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growth. This can all take place with- TRY ALTERNATIVES FIRST! HOMEOPATHY WORKS
out violating any organic or heritage The other day I found an article After years of reading the home-
standards. Even as “purists,” we must about afib (atrial fibrillation) and low opathy column in the WAPF journal,
realize that a seed supplier’s preferences potassium—and yesterday found a mainly out of academic interest, and
do not always match perfectly with the plethora of articles about the “well- because I like to read your journal
consumer’s preferences. known” connection between potassium cover to cover, I have finally waded into
For me, I face a daunting task. deficiency and hypertension. Nobody homeopathy.
If I want, for example, Barred Rock mentioned that to me when, starting It’s been like a miracle for the vac-
chickens to mature more slowly and to in 2012 (taking care of my dying par- cine-injured pets we inherited. Travis’s
lay for a longer period of time, I need ents), my blood pressure started going multi-year-old fluid-filled cyst (tumor?)
to consider raising my own line so that up and up. I was never told to eat more has shrunk by 40 percent, and Roxy’s
they will conform to my definition of potassium-rich foods nor to supple- perpetual river of morning brown eye
what a Barred Rock chicken is. ment! What is this world coming to? gunk, that drained in three-inch-long
Bill Hyde, PhD This is my philosophy now, said rivulets each day, has evaporated with
Happy Farm before but bears repeating: for chronic Thuja Occidentalis 30C. She is also
Henderson, Colorado conditions (including aging), try alter- much better adjusted mentally. She has
natives first. If they don’t work, you still become a much more loving dog and is
PEA PROTEIN have strong options left. But, if you go better engaged with other dogs. That is,
I just watched a deceptive, mislead- in guns blaring and remove body parts she does not emit blood curdling howls
ing movie (infomercial) called “Game or permanently alter stuff and wreck at them, followed by a “raised hackles”
Changers” (see p. 63) on Netflix by physiological pathways, you cannot go diarrhea. I chose Thuja 30C because it
James Cameron in which he poo-poos back and explore the gentle “cures.” fit all their symptoms perfectly, and it
eating meat and tries to convince ev- Also, prevention is number one. has worked for many an autistic child.
eryone that eating any animal product I look for safe, cheap, effective, Early this summer, while garden-
including cheese, eggs and milk is easy, simple-elegant, mechanistically ing, a big wheelbarrow filled with
disease-producing, unhealthy and far plausible, ancient practice, accessible dirt tipped on my calf and gave me
inferior to eating vegan. The film is to many, not irreversible and quick. a giant bruise that hurt abominably.
vague, full of half-truths or wrong on Western emergency care is spectacular, I was writhing in pain on the lawn.
almost all aspects. I looked up James but acute! For example, consumption of I developed a five-inch by five-inch
Cameron and found he is invested in apple cider vinegar as a remedy is very black-and-blue, blunt trauma bruise
a one-hundred-forty-million dollar en- old, about twenty-five hundred years! on the underside of my calf. I hobbled
terprise to produce pea protein, which Vaccination is in no way “preven- to the kitchen cabinet and took Arnica
I suspect he sells to veggie-burger mak- tion.” It’s a Frankenstein-injecting, Montana 30C (only because I had abso-
ers and other vegan companies. This money-making, disease-inducing tech- lutely nothing else to treat it with), and
is another example of a self-serving nology which bypasses crucial immune the pain disappeared like magic.
infomercial trying to appear objective. system checks and evolved mechanisms It started hurting again in thirty
Robin Hood, DC Using these chemical cocktails first is minutes. I took another dose and it
Concordia, Kansas a thoroughly bad idea. disappeared again. Sometimes, and
Laurie Lentz-Marino definitely in my case, you have to be
Actually, pea protein is the main ingre- Belchertown, Massachusetts hurt really badly to see the light. I was
dient of the Beyond Burger! able to walk the dogs a couple of miles
on my injury. The injury also healed
beautifully.

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