac, drink your Pepsi and don't ask too many questions.






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