(NaturalNews) It's always amusing to see how quickly consumers can be worked up into a false fear frenzy by health authorities. We saw it last year with the overhyped H1N1 swine flu scare which was fanned into a flaming fear fest by WHO advisors on the take from vaccine manufacturers. Now we're getting a new round of fear-mongering from many of the same sources who are warning us about
salmonella contaminated eggs.
According to mainstream news sources, a massive 380-million-egg recall has been announced, and these
eggs are all so incredibly dangerous that you have to immediately remove them from your refrigerator and take them back to the
store where you bought them so that they can be properly destroyed. This is all backed up by phrases like, "It's not worth the
risk," and claims that if people eat the eggs, they are taking "too much of a chance."
Pretty scary, huh?
What they're not telling you is that more than
80 percent of the chicken meat bought at grocery stores is consistently contaminated with the exact same salmonella (
http://www.naturalnews.com/021258.html). A more recent study conducted by Consumers Union found that two-thirds of grocery store
chickens are contaminated
every day! (
http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_chickens_salmonella.html)
But you don't hear warnings to "take your
chicken back to the store!" or "it's unsafe to eat your chicken!" Ever wonder why?
Or to phrase the question another way, why is
salmonella so dangerous on your eggs, but completely safe on your chicken?
The answer is it's not. It's the exact same risk in both cases:
Cook either one and you destroy salmonella entirely. Infected eggs are no more dangerous than infected chicken, and infected chicken is apparently so safe that it's sold
every single day at your neighborhood grocery store (without any warnings or alarms, I might add). Nobody at
the FDA has even mentioned it is recent memory. Salmonella contaminated chicken is apparently a non-issue.
The real reason for the salmonella scare
Now, here's the real reason why the issue of chicken contaminated with salmonella is almost
never publicized: Because to expose the salmonella
contamination of chicken would be to expose the sick, filthy and inhumane practices of the factory-farmed conventional chicken
industry.
And the (non-organic) chicken industry doesn't want anyone to start looking into its practices because its practices are just too disgusting for most people to stomach. You might lose your (chicken McNugget) lunch, and then you'd probably stop buying chicken. They can't have that.
If you don't believe me about the disgusting practices of the chicken industry, watch this extremely disturbing (but factual) video on
NaturalNews.TV about it (WARNING: Extremely graphic. Highly disturbing. Watch at your own risk.) (
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=FF65E429DB859424A3AFE8FDA3FE05CE)
So
chicken meat gets a free pass: It's okay with the
FDA, the CDC and the USDA that
Americans are buying salmonella contamination every single day as long as it's in the form of a piece of chicken flesh.
Why, then, are contaminated eggs being flagged as so dangerous? To answer that, you have to go back to a story I wrote in 2008 called,
"FDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables" (
http://www.naturalnews.com/023945.html)
There, following the FDA's demands that
spinach and lettuce be irradiated, I explained the FDA's real agenda:
"Don't think the FDA will stop with spinach and lettuce, either. They're already talking about irradiating tomatoes, peppers and onions. Before long, radiation could become mandatory for ALL fresh produce..."It's already happened with
almonds, which must now be fumigated or
pasteurized in the United States -- a punitive rule that has severely damaged the U.S. almond industry. That took place after an outbreak of contamination with almonds. Similarly, this recent egg contamination fiasco is giving the FDA precisely the excuse it needs to demand
routine pasteurization or irradiation of all eggs. Meanwhile, salmonella-contaminated chicken will be utterly ignored by the FDA even as it calls for the mass-pasteurization of "dangerous" eggs.
The FDA, you see, will seize upon each contamination event as a leverage point from which to ratchet up its
food sterilization agenda, and the agency won't stop until every scrap of fresh
food sold at grocery stores is either pasteurized, fumigated or irradiated.
Only then will the FDA's true agenda of food control be fully realized. (Insert evil genius laughter here.) And this plan of course involves outlawing all raw milk,
raw almonds, raw spinach, raw eggs and anything else that might be living. Hence the recent ramping up of criminal arrests and prosecutions against raw
milk producers and living food coops.
The only safe food is dead food according to the FDA. And they're going to make sure your food is as dead as possible by exploiting these hyped-up food emergencies as leverage points from which to assert their "dead
foods agenda."
The punch line to all this should be obvious by now:
Dead foods lead to dead people. When a population is denied access to health-enhancing living foods (raw foods), its
health begins to deteriorate. This of course create a financial windfall for the pharmaceutical industry that thrives on suffering and
disease. (More vaccines, anyone?)
In other words, keeping the food sterilized means keeping the people diseased. And keeping the people diseased means keeping the sick-care industry rolling in easy cash. There's nothing like a little sickness to remind people to keep taking their pills, after all...
Don't think that this
egg recall has anything to do with protecting the health of
consumers. Cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands of people a year and they're perfectly legal to sell. Even toxic chemical food ingredients like MSG, aspartame and sodium nitrite remain perfectly legal, too. If the FDA cared about protecting people from dangerous foods, it would have banned disease-causing ingredients long ago. But instead, the agency going after your raw milk, raw eggs, raw spinach and raw almonds.
What does that tell you about the FDA's real intent?
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In mid 2010, Adams produced NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a noted technology pioneer and founded a software company in 1993 that developed the HTML email newsletter software currently powering the NaturalNews subscriptions. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. He's also author a large number of health books offered by Truth Publishing and is the creator of numerous reference website including NaturalPedia.com and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. His websites also include the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the innate healing ability of the human body. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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