Re: [Biofuel] A Food System That Kills - Swine Flu Is Meat Industry's Latest Plague
How many deaths have there been from swine flu so far? A few days ago WikiAnswers.com answered: more than 10 thousands people have died. That in spite of this news a day or two earlier: Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO, April 29, 2009 http://www.smh.com.au/world/only-7-swine-flu-deaths-not-152-says-who-20090429-aml1.html The Guardian since reported: There have been 17 confirmed deaths worldwide. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/02/mexico-revises-swineflu-death-toll Mexico revises down suspected swine flu deaths - Outbreak may be no worse than seasonal flu, says health minister, with deaths under investigation cut from 176 to 101, guardian.co.uk, Saturday 2 May 2009 WikiAnswers.com got a belated update from a less ill-informed contributor: ACTUALLY, only 150 deaths and 359 cases worldwide, these statistics are still UNCONFIRMED. The World Health Organization has updated their statistics to say that only 17 confirmed deaths have been reported from this recent strain of the swine flu in the entire world. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_deaths_have_there_been_from_the_swine_flu_so_far 17 deaths. Very high noise level per death, it must be nearly a record. ... Meanwhile a real pestilence, MRSA and C difficile, was taking hold in hospitals. It was suppressed by the medical profession because it appeared that they themselves might be to blame. These diseases have played a role in thousands of deaths in British hospitals - the former a reported 1,652 and the latter 8,324 in 2007 alone. Like deaths from alcoholism, we have come to regard hospital-induced infection as an accident of life, a hazard to which we have subconsciously adjusted. MRSA and C difficile are not like swine flu, an opportunity for public figures to scare and posture and spend money. They are diseases for which the government is to blame. They claim no headlines and no Cobra priority. Their sufferers must crawl away and die in silence. -- Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend -- Despite the hysteria, the risk to Britons' health is tiny - but that news won't sell papers or drugs, or justify the WHO's budget Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, Wednesday 29 April 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/29/swine-flu-mexico-uk-media1 I hope this pig doesn't get swine flu: http://articles.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2009/April/swine-flu-pig.JPG :-) I'm sure it won't though, it's not a CAFO, looks like a small, backyard operation, safe as houses. Best Keith Hi Jason Quite so. if swine flu has killed 150 people in the last month, and if the trend continues that will be more than 2000 people killed by this disease. 2,000 children die of hunger every hour and a half. That sure sounds like a pandemic to me. Same perps too: Agri-Biz at Root of Swine Flu? Evidence points to industrial pig farm as source of outbreak, if so, Bernice Wuethrich tried to warn us http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=31Itemid=74jumival=3632 Swine Flu and Factory Farms: Fast Track to Disaster by Michael Greger, M.D. April 25, 2009 Factory farms confine thousands of animals in one building -- a breeding ground for disease. ©Farm Sanctuary http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/swine_flu.html Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic -- Fact or Fiction? http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx Best Keith 35000 (thirty-five thousand) people die from the normal everyday chicken-soup-and-toast flu every year in the US alone. there are more than 25 million reported cases of common flu in the US in a year, and officials are calling 3000 cases of swine flu /worldwide/ a pandemic?!?! www.flufacts.com/impact/statistics.aspx Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:38:03 +0900 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Biofuel] A Food System That Kills - Swine Flu Is Meat Industry's Latest Plague New from GRAIN April 2009 http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=48 A Food System That Kills Swine Flu Is Meat Industry's Latest Plague Mexico is in the midst of a hellish repeat of Asia's bird flu experience, though on a more deadly scale. Once again, the official response from public authorities has come too late and bungled in cover-ups. And once again, the global meat industry is at the centre of the story, ramping up denials as the weight of evidence about its role grows. Just five years after the start of the H5N1 bird flu crisis, and after as many years of a global strategy against influenza pandemics coordinated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the world is now reeling from a swine flu disaster. The global strategy has failed and needs to be replaced with a public health system that the public can trust. What we know about the situation in Mexico is that,
Re: [Biofuel] A Food System That Kills - Swine Flu Is Meat Industry's Latest Plague
Keith, I hope things are well with you... Keith Addison wrote: How many deaths have there been from swine flu so far? A few days ago WikiAnswers.com answered: more than 10 thousands people have died. That in spite of this news a day or two earlier: Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO, April 29, 2009 [...] The Guardian since reported: There have been 17 confirmed deaths worldwide. It's a bit early for either a sigh of relief or abject fear. Unfortunately each of these statements could be true. Ten thousand could have died from the flu, but unless its genetic signature has been confirmed by a reputable lab, then no one can be sure that those who died had H1N1 (this new swine flu), some other flu virus, or another disease masquerading as flu. Further, WHO may be getting its confirmed death count from agencies other than those used and quoted by the Guardian. For example, in the US, at present, CDC (Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta) is the only place where there is a lab which can confirm the presence of H1N1 in a sample. Sometime this month, the plan is that each of the 50 states would have at least one lab that can do the tests which can confirm the presence of the particular genetic signature (a fluorescent dye that is specific to that signature is the main thing needed to be distributed). Nevertheless, if one wants statistics regarding confirmed cases or deaths in the US, then up to this point it was necessary to wait for the lab at CDC. Where there is a fast-moving increase in cases, obviously that bottleneck would tend to under-report either statistic. Further, even though we speak of this virus as though it were one thing, the fact is that it will continue to do what it has done to become what it more or less is at present. That is, the virus carries an amalgam of genes from human, swine and bird flu varieties, and may well have evolved some unique genetic sequences of its own. This morning's news carried a report of a human with the flu infecting more than 200 pigs, putting this masterful quick change artist into a new alembic. Things similar are bound to happen repeatedly, and unreported. In other words as it continues to spread, no doubt it will continue to change and recombine, and without question the varieties which result will be selected for those which are more easily transmitted and which are resistant to the various drugs in the cocktail of cures we throw at it. If, in addition, those characteristics somehow become coupled into a variant that is also more lethal, then the calculus will shift dramatically toward fear. Swine flu? A panic stoked in order to posture and spend... Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, Wednesday 29 April 2009 God bless Simon, but based on the short quote you offered, Keith, he has no idea what he's talking about. ... Meanwhile a real pestilence, MRSA and C difficile, was taking hold in hospitals... Now, by contrast, that's hard to argue against. And of course with the genetic reshuffling which so often occurs, and given that so many of those who are infected with H1N1 will likely be hospitalized, we will regularly be putting a highly infectious virus near highly resistant microbes... d. -- David William House The Complete Biogas Handbook |www.completebiogas.com| Make no search for water. But find thirst, And water from the very ground will burst. (Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77) http://bahai.us/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090504/a5bb94ae/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues
of serious tendon injury before tendons actually rupture. The petition also urged the FDA to send a warning letter to physicians, as well as require an FDA-approved medication guide to be dispensed when prescriptions are filled. Public Citizen contends that the FDA is violating the Administrative Procedure Act by not acting upon the petition. Stronger warnings could lead to earlier intervention and prevent needless injuries by allowing doctors to switch patients to other antibiotics, said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen*s Health Research Group. **While the FDA sits idly by and ignores the problem, more people will suffer serious tendon ruptures that could have been prevented,** Wolfe said. **The current warning is buried in a long list of possible adverse reactions and is far too easy to miss.** From November 1997 through December 2005, the FDA received 262 reports of tendon ruptures, mainly of the Achilles tendon, 258 cases of tendinitis and 274 cases of other tendon disorders in patients using fluoroquinolone antibiotics. An additional 74 tendon ruptures have subsequently been reported to the FDA for a total of 336. Because only a small fraction of cases are typically reported to the FDA, the actual number of ruptures and other tendon injuries attributable to the antibiotic is much higher. Source: Healthy News One can only imagine the FDA*s reaction if 336 tendon ruptures had been reported for those who take the best antibiotic and pathogen destroyer on the planet - colloidal silver. No doubt, they would have raided the manufacturer with storm troopers and shut it down years ago, just as they have done many times with the manufacturers and sellers of other natural competitors to drug company products. In conclusion, as far as I can tell, not one single instance of Argyria has been attributed to properly made colloidal that was not consumed in amounts that were up to hundreds of times the recommended dosage, that has not stopped the FDA from continuing to **sing the blues** about silver or from going after those who make and sell colloidal silver products, not because silver represents a whit of threat to human health but rather because it represents a threat to the inflated bottom line profits of the mainstream drug manufacturers. Finding out who the FDA really serves is a simple task - all you have to do is follow the money. But don`t simply take my word, let a noted past FDA commissioner tell you very clearly what the FDA is really about: **The FDA *protects* the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government*s police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them. It isn*t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day.** Dr. Herbert Ley Former U.S. FDA Commissioner About the author Tony Isaacs, is a natural health advocate and researcher and the author of books and articles about natural health including _Cancer's Natural Enemy_ (http://tbyil.com/rose-laurel.htm) and _Collected Remedies_ (http://www.tbyil.com/RLBooks.htm) as well as song lyrics and humorous anecdotal stories. Mr. Isaacs also has _The Best Years in Life_ (http://www.tbyil.com/) website for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. He is currently residing in the scenic Texas hill country near Utopia, Texas where he serves as a consultant to the _Utopia Silver_ (http://www.utopiasilver.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=18_1_bid_3) colloidal silver and supplement company and where he is working on a major book project due for publication later this year. Mr. Isaacs also hosts the CureZone _Ask Tony Isaacs_ (http://curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=861p=14) forum as well as the Yahoo Health Group _Oleander Soup_ (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/oleandersoup/) (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090504/db0403ff/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
