Caustic Commentary, Fall 2024

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Sally Fallon Morell takes on the Diet Dictocrats

BRING US MEAT!

The fifteen thousand athletes competing in the Paris Games at the 2024 Olympics had little good to say about the “climate-friendly” meal options served up in the Olympic Village. They wanted animal protein, not lentil sausages and veggie bourguignon. The food service ran out of meat and eggs the first day and had to quickly “make some ad­justments. . . [adding] 700 kilos of eggs and a ton of meat.” Swimmer James Magnussen, who won a bronze medal for Australia in 2016 blamed “the lack of world records” on “this whole eco-friendly, carbon footprint, vegan-first mentality rather than high performance. . . Their caterer had to rejig their numbers and bring in more of those products because surprise, surprise—world class athletes don’t have vegan diets” (Facebook@realjonfleetwood, July 31).

NATO SECURITY FORCES AGAINST ANTI-VAXXERS?

As more and more parents just say “No!” to childhood vacci­nations, pro-vaccination forces are proposing more and more draconian measures to fill our children and grandchildren with poisons. Recently, vaccine bulldog Dr. Peter Hotez of Texas Children’s Hospital called for the United Nations and NATO to deploy security forces against “anti-vaxxers” in the United States. Hotez’s statements first appeared on the YouTube channel of the International Symposium of Pediat­ric Updates, a conference that took place in Colombia, South America. The conference has since removed the interview, but clips continue to circulate on X. According to Hotez, the situation is so dire that the government will need to bring in Homeland Security, the Commerce Department and the Justice Department to deal with the anti-science anti-vaxxers. “This is a security problem,” said Hotez, “because it’s no longer a theoretical construct or some arcane academic exercise. Two hundred thousand Americans died because of anti-vaccine aggression, anti-science aggression” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=XICtKdpg_1o).

AND IN NEW ZEALAND

In related news, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has re­leased an interim update to its Pandemic Plan, last published in 2017. According to the ministry, “whilst the plan is focused on respiratory pathogens, such as influenza and COVID-19, it can be adopted and applied with adaptations as necessary to any pandemic, regardless of the nature of the pathogen and its severity”. The critical text is found on page one hun­dred twenty-five, under the heading of “Special Powers.” An emergency declaration gives “power to detain, isolate or quarantine [and] allows a medical officer of health to ‘require persons, places, buildings, ships, vehicles, aircraft, animals, or things to be isolated, quarantined, or disinfected’ (sec­tion 70(1)(f)). “The power to prescribe preventive treatment allows a medical officer of health, in respect of any person who has been isolated or quarantined, to require people to remain where they are isolated or quarantined until they have been medically examined and found to be free from infectious disease, and until they have undergone such pre­ventive treatment as the medical officer of health prescribes (section 70(1)(h)).” “Preventive treatment,” of course, means vaccines, forced vaccines (nakedemperor.substack.com/p/new-zealands-pandemic-plan-to-legalise).

ATTACK ON HELPLESS CIVILIANS

Dr. Michael Yeadon, formerly a vice president of Pfizer and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory illness, has joined many other scientists and physicians in arguing that there is not sufficient evidence that either the Covid-19 virus or any other virus actually exists. He asserts that there was no Covid-19 pandemic, in other words no increase in deaths anywhere in the world until the “pandemic” was announced. The cause of the deaths that followed was not a virus but rather “a monstrous, long-planned attack on helpless civilians by coordinated, lethal, central planning incorporating deadly hospital and home care protocols, lockdowns, fraudulent PCR tests, and gene-based injections designed intentionally to injure, kill and reduce fertility.” Most importantly, “the most difficult point for readers to believe,” is that respiratory illnesses, indeed any illnesses, are not contagious, as proven in numerous studies. Therefore, “they cannot be infectious. That rules out the mendacious description of these illnesses as being caused by microscopic, infectious particles called viruses” (LifeSiteNews, July 19, 2024).

ANOTHER CAPTURED AGENCY

The Farm Credit System (FCS), created almost one hun­dred years ago with a mission to save the family farm, now serves corporate agricultural interests, according to attorney Dustin Kittle, former cattle and poultry farmer in an interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The agency is even forcing small farmers off their land. Kittle dates the agency takeover to 2009 when the FCS changed its mission from saving family farms to saving the agriculture industry as a whole. The FCS began prioritizing large corporations over small farmers, “doling out loans to [corporate giants] JBS and Tyson. . . We are not talking about $100,000 lines of credit. We are talking about billion-dollar loans to those companies.” One way that FCS takes out the small farmer is through “loan distress declarations.” This is the practice of declaring loans in distress even when farmers are current on their payments—such as when someone whose name is on the deed dies. Kittle’s loan was placed in distress in retaliation for representing a group of farmer-borrowers. The practice forces farmers to hire legal help, which they can hardly afford. Since the FCS was created, America has lost five million family farms. “We are down to 1.8 million family farms,” he said, from a high of almost seven million (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsL3eCWsEz8).

LOVERS OF DIET MOUNTAIN DEW

Carbonated water, concentrated orange juice, citric acid, natural flavor, potassium benzoate (preserves freshness), citrus pectin, aspartame, potassium citrate, caffeine, sodium citrate, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, gum arabic, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), calcium disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), yellow 5. These are the ingredients of Diet Mountain Dew, the preferred beverage of both vice presi­dential candidates, Tom Walz and J.D. Vance. The beverage contains three artificial sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame potassium and sucralose, plus a number of other additives of doubtful safety. Mountain Dew also has one of the high­est levels of caffeine in soft drinks. Heaven help our nation when our political candidates think it’s OK to brag about consuming this garbage.

MULTIVITAMINS NO GOOD

One American in three takes a multivitamin, but researchers from the National Cancer Institute have found that those tak­ing multivitamins do not live longer; in fact, they have a slight increase—about 4 percent—in mortality risk. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (June 26, 2024), the study analyzed data of almost four hundred thou­sand adults for up to twenty-seven years. Many factors can explain these findings. First, the vitamins in multivitamins are all artificial; some, like folic acid (instead of folate) have known harmful effects. Vitamin D is rarely balanced with vitamins A and K, nor are copper and iron (the wrong kind of iron) balanced with zinc. Then there are the questionable additives: titanium dioxide, artificial colors, preservatives and flavors, talc, magnesium silicate and glazes or coatings in the capsules. As we learn more about how vitamins and minerals work in the body, it becomes clear that the best way to get our vitamins is from food, nutrient-dense food like liver and other organ meats, grass-fed butter and egg yolks, raw milk and cheese, and shellfish, which come with co-factors that support optimum assimilation.

MAMMOGRAPHY IN QUESTION

“Abolishing Mammography Screening Programs? A View from the Swiss Medical Board,” published in the New Eng­land Journal of Medicine (May 22, 2014), notes that many controversies have surrounded mammography screening for the past ten to fifteen years, and even today, the benefits remain “nonobvious.” For example, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statistics indicate that out of about one thousand women screened for breast cancer (that is, given mammograms), in ten years, four will die from breast cancer and about forty from other causes; out of the same number of women not screened, five will die of breast cancer and about forty from other causes. Moreover, many mammograms give false positive results, which means that a woman may undergo surgery and other awful treatments for breast can­cer when she doesn’t need to. Of note is the fact that most women are unaware that the benefits of mammography are “nonobvious,” believing that regular mammograms can cut the risk of dying of breast cancer by half. Based on these findings, the Swiss Medical Board recommended that no new systematic mammography screening programs be introduced and that “clear and balanced information should be provided to women regarding the benefits and harms of screening.” In other words, women should be told that the unpleasant experience of the biannual mammogram is unlikely to be of benefit and may even lead to the harmful consequences of a false positive. Predictably, Swiss cancer “experts and organizations” loudly rejected these conclusions as “unethical.” The mammogram madness must continue! Otherwise how could they keep feeding victims into the maw of the cancer machine.

STATINS AND DIABETES

It was the 2008 Jupiter trial that first raised concerns about statins causing diabetes. A study just published in The Lan­cet provides confirmation of this finding. The meta-analysis by the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) Collaboration looks at patient data from several large-scale, long-term ran­domized controlled trials. The findings raise many concerns about anybody taking statins. The study showed that low-to moderate-intensity statin therapy was associated with a 10 percent increased risk of new-onset diabetes; high-intensity statin therapy raised that risk by a whopping 36 percent. This finding was consistent across different types of partici­pants and over time. Other adverse effects associated with statin use included muscle wasting, pancreatic cancer and cataracts. New guidelines based on the American Heart As­sociation’s 2023 Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) equations could reduce the number of American adults “eligible” for statin therapy from forty-five to twenty-eight million, but we’re not holding our breath. There’s too much money involved to change the incentives for doctors to prescribe them. The best strategy remains to just say No (articles.mercola.com, August 10, 2024)!

GUT FLORA AND FAT-SOLUBLE VITAMINS

A paradigm shift with regard to the role of bacteria in health is a defining phenomenon of the twenty-first century. Medical orthodoxy has moved from “bacteria attack us and make us sick” to “bacteria are our friends, essential for life.” Researchers have discovered that a healthy gastrointestinal microbiota—comprising from five hundred to one thousand species—is necessary for protection against toxins, produc­tion of nutrients and even the creation of feel-good chemicals. And guess what? According to researchers at Pennsylvania State University, our old friends vitamins A and D have a lot to do in supporting a thriving gut flora. Vitamin A and D deficiencies result in “less diverse, dysbiotic microbial com­munities and increased susceptibility to infection or injury of the gastrointestinal tract.” Moreover, vitamins A and D regulate the cells that line the intestine to ensure “tight bar­rier function” so that the gut does not pass unwanted proteins into the bloodstream; and A and D both regulate various compounds necessary for digestion and immune function. “Together, vitamin A and vitamin D mediated regulation of the intestinal epithelium and mucosal immune system shape the microbial communities in the gut to maintain homeosta­sis” (Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol, April 2019). So be sure to include butter, egg yolks, poultry fats and seafood in your diet to support all the friendly critters in the gut.

BLOOD THINNER RISKS

For decades, the only drug available to doctors for preventing clots was the anticoagulant warfarin, a true poison with many side effects including necrosis and death. Then, starting in 2010, the FDA approved several “novel oral anticoagulants” (NOACs), going by the names of Pradaxa, Xarelto, Eliquis, and Savaysa, supposedly easier to take, just as effective and less toxic than warfarin. However, patients are reporting the same side effects, including bloody stools, vomiting blood, digestive issues, dizziness, fainting, rapid heartbeat, hives, difficulty breathing, chest tightness and—most troubling— internal bleeding. NOACs can also interact dangerously with other medications and pose heightened risks for those suffer­ing from kidney disease. In 2011, an FDA review of Pradaxa, the first approved NOAC, reported hundreds of fatalities and thousands of serious adverse events. Like warfarin, these NOACs are a leading cause of death in emergency rooms due to uncontrolled bleeding (NaturalHealth365.com, August 9, 2024). Given routinely in emergencies, anticoagulants should be used only with the utmost caution.

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