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Date Posted: 08:34:37 05/05/08 Mon
Folks,
Since the Big PHARMA - FDA - BIG AG - have discovered we (their lab rats) have been going around them to get good wholesome food - they went to the source of the healthy foods and have now destroyed them. It is so important that you read labels - keep updated via heal focused email networks and lists as to what is going on.
When the soil, the fertilizer, the seeds, the water, is polluted and contaminated - - then you go to the harvesting, processing, and the sale - it is mighty hard to avoid GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTATION VIA FOOD. Since Americans have long ago eliminated so many illnesses we are more than susceptible to any bugs coming in here. We stopped letting our kids get dirty or catch measles, mumps, chickenpox, and were told that we had to use all these harsh germ killers in everything we used or consumed that we no longer had any natural immunity to what were common things.
Thanks to Deb for this info on Almonds... and the baby carrots.
Maybe it is a combination of the chemicals they put in our food that is reacting so deadly with the TASERS??????
Jackie Juntti
WGEN idzrus@earthlink.net
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From: "Deb"
To: "W.G.E.N."
Subject: HEAL: Almonds
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:12:23 -0500
Well, this is another food that must be definitely taken OFF YOUR GROCERY list.
If you are fortunate to live next to a grower, you "may" be better off if you go down
and buy them from a stand or farmers market. But there's no way for you to know
which poison was used to permanently "clean" you almond. The horror story of
baby carrot poison saturation in order to bag them for market was bad enough.
I've got a couple pounds to throw away I'm afraid. AND remember, the FDA and
USDA are completely to blame for the cancers and other body parts damage caused.
They have lied to the pubic. They have lied for the growers and they have rendered
another great food source of millenia dead by making up legislation and forcing everyone
to comply while nations like China go scott free. Fascism anyone? This affects you and
your children and others you love directly, and dangerously -- as usual.
Abbreviated to only almond article.
----- Original Message -----
From: HSI - Jenny Thompson
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 5:50 AM
Subject: HSI e-Alert - Really Raw
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May 05, 2008 Why am I getting this?
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Dear Reader,
It seems to be getting harder and harder to simply grow something nutritious and sell it in a whole, unprocessed form.
The most recent whole food casualty: raw almonds.
In the e-Alert "Living Proof" (4/16/08), I told you about a study that showed how eating almonds with a meal can impede glycemic and insulin responses a welcome benefit for diabetics. In addition, almond intake protects proteins from oxidative damage while delivering vitamin E and other antioxidants, magnesium, calcium, folate, protein, fiber and living enzymes.
Not bad for a humble nut. But an HSI member poses this question: "Would the benefits of almonds also be true of pasteurized almonds?"
The "Living Proof" study used raw California almonds. But that study was conducted in 2006, when a raw almond was actually a raw, unprocessed, unpasteurized whole food. Two years later, everything has changed.
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Extreme makeover
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More than 200 years ago, Spanish missionaries brought almond cultivation to California where it flourished into an industry that today produces well over one billion pounds of almonds each year more than 70 percent of the world's supply. If you eat an almond in the U.S., it came from California.
Two small outbreaks of salmonella in 2001 and 2004 were attributed to raw almonds. To reassure the public that almonds are safe to eat, the Almond Board of California (ABC) proposed a mandatory sterilization of all raw almonds produced in California for U.S. consumption. The USDA agreed, and now almonds labeled as "raw" are either irradiated or chemically treated to create a "pasteurized" almond.
This is like burning down a house to solve a mold problem, because both of these pasteurization techniques deplete nutritional value, and might even trigger grim health problems.
Irradiation exposes food products to extremely high levels of radiation that kill bacteria, parasites and funguses. Animal studies have shown that irradiation may promote chromosome damage, cancer, and other damaging effects.
But the chemical pasteurization process may be even more dangerous.
This technique is called propylene oxide fumigation, which utilizes a chemical compound that the EPA has classified as a probable human carcinogen. And 2008 marks a big year for propylene oxide exactly 50 years ago food producers began using this chemical to pasteurize nuts, cocoa powder, spices, and other food items. And here's an interesting note: Propylene oxide was once used in racing fuel, but in 1993 the National Hot Rod Association banned its use because of cancer concerns. And yet this poison is still used to pasteurize foods EPA and FDA approved!
I would call this a "nutty" plan, but that would just make "insidiously stupid" sound cute.
Could this situation get any worse? Of course.
The FDA has decided that irradiated or propylene oxide fumigated almonds can be labeled as "raw" without notifying consumers that a sterilization process has been used. In other words, we've been blatantly betrayed again by the agency that's supposed to protect us.
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There is some good news here, but it's precious little for most of us.
Just as dairy farmers are allowed to sell unpasteurized milk directly to customers, almond farmers can sell unpasteurized raw almonds at roadside stands. So if you happen to live near a trustworthy small-scale almond farm, you're in luck.
And there's an organic loophole. The ABC and USDA allow organic almond growers to use a steam-heat pasteurization method. This technique also depletes nutrients, but has the clear benefit of not causing cancer in lab rats.
And finally, the Almond Board's pasteurization mandate doesn't extend to the millions of pounds of raw almonds that California exports each year. So in the interest of preventing infrequent and isolated salmonella incidents, the ABC offers U.S. consumers a nutritionally anemic nut that just might be dangerous, while our neighbors around the world continue to enjoy authentic raw almonds.
I wonder if the FDA will start cracking down on U.S. citizens traveling to Canada to purchase "foreign" raw almonds?
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Sources:
"Pasteurization Nation" Amelia Glynn, Common Ground, April 2008, commongroundmag.com
"Organic Almond Supporters Roast Pasteurization Plan" George Raine, The San Francisco Chronicle, 8/23/07, sfgate.com
"Stephen Hawking: Alien but Primitive Life Likely" Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press, 4/22/08, ap.org
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