AliB
Well-Known Member
Absolutely Pickwick. Antibiotics are being thrown at us from every available source - even fish doesn't escape it now if it is farmed (and you don't always know!). It gets into the water and into the food.I live in a rural area, and have been alarmed at the constant trickle of stories about antibiotics and other drugs in our meat - not just the regular vet-prescribed drugs, but the illicit unmarked stuff that quietly goes into the feed. The stories are just too persistent to be entirely fictitious. There are some farmers it seems who will stop at nothing to turn a profit. And forget the son-of-the-earth image - most of them are very astute businessmen.
Unfortunately meat isn't the only victim. On crop spraying days, I've found birds dead in the gutter by the dozen - in the middle of a small town. And clouds of insects in hot weather because there's nothing left to prey on them. If that's what the chemicals do to the wildlife - what on earth do they do to us?
They talk about not knowing what the 'long-term' effects would be of a low-carb regime, but that applies to a lot of things. The long-term effect of unrestrained antibiotic use has created 'Superbugs'. How do we know what other long-term effects they are having on us? Despite some people's feelings that they have conquered any effects like thrush, how come fungal problems are so endemic? Athlete's foot, dandruff, thrush, jock-itch, nail fungus, and the rest. There aren't many out there that don't have some kind of external indicator of an internal problem.
That is the problem. Man, in his arrogance, believes that he can do better. He has to meddle with everything. It's difficult to put a finger on anything specific because there are so many things that could be contributory to a greater or lesser degree. I have only highlighted antibiotics because they are something that most have been exposed to at some point, and because of the very nature of what they do and the result. Mercury fillings (having the second most toxic metal in your mouth isn't a problem???), gender issues through eostrogen deposits in the water, cell damage through food irradiation. Pasteurization, homogenization, hydrogenation, chemicalization. Meddle, meddle, meddle, meddle.
Our ancestors would die young through many reasons, but the biggest ones were things like insanitary conditions, lack of enough nutritious food, and having to work in hard and often very unsavoury conditions, and for very long hours.
Ironically, we have, well in the Western culture anyway, managed to pretty much deal with those problems, yet we, in many ways are little better off. We now live in a highly sanitized World - too highly sanitized some would say, we now have food coming out of our ears - yet have the paradox of obese people who suffer from malnutrition, and people are no longer forced to work down the mines or in the mills from the age of 5, yet we are still plagued by disease - many of them having 'popped up' in the last 50 years or so. Why?
We live in a commercially and chemically-driven World where everything is done for profit and **** the consequences. Everything is polluted in some way or another. Everything has been meddled with in some way or another.
When the meat has been exposed to antibiotics, growth hormones and goodness knows what else, when an animal hasn't seen a blade of grass in it's short, miserable life, when the vegetable and fruit crops have been sprayed to within an inch of its life with a host of chemicals you can't even pronounce the name of, when even the crops marked as 'organic' have been watered with polluted water, or rained on with acid rain, or have been ultra-hybridized, or contaminated (what hasn't?) with genetic modification - where will it all lead us?
We had the chance to make things better. We've had thousands of years to make it better. Maybe we are living longer now, but at what cost? With what health? I don't remember having energy. I probably had some as a child but its so long ago I can't remember it.
I am not a doom-mongerer. I'm just telling it how it is. Many of us don't know what it is like to have good health because we've never experienced it. Not real health and vitality, not life as it should be. We moan about kids being couch potatoes or computer junkies, but in reality, they don't have the energy to do much else. If you have energy you want to use it. Yes, energy breeds energy, but you have to have some to start with in order to get going. If your battery is flat, you ain't going anywhere.
When you really stop and look at what is going on, for all the attempts by some to stop global warming, or save the whale, or whatever the next ecological salvation thing might be, there is a factor out there that is hell-bent on destroying it all - whether they realise it or not.
The million dollar question is - has it already gone too far...........?