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Showing posts with label Health - Food and drinks. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 17, 2017

LAB MEAT, VEGETARIANISM, AND FEWER CHILDREN to save the planet? - NOT with massive immigration to the West - While the West develops technologies to protect the environment, other populations are growing out of control, eating MORE MEAT, and consuming more natural resources

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  • When baby boomers were growing up they were told that having too many children puts heavy demands on the natural environment and endangers our future.  So people started having fewer kids.  Maybe one.  Sometimes none. 
  • Admittedly, their concern for the environment was not their prime motivation, but the trend appeared all the same, and Europe, in particular, soon realized that their population was shrinking to more manageable numbers. 
  • Instead of extolling this as an ecological model for a sustainable future, Europeans fell prey to the globalists' insidious agenda to erase national borders and replace the West's population with migrants from the Third World. 
  • Globalists and leftists did this by (1)  creating the European Union, which robbed  countries of their democratic right to make decisions in their national interest. 
  • And they did it by (2) playing the race card, allegedly to atone for Europe's genocidal past.  Those who criticized this brown and black mass migration were denounced as 'racists' and Nazis. 
  • So now Europe's population is growing once again, placing great pressure on the environment and quality of life.   Britain gains the population equivalent of one new town each week!  
  • Since whites are not having enough children of their own to replace them, and millions of migrant couples are having six to ten children (more in the case of polygamous families), whites will be replaced by Asians and Africans in one or two generations.  Europe will become Muslim, and western civilization will be finished.  
  • 20111107-_dsc4223Even if you leave politics, religion, and culture aside, there is still the issue of the environment and of animal welfare.  This blog's article on the EID slaughter of animals shows the horrors of ritual Halal.  
  • Billions of animals suffer horrendous deaths under Halal slaughter, where their throats are cut and are left to bleed and die for hours.   That is the slaughterhouse ritual. 
  • But once a year, during the EID festival at the end of Ramadan, Muslim men are called to slaughter an animal as a sacrifice to their god.   This results in people who have absolutely no idea of how to professionally kill an animal, torturing creatures to death.  You can see the results here: Orgy of Animal Torture During EID Festival
 Lab Meat - A solution to avoid animal torture and environmental degradation?
Appetising? The technology has already been proven on an individual scale. In 2013 scientists at  Maastricht University, in the Netherlands cooked and ate the first lab-grown hamburger
  • Western science has developed a replacement for animal suffering by creating lab meat.  It is just as nutritious as the one coming from an actual living animal, but there is no torture and no killing involved.  Animal cells are cultivated and made to grow into steaks. 
  • As an added benefit the planet saves itself from farm pollution, and the need to use valuable land to grow food for those animals.   A perfect solution. 
  • EXCEPT that 1.8 BILLION Muslims will continue killing animals the traditional way because they are being ordered to do so by their religion.  The current population of 1.8 billion will double and then triple in a very short time due to their rate of reproduction.  And so will the number of animals being tortured and killed under the Halal ritual.  For ever and ever.  Until the planet is blown up like a bomb, in some dispute or other.
 
The following is a video and article explaining LAB MEAT TECHNOLOGY:
 
VIDEO:  MEAT THE FUTURE
 
China Buys Israel’s Lab Meat
Technology for $300 Million
 
China signed a $300 million trade deal last week to import Israeli lab-meat technologies, VegNews reported. Two Israeli companies – SuperMeat and Future Meat Technologies are currently working to replace meat animals with “synthetic,” a.k.a. “lab-grown,” a.k.a. “cultured” meat.
 
China signed the deal as part of its effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the impact of cows and other animals that emit methane.
 
The 142g 'cultured beef' patty was lightly fried in a little butter and sunflower oil and took three months to grow in a laboratory, using cells from a living cow (pictured at demonstration in 2013)
 
 
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Friday, April 14, 2017

GLUTEN ALLERGY MAY BE CAUSED BY A VIRUS INFECTION

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VIDEO: 

Gluten allergy in coeliac disease may be provoked by a virus

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist
 
Infection with a common, symptomless virus could be one of the first steps towards developing coeliac disease, a painful autoimmune condition that damages the gut.
 
Coeliac disease involves the immune system treating gluten as an antigen and attacking it and has generally been thought to be a genetic disease.
 
However, there is some evidence that the onset of the condition may be linked to people experiencing viral infections. These may include infection by adenoviruses, which cause colds, rotaviruses, which can cause diarrhoea, and the hepatitis C virus.
 
Now there is experimental evidence that some viruses may indeed prompt the onset of coeliac disease.
 
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Friday, August 26, 2016

ORGANIC FOOD IMPORTED FROM CHINA - THE SHOCKING TRUTH

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  • Did you know that almost ALL vitamins and dietary supplements sold in North America are manufactured in China? 
  • While vitamins are good for you, they may have been made in factories where standards are not as exacting as those in the US and Canada. 
  • We really do not know the true quality of the listed ingredients, or what else is there.  Your best bet is to get vitamins directly from the foods you eat. 
  • When Canadians ask for the origin of a particular food in the bulk section of their supermarket they will told that it comes from the United States.  Not exactly. 
  • If you do a little research on your own you will discover that, although it has been IMPORTED FROM the United States, it has been GROWN elsewhere. 
  • There are large food importing companies that buy products from China, Vietnam, India, and other Asian and African countries, and then resell them to food markets in the US and Canada.   
  • The label "organic" for Chinese food has to be taken on faith because that country does not allow western associations of organic products to check the conditions under which those foods are grown, irrigated, and harvested.  For all you know, they could be irrigated with river water downstream from heavily polluting manufacturing plants.   
  • Unfortunately, even when organic food is indeed grown in the United States, it may have been irrigated with toxic fracking water.  Read more about it here:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/toxic-fracking-water-is-used-to.html 

'Organic' from China exposed: The shocking truth about 'organic' foods grown in the world's worst environmental cesspool

By Mike Adams, Natural News


USDA organic standards place no limits on how much mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and aluminium is allowed in so-called “organic” products imported from China.

Even further, there is no limit on the contamination of PCBs, BPA and other synthetic chemicals that’s allowed in certified organic foods, superfoods and supplements.

At this point, you’re probably shaking your head in disbelief and thinking, “No, that can’t be true. Organic standards must check for heavy metals and chemical contamination, right?”
 
No! “Organic” certifies a process of how food is grown or produced. It certifies that the farmer doesn’t add pesticides, herbicides, petroleum-based fertilizer, metals or synthetic chemicals to the crop (among other things), and it certifies that the soil must be free from such things for a certain number of years before organic certification is approved.
 
But organic certification does nothing to address environmental sources of pollution such as chemtrails, contaminated irrigation water, and fallout from industrial or chemical factories that might be nearby.  A certified organic farmer can use polluted water on their crops and still have the crops labeled “organic.”
 
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

MONTH OF RAMADAN FASTING CAUSES SHARP RISE IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS and acts of terror - Britain suspects train engineer's fasting behind massive derailment - Muslim fasting can have adverse psychological and physical effects - What this means for the workplace

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 Ramadan
Rail safety chiefs investigated whether a Muslim driver’s Ramadan fast caused a London train to derail
  • The derailment took place in June, at Paddington station, after the train’s driver passed a signal on red.
  • Each year, Muslim countries see a dramatic rise in traffic accidents during Ramadan.
  • During the Islamic holy month Muslims fast during daylight and binge after sundown.
  • The derailment report highlights how research shows the Muslim fast “can affect concentration levels” and lists associated symptoms.
  • “Fasting can have a range of effects on individuals including fatigue, dizziness, dehydration and headache, sleepiness and reduction in concentration which can result in safety concerns, especially when conducting safety critical jobs.”
  • Dubai Police’s Command & Control centre reported that the city saw 7,273 traffic accidents during the first 15 days of Ramadan this year. 
  • Yemen traffic accidents double during the month of Ramadan.
  • Saudi Arabia police warn that children should be kept inside, so as to avoid being run over by fasting drivers.
  • Ramadan fasting may also adversely affect work in factories, hospital surgery rooms, and other work sites.  
  • Muslim terror acts also spike dramatically all over the world during Ramadan. 
  • Ramadan was instituted 14 centuries ago, when Muslims rode camels in the desert.  Now they pilot airplanes and operate nuclear facilities.
  • While most people can tolerate hours of fasting, people with hypoglycemia and other blood sugar level ailments can suffer from extreme psychological and physical reactions.  Read details further down this page.
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report stated that the train’s driver was fasting and woke to eat a light meal at 2.30am the night prior to the incident. It noted that fasting can cause notable problems for people’s concentration.

Continue reading, including the adverse effects of Ramadan fasting, and a list of references on Islam

Friday, May 6, 2016

DOGS THAT WORK AS BARTENDERS

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Bartending dogs prove they really are man’s best friend
The service at this London pop-up pub
 is really going to the dogs!
 
Kronenbourg 1664 Bar D’Alsace-tian will have a pack of “professionally trained” German shepherds serving “ruff” draughts for three hours Friday night.
 
“Man’s best friend delivers one of man’s greatest achievements at Kronenbourg Bar D’Alsace-tian: the world’s first bar staffed by dogs,” the Soho bar said of the sold-out event.
 
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Friday, November 27, 2015

STUDY: TABLE SALT CONTAMINATED BY PLASTIC MICROBEADS - Sea salt is the worst, but even lake and rock salt and well salt are contaminated by processing machinery - Fragments can penetrate cells and cause tissue damage - Plastic microbeads are also poisoning sea creatures, including the fish you eat

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What the following article from the Daily Mail fails to mention is that the US, Britain, Russia, and other countries have been dumping RADIOACTIVE WASTE into the ocean for decades. 
 
Japan continues to flush highly contaminated nuclear waste from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor into the sea.  Ocean currents are spreading that poison all over the Pacific and beyond. 
 
Sea salt collected from the Mediterranean coast or the French Atlantic coast, among many other places, could be contaminated by radioactive particles as well.  See references at the end of this page.
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The hidden PLASTIC lurking in your food: Hundreds of tiny micro beads have been found in sea salt - and we swallow 1,000 every year
  • Plastic particles polluting the oceans are found in sea salt for the first time 
  • Tiny beads are formed from waste plastic, facial scrubs and exfoliants 
  • Plastic beads are also found in rock salt processed in sea salt factories
  • Even well, lake, and rock salts are contaminated with plastic beads by processing machinery. 
  • Scientists also found a new type of sedimentary rock is forming from the plastic mixing with sand and other materials on beaches.
  • Some lab tests have shown that nano-sized plastic fragments can even enter cells and cause tissue damage. 
  • There is an ongoing campaign to BAN MICROBEADS from consumer products

  • Waste plastic in the oceans has reached such a level that it is even contaminating sea salt, according to American scientists. A stock image of workers collecting sea salt from the dry ponds in Thailand is shown
    Waste plastic in the oceans has reached such a level that it is even contaminating sea salt, according to American scientists. A stock image of workers collecting sea salt from the dry ponds in Thailand is shown
     
    Almost five million tons of plastic is thought to be dumped in the oceans every year and now the waste is even contaminating sea salt, scientists claim.
     
    Studying salt manufactured in China, the researchers discovered hundreds of microscopic plastic particles in every kilogram of salt.  This means the average consumer swallows around a thousand tiny plastic beads every year.

    Continue reading, and learn about campaign to ban microbeads

    Friday, July 10, 2015

    PRIONS THAT CAUSE CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE can pass from wild animals to plants - from plants to cows - from cows to humans - MAD COW DISEASE is also caused by prions and is blamed for ALZHEIMER'S disease among meat eaters

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    KEY POINTS
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    • Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease of cervids (deer, elk, moose) and humans.
    • Animals leave prion-contaminated feces and urine on the grass.
    • Plants can take up prions from the soil and transmit them to grazing animals.
    • Cows can get contaminated with prions from the grass they eat, and then pass it on to humans.
    • Studies show that prions can bind to plants and be taken into the roots, where they may travel to the stem and leaves.
    • Neither washing nor cooking plants will eliminate the contamination.
    • Just as cooking contaminated beef did not halt the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), another prion-caused disease
    • Keeping cervids out of grazing or growing fields could help mitigate the contamination.
    • Prions have been held responsible for a number of degenerative brain diseases, including mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, kuru, and an unusual form of hereditary dementia known as Gertsmann-Straeussler-Scheinker disease.
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    Virology Blog - Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease of cervids (deer, elk, moose) that is potentially a threat to human health.

    A role for environmental prion contamination in transmission is supported by the finding that plants can take up prions from the soil and transmit them to animals.

    prions in plants
    A concern is that prions of chronic wasting disease could be transmitted to cows grazing in pastures contaminated by cervids.

    Consumption of infected cows would then pass the disease on to humans.

    When deer are fed prions they excrete them in the feces before developing clinical signs of infection, and prions can also be detected in deer saliva.

    In the laboratory, brain homogenates from infected deer can transmit the disease to cows.

    To determine whether prions can enter plants, wheat grass roots and leaves were exposed to brain homogenates from hamsters that had died of prion disease.
     
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    Tuesday, May 19, 2015

    THE SECRET ANIMAL PRODUCTS IN VEGETARIAN FOODS - Bananas contain traces of shellfish and cheese, figs, red candy, orange juice, cereals and many other vegetarian foods contain secret animal products - MOST PRE-GROUND COFFEE CONTAINS COCKROACHES

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    No bananas please, we're vegetarian! The foods you think are safe to eat but actually contain SECRET animal products 
  • Karin Ridgers, founder of VeggieVision TV, has identified stealthy foods
  • Bananas can sometimes be sprayed with a pesticide which has shellfish
  • When pollinating figs, wasps can die in the fruit and become part of it  

  • No bananas please, we're vegetarian! The foods you think are meat-free but actually

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    Monday, November 24, 2014

    A VEGETARIAN DIET CAN CURE DIABETES, SAY SCIENTISTS - It improves blood sugar levels

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  • Vegetarian and vegan diets can significantly improve blood sugar levels
  • Removing animal fats helps improve insulin sensitivity 
  • Lowered levels of blood-protein glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) 
  • Effect was comparable to drugs which prevent digestion of carbohydrates 
  • Changes to diet can be used as an alternative treatment for type 2 diabetes 


  • A vegetarian diet can significantly improve blood sugar levels and manage type 2 diabetes, a study found


    Switching to a vegetarian diet could help reverse diabetes, a new study claims.  Millions of people battling the killer disease could improve their blood sugar levels by eradicating meat from their weekly shop.
     
    Scientists believe removing animal fats could help cure the condition, leaving patients free from the disease.  They said changes to diet could be used as an alternative treatment for type 2 diabetes.  An analysis of previous studies revealed removing animal fats from diet helps improve insulin sensitivity.

    Thursday, November 13, 2014

    NEW ISRAELI INNOVATION COULD HELP REDUCE WORLD HUNGER by extending pruduce shelf life by 1500% with a safe and natural product - Much food now goes to waste due to spoilage and disease.

    A cynical mind may wonder at how Israel and Jews in general keep offering inventions and innovations to a world steeped in hatred that dreams of - and even plans - their extermination.  
     
    People with roots in poor areas of Asia and Africa are terrorizing and murdering Jews in Europe and other places.
     
    A sad reminder of this pervasive hatred is the United Nations itself, filled with members whose main agenda seems to be to condemn Israel and to call for boycotts of that country.
      
    People avail themselves from a very long list of inventions and innovations by Jewish scientists in the fields of communications by publishing articles against Israel and the Jews.

    In the meantime they have no problem having their lives and those of their loved ones saved by Jewish medical technology - so that they can live longer to demonize Israel.
     
    This article presents an Israeli innovation that could help more people survive and live better lives with greater availability of food, so that they can turn around and attack Israel. 

    No good deed goes unpunished.  

    But a Jewish tenet mandates Jews to make the world better: 
    Tikkun olam is a basic tenet of Judaism.  It's a Hebrew phrase that means "repairing the world" (or "healing the world") which suggests humanity's shared responsibility to heal, repair and transform the world. (Wikipedia)

    Could an Israeli-created innovation end world hunger?

    By David Shamah

    Pimi Agro has figured out a natural way to extend the shelf life of produce by 1,500%, and prevent disease and fungus, too

    A haredi youth stands next to piles of potatoes in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)Between a third and half of the food grown today never makes it to market.   Produce of all kinds is “lost” to spoilage and disease, due mostly to transportation, storage, and other logistics issues.
     
    As a result, hundreds of millions of people still go hungry – but they don’t have to, thanks to an invention by Israel’s Pimi Agro.

    Monday, November 10, 2014

    DO MICROBES CONTROL OUR MINDS? - The answer is YES. - Not only that, but 90% of our cells are microbial.

    By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times
     
    Your body is home to about 100 trillion bacteria and other microbes, collectively known as your microbiome.
     
    Naturalists first became aware of our invisible lodgers in the 1600s, but it wasn’t until the past few years that we’ve become really familiar with them.
     
    This recent research has given the microbiome a cuddly kind of fame. We’ve come to appreciate how beneficial our microbes are — breaking down our food, fighting off infections and nurturing our immune system. It’s a lovely, invisible garden we should be tending for our own well-being.
     
    But in the journal Bioessays, a team of scientists has raised a creepier possibility. Perhaps our menagerie of germs is also influencing our behavior in order to advance its own evolutionary success — giving us cravings for certain foods, for example.

    Monday, November 3, 2014

    CEREAL KILLERS - ARSENIC IN CEREALS EXCEEDS EU LIMITS FOR CHILDREN - US government coverup of toxic arsenic, lead and cadmium in many of your foods. - There is more arsenic in chicken than in rice

    Inorganic arsenic is found naturally occurring in plants but rice has relatively high levels of the poisonMore than half of rice products including Rice Krispies and Heinz baby rice exceed new EU limits for ARSENIC

  • Experts warn some popular rice products contain high levels of arsenic
  • Tests found 58% exceeded new recommended arsenic limits for children

  • While there are low levels of arsenic in most food and water, researchers are now concerned that arsenic can reach much higher levels in rice. 
     

    Channel 4's Dispatches, Rice: How Safe is our Food? which will be broadcast on Monday night, tested 81 different products with the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. 
     
    They discovered 58 per cent exceeded proposed European Union recommended limits for children, which are expected to come into force next summer.
     
    Although there are strict limits for the amount of arsenic level allowed in water, there are currently no maximum levels in food - and now some scientists are speaking out as they are concerned about the effects of long-term exposure.
     
    As more evidence emerges about the harm high levels of arsenic might cause, particularly to children, new maximum levels have been proposed by the European Union with the support of the Food Standards Agency.
     
    The proposed new EU recommendations will limit 200 parts of arsenic per billion for adults and just 100 ppb for children and babies. 
     
    During the research products including Kelloggs' Rice Krispies and Kallo organic puffed rice cereal were tested multiple times - and some showed high levels of inorganic arsenic, far above the proposed limits.
     
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    FDA deliberately deceiving Americans over arsenic in rice, chicken and other foods; contamination now widespread
     
     
    arsenic(NaturalNews) There is arsenic in rice, and it's generally higher in brown rice than in white rice. Consumer Reports tested 223 samples of rice products in 2012 and found significant levels of arsenic in most of them, including inorganic arsenic (the really toxic kind).
     
    As Consumer Reports found, it's not unusual to see arsenic at levels of 200 ppb or more in rice-based baby cereals. Click here for the complete test results.
     
    The release of this information freaked out the U.S. rice industry, resulting in enormous pressure being put on the FDA to try to assuage fears that rice products were contaminated with arsenic (which they are).

    Wednesday, September 17, 2014

    THE FOOD INDUSTRY IS FEEDING YOU NANOPARTICLES - Studies indicate possible harmful effects on your health

    Main points followed by articles:
    • Nanotechnology and nanoparticles have been around for quite some time. In fact, consumers have been eating nanoparticles for years without being aware they are in their food.
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       Illustration - setixela/Thinkstock - Epoch Times
      In essence, nanotechnology revolves around the engineering and manipulation of particles at an incredibly small scale. Nanoparticles are measured in billionths of one meter.
    • Nanoparticles keep food fresh longer, and are often used to thicken and color processed foods.
    • Some varieties of Dentyne gum and Jell-O, M&M’s, Betty Crocker Whipped Cream Frosting, Kool-Aid, Pop-Tarts, you name it, contain them. Even food packaging such as plastic containers and beer bottles have nanoparticles.
    • Nanoparticles can also be used to deliver vaccines, treat tumours, clean up oil spills, protect skin from sun and kill bacteria.
    • Because labelling and disclosure are not required for food and beverage products containing them, it’s difficult to determine how widespread their use is.
    • Studies show nanoparticles can harm human health and the environment.
    • They can damage lungs and cause symptoms such as rashes and nasal congestion, and we don’t yet know about long-term effects.  
    • Their minute size means they’re “more likely than larger particles to enter cells, tissues and organs” and “can be more chemically reactive and more bioactive than larger particles of the same chemicals,” Friends of the Earth says.
    • A Cornell University study found nanoparticle exposure changed the structure of intestinal-wall lining in chickens. 
    • Like pesticides, they also bioaccumulate.
    • Those that end up in water – from cosmetics, toothpaste, clothing and more – concentrate and become magnified as they move up the food chain.
    • And in one experiment, silver nanoparticles in wastewater runoff killed a third of exposed plants and microbes, according to a CBC online article.
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    Friday, May 16, 2014

    JUST ONE DRINKING BINGE CAN LEAVE YOU WITH PERMANENT DAMAGE - PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE A WOMAN

    New research shows that binge drinking causes bacteria to leak from the gut, raising levels of toxins in the blood.   The researchers, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, say these toxins cause the body to produce immune cells involved in fever, inflammation and tissue destruction.