Al G Smith

Q. Why are corporations less natural and organic in all forms of its process?
There are methods to make foods more nutritious and delicious without all the deadly and cancerous methods that create a hazard. Aspartame, Benzine, and genetic modification of franken foods. Not to mention pesticides and all the other good stuff that comes with over process and over produce foods.

(Note: The question is repeated as it was written by the ‘asker’ with no editing)

A.  Yes. People supposedly ‘demand cheap’ stuff. Synthetic chemicals allow manufacturers to make ‘cheap stuff’. There are weak, or inadequate Laws to ensure that such chemicals are safe… and there is little incentive to do much about it as the Cosmetics and Personal Care industry are worth a mint and they have strong ‘lobbyists’ and too many ill-informed/under-informed or blatantly corrupt ‘politicians’ and officials that make sure that nothing much is done with any speed.

As mentioned there is also a ‘nice equation’ that may apply where we are all subjects of a self-perpetuating-profiteering system –

• We are fed food full of synthetic-chemicals (from both the agro-chemical residues of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers AND from additives used in processing that makes food last longer, look’nicer’ and cost less to produce!!) , and

• We spread skin-care and cosmetics full of synthetic-chemicals on our bodies daily (known to be laced with numerous toxic synthetic chemicals prroven to cause all sorts of potential health problems in animals even if the human studies have not be done), and

• We also live in homes full of synthetic-chemicals (in our furniture, carpets, textiles, cleaning products, room freshners, vaporisers, paint. varnishes, etc etc etc)…

We are ’sold’ all this stuff with great efficiency via billions of dollars spent on cleverly crafted marketing campaigns, without any mention of the risks to our health BECAUSE no one element by itself can be held up as absolutely ‘causative’ of ill-health — so the system progresses ‘happily’… until for the individual their steadily impugned health ‘collapses’ and they develop this, that or the other life-limiting or life-shortening disease.

These days its is ‘best case scenario’ for the ‘other chemistry’ purveyors — the pharmaceutical giants — to look to treat ‘chronic long term illness’ with a ‘life time’ of treatment. This ensures future profits. Take note of how many people you know who end up on long-term medication. The aim is to ‘mitigate symptoms’ for a while, but NOT to cure… Curing people is bad for business as it curtails the profit potential.

The darker side of this coin is the one that (some sources) also suggests that this whole process is actually a part of a much more ’sinister’ long-term plan to reduce popoulation numbers. This may be a ’step too far’ for some people — but the longer that the current situation of persistent toxic exposure endures, without legislation and efforts to change it, the longer this ‘conspiratorial’ theory deserves some attention.

Just imagine, for example, how ‘useful’ it is that because no one thing can clearly be blamed for causing any specific illness event, yet the numbers of sufferers of serious illness increase year on year, and ever more complex and chronic diseases are emerging with only the comment from ’scientists’ that ‘we don’t fully understand why’ this is the case (you increasingly hear medical researchers and ‘doctors’ stating ‘we don’t know why’ — just listen to interviews) — This situation leads to either profit opportunity for pharmaceutical companies, as described above, OR leads to early death for many people, which ‘certain people’ suggest is a vital necessity to help address the issue of a burgeoning world population.

Unless you choose to ’step outside’ of the typical type of situation most ‘consumers’ are in, by refusing to buy anything but the most realiable sources of clean (i.e. organic) food, reduce your domestic exposure to toxic chemicals, use only guaranteed safe and natural body care… and reduce your levels of psychological stress as well as addressing these physical stresses — you can surely plan to become one of the long-term unwell in due course. For example: Stats show that in the US and UK you already have between 1-in-2 and 1-in-3 chance of suffering one or other type of cancer in youe lifetime…

Once you become ‘aware’ that our ‘created’ world is typically toxic — you only have yourself to blame if yoyu don’t do something about it… forget about hoping that Corporations will do anything, each individual is responsible for their own long-term health and wellbeing! Good luck!

Useful resources:
A nice summary: http://storyofstuff.org/cosmetics/
Really safe products for example: http://www.saferalternative.com
Directory of toxic chemicals in skin and body care: http://www.gonando.com/organic-beauty-products.html#Directory

Do you consider yourself a hard person?

Here’s a little test…

Read this and try not to weep:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34908102/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

How would YOU like to think of ending your life crawling in the mud with dead friends around you, while flies eat at the hole in your head and rats feed off the soiled diapers of your elderly compatriots?

Natural disasters can affect anyone at any time and wouldn’t you hope, if you were one of those affected, that someone might show that they care?

If we don’t change the way we unthinkingly fail to support other human beings — until a terrible crisis happens — then sad to say, it is likely that many of us will eventually end up in a sad and neglected state while we simply wait to die… Even so, we may never be as unfortunate than these poor elderly Haitians…

How can we fail to appreciate how fortunate we are?

How can we not help them?

Here is one option to help in moments by making a simple donation via Google’s Haiti Crisis Response web page (click image below):

…or perhaps you are too hard?

Then you have my pity.

Also accepting cash and in-kind donations are the following sites: Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, UNICEF (1-800-4UNICEF), Direct Relief, Yele Haiti, Partners in Health, Red Cross, World Food Program, Mercy Corps (1-888-256-1900), Save the Children, Lambi Fund, Doctors Without Borders, The International Rescue Committee, Care, William J. Clinton Foundation, Meds & Food For Kids, Feed the Children, Habitat for Humanity, Mayor’s Fund for NYC

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