RAW MILK CONTROVERSY - SYMPTOM OF FOOD INDUSTRY CORRUPTION

The prosecution and persecution of Newmarket raw milk vendor Michael Schmidt is symptomatic of long-standing corruption in the gigantic food industry of North America. This should be the argument he makes in his defence, but it is perhaps too big for him to make.

While there are those in the health food industry who are not enthusiastic about milk (raw or not), insisting it is meant for calves (offspring of cows), they are more or less unanimous in declaring that pasteurized milk is useless and may well be harmful.

But that hasn't stopped our authorities from making 'an example' of Schmidt. In the USA the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has moved to pasteurize almonds and peanuts! Simply because a few cases of salmonella occurred, the entire supply of almonds is to be pasteurized - i.e. stripped of its nutritional content - the nutritional equivalent of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

But this is of course the tip of the iceberg...... the FDA has cooperated for decades with giant food companies to inflict millions of North Americans with foods rich in refined flour and sugar (eg. those cereals to be had with pasteurized milk by kids every morning), from which the natural food content was removed and replaced with dangerous preservative chemicals. Canned foods similarly rich in chemicals and containing less than 10% nutrients have been another slow poison the FDA was content to let live and prosper. Others have written about the way cattle have been fed corn and bovine growth hormone to make them as fat and large as quickly as possible, and how the denial of grass to cattle may well have caused mad cow disease.

The high levels of diabetes, heart disease and cancer in North America surely flow from the refined and processed food supply, which has made mega-billions for giant food companies.

It took decades for the tobacco industry to be held accountable - but at least they were forced to put warning labels on cigarette cases. When are warning labels going to appear on food products - eg. "This product contains chemicals which could damage your health, and most of the nutrients have been removed"?

When will this corruption and insanity stop? Are we slaves to corporate America?