As
you already figured out, I tried to find out all I can about how callous,
impersonal, selfish, greedy and uncaring about people, Monsanto/Bayer was.
So,
I’m cruising the internet and I come across an article that put Monsanto/Bayer’s
complete disregard for people’s spiritual/ religious perspective about eating.
The
article, written by David Stein and appearing on Food Freedom News, made it so
clear as to how Monsanto/Bayer does not give a s**t about anything but money. I
contacted them, asked, and received permission to reprint.
The
title is, Your Spiritual Right to GMO Labeling.
“Have
you ever considered that without labeling, numbers of religious groups are
having their religious rights violated?
Jews
have kosher labels. So where are the labels for all people with the
religious need to eat
what comes only from God, or to eat in a way that is spiritually tolerable
according to their beliefs?
Buddhists
are not supposed to take in anything toxic whether by mouth or through what
they read or hear, but are forced to consume toxic GMOs by not knowing what is
what.
Orthodox
Jews are not supposed to mix species when plowing fields (no horse and buffalo,
together) or in clothing (no linen mixed with wool) or to eat milk with meat,
but they are being forced to eat food that mixes species and whose RNA can be affecting their DNA.
What
of pantheism which
runs through almost all religions, in which people believe deeply that we are
all part of nature itself and their spiritual lives are based on seeking and
finding that harmony?
How
can they/we find spiritual peace inside ourselves if nature itself is being
ripped to shreds by the biotech industry and they/we are forced through lies
and trickery to consume abominations
of nature and the defiling of God’s gift to us all?
As
the earth is being desecrated by corporations, pantheists are, increasingly,
all of us.
The genetic engineering of plants, trees, and
animals is a genetic engineering of living things that people feel viscerally,
out of horror at the attack on what God has given us in perfection, or out
oneness with all life, as a literal attack on themselves.
Spiritual
and religious people cannot eat food blindly. They must know if they are
violating fundamentals of their moral codes, or spiritual codes.
For those who are not vegetarian but find
cruelty to animals violates their most deeply held religious beliefs, what of
them, they must know whether those animals are forced to eat feed that is
causing them pain, and is turning them infertile.
Putting
“health” aside, eating GMOs is an immense and profound religious issue.
Religious groups can’t even practice according to their ethical beliefs or even
religious injunctions unless they know what they are eating.
Many
religious or spiritual people consider the body a temple of God and what they
take into it is a sacrament.
Kosher
labeling came into place to allow Jews to fulfill their religious
requirements.
Would
Jews accept being told it costs too much, or that it doesn’t matter and pork is
fine? What would happen if anyone tried to lower kosher standards?
Are other people’s religious needs to know what they are eating any less
significant?
For
many religious or spiritual people, sickness follows not so much from eating
what is toxic but from violating spiritual principles.
The
biotech industry is desecrating gifts given to all of us by God.
From
“In
the Beginning and in the Other Beginning“:
In the
beginning, God created the heavens and the earth ….
“In
the beginning of the 1900s, bankers and oil barons created laboratories to
produce synthetic substances ….”
Then God
said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the
land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it
was so.
“…. Then CEOs said, ‘Let the laboratories alter seeds
that already exist so we can claim them as an inventions and apply patents so
they are no longer free to all mankind. And let these laboratories ensure
these “inventions” include poisons we own. And let these
“inventions” not produce
seed after more than one season.”
…. The land
produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees
bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was
good.
“Then
farmers planted the man-altered seeds which produced vegetation never seen
before and different from its kind, and causing new illnesses as well as deaths
of fetuses. And farmers had to sign contracts forcing them to use poisons on
the man-altered seeds, contracts that forbade them and even Ruth, from ever
collecting these altered seeds.”
And God said,
“Let the water team with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and
every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it,
according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.” And God
saw that it was good.
“And
the CEOs said “Let our seeds fill the land and our poisons in the waters and air,”
and they were silent as the altered seeds and poisons deformed and killed
animals of water and air.
And the CEOs saw that their profit was good.”
God blessed them
and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas,
and let the birds increase on the earth.”
“The
CEOs cursed them …. ”
And God said,
“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock,
the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according
to its kind.”
And it was so.
God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to
their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to
their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
“The
CEOs said “Let our laboratories produce the wild animals, so that all
living creatures can be patented and owned. And the CEOs saw that it was
profitable.”
Then God said,
“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over
the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the
wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
How
can people fulfill a religious obligation to rule over nature and protect it if
a few corporations claim to own it and are setting loose unnatural, plants and
even man-made creatures that can destroy a natural that many people believe
deeply was given to all out of love?
The
intense reaction to what the biotech industry is doing is inadequately
described as coming out anger at injustice or out of fear over health
concerns.
What
we are feeling comes out of pantheism and other spiritual beliefs in which we
know deep inside us that we are inseparable from the salmon being mutated or
from the corn being inserted with pesticides or from the water being
poisoned.
Those
with spiritual consciousness experience all living things – animals, plants,
trees, fish – as part of themselves, and all as part of God.
In
not labeling GMOs, people are being forced against their will to participate in
the evil of deconstructing what God (Nature) has provided everyone, forced to
consume it and feed it to their children.
But they are also being cut off from consuming
what is from God, and having their every bite be a sacrament and a moment of
great gratitude. The spiritual issues pile up.
There
is the reality that fertility itself is of central spiritual importance and
people are being blocked from avoiding GMO’s
that are damaging fertility.
And
in this time of awakening of human consciousness, for those who believe this is
the point of their spiritual life and all life itself, many believe that their DNA
is directly related to spirituality so to threaten DNA is to threaten
spirituality and consciousness itself.
But
whether one agrees or not, based on religious rights, why do we even need to
know for sure whether soy does cause infertility or corn, cancer, or GMOs are
damaging our connection to God or the cosmos?
We
don’t have to answer those questions but only need to know that we have the
right to know what is from God or what is not.
Because
man has broken the chain of life in which food was perfect fit for animals and
humans and was healing and has been so tampered with as to create not health
but fear and disgust, many people, out of religious or spiritual need, want to
and even must avoid anything coming from man – because it is non-God,
unnatural, “sin – thetic”.
And
many people want to avoid any potential eugenics threat from man (whether by
accident or intentionally) which man can create in “playing” God.
Don’t
Jews, out of religious feeling and the spiritual honoring of their dead, have
the religious right to refuse whatever is made by the same companies that dealt
in eugenics before and intentionally killed millions? Is this not a
religious need?
From
a religious point of view, do we not all have the right to know what is coming
from these historically racist and deadly companies in order to distance ourselves
from their evil? (This includes vaccines, that
are also GMOs, being forced on children and increasingly on
adults and aftermaths have
shown they do not work and studies show worse.
So
evil and unstoppable have these companies become, there is a PR effort to bring
back eugenics and treat it as more than “normal,” but as a social obligation in
one’s own family.
The
debate around GMOs has not reached to the depths enough. The core issue
involved is that we are all part of the web of life, of which corn and soy and
every plants, every fish, every mosquito, tree, frog, bird, microorganism,
water and each of us is a precious, critical piece.
One
can protest the threat to health from GMOs or the greed involved or the
corruption of governments and laws, but for many people, deep inside
themselves, this is a spiritual issue.
To
be connected to Nature itself, is what makes life worth living, is an
obligation deeper than any other. To tear it apart is to tear at
God. To alter it is evil. To attempt to force what is not from God
on anyone breaks a bond they need to live.
To
create a man-made “invention” (via “destruction” of nature) that is coded with
poisons, and one that is potentially eugenic (able to end fertility) and then
to force it by lies of feeding the hungry or creating a new drug, on any living creature or any human
being, goes beyond evil.
In
this, even atheists and spiritual people of all kinds can come together, for
one does not have to believe in a God to feel oneself part of the web of life
and so deeply affected by attacks on it.
The
labeling of GMOs is a spiritual necessity for all those who view their relation
to nature (or God) as indivisible from it. For an increasing number of
people, food is a sacrament, and nature is holy”.
This
is just another nail in the coffin by Monsanto. They follow my favorite
expression to the T: In God we trust. All others pay cash.
When
I wrote my article about the group Aikea
formed in Hawaii, in an effort to bring government back to the hands of the
people, I received a comment that this group resembled Marxism.
My
comment about that is we have become so complacent and so subservient to the
political powers that be that anything that tries to restore power back to the
people is looked down upon. If we can change the political climate in America
and through diligence and perseverance have all our foods labeled, how is that
anything less than democracy? The problem is that a program like that takes
effort and very few people can’t be bothered.
For
more information regarding Aikea, their website is www.aikeahawaii.org.
Oh
yeah, two of Hawaii’s Senators in the District of Corruption voted against
keeping the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution as it is and wanted to
vest it in the hands of the United Nations. They were not alone. There were 44
others and they lost by 7 votes.
(2nd
Ammendment: “The right to keep and bare arms.”
Slowly,
the Constitution is being eroded and internment camps are being formulated in
the contiguous United States, with Hawaii being a full State camp unto itself
due to the fact that the only way really to get in or out is by plane or boat.
The Coast Guard will take care of the latter and shutting down the airports
takes care of the first.
First,
reverse your health and become vibrant. The last thing the government, the
biotech industry, Big pHarma, the medical profession, the media and the large
food companies that all voted to defeat Proposition 37 in California want, are
healthy people.
Why?
Because they are harder to control and exploit.
Aloha!
Sources:
Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a “plastic” community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, ” let’s become vegetarians”. I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, “okay”! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, “The Little Kitchen”.
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I’ll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to “The Little Kitchen”. Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, “Let’s make a deal. You do our tax return and we’ll feed you as well”. So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, “Hawaii”. Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called,” Mr. Natural’s”. I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at “Mr. Natural’s.” To make a long story short, that’s exactly what happened.
So, I’m working at “Mr. Natural’s” and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle – it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka’anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn’t really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that’s exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I’m asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn’t thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, “You expected anything less”? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, ‘enchilada’s at “Natural’s” tonight’. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That’s when they found out I was an accountant and “Down to Earth” was born. “Down to Earth” became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD’s that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii’s premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. She said,” If you want to be with me you’ve got to stop working on naked women”. So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a “chicken” or “egg” or “fish” or “pig” or “cow” was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
For more, please view www.healthtalkhawaii.com and www.asanediet.com.
Namaste!
