Pick up a copy of this month's edition of Consumer Reports.

What you don't know about your doctor could hurt you

Botched surgeries, substance abuse, sexual misconduct, doctors on probation who are still allowed to practice medicine (and who do not need to tell you).

Kinda helps a gal or guy figure out why their are regularly scheduled Inet attacks on non-toxic health alternatives which might compete against the gross profiteering of the Medical-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex, Inc.

...this should be obvious to anyone paying attention to discussions of GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup, chemical 'flavor enhancers' and all the rest of the dubious corporate crud with which they infest our diets.

"...it is a growing trend for controversial companies, especially food companies, to combat negative comments from critics with professional cyber armies..."

The same thing could be said of Big Pharma & Big Medical-Industrial Corporate Complex.



http://www.thedailysheeple.com/big-food-employs-cyber-armies-to-confront-critics_022013

In in the interest of being fair - and to balance out the regularly scheduled attacks on clean food that afflict these pages - some real news about about corporate industrial fast food (think GMOs, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, preservatives, synthetic chemical 'flavor enhancers,' and of course the deservedly despised HFCS*, etc. etc.):

Researchers have found a ‘striking’ new side effect from eating fast food

April 15, 2016 - The Washington Post

"Researchers at George Washington University have linked fast-food consumption to the presence of potentially harmful chemicals, a connection they argue could have "great public health significance."

"Specifically, the team found that people who eat fast food tend to have significantly higher levels of certain phthalates, which are commonly used in consumer products such as soap and makeup to make them less brittle but have been linked to a number of adverse health outcomes, including higher rates of infertility, especially among males.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/15/researchers-have-found-an-alarming-new-side-effect-from-eating-fast-food/

* HFCS = High Fructose Corn Syrup

Somehow, somewhere there has to be a reporter who will ask this obvious question. But then again, considering the tragic condition of Corporate Journalism, inc. (R), maybe not.

Are you now, or have you ever been, a True Believer?

"When did you become aware of the obscene prices the pharmaceutical industry is charging for drugs? For many it was when a smirking Martin Shkreli, founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals, testified on the Hill in February about his price hike of the antiparasitic drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750, after which he called lawmakers "imbeciles" in a tweeted goodbye.

"For others it was the roll-out of Gilead Sciences hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in 2014 at $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment...

"Pharma is fighting back. Its lobbying groups, PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, or BIO. have launched a Washington, DC-focused campaign to keep lawmakers from legislating away its profit party...."

And they are spamming the Internet with an army of trolls making weak-kneed excuses for Big Pharma's abuses, and attacking non-toxic holistic health alternatives.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35390-ten-huge-drug-rip-offs-and-big-pharma-s-infuriating-campaign-to-keep-on-price-gouging

"The interior ministry has announced plans to give five complementary therapies including homeopathy the same status as conventional medicine.

"Homeopathy, holistic medicine, herbal medicine, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine will acquire the same status as conventional medicine by May 2017 when it comes to health insurance..."

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/complementary-therapies_swiss-to-recognise-homeopathy-as-legitimate-medicine/42053830

This factual news about the informed, free-will decision of the educated and discerning people of Switzerland will - pundits speculate - stimulate the ongoing systemactic, regularly scheduled barrage of Homeopathy Hippie Punching, Inc.

Please fling all umbrage, bile and wild-eyed accusations of alleged STUPIDITY at the people of Switzerland. I'm just reporting on their informed, discerning decision.


Please note while TRUMPeters will allege that Switzerland is STUPID, that is a stupid accusation. Switzerland ranks 8th for most informed and educated people, while the US is ranked way down the list at 28th.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/global-school-rankings-interactive-map-shows-standards-of-education-across-the-world-10247405.html

NATURAL CAPITAL AT RISK
A new report on behalf of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity program sponsored by UN Environmental Program, examined the profiteering of the biggest industries on this planet, and then contrasted them with 100 different types of environmental costs including water use, land use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste pollution, land pollution, and water pollution.

The report found that when you took the externalized costs into effect, essentially NONE of the industries was actually making a profit. The huge profit margins being made by the world’s most profitable industries (oil, meat, tobacco, mining, electronics) is being paid for against the future: we are trading long term sustainability for the benefit of share-holders.

The corporate industrialized chemicalized system of agriculture, with its increasing reliance on CAFOs (huge, confined animal fattening operations usually serving up industrial-scale GMO feed with glyphosate residue), was fingered as a major player in this planetary rip-off: internalizing profits, while externalizing the cost of it's extreme harm to the life-support systems of the planet.

http://www.trucost.com/_uploads/publishedResearch/TEEB%20Final%20Report%20-%20web%20SPv2.pdf

For example:

That's a rich new epithet for the claque of Republicans who are obeisant to the stunted soul of the short-fingered, vulgarian, Donald Trump.

Republican "wisdom" from the opinion pages of today's New York Times: "Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator, calls Trump supporters “Branch Trumpidians,” and appears to spend much of his time retweeting insults of them.

"Last week Mr. Erickson wrote that the only people who love Mr. Trump “are white supremacists, neo-Nazis, a white victim class of mostly blue-collar workers, a group of white folks who have failed at life and blame everyone else for their own bad decisions.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/opinion/blaming-the-white-victim-class.html?emc=edit_th_20160407&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=47943027

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Researchers have already found the toxic herbicide glyphosate (which is used in conjunction with over 80% of GMO crops) in beer and tampons, and of course in human bodies. Now they have also found the foul, toxic glorp* infesting California wines.

As it happens, the industrial ag farmers spraying toxic glyposate all over kingdom come have even polluted nearby organic vineyards to a degree. The contamination of conventional wine was 28 times higher than organic wine.

No doubt the vast, well-funded War on Clean Food and Drink (aka War on Organics or Organic Hippie Punching) campaign will attempt to use this as propaganda to allege that clean, organic food is just as f*cked up as the Product that issues from Corporate Industrial GMO-Chemical-Pharmaceutical Conglomerates, Inc.

WARNING: Do not swallow the Industrial Glyphosate PR which systematically infest the Intertubes, the way the chemical toxin glyphosate systematically infests GMO fields, and then drifts into the rest of the world, including our bodies.

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/27/monsanto-glyphosate-wine/