SIDE EFFECTS!!

THE KYOTO PROTOCOL AND THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS ARE NOT THE STEPS WE ALL NEED TO TACKLE THE PLASTIC DEBRIS IN WORLD OCEANS AND IN OUR DAILY FOOD TODAY. 

POLLUTED WATER HAS A LOT OF SIDE EFFECTS. HERE ARE SOME.

1.” “A POD OF MORE THAN 150 SHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALES BEACHED AT HAMELIN BAY, ABOUT 300 KM (180 MILES) SOUTH OF PERTH IN AUSTRALIA ON FRIDAY. MOST OF THEM HAVE DIED AFTER LYING ON THE BEACH OVERNIGHT”.  MARINE SCIENTISTS THINK SOME THEORIES WHY WHALES BECOME STRANDED IN SHORE ARE THEY MAY BE INJURED OR SICK AND ARE PUSHED BY CURRENTS OR ARE TOO ILL TO SWIM. SOME SHIPS USE SONARS AND THEY BECOME CONFUSED OR INJURED. THE CHANGES IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT (LOW- HIGH TEMPERATURES AND POLLUTED WATER) COULD CAUSE THEM TO BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY…” ( BBC NEWS. WHY DO WHALES GET BEACHED? MARCH 23, 2018).

2. PLASTIC STRAWS FROM DISNEY CRUISE LINE ARE POLLUTING OUR OCEANS (CARE 2 PETITION. DISNEY CRUISE LINE, PLASTIC STRAWS POLLUTE OUR OCEANS)

THE FOLLOWING QUOTES ARE ALL FROM YOUTUBE: OCEANS, THE MYSTERY OF PLASTIC.

3.” THERE ARE PLASTIC BOTTLES FROM THE 60´S AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEANS, AND ACCORDING TO JENA JAMBLE, WHO HAS BEEN DOING RESEARCH ON PLASTIC IN THE OCEANS, BY 2025  THERE COULD BE TEN TIMES AS MUCH PLASTIC AS THERE IS TODAY. SHE ALSO STATES PLASTIC ONCE IN THE OCEANS NOTHING CAN BE DONE SINCE IT´S NOT POSSIBLE TO  TRACE  IT OUT. FRANCOIS GALGANI  SAID WHEN OCEANS HAVE NO CURRENTS PLASTIC BOTTLES GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEANS.”

4. “WITH THE PASSING OF TIME PLASTIC BOTTLES,PLASTIC BAGS AND ANY OTHER OBJECT MADE OF PLASTIC GOING TO THE OCEANS END UP BECOMING MICRO PLASTIC UNITS.”

5. “MICRO PLASTIC UNITS ARE MADE UP OF:

5.1. POLYETHYLENE, WHICH IS USED TO MAKE PLASTIC BAGS.

5.2. AND POLYPROPYLENE, WHICH IS USED TO MAKE BOTTLES CAPS AND MILK BOTTLES AMONG MANY OTHERS.”

6. “MICRO PLASTIC UNITS ARE MOVING ALL THE TIME IN THE OCEANS ACCORDING TO AMERICAN SCIENTIST RACHEL OVART, SPECIALLY WHEN THEY GET INTO THE OCEANIC TURNS. BIOLOGIST LUCY WOODALL CONTACTED RICHARD THOMPSON AND TOLD HIM SHE HAD FOUND SMALL REALLY COLOURFUL PLASTIC PIECES. SHE ALSO TOLD HIM IN 2015 560 SPECIES EITHER ATE PLASTIC OR GOT CAUGHT UP IN IT.THIS FIGURE MULTIPLIED BY 2 IN 2 YEARS. EVERYONE IS A VICTIM HERE: BOTH PREY AND PREDATOR, WHALES AS WELL AS  PLANKTOM ( THE BASE OF THE FOOD CHAIN) ARE SUFFERING.”

7. “IN 2014 MARIA LUIZA PEDROTTI AND GABY GORSKY DID A 7-MONTH RESEARCH AND FOUND PLASTIC IN THE NETS THEY THREW TO THE OCEANS. THEY SAID PLASTIC IS PART ALREADY OF THE MARINE ECOSYSTEM.”

8.  “ECOTOXICOLOGIST CHELSEA ROCHMAN ( TORONTO, CANADA) SAYS PLASTIC IS A CHEMICAL COCKTAIL, AND ONCE IN THE WATER IT ATTRACTS OTHER CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES. IF AN ANIMAL EATS ANY OF THOSE IT CAN TRANSFER TO ITS ORGANISM. FIRE RETARDANT IS PART OF PLASTIC AND THAT IS WHAT IS FOUND INSIDE ANIMALS WHO EAT IT. ANY 8-9 MONTH FISH KIDNEY HAS TUMORS AND THIS IS NOT NORMAL. THE REASON BEHING THAT IS PLASTIC COMBINED WITH OTHER CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.”

9. “FOR SOME SCIENTISTS THE IMPACT OF PLASTIC ON OUR BODIES IS NOT IMPORTANT BUT ACCORDING TO OTHER SCIENTISTS SUCH IMPACT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. HOWEVER, EVERYBODY AGREES THERE ARE REASONS TO GET ALARMED SINCE SUCH MICRO PLASTIC UNITS ARE IN OUR AFOOD.”

10. “IN A STUDY OF FISH IN CALIFORNIA AND INDONESIA THEY FOUND PLASTIC IN 25% OF THE FISH, AND IN 1/3 OF THE OYSTERS. IN ¼ OF THE FISH MICRO PLASTIC UNITS WERE FOUND.”

11. “COLIN JANSSEN  WORKS IN GANTE ENVIRONMENTAL TOXOLOGY DEPARTMENT AND IN ONE OF HER STUDIES ON MUSSELS SHE FOUND PLASTIC IN ALL OF THEM. ACCORDING TO THAT STUDY ANY PERSON EATING MUSSELS WOULD EAT ABOUT 11.000 MICRO PLASTIC UNITS A YEAR. THAT STUDY FOCUSED ON THE PCB CONCENTRATIONS TO INVESTIGATE THEIR DAMAGING POTENTIAL. SHE SAYS THOSE MICRO PLASTIC UNITS ONCE IN THE STOMACH FROM THE INTESTINAL WALLS CAN MIGRATE TO THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM FOR EXAMPLE, BEING ABSORBED BY TISSUES, AND WE DO NOT KNOW THE REAL EFFECTS ON HUMAN BEINGS.

12. MARIA LUISA PEDROTTI WHO WORKS IN AN OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY SAYS “THERE ARE MANY CRUSTACEANS AND ALGAE STUCK ON MICRO PLASTIC UNITS ALL OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN”. “ ACCORDING TO MARIA LUISA PEDROTTI THE AMOUNT OF MICRO PLASTIC UNITS HAS A HUGE IMPACT ON THE BIODIVERSITY AND THE TRANSFERENCE OF PATHOGENIC AGENTS.”

13. MICROBIOLOGIST LINDA AMARAL-ZETTLER (MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION) DID A RESEARCH ON MICRO PLASTIC UNITS. SHE TOOK A LITER OF SEA WATER AND FOUND “1000 MILLION BACTERIA AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SMALLER ORGANISMS AND MICROBES, AND SHE ADDED A MICRO PLASTIC UNIT TO IT. SHE FOUND THAT BY ADDING THAT MICRO PLASTIC UNIT THE WHOLE PATHOGENIC COMMUNITY WAS BEING TRANSFORMEDERIK ZETTLER HAS A SAMPLE OF  THAT INCUBATION AND THE FOLLOWING THINGS CAN BE SEEN THERE :

1.   A POLYP PACKED WITH DIATOMS

2. A PROTOZOAN COVERED WITH LOTS OF BACTERIA WHICH END UP SPLITTING UP INTO MORE AND MORE.3.

3. MANY ORGANISMS STUCK TO THE MICRO PLASTIC UNIT. ONE OF THEM REALLY CAUGHT LINDA AND ERIK´S ATTENTION: VIBRIONS. THEY ARE INTERESTING BACTERIA  SINCE SOME OF THEM CAUSE DISEASES IN HUMAN BEINGS AND ANIMALS. VIDRIONS ARE SOMETIMES 25% OF THE MICROBIAL LAYER OF A MICRO PLASTIC UNIT. SOME OF THOSE BACTERIA ARE CARRIERS OF CHOLERA. TRACY MINCER, A COLLEAGE OF LINDA AND ERIK, STATES VIBRIONS HAVE DEFECATION MECHANISMS WHICH ALLOW THEM TO STICK TO MICRO PLASTIC UNITS REALLY FAST AND REALLY FIRMLY. THOSE BACTERIA HAVE SUCH GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS THAT THEY  MANAGE TO STICK TO THE INTESTINAL WALLS OF FISH, THREATENING MARINE SPECIES.”

THE PARIS AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO FORCE IN 2016 AND THEY AGREED ON LOWERING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND LIMITING THE TEMPERATURE INCREASE. WHEN TALKING ABOUT “AMBITIOUS” GOALS WE EXPECT TO SEE TRANSPARENCY IN THE WAY SUCH GOALS ARE ESPRESSED. WE EXPECT TO SEE ONE REAL AMBITION GOAL WHICH IS THE FOLLOWING: ALL COUNTRIES SHOULD AGREE ON ELIMINATING PLASTIC BAGS DEVELOPING A NEW TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE  BIODEGRADABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BAGS. “PLASTIC BAGS CAN BE MADE “OXO-BIODEGRADABLE” BY BEING MANUFACTURED FROM A NORMAL PLASTIC POLYMER (I.E. POLYETHYLENE) OR POLYPROPYLENE INCORPORATING AN ADDITIVE WHICH CAUSES DEGRADATION AND THEN BIODEGRADATION OF THE POLYMER (POLYETHYLENE) DUE TO OXIDATION. BIODEGRADABLE IS THE MOST USED AND ABUSED AND MISUSED WORD IN OUR DICTIONARY RIGHT NOW. IN THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH, BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS BREAK UP INTO SMALL PIECES THAT CAN MORE EASILY ENTER THE FOOD CHAIN BY BEING CONSUMED“, ACCORDING TO RAMANI NARAYAN, A CHEMICAL ENGINEER AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN EAST LANSING, AND SCIENCE CONSULTANT TO THE BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS INSTITUTE. WHILE OXO-BIODEGRADABLE PLASTIC MANUFACTURERS CLAIM THAT THEIR BAGS ARE RECYCLABLE, MANY PLASTIC FILM RECYCLERS WILL NOT ACCEPT THEM, AS THERE HAVE BEEN NO LONG-TERM STUDIES ON THE VIABILITY OF RECYCLED-CONTENT PRODUCTS WITH THESE ADDITIVES. FURTHER, THE BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS INSTITUTE (BPI) SAYS THAT THE FORMULATION OF ADDITIVES IN OXO FILMS VARIES GREATLY, WHICH INTRODUCES EVEN MORE VARIABILITY IN TH RECYCLING PROCESS. SPI RESIN IDENTIFICATION CODE 7 IS APPLICABLE. SINCE MANY OF THESE PLASTICS REQUIRE ACCESS TO SUNLIGHT, OXYGEN OR LENGTHY PERIODS OF TIME TO ACHIEVE DEGRADATION OF BIODEGRADATION, THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION´S GUIDE FOR THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETING CLAIMS, COMMONLY CALLED THE “GREEN GUIDE”, REQUIRE PROPER MARKING OF THESE PRODUCTS TO SHOW THEIR PERFORMANCE LIMITS. THE FTC PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE: ” A TRASH BAG IS MARKETED AS “DEGRADABLE”, WITH NO QUALIFICATION OR OTHER DISCLOSURE. THE MARKETER RELIES ON SOIL BURIAL TESTS TO SHOW THAT THE PRODUCT WILL DECOMPOSE IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER AND OXYGEN. DEGRADATION WILL BE IRRELEVANT FOR THOSE TRASH BAGS THAT ARE INCINERATED AND, FOR THOSE DISPOSED OF IN LANDFILLS, THE MARKETER DOES NOT POSSESS ADEQUATED SUBSTANTIATION THAT THE BAGS WILL DEGRADE IN A REASONABLY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IN A LANDFILL. THE CLAIM IS THEREFORE DECEPTIVE (WIKIPEDIA-BIODEGRADABLE BAG).

ALL THOSE MANY PAGES ON EFFORTS, GOALS AND THE PROGRESS WE ALL WANT AND NEED MEAN NOT MUCH UNLESS THEY ARE  SPECIFIED IN CLEAR, WELL EXPLAINED ACTIONS THAT WE CAN SEE SOON AND PARTICIPATE WITHIN THEM AS WELL.

WE URGE WORLD LEADERS, GOVERNMENTS, THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) AND THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL SCIENCE-POLICY PLATFORM ON BIODIVERSITY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (IPBES), TO PROVIDE US WITH THE BIOPLASTICS WE REQUEST BECAUSE WE ALL NEED THEM SINCE OCEANS DO NOT DESERVE THAT MUCH FILTH, AND SHOULD NOT COPE WITH SO MUCH MORE AS UNFORTUNATELY THEY STILL DO TODAY. GOVERNMENTS, WORLD LEADERS AND SUCH PLATFORMS SHOULD PROVIDE US ALL WITH  BIOBASED BAGS MADE UP OF VEGETABLE WASTE LIKE CORN, CAULIFLOWER, CARROT, PARSLEY, RADICCHIO AND OTHER VEGETABLES THE  SOONER THE BETTER SINCE WE ARE REQUESTING SUCH TO THEMTHE CONSEQUENCES OF SO MUCH PLASTIC ALL OVER THE OCEANS ARE ALREADY AFFECTING US SINCE SOME OF THE FISH WE EAT ARE POLLUTED BY THE MICRO PLASTIC UNITS AND THE VIBRIONS THEY UNCONSCIOUSLY EAT. THEREFORE AS SOME FISH´S INTESTINES ARE POLLUTED SOME PEOPLE WHO EAT THOSE MAY BE AFFECTED IN SOME WAY BY SUCH TOXINS. SUCH TOXICOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RISKS SHOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE SINCE PEOPLE´S HEALTH IS AT RISK.  OCEANS BALANCE IS ALREADY AT RISK AND ALL BECAUSE OF LOBBIES INTERESTS AND WORLD LEADERS AND GOVERNMENTS INABILITY TO ADAPT TO NATURE AND SEE WE ARE ALL TO RESPECT NATURE,  OCEANS AND FISH SINCE WE DO NOT OWN ANY OF THOSE, AND WE ARE TO MANAGE THE BEST WAYS TO RECYCLE TOXIC WASTE LIKE PLASTIC, INSTEAD OF DESTROYING WHAT WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR.

 

DIVERTING ATTENTION FROM OUR INTERESTS

MOST OF TODAY´S TV PROGRAMS ARE NOT WHAT WE WOULD CALL INSPIRING. MOST OF THE FILMS ON TV AT WEEKENDS ARE KIND OF HORROR FILMS ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOT CATEGORIZED AS SUCH, BUT JUST BY LISTENING TO THE BACKGROUND MUSIC AND LISTEN TO SOME OF THE SCRIPT LINES FOR JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES IT´S ENOUGH TO CHANGE CHANNELS. ANYONE CAN TELL THEY ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR WHAT WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO SEE AT WEEKENDS.  IT´S CLEAR CMTGS ARE ALL OVER THE DIFFERENT MEDIA AROUND THE GLOBE AND ARE BEHIND ALL THOSE MANEUVERS TO PLEASE US ALL.

THERE ARE SO MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES TO ADDRESS AND TALK ABOUT IN THE MEDIA AND YET THE NEWS  HIGHLIGHT THE SAME NEWS DAY IN AND DAY OUT. ONE OF THOSE ISSUES WHICH SHOULD BE COVERED MOST EVERY DAY IS THE ONE OF PLASTIC WASTE IN THE OCEANS. ACCORDING TO YOUTUBE: OCEANS: THE MYSTERY OF THE PLASTIC GONE, IN 1950 1.5 TONS OF PLASTIC WAS PRODUCED WHILE TODAY IT´S 300.000 MILLION TONS A YEAR. ACCORDING TO KARA LAVENDER-LAW´S STUDY THERE ARE 275 MILLION TONS OF PLASTIC  IN ALL THE OCEANS AROUND THE WORLD BUT THAT NUMBER ONLY REPRESENTS 1% OF ALL THE PLASTIC IN THE OCEANS, WHICH CANNOT BE FOUND BUT IT´S AT THE BOTTOMS OF THE OCEANS, OR GOING IN CIRCLES IN THE SO CALLED OCEANIC GYRES. ENGINEER JENNA JAMBECK (GEORGIA UNIVERSITY, U.S.), AFTER A THREE AND HALF YEAR RESEARCH, GAVE THE FOLLOWING RESULTS BASED ON 192 COUNTRIES ALONG A 50 KM PERIMETER: IN 2010  THERE WERE 275 MILLION TONS OF PLASTIC WASTE, AND 32 MILLION TONS OF THOSE WERE BADLY MANAGED ( NEITHER BURIED, INCINERATED NOR RECYCLED) AND 8 MILLION TONS  OUT OF THOSE 32 ENDED UP IN THE OCEANS. TODAY THERE ARE 50.000 MILLION MICRO PLASTIC UNITS ALONG THE OCEANS´ SURFACE. ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS AFTER SOME TIME FLOATING ALONG  THE OCEANS´  SURFACE  MICRO PLASTIC UNITS, WHICH ARE ABOUT 5 MILLIMETERS, DISAPPEAR. 

WHY AREN´T WE GETTING DEBATES ABOUT THE SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE SUCH IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR EVERYONE? IS IT BECAUSE CMTGS ARE SOME OF THE BIG CHEESES BEHIND THE PLASTIC INDUSTRY?

WICKED WORLDWIDE PLOT AGAINST OUR HEALTH!

THERE ARE MORE CROOKS AROUND US THAN WE THINK. CONTROLLING MENTALITY TYPE GUYS (CMTGS) ARE OBSESSED WITH RUNNING THE SHOW, SO THAT THEY CAN GO ON WITH THEIR UGLY VICES. THEIR MODUS OPERANDI CONSISTS OF BUYING RIVALS´ PRODUCTS AND RIVALS´COMPANIES AND THEN JACKING UP THEIR PRICES. WHY ARE CMTGS TAKING EVERY OPPORTUNITY THEY FIND TO DRIVE UP COSTS? LET´S IMAGINE SOME PHARMA COMPANIES ARE SO CORRUPT THEY DON´T CARE  ABOUT  PEOPLE´S HEALTH AS LONG AS THEY MAKE HUGE PROFITS. LET´S IMAGINE SOME OF THE CRUELEST CMTGS ARE CHEMISTS WHO WORK IN  PHARMA BUSINESSES AND WENT OVER TO THE U.S. IN 2007 AND GOT IN CONTACT WITH SOME PHARMA COMPANIES IN 2009. LET´S IMAGINE, BEARING IN MIND DRUG COMPANIES CONTROL THE GLOBAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THE WORST CAN HAPPEN ANYTIME ANYWHERE AND FOR SURE BEHIND SOME OF THE CRUELEST LATEST EVENTS ARE THEM. THE SAYING BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER REALLY APPLIES HERE, SPECIALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CMTGS AND  GREEDY PHARMA COMPANIES. WHEN IT COMES TO THE SYNERGY BETWEEN FEELING LIKE HOME AND PEOPLE THERE´S NOTHING LIKE SPIRITUAL HONEST PEOPLE AROUND, BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS CONNECT OURS AND THAT PEACE RESULTS IN AMAZING JOY, UNLIKE WITH THOSE WHO BOAST AND DECEIVE US, THOSE WHO MAKE US WANT TO START RUNNING THE NEW YORK MARATHON – EVEN THOUGH WE MAY BE IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY – THE MOMENT WE SEE THEM NEAR US.

IN TODAY´S WORLD MOST OF US THINK WE´VE SEEN ALREADY EVERYTHING THAT IS TO BE SEEN. WELL, THERE IS SOMETHING WE  HAVEN´T SEEN  AND IT´S THE SCARIEST HORROR MOVIE THAT IS YET TO BE MADE. WE´VE ALREADY GOT THE NAME FOR IT: WWC. THE SCRIPT FOR IT IS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED IN THIS ARTICLE AND WE HOPE TO ENJOY THE MOVIE SOMETIME SOON IN THE THEATRES AROUND.

LET´S IMAGINE IN 2006 THE CMTGS FOUND OUT WHAT THE BRAVE WOMAN MENTIONED IN SOME OF MY PREVIOUS ARTICLES THOUGHT ABOUT THEM, BECAUSE OF SOME COMMENTS SHE MADE PRIVATELY, WHICH THE CTMGS MANAGED TO LISTEN TO BY MEANS OF REALLY SOPHISTICATED BUGS. THE MOMENT THEY KNEW ABOUT HER FEELINGS TOWARDS THEM THEY DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE HER LIFE AND SO THEY WENT TO THE U.S. IN 2007 IN ORDER TO FIND OUT  MORE  ABOUT  HER.  LET´S IMAGINE IN 2009 THEY CONTACTED PHARMA COMPANIES. WHY PHARMA COMPANIES? BECAUSE SOME OF THE CMTGS ARE CHEMISTS WHO WORK IN PHARMA COMPANIES. LET´S IMAGINE THE FIRST U.S. PHARMA CEO THEY CONTACTED WAS HOWARD SCHILLER: “HOWARD SCHILLER, INTERIM CEO OF VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL INC., IS PLANNING TO TESTIFY AT A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING NEXT WEEK THAT WILL EXPLORE DRUG-PRICE INCREASES, ACCORDING TO A COMPANY SPOKESWOMAN” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL VALEANT PHARMACEUTICAL INTERIM CEO TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS NEXT WEEK. JAN. 20, 2016). LET´S IMAGINE IT WAS HOWARD SCHILLER WHO THE CTMGS CONTACTED FIRST GIVEN THE FACT HE WAS AN INTERIM, AND IT WAS EASIER TO CONTACT HIM THAN SHKRELI, SINCE THE CMTGS ARE NOT FROM THE U.S.. LET´S IMAGINE THE SECOND PHARMA CEO THE CTMGS CONTACTED WAS SHKRELI. WHY SHKRELI? BECAUSE SHKRELI “QUICKLY DEVELOPED A REPUTATION FOR TRASHING BIOTECHNOLOGY STOCKS IN ONLINE CHATROOMS AND SHORTING THEM TO ENORMOUS PROFIT” (BLOOMBERG. SHKRELI, DRUG PRICE GOUGER, DENIES FRAUD AND POSTS BAIL. DEC. 17, 2015). LET´S IMAGINE THE SPANISH CTMGS GET MOST OF THEIR MONEY BUYING TRASHING PRODUCTS, COMPANIES, ETC AND THEN ONCE THEY BUY THE RIGHTS THEY JACK UP PRICES TO CARRY OUT THEIR EVIL PLANS. AND AS BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER THE CTMGS THOUGHT SHKRELI WAS A KIND OF CTMG OR AT LEAST SOMEHOW CLOSE TO THEM AS FAR AS THEIR GREEDY MANEUVERS WERE CONCERNED. LET´S IMAGINE UP TO THIS POINT THERE WAS ONLY ONE REALLY SERIOUS PROBLEM REGARDING PHARMA COMPANIES AND IT WAS THAT THEY WERE FOCUSED ON PROFITS MORE THAN ON PEOPLE´S HEALTH. LET´S IMAGINE THE MOMENT THE CMTGS CONTACTED SHKRELI THERE WAS ONE MORE PROBLEM ADDED FOR ALL OF US TO FACE AND IT HAD TO DO WITH OUR LIVES´ HEALTH BEING AT RISK. LET´S IMAGINE THE CMTGS DECIDED TO KILL THE BRAVE WOMAN NO MATTER WHAT, AND SO THEY TRIED EVERY PATH THEY COULD THINK OF TO DO SO. ONE OF THE PATHS WAS THE PHARMA COMPANIES SINCE THEY KNEW THE BRAVE WOMAN SOMETIME SOMEHOW COULD BE A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER AND BE A GUINEA PIG TAKING THE BAIT OF SOME TAINTED PRODUCTS THEY CONSCIOUSLY LAUNCHED ONTO THE MARKET. HOWEVER, THE CTMGS MADE MANY BIG MISTAKES LIKE UNDERESTIMATING THIS BRAVE WOMAN AND IGNORING SHE WAS A SORT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES WHO UNMASKS THE ENDLESS MALEVOLENT PLOYS THEY CONCOCT IN ORDER TO PUT AN END TO HER LIFE AND TO OTHER PEOPLE´S LIVES. AS SHE UNVEILS THEIR EVIL SHE DOESN´T TAKE THE BAIT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY MANY OTHERS DO. LET´S IMAGINE THAT INDEED MANY PEOPLE TOOK THE BAIT FROM THESE CTMGS DURING THESE PAST 7 YEARS. “JUST AS THE OLIGARCHS BUY, OWN AND CONTROL NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS TO DO THEIR SLEAZY BIDDING BIG PHARMA AS AN EXTENSION OF THOSE SAME OLIGARCHS DOES TOO. WHAT MAKES BIG PHARMA UNIQUE IN THE U.S. IS THAT THE INDUSTRY OUTSPENDS ALL OTHERS IN LAYING DOWN COLD HARD CASH INTO ITS LOBBYING EFFORTS – ANOTHER WORD FOR BRIBING GOVERNMENTS THAT INCLUDES NOT ONLY U.S. CONGRESS ( AND PARLIAMENTS) BUT ITS U.S. FEDERAL REGULATOR, THE BOUGHT AND SOLD FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA). IT POURED $2.7 BILLION INTO ITS LOBBYING INTERESTS FROM 1998 TO 2013, 42% MORE THAN THE 2ND MOST “GOV. CORP.” BRIBE WHICH HAPPENS TO BE ITS SISTER INDUSTRY INSURANCE. AND IT´S THIS UNHOLY TRINITY OF THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT (PERSONIFIED BY THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION), EMBEDDED INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND BIG PHARMA THAT MAKES THE U.S. THE MOST COSTLY, BROKEN, CORRUPT, DESTRUCTIVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. THE STRUCTURED SYSTEM IS DESIGNED AND LAYED WITH BUILT IN INCENTIVES AT EVERY TIER TO MAKE AND KEEP PEOPLE SICK, CHRONICALLY DEPENDENT ON THEIR DRUGS FOR SURVIVAL THAT MERELY MASK AND SMOOTH SYMPTOMS RATHER THAN CURE OR ERADICATE THE ROOT CAUSE OF DISEASE. PLENTY OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT CONFIRM CONCERTED DIABOLICAL EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO RUIN THE LIVES OF PIONEERING HEROES WHO HAVE COME UP WITH POSSIBLE CURES FOR CANCER, AIDS AND OTHER TERMINAL ILLNESSES. OBVIOUSLY THEIR WORK POSES A SERIOUS THREAT TO MEDICAL STATUS QUO. HENCE, THEIR TREATMENTS HAVE ALL BEEN EFFECTIVELY SUPRESSED BY CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE. BOTTOM LINE, IF HUMANS ARE HEALTHY THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY DOES NOT SURVIVE. THUS, IT´S IN ITS OWN INHERENTLY SELF-SERVING INTEREST TO PROMOTE ILLNESS IN THE NAME OF WELLNESS. ALSO BECAUSE NATURAL HEALING SUBSTANCES CANNOT BE PATENTED, BIG PHARMA HAS DONE ITS SINISTER BEST TO SQUELCH ANY AND ALL KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION THAT COME FROM THE FAR MORE AFFORDABLE MEANS OF ALTERNATIVE HEALTH SOURCES THAT EXPLORE ANCIENT TRADITIONAL CULTURES´ MEDICINAL USE OF HEMP ALONG WITH THOUSANDS OF OTHER PLANTS AND ROOTS THAT COULD THREATEN DRUG PROFITS AND POWER OF BIG PHARMA AND MODERN MEDICINE AS THEY´RE CURRENTLY PRACTICED AND MONOPOLIZED” (THE EVILS OF BIG PHARMA EXPOSED. GLOBAL RESEARCH, MARCH 07, 2016).

“BAXTER´S OFFENSES WERE SO EGREGIOUS THAT I COULDN´T IGNORE THEM. YOU MAY REMEMBER LAST YEAR AT THE HEIGHT OF THE SO-CALLED FLU PANDEMIC, BAXTER “MISTAKENLY” MIXED THE LETHAL, LIVE, BIOLOGICAL WEAPON/VIRUS, H5N1, WITH SEASONAL FLU, THEN SENT IT TO LABS AROUND EUROPE. THE POTENTIAL DISASTER COULD HAVE MEANT WORLDWIDE DEVASTATION, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE FACT THAT THE CZECH REPUBLIC TESTED THE VACCINE BEFORE DISTRIBUTING IT – FOUND IT WAS A DEADLY COCKTAIL. BAXTER PLED GUILTY TO THE FELONY COUNT OF VIOLATING U.S. LAWS PROHIBITING COOPERATION WITH THE ARAB BOYCOTT AGAINST ISRAEL IN 1993. THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION WANTED TO SUSPEND BAXTER FROM ALL VA CONTRACTS FOR 3 YEARS. THE KICKER WAS THAT THE CATALYST TO THE SUSPENSION WAS THE VA´S CONTENTION THAT BAXTER HAD “KNOWINGLY MISLED AND PROVIDED FALSE INFORMATION TO VA PURCHASING AGENTS, IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET THEM TO PURCHASE BAXTER PRODUCTS”. IN THE END, BAXTER AGREED TO PAY MORE THAN $6.5 MILLION IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES TO SETTLE THE ARAB “MISTAKE”. YOU´LL FIND THAT “MISTAKES” HAPPEN OFTEN WITH BAXTER. FROM DOZENS OF RECALLS OF PRODUCTS THAT CAUSED DEATHS AND INJURIES, TO AT LEAST 11 DIFFERENT GUILTY PLEAS TO FRAUD AND ILLEGAL SALES ACTIVITIES, TO MORE THATN 200 LAWSUITS – MANY OF THEM STEMMING FROM SELLING AIDS-TAINTED BLOOD TO HEMOPHILIACS – TO MORE THAN $1.3 BILLION IN CRIMINAL FINES AND CIVIL PENALTIES. BAXTER EARNED ITS NUMBER 87 SPOT ON ALL BUSINESS´ TOP 100 CORPORATE CRIMINALS LIST, WHEREAS ROCHE WAS CROWNED NUMBER 1 FOR ITS $5OO MILLION CRIMINAL FINE FOR LEADING A WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY TO RAISE AND FIX PRICES AND ALLOCATE MARKET SHARES FOR CERTAIN VITAMINS SOLD IN THE U.S. AND ELSEWHERE. THE CONSPIRACY LASTED 9 YEARS” (THE 6 TOP THUGS OF THE MEDICAL WORLD… AS RANKED BY “TOP 100 CORPORATE CRIMINALS” DR. MERCOLA SPEAKS. 8 DECEMBER 2010).

CTMGS ARE SO BOASTFUL WE CAN GO AND VOMIT RIGHT AFTER LISTENING TO THEIR LIES, SPECIALLY ONCE WE´VE BEEN DECEIVED BY THEM. LET´S IMAGINE THE CTMGS WANTED TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH SHKRELI BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE CTMGS AND SHKRELI BEING BOTH SO BOASTFUL WOULD CLICK FROM THE VERY START. IN THAT WE´RE SURE THEY WERE RIGHT, BUT JUST FOR ONCE. CTMGS ARE SO FULL OF THEMSELVES AND SO BLIND BY VICE (MAINLY PROSTITUTION, RIP-OFFS AND STEALING) THAT THEY CAN´T SEE HOW MUCH WRONG THERE´S IN THEIR LIVES. THE MANY BOASTS THEY OFTEN USE IS ONE OF THEIR WRONGS. HERE ARE SOME:

1.”THE $65 MILLION RETROPHIN WANTS FROM ME WOULD NOT DENT ME. I FEEL GREAT.I´M LICKING MY CHOPS OVER THE SUITS I´M GOING TO FILE AGAINST THEM”.

2.”HE SPENT MILLIONS ON THE ONLY COPY OF A WU-TANG CLAN ALBUM THAT MUSIC FANS ARE DESPERATE TO HEAR AND THEN TOLD BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK THAT HE HAD NO IMMEDIATE PLANS TO LISTEN TO IT”.

3.”HE TAKES OFTEN TO TWITTER AND MESSAGE BOARDS, BRAGGING ABOUT HIS BUSINESS STRATEGIES, MUSICAL TASTES AND POLITICS; HE LIVE-STREAMS FROM HIS OFFICE FOR LONG STRETCHES”. (THE 3 QUOTES ABOVE ARE FROM BLOOMBERG. SHKRELI, DRUG PRICE GOUGER, DENIES FRAUD AND POST BAIL. DEC 17, 2015).

LET´S IMAGINE RIGHT NOW THE TWO PROBLEMS PHARMA COMPANIES HAVE ARE MASSIVE GREEDINESS AND THE POISONOUS ADVICE FROM THE CTMGS. LET´S IMAGINE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE´S HEALTH HAS BEEN HARMED BECAUSE OF UNHEALTHY DRUGS, MISTAKEN DRUGS AND BY NOT EATING RIGHT BECAUSE OF THE DRUG RIP-OFFS WHICH MADE THEM GO BANKRUPT.

THE PANAMA PAPERS ARE ANOTHER CASE OF GREED. LET´S IMAGINE THE PANAMA PAPERS WERE RELEASED ON APRIL 3, AND NOT ANY OTHER DAY, FOR JUST ONE REASON. HERE IT GOES. “THE PANAMA PAPERS ARE DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE LEAKED FROM MOSSACK FONSECA, A PANAMA-BASED LAW-FIRM, WHICH ACCORDING TO ITS WEBSITE, OFFERS “COMPREHENSIVE LEGAL AND TRUST SERVICES”. THE WEBSITE GOES ON TO SAY THAT THE FIRM OFFERS “RESEARCH, ADVICE AND SERVICES FOR THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: BELIZE, THE NETHERLANDS, COSTA RICA, UNITED KINGDOM, MALTA, HONG KONG, CYPRUS, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, BAHAMAS, PANAMA, BRITISH ANGUILLA, SEYCHELLES, SAMOA, NEVADA AND WYOMING (USA).” SOME OF THOSE JURISDICTIONS HAVE BEEN LABELED TAX HAVENS – INCLUDING PANAMA. THE FILES DATE BACK NEARLY 40 YEARS, TO 1977, WHEN MOSSACK FONSECA WAS FORMED. ABOUT A YEAR AGO, AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE CONTACTED SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, A WELL-KNOWN GERMAN NEWSPAPER, WITH AN OFFER TO TURN OVER THE DOCUMENTS – WITH NO COMPENSATIONS IN RETURN. RATHER, THE SOURCE SAID, THE REASON WAS SIMPLY, “I WANT TO MAKE THESE CRIMES PUBLIC” “. LET´S IMAGINE THE ANONYMOUS SOURCE WAS ONE OF THE CTMGS, WHO ARE REALLY DESPERATE BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE BRAVE WOMAN WHO KNOWS UGLY STUFF ABOUT THEM, IS UNMASKING THEM AND THEIR WICKED ACTS, AND LITTLE BY LITTLE EVERYONE OUT THERE IS BECOMING AWARE OF WHO THE REALLY BAD GUYS WHO ARE CALLING THE SHOTS ARE, ALTHOUGH THE´RE BEHIND THE SCENES. BY THE WAY, THE BEGINNING “I WANT…” OF THE ANONYMOUS SOURCE´S SENTENCE SOUNDS TOO FAMILIAR! REALLY, THESE CTMGS LACK CREATIVITY AS ANYONE WOULD EXPECT FROM COPYCATS! “THE DATA WAS TRANSFERRED TO SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG OVER THE COURSE OF A FEW MONTHS. IT CONSISTED OF E-MAILS, PHOTOS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS TAKEN FROM AN INTERNAL MOSSACK FONSECA DATABASE. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, IN TURN, SHARED THE RECORDS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS (ICIJ). THE ICIJ AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER JOURNALISTS FROM A VARIETY OF NEWS, OUTLETS RESEARCHED THE DOCUMENTS. THE NAMES OF HIGH-PROFILE PEOPLE BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE PAPERS WHEN THE NEWS FIRST WENT PUBLIC. AT FIRST, THERE WAS A PARTIAL RELEASE OF INFORMATION ON APRIL 3, 2016; MORE DATA IS EXPECTED TO BE MADE PUBLIC NEXT MONTH” (WHAT ARE THE PANAMA PAPERS-FORBES.APRIL 4,2016).

OK, FOLKS, LET´S MAKE NO MISTAKE  HERE  TO  BELIEVE  EVERYTHING  WE´RE TOLD IN THE NEWS SINCE LET´S IMAGINE THE CTMGS ARE IN THE MEDIA AND THEY MANAGE TO RELEASE UGLY INFO THE VERY SAME DAY THEY KNOW UGLY INFO ABOUT THEMSELVES (CTMGS) IS ABOUT TO HIT THE INTERNET, THE WORLD – YES, MY BROTHERS, CTMGS ARE ON TIME. COINCIDENCES DO NOT EXIST. WHY DID THE FIRST RELEASE OF THE PANAMA PAPERS TAKE PLACE ON A SUNDAY, AND ON APRIL 3, 2016? THIS BRAVE WOMAN WROTE “U.S. PHARMA CORPORATION´S FRAUD” ON GOOGLE ON APRIL 3, 2016. THE CTMGS HAVE HACKERS WORKING FOR THEM WHO TRACK DOWN ALL THESE BRAVE WOMAN´S MOVES ON THE INTERNET. THIS BRAVE WOMAN WAS READING ABOUT SHKRELI´S FRAUD DURING THE WHOLE DAY, SUNDAY APRIL 3 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE, AND THE CTMGS, KNOWING WHAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO FIND OUT, GOT REALLY NERVOUS BECAUSE THEY KNEW SHE WAS FINALLY GOING TO UNMASK THE CTMGS AND THE WHOLE WORLD WAS GOING TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR WICKED MANEUVERS. LET´S IMAGINE THIS BRAVE WOMAN KNOWS THE CTMGS ARE BEHIND SHKRELI´S FRAUD AND BEHIND THE PANAMA PAPERS´S FRAUD. LET´S IMAGINE THE CTMGS ARE EXPERTS IN CONCOCTING POISONOUS PLOYS. WHY ARE THEY FOND OF EMPLOYING SUCH PLOYS? LET´S IMAGINE IT´S BECAUSE THEY WANT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO TAKE THE BAIT – FOR EXAMPLE PARTICIPATING IN TAX SHELTERS – SO THAT WHENEVER THE CTMGS PRACTICES ARE ABOUT TO BE QUESTIONABLE THEY CAN USE “THE SECRET INFO” OF HIGH-PROFILE PEOPLE TO DIVERT ATTENTION TO OTHERS IN ORDER THAT WHEN THEIR UGLY STUFF IS MADE PUBLIC IT DOESN´T GET ALL THE ATTENTION IT SHOULD DRAW TO THE CTMGS SINCE THEIR ACTS ARE ATROCIOUS BEYOND WORDS. LET´S IMAGINE THE CTMGS STARTED CONCOCTING THE PANAMA PAPERS PLAN NEARLY 40 YEARS AGO, IN 1977. LET´S IMAGINE THE CTMGS HAD THIS PANAMA PLAN AS THEIR DESPERATE SECRET WEAPON TO BE RELEASED THE MOMENT THEY KNEW SOMEONE WAS ABOUT TO UNMASK THEIR EVIL SECRET ACTS IN ORDER TO DIVERT THE PUBLIC ATTENTION TO OTHER FRAUD NEWS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR ACTS, WHICH ARE A BILLION TIMES MORE MALEVOLENT THAN THE ONES THEY LEAKED. LET´S IMAGINE THAT A YEAR AGO, THAT ANONYMOUS PERSON WHO LEAKED THE MOSSACK FONSECA DOCUMENTS TO THE GERMAN NEWSPAPER SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG WAS A CTMG WHO ALREADY KNEW THE BRAVE WOMAN WAS ABOUT TO UNMASK THEM LITTLE BY LITTLE IN THE INTERNET, AND THAT´S WHY THE CTMGS DECIDED TO MAKE THE DATA PUBLIC. CTMGS ARE TWO-FACED PEOPLE. ONLY SOMEONE WHO IS DISHONEST CONTACTS ANONYMOUSLY A NEWSPAPER TO RELEASE SUCH COMPROMISING DATA. LET´S IMAGINE ONLY UNSCRUPULOUS CTMGS WOULD EMPLOY SUCH DESPERATE PLOY REGARDING THE ACT OF PARTICIPATING IN TAX HAVENS, WHEN IT´S BEEN A WORLDWIDE EXTENDED PRACTICE BY MANY, ONE OF WHOM HAS BEEN THE TRAITOR, A CMTG – YES, MY BROTHERS THE TWO-FACED ONE AND ONLY –, AND WHEN THE CTMGS THEMSELVES PARTICIPATED IN THE PANAMA PAPERS TOO! YOU SEE, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE OUT THERE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYONE. YOU KNOW WHO WE´RE TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? YES, HIM!, ONE OF THE CMTGS!

“RECENT NEWS OUT OF CHINA RAISES THE QUESTION ONCE AGAIN OF WHETHER ANY ASPECT OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL BUSINESS CAN BE TRUSTED. FIRST, CHINESE AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCED THEY WERE INVESTIGATING GLAXOSMITHKLINE AND OTHER PHARMA COMPANIES FOR BRIBING DOCTORS, HOSPITALS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO BUY AND PRESCRIBE THEIR DRUGS. GLAXO IS ACCUSED OF USING A SHANGHAI TRAVEL AGENCY TO FUNNEL AT LEAST $489 MILLION IN BRIBES. THEN THE NEW YORK TIMES REVEALED LAST WEEK THE ALARMING NEWS THAT AN INTERNAL GLAXO AUDIT FOUND SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED AT THE COMPANY´S SHANGHAI RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER. LAST YEAR GLAXO PAID $3 BILLION TO RESOLVE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS OF AMONG OTHER THINGS, MARKETING WIDELY USED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR UNAPPROVED TREATMENTS AND USING KICKBACKS TO PROMOTE SALES. AND IN 2009, GLAXO PAID $750 MILLION TO RESOLVE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CHARGES THAT QUALITY FAILURES LED TO SERIOUS CONTAMINATION OF DRUG PRODUCTS AT ITS MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS IN PUERTO RICO. GLAXO IS A LEADER IN PHARMA FRAUD AND WRONGDOING, WITH OTHER INDUSTRY HEAVYWEIGHTS CLOSE BEHIND. OVER THE PAST DECADE WHISTLEBLOWERS AND GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS IN THE U.S. HAVE EXPOSED A NEVER-ENDING SERIES OF PROBLEMS BY NUMEROUS PHARMA COMPANIES IN ALL FACETS OF THE INDUSTRY, STARTING WITH FRAUDULENT “RESEARCH” PAPERS USED TO BOLSTER MARKETING AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE MANUFACTURE OF CONTAMINATED AND DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS, THE MARKETING OF DRUGS FOR UNAPPROVED AND LIFE-THREATENING USES AND THE MISPRICING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. BUT THE COMBINATION OF PHARMA´S NONCOMPLIANT CORPORATE CULTURE AND THE PREVALENCE OF CORRUPT BUSINESS PRACTICES IN CHINA AND OTHER EMERGING ECONOMIES COULD HAVE A LETHAL IMPACT ON MANY MORE CONSUMERS AS PHARMA SHIFTS MORE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNCTIONS, MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AND MARKETING EFFORTS TO THOSE GROWING MARKETS. IN CHINA, GLAXO ALLEGEDLY USED THE TRAVEL AGENCY TO HAND OUT INDUCEMENTS BY CLAIMING THE PAYMENTS WERE FOR TRAVEL AND MEETING EXPENSES. THOSE TACTICS – THE USE OF PAYMENTS DISGUISED AS SPEAKING AND CONSULTING FEES, LUXURY TRAVEL, SEX AND NUMEROUS OTHER INDUCEMENTS TO EXPAND SALES OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – ARE MARKETING TECHNIQUES HOMEGROWN IN THE U.S.. THEY SIMPLY HAVE BEEN EXPORTED TO EMERGING MARKETS” (IS BIG PHARMA ADDICTED TO FRAUD? – FORBES. JULY 29,2013).

WE ARE ALREADY IN THE XXI CENTURY AND DRUGS ARE STILL KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YEAR. THE FACT THAT DRUG TRAFFICKING HAS NOT BEEN STOPPED IS BECAUSE THERE ARE VESTED INTERESTS IN THE CONTINUITY OF DRUGS. “BIG PHARMA WITH THE HELP OF THEIR GLOBAL ARMY OF DOCTORS HAVE PURPOSELY AND CALCULATINGLY TURNED A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF US ESPECIALLY IN THE U.S. INTO HARDCORE DRUG ADDICTS, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY ADDICTED TO ARTIFICIAL SYNTHETIC SUBSTANCES THAT ARE DETRIMENTAL TO OUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. MORE THAN 3 QUARTERS OF U.S. CITIZENS OVER 50 ARE CURRENTLY TAKING PRESCRIBED MEDICATION. TAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS HAS CAUSED AN EPIDEMIC THAT´S PART OF A SINISTER PLAN TO SQUEEZE YET MORE PROFIT OUT OF A SYSTEM DESIGNED TO KEEP HUMANS CHRONICALLY UNHEALTHY. EVEN MORE ALARMING IS THE FACT THAT DEATH BY MEDICAL ERROR AT NEAR A QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE ANNUALLY HAS BECOME THE 3RD LARGEST KILLER OF U.S. CITIZENS BEHIND HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. OTHER MORE RECENT STUDIES HAVE ESTIMATED UPWARDS OF UP TO 440,000 HAVE DIED YEARLY FROM PREVENTABLE MISTAKES AT HOSPITALS. BLIND OBEDIENCE TO BIG PHARMA AND A CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL SYSTEM TOO DEPENDENT ON SURGERY AND TECHNOLOGY HAS INFLICTED MORE HARM THAN GOOD ON THE U.S. POPULATION” (EVILS OF BIG PHARM EXPOSED – GLOBAL RESEARCH). WE ALL KNOW THAT DRUG ADDICTS ONCE THEY START THE REHAB TREATMENT THEY HAVE TO TAKE MANY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND THAT MEANS HIGH PROFITS FOR BIG PHARMA. IS THIS THE EVIL REASON WHY STILL TODAY, APRIL 2016, ALL KINDS OF POISONOUS DRUGS ARE OUT THERE ALMOST EVERYWHERE, AND MANY PEOPLE ARE DECEIVED INTO BECOMING DRUG PUSHERS SO THAT THEY CAN EARN EASY DIRTY MONEY, SINCE MANY OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL TURN A BLIND EYE ON JUNKIES AND DRUGS.

IN DECEMBER 2015 MY MOTHER HAD TO GO TO THE DENTIST TO GET A TOOTH OUT, AND THAT DAY RIGHT AFTER HAVING IT OUT SHE WAS PRESCRIBED AMOXICILLIN WITH CLAVULANIC ACID (ANTIBIOTIC). WHEN SHE WENT TO THE PHARMACY TO BUY IT SHE WAS GIVEN THE GENERIC ONE, INSTEAD OF AUGMENTINE. MY MOTHER STARTED TAKING THE GENERIC ANTIBIOTIC EXACTLY AS THE DENTIST HAD TOLD HER TO IN ORDER TO AVOID HAVING ANY PAINS IN THE AREA, AND GUESS WHAT! SHE COULD NOT TAKE A NAP NOR COULD SHE SLEEP AT NIGHT BECAUSE SHE HAD STOMACH AND TOOTH ACHES. WHY? BECAUSE THE GENERIC ANTIBIOTIC SHE WAS GIVEN DID NOT HAVE THE SAME COMPOSITION AS THE ORIGINAL ONE (AUGMENTINE). THE GENERIC ONE HAS ABOUT 20% LESS THAN AUGMENTINE. THE DAY AFTER MY MOTHER STARTED TAKING THE GENERIC ONE I DECIDED TO TELL MY MOTHER´S DOCTOR ABOUT SUCH SYMPTONS SHE HAD HAD, AND THAT SHE NEEDED AUGMENTINE INSTEAD, AND THE DOCTOR DID AS I REQUESTED. ONCE MY MOTHER STARTED TAKING AUGMENTINE SHE DID NOT HAVE ANY ACHES WHATSOEVER. ANOTHER INTERESTING CASE IS THE ONE “FILED AGAINST ASTRAZENECA, DETAILED HOW CALIFORNIA PSYCHIATRIST RIMAL BERA DISCUSSED THE ANTIPSYCHOTIC SEROQUEL FOR “CONDUCT DISORDERS” IN CHILDREN EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT APPROVED FOR THAT USE. ASTRAZENECA PAID BERA AT LEAST $10,530 FOR SPEAKING THIS YEAR, COMPANY DATA SHOW” (DRUGMAKER PRACTICES DELIVER SALES, BUT AT A COST…:NPR ).

2011 WAS THE YEAR WHEN WE NOTICED THAT DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, HEALTHY FOOD, FACE CREAMS, LOTIONS AND MANY OTHER DERMATOLOGICAL PRODUCTS WE USED TO BUY WERE NOT THE SAME, EXCEPT FOR THE BRAND. THE MOMENT WE ATE MUCH OF THE HEALTHY FOOD WE HAD BEEN EATING FOR MANY YEARS BEFORE WE NOTICED HOW THE LOOK ON OUR EYES, FACE, ETC. WAS NOT GOOD, AND THE MOMENT WE APPLIED ANY OF THOSE FACE, EYE CREAMS, LOTIONS AND OTHERS ON US WE HAD ITCHY SKIN AND BURNING EYES. WE STOPPED BUYING MANY OF THE BRANDS WE USED TO SINCE THOSE CREAMS AND LOTIONS WERE CONTAMINATED. WE STARTED BUYING OTHER BRANDS AND WE FOUND THE SAME EFFECTS. WE FINALLY FOUND JUST A FEW BRANDS WHICH WERE OK. SINCE 2011 TO THIS VERY DAY EVEN SOME OF THOSE FEW WE FOUND WERE CONTAMINATED LATER ON IN THE PAST YEARS. HOW COME? FOR SURE, ALL THIS CONTAMINATION EVIL ON SO MANY BEAUTY PRODUCTS AND HEALTHY FOOD IS NO COINCIDENCE BUT AN EVIL MANEUVER AGAINST MANY BILLIONS OF PEOPLE, SPECIALLY THE BILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO ENJOY LIFE, WHO ARE OVER THE MOON HELPING OTHERS, WHO HAVE A WHALE OF A TIME FOLLOWING GOD´S RULES, AND WHO HAVE A GREAT TIME DOING WHAT´S FAIR AND BEST FOR EVERYONE HERE.

THE FOLLOWING QUOTES SHOW US SOME OF THESE WICKED CRUSADES GOING ON STILL TODAY. “WITH THE PRECEDENT OF A WELL-DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF HORRIFYING EUGENICS PRACTICED ON THE POOR AND MOST VULNERABLE IN THE U.S. UP TILL THE 1980S, OLIGARCHS HAVE BEEN SCHEMING TO KILL MOST OF US ON THE PLANET FOR A LONG TIME NOW. WITH LAST YEAR´S WEST AFRICAN OUTBREAK OF THE MOST DEADLY EBOLA VIRUS EVER, AND IT BEING PATENTED AS BIO-WARFARE, AND MOUNTING EVIDENCE THAT IT WAS PURPOSELY STARTED BY A JOINT U.S. MILITARY-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH TEAM IN SIERRA LEONE CAUSING ITS GLOBAL SPREAD, MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER HAVE PERISHED AND A GROWING SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION SUSPECT THAT IT IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION TO EFFECTIVELY DEPOPULATE THE EARTH. WE CAN LARGELY THANK THE DEMONIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BIG PHARMA AND U.S. EMPIRE FOR THAT” (EVILS OF BIG PHARMA EXPOSED – GLOBAL RESEARCH).

“MARTIN SHKRELI, A BOASTFUL PHARMACEUTICAL EXECUTIVE WHO CAME UNDER WITHERING CRITICISM FOR PRICE GOUGING VITAL DRUGS, DENIED SECURITIES FRAUD CHARGES ON THURSDAY FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING ARREST, AND WAS FREED ON A $5 MILLION BOND. WHILE THE 32-YEAR-OLD HAS EARNED A RARE LEVEL OF INFAMY FOR HIS BRAZENNESS IN BUSINESS AND HIS PERSONAL LIFE, WHAT HE WAS BEEN CHARGED WITH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SKYROCKETING DRUG PRICES. HE´S ACCUSED OF REPEATEDLY LOSING MONEY FOR INVESTORS AND LYING TO THEM ABOUT IT, ILLEGALLY TAKING ASSETS FROM ONE OF HIS COMPANIES TO PAY OFF DEBTORS IN ANOTHER. “SHKRELI ESSENTIALLY RAN HIS COMPANY LIKE A PONZI SCHEME WHERE HE USED EACH SUBSEQUENT COMPANY TO PAY OFF DEFRAUDED INVESTORS FROM THE PRIOR COMPANY,” BROOKLYN U.S. ATTORNEY ROBERT CAPERS SAID AT A PRESS CONFERENCE. SHKRELI BECAME FAMOUS WITHIN A CERTAIN WORLD BUT ENTERED PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER HE RAISED THE PRICE MORE THAN 55-FOLD FOR DARAPRIM IN SEPTEMBER FROM $13.50 PER PILL TO $750. IT´S THE PREFERRED TREATMENT FOR A PARASITIC CONDITION KNOWN AS TOXOPLASMOSIS, WHICH CAN BE DEADLY FOR UNBORN BABIES AND PATIENTS WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS INCLUDING THOSE WITH HIV OR CANCER. HIS COMPANY, TURING PHARMACEUTICALS AG, BOUGHT THE DRUG, MOVED IT TO A CLOSED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND INSTANTLY DROVE THE PRICE INTO THE STRATOSPHERE. HE DREW SHOCKED REBUKES FROM CONGRESS, DOCTORS AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, AND BROUGHT PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THE RISING PRICES OF OLDER DRUGS.  THE BBC DUBBED HIM THE “MOST HATED MAN IN AMERICA”. BERNIE SANDERS, THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, REJECTED A $2,700 CAMPAIGN DONATION FROM HIM, DIRECTING IT TO AN HIV CLINIC. A SPOKESMAN SAID THE CAMPAIGN WOULD NOT KEEP MONEY “FROM THIS POSTER BOY FOR DRUG COMPANY GREED”. ALL THE CRITICISM SEEMED AT FIRST TO HAVE SOME IMPACT AND SHKRELI SAID HE WOULD LOWER THE PRICE. THEN HE RENEGED. BARELY 23, HE WAS MANAGING HEDGE FUND ELEA CAPITAL IN NEW YORK AND LOST IT ALL IN 2007. AROUND THEN, A TRADE WITH LEHMAN BROTHERS ENDED WITH A $2.3 MILLION JUDGEMENT AGAINST HIM, PROSECUTORS SAID. IN 2010, HE LOST HIS CLIENTS´ $3 MILLION INVESTMENT IN HIS NEW FUND, MSMB CAPITAL. IN 2011, HE BET THAT SHARES OF OREXIGEN THERAPEUTICS INC. WOULD FALL AND WOUND UP OWING $7 MILLION TO HIS BROKER, MERRILL LYNCH, AUTHORITIES SAID. HE COULDN´T PAY, AND HE, AN UNNAMED ACCOMPLICE AND MSMB CAPITAL EVENTUALLY EXTINGUISHED THE DEBT WITH A $1.35 MILLION SETTLEMENT, THEY SAID”. LET´S IMAGINE THAT UNNAMED ACCOMPLICE WAS A CMTG FROM THE NORTH OF SPAIN. “PART OF THAT MONEY CAME FROM HIS NEXT FIRM, AUTHORITIES SAID. AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF MSMB CAPITAL, SHKRELI LAUNCHED MSMB HEALTHCARE WITH $5 MILLION FROM 13 INVESTORS. HE PAID HIMSELF “FAR IN EXCESS” OF THE AGREED-UPON 1% MANAGEMENT FEE AND 20% PROFIT INCENTIVE, ACCORDING TO THE SEC. SHKRELI THEN USED CASH FROM MSMB HEALTHCARE TO INVEST IN RETROPHIN, FOUNDED IN 2011, EVEN THOUGH IT “HAD NO PRODUCTS OR ASSETS”, PROSECUTORS SAID. LATER, HE USED THE ASSETS OF RETROPHIN TO REPAY ANGRY INVESTORS IN HIS HEDGE FUNDS, PROSECUTORS SAID. AS SHKRELI´S LOSSES MOUNTED, SO DID HIS LIES. HE FABRICATED PORTFOLIO STATEMENTS AND, WITH HIS LAWYER´S HELP, DECEIVED THE SEC AND OUTSIDE ACCOUNTANTS. HE BACKDATED RECORDS, MANUFACTURED A PHONY LOAN AGREEMENT BETWEEN RETROPHIN AND A HEDGE FUND, AND CREATED SHAM CONSULTING AGREEMENTS WITH RETROPHIN AS A WAY TO ROUTE THE COMPANY´S CASH TO HIS EARLIER INVESTORS. GREEBEL, THE ARRESTED LAWYER, MADE SURE RETROPHIN´S OUTSIDE ACCOUNTANTS WERE UNAWARE OF SHKRELI´S FINANTIAL MANEUVERS AND HELPED HIM CONCOCT THE CONSULTING AGREEMENTS USED TO REPAY THE HEDGE FUND INVESTORS, THE U.S. SAID. TURING, WHICH IS LESS THAN A YEAR OLD AND HAS RAISED $90 MILLION IN FINANCING, HAS FOLLOWED A SIMILAR STRATEGY WITH THE PURCHASE OF DRUGS, INCLUDING DARAPRIM. BEFORE SHKRELI STARTED TURING, RETROPHIN RAISED THE PRICE OF THIOLA, USED TO TREAT A RARE CONDITION CAUSING DEBILITATING RECURRENCES OF KIDNEY STONES, FROM $1.50 A PILL TO $30. “SOME OF THESE COMPANIES SEEM TO ACT MORE LIKE HEDGE FUNDS THAN TRADITIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES,” SAID SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS, A MAINE REPUBLICAN WHO RAN THE RECENT HEARING. GEORGE SCANGOS, A CEO OF BIOTECHNOLOGY GIANT BIOGEN INC., WENT FURTHER, SAYING IN AN INTERVIEW, “TURING IS TO RESEARCH-BASED COMPANY LIKE A LOAN SHARK IS TO A LEGITIMATE BANK” (BLOOMBERG. SHKRELI, DRUG PRICE GOUGER, DENIES FRAUD AND POSTS BAIL. DEC 17, 2015).

“ACCORDING TO THE INDICTMENT FILED BY THE BROOKLYN U.S. ATTORNEY´S OFFICE AND A RELATED CIVIL COMPLAINT, MR. SHKRELI HAD BEEN LOSING OTHER INVESTORS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR YEARS, STARTING AS FAR BACK AS 2009. AND ONCE THOSE INVESTORS BEGAN DEMANDING THEIR MONEY, MR. SHKRELI, WITH HELP FROM HIS LAWYER HID THE LOSSES AND DOLED OUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INSTEAD FROM BIOPHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY RETROPHIN INC., WHEN MR. SHKRELI WAS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE, THE INDICTMENT ALLEGED. AMONG THE ALLEGED LIES: MSMB HAD RETAINED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS AS AUDITORS AND HAD $35 MILLION UNDER MANAGEMENT. THE FUND HAD LESS THAN $700 IN ITS ACCOUNTS AT THE TIME, PROSECUTORS SAID. NEVERTHELESS, MR. SHKRELI CLAIMED THE FUND WAS PROFITABLE, SENDING PHONY PERFORMANCE REPORTS TO INVESTORS, AT ONE POINT WRITING IN AN E-MAIL “ORIGINAL MSMB INVESTORS (2009) HAVE JUST ABOUT DOUBLED THEIR MONEY NET OF FEES”, PROSECUTORS SAID. IN REALITY, MSMB CAPITAL HAD LOST ITS ASSETS BY SEPTEMBER 2012, THE INDICTMENT SAID. BETWEEN FEBRUARY 2011 AND NOVEMBER 2012, HE CONVINCED 13 INVESTORS TO GIVE HIM $5 MILLION, PROSECUTORS SAID. IN HIS PITCHES TO INVESTORS IN MSMB HEALTHCARE, MR. SHKRELI LIED ABOUT THE $7 MILLION HE OWED MERRILL LYNCH AND FALSELY REPRESENTED THAT THE NEW FUND HAD $55 MILLION UNDER MANAGEMENT, ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS. HE ALSO USED MONEY FROM THE NEW FUND TO PAY $900,000 TO MERRILL LYNCH OVER HIS TRADING LOSSES, PROSECUTORS SAID. BUT THE NEW FUND ALSO PERFORMED POORLY AND FACED WITH MOUNTING LOSSES. SHKRELI AND GREEBEL CONCOCTED A SCHEME TO COVER THEIR TRACKS, PROSECUTORS SAID. BY MARCH 2011, MR. SHKRELI BEGAN USING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY RETROPHIN INC., WHERE MR. SHKRELI WAS CHIEF EXECUTIVE, AS HIS “PERSONAL PIGGY BANK”, USING AT LEAST $11 MILLION TO PAY BACK SHAREHOLDERS OF THE MSMB FUNDS, ACCORDING TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY ROBERT CAPERS. MR. GREEBEL SERVED AS OUTSIDE COUNSEL TO RETROPHIN. IN NOVEMBER 2012, MR. SHKRELI, MR. GREEBEL AND OTHERS ALLEGEDLY WORKED TOGETHER TO DOCTOR DOCUMENTS TO PRE-DATE A TRANSFER OF RETROPHIN SHARES TO ONE OF THE MSMB FUNDS, PROSECUTORS SAID. AT 3:55 P.M. ON NOV.29, THE INDICTMENT SAYS, A RETROPHIN EMPLOYEE SENT AN E-MAIL TO SHKRELI AND GREEBEL WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT INCLUDED “CLEARLY VISIBLE REDACTING TAPE” AND A HANDWRITTEN DATE. A MINUTE LATER, MR. GREEBEL TOLD THE EMPLOYEE: “PLEASE CALL ME”. AT 4:04, AN ACCOUNTANT WHO RECEIVED THE AGREEMENT SAID: “WT…F”. AT 4:32 P.M., THE EMPLOYEE SENT AROUND A NEW VERSION OF THE AGREEMENT WITHOUT ANY VISIBLE REDACTING TAPE AND A NEW, TYPED DATE, THE INDICTMENT SAYS” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. MARTIN SHKRELI, PHARMA EXECUTIVE, ARRESTED ON FRAUD CHARGES. DEC 17, 2015).

“ON FEB. 10, VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL INC., BOUGHT THE RIGHTS TO A PAIR OF LIFE-SAVING HEART DRUGS. THE SAME DAY, THEIR LIST PRICES ROSE BY 525% AND 212%. NEITHER OF THE DRUGS, NITROPRESS OR ISUPREL, WAS IMPROVED AS A RESULT OF COSTLY INVESTMENT IN LAB AND HUMAN TESTING, VALIANT SAID, NOR WAS MANUFACTURE OF THE MEDICINES SHIFTED TO AN EXPENSIVE NEW PLANT. THE BIG CHANGE: THE DRUG´S OWNERSHIP” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES BUY RIVALS´ DRUGS, THEN JACK UP THE PRICES. APRIL 26, 2015).

“AROUND THE PHOENIX-AREA OFFICES OF MAIL-ORDER PHARMACY PHILIDOR RX SERVICES LLC, EMPLOYEES SAID THEY OFTEN RAN INTO A FRIENDLY COLLEAGUE NAMED BIJAL PATEL WHO TRACKED PRESCRIPTIONS. BUT WHEN THE EMPLOYEES GOT AN E-MAIL FROM THE COLLEAGUE, THEY SAY HE USED A DIFFERENT NAME: PETER PARKER, THE ALTER EGO OF SPIDER-MAN. HE WAS AMONG A FEW WORKERS AT PHILIDOR OFFICES WHO WENT BY ONE NAME IN PERSON AND ANOTHER IN E-MAILS DURING THE PAST 2 YEARS, ACCORDING TO 3 FORMER EMPLOYEES. MR. PATEL AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE NOT EMPLOYED” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. VALEANT AND PHARMACY MORE INTERTWINED THAN THOUGHT. OCT. 25, 2015). ONCE AGAIN ANONYMITY!,  NO GOOD!  LET´S IMAGINE THE PERSON WHO WENT BY ONE NAME IN PERSON AND BY  ANOTHER IN E-MAILS, AND WAS UNEMPLOYED IS A CTMG FROM SPAIN.

“J. MICHAEL PEARSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL INC., MADE 13 TAKEOVER BIDS LAST YEAR. HE SUCCEEDED IN 11 OF THEM, SPENDING ABOUT $2.78 BILLION TO BEEF UP THE MONTREAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY´S DERMATOLOGY, NEUROLOGY, BRANDED GENERICS AND OVER-THE-COUNTER PRODUCTS BUSINESSES. VALEANT´S BIGGEST RIVALS TYPICALLY INVEST BILLIONS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO FUEL GROWTH. THE 52-YEAR-OLD MR. PEARSON HAS BET INSTEAD ON M & A TO REPLENISH THE COMPANY´S PIPELINE OF DRUGS AND TREATMENTS´” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. FOR DRUG MAKER, M AND A DOES WORK OF R AND D. APRIL 17, 2012). THE WORLD NEEDS PHARMA COMPANIES INVESTING IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SO THAT PEOPLE´S HEALTH CAN BE IMPROVED.

“THE 3 LARGEST PHARMACY-BENEFIT MANAGERS IN THE U.S. SAID THEY ARE CEASING WORK WITH A PHARMACY THAT HAS HELPED DRIVE SALES GROWTH AT VALEANT PHARMA INTERNAT. INC., DEALING ANOTHER BLOW TO THE DRUG MAKER. CVS HEALTH CORP. ON THURSDAY SAID IT IS TERMINATING MAIL-ORDER PHARMACY PHILIDOR RX SERVICES LLC FROM THE NETWORK OF ITS CAREMARK PHARMACY-BENEFIT UNIT, AFTER AUDITS FOUND THE PHARMACY WAS NOT COMPLYING WITH TERMS OF ITS AGREEMENT. EXPRESS SCRIPTS HOLDING CO. RELEASED A SIMILAR STATEMENT ABOUT AN HOUR AGO” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. CVS, EXPRESS SCRIPTS, UNITED HEALTH GROUP CUT OFF PHILIDOR, PHARMACY USED BY VALEANT. OCT. 29, 2015).

“EXPRESS SCRIPTS HOLDING CO. SAID IT WAS CUTTING OFF A PHARMACY THAT SOLD MEDICATIONS MADE BY HORIZON PHARMA PLC AND SUING DRUG MAKER, IN THE LATEST SIGN OF TENSION OVER TIES BETWEEN PHARMA MANUFACTURERS AND COMPANIES THAT DISPENSE THEIR MEDICINES. EXPRESS SCRIPTS, THE LARGEST U.S. PHARMACY-BENEFIT MANAGER, SAID IT HAD TERMINATED LINDEN CARE PHARMACY FROM ITS NETWORK AFTER IT “FOUND THAT IT PREDOMINANTLY DISPENSED HORIZON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND FAILED TO FULFILL EXPRESS´S PHARMACY NETWORK AGREEMENT” (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. EXPRESS SCRIPTS CUTTING OFF PHARMACY THAT SOLD DRUGS FROM HORIZON PHARMA. NOV. 10, 2015).

THIS WORLD NEEDS PHARMA COMPANIES LIKE CVS HEALTH CORP. AND EXPRESS SCRIPTS HOLDING CO., WHO DECIDED TO CUT OFF SOME CORRUPT PHARMACY SERVICES AFTER THEY FOUND OUT THEY WERE NOT COMPLYING WITH TERMS OF THEIR AGREEMENTS.

“THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW BIG PHARMA SEEKS ENORMOUS PROFITS OVER THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF THE HUMANS IT SERVES, AND HOW DRUG COMPANIES INVASIVELY CORRUPTED THE WAY THAT THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY DELIVERS ITS VITAL SERVICES. THE STORY OF BIG PHARMA IS THE EXACT SAME STORY OF HOW BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG OIL, BIG AGRI-CHEM GIANTS LIKE MONSANTO HAVE COME TO POWER. THE CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDERS OF ALL THESE MAJOR INDUSTRIES ARE ONE AND THE SAME. BIG MONEY BELONGING TO THE GLOBAL CENTRAL BANKING CABAL OWN AND OPERATE ALL THE FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES IN ADDITION TO VIRTUALLY ALL NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS ON THIS EARTH. THE ROCKEFELLERS PRIVATIZED HEALTHCARE IN THE U.S. BACK IN THE 1930S AND HAS FINANCED AND LARGELY INFLUENCED BOTH HEALTHCARE AND BIG PHARMA EVER SINCE. WE ARE NOW LEARNING ABOUT BIG PHARMA VACCINES AND THE WANTON RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT OF CHILDREN AND PREGNANT MOTHERS WITH TOXIC LEVELS OF MERCURY CAUSING INCREASED RATES OF AUTISM, BRAIN DAMAGE AND EVEN DEATH. THE CRIMINAL COVER-UP BY BIG GOV. AND BIG PHARMA IS EGREGIOUS. FLU VACCINES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN EXPOSED THAT ARE TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE ALONG WITH THE HORRIFIC DAMAGE BEING DONE TO HUMANS WORLDWIDE. INSTEAD OF PREVENTING AND DECREASING ILLNESS, VACCINES TOO OFTEN HAVE HAD THE OPPOSITE EFFECT, EXPONENTIALLY INCREASING ILLNESS, CAUSING IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE AND EVEN DEATH TO THOUSANDS OF UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS MOSTLY LIVING IN 3RD WORLD NATIONS. MUCH OF BIG PHARMA´S SUCCESS OVER THE LAST COUPLE DECADES HAS BEEN THE RESULT OF SPECIFICALLY TARGETING SPECIAL NEW POPULATIONS TO CON AND WIN OVER, RESORTING TO CREATING NEW DISEASES AND MALADIES TO ENTICE TROUBLED, STRESSED OUT, GULLIBLE INDIVIDUALS INTO BELIEVING THERE´S SOMETHING ABNORMALLY WRONG WITH THEM, THAT THEY ARE AMONG ALWAYS A GROWING SEGMENT OF OUR POPULATION WHO QUIETLY SUFFER FROM WHATEVER DISCOMFORTING SYMPTOMS, DEFICITS, DYSFUNCTIONS, AILMENTS, SYNDROMES AND DISORDERS THAT ENTERPRISING BIG PHARMA CONNIVES TO SLYLY INVENT, PROMOTE, PACKAGE AND SELL. PERHAPS AS SINISTER AS ANY ASPECT OF THE DRUG BUSINESS IS HOW BIG PHARMA HAS COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER THE FDA. A RECENT HARVARD STUDY SLAMMED THE FDA MAKING THE ACCUSATION THAT IT SIMPLY “CANNOT BE TRUSTED”, BECAUSE IT´S OWNED AND OPERATED BY BIG PHARMA. WITH COMPLETE AUTONOMY AND CONTROL, NOW PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES KNOWINGLY MARKET DRUGS THAT CARRY HIGH RISK DANGERS FOR CONSUMERS. BUT BECAUSE THEY SO TIGHTLY CONTROL ITS SUPPOSED REGULATORY GATEKEEPER, DRUGS ARE COMMONLY MASS MARKETED AND BEFORE THE EVIDENCE OF POTENTIAL HARM BECOMES OVERWHELMING, BY DESIGN WHEN THE SLOW BUREAUCRATIC WHEELS TURN ISSUING A DRUG RECALL, BILLIONS IN PROFIT HAVE ALREADY BEEN UNSCRUPULOUSLY REAPED AT THE DEADLY EXPENSE OF VICTIMS. ADDITIONALLY, DOCTORS, PHARMACISTS AND PATIENTS RARELY EVEN HEAR ABOUT IMPORTANT RECALLS DUE TO DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS OR CONTAMINATION. YET HUNDREDS OF BIG PHARMA DRUGS ARE RECALLED EVERY YEAR. MANY FDA APPROVED DRUGS LIKE FENPHEN, VIOXX, ZOHYDRO AND CELEBREX KILL HUNDREDS BEFORE THEY´RE FINALLY REMOVED FROM THE SHELF. THIS WITHHOLDING THE TRUTH FROM THE PROFESSIONALS AND PUBLIC CONSUMERS IS YET MORE EVIDENCE THAT BIG PHARMA PROTECTS ITS PROFITS MORE THAN PEOPLE. THIS EVIL PRACTICE THAT KEEPS REPEATING ITSELF IS PROOF THAT BIG PHARMA IS A CRIMINAL RACKET. IT NO LONGER NEEDS OUTSIDE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH DEMONSTRATING A DRUG´S EFFICACY TO BE FDA APPROVED. CURRENTLY RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED AND BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY ITSELF TO FRAUDULENTLY SHOW POSITIVE RESULTS FROM METHODOLOGICALLY FLAWED DRUG TRIALS WHEN IN REALITY A DRUG PROVES EITHER ILL EFFECTIVE AT DOING WHAT IT´S PURPORTED TO DO ON DOWNRIGHT HARMFUL. BUT BECAUSE BIG PHARMA´S NEVER BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS EVILDOING, IT CONTINUES TO LITERALLY GET AWAY WITH MURDER, NOT UNLIKE THE MILITANT POLICE, THE CIA, MONSANTO, AND THE U.S. EMPIRE THAT WILLFULLY AND METHODICALLY COMMIT MASS MURDER ON A GLOBAL SCALE OR THROUGH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM HAVING ITS MERCENARY MOSLEM ALLIES KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE AS ON 9/11 AND FRANCE´S RECENT “9/11”. SINCE ALL SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THEIR OLIGARCH PUPPET MASTERS TOWARD GRAND THEFT PLANET AND NEW WORLD ORDER WITH TOTAL IMPUNITY, THE WORLD CONTINUES TO SUFFER AND BE VICTIMIZED” ( THE EVILS OF BIG PHARMA EXPOSED. GLOBAL RESEARCH, MARCH 07, 2016).

“EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST 17 YEARS PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES HAVE SPENT MORE MONEY ON LOBBYING THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. OUTDOING THEIR NEAREST RIVAL BY NEARLY A BILLION DOLLARS. CONSIDERING AMERICA IS 49TH IN LIFE EXPECTANCY ACROSS THE GLOBE IT´S A MYSTERY AS TO WHY THEY ARE NUMBER 1 IN HEALTH CARE COSTS. ULTIMATELY HEALTHCARE SHOULD BE JUST THAT, CARE! BUT IN 2013 THERE WERE NEARLY 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE U.S. MADE BANKRUPT FROM MEDICAL BILLS… SOME OF THEIR DRUGS WERE MARKED UP AT OVER 1000% AND PROFIT MARGINS AND GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL REVENUE SAT AT $980.1 BILLION IN 2014. PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES SPEND MORE MONEY ON SELLING THE DRUGS THAN THEY DO DEVELOPING THEM. THE BIGGEST SPENDER IN 2013 WAS JOHNSON & JOHNSON WHO SPENT $17.5 BILLION ON SALES AND MARKETING, COMPARED TO $8.2 BILLION FOR R&D. MEDICAL NEGLICENCE IS PART OF THEIR EXPENSES. THE 20 LARGEST MEDICAL LAWSUITS HAVE MOUNTED TO 19.3 BILLION DOLLARS AND MOST OF THOSE LAWSUITS HAVE BEEN FOR FALSE CLAIMS. WHICH MEANS THEY CAN MAKE THINGS UP ABOUT DRUGS AND IF/WHEN THEY GET FOUND OUT THEY JUST PAY A SMALL FRACTION OF THEIR PROFITS. NO CRIMINAL CHARGES, NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND THEY CAN CONTINUE WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL. THEY TRIAL THE DRUGS THEMSELVES. THIS MEANS THE PROCESS OF DRUG APPROVAL IS NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED GIVING THE DRUG COMPANIES FREE REIN TO SUBMIT WHATEVER DATA THEY WANT. WHEN YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THEIR PREVIOUS TENDENCIES TO LIE AND THE FACT THAT THE FDA IS FUNDED MOSTLY BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IT DOES OPEN UP THE DOOR FOR CORRUPTION. DOCTORS ACCEPT PAYMENTS FOR MARKETING THE PHARMA COMPANIES´ DRUGS WITH A MASSIVE $24 BILLION BEING SPENT ON MARKETING TO THEM. A LOT OF THE LOBBYING EFFORTS FROM PHARMA COMPANIES ARE AGAINST ALTERNATIVE HEALTH. A LOT MORE RESEARCHING NEEDS TO BE DONE IN NATURAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS, BEING THAT MOST PHARMA DRUGS ARE DERIVED FROM NATURAL MATERIALS. ALTERNATIVE HEALTH ISN´T AS PROFITABLE AND NOT AS EASY TO MONOPOLIZE AS DRUGS SO THERE ARE NO FINANCIAL INTERESTS IN ITS RESEARCH” ( THE BIG PHARMACEUTICAL SCAM – 7 SHOCKING TRUTHS ABOUT BIG PHARMA – TRUTH THEORY BY LUKE MILLER. 4/07/2015 ).

“EVERYONE OF THE DRUG COMPANIES WHO HAD TO PAY FINES FOR THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES WOULD ARGUE THEY´VE HARDLY BEEN GIVEN A “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” PASS. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEY TOOK, COMPARED TO WHAT THEY´VE HAD TO PAY BACK, I THINK YOU´LL AGREE THEIR PUNISHMENT AMOUNTED TO LITTLE MORE THAN A SLAP ON THE WRIST. THE 6 COMPANIES I´M HIGHLIGHTING ARE: JOHNSON & JOHNSON, PFIZER, ROCHE, GLAXOSMITHKLINE, NOVARTIS AND BAXTER INTERNATIONAL. IN THE LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD SETTLEMENT IN HISTORY, PFIZER WAS ORDERED TO PAY $2.3 BILLION TO RESOLVE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL ALLEGATIONS THAT THE COMPANY ILLEGALLY PROMOTED USES OF 4 OF ITS DRUGS, INCLUDING THE PAINKILLER BEXTRA. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, COMPANIES FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD LIKE THIS ARE BANNED FROM DEALING WITH MEDICARE AND MEDICAID AGAIN. BUT INSTEAD, IN A SLAP-ON-THE-WRIST MOVE THAT RESEMBLED THE TOO-BIG-TO-JAIL BANK BAILOUTS, FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ALLOWED PFIZER TO AVOID BEING SENTENCED. AND PFIZER GOT OFF SCOT-FREE, EXCEPT FOR THAT LITTLE $2.3 BILLION FINE THAT AMOUNTED TO JUST 3 MONTHS´ PROFITS” ( THE 6 TOP THUGS OF THE MEDICAL WORLD… AS RANKED BY “TOP 100 CORPORATE CRIMINALS” DR. MERCOLA SPEAKS. 8 DECEMBER 2010 ).

WHEN SOMEONE JACKS UP THE PRICE OF STANDARD AND LIFE-SAVING DRUGS FROM $13.50 TO $750 RIGHT AFTER BUYING THE RIGHTS IT IS A CRIME. THE FACT THAT ALL THOSE UNSCRUPULOUS CEOS WERE NOT PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES MEANS THERE ARE LOOPHOLES. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CRIMINAL HISTORY OF PHARMA COMPANIES AND OTHERS, THE FOLLOWING 27 LAWS MUST BE ENACTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE:

 1.ALL CORRUPT PHARMA COMPANIES MUST FACE CHARGES IN THE U.S. AND IN THE E.U. “FOR VIOLATING THE U.S. FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT, AN ANTI-BRIBERY LAW, AS WELL AS CHARGES” BY THE E.U. AUTHORITIES ( IS BIG PHARMA ADDICTED TO FRAUD – FORBES ).

2.NO PHARMA COMPANY WHO HAS EVER BRIBED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, DOCTORS AND HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS MUST BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WORKING IN PHARMA COMPANIES ANY MORE. PEOPLE´S HEALTH MUST NOT BE PUT AT RISK WITH THEM. THE FACT THAT CORRUPT PHARMA COMPANIES FACE CHARGES FOR VIOLATING LAWS AND PAY THEIR FINES MUST NOT ALLOW THEM TO GO ON WORKING IN A BUSINESS WHERE PEOPLE´S HEALTH COULD EASILY BE AT STAKE.

3.ANY PHARMA COMPANY GUILTY OF PUSHING OFF-LABEL USES OF DRUGS MUST NOT BE CHARGED WITH JUST A MISDEMEANOR CHARGE OF MISBRANDING A DRUG BUT WITH A FELONY, SINCE FOR TOO MANY YEARS MANY PEOPLE´S HEALTH HAS BEEN AT RISK AND HAS GOTTEN WORSE BECAUSE OF THEIR GREED, AND THIS MUST BE STOPPED ONCE AND FOR ALL.

4.PEOPLE LIKE SHKRELI MUST BE BANNED FROM RUNNING AGAIN PUBLIC PHARMA COMPANIES, AND LOOTING PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES TO COVER LOSSES MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES.

5.KALOBIOS OLD OWNERS MUST GET HELP FROM THE GOVERNMENT SO THAT THEY CAN GET THEIR COMPANY BACK SINCE THEY WERE VICTIMS OF A CORRUPT SYSTEM. LOWERING OF TAXES PLUS A SUBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC BACKING SHOULD BE GRANTED TO THEM SO THAT THEY CAN GET BACK TO THEIR BUSINESS, AND ALTRUIST ONES ON ADVERTISING SHOULD HELP THEM BOOST THEIR PRODUCTS, SINCE THOSE BIO PRODUCTS ARE THE ONES MANY PEOPLE NEED, NOT THOSE OTHER PRODUCTS WITH PESTICIDES AND CHEMICALS WHICH MOST PEOPLE´S BODIES REJECT.

6.WHISTLEBLOWERS MUST BE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPENSATED FOR UNMASKING ANY BAD PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PHARMA CRIMES.

7.THE FDA MUST STOP APPROVING GENERIC FORMULATIONS WHICH DO NOT HAVE THE EXACT COMPOSITION AS ORIGINAL ONES BECAUSE PATIENTS WHO BUY  GENERIC ONES THINK THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME WHEN THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT IN SOME CASES GENERIC ONES CONTAIN ABOUT 20% LESS THAN BRAND DRUGS. WE DO NOT WANT ANY VARIATIONS OF DRUGS, BUT THE SAME DRUGS OR NOTHING AT ALL. OUR BODY IS SMART ENOUGH TO REJECT  GENERIC ONES WHICH DO NOT HAVE THE EXACT COMPOSITION AS BRAND DRUGS.

8.FRAUD DRUGS MUST BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BESIDES  GREEDY COMPANIES AND DOCTORS BEING JAIL SENTENCED.

9.DOCTORS MUST NOT BE FORCED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON WHAT DRUGS THEY PRESCRIBE TO DRUG COMPANIES. DOCTORS WHO TAKE PAYMENTS FOR MARKETING PHARMA COMPANIES´DRUGS MUST GO TO JAIL.

10.BIG PHARMA MUST NOT DICTATE WHAT IS TAUGHT IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS IN THE U.S. NOR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. BIG PHARMA´S PLANS TO BE INSTILLED IN MED STUDENTS TO TREAT PATIENTS WITH DRUGS, FOOLING THEM WITH EASY DIRTY MONEY TO DO SO MUST BE STOPPED ONCE AND FOR ALL. IF THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO THEY MUST BE SENT TO JAIL.

11.POLITICIANS WHO LET THEMSELVES BE BOUGHT  OFF BY BIG PHARMA MUST BE SENT TO JAIL AS CORRUPT POLITICIANS.

12.BIG PHARMA MUST NOT BUY OFF BIG GOV. CORP.. IF IT CONTINUES BUYING OFF BIG GOV. CORP. BIG PHARMA MUST SERVE SENTENCE IN JAIL.

13.“ BIG LAW VIA LAST SPRING´S SUPREME COURT DECISION, CURRENT CAMPAIGN FINANCING LAWS PERMIT UNLIMITED, CARTE BLANCHE BRIBERY POWER FOR MERICA´S MOST WEALTHY AND POWERFUL TO FILL THE POCKETS OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO OVERSIGHT” (EVILS OF BIG PHARMA EXPOSED – GLOBAL RESEARCH ), AND THIS BIG LAW MUST BE REVOKED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SINCE IT´S A LAW THAT ALLOWS FREE FLOW OF CORRUPT PRACTICES LIKE BRIBERY, WHICH CORRUPTS MOST EVERYONE AROUND THEM.

14.RECYCLING OLD PILLS MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES, SINCE THIS DANGEROUS PRACTICE PUTS PEOPLE´S HEALTH AT RISK.

15.DECEPTFUL ADVERTISING OF DRUGS MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES. “… BIG PHARMA TO THE RESCUE EXPLOITING PEOPLE´S NERVOUSNESS BY CLINICALLY LABELING IT AS SOCIAL ANXIETY AND REINTRODUCING THE ANTIDEPRESSANT PINK PILL AS THEIR PANACEA TO PERSONAL HAPPINESS, LIFELONG SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SUCCESS IN LIFE. THE MOST PREVALENT INDUSTRY PATTERN OF REUSING THE SAME OLD DRUGS ALL DRESSED UP WITH NEW CUSTOM DESIGNED NAMES FOR NEW PURPOSES OR NEW CUSTOM DESIGNED POPULATIONS FOR YET MORE PRICE GOUGING IS NOTHING LESS THAN A RESORTING TO A PREDATORY PRACTICE OF CRIMINAL  FALSE    ADVERTISING” ( THE EVILS OF BIG PHARMA EXPOSED – GLOBAL RESEARCH ).

16.BAN ALL ILLEGAL PROMOTIONS OF DRUGS BY COMPANIES WHO REWARD THE ONES WHO PRESCRIBE THE “RISKY” DRUGS THEY WANT THEM TO PENALIZING THEM

17.THE INFORMATION ABOUT DRUGS BEING RECALLED DUE TO DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS OR CONTAMINATION MUST BE SHARED WITH ALL DOCTORS, PHARMACISTS AND PATIENTS, PROVIDING DOCTORS, PHARMACISTS AND PATIENTS WITH LISTS OF THEM ON PAPER, SO THAT EVERYONE HAS ALL THE INFO EACH OF US DESERVES. TRANSPARENCY MUST BE A MUST. COVER-UP OF DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES.

18.THE “TOO-BIG-TO-JAIL” ONES LIKE PFIZER, BIG BANKS AND WALL STREET, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO ARE FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD MUST GO TO JAIL.

19.FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR WHOEVER MAKES CORRUPT DEALS WITH THE “TOO-BIG-ONES-TO-JAIL” MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES. YES, OBJECTIVITY AND FAIRNESS AMONG OUR DEAR ONES, AMONG OUR COLLEAGUES AND WITHIN OUR POLITICAL PARTY AND GOVERNMENT MUST PREVAIL OVER ANY OTHER KINDS OF CONSIDERATIONS, IF WE REALLY WANT PEACE AMONG ALL OF US, WORLD CITIZENS.

20.JAIL SENTENCES TOGETHER WITH MUCH HIGHER FINES MUST GO HAND IN HAND TO SORT THIS CORRUPT FRAUD SYSTEM CALLED “BIG PHARMA”.

21.THE FDA MUST NOT BE FUNDED BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN ORDER TO STOP CORRUPTION ROUTES. BIG PHARMA MUST NOT CONTROL FDA. FDA MUST BE INDEPENDENT AND EXECUTE THEIR REGULATORY FUNCTIONS. BREAKING THIS LAW MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES.

22.MARKING UP DRUGS AT OVER 200% IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO BE SENT TO JAIL.

23.DRUGS MUST NOT BE MARKED UP MORE THAN 10% A YEAR, AND THAT MUST ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED IF SALARIES RISE THAT YEAR.

24.NOONE CAN INCREASE THE PRICE OF LIFE-SAVING DRUGS BY MORE THAN 15% A YEAR, AND THAT MUST ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED IF SALARIES RISE THAT YEAR.

25.CONTRACTS FOR VACCINES AND OTHER DRUGS WITH PHARMA COMPANIES WITH BAD PRACTICES – TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE MANY “MISTAKES” THEY MADE – MUST BE INVALIDATED.

26.PRICES OF DRUGS SUCH AS DARAPRIM, WHICH FIGHTS PARASITIC INFECTIONS, MUST BE DRIVEN DOWN TO THE INITIAL PRICE THEY HAD BEFORE CORRUPT PHARMA COMPANIES ACQUIRED THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, THIS DECADES-OLD DRUG PRICE WAS RAISED MORE THAN 55-FOLD, THAT IS FROM $13.50 TO $750, AND THAT IS CALLED ABUSE. DARAPRIM PRICE PER PILL MUST NOT BE HIGHER THAN $15. $15 IS ALREADY A HIGH PRICE FOR A PILL, SO LET´S ALL START PLAYING FAIR PLAY, AND STOP PRICING UP LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES DRUGS FOR UNBORN BABIES, PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS, WITH CANCER AND WITH HIV. OTHER DRUG PRICES, SUCH AS NITROPRESS OR ISUPREL MUST BE LOWERED TO THEIR INITIAL PRICES, SINCE DRUG-PRICE INCREASES WENT UP TO 525% AND 212%, AND ALL THIS IS CALLED UNBEARABLE ABUSE. ABUSING THE POWER ONE HAS TO RISE PRICES UNSCRUPULOUSLY IS A CRIME THAT MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES. A THIRD EXAMPLE, OUT OF THE THOUSAND ONES, IS THIOLA´S PRICE, $30, WHICH MUST BE LOWERED TO $1.50 AS WELL. THE EXACT SAME MUST BE DONE WITH ALL THE DRUG PRICES WHICH WERE DRIVEN UP DURING THESE PAST YEARS.

27.REGULATORY BODIES TO ENSURE SAFETY IN PRESCRIPTION DRUGS MUST BE GUARANTEED, AND SOMEONE REALLY CREDITABLE MUST MAKE SURE THE REGULATORY BODIES IMPLEMENT THE REQUIRED REGULATIONS TO STOP ALL THIS BRIBERY WHICH IS ATROCIOUS ABUSE AGAINST MANY CITIZENS WHO ARE ENDURING IT. REGULATORS MUST DO THEIR JOB. IF THEY FAIL TO DO SO REGULATORS MUST BE SENT TO JAIL. IT IS CLEAR THAT ONLY HUMAN BEINGS WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED TO HAVE REALLY HIGH MORAL STANDARDS THROUGHOUT MANY YEARS CAN BE CANDIDATES.

WE NEED BRAVE AND HONEST PEOPLE LIKE ANGELA MAHER AND JOHN KOPCHINSKI. ANGELA MAHER, A FORMER DRUG SALES REP FOR ORTHO-MCNEIL PHARMACEUTICAL, “SUED THE COMPANY IN MASSACHUSETTS FEDERAL COURT IN 2003, ALLEGING IT PUSHED AN ANTI-SEIZURE DRUG FOR 27 OFF-LABEL USES. SHE SAID COMPANY OFFICIALS RIGOROUSLY TRACKED WHETHER THEIR PAYMENTS TO PHYSICIANS WERE WORTHWHILE. THE COMPANY SETTLED FOR $81 MILLION EARLIER THIS YEAR AND PLEADED GUILTY TO A MISDEMEANOR CHARGE OF MISBRANDING A DRUG; MAHER WAS AWARDED $3 MILLION. JOHN KOPCHINSKI WHISTLEBLOWED BIG PHARMA´S EVIL PRACTICE OF SELLING DRUGS FOR OFF-LABEL USES IN 2003” (THE EVILS OF BIG PHARMA EXPOSED – GLOBAL RESEARCH ). ” A SERIES OF LAWSUITS BROUGHT BY FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THOSE COMPANIES ALLEGE THE MONEY OFTEN WAS USED FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES – FINANCIALLY REWARDING DOCTORS FOR PRESCRIBING THEIR BRAND – NAME MEDICATIONS. IN SEVERAL INSTANCES, THE EX-EMPLOYEES SAY, THE PHYSICIANS WERE TOLD TO PUSH “OFF-LABEL” USES OF THE DRUGS – THOSE NOT APPROVED BY THE U.S. REGULATORS – A MARKETING TACTIC BANNED BY FEDERAL LAW (LAWSUITS SAY PHARMA ILLEGALLY PAID DOCTORS TO PUSH THEIR DRUGS – PROPUBLICA ). WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT ANY CORRUPT PRACTICES REGARDING PHARMA COMPANIES TO STEP FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN ALL PUT AN END TO THIS UNETHICAL ACTS WHICH PUT EVERYONE´S HEALTH AT RISK. WE DO NOT WANT PHARMA COMPANIES RUN BY UNSCRUPULOUS INDIVIDUALS, BUT BY HUMAN BEINGS  WITH HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS. WE DO NOT WANT ANY COMPANIES, WHETHER GLOBAL ONES OR NOT, WHICH DON´T TAKE BUSINESS ETHICS AS SERIOUSLY AS PEOPLE DESERVE. HEALTH IS SOMETHING NOONE IS ENTITLED TO PLAY AROUND WITH. SO IF SOME DOCTORS LET THEMSELVES BE BOUGHT THAT MEANS THEY ARE NOT COMPLYING WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, AND SO BOTH PHARMA COMPANIES AND THE BOUGHT DOCTORS MUST BE SEVERELY PENALIZED. THESE IRRESPONSIBLE PRACTICES MUST NOT BE ALLOWED SINCE THEY IMPAIR OUR HEALTH AND WE´RE TALKING ABOUT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE. WHO WANTS POLITICIANS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY AND DON´T CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE? NEITHER GOD NOR ANY OF US.

LET´S ROW IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, ESTABLISHING JUSTICE WHEREVER WE ARE, DOING OUR PART, BACKING UP THE HONEST ONES SO THAT THE WORLD CAN BE A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY. THE PEACE OUR WORLD NEEDS CAN ONLY COME IF EACH OF US GIVES BACK SOMETHING REALLY GOOD ON A DAILY BASIS TO THE WORLD. LET´S PROMOTE JUSTICE AND GOOD PRACTICES EVERYWHERE AND WITH WHATEVER WE DO. LET´S PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY CHANGING WHAT´S WRONG, TELLING THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN  FOOLING  MANY  PEOPLE  IT´S TIME TO CHANGE. MARKING UP PRICES GREEDILY AND BUYING  OFF DOCTORS TO MARKET ONE´S DRUGS IS WRONG. NO MATTER HOW BIG THE COMPANY IS THEY MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTS AND SUBMIT REAL EVIDENCE THAT THE DRUG IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. LYING ABOUT IT OR FAILING TO GO THROUGH THAT NECESSARY PROCESS MUST BE PENALIZED WITH JAIL SENTENCES. DRUGS ARE SOMETHING SERIOUS AND THE MOMENT SOMEONE MESSES UP WITH PEOPLE´S HEALTH THE ROUTE TO CUT THEM SHORT HAS TO BE SHORT, AS WELL AS PUTTING AN END TO SUCH ABUSE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THEREFORE STRICTER INSPECTIONS AND REGULATIONS MUST BE EXECUTED IN ORDER TO PREVENT PHARMA COMPANIES FROM DECEIVING US ANYMORE, WHEN THEY TELL US THAT THEY ARE GOING TO DEVELOP NEW DRUGS, WHICH ARE NEVER DEVELOPED SINCE IT´S ALL A COVER-UP, AND WHEN THEY TELL THE HONEST PHARMA COMPANIES LEFT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO ACQUIRE OLDER PHARMACEUTICALS TO BE SOLD FOR HIGHER PROFITS, MAKING THEM THINK THEY´VE GOT A SHARP EYE AND THAT THEY´RE BRILLIANT BUSINESSMEN, WHEN THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THEY ARE DANGEROUS CROOKS WHO DON´T CARE FOR ANYONE´S HEALTH, AND WHO ENJOY SEEING COMPANIES GOING BANKRUPT AS LONG AS THEY GET MONEY AT ANY PRICE. IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO ASK HOWARD SCHILLER AND SHKRELI WHO THE EVIL ONES WHO GAVE THEM SUCH “IDEAS” WERE. THAT WOULD HELP UNMASK THE CMTGS WHO ARE BEHING THIS FRAUD AND MUCH MORE, SO THAT WE CAN PREVENT THEM FROM DECEIVING ANY MORE PEOPLE.

IT´S A FACT THAT PHARMA COMPANIES MAKE HUGE PROFITS BY SELLING THEIR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. THAT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT IF THEY WERE GOOD TO SOCIETY, BUT REALITY TELLS US THEY ARE HARMING MANY PEOPLE SINCE SOME PHARMA PRODUCTS ARE CONTAMINATED AND BECAUSE SOME OF THEIR PRICES ARE ABUSIVE. ALL THESE ABUSIVE PRACTICES ARE THE RESULT OF A VOID OF MORAL GROUNDING. WHEN INDIVIDUALS LACK THE MORAL ETHICS HONEST ONES HAVE IS WHEN  CMTGS COME IN AND GET IN TOUCH WITH THE ONES LACKING THE ETHICAL GUIDANCE IN ORDER TO GO ON DISOBEYING THE LAW, SO THAT THEY CAN COMMIT THEIR CRIMES.

LET´S IMAGINE THAT PEOPLE LIKE SHKRELI STARTED INVESTING IN BIOTECH BECAUSE THE CMTGS TRACKED DOWN THIS BRAVE WOMAN´S E-MAILS SINCE THEY KNOW SHE HAS GOOD BUSINESS INSTINCTS, AND THEY SAW ONE E-MAIL SHE SENT SOMEONE IMPORTANT IN THE U.S, TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF BIO PRODUCTS IN OUR WORLD TODAY NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. LET´S IMAGINE ONCE THE CMTGS KNEW ABOUT THIS E-MAIL FROM THE BRAVE WOMAN THEY TOLD SHKRELI ABOUT IT SO THAT HE WOULD BUY OFF AS MANY BIOTECH COMPANIES AS HE COULD TO CONTAMINATE MANY BIO PRODUCTS, AND DO AS MUCH HARM TO PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AS THE CMTGS WANT TO. LET´S IMAGINE IN 2010 THE CMTGS ENTRUSTED PAID-OFF PEOPLE TO BRING HUNDREDS OF BOTTLES WITH POISONOUS MOSQUITOS FROM FAR AWAY COUNTRIES SO THAT THE CMTGS COULD TARGET THE BRAVE WOMAN AND OTHER PEOPLE WITH THESE DANGEROUS INSECTS, RELEASING THEM THE MOMENT THEY KNEW WHEN AND WHERE SHE AND OTHERS WERE GOING TO BE AT. LET´S IMAGINE THAT´S WHY THE CMTGS WERE INTERESTED IN BUYING OFF KALOBIOS SINCE THE COMPANY ACQUIRED THE LICENSE FOR BENZNIDAZOLE. “SHKRELI RECENTLY BOUGHT A MAJORITY STAKE IN KALOBIOS PHARMACEUTICALS INC. AFTER TURING RECEIVED A WARNING FROM THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR DARAPRIM MAY VIOLATE ANTITRUST LAWS. STATE OFFICIALS MADE THEIR CONCERNS KNOWN TO TURING AND SHKRELI IN AN OCT. 12 LETTER OBTAINED BY BLOOMBERG. KALOBIOS RECENTLY ACQUIRED THE LICENSE FOR BENZNIDAZOLE, A STANDARD TREATMENT FOR CHAGAS, A DEADLY PARASITIC INFECTION MOST COMMON IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA” (BLOOMBERG. SHKRELI, DRUG PRICE GOUGER, DENIES FRAUD AND POSTS BAIL. DEC 17, 2015 ). NO WONDER THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN CUSTOMS FOUND CREEPY INSECTS WITH SOIL INSIDE BAGS IN PAID-OFF PEOPLE´S LUGGAGE.

THE 2016 ACTION MOVIE LONDON HAS FALLEN DIRECTED BY BABAK NAJAFI, PERFECTLY PORTRAYS TODAY´S TIMES. IN THIS MOVIE WE DON´T SEE DANGEROUS INSECTS ATTACKING PEOPLE AROUND BUT WE DO SEE TONS OF PAID-OFF PEOPLE, WHO HAVE BECOME TERRORISTS AND WHO ARE DISGUISED AS BRITISH POLICE, AS QUEEN´S GUARDSMEN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND AS MANY OTHERS. IN THIS MOVIE WE DON´T SEE PHARMA IMPOSTORS BUT WE DO SEE MANY TERRORIST IMPOSTORS. ONE OF THEM IS A MOLE, INTELLIGENCE CHIEF EXECUTIVE JOHN LANCASTER, IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. THE MOVIE LETS US SEE ANOTHER EVIL MANEUVER VERY MUCH USED BY CTMGS TODAY  WHICH IS POISONING PEOPLE FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. IN THIS MOVIE WE SEE HOW THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WAS POISONED SO THAT WORLD LEADERS WOULD MEET AT HIS FUNERAL IN LONDON IN ORDER THAT THE U.S. PRESIDENT COULD BE KILLED. WHY DID AAMIR BARKAWI, A PAKISTANI TERRORIST LEADER, WANT TO KILL THE U.S. PRESIDENT? BECAUSE THE U.S. LAUNCHED A DRONE STRIKE AGAINST HIM. WHAT THE U.S. GOV. IGNORED AT THAT POINT IS THAT HE WAS GOING TO SURVIVE THE STRIKE AND THAT HE WAS GOING TO DEVOTE HIS LIFE TO REVENGE.  TODAY, MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, WE´VE GOT MAKE THE EFFORT TO PAY ATTENTION AT EVERYONE, TRYING TO UNMASK THE IMPOSTORS, WHICH ARE QUITE A FEW AND ARE EVERYWHERE

THIS WORLD NEEDS HUMAN BEINGS LIKE INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG ZOELLER WHO DOES NOT TURN A BLIND EYE ON CRIMINAL ACTIONS FROM PHARMA COMPANIES, SO THAT WE CAN ALL TOGETHER MAKE CORRUPT PHARMA COMPANIES GO TO JAIL, SINCE WE´RE ALL UNDER THE SAME LAW AND PHARMA COMPANIES CEOS ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE ALL OF US, TAKING PART IN THE SAME DEMOCRATIC ARENA. THIS DEMOCRATIC ARENA HAS BEEN GIVING SHELTER TO EVERYONE – CORRUPT AND HONEST ONES – UP TO THIS VERY DAY, AND WE DO NOT WANT THIS ANYMORE. SINCE A DEMOCRACY IMPLIES ALL CITIZENS ARE UNDER THE SAME LAW, THE TOO-BIG-TO-FALL PLOY MUST COME TO AN IMMEDIATE END. WE´VE COME A LONG WAY TO HAVE THE DEMOCRACY SHELTER LAW, AND WE DO NOT WANT IT TO BE IGNORED LIKE IT´S BEEN THE CASE WHEN IT COMES TO BIG PHARMA, BIG BANKS, WALL STREET AND MONSANTO. LAW MUST BE REALIZED IN A PURIST WAY, THAT IS APPLYING LAW AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE, ONE AND ONLY ONE FOR ANYONE AND EVERYONE. NO CLASS, NO STATUS, NOT A BILLION BRIBE, NO FAVOURS WHATSOEVER MUST MOCK OUR DEAREST LAW. WE LOVE LAW BECAUSE WE BELIEVE LAW IS THE ONLY WAY ALL HUMAN BEINGS CAN BE RESPECTED. WE DO NOT WANT ANY MORE DECEIVING LITERATURE NOR INEFFECTIVE DRUGS WHICH PUT OUR HEALTH AT RISK. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND WHAT A WASTE OF LIFE ON THOSE WICKED CEOS PART! IF THEY ONLY KNEW HOW AT RISK ARE THEIR LIVES SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING, AND ETERNALLY AND IDIOTICALLY SPEAKING, FRAUD WOULD NOT BE A REGULAR ALMOST ANYWHERE!

 

 

NO MORE HI-TECH FIXES

HAVEN´T YOU NOTICED LATELY THAT PEOPLE´S LOOKS ARE NOT AS GOOD AS THEY USED TO, EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE SPEND AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY ON FOOD?, HOW OFTEN DO WE FIND OURSELVES SAYING TO SOMEONE “THIS STRAWBERRY DOESN´T TASTE LIKE STRAWBERRIES DO” OR “THIS TOMATO DOESN´T TASTE LIKE TOMATOES SHOULD”? CERTAINLY MORE OFTEN THAN WE WOULD LIKE TO. FOOD, IN GENERAL, DOES NOT TASTE LIKE IT USED TO, NOR IT MAKES US THAT GOOD AS IT USED TO. ACTUALLY, VERY OFTEN, IF WE LOOK OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR SOME HOURS AFTER EATING WHATEVER FOOD WE CHOOSE, WE WILL SEE WE ACTUALLY LOOK WORSE THAN BEFORE EATING IT. WHAT IS WRONG WITH FOOD TODAY? FOR SURE, OUR FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE UPGRADED.

WE ALL REMEMBER THE NEWS BROADCASTED IN 2012, I BELIEVE, ABOUT A GROUP OF U.S. PEOPLE WHO DIED AFTER EATING A MEAL IN THE SAME RESTAURANT. UNDOUBTEDLY, ALL OF THEM CONSUMED CONTAMINATED FOOD. SAY THEY ALL ATE MELON AND ICEBERG LETTUCE, SAY THESE CANTALOUPES AND THE LETTUCE WERE CONTAMINATED FROM FILTHY WATER FROM FARM INDUSTRIES NEARBY, SAY THE WATER ON THE INDUSTRY FLOORS WAS DIRTY, SAY THEIR INDUSTRY EQUIPMENT WAS NOT CLEANED AFTER WORK FOR HYGIENE REASONS. SAY ALL THESE FACTS ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE REASONS WHY MULTINATIONAL MANAGERS AND WORLD LEADERS ARE TO BE BLAMED FOR ALL THE MANY OF PEOPLE´S HEALTH PROBLEMS. UNFORTUNATELY THESE FOODBORNE OUTBREAKS HAPPEN NOT ONLY IN THE U.S. BUT ALL OVER THE WORLD. THIS IS A SURE SIGN OF BAD FOOD SAFETY PRACTICES EVERYWHERE.

“CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC) ESTIMATE THAT EACH YEAR ROUGHLY 1 IN 6 AMERICANS ( OR 48 MILLION PEOPLE) GET SICK, 128,000 ARE HOSPITALIZED, AND 3,000 DIE OF FOODBORNE DISEASES. THE 2001 ESTIMATES PROVIDE THE MOST ACCURATE PICTURE YET OF WHICH FOOODBORNE BACTERIA, VIRUSES, MICROBES ARE CAUSING THE MOST ILLNESSES IN THE U.S., AS WELL AS ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF FOODBORNE ILLNESSES WITHOUT A KNOWN CAUSE” (ABOUT FOODBORNE ILLNESS/ FOOD SAFETY/ CDC).

“THE 2013 FOODNET TREND DATA SHOWED THAT FOODBORNE INFECTIONS CONTINUE TO BE AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM IN THE U.S. AND HIGHLIGHT THE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH PREVENTIVE MEASURES. DURING THE SUMMERS OF 2012 AND 2013 INFECTIONS WITH A PARTICULAR STRAIN OF V. PARAHAEMOLYTICUS SEROTYPE 04:K12 WERE ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMING SHELLFISH FROM SEVERAL ATLANTIC COAST HARVEST AREAS”.

“ABOUT LISTERIA ITSELF IS COMMON IN THE ENVIRONMENT, IT RARELY CAUSES INFECTIONS IN PEOPLE (CALLED LISTERIOSIS). ABOUT 1,600 PEOPLE IN THE U.S. GET SICK FROM LISTERIA EACH YEAR. WHILE THE INFECTION IS RARE, IN 2011, A NEW SOURCE-CANTALOUPES CONTAMINATED WITH LISTERIA – CAUSED ONE OF THE DEADLIEST FOODBORNE OUTBREAKS IN THE U.S.”.

SALMONELLA INFECTION ACCOUNTS FOR $365 MILLION IN DIRECT MEDICAL COSTS EACH YEAR. RAW MEAT MAY CONTAIN BACTERIA, SUCH AS E. COLI, SALMONELLA AND LISTERIA, OR PARASITES”.

“EXAMPLES OF CONTAMINATION IN PROCESSING:

1. IF CONTAMINATED WATER OR ICE IS USED TO WASH, PACK OR CHILL FRUITS OR VEGETABLES, THE CONTAMINATION CAN SPREAD TO THOSE ITEMS.

2. PEANUT BUTTER CAN BECOME CONTAMINATED IF ROASTED PEANUTS ARE STORED IN UNCLEAN CONDITIONS OR COME IN CONTACT WITH CONTAMINATED RAW PEANUTS.

3. DURING THE SLAUGHTER PROCESS, PATHOGENS ON AN ANIMAL´S HIDE THAT COME FROM THE INTESTINES CAN GET INTO THE FINAL MEAT PRODUCT”.

“EXAMPLES OF CONTAMINATION IN DISTRIBUTION:

1. IF REFRIGERATED FOOD IS LEFT ON A LOADING DOCK FOR A LONG TIME IN WARM WEATHER, IT COULD REACH TEMPERATURES THAT ALLOW BACTERIA TO GROW.

2. FRESH PRODUCE CAN BE CONTAMINATED IF IT IS LOADED INTO A TRUCK THAT WAS NOT CLEANED AFTER TRANSPORTING ANIMALS OR ANIMAL PRODUCTS.

3. THE CONTENTS OF A GLASS JAR THAT BREAKS IN TRANSPORT CAN CONTAMINATE NEARBY FOODS”.

“SOMETIMES, BY THE TIME A FOOD CAUSES ILLNESS, IT HAS BEEN MISHANDLED IN SEVERAL WAYS ALONG THE FOOD PRODUCTION CHAIN. ONCE CONTAMINATION OCCURS, FURTHER MISHANDLING OF FOOD, SUCH AS UNDERCOOKING THE FOOD OR LEAVING IT OUT ON THE COUNTER AT UNSAFE TEMPERATURES, CAN MAKE AN OUTBREAK EASILY” (ABOUT FOOODBORNE ILLNESS/FOOD SAFETY/CDC).

“SOME PATHOGENS ARE FREQUENTLY TRANSMITTED BY FOOD CONTAMINATED BY INFECTED PERSONS. THE FAILURE OF FOOD-HANDLERS TO WASH HANDS IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS (SUCH AS AFTER USING THE TOILET, HANDLING RAW MEAT, CLEANING SPILLS, OR CARRYING GARBAGE), WEAR CLEAN GLOVES, OR USE CLEAN UTENSILS IS IRRESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOODBORNE TRANSMISSION OF THESE PATHOGENS. NON-FOODBORNE ROUTES OF TRANSMISSION, SUCH AS FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER, ARE ALSO MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS IN THE SPREAD OF THESE PATHOGENS” (CDC FOOD SAFETY OFFICE).

“THE MOST COMMON CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF FOODBORNE DISEASE TAKES THE FORM OF GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS; HOWEVER, SUCH DISEASES CAN ALSO HAVE NEUROLOGICAL, GYNAECOLOGICAL, IMMUNOLOGICAL AND OTHER SYMPTOMS. MULTI-ORGAN FAILURE AND EVEN CANCER MAY RESULT FROM THE INGESTION OF CONTAMINATED FOODSTUFFS, THUS REPRESENTING A CONSIDERABLE BURDEN OF DISABILITY AS WELL AS MORTALITY” (WHO-FOODBORNE DISEASES).

“A HIGH PROPORTION OF FOODBORNE DISEASE IS CAUSED BY FOODS IMPROPERLY PREPARED OR HANDLED IN FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS. PROPER FOOD HANDLING IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE FOR PEOPLE IN HIGH-RISK GROUPS (E.G. CHILDREN, OLDER PEOPLE, PREGNANT AND IMMUNOCOMPROMISED INDIVIDUALS) AND THEIR CARE-GIVERS” (WHO/ABOUT THE WHO DEPARTMENT FOOD SAFETY AND ZOONOSES).

“THE MOST ASSOCIATED FOODS WITH FOODBORNE ILLNESS ARE RAW FOODS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, SHELLFISH, BULK, RAW MILK, POOLED RAW EGGS, GROUND BEEF OR NUTS. BESIDES ALL THESE, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CONSUMED RAW ARE ALSO A PARTICULAR CONCERN. WASHING CAN DECREASE BUT NOT ELIMINATE CONTAMINATION, SO THE OUTBREAKS HAVE BEEN TRACED TO FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES THAT WERE PROCESSED UNDER LESS THAN SANITARY CONDITIONS. THESE OUTBREAKS SHOW THAT THE QUALITY OF THE WATER USED FOR WASHING AND CHILLING THE PRODUCE AFTER IT IS HARVESTED IS CRITICAL. USING WATER THAT IS NOT CLEAN CAN CONTAMINATE MANY BOXES OF PRODUCE. FRESH MANURE USED TO FERTILIZE VEGETABLES CAN ALSO CONTAMINATE THEM. ALFALFA SPROUTS AND OTHER RAW SPROUTS POSE A PARTICULAR CHALLENGE, AS THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE SPROUTED ARE IDEAL FOR GROWING MICROBES AS WELL AS SPROUTS, AND BECAUSE THEY ARE EATEN WITHOUT FURTHER COOOKING. THAT MEANS THAT A FEW BACTERIA PRESENT ON THE SEEDS CAN GROW TO HIGH NUMBERS OF PATHOGENS ON THE SPROUTS. UNPASTEURIZED FRUIT JUICE CAN ALSO BE CONTAMINATED IF THERE ARE PATHOGENS IN OR ON THE FRUIT THAT IS USED TO MAKE IT”.

“SIMILARLY, FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CAN BE CONTAMINATED IF THEY ARE WASHED OR IRRIGATED WITH WATER THAT IS CONTAMINATED WITH ANIMAL MANURE OR HUMAN SEWAGE” (CDC.CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION).

“ABOUT 20 MILLION PEOPLE GET SICK FROM NOROVIRUS EACH YEAR, MOST FROM CLOSE CONTACT WITH INFECTED PEOPLE OR BY EATING CONTAMINATED FOOD. NOROVIRUS IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DISEASE OUTBREAKS FROM CONTAMINATED FOOD IN THE U.S.. INFECTED FOOD WORKERS CAUSE ABOUT 70% OF REPORTED NOROVIRUS OUTBREAKS FROM CONTAMINATED FOOD. NOROVIRUS OFTEN GETS ATTENTION FOR OUTBREAKS ON CRUISE SHIPS, BUT THOSE ACCOUNT FOR ONLY ABOUT 1% OF ALL REPORTED NOROVIRUS OUTBREAKS. NOROVIRUS IS VERY CONTAGIOUS, AND OUTBREAKS CAN OCCUR ANYWHERE PEOPLE GATHER OR FOOD IS SERVED. PEOPLE WITH NOROVIRUS USUALLY VOMIT OR HAVE DIARRHEA. SOME MAY NEED TO BE HOSPITALIZED AND CAN EVEN DIE. INFECTED PEOPLE CAN SPREAD NOROVIRUS TO OTHERS THROUGH CLOSE CONTACT OR BY CONTAMINATING FOOD AND SURFACES. THE FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY CAN HELP PREVENT NOROVIRUS OUTBREAKS BY:

1. MAKING SURE THAT FOOD SERVICE WORKERS PRACTICE PROPER HAND WASHING, AND AVOID TOUCHING READY-TO–EAT FOODS, SUCH AS RAW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, WITH THEIR BARE HANDS BEFORE SERVING THEM.

2. CERTIFYING KITCHEN MANAGERS AND TRAINING FOOD SERVICE WORKERS IN FOOD SAFETY PRACTICES.

3. REQUIRING SICK FOOD WORKERS TO STAY HOME, AND CONSIDERING USE OF PAID SICK LEAVE AND ON-CALL STAFFING, TO SUPPORT COMPLIANCE” (CDC. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION).

FOOD RADIATION IS A PROMISING NEW FOOD SAFETY TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN ELIMINATE DISEASE, – CAUSING GERMS FROM FOODS. LIKE PASTEURIZATION OF MILK, AND PRESSURE COOKING OF CANNED FOODS, TREATING FOOD WITH IONIZING RADIATION CAN KILL BACTERIA AND PARASITES THAT WOULD OTHERWISE CAUSE FOODBORNE DISEASE. SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY IS USED TO STERILIZE MEDICAL DEVICES SO THEY CAN BE USED IN SURGERY OR IMPLANTED WITHOUT THE RISK OF INFECTION. THE EFFECTS OF IRRADIATION ON THE FOOD, ON ANIMALS AND PEOPLE EATING IRRADIATED FOOD HAVE BEEN STUDIED EXTENSIVELY. THESE STUDIES SHOW CLEARLY THAT WHEN IRRADIATION IS USED AS APPROVED ON FOODS:

-DISEASE-CAUSING GERMS ARE REDUCED OR ELIMINATED.

-THE FOOD DOES NOT BECOME RADIOACTIVE.

-DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES DO NOT APPEAR IN THE FOODS.

NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF THE FOOD IS ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED.

IRRADIATION IS A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN PREVENT MANY FOODBORNE DISEASES (ABOUT FOODBORNE ILLNESS/FOOD SAFETY/CDC).

“TREATING RAW MEAT AND POULTRY WITH IRRADIATION AT THE SLAUGHTER PLANT COULD ELIMINATE BACTERIA COMMONLY FOUND IN RAW MEAT AND RAW POULTRY, SUCH AS E. COLI 0157:H7, SALMONELLA, AND CAMPYLOBACTER. THESE ORGANISMS CURRENTLY CAUSE MILLIONS OF INFECTIONS AND THOUSANDS OF HOSPITALIZATIONS IN THE U.S. EVERY YEAR. RAW MEAT IRRADIATION COULD ALSO ELIMINATE TOXOPLASMA ORGANISMS, WHICH CAN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVERE EYE AND CONGENITAL INFECTIONS. IRRADIATING PREPARED READY-TO-EAT MEATS LIKE HOT DOGS AND DELI MEATS, COULD ELIMINATE THE RISK OF LISTERIA FROM SUCH FOODS. IRRADIATION COULD ALSO ELIMINATE BACTERIA LIKE SHIGELLA AND SALMONELLA FROM FRESH PRODUCE. THE POTENTIAL BENEFIT IS ALSO GREAT FOR THOSE DRY FOODS THAT MIGHT BE STORED FOR LONG TIMES AND TRANSPORTED OVER GREAT DISTANCES, SUCH AS SPICES AND GRAINS. ANIMAL FEEDS ARE OFTEN CONTAMINATED WITH BACTERIA LIKE SALMONELLA. IRRADIATION OF ANIMAL FEEDS COULD PREVENT THE SPREAD OF SALMONELLA AND OTHER PATHOGENS TO LIVESTOCK THROUGH FEEDS” .

“DIFFERENT IRRADIATION TECHNOLOGIES EXIST, THAT USE DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAYS. A VERY GOOD ONE IS ELECTRON BEAMS. ELECTRON BEAMS ARE STREAMS OF HIGH ENERGY ELECTRONS, PROPELLED OUT OF AN ELECTRON GUN. THIS ELECTRON GUN APPARATUS IS A LARGER VERSION OF THE DEVICE IN THE BACK OF A TV TUBE THAT PROPELS ELECTRONS INTO THE TV SCREEN AT THE FRONT OF THE TUBE, MAKING IT LIGHT UP. THIS ELECTRON BEAM GENERATOR CAN BE SIMPLY SWITCHED ON OR OFF. NO RADIACTIVITY IS INVOLVED. SOME SHIELDING IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM THE ELECTRON BEAM. THE ELECTRONS CAN PENETRATE FOOD ONLY TO A DEPTH OF THREE CENTIMETERS, OR A LITTLE OVER AN INCH, SO THE FOOD TO BE TREATED MUST BE NO THICKER THAN THAT TO BE TREATED ALL THE WAY THROUGH. TWO OPPOSING BEAMS CAN TREAT FOOD THAT IS TWICE AS THICK. E-BEAM MEDICAL STERILIZERS HAVE BEEN IN USE FOR AT LEAST FIFTEEN YEARS”.

“CURRENTLY, PASTEURIZATION IS APPLIED TO FOODS (LIKE MILK) THAT ALREADY MEET A DEFINED CLEANLINESS STANDARD, AND IS APPLIED AT A DOSE THAT GIVES A STANDARD DEFINED EFFECT. AS THE IRRADIATION OF FOOD BECOMES COMMERCIALIZED FOR VARIOUS FOODS, SIMILAR STANDARDIZATION WILL BE REQUIRED”.

“MANY COUNTRIES HAVE BEGUN TO IRRADIATE FOOD, INCLUDING FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL, ISRAEL, THAILAND, RUSSIA, CHINA AND SOUTH AFRICA” (ABOUT FOODBORNE ILLNESS/FOOD SAFETY/CDC).

“THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF THE 1800S HAD A DRAMATIC EFFECT ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE AROUND THE GLOBE. THE ECONOMIES OF INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS SHIFTED FROM RURAL TO URBAN, FROM AGRICULTURAL TO MANUFACTURING. THANKS TO MANUFACTURING, ENERGY PRODUCTION, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY FACTORIES TURNED LARGE QUANTITIES OF NEW PRODUCTS AT LOW PRICES. ALMOST OVERNIGHT CITIES SWELLED TO SUPPORT NEW INDUSTRIES. SOON PEOPLE WERE FLOCKING TO THE CITIES LOOKING FOR WORK AND A BETTER LIFE. FACTORY LIFE DID NOT LIVE UP TO ITS PROMISE. THE WORKERS HAD FEW RIGHTS, WAGES WERE LOW, HOURS WERE LONG AND WORKING CONDITIONS WERE UNSAFE. THESE HARSH CONDITIONS WERE COMMON. A GIANT WAVE, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC, CHANGED THE COURSE OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. BEFORE WRITING THE JUNGLE, NOVEL WRITTEN IN 1906, UPTON SINCLAIR (1878-1968), AMERICAN JOURNALIST, SPENT 7 WEEKS AROUND CHICAGO MEAT PACKING PLANTS. HE STUDIED DETAILS ABOUT THE WORK ITSELF, THE HOME LIVES OF WORKERS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE BUSINESS. HE SAW DEAD ANIMALS, FILTH ALL OVER THE PLACE AND PRODUCTS GOING INTO THE SAUSAGE THAT SHOULDN´T HAVE BEEN THERE. HE ALSO SAW WORKERS GOT CHEWED UP THE SAME WAY THE FOOD DID. WORKERS IN THE PIGGERY HAD THEIR FINGERS EATEN BY ACID” (UPTON SINCLAIR´S THE JUNGLE SCHOOL TUBE).

UPTON SINCLAIR EXPOSED THESE UNSANITARY CONDITIONS IN THE MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY AND THIS LED TO AMERICA´S FIRST FEDERAL MEAT INSPECTION LAW. MR. SINCLAIR WROTE 47 BOOKS ATTACKING POWERFUL INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS” (HOW UPTON SINCLAIR AND EPIC SWEPT THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY 1934).

THE WAY WE EAT HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST 50 YEARS MORE THAN IN THE LAST 10,000 YEARS. THE INDUSTRY DOESN´T WANT US TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT WE ARE EATING BECAUSE IF WE KNEW WE MIGHT NOT WANT TO EAT IT. THE MEAT IS BEING PROCESSED BY HUGE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE LITTLE TO DO WITH FARMERS AND RANCHERS. NOW OUR FOOD IS COMING FROM ENORMOUS ASSEMBLY LINES WHERE THE ANIMALS AND WORKERS ARE BEING ABUSED AND FOOD HAS BECOME FAR MORE DANGEROUS IN WAYS HIDDEN FROM US”.

“IN THE 1970S THE TOP FIVE BEEF PACKERS CONTROLLED ONLY ABOUT 25% OF THE MARKET. YOU SEE NOW THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING IN PORK. EVEN IF WE DON´T EAT AT A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT WE ARE EATING FOOD THAT IS BEING PRODUCED BY THIS SYSTEM. IF WE LOOK AT THE LABELS, YOU SEE FARMER THIS OR THAT, AND IT´S ONLY 3 OR 4 COMPANIES CONTROLLING THE MEAT. WE NEVER HAD FOOD COMPANIES THIS BIG AND THIS POWERFUL. TYSON IS THE BIGGEST MEAT PACKING COMPANY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THE INDUSTRY CHANGED THE ENTIRE WAY THE CHICKENS ARE RAISED. BIRDS ARE NOW RAISED AND SLAUGHTERED IN HALF THE TIME THAT WERE 50 YEARS AGO. BUT NOW PEOPLE LIKE TO EAT WHITE MEAT SO THEY REDESIGNED THE CHICKEN TO HAVE LARGE BREASTS. THEY NOT ONLY CHANGED THE CHICKEN, THEY ALSO CHANGED THE FARMER. TODAY CHICKEN FARMERS NO LONGER CONTROL THEIR BIRDS. TODAY COMPANIES LIKE TYSON OWN THE BIRDS FROM THE DAY THEY ARE DROPPED OFF TO THE DAY THEY ARE SLAUGHTERED”.

TYSON DECLINED TO BE INTERVIEWED FOR THIS FILM”.

“AFTER ASKING DOZENS OF FARMERS ONLY ONE, CAROLE MORISON (PERDUE GROWER) ALLOWED FILMING IN THE CHICKEN HOUSES. CAROLE MORISON SAID THIS: “ I UNDERSTAND WHY FARMERS DON´T WANNA TALK BECAUSE THE COMPANY CAN DO WHAT IT WANTS TO DO AS FAR AS PAY GOES ´CAUSE THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING. BUT IT HAS GOT TO THE POINT IT´S NOT RIGHT WHAT IS GOING ON AND I´VE JUST MADE UP MY MIND. SOMETHING HAS TO BE SAID. IT IS NASTY HERE, THERE IS DUST FLYING EVERYWHERE, THERE IS PISSING EVERYWHERE. THIS ISN´T FARMING, THIS IS JUST MASS PRODUCTION LIKE AN ASSEMBLY LINE IN A FACTORY. WHEN THEY ARE BORN FROM A CHICKEN THEN IN 7 WEEKS YOU´VE GOT A 5.5 POUND CHICKEN AND THEIR BONES AND THEIR INTERNAL ORGANS CAN´T KEEP UP WITH THEIR RAPID GROWTH. A LOT OF THESE CHICKENS HERE CAN TAKE A FEW STEPS AND THEN FLOP DOWN BECAUSE THEY CANNOT KEEP UP WITH ALL THEIR WEIGHT THEY ARE CARRYING. THERE IS ANTIBIOTICS THAT IS PUT IN THEIR FEED AND THAT PASSES THROUGH THE CHICKEN. THE BACTERIA BUILDS UP A RESISTANCE. I HAVE BECOME ALLERGIC TO ANTIBIOTICS AND CAN´T TAKE THEM. WHEN IT IS DARK AND CHICKENS ARE LAYING DOWN THEY ARE CAUGHT BY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN AND LATINO UNDOCUMENTED. THEY DON´T HAVE ANY RIGHTS AND THEY AREN´T GONNA COMPLAIN. IT DOESN´T MATTER IF THE CHICKEN GETS SICK. THEY ALL WILL GO TO THE PLANT FOR PROCESSING. COMPANIES LIKE IT LIKE THIS. THE COMPANIES KEEP THE FARMERS UNDER THEIR THUMB BECAUSE OF THE DEBT THEY HAVE. TO BUILD ONE POULTRY HOUSE IS ANYWHERE NOW $280,000 TO $300,000. ONCE YOU MAKE YOUR INITIAL INVESTMENT IN A POULTRY HOUSE COMPANIES COME BACK WITH DEMANDS OF UPGRADING FOR NEW EQUIPMENT. THEY DON´T HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE OR YOU ARE THREATENED WITH LOSS OF CONTRACT. THAT IS HOW THEIR DEBT KEEPS BUILDING AND THAT´S HOW THEY KEEP THEM UNDER CONTROL, SPENDING MONEY GOING TO THE BANK. THEY HAVE NO SAYING IN THE BUSINESS. IT IS DEGRADING, IT´S LIKE NO HAVING A SAYING IN THE COMPANY” “.

PERDUE DECLINED TO BE INTERVIEWED FOR THIS FILM. CAROLE´S CONTRACT WAS TERMINATED WHEN SHE REFUSED TO UPGRADE TO THE DARK, TUNNEL-VENTILATED HOUSES”.

A TYPICAL GROWER WITH 2 CHICKEN HOUSES  BORROWS OVER $500,000, AND EARNS ABOUT $18,000 A YEAR “.

“IN THE U.S. TODAY 30% OF OUR LAND IS PLANTED WITH CORN AND IS DRIVEN BY GOVERNMENT POLICY ALLOWING TO PRODUCE CORN BELOW THE COST OF PRODUCTION. WE ARE BEING PAID TO OVERPRODUCE AND IT IS CAUSED BY THESE LARGE MULTINATIONAL INTERESTS. THE REASON TO PROMOTE CORN IS THE TYSONS, THE CARDILLS, THE A.D.M.S AND THE SMITHFIELD. THEY HAVE AN INTEREST IN PURCHASING CORN BELOW THE COST OF PRODUCTION. THEY USE THAT INTEREST AND EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY HAVE TO GIVE US THE FARM BILLS WE NOW HAVE. THE FARM BILL WHICH SHOULD BE CALLED THE FOOD BILL CODIFIES THE RULES OF THE ENTIRE FOOD ECONOMY”.

COWS STAND ANKLE DEEP IN THEIR MANURE ALL DAY LONG SO IF ONE COW HAS IT THE OTHERS WILL GET IT. WHEN THEY GET TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE THEIR HIDES ARE KEPT WITH MANURE. IF 400 ANIMALS ARE SLAUGHTERED AN HOUR, HOW DO YOU KEEP THAT MANURE FROM GETTING INTO THE MEAT? NOW THAT THING THAT WASN´T IN THE WORLD IS IN THE FOOD SYSTEM”.

E.COLI, WHICH IS A VERY COMMON BACTERIA, EVOLVED AND A CERTAIN MUTATION, 1057:H7, APPEARED ON THE WORLD STAGE. FOR YEARS E.COLI IS NOT ONLY FOUND IN GROUND MEAT BUT ALSO IN SPINACH AND IN APPLE JUICE, AND IT´S BECAUSE OF THE RUNOFFS FROM OUR FACTORY FARMS “.

“DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THE CHIEF OF STAFF, THE HEAD OF THE FBA WAS THE FORMER EXECUTIVE AT THE USDA, VICEPRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL FOOD PROCESSORS ASSOCIATION. THESE REGULATORY AGENCIES ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY THE SAME MEAT COMPANIES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SCRUTINIZING. THE INDUSTRY WANTS IT THAT WAY. IN 1972 THE FDA CONDUCTED APPROXIMATELY 50,000 FOOD SAFETY INSPECTIONS. IN 2006 THE FDA CONDUCTED ONLY 9,164 FOOD SAFETY INSPECTIONS”.

“AS MORE AND MORE TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED TO THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD YOU WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE SAFER BUT NOT MORE CONTAMINATED. PROCESSING PLANTS ARE BIGGER AND BIGGER AND THIS IS PERFECT FOR TAKING BAD PATHOGENS AND SPREADING THEM FAR AND WIDE”.

IN THE 1970S THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF SLAUGHTER HOUSES THAT PROCESSED THE MAJORITY OF BEEF THAT WAS SOLD IN THE U.S.. THE HAMBURGER OF TODAY HAS PIECES OF THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT CATTLE GROUND UP IN A HAMBURGER PATTY. THE ODDS INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY IF ONE OF THOSE ANIMALS WAS CARRYING A DANGEROUS PATHOGEN. IT´S REMARKABLE HOW TOOTHLESS OUR REGULATORY AGENCIES ARE WHEN YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT THEM AND THAT´S HOW THE INDUSTRY WANTS IT”.

“IN 2001 KEVIN, A LITTLE BOY, ENDED UP EATING 3 HAMBURGERS BEFORE HE DIED. HE HAD DIARRHEA, HEMORRHAGIC E.COLI AND HIS KIDNEY STARTED TO FAIL. HE RECEIVED DIALYSIS TREATMENT AND WASN´T ALLOWED TO DRINK WATER. HE BEGGED FOR WATER ALL THE TIME. IT WAS ALL HE WOULD TALK ABOUT. IN 12 DAYS HE WENT FROM BEING A HEALTHY CHILD TO DIE FROM EATING CONTAMINATED FOOD. IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE THIS COULD HAPPEN FROM EATING HAMBURGERS. WE PUT FAITH IN OUR GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT US AND WE ARE NOT BEING PROTECTED AT THE MOST BASIC LEVEL. TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY ON AUGUST 1ST KEVIN WAS IN HOSPITAL AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL 16 DAYS AFTER HE DIED THAT WAS WHEN THEY RECALLED THE MEAT”.

“IN 1998, THE USDA IMPLEMENTED MICROBIAL TESTING FOR SALMONELLA AND E.COLI 0157:H7. THE IDEA WAS THAT IF A PLANT REPEATEDLY FAILED THOSE TESTS THE USDA WOULD SHUT DOWN THOSE PLANTS DOWN BECAUSE THEY HAD AND ONGOING CONTAMINATION PROBLEM. THE MEAT AND POULTRY ASSOCIATIONS TOOK THE USDA TO COURT. THE COURTS SAID THE USDA DIDN´T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO SHUT DOWN THE PLANTS. THEY SAID THAT YOU COULD HAVE POULTRY OR MEAT WITH SALMONELLA AND THAT THE USDA COULDN´T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. KEVIN´S LAW GAVE BACK THE USDA THE POWER TO SHUT DOWN PLANTS THAT REPEATEDLY PRODUCED CONTAMINATED MEAT. LATELY THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE FOODBORNE OUTBREAKS HAVING RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANT LOSES” (FOOD INC. /WATCH DOCUMENTARY FREE ONLINE. FILMED BY ROBERT KENNER https://vimeo.com/29575879 ).

THIS WORLD SURELY NEEDS RIGHTEOUS HUMAN BEINGS LIKE FOR EXAMPLE JOEL SALATIN, POLYFACE FARMS OWNER IN VIRGINIA. JOEL SALATIN´S WHOLESOME VALUES IS WHAT THIS WORLD IN DISARRAY NEEDS. HERE ARE HIS PRECIOUS WORDS:

1.“EVERYTHING WE´VE DONE IN MODERN INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS FASTER, FATTER, BIGGER, CHEAPER. NOBODY IS THINKING ABOUT THE E.COLI TYPE 2, DIABETES AND THE ECOLOGICAL HEALTH OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM. WE ARE OUTSOURCING AUTONOMOUS FARMER DECISION MAKING TO CORPORATE BOARDROOMS IN BIG CITIES A THOUSAND MILES AWAY WHERE THEY MAKE DECISIONS AND DON´T LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THOSE DECISIONS. HERE, IN MY POLYFACE FARMS EVERYTHING IS GRASS BASED. THEY DON´T FEED NEITHER DEAD ANIMALS, CORN, CHICKEN MANURE NOR DEAD CHICKENS. THEY ARE HERBIVORES AND SO THEY EAT GRASS, FORAGE, HERBS, CLOVER. IF THEY WERE EATING CORN YOU WOULD HAVE TO HARVEST, TRANSPORT THE CORN AND TAKE ALL THAT MANURE SOMEWHERE. HERE, IN MY FARMS, THERE´S THE WHOLE THING. THE COW IS FERTILIZING, MOWING; WE DO NOT HAVE TO MOW, HARVEST NOR SPREAD ANY MANURE. IT´S ALL IN REAL TIME”.

 “THE INDUSTRIAL FOOD SYSTEM GRADUALLY BECAME SO NOISY, SMELLY, NOT A FRIENDLY PLACE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO OPERATE THOSE DON´T WANT US TO SEE IT, BECAUSE WE WOULD SEE THE UGLY TRUTH. THE MOMENT WHEN THAT OCCURED WE LOST ALL THE INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE FOOD SYSTEM”.

 “ACCORDING TO THE USDA THEY TRIED TO CLOSE JOEL SALATIN´S FARMS DOWN BECAUSE THEY SAID WORKING IN THE OPEN-AIR WAS UNSANITARY. 

JOEL SALATIN: “ WE HAD THEM TESTING US ON MICROBILOGY AT A LOCAL LAB. OURS AVERAGED 133 BACTERIA CFU AND THE ONES FROM THE STORE AVERAGED 3,600 BACTERIA. ON TOP OF THAT THOSE HAD SEEN 40 CHLORINE BATHS, WHEREAS OURS HADN´T SEEN ANY CHLORINE. THESE ARE ALL THE INEFFICIENCIES OF THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. IT IS AMAZING HOW PEOPLE COMPLAIN WHEN PAYING $3 A DOZEN EGGS AND THEY DO NOT COMPLAIN WHEN THEY PAY 0.75 CENTS FOR A SODA. I AM STRUCK HOW SUCCESSFUL WE´VE BEEN AT HITTING AT THE WRONG TARGET. IN CATTLE WE´VE BECOME A CULTURE OF TECHNICIANS. WE´VE LEARNT HOW TO PLANT, FERTILIZE AND HARVEST CORN USING GLOBAL POSITION SATELITE TECHNOLOGY AND NOBODY SITS BACK ASKING: SHOULD WE BE FEEDING COWS CORN? WE´RE INTO THE HOW OF IT. NOBODY IS ASKING WHY. A CULTURE THAT USES A PIG AS A PILE OF PROTOPLASM INANIMATE STRUCTURE TO BE MANIPULATED BY WHATEVER CREATIVE DESIGN THAT HUMANS CAN EMBOSS ON THAT ANIMAL WILL PROBABLE VIEW INDIVIDUALS WITH THE SAME TYPE OF DISDAIN, DISRESPECT AND CONTROLLING-TYPE MENTALITY” “.

“THE INDUSTRIAL FOOD SYSTEM IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY BUT EACH NEW STEP IN EFFICIENCY LEADS TO PROBLEMS. WHEN THE INDUSTRY HAS A SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM LIKE CONTAMINATED FOOD, INSTEAD OF GIVING GRASS TO ANIMALS FOR 5 DAYS SO THAT THEY WOULD SHED 80% OF E.COLI IN THEIR GUT, THEIR APPROACH IS HI-TECH FIXES THAT ALLOW THE SYSTEM TO SURVIVE. WE HAVE SCREWED OUR FOOD SYSTEM TO THE BAD CALORIES AND IT´S NOT AN ACCIDENT. CANDY, CHIPS, SODAS ARE CHEAPER THAN A HEAD OF BROCCOLI. THE REASON WHY THOSE CALORIES ARE CHEAPER IS BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONES WE ARE SUBSIDIZING. THIS IS TIED TO THE TYPE OF AGRICULTURE WE ARE PRACTISING AND THE FARM POLICIES WE HAVE. ALL THOSE CALORIES COME FROM THE COMMODITY CROPS: CORN, SOY BEANS AND WHEAT. BY MAKING THOSE CALORIES REALLY CHEAP THAT´S ONE OF THE REASONS THE BIGGEST PREDICTION OF OBESITY IS INCOME LEVEL. THE INDUSTRY BLAMES OBESITY ON A CRISIS OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY”.

SMITHFIELD HOG PROCESSING PLANT IN TAR HEEL, A SMALL TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED AREA IN NORTH CAROLINA, HAS THE LARGEST SLAUGHTERED HOUSE IN THE WORLD. SMITHFIELD HAS MASTERED THE ART OF CHOOSING A WORK FORCE THEY CAN EXPLODE: THE POOR WHITES AND THE POOR BLACKS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. HERE ARE THE WORDS OF SOME OF SMITHFIELD WORKERS:

“THEY HAVE THE SAME MENTALITY TOWARDS THE HOG AND WORKERS, THEY DON´T CARE ABOUT THE LONGEVITY OF THE WORKERS NOR OF THE HOGS. WORKERS GET INFECTIONS IN THEIR FINGERNAILS AND THE FINGERNAILS SEPARATE FROM THEIR FINGERS. YOU COME WITH FECES, BLOOD, URINE. IT´S EASY TO GET HURT DOWN THERE. THEY ARE TREATED AS HUMAN MACHINES”. SMITHFIELD KNOWS THESE PEOPLE CAN´T AFFORD TO GET OUT OF THERE AND THAT´S WHAT THEY HOLD OVER THEM”.

“A 100 YEARS AGO WHEN UPTON SINCLAIR WROTE THE JUNGLE THERE WAS A BEEF TRUST THAT BUILT ENORMOUS KIND OF POWER. INMIGRANTS FROM EASTERN EUROPE WERE BEING ABUSED IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. THERE WERE HORRIBLE DISFIGURING INJURIES AND EVEN DEATHS. THINGS SLOWLY GOT BETTER. TEDDY ROOSEVELT TOOK ON THE BEEF TRUST. LABOR UNIONS SLOWLY ORGANIZED MEAT PACKING WORKERS AND TURNED IT INTO ONE OF THE BEST INDUSTRIAL JOBS IN THE U.S. BY THE 1950S TO BE A MEAT PACKING WORKER WAS LIKE BEING AN AUTO WORKER. IT WAS GOOD WAGES, GOOD BENEFITS AND GOOD PENSION. AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? THE MEAT PACKING COMPANIES GOT BIGGER IN ORDER TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE FAST FOOD PACKING COMPANIES INDUSTRY. SOME OF THE MEAT PACKING COMPANIES LIKE IBP BORROWED THE SAME SORT OF LABOR PRACTICES FROM THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY CUTTING WAGES, SPEEDING UP PRODUCTION, MAKING SURE THERE WERE NO UNIONS AND HAVING THE SAME WORKER TO DO THE SAME JOB TIME AND TIME AGAIN. MEAT PACKING IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS JOBS IN THE U.S..

THE MEAT PACKING COMPANY RECRUTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN MEXICO. MANY OF THEM WERE CORN FARMERS IN MEXICO.NAFTA LED TO A FLOODING OF THE MEXICAN MARKET WITH CHEAP AMERICAN CORN AND THIS PUT MORE THAN A MILLION AND A HALF MEXICAN CORN FARMERS OUT OF WORK. THEY COULDN´T COMPETE WITH THE CHEAP CORN COMPANIES FROM AMERICAN IBP, NATIONAL BEEF AND MONFORT. FOR YEARS THE GOVERNMENT TURNED A BLIND EYE ON IMMIGRANTS TO THE RECRUITMENT OF THE MEAT PACKING COMPANIES, BUT NOW WHEN THERE IS AN ANTI-IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT THE GOVERNMENT IS CRACKING DOWN ON THE WORKERS, NOT ON THE COMPANIES”.

THESE ARE THE WORDS FROM A UNION ORGANIZER, EDUARDO PEÑA :

IMMIGRATION AGENTS ARE ARRESTING SMITHFIELD WORKERS AND THIS IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN SMITHFIELD AND IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES. THEY GET RID OF 15 WORKERS PER DAY AND THAT WAY IT DOESN´T AFFECT THE PRODUCTION LINE. NOBODY IS ARRESTING THE SMITHFIELD MANAGERS, JUST WORKERS WHO WERE PRODUCING FOR THIS COMPANY AND WORKING HARD FOR THIS COMPANY”.

“WE WANT TO PAY THE CHEAPEST PRICE FOR OUR FOOD AND THAT COMES OUT AT PRICE. THESE WORKERS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR 10-15 YEARS PROCESSING YOUR HAM AND BACON AND NOW THEY ARE BEING PICKED UP LIKE CRIMINALS, AND THESE COMPANIES ARE MAKING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS”.

“SMITHFIELD REFUSED TO BE INTERVIEWED FOR THIS FILM”.

JOEL SALATIN: “ IS CHEAPNESS EVERYTHING THAT THERE IS?, WHO WANTS TO BUY THE CHEAPEST CAR?.WE ARE GOING TO SUBSIDIZE THE FOOD SYSTEM TO CREATE THE MYSTIQUE OF CHEAP FOOD WHEN ACTUALLY IT´S VERY EXPENSIVE FOOD, WHEN YOU ADD UP THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS, THE SOCIETAL COSTS AND THE HEALTH COSTS. THE INDUSTRIAL FOOD IS NOT HONEST FOOD: IT IS NOT PRICED HONESTLY, IT´S NOT PRODUCED HONESTLY, IT´S NOT PROCESSED HONESTLY. THERE IS NOTHING HONEST ABOUT THAT FOOD. I HAVE NO DESIRE TO SCALE UP OR GROW BIGGER. MY DESIRE IS TO PRODUCE THE BEST FOOD IN THE WORLD AND HEAL. AND IF IN DOING SO MORE PEOPLE COME TO OUR CORNER AND WANT STUFF HEAVEN HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO MEET THE NEED WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE INTEGRITY.  THAT´S WHERE I AM”.

TROY ROUSH, AMERICAN CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION VICE PRESIDENT: 1. “ TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO FARMERS STARTED SAVING THEIR BEST SEEDS AND PLANTING THEM AGAIN ON THE FOLLOWING YEAR. THAT´S HOW SEEDS AND CORN WERE DEVELOPED FROM USELESS GRASS TO THE EXTREMELY PRODUCTIVE PLANT THAT IS TODAY”.

THE IDEA THAT ANY CORPORATION COULD OWN A FOOD CROP WAS A NEW IDEA, AND IT WASN´T UNTIL THE 80S THE SUPREME COURT SAID YOU COULD PATENT LIFE AND THAT OPENED THE FLOOD GATES TO PATENT THE MOST VALUABLE PARTS OF LIFE, THAT IS, THE CROPS ON WHICH WE DEPEND”.

TROY ROUSH : 2. “MONSANTO WAS A CHEMICAL COMPANY. THEY PRODUCED DDT, THE ORANGE AGENT USED IN VIETNAM, AND THEN THEY DEVELOPED A PRODUCT CALLED ROUNDUP. WE STARTED HEARING RUMBLINGS OF GENETICAL ENGINEERING OF SOY BEANS THAT COULD RESIST THE APPLICATION OF ROUNDUP. WHEN THE ROUNDUP SPREAD STARTED IT KILLED EVERY WEED UP THERE, EXCEPT FOR THE ROUNDUP-READY SOY BEANS”.

“IN 1996 WHEN MONSANTO BEGAN SELLING ROUNDUP-READY SOY BEANS ONLY 2% OF SOY BEANS IN THE U.S. CONTAINED THEIR PATENTED GENE. BY 2008 OVER 90% OF SOY BEANS IN THE U.S. CONTAINED MONSANTO´S PATENTED GENE”.

TROY ROUSH: 3. “ I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE FIRST PROHIBITION AGAINST SAVING SOY BEANS CAME IN TO BE. MOST FARMERS WERE DISGUSTED WITH THE WHOLE CONCEPT. IT´S BEEN INTERESTING OVER THE COURSE OF 11 YEARS TO WATCH WHAT IS GONE FROM UTTER CONTENT FOR THE NOTION WE CAN SAVE OUR OWN SEEDS TO ACCEPTANCE. THERE IS ONE COMPANY IN THIS, MONSANTO.MONSANTO HAS A TEAM OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS THAT RULE THE COUNTRY. THEY HAVE AN 1800 HOTLINE THAT TAKES CALLS ON. IF THEY GET A CALL AND SOMEONE ALLEGES THAT SOMEBODY SAVES SEEDS THEY WILL SEND AN INVESTIGATOR OUT THERE AND LOOK INTO THE MATTER. YOU SAVE YOUR OWN SEEDS, YOUR ARE GONNA GET A CALL FROM MONSANTO”.

MONSANTO HAS A STAFF OF 75 DEVOTED TO INVESTIGATING AND PROSECUTING FARMERS. ANYONE CAUGHT SAVING SEEDS CAN BE INVESTIGATED FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT”.

DAVID RUNYON,FARMER,TALKS ABOUT MOE PARR,SEED CLEANER:MOE´S MACHINE CLEANS SEEDS OF DEBRIS SO THAT THEY CAN BE SAVED AND PLANTED THE FOLLOWING YEAR. IT´S AN INGENIOUS DEVICE DESIGNED BACK IN THE 1800 AND MONSANTO IS GONNA CLOSE THEM ALL. IN THE STATE OF INDIANA THERE ARE ABOUT 6 SEED CLEANERS LEFT. EVERY COUNTY USED TO HAVE 3 SEED CLEANERS. THERE IS NOBODY LEFT IN THE BUSINESS. THEY´VE BEEN ALL PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. WHEN MONSANTO´S SOY BEANS FIRST CAME O THE MARKET I JUST NEVER SWITCHED OVER. I WAS GETTING PRETTY GOOD DEALS WITH CONVENTIONAL SOY BEANS I HAD BEEN USING, SO I THOUGHT, WELL, I´LL JUST STAY WHERE I AM AT”.

DAVID RUNYON DOESN´T PLANT MONSANTO´S CROPS BUT HIS FIELDS HAVE BEEEN CONTAMINATED BY GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS (GMOS):  “ MY NEIGHBOURS´SEEDS ARE GMOS. IF THE POLLEN MOVES IN, IF THE SEEDS MOVE ON, I AM STILL HELD ACCOUNTED”.

“IF MONSANTO FINDS CONTAMINATION THE FARMER MUST PROVE HE DID NOT VIOLATE MONSANTO´S PATENTS. WHEN YOU GENETICALLY MODIFY A CROP YOU OWN IT. YOU NEVER HAD THIS IN AGRIGULTURE. MONSANTO IS VERY MUCH LIKE MICROSOFT. THE SAME WAY MICROSOFT OWNS THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BEHIND MOST U.S. COMPUTERS THEY GET OUT THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BEHIND MOST OF THE FOOD MARKET”.

TROY ROUSH: 4. “ THE WAY OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS, HOW CAN A FARMER DEFEND HIMSELF? A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION LIKE MONSANTO WHOSE CONTROL IS SO DOMINANT”.

“THEY ARE GAINING CONTROL OF FOOD. THEY CONTROL IT FROM SEED TO THE SUPERMARKET”.

“THERE HAS BEEN THE REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN MONSANTO´S CORPORATE OFFICES AND THE VARIOUS REGULATORY JUDICIAL BODY MODELS THAT HAVE MADE THE DECISIONS.

JUDGE CLARENCE THOMAS WAS MONSANTO´S ATTORNEY AND THAT WOULDN´T BE SUCH A BIG DEAL IF IT WEREN´T FOR ONE COURT CASE THAT REALLY DECIDED THIS WHOLE SAVING SEED CASE. JUDGE CLARENCE THOMAS WROTE THE MAJORITY OPINION THAT ALLOWED THESE COMPANIES TO PREVENT THESE FARMERS FROM SAVING THEIR OWN SEEDS. MONSANTO HAD CLOSE TIES TO THE BUSH AND CLINTON ADMINISTRATIONS AND THIS WAS WHY WE HAVEN´T HAD MUCH POLITICAL DEBATE OVER THIS RADICAL CHANGE TO OUR FOOD SYSTEM. IN THE LAST 25 YEARS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY THE INDUSTRIES IT WAS MEANT TO BE REGULATING. THE CHALLENGE IS THAT AS SOON AS THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH EXPERTISE IN THE INDUSTRY THEY MAY TURN OUT TO BE REALLY GOOD REGULATORS. IT IS ABOUT WHAT INTEREST THEY ARE INTERESTED TO REPRESENT. IT IS ABOUT CENTRALIZED POWER BEING USED AGAINST FARMERS, WORKERS AND CONSUMERS, DELIBERATELY KEPT IN THE DARK ABOUT WHAT THEY EAT, WHERE IT COMES FROM AND WHAT IS DOING TO THEIR BODIES”.

“THE SB-63 IS A CONSUMER RIGHT-TO-KNOW MEASURE. IT REQUIRES THAT ALL FOODS THAT ARE CLONED MUST BE LABELED AS CLONED FOOD. THESE CLONED ANIMALS ARE A FUNDAMENTALLY NEW THING BUT I FIND INCREDIBLE THAT THE FDA NOT ONLY WANTS TO ALLOW THE SALE OF MEAT OF CLONED ANIMALS BUT ALSO WANTS TO ALLOW THE SALE OF THIS MEAT WITHOUT LABELING. THE SB-63 PASSED THE STATE LEGISLATURE BUT GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER VETOED IT. AND NOW 78% OF PROCESSED FOOD IN SUPEMARKETS HAS GENETICALLY MODIFIED INGREDIENTS”.

“DOWNER COWS, TOO ILL OR LANE TO WALK, BEING BRUTALIZED TO GET THEM TO THEIR FEET FOR SLAUGHTER; MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF CONCENTRATED MANURE DEPOSITED DOWN THE RIVER”. THIS IS THE TERRIBLE SITUATION NOWADAYS.

“WE ARE VOTING FOR ORGANIC OR NOT THE MOMENT WE RUN AN ARTICLE THROUGH THE SUPERMARKET SCANNER. WE CAN CHANGE THE BIGGEST COMPANIES ON EARTH. COMPANIES SHOULD GO THROUGH A PROCESS TO BE RBST FREE IN ALL OUR SUPPLIES. WE NEED CHANGES AT THE POLICY LEVEL SO THAT CARROTS ARE A BETTER DEAL THAN THE CHIPS”.

JOEL SALATIN: 4. “ IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF AS A NATIONAL POLICY WE SAID WE WOULD BE ONLY SUCCESSFUL IF WE HAD FEWER PEOPLE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL NEXT YEAR THAN LAST YEAR. HOW ABOUT THAT FOR SUCCESS? THE IDEA WOULD BE THEN TO HAVE NUTRITIOUS, DENSE, UNADULTERATED FOOD THAT PEOPLE THAT ATE IT ACTUALLY FELT BETTER, HAD MORE ENERGY AND WEREN´T SICK AS MUCH. YOU SEE, THAT´S A NOBLE GOAL!” (FOOD INC. /WATCH DOCUMENTARY FREE ONLINE. FILMED BY ROBERT KENNER https://vimeo.com/29575879 ).

BEARING IN MIND THE 48 MILLION FOODBORNE ILLNESS CASES OCCURING IN THE U.S., IT IS ONLY FAIR TO ENACT THESE 20 BILLS THE SOONER THE BETTER:

 1. NO INDUSTRY IS ALLOWED TO DEPOSIT THEIR RUNOFFS ( DIRTY WATER, MANURE AND OTHERS ) DOWN THE RIVERS OR ELSEWHERE IN NATURE, TO AVOID TRANSCONTAMINATION.

 2. FIELDS MUST BE SPRAYED ONLY WITH CLEAN WATER FOR IRRIGATION, TO PREVENT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM BEING CONTAMINATED BEFORE HARVEST. ALL PESTICIDES MUST BE BANNED, SINCE THE VEGETABLES AND FRUIT BEING SPRAYED WITH THEM PUT PEOPLE´S HEALTH IN DANGER.

3. NEITHER COWS, PIGS, CHICKENS NOR ANY ANIMAL MUST BE LEFT STANDING ANKLE DEEP IN MANURE NEITHER IN FARMS NOR IN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS TO PREVENT INFECTIONS AND UNSANITARY CONDITIONS FROM HAPPENING.

4. A TOTAL BAN ON SLAUGHTERING PIGS AND COWS ALIVETHE BARBARISM THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAS TO BE ERADICATED. PIGS AND COWS MUST BE GIVEN A SHOT IN ORDER TO FREE THEM FROM THE TORMENTED AGONY BILLIONS OF THEM HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED SO FAR. NONE OF US WANT TO SEE SUCH RETROGRADE PRACTICES ANY MORE.

5. ALL CHICKENS, COWS AND PIGS MUST GET THE CURE THEY NEED WHEN THEY GET SICK INSTEAD OF BEING ABUSED BY NEITHER INDUSTRY MANAGERS NOR BY FARMERS. THESE BEINGS DO NOT DESERVE THE DISRESPECT MOST SHOW TOWARDS THEM.

6. ALL CHICKENS, COWS AND PIGS MUST SEE THE LIGHT TO PRESERVE THE ANIMAL´S HEALTH AND OURS. UP TO NOW THEY HAVE BEEN KEPT PRETTY MUCH IN THE DARK AND THAT IS NOT RIGHT. ALL ANIMALS MUST BE KEPT IN OLD STYLE HOUSES WITH OPEN WINDOWS.

7. NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE A CHICKEN GROW 5.5 POUNDS IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS. ALL BAD PRACTICES GROWING THEM IN 49 DAYS MUST BE PENALIZED. CHICKENS ARE BEING BRUTALIZED, MAKING THEM OVERGROW REALLY FAST AND THEIR FEET CANNOT STAND SO MUCH OVERWEIGHT, FLOPPING DOWN AND DYING ON FILTHY FLOORS. THESE IRRESPONSIBLE PRACTICES MUST BE STOPPED AT ONCE.

8. INDUSTRY AND RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS SHOULD BE CONDUCTED REGULARLY.

9. CUSTOMERS WOULD FIND IT HELPFUL TO SEE A SIGN WITH THE LATEST INSPECTION SCORE OUTSIDE EACH RESTAURANT SO THAT THEY CAN DECIDE WHICH RESTAURANT TO GO TO BASED ON THAT INFORMATION. THUS ALL RESTAURANTS MUST HAVE A SIGN OUTSIDE TO SHOW THEIR LATEST INSPECTION SCORE .

10. NO BUTCHER IS ALLOWED TO GET ENGAGED IN CHECKING OUT CLIENTS SINCE BUTCHERS HANDLE MEAT WITH THEIR HANDS AND THAT IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH TOUCHING NOTES AND COINS. NOTES AND COINS ARE PACKED WITH GERMS AND BACTERIA, AND CHECKING OUT IMPLIES TOUCHING MONEY AND CATCHING GERMS, WHICH ARE SPREAD ON THE MEAT THEY TOUCH AFTERWARDS, WHEN THE BUTCHER IS ATTENDING TO OTHER CUSTOMERS. THUS, ANOTHER PERSON OTHER THAN THE BUTCHER MUST CARRY OUT THE CHECKING OUT.

11. INDUSTRY EQUIPMENT MUST BE CLEANED RIGHT AFTER WORK ON A DAILY BASIS. THIS IS AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS WASHING OUR HANDS BEFORE WE HANDLE FOOD.

12. NO TRUCK SHALL BE ALLOWED TO BE USED UNLESS IS COMPLETELY CLEAN, EVEN IF IT IS FOR TRANSPORTING ANIMALS. UNFORTUNATELY SOMETIMES WE SMELL THE NASTY SMELL OF SOME TRUCKS TRANSPORTING ANIMALS WHEN WE WALK BY ONE OF THOSE AND THAT MUST BE PENALIZED. ANIMALS ARE BEINGS THAT HAVE TO BE KEPT IN SANITARY CONDITIONS BECAUSE THEY DESERVE RESPECT AND BECAUSE THEIR MEAT WILL BE HEALTHIER AND TASTIER THAT WAY TOO.

13. ALL MEAT MUST BE ANTIBIOTIC-FREE.

14. NO INDUSTRY IS ALLOWED TO LET ANY SICK CHICKEN, COW OR PIG GO TO THE PLANT FOR PROCESSING.

15. LABELINGS MUST BE IN CONFORT-SIZED PRINT   CONTAINING COMPLETE INFORMATION ON INGREDIENTS. USUALLY THE PRINT ON THE LABELINGS IS EXTREMELY SMALL AND THUS AS MOST CANNOT READ IT    MANY DECIDE NOT TO BUY THE PRODUCT FOR THAT VERY REASON. FINE PRINT MAKES US DISTRUST, AND RIGHTFULLY SO.

16. BAD LABOR PRACTICES FROM THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY LIKE CUTTING WAGES AND SPEEDING UP PRODUCTION MUST BE ERRADICATED.

17. MEAT PACKING WORKERS MUST HAVE THEIR LABOR UNIONS TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS. NO COMPANY MANAGER CAN AGREE ON GETTING RID OF WORKERS FOR NO REASON.

18. ALL ALUMINUM COOKING POTS, SAUCEPANS AND CASSEROLES MUST BE BANNED FROM ALL RESTAURANTS, BARS AND PUBLIC PLACES, SINCE ALUMINUM IS TOXIC AND DANGEROUS. ALUMINUM POTS BLEACH ALUMINUM INTO OUR FOOD. SOME PEOPLE DEVELOP LIVER  AND CONSTIPATION PROBLEMS, AMONG MANY OTHER EFFECTS. ALL THESE CONTAINERS SHOULD BE MADE OF STAINLESS STEEL.

19. ONCE OIL HAS BEEN USED IN COOKING TWICE IT HAS TO BE THROWN AWAY. IF USED OIL WERE USED FOR A THIRD TIME THEN IT WOULD NOT BE HEALTHY, AND WE DO NOT WANT THAT. THIS IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION SHOULD BE SENT TO EACH FOOD BUSINESS EVERYWHERE.

20. ALL NEW RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS MUST HAVE INFRARED-CONTROLLED TOUCHLESS BASIN TAPS IN KITCHENS AND BATHROOMS. THESE FUNCTIONAL TAPS ACTIVATE THE WATER JET AUTOMATICALLY, AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT IN ORDER TO AVOID THE BACTERIA OTHERS LEAVE ON ANY TAP EVERY TIME SOMEONE TOUCHES IT. SECOND, ENSURING THE NECESSARY HYGIENE  FEWER CANCER DIAGNOSED CASES WILL BE IN THE FUTURE. THIRD, THESE INFRARED TAPS WILL HELP US ALL AVOID WASTING WATER SINCE THE WATER JET IS ONLY ACTIVATED WHEN IT´S NEEDED, THAT IS ONLY WHEN THE TAP DETECTS OUR HANDS UNDER THE TAP. YES! A GREAT INVENTION THAT WE, WORLD CITIZENS, DESERVE AND NEED. SO LET´S ALL GET DOWN TO IT.  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS RELEVANT PRODUCT CONTACT: GEBERIT INTERNATIONAL SALES AG CH – 8640 RAPPERSWIL SWITZERLAND SALES@GEBERIT.COM INT.ES 00107-13/127 BY GEBERIT INTERNATIONAL SALES AG.  WWW. INTERNATIONAL.GEBERIT.COM

WE, WORLD CITIZENS, CANNOT BE CONFIDENT IN THE SAFETY OF THE FOOD SUPPLY UNTIL WORLD LEADERS, AND MULTINATIONAL MANAGERS STOP THEIR DEPRAVED PRACTICES. WE ALL KNOW WHO THE BIG CHEESE AT THIS FARM INDUSTRY IS, HE WHO NOBODY DARES INCRIMINATE. SO, LET ´S ADDRESS HIM AND TELL HIM: “MR. M., YOU HAVE PROBABLY REALIZED BY NOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS WRONG. RIGHT? LET´S ADMIT IT, YOU PROBABLY STARTED YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS, WANTING TO BECOME A MAN OF SUCCESS, RIGHT? AND THEN, YES, WE KNOW, GREED AND MONEY GOT IN THE WAY SPOILING EVERYTHING. YOU DID NOT REALIZE WHAT YOU NEEDED WAS TO BECOME A MAN OF VALUE. ONCE YOU ADMIT YOU FELL INTO THAT TRAP YOU ARE READY TO DO SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF, BECAUSE, LIKE CONFUCIUS (551 BC-479BC) SAID “OUR GREATEST GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL”, “IT IS EASY TO HATE AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO LOVE. THIS IS HOW THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THINGS WORKS. ALL GOOD THINGS ARE DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE AND BAD THINGS ARE VERY EASY TO GET” (CONFUCIUS QUOTES.BRAINYQUOTE). 

WE ARE POSITIVE THE FOLLOWING 6 WELL-KNOWN THINKERS WOULD POINT OUT THESE MORAL VALUES TO YOU, MR. M.:

1. WANG YANG-MING (1472-1529), CHINESE PHILOSOPHER: “ THE VIRTUE OF A MAN LIES IN HIS ABILITY TO CORRECT HIS MISTAKES AND CONTINUALLY MAKE A NEW MAN OF HIMSELF “ (WANG YANGMING-WIKIPEDIA). AND THIS IS WHAT WE ASK YOU TO DO TOO, TO QUIT THE BAD PRACTICES AND START FROM SQUARE ONE AGAIN. ONLY THEN WHATEVER YOU DO WILL HAVE SOME MEANING TO THE WORLD, TO YOUR SOUL AND INDEED TO GOD.

2. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (C. 1182-1226), ITALIAN RELIGIOUS LEADER: “ IF YOU HAVE MEN WHO WILL EXCLUDE ANY OF GOD´S CREATURES FROM THE SHELTER OF COMPASSION AND PITY, YOU WILL HAVE MEN WHO WILL DEAL LIKEWISE WITH THEIR FELLOW MEN”

START BY DOING WHAT IS NECESSARY; THEN DO WHAT´S POSSIBLE, AND SUDDENLY YOU ARE DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE” (FRANCIS OF ASSISI QUOTES).

3. CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963), BRITISH NOVELIST: ” EDUCATION WITHOUT VALUES, AS USEFUL AS IT IS, SEEMS RATHER TO MAKE A MAN A MORE CLEVER DEVIL” (C.S.LEWIS QUOTES-.BRAINYQUOTES).

4. ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960), FRENCH–ALGERIAN WRITER: “A MAN WITHOUT ETHICS IS A WILD BEAST LOOSED UPON THIS WORLD” (ALBERT CAMUS QUOTES-BRAINYQUOTES).

5. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: “ TO LEAVE THE WORLD A BIT BETTER, WHETHER BY A HEALTHY CHILD, A GARDEN PATCH OR A REDEEMED SOCIAL CONDITION; TO KNOW EVEN ONE LIFE HAS BREATHED EASIER BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIVED. THIS IS TO HAVE SUCCEEDED” (SUCCESS QUOTES-RALPH WALDO EMERSON).

6. ALBERT EINSTEIN: “IT HAS BECOME APPALLINGLY OBVIOUS THAT OUR TECHNOLOGY HAS EXCEEDED OUR HUMANITY“. (ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES-BRAINYQUOTE).

MR. M. , YOU HAVE GOT STILL TIME TO LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME, AND MAKE US CHANGE OUR MIND ABOUT YOU. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE GOT TO LOSE TO WIN LATER ON. IT IS TIME TO LOSE. ACCEPT IT AND START AGAIN LIKE ONLY A MAN COMMITTED TO STRIVING FOR THE WELL-BEING OF ALL OUR BROTHERS AND SOCIETY WOULD DO. WELL THEN, MR. M., YOU ARE OUR LORD´S SON, AND MY BROTHER AS WELL, AND SO THE ONLY LEFT PATH TO GO IS NEITHER HIGHWAYS NOR ROUNDABOUTS BUT PRAYING. TALK TO OUR LORD, EVEN IF YOU HAVE NEVER DONE IT BECAUSE NOBODY EVER SHOWED YOU THE WAY, AND TELL HIM: “ THANK YOU LORD, I LOVE YOU LORD, HELP ME GET OUT OF THIS MESS AND START DOING SOMETHING GOOD, SOMETHING I CAN FEEL PROUD OF”. ASK GOD TO HELP YOU FIND IT EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS NOT, TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LIFE OF OUR BODY IS OUR SOUL, AND THAT THE LIFE OF OUR SOUL IS GOD”.

SOME MONTHS AGO I HEARD A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE SUFFERING  ANIMALS ARE GOING THROUGH, SPECIFICALLY ON PIGS´ BRUTALIZED PRACTICES, ONCE THEY ENTER THE SLAUGHTERING PLANT. SLAUGHTERING PLANT WORKERS SAID MANY PIGS START TREMBLING THE MOMENT THEY SEE OTHER PIGS ARE PUSHED INTO BOILING WATER ALIVE. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE PAIN AND STRESS THESE PIGS BEAR UNTIL THEY DIE IS TREMENDOUS. THERE IS A NAME FOR THIS AND IT IS BRUTALITY. THIS SADISM HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND IT SHOULD BE PENALIZED. WE, HUMAN BEINGS, ARE NOT ENTITLED TO MAKE ANY OTHER BEING GO THROUGH UNNECESSARY SUFFERING. IF A PIG HAS TO BE SLAUGHTERED, SIMPLY GIVE HIM AN INJECTION SO THAT THE PIG IS NOT AWARE OF WHAT FATE AWAITS HIM. IT IS THE LEAST ONE SHOULD DO, UNLESS HE WANTS THAT BRUTALIZATION REBOUND TO HIM SOMEHOW, SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE. THIS TERRIFYING TESTIMONY HAS BEEN ON MY MINE EVER SINCE, FEELING SORRY FOR THESE LOVELY INNOCENT CREATURES.

ANOTHER TERRIFYING TESTIMONY A BRICKLAYER SHARED WITH ME HAD TO DO WITH PIGS AS WELL. HE SAID THAT ALL THE TIME HE WAS WORKING IN THE PIGGERIES HE SAW PIGS´ FEET COVERED WITH CANCER. THE MOMENT I HEARD THAT TERRIBLE FACT I FELT BAD FOR THE PIGS THEMSELVES, AND FOR OURSELVES AS CUSTOMERS, WHO BUY HAM. AS A MATTER OF FACT, LATELY, TO BE MORE PRECISE, FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS, AFTER EATING HAM WE DO NOT FEEL AS WELL AS WE USED TO. NO WONDER WE LOOK EVEN WORSE AFTER EATING HAM FROM PIGS WHO ARE SICK AND WHOSE FEET AND OTHER ORGANS ARE CARCINOGENIC. IN SPAIN ABOUT A YEAR AGO AUTHORITIES STATED HAM LABELINGS REGARDING THE DIFFERENT QUALITIES WERE NOT RIGHT. WELL, TIME IS KICKING OUT AND HAM IS NOT WHAT IT WAS NOR WHAT SHOULD BE.    MOST OF THE TIME BESIDES BEING DIFFICULT TO FIND ACORN  HAM (=JAMÓN DE BELLOTA) ANYWHERE YOU LOOK, IF YOU HAPPEN TO FIND IT, ONCE YOU EAT IT, YOU VERY LIKELY GET CONSTIPATED FOR 2 DAYS BECAUSE OF ALL THE CHEMICALS THEY INJECT INTO THEM. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN SAY 6 YEARS AGO WHEN WE ALL ENJOYED GOOD HAM. THERE ARE ONLY TWO GOOD THINGS OUT OF ALL THIS MESS: ONE IS THAT MANY OF US SPEND LESS MONEY BECAUSE MANY OF US DO NOT BUY HAM ANY MORE; THE OTHER ONE IS THAT WE DO NOT GAIN WEIGHT AS MUCH AS BEFORE AND KEEP IN SHAPE BETTER. REGULATORS ARE DOING A DISSERVICE TO CUSTOMERS NOT DOING THE INSPECTIONS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO TO KEEP US ALL UNDER SAFETY CONDITIONS

 ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE BECAUSE HUMAN BEINGS INSIST ON MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM SIMPLE, JUST LIKE JOEL SALATIN DOES. HE IS A NOBLE EXAMPLE FOR ALL OF US. IT IS A REAL PLEASURE TO HEAR HIM, SEE HOW RESPECTFULLY HE TREATS EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, AND HOW HUMBLE HE IS. IT IS TIME FOR ALL OF US TO CHANGE. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND WE ALL NEED TO HAVE DONE SOMETHING WORTH LOOKING AT DURING OUR STAY HERE.

NEITHER MOE PARR NOR CAROLE MORISON DESERVED BEING PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. WE DO NOT DESERVE TO DO WITHOUT MOE PARR AND CAROLE MORISON, AS RIGHTEOUS FARMERS THAT WE ALL WANT TO HAVE NEXT TO US.

THE FACT THAT AMMONIA KILLS BACTERIA IS NOT AN ARGUMENT TO BE USED AS A PROCESSING TOOL FROM THE FOOD SAFETY POINT OF VIEW. AMMONIA COVERS UP THE INCIDENTS OF E.COLI 0157:H7 HARMING PEOPLE´S HEALTH. NO THANK YOU! WE DO NOT WANT HI-TECH FIXES SUCH AS AMMONIA. WE DO NOT WANT HAMBURGER MEAT CLEANED WITH AMMONIA TO KILL E.COLI. WE WOULD RATHER STICK TO THE WHOLESOME WAY, JUST LIKE JOEL SALATIN DOES. OH YEAH! KEEP IT UP, JOEL!

I WISH I COULD EAT  THAT LOVELY BREAD FROM QUINTANA MARTÍN GALINDEZ (BURGOS.SPAIN), RIGHT NOW, LIKE I USED TO, WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL ON MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS OVER THERE. THAT WAS THE BEST BREAD I HAVE EVER TRIED. IT WAS HEALTHY. NOW IT IS NOT THE SAME. I ALSO MISS SHERYL GORDON´S CORN BUNS. SHERYL GORDON WAS MY  FOSTER  MOTHER IN THE U.S., AND I CAN SAY THAT I ENJOYED THOSE CORN BUNS A THOUSAND MORE TIMES THAN GOING TO THE MANY RESTAURANTS WE USED TO GO TO, BECAUSE MY AMERICAN FAMILY WAS FOND OF EATING OUT. I REMEMBER SHERYL SAID IT WAS HER MOTHER´S RECIPE. I WISH I HAD ASKED HER FOR IT. IF THERE IS ONE PLACE THAT BRINGS ME GOOD MEMORIES AS TO EATING OUT IS CASA POLI IN SANTURTZI (THE BASQUE COUNTRY), WHERE YOU FOUND POLI HIMSELF CHARCOAL-GRILLING  SARDINES, ALWAYS WITH THE SMILE ON HIS FACE. OH GOD!, TODAY WE CAN NEITHER FIND THE BREAD WE WANT TO, NOR THE SARDINES WITH THE LOVE AND HYGIENE POLI PRACTICED. WE WANT THESE OLD-FASHIONED PRACTICES, NOT THE HI-TECH ONES, WHERE HYGIENE IS CONSPICUOUS BY ITS ABSENCE.

IF SOMEONE THINKS THAT WAS REALLY STRANGE JUST WAIT FOR THIS. IT IS ABOUT THIS NEWS WE READ ONLINE ON MAY 17TH THIS YEAR ABOUT A NIGERIAN RESTAURANT WHICH WAS SHOT DOWN BECAUSE THEY SERVED HUMAN FLESH, HAVING BAGS PACKED WITH HUMAN BEINGS´ HEADS IN THE KITCHEN. HOW ABOUT THAT FOR DESSERT? INDEED, THE FOOD SYSTEM IS REALLY IN QUESTION!

STEPPING OUTSIDE THE BOX

WHEN IT COMES TO WASHING OUR HANDS EVERYBODY SAYS THEY DID, BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT WE FIND OUT NOBODY DID. THE REASON WHY MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WASH THEIR HANDS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AWARE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF IT AND THE THREATS OF CROSS CONTAMINATION. AS MOST PEOPLE ARE STRANGE TO GERMS SOME OF THEM DO NOT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THEM BECAUSE THEY FEAR THEM. WE DO NOT WANT TO FEAR GERMS BUT TO KNOW ABOUT THEM TO BE SAFE WHEREVER WE ARE.

MOST PEOPLE PREPARE MEALS WITHOUT HAVING WASHED THEIR HANDS PREVIOUSLY. THE MAIN REASON BEHIND NOT THINKING OF WASHING THEIR HANDS IS IGNORING THE HOLISTIC APPROACH WE ALL HAVE TO HAVE  ABOUT THIS KEY TOPIC.

LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895), WELL-KNOWN FRENCH MICROBIOLOGIST, “WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE, WHICH STATES THAT SOME DISEASES ARE CAUSED BY MICROORGANISMS” (GOODNET.GATEWAY TO DOING GOOD).

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY BACTERIA EVERYWHERE. “A STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IN BOULDER FOUND THAT PUBLIC RESTROOMS WERE A BREEDING GROUND FOR A WHOLE RANGE OF BACTERIA. THE SCIENTISTS BROUGHT GENETIC SEQUENCING TOOLS TO SIX MEN´S RESTROOMS AND SIX WOMEN´S RESTROOMS. AFTER EXAMINING THE DOORS, WATER FAUCETS, HANDLES, SOAP DISPENSERS, TOILETS AND FLOORS THEY FOUND 19 DIFFERENT STRAINS OF BACTERIA PRESENT” (OH, THE PLACES GERMS GO! THE BASELINE OF HEALTH FOUNDATION).

RESTROOMS SINKS ARE ONE OF THE EIGHT GERMIEST PLACES IN US MALLS. “DR. CHARLES GERBA, AN ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, SAMPLED BULK SOAP FROM 541 DISPENSERS IN 5 CITIES ACROSS THE US” (CLEANLINK.SOAP DISPENSERS:PREVENTING CROSS CONTAMINATION). “THEY FOUND THAT ONE IN FOUR CONTAINED UNSAFE LEVELS OF BACTERIA. THE STUDY SHOWED THESE SOAP DISPENSERS WERE REFILLED BY WORKERS WITH DIRTY HANDS AND SO THE SOAP ITSELF MIGHT HARBOR GERMS”. DR. CHARLES GERBA FOUND “FOOD, E. COLI, URINE, MUCUS, FECES AND BLOOD ON ESCALATOR HANDRAILS”. “ATM KEYPADS, TOY STORES, FITTING ROOMS, GADGET SHOPS, AND MAKE-UP SAMPLES” ARE OTHER FIVE OF THE GERMIEST PLACES IN US MALLS (CNN. THE 8 GERMIEST PLACES IN THE MALL).

FOOD COURT TABLES ARE ALSO AMONG THE GERMIEST PLACES IN US MALLS. “EVEN IF YOU SEE THE TABLE BEING WIPED DOWN, THAT DOESN´T MEAN IT´S CLEAN”, SAYS PANELIST ELAINE LARSON, PH.D., A PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AT THE MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: “THE RAGS THEMSELVES CAN ACTUALLY SPREAD HARMFUL BACTERIA SUCH AS E. COLI IF THEY ARE NOT CHANGED AND WASHED REGULARLY”. “PROTECT YOURSELF: CONSIDER STASHING A PACK OF HARD SURFACE DISINFECTING WIPES IN YOUR PURSE SO YOU CAN SWIPE THE TABLE BEFORE YOU SIT DOWN. “LOOK FOR ONES THAT CONTAIN ALCOHOL OR ANOTHER DISINFECTING AGENT IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE YOU´RE KILLING GERMS, NOT JUST WIPING AWAY GRIME”, PHILIP TIERNO,PH.D., SAID” (CNN.THE 8 GERMIEST PLACES IN THE MALL).

ASIDE FROM THOSE 8 GERMIEST PLACES IN ANY US MALL, WE VERY OFTEN COME INTO CONTACT WITH OTHER SURFACES RIDDLED WITH BACTERIA. HERE IS OUR EVERYDAY LIST OF SURFACES COVERED WITH COLD GERMS AND OTHER TYPES OF GERMS: DOORKNOBS, SHOPPING CART HANDLES, HOTEL AND PUBLIC TELEPHONES, REMOTE CONTROLS, OUR OWN CELL PHONES, COMPUTER MOUSES, LIGHT SWITCHES, CONDIMENT CONTAINERS, AIRPLANE TRAY TABLES, AIRPLANE “SEAT CONTROLS AND OTHER SURFACES IN AND AROUND OUR AIRPLANE SEAT” (TEN SURPRISING PLACES FOR GERMS –HEALTHY TRAVEL- EVERYDAY HEALTH), JUST TO MENTION A FEW. OTHER TIMES GERMS ENTER OUR BODY WHEN WE KISS SOMEONE WHO CARRIES COLD, FLU OR COUGH GERMS, AND ALSO WHEN WE TOUCH OR USE SOMETHING AFTER SOMEBODY WITH A COLD OR ANY OTHER AILMENT HAD TOUCHED IT OR USED IT BEFORE US.

REGARDING SHOPPING CART HANDLES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE IS WORTH CITING: “THE HANDLES OF SHOPPING CARTS ARE NOTORIOUSLY CONTAMINATED WITH GERMS. MANY GROCERY STORES NOW OFFER DISINFECTING WIPES FOR YOU TO USE TO CLEAN OFF THE HANDLE OF YOUR GROCERY CART OR USE YOUR OWN WIPES” BY KRISHA MCCOY, MS, MEDICALLY REVIEWED BY PAT F. BASS III, MD, MPH ( 10 SURPRISING PLACES FOR GERMS-HEALTHY TRAVEL-EVERYDAY HEALTH ).

9 NEWS NOW WANTED TO FIND OUT HOW GERM-CONTAMINATED METRO HANDRAILS ARE AND SO THEY DID A SURVEY COLLECTING SWAB SAMPLES. THEY “BROUGHT THE SAMPLES TO THE SCIENTISTS AT EMSL ANALYTICAL IN CINNAMINSON, NEW JERSEY. THE ESCALATOR HANDRAIL HAD THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF BACTERIA WITH 3,210,000 THOUSAND CFUS OR COLONY FORMING UNITS PER SWAB. “THE ESCALATOR SEEMS LIKE A HIGH-TRAFFIC AREA, SO ANYTHING THAT´S NOT BEING CLEANED OR DISINFECTED WITHIN THE PERIOD OF TIME,  CAN BE TRANSFERRED FROM A PERSON TO THE AREA, WHICH IN THIS CASE IS THE ESCALATOR,” SAID NEKOUEI. “WE USE A DISINFECTANT CLEANER ON ALL THE TOUCH SURFACES, FARE CARD MACHINES, THROUGH THE FARE GATES, ALL THOSE TYPICAL PLACES YOU WOULD EXPECT,” SAID JOAN LELACHEUR, THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF METRO´S ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. SHE SAYS ALL SURFACES ARE WIPED DOWN ON A DAILY BASIS. EVERY MONTH, TRAINS ARE THOROUGHLY CLEANED, INCLUDING THE CARPETS. ANY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OR   ANY PUBLIC SPOT IS ONLY AS CLEAN AS WHOEVER WAS THE LAST PERSON TO TOUCH IT,” SHE SAID. METRO ASKS THAT YOU TRY TO KEEP YOUR GERMS TO YOURSELF COVERING YOUR COUGHS AND SNEEZES AND USING HAND SANITIZER” (METRO ESCALATOR HANDRAILS CARRY MOST BACTERIA. WUSA9.COM). 

BACTERIA ALSO THRIVE ON PAPER MONEY. THIS IS WHY FOOD BUSINESSES, MEAT, FISH AND BREAD ONES AMONG OTHERS, SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST TWO WORKERS IN THE BUSINESS: ONE HANDLING MONEY, THAT IS, DEALING WITH GERMS THE WHOLE TIME, AND ANOTHER PERSON HANDLING FOOD WITH WASHED HANDS TO AVOID TRANSFERING MICROBES FROM MONEY TO FOOD. ANY PERSON, WHO TOUCHES PAPER MONEY AND ALSO HANDLES FRESH FOOD LIKE MEAT, BREAD AND OTHERS THAT ARE NOT PLASTIC-SEALED, WILL SPREAD GERMS FROM PAPER MONEY AND  HIS DIRTY HANDS TO THE FRESH FOOD, AND SO THIS FRESH FOOD WILL GO BAD SOONER THAN EXPECTED.

THE MORE WE KNOW ABOUT GERMS THE BETTER PREPARED WE WILL BE TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT PICKING UP THESE MICROBIAL INVADERS. “WHEN TRAVELLING, YOUR CAR CAN HAVE VERY SUSPECT AREAS SUCH AS THE SEATS, THE CONTROLS, THE DOOR HANDLE, THE TRUNK AND WORST OF ALL THE CARPET TO THE TRUNK WITH JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN BEING DUMPED THERE. BY THE SAME TOKEN, A TAXI, A TRAIN RIDE OR CATCHING THE BUS WILL HAVE THOSE SAME HEALTH HAZARDS. THE GAS STATION WHEN YOU GO TO FILL YOUR TANK HAS PUMP HANDLES CONSTANTLY BEING USED. HOW OFTEN DO YOU THINK THEY GET CLEANED UNLESS PERHAPS FROM THE RAIN? AS FOR AIRPLANE BATHROOMS, THESE CAN BE A REAL NIGHTMARE ON A LONG HAUL FLIGHT WITH ALMOST NON STOP USE AND MINIMAL CLEANING. YOU WILL HAVE TO DECIDE HOW YOU CAN MINIMIZE THE RISKS. I SUGGEST WASHING YOUR HANDS BEFORE YOU COME OUT AND THEN USING A HAND SANITIZER AS SOON AS YOU ARE OUT OF THE BATHROOM AS A BACK-UP! IF YOU ARE STAYING AT A HOTEL ON YOUR TRAVELS, TAKE OFF THE BEDSPREAD AND STORE IT AWAY. THIS IS NOT LIKELY TO BE WASHED SO OFTEN. WHEN YOU TURN LIGHT SWITCHES IN PUBLIC PLACES ON AND OFF, USE THE BACK OF YOUR HAND WHILE THE ONES IN YOUR HOTEL SHOULD BE WIPED BEFORE YOU START TO USE THEM. SO YOU HAVE SETTLED INTO YOUR HOTEL ROOM – EVERYTHING IS NOW CLEAN AND THEN IT IS OFF TO A RESTAURANT TO EAT AND ANOTHER MINEFIELD OF GERMS! TABLES ARE USUALLY KEPT WELL DISINFECTED BY STAFF BETWEEN GUESTS, BUT BAR COUNTERS AND OUTDOOR TABLES MIGHT NOT BE SO WELL LOOKED AFTER AND COULD POSSIBLY DO WITH A WIPE DOWN. THEN BE WARY OF ALL THE CONDIMENT CONTAINERS ON THE TABLE – SALT, PEPPER, MUSTARD, KETCHUP AND MORE. THESE COULD BE HANDLED BY MANY PATRONS ON A DAILY BASIS WITHOUT BEING CLEANED. AND THE FINAL SUGGESTION IS THE MENU ITSELF. THINK ABOUT HOW MANY HANDLE THE MENU AND APART FROM KEEPING YOUR OWN HANDS OFF IT, DON´T LET IT CONTAMINATE THE CROCKERY, GLASSES AND SILVERWARE ALREADY LAID OUT ON THE TABLE EITHER!” (THE 16 MOST LIKELY PLACES WHERE GERMS CAN LURK WHEN YOU ARE AWAY FROM HOME).

IN ADDITION TO ALL THIS, HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF BACTERIA CAN BE FOUND IN WASHING MACHINES. “DR. CHARLES GERBA´S LATEST PROJECT IS THE LAUNDRY. HIS TEAM VISITED RANDOMLY 60 FOUR-PERSON FAMILY HOMES IN TUCSON, AND ONE-FIFTH OF THE MACHINES CONTAINED E. COLI, WHILE A QUARTER WERE CONTAMINATED WITH FECAL MATTER. THE LAUNDRY, DR. GERBA CONTENDS, IS BECOMING LESS CLEAN. FEWER AMERICANS WASH CLOTHES IN HOT WATER, AND ONLY 5 PERCENT USE BLEACH, HE SAID. WASH CYCLES ARE ONLY 20 MINUTES, WHILE THE AVERAGE DRYING TIME IS ONLY 28 MINUTES. DR. GERBA FOUND THAT SOME SALMONELLA AND HEPATITIS A SURVIVE THROUGH LAUNDRY — INCLUDING THE DRY CYCLE — AND REMAIN ON CLOTHES” (FECAL MATTER – DR. DOORMAT).

FOOTWEAR IS ONE MORE MICROBIAL LOCATION TO ADD TO OUR LIST. THE MOMENT WE GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE OUR SOLES START PICKING UP ALL SORTS OF BACTERIA. DR. CHARLES GERBA WAS COMMISSIONED “TO LOOK AT WHAT WE PICK UP ON OUR SHOES AND TRACK INTO OUR HOMES. IN THIS INITIAL TEST, DR. GERBA SWABBED FOR BACTERIA ON 26 SHOES WORN BY TEST SUBJECTS FOR THREE MONTHS OR MORE. HE CULTURED THE SAMPLES AND IDENTIFIED NINE MICROBIAL SPECIES THAT CAN CAUSE INTESTINAL, URINARY, EYE, LUNG, BLOOD AND WOUND INFECTIONS. COLIFORM BACTERIA – ORIGINATING IN FECAL MATTER – WERE FOUND ON THE OUTSIDE OF ALL BUT ONE OF THE SHOES, AND THE SAMPLES AVERAGED 421,000 BACTERIAL UNITS PER SQUARE CENTIMETER SAMPLED. (EACH UNIT IS ENOUGH BACTERIA TO REPRODUCE AND GROW A NEW COLONY.) SEVEN OF THE SHOES HAD PICKED UP ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI) BACTERIA. AS THE CRUD BUILDS UP ON OUR SHOES, DR. GERBA SAID, WE ADD FOOD AND OTHER DEBRIS THAT BACTERIA CAN FEED ON, AND “OUR SHOES BECOME A BACTERIA CAFETERIA”. BACK HOME WE TRAIL THE STUFF ACROSS OUR FLOORS AND CARPETS, WHERE THE MICROBES FIND A NEW RESIDENCE”. AS FOR FARM DISEASES “ANIMAL – HEALTH EXPERTS FOR YEARS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE ROLE OF FOOTWEAR IN TRANSPORTING ANIMAL DISEASES FROM FARM TO FARM,” DR. GERBA SAID” (THE “EWWW!” ON YOUR SHOE – COLLECTIONS. )

PHILIP TIERNO, PH. D., DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER SAYS “ANYWHERE PEOPLE GATHER IS FILLED WITH BACTERIA AND VIRUSES, AND A CROWDED SHOPPING MALL IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE” (CNN.THE 8 GERMIEST PLACES IN THE MALL).

THE ART OF WASHING OUR HANDS NEEDS SOME REVIEW. I OFTEN HEAR MOTHERS TELL THEIR CHILDREN AFTER GOING OUT OF A PUBLIC RESTROOM THE FOLLOWING: “COME ON, WASH YOUR HANDS”. WELL, PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ UP ON GERM LITERATURE EXPECTS MOTHERS TO KNOW HOW TO DO IT. BUT THIS IS NOT THE CASE. THEY JUST TURN THE FAUCET ON, PUT THEIR HANDS UNDER THE WATER AND THAT IS IT. LET US MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WATER IS NOT THAT POWERFUL. WATER CANNOT MAKE DO BY ITSELF. IT NEEDS SOAP. AS FOR RESTROOMS SOAPS (FORTUNATELY, LESS AND LESS COMMON NOWADAYS) ONE THING MUST BE SAID. THEY ARE NOT HYGIENIC. THE REASON WHY THIS IS SO IT IS BECAUSE WE CAN FIND THERE LOTS OF THINGS, LIKE HAIR, DIRT AND OTHER UNPLEASANT ONES. COME ON, WE ARE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. SOAPS WOULD ONLY DO GOOD IF USED AS PERSONAL CLEANLINESS, THAT IS, IF THEY WERE ONLY USED BY ONE SINGLE PERSON. WHERE WE DO NOT FIND NEITHER HAIR, DIRT NOR SURPRISING THINGS IS IN LIQUID SOAP. THIS SHOULD BE IN ALL RESTAURANTS, KITCHENS, BARS AND PUBLIC PLACES RESTROOMS, SO THAT EVERYONE COULD HAVE ACCESS TO HYGIENE.

PROPER HAND WASHING IN A PUBLIC RESTROOM NEEDS TO BE CLEARED UP SO THAT WE CAN START DOING IT CORRECTLY: FIRST, WE SPEND 15-20 SECONDS TO WASH THEM. WE USE PLENTY OF SOAP AND RUB OUR HANDS THOROUGHLY, CLEANING BETWEEN OUR FINGERS, UNDER OUR FINGERNAILS AND BACK OF HANDS. THEN WE RINSE WITH PLENTY OF WATER. AFTER THAT, WE DRY OUR HANDS ON DISPOSABLE PAPER TOWEL AND THROW IT IN THE TRASH. FINALLY, WE USE ANOTHER PAPER TOWEL TO TURN THE FAUCET OFF AND TO OPEN THE DOOR, SO  THAT OUR HANDS REMAIN CLEAN.

LET US REMEMBER GERMS ARE NOT POLITE AND THEIR ROUTE IS AS FOLLOWS: FIRST OUR HANDS, THEN NOSE, MOUTH, EYES, BODY AND SOMETIMES OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. ONCE WE TOUCH OUR EYES, NOSE OR MOUTH WITH OUR DIRTY HANDS, GERMS ENTER OUR BODY AND FROM HERE OUR DIRTY HANDS, IF NOT WASHED WITH WATER AND SOAP, WILL CONTAMINATE EVERYTHING WE TOUCH ELSEWHERE. BACTERIA LIFE ON HARD SURFACES IS ABOUT FOUR HOURS. THEREFORE, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR HEALTH, LET US WASH OUR HANDS WITH WATER AND SOAP FREQUENTLY. IF THAT WERE NOT POSSIBLE WE WOULD RUB OUR HANDS AND FINGERS WITH A COUPLE OF WIPES.

MOST WIDESPREAD UNHEALTHY HABITS ARE THESE ONES:

DIRTY RAGS AND SPONGES IN THE KITCHEN. RAGS AND SPONGES SHOULD BE EITHER WASHED IN THE WASHING MACHINE OR RENEWED VERY OFTEN. “THE FILTHIEST CULPRIT IN OUR HOMES IS THE KITCHEN SPONGE OR CLOTH. ACCORDING TO DR. GERBA, THERE ARE ABOUT 10 MILLION BACTERIA PER SQUARE INCH ON A SPONGE, AND A MILLION  ON A DISHCLOTH”. “ALWAYS THE DIRTIEST THING BY FAR IS THE KITCHEN SPONGE,” SAYS JOHN OXFORD, PROFESSOR OF VIROLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND CHAIR OF THE HYGIENE COUNCIL”. ABOUT 4 CLEAN RAGS EVERYDAY SHOULD BE RENEWED SO THAT WE CAN DRY OUR HANDS ON CLEAN RAGS AFTER WASHING THEM . SOME OF THESE CLEAN RAGS SHOULD BE USED TO CLEAN THE KITCHEN COUNTERTOPS AND TABLES (IS THE TOILET SEAT REALLY THE DIRTIEST PLACE IN THE HOME? – BBC NEWS MAGAZINE).

CONTAMINATED CUTTING BOARDS AND KNIVES. VERY OFTEN PEOPLE CHOP MEAT OR FISH, AND RIGHT AFTER IT, WITHOUT CLEANING NEITHER THE CUTTING BOARD NOR THE KNIFE, THEY START SLICING VEGETABLES. THESE VEGETABLES WILL BE CONTAMINATED UNLESS WE WASH THE BOARD AND  KNIFE  WITH WATER AND SOAP.

PUTTING FOOD WHICH FELL IN THE SINK BACK IN THE PLATE. “IF YOU ARE MAKING A SALAD, AND THE CARROT FELL IN THE SINK, YOU´D RINSE IT OFF AND PUT IT BACK IN,” DR. CHARLES GERBA SAID. “WELL, THERE ARE MORE FECAL BACTERIA IN THE SINK THAN IN YOUR TOILET. IF YOUR CARROT FELL IN THE TOILET BOWL, WOULD YOU PUT IT BACK IN THE SALAD? (TOUCHY SUBJECT – CBS NEWS).

SOME PEOPLE DROP THEIR PURSES AND CLOTHES ON THE RESTROOM FLOOR, AND  IN DOING SO THEY ARE LETTING AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF BACTERIA INVADE THEM.

-SOME PEOPLE ENTER RESTROOMS THINKING THERE IS TOILET PAPER IN ALL RESTROOMS. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE. THAT IS WHY EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A KLEENEX PACKET ON THEM, TO CLEAN THEMSELVES PROPERLY AND FREE THEMSELVES AND WASHING MACHINES FROM ASTRONOMICAL AMOUNT OF BACTERIA. RESEARCH ON WASHING MACHINES SHOWS THAT FECES SURVIVE IN THESE MACHINES AND IN THE “WASHED” CLOTHES DESPITE THE WASHING LIQUID THEY PUT INSIDE THEM, BASICALLY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE NOT CLEAN ENOUGH TO HAVE USED TOILET PAPER TO CLEAN THEMSELVES AND TO HAVE AVOIDED FILLING THE WASHING MACHINE WITH CLOTHES RIDDLED WITH FECES. PLEASE, DO NOT DO IT AGAIN. IF SO YOU WOULD BE PUTTING  IN JEOPARDY YOURS AND OTHER PEOPLE´S HEALTH. HERE LIES THE ROOTS FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF CURRENT AILMENTS. LET US PROTECT OURSELVES CLEANING OUR WASHING MACHINE, RUNNING AN EMPTY WASH USING SODIUM BICARBONATE IN THE SMALL COMPARTMENT WHERE WE USUALLY PLACE THE WASHING LIQUID, SO THAT WE CAN GET RID OF FECES ONCE AND FOR ALL. REMEMBER THIS, TAKE A KLEENEX PACKET WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. IT WILL SAVE YOU A LOT TIME AND MONEY, AND WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IT WILL PROTECT YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. 

READING A BOOK, THE NEWSPAPER OR USING OUR I-PHONE WHILE SITTING DOWN ON THE TOILET SEAT. WE REALLY DO NOT WANT THIS. WHY? WELL, BECAUSE THEN WE WOULD HAVE MORE WORK TO DO LATER ON TRYING UNSUCCESSFULLY TO GET RID OF ALL THE BACTERIA TRANSFERRED TO THE BOOK, THE NEWSPAPER OR THE I-PHONE WE WERE USING.

ENTERING A PUBLIC RESTROOM WITH UNWASHED HANDS. GIVEN THE FACT GERMS LURK ALMOST EVERYWHERE AND THAT WHEN WE GO OUT WE ARE EXPOSED TO THEM IN MANY WAYS, SPECIALLY WHEN WE TOUCH PUBLIC RESTROOMS HANDLES, THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO WASH OUR HANDS WITH WATER AND SOAP AND DRY OUR HANDS ON DISPOSABLE PAPER TOWEL BEFORE ENTERING A TOILET. ONCE OUR HANDS ARE DRY WE SHOULD USE THAT SAME PAPER TOWEL TO OPEN THE TOILET DOOR AND TO CLOSE IT. WHEN WE ARE “FINISHED” WE SHOULD TAKE A  PIECE OF TOILET PAPER TO PRESS THE FLUSH BOTTOM AND TO OPEN THE TOILET DOORS TO AVOID MICROBES. 

WALKING BAREFOOT IN PUBLIC PLACES. WE SHOULD TRY TO AVOID WALKING BAREFOOT, EVEN IN OUR OWN HOUSE. WHY? MAINLY BECAUSE THERE IS NO PLACE A HUNDRED PER CENT CLEAN, SO BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY.

USING DIRTY REUSABLE SHOPPING BAGS. “WHAT´S MORE, ABOUT HALF OF REUSABLE SHOPPING BAGS HAVE FECAL BACTERIA IN THEM. “SOME PEOPLE HAVE MORE FECAL BACTERIA IN THEIR GROCERY BAG THAN IN THEIR UNDERWEAR, BECAUSE THEY AT LEAST WASH THAT”.” SAID DR. GERBA (IS THE TOILET SEAT REALLY THE DIRTIEST PLACE IN THE HOME? – BBC NEWS MAGAZINE).

TRYING TO CLEAN THE KITCHEN FLOOR WITH ONLY WATER. WATER BY ITSELF CANNOT DISINFECT FLOORS. WATER TOGETHER WITH A DISINFECTANT WILL DO THE JOB.

CLEANERS AT MALLS AND ELSEWHERE USING THEIR DIRTY BROOMS AND DIRTY MOPS TO CLEAN BENCHES. WE SAW IT AND WE TOLD THE PERSON NOT TO DO IT. SHE STOPPED DOING IT, BUT SHE TOOK A DIRTY RAG AND CONTAMINATED THE BENCH. ALL CLEANERS SHOULD TAKE COURSES ON  HYGIENE GOOD PRACTICES AND COURSES ON GERMS, SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING INSTEAD.

-AND FINALLY, WE SHOULD WASH OUR HANDS AFTER TOUCHING ANIMALS.

 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THESE 9 LAWS BELOW SHOULD BE ENACTED:

1- HAND WASHING AT WORK. SIGNS SAYING “EMPLOYEES MUST WASH THEIR HANDS” SHOULD BE AROUND DIFFERENT PLACES SO THAT WORKERS HAVE IT ALWAYS IN MIND, SPECIALLY IN RESTAURANTS KITCHENS.

2- IN ANY FRESH FOOD BUSINESS (MEAT, FISH, VEGETABLES, FRUIT AND BREAD) 2 PEOPLE AT LEAST SHOULD BE DOING THE JOB: ONE SERVING PEOPLE AND ANOTHER ONE CHECKING OUT, TO AVOID CROSS CONTAMINATION.

3- A PILE OF ABOUT 40 CLEAN RAGS SHOULD BE STORED IN EACH RESTAURANT KITCHEN OR BAR, SO THAT NO WAITER OR WORKER CAN EXCUSE HIMSELF SAYING THERE WERE NO CLEAN RAGS LEFT TO CLEAN THE TABLES OR DRY THEIR HANDS.

4- ABOUT 4 DISINFECTANT SPRAYS SHOULD BE STORED IN ANY RESTAURANT KITCHEN OR BAR, SO THAT THE DIFFERENT WORKERS HAVE ACCESS TO SOME DISINFECTANT SPRAYS, WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT FOR THEM, SINCE IT IS SOMETHING BASIC IN EVERYONE´S HYGIENE, PARTICULARLY IN OUR CUSTOMERS´.

5- BAR WORKERS SHOULD WIPE THE TABLES AND COUNTERS WITH CLEANCLOTHS AND DISINFECTANT. WHEN THEY USE DIRTY ONES THEY WILL SPREAD BACTERIA EVERYWHERE.

6- CLEANERS HAVE TO DISINFECT METRO HANDRAILS, ESCALATOR HANDRAILS, TICKET MACHINES AND THE POLES PEOPLE HOLD ON TO WHEN TRAINS MOVE AT LEAST THREE TIMES A WEEK.

7- LIQUID SOAP DISPENSERS SHOULD BE FOUND IN ALL PUBLIC RESTROOMS.

8- THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF REFILLING SOAP DISPENSERS SHOULD HAVE HIS HANDS WASHED WITH WATER AND SOAP, TO PREVENT GERM SPREADING INSIDE  SOAP DISPENSERS.

9- EACH PUBLIC TOILET SHOULD BE BIG ENOUGH NOT TO STRUGGLE THROUGH IN ORDER NOT TO TOUCH THE TOILET BOWL WITH ONE OF OUR LEGS ONCE THIS ONE IS IN THERE, AND BATTLE AGAIN WITH THE REST OF OUR BODY NOT TO TOUCH NEITHER THE DOOR NOR THE SIDE WALLS, SINCE WE KNOW IT IS A FACT THOUSANDS OF PATHOGENS ARE ON THESE SURFACES. 99% OF TOILETS ARE SIMPLY TOO SMALL AND CONSEQUENTLY UNCOMFORTABLE. EACH PUBLIC TOILET SHOULD HAVE A SURFACE AREA OF AT LEAST ONE SQUARE METER.

HERE ARE TWO IDEAS TO TAKE OUT TWO NEW PATENTS. THE FIRST ONE HAS TO DO WITH A CHECKING POINT DEVICE TO SEE WHETHER THE RESTAURANTS COOKS HAVE THEIR HANDS CLEAN OR NOT. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A CONTAINER FULL OF WATER WITH A PARTICULAR CHEMICAL WHICH DETECTS GERMS AND IF SO WATER TURNS RED, FOR EXAMPLE. THE COOKS WOULD PUT THEIR HANDS IN THE WATER TO CHECK WHETHER THEY REALLY WASHED THEIR HANDS OR NOT. THE SECOND INVENTION WOULD BE A DOORMAT WHICH WOULD CLEAN OUR SHOES, WOULD FREE OUR SHOES OF ALL GERMS, JUST BY SCRUBING OUR SHOES AGAINST IT, AS WE COME IN. THESE DISINFECTANT DOORMATS SHOULD BE OUTSIDE OUR HOUSE, OUTSIDE HOSPITALS, MALLS, SHOPS, ETC. MONEY SPENT ON THE RESEARCH OF THE DISINFECTANT MATERIAL COMPONENTS OF THIS DISINFECTANT DOORMAT WOULD BE WORTHY OF IT.

ANOTHER GOOD IDEA WOULD BE DESIGNING T-SHIRTS, DRESSES, PANTS, TABLECLOTHES, CLOTHS AND TOWELS SAYING NOT “ON” OR “OFF”, BUT WITH THE FOLLOWING SLOGANS: “HAND WASHING IS AWSOME”, “HAND WASHING IS THE BOMB”, “HAND WASHING COMES FIRST” AND “ISN´T HAND WASHING SOMETHING?”. I WOULD USE WARM QUALITY COTTON TEXTILES AND LOVELY, ELEGANT COLOURS. BESIDES HAVING THEM ALL SOLD OUT THEY WOULD DO LOTS OF GOOD MAKING EVERYONE AWARE OF THE RELEVANCE OF HAND WASHING.

LET US PROMOTE THE VIRTUES OF HYGIENE STANDARDS, AND PUT HAND WASHING INTO PRACTICE TO PREVENT INFECTING OURSELVES WITH OTHERS´ COLD GERMS AND PASSING ON OUR COLD BACTERIA, IF ANY. WE CAN ALL PREVENT VIRUS AND BACTERIA SPREADS AND ALSO INFECTIOUS DISEASES. LET US NOT PREPARE MEALS WITH UNWASHED HANDS. LET US ADOPT HYGIENE GOOD PRACTICES, CARRYING A PACKET OF WIPES IN CASE WE DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WASH OUR HANDS WHEREVER WE ARE. LET US BE STICKLERS FOR WASHING OUR HANDS AS MUCH AS WE CAN. WE WILL DEFINITELY BE BETTER OFF TRYING TO BE STICKLERS THAN IGNORING THE WHOLE SITUATION. WE HAVE THE MEANS TO DO IT. MAKING THE EFFORT TO WASH OUR HANDS IS REALLY TAKING A STAND FOR LIFE. WE CAN ALL GAIN TASTE FOR IT ONCE WE SEE THE BENEFITS OF IT ON OTHERS AND ON US. LET US STEP OUTSIDE THE BOX WASHING OUR HANDS AND WE WILL SEE EXCITING THINGS IN THE PIPELINE!