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December 13th, 2006Anonymous sent $31, RS sent $20 and JG sent $23.
Becky and I decided to use $50 from these funds to become members of the Weston A. Price Foundation. We had both heard of this organization and Becky loves Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. But it wasn’t until some acquaintances in Germany (via Cryptogon and Farmlet) sent us some back issues of the Wise Traditions journal that we knew we had to become members. The journal is packed with incredible articles. Serious Red Pill material. Please check out the Weston A. Price Foundation for yourself.
Thank you all very much!
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I/we’ve been wondering how much time would pass between receiving said WAPF “data dump” and overt advocacy of their basic philosophy of self-education on all things health-related.
Are you going to be serving as a NZ chapter as well? (the $50 amount suggests…)
And maybe I’m being a stickler on metaphor (a habit, I’m afraid), but I must beg to differ, as there’s nary a pill — red, blue or otherwise — to be found anywhere in the application of traditional nutrition.
Five years of steady improvement in our once-failing physical health is what we’ve got to show for our focused efforts, not to mention an industrial-strength level of cynicism regarding all things industrial.
Of all the big lies flowing from the dark heart beating at the core of empire, the blatant corruption and Manichean manipulation revolving around the collision of elite power and familial avarice we call government, the ones I’ve always find the most disturbing are those dealing with food and medicine. Every dissident has their own personal realm of motivations, and the history of 20th century agriculture and medicine is one of mine.
For the very same reason actual truth in regard to any subject is avoided by mainstream media (profit), the realities of the modern industrial diet and its effects upon the human animal are re-cast into a never-ending cascade of limited scientific hangouts, each as toxic as the last. Surely an occasional look at such subject matter, with under- and overtones ala Susan George’s “Lugano Report”, is worthy of a home at Cryptogon — especially as you grow further & further away from all things systemic there on the Farmlet.
Eventually, the realization dawns that the entire “health industry” is anything but; that the “green revolution” was an industry consolidation of sorts; that the PTB aren’t just poisoning us from above and within, but that they’ve long since compromised the fundamental source that keeps our biological clocks ticking. We are EXACTLY what we eat. No more, no less. I’ll save diving into specifics for later comments on the “other blog.”
As a chemically-adventurous-but-wise-beyond his-years friend in my youth once said, “if you’re going to take drugs, it pays to know your chemistry.” Heard a similar line repeated in the film “Groove” a few years back, and wondered if the old mate was working as a script consultant. I took the sentiment to heart then, probably saving my life in the process somewhere along the way. Another epiphany was realizing it applied equally to nutrition (can you say “duh”…) in the ramp up to our WAPF discovery moment back in 2000/2001.
By the way, the recently arrived Winter 2006 issue of Wise Traditions departed rural ‘Merovingia’ this very morning, bound for a familiar post-office box on the north island.
So, be sure to let Sally and the folks back in D.C. know to start your WAPF mailings with the Spring 2007 edition.
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Watch this:
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html
The Myths of Vegetarianism – by Stephen Byrnes, PhD, RNCP
Quite interesting:
Myth #6: Saturated fats and dietary cholesterol cause heart disease, atherosclerosis, and/or cancer, and low-fat, low-cholesterol diets are healthier for people.
Myth #7: Vegetarians live longer and have more energy and endurance than meat-eaters.
Myth #9: Meat and saturated fat consumption have increased in the 20th century, with a corresponding increase in heart disease and cancer.
Alright. But, just a few links away:
Memorial Service for Stephen Byrnes
Honorary Board Member of the Weston A. Price Foundation
“Steve suffered a stroke on June 10, 2004. Dr. Stephen Byrnes passed away on Thursday, June 17th, 2004.”
http://www.westonaprice.org/federalupdate/aa2004/infoalert_090704.html
Follow what I say, not what I’ve done? Search for http://www.PowerHealth.net on http://www.archive.org, and see how old he was when he died.
And what about Weston Price? A dentist. A _good_ one:
“Beyond nutrition, Weston Price was also notoriously known for having advocated the large scale removal of all root canals for being a source of infections. His root canal infection theory led to the needless extraction of hundreds of thousands of root canals until well-designed research studies, conducted during the 1930s, demonstrated that his theory was wrong.”
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/weston-price.html
That’s an effective bit of debunking “Doubting Daryl”, at least until you bother to do your actual homework. Ever hear of mercury? Do you know who paid for the study you so confidently quote as referential gospel? Ever read anything about a Mr. Fishbein of the AMA?
So, who paid you to write this drivel?
As ever out here in the ether, the modus operandi remains the same: anonymous individual plants seeds of doubt via dubious debunking.
At once, they typically also telegraph their true intent by demonstrating a grasp of the situation only slightly more accurate and/or intelligent than that of the average television commercial.
The use of thinly veiled personal attacks on the credibility of two individuals “fighting the system” also offers a clue, thankfully, as what you’ve offered by way of comment does not. It slides right straight into scaring folks off using the usual approach: shallow ad hominem finger pointing.
Most every individual who engages industrialists and their footsoldiers head-on ends up discredited in the corporate media and/or dead, recipients of what’s come to be known as the “Paul Wellstone award” in our home.
Of course, encouraging said anonymous one toward a bit of further study will likeely fall on deaf ears. They’re already off into the ether, earning their living debunking another set of independent ideas that challenge the status quo.
However, like our host Kevin, I’d love to be proven wrong here. A reply with a byline would be most welcome, as the subject of Price’s body of work and research could stand to see a little more daylight. Have you ever actually reviewed his ideas and suppositions, Big A?
Doug,
Here be trolls. I’ll send you an email…
Kevin
No worries Kev, my masthead reads “poking trolls and avoiding tolls since 1990.”
My father the engineer is in possession of aa first-generation Altair, to offer a taste. Grew up looking at and/or playing with a steady procession of digital progress flowing through the small electronic design firm bursting through the seams of our basement and garage.
My first video game was Colossal Cave — in white-on-black text via analog dial-up — at 300 baud.
Flamed my first troll in 1994 via Usenet and never looked back, except to note (more than once I must sadly admit) the futility and frustration inherent in said activity. Easy lesson though, really, especially when one regards the sheer amount of wasted psychic petrol burnt engaging in such intellectual irateness.
These last ten years or so, the above is the most they’ll get off me. After that I pull a Joyce and engage a tactical retreat from the source of said contact/conflict. My preferred MO is creation, not destuction. That’s what makes our opt-out life and lifestyle here at Scholzenhaus — like yours on the Farmlet — such a winner in the long run. We’ve chosen to creatively re-engage a world nearly killed off by the robber barons and their kin.
E-mail received. Reply forthcoming. But first, today, we’re off to Burg Vogelsang with a group of historical hobbyists. Quite the facility in its day.
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/vogelsang.htm
One of the most disturbing anecdotal observations, made upon my settling here in the Eifel and beginning to explore the actual nooks & crannies of European history, is America’s iconographic choices at monuments and memorials here on the continent. Perhaps resurrecting the German “Reichsadler” (sans swastika) wasn’t so wise in retrospect. Almost like a poker tell, no?
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How about an objective, middle of the road look at the situation instead of extremist diatribes?
http://www.energygrid.com/health/2002/06ap-stephenbyrnes.html
“Moderation in all things”