or any other "germ theory" really. The flat-worlder Muggles in my profession (veterinary medicine) always want to joust with us HOLISTIC vets by getting into a discussion about the details of the germ itself, the Pasteurean view that GERMS CAUSE DISEASE. As you will see, the government really wants everyone to think it is a germ problem too.
As long as the battle is drawn on the wrong battleground, both sides lose. Case in point, this latest discussion is not REALLY about E. Coli, nor are the arguments really about parasites, mold, mosquitoes, flies, ticks, and it is never really about any germ. It ain't an issue about CONTAMINATED BD PREPS either. The germs are just bit-players cleaning up in the aftermath of a pagan orgy. This is about THE LOSS OF THE HOLISTIC VIEW. The holistic generalists believe it is crucial not to get drawn into arguments about the germs. You will lose. Don't get me wrong, the germs ARE real. They will also kill you real dead. They can cause your farm to be destroyed or bankrupted. It is just that focusing on them is like building more prisons and draconian punishments instead of figuring out how to help people from turning to crime in the first place. There is a tendency in the "alternative" modalities to not see the big picture. "Organic" farmers often tend to use conventional farming mentalities without the band-aids (antibiotics, pesticides, hormones) and then they find it can be EVEN WORSE than conventional farming. Animals are often raised on the HOLY TRIANGLE of corn, soybeans and alfalfa instead of the true diet in nature which would include variety, seasonal variation and rotational grazing. Biodiversity is not only not taught in ag school it is lost in traditional wisdom as well. When domestic animals can forage a vast variety of "weeds" they can heal their systems. Confinement concentrates parasites and undesirable organisms. A further compounding of problems occur with the feedlot mentality. JERRY BRUNETTI says we are raising cattle like hogs, ignoring the fact that ruminants never evolved to be processors of "hot" grain rations as these food options basically don't exist in nature. The most absurd manifestation of dumb-down farming is that 90+% of the BISON raised is finished off in a feed lot! For shame! But we are now getting to the true conditions that allow pathogenic bacteria to find a nice home and raise their young. Dairy cattle suffer even worse because of the damage in the rumen due to the hot rations designed to produce even more low-quality milk. They are kept indoors most of their life and the food is conveyered past them so walking becomes not only not necessary, it is undesirable to this type of farm mentality who sees walking as "wasting energy" away from milk production. Genetic engineering has created cattle that do not like grazing! They prefer ground-up artificial rations and are not willing to walk around outside. I could go on and on for hours about all the travesties that enable imbalances of microorganisms to occur but this is not the place for that. You can extrapolate the same farm management perversities to the turkey, chicken, egg layer industries, and even sheep and goat operations now. Oh, and add most of the elk, deer and fish farms to the lists. If you are an HERBALIST these days, you might be asked "Hey Doc, what's a good herbal Prozac?" completely neglecting the HOLISTIC approach which would, first of all, ask why do you need a stress medicine?" HOMEOPATHS are likewise asked to come up with "homeopathic" vaccines and antibiotics. Many "specialists" in these fields just fall right into the trap. They haven't even been taught the BIG PICTURE so they remain myopic. To make matters even worse, as Jerry points out in his lectures, there is a ton of MONEY to be made in selling "band-aids" and very little or no money in selling holistic concepts. It fact, it often pleases people to purchase alternative remedies and potions whereas it aggravates them to be reminded of major flaws in their whole program. They may even turn on you! (So will your profession! Ask me.) I fear this whole mindset will happen as well with advocates of BIO-DYNAMICS who may try to raise cattle with corn, beans and alfalfa thinking that if they are raised with BD standards then it is BD. How about a BD feedlot operation? Or a BD confinement sow operation? I'm just saying it could happen. We are now headed towards governmental mandates requiring IRRADIATION of animal foods. People become scared shitless to eat anything! Guvment loves this space-age high-tech technology (Joel Saladin will NEVER have it!) because it not only makes the food consumer more vulnerable and more sheep-like but also because it encourages people tolerate and even love nuclear (now "NUC-U-LUR"). technology. All this will make it even easier to bypass locally-grown food and ship in the Third World food. Sterilized food ships quite well across the ocean. All this food is, of course, managed and owned by the agri-business megalithic corporations that vote in the administrations that support them. Creating food that can be banked and used as a terrorist weapon. First, destroy self-reliance. After all, regulating and withholding food is how we really killed off those pesky Injuns. Stirring people up about the boogie-men organisms creates a populace PARALYZED by FEAR. Media is desperate for the next BIG SCARE and adds to the injustice further clouding of the TRUE CAUSES. All this just plays right into this Bush-Clinton-Blair plan of destroying agriculture in the US and Britain. So, that is why I won't talk about E. coli. Will Winter
