![Life and death is in the tongue [Part 1]](https://blackladder.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/woman-read-food-label-300x280-50x50.jpg)
By Dr. Samori Swygert
We are being marked for deαth. Currently, we are engaged in a nutritional, chemical, and environmental war on our bodies. As consumers we are targeted by profit driven competitors in the food industry. This is the battle of WEALTH vs HEALTH! I highly encourage you to read this top to bottom and share with friends and family.
The quality and source of our food supply is being compromised by environmental pollutants that result from oil spills (BP, Exxon), nuclear radiation leaks (Fukushima Reactor), Fracking (hydraulic fracturing), by products of industrial manufacturing, and other environmental manipulation.
Our babies, children, and ourselves are consuming food that has been adulterated with artificial sweeteners, preservatives, dyes, additives and other ingredients. When you read the ingredients of a food product, it almost sounds like you are reading the back label of a hair care product. We then wonder why we are experiencing and witnessing such high rates of cancer, endocrine disorders, and cardiovascular disease.
Let’s Get Specific
The availability and accessibility to grocery stores with an adequate supply of nutritious and organic produce at affordable prices are sparse to scarce in low income communities. However, a ubiquitous and ever-present covenant of fast-food chains are standard fixtures in middle to low income communities. The usual suspects (KFC, McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Popeye’s, Pizza Hut, and etc), can all be found within a 1 mile radius of each other in low income landscapes. The main menu items are processed foods that are loaded with salt, sugar, fat, cholesterol, and cooked in grease. However, their products are strategically formulated, tested, and streamlined to the desirability of our taste buds.
You may be dismissive of this, but I encourage you to think of the cumulative amount of diseases and ailments over time. Individuals in middle to low income communities with fast-food chains in close proximity to their homes have a high incidence rate of strokes, heart attacks, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol, kidney disease, and obesity.
The Veil of Secrecy
It has become fashionable for companies and governmental agencies to say, “we are about transparency now”! Our health institutions encourage us to always, “know your status“, “be informed”, “get tested”, “ask your doctor”, but their actions are paradoxical. The FDA, congress, and food industry has yielded and pandered to biotech firm money.
These firms have lobbied, and encouraged the suppression of labeling GMO based foods. This removes the ability of the consumer to make an independent, well informed decision about their health. The FDA says that GMO foods are safe for consumption, but has yet to furnish any long-term study results to substantiate their position. How can you say these products are safe, and you have no 5, 10, 20 years studies on humans that consumed GMO over an extended period of observation?
Some of the biotech and fast-food companies use food industry sponsored researchers to conduct studies, and this introduces biased results that are skewed in favor of the companies. This type of research also leads to the censoring of negative results.
Members of congress quietly allowed passage of the Monsanto Protection Act into legislation. Why are they conducting policy and operations in such a clandestine, insidious, and surreptitious manner? WHERE IS THE TRANSPARENCY THAT YOU PROMISE? If you will not afford the public the opportunity to make informed dietary choices, and indirectly force these foods on us by not labeling them, then we all need free health insurance for life! We don’t know what the long term effects will be, and we should not have to pay a dime for any ailment linked to these foods in the future.
Real Talk!
To my Muslim and Jewish readers, are you aware that the citrus industry is in the process of making GMO oranges, and they are going to either use the genes from spinach or the pig to modify the orange? Will they be transparent about this on the labeling? The engineers believe that splicing these pig genes into the current genome of oranges will help combat the Citrus Psyllid disease that has ravaged the Florida Orange Groves.
To my seafood lovers, a company named Aqua Bounty is in the process of gaining approval from the FDA to market and sell genetically engineered Salmon. Furthermore, Fracking spill-off in a Kentucky stream has killed off a whole line of fish according to a U.S. Geological Survey and Fish /Wildlife Services.
To my sweet toothr’s and diabetics, high amounts of sugar, corn syrup, and fructose load our sodas, soft drinks, milkshakes, and candy. Are you aware that research has found that the main energy source for the growth of cancerous tumors is glucose? The growth of cancer malignancies may be linked to excessive sugar intake in our diets.
To my water lovers, we must be conscious at all times. We are in a climate when a prescription is generated for anything. There has been a surge in the diagnosis, and prescriptions for ADHD medication in our children. However, are you aware that the consumption of lead, even in small amounts, manifests the exact same symptoms of ADHD. It is quite possible that lead paint, and plumbing that our children drink and bathe in can be causing ADHD symptoms, but our children are just victims of a toxic and polluted environment.
To my chicken and fried rice lovers, Arsenic has been found in vast amounts of rice supplies and the chicken line of our poultry chain. The FDA and other food regulatory agencies choose to take a cavalier dismissive approach about the levels in the food. I would like people to remember that these are chemicals and should not be present. It would only be right to try and downplay the issues to avoid public hysteria, and massive amounts of litigation in court cases. Arsenic is a cancer causing agent.
This will conclude Part 1 of Life and Deαth in the Tongue. I will post part 2 later this week. I will illuminate more environmental and corporate assaults on our health and how others are profiting off our planned misfortune and disinformation. Until then, be safe, and choose to be healthy, God Bless!
