Saturday, April 2, 2011

Thousands of turkeys culled, but safe to eat

Yes, avian influenza has made its first appearance in the United States (at least this is the first time it has been openly admitted) at a turkey factory-farm in Missouri. This could be called the American Avian Flu's "coming out party," and to celebrate, we slaughter 13,000 turkeys. Kind of like in the Bible, we are making a blood offering.

But, however, don't worry, it's safe! Yes, we are promised, as always, this should not affect your turkey-buying rampant consumerism. This is the low-key avian flu, H7N3, not the dreaded H5N1. This one, we are assured, is in no way dangerous to people as helpfully noted in the Kansas City Star:

Missouri agriculture officials say humans are rarely affected by the strain of avian flu found at the farm. Cargill declined to give its location, to keep the curious from showing up and possibly spreading the disease. - Kansas City Star - 03/31/2011
The underlying message (not quite subliminal, however) is that this is okay, it is not dangerous. Turkey is safe to eat. Even turkey infected with bird flu (well, low-brow, second-class bird flu, not the dangerous stuff way over there in Japan) is safe to eat. The only reason they slaughtered these birds is to keep the flu from spreading. But we can still eat their carcasses.

So where is the undisclosed location, and why are they hiding the location from us? Are they afraid we will strap on our "kiss-the-carnivore" bibs and head off to that location, for a good time and an old-fashioned BBQ? Pass me one of them turkey legs and let's pretend we are at the renaissance fair! Could the undisclosed location be a Wal-mart near you? Or a Kentucky-Fried Turkey fast-food joint?
People helping with the operation wore protective suits and masks, and tires were hosed off before leaving.  Polk County Emergency Management Director Rick Lewis said the turkey carcasses were being taken to an undisclosed approved location.  One person helping with the effort later told us that place is a landfill. - April 01, 2011|by Linda Russell, KY3 News | lrussell@ky3.com
The undisclosed location is a landfill. Now why in the world should we be burying these allegedly "safe-to-eat" turkeys in a landfill? How are we supposed to eat them? Isn't that kind of like eating out of a big ole garbage dump? Why not have a big turkey cook-off and invite all the hungry children to a free meal? We could even distribute FREE influenza vaccinations, one shot with every bite!

Why not? Because the turkeys are not safe to eat. Yes, we are told over and over that if you cook'em and cook'em good, then they are safe to eat. Really, turkeys and pigs and chickens (oh my) infected with influenza are quite healthy to eat, they are good for you, in fact, the meat infected with flu should be labeled as preferable to that which is not infected. This is what we are told. Because we need to protect the dollar. But it is a lie, and you know it is a lie. Your BS detectors light up like Christmas Eve, but for some reason you ignore those flashing lights.

So we kill thousands of turkeys and bury them in an undisclosed landfill (perhaps just down the street from you) and we flood the media with how safe it is to eat infected carcasses (if you cook'em good) and we lie to the public, outright, and tell them that H1N1 did not come from pigs, that it is not a disease of zoonoses origins (a disease which makes the genetic leap from animals to humans), and so by correlation the "Bird Flu" probably did not originate in our avian neighbors, and neither illness is truly dangerous to humans, that in fact it is all a trumped up advertisement for Government-provided flu vaccines.

Unplug from the talking heads, and think it through for yourself. True, it might cause a burning sensation deep somewhere between your left ear and your right ear, but if you practice "thinking for yourself" a few times, the pain should go away, and you might discover that you like it, thinking, and thinking for yourself.

 Art et Amour Toujours

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Vitamin D endangering the system

Imagine a system where everything produced must be consumed, and when consumption slows down, the system begins to die, and so everything is geared toward increasing consumption. Everything in this system must inspire consumption, and every factor of the system must lead to increased consumption toward other aspects of the system, or again the system begins to die. It must be a system of constant degradation—things must constantly be wearing out and falling apart—in order that the system can be constantly built up and increased and perpetuated. Products in the system must be created so that they do not last, so that they fall apart, in order to feed the system by creating new products to build up the parts that are disintegrating.

This is a working system that ensures job opportunities to people working for the system, enabling these workers to consume the products of the system.

Imagine a health system based on this model, that things must disintegrate in order to build them back up. Think of it as a business, the business of keeping a person healthy. By "healthy," I mean that the person is alive, or somewhat alive.

If the person is not falling apart, the person is endangering the health system. To ensure that the person needs the products of the system, the person must be fed tiny amounts of poison. The poison does not kill the person. This is important, as the person is a very important aspect of the system machinery, really, the whole reason for the system's existence.

The person, fed poison, does not feel well. A small health-care product is provided and the person feels better. But to maximize the efficiency of the system, the provided health-care product must also contain a small portion of poison. This poison should not kill the person, or make them extremely ill, but only make them feel a tad off kilter, much as the original poison did, and thus ensuring that the person requests a different—or a variety—of new health-care products. Each health-care product should spawn a new set of symptoms and side effects.

The person is in a perpetual need of more products, both ridding the effects of products, while promulgating the need for an ever-broadening variety of new products.

Any kind of product not produced by the system, especially any product that is less expensive and safer than the system product, and any product that does not contain a small portion of poison, is in itself a threat to the system, and must be suppressed, or removed from the reach of any consumer. The consumer should be convinced of the danger of the "natural" product, and the safety and wisdom in consuming the system products.

As an exercise, label one of the inexpensive, out-of-the-system "natural" products as "Vitamin D." It is very important to convince the consumer that the so-called Vitamin D is dangerous, or that it should only be consumed in very small amounts, while a plethora of system-inspired products have passed rigorous tests and examinations by powerful committees of very important health-care system delegates. In every case, downplay the health benefits of this product, especially when it disrupts the poisonous effects of the system products.

Eventually, the system must incorporate the troublesome natural product, and a small amount of the system poison should be introduced, while simultaneously removing most of the natural health benefits. Assure the consumer that this new and improved version of the natural product, Vitamin D, is now safe to consume since it is now part of the system.

If Vitamin D can be produced naturally in the consumer's body through mere exposure to natural sunlight, then it is of utmost importance that the consumer must be convinced that natural sunlight is bad for them. As much as it is possible, keep the consumer out of the sun. Assure the consumer that natural sunlight causes cancer, and that only system products can battle cancer. Provide new products that may be applied to the consumer's skin in order to block the "harmful" radiation of the sun, thus ensuring that the natural product is not naturally produced in the consumer. Convince the consumer that producing and maintaining low levels of Vitamin D in their body is of utmost importance. Convince them that sunblockers are doing them good, are protecting them, and bringing about health in their children.

At all costs do not allow the consumer to become aware of the fact that the small amount of poison introduced into every system product is what in all reality causes cancer.

As an exercise, label the chief produce of the system as "medicine" and "drugs," all the while assuring the consumer that medicine and drugs are good, and necessary for even minimal levels of happiness and health.

Art et Amour Toujours
Douglas Christian Larsen