Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The torture of animals is well tolerated in the United States today. (And why not? The U.S. also tolerates the torture of war prisoners. This "civilized" nation has proven itself to be anything but civilized...)
According to interviews with slaughterhouse workers included in Gail Eisnitz's book Slaughterhouse, the end of an animal's life is a torturous and abusive process. One employee elaborates on the abuse that animals endure by reporting, "On the farm where I work, they drag the live ones who can't stand up anymore out of the crate. |
| Consuming this is directly promoting the torture of these mammals.)
Beef cattle don't have it much better. Many are sent to live in overcrowded feedlots where they are given an average of 14 square feet to roam after being castrated, dehorned and branded.
Producing pork with yet more animal torture
Pregnant pigs, also known as sows, are confined to metal crates that are a mere two feet wide. This constriction renders them unable to satisfy their own basic psychological needs or engage in almost any natural behavior. |
| The routine torture of dairy cows
Milking cows are treated like machines; confined from all other animals including their calves, they are made to stand on concrete floors in their own waste. In order to manipulate genetics and produce more milk, farmers pump the cows full of chemicals, hormones and antibiotics, many of which may make their way into the milk we drink and the cheese we eat.
Just like beef cattle, many of these cows suffer from disease, reproductive problems and lameness due to the stress of the factory setting. |
KC Craichy
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 Sleep deprivation has long been used as a wartime torture, yet we often voluntarily inflict that same torture upon ourselves through our diet and lifestyle choices. torture means "excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture of waiting in suspense." And that describes life for those who don't get enough sleep.
Here's why sleep deprivation is such an effective means of torture. After two sleepless days, one's concentration becomes difficult to maintain. A person may be able to perform well for short periods of time, but will be prone to mistakes and slips of attention. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This "civilized" nation has proven itself to be anything but civilized...)
According to interviews with slaughterhouse workers included in Gail Eisnitz's book Slaughterhouse, the end of an animal's life is a torturous and abusive process. One employee elaborates on the abuse that animals endure by reporting, "On the farm where I work, they drag the live ones who can't stand up anymore out of the crate. They put a metal snare around her ear or foot and drag her the full length of the building. These animals are just screaming in pain. The slaughtering part doesn't bother me. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Not only can man manipulate nature but Francis Bacon, father of the scientific method, takes it a step further by saying, "It is important to use the techniques of the Inquisition to tease and torture the secrets of Mother nature out into the open." He is referring to the techniques for torture put forth in the most widely distributed book of the time, other than the Bible, the Malleus Malefkarum, otherwise known as the Hammer of the Witches. |
Alex Steffen
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 Torture, of course, is unethical no matter who's attaching the electrodes. torture is, plain and simple, a gross violation of the victim's human rights. In addition, it nearly always leaves lasting damage, even (sometimes especially) when no physical scars can be seen. As the United Nations puts it, "Rape, blows to the soles of the feet, suffocation in water, burns, electric shocks, sleep deprivation, shaking and beating are commonly used by torturers to break down an individual's personality. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 When people don't sleep for three or more days on end, they become psychotic; that's why so many forms of torture involve sleep deprivation. With no sleep, you're vulnerable, weak, and more whacked out than a 'shroom-scarfing hippie. Sleep problems and sleep deprivation are self-imposed
As if we needed any more evidence that female brains trump men's brains: Women's pineal glands are larger than men's, despite the fact that men's brains are anatomically larger on the whole. That may help explain why women age more slowly than men and live longer.
FACTOIP torture. |
KC Craichy
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| Torture means "excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture of waiting in suspense." And that describes life for those who don't get enough sleep.
Here's why sleep deprivation is such an effective means of torture. After two sleepless days, one's concentration becomes difficult to maintain. A person may be able to perform well for short periods of time, but will be prone to mistakes and slips of attention. Stretch that to three sleepless days, and most people will have a difficult time thinking, seeing, and hearing clearly. |
Joseph Campbell
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| One day a Brahmin youth arrived and asked why anyone so beautiful should be destroying herself with such torture.
"My desire," she replied, "is Shiva, the Highest Object. Shiva is a god of solitude and unshakable concentration. I therefore am practicing these austerities to move him from his state of balance and bring him to me in love."
12 Kinersborough, op. cit., Vol. VIII, pp. 263-364.
"Shiva," the youth said, "is a god of destruction. Shiva is the World Annihilator. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Even without brutality and mental torture, life-threatening malnutrition is very stressful. Its effects from one generation to another tend to be cumulative. The effect of this intergenerational deprivation has been demonstrated in animals. Feeding rats an inadequate diet, generation after generation, will lead to increasing psychological and physical ill health.
Even moderate transgenerational under-nutrition has a cumulative effect in impairing neurocranial and facial growth in rats. |
Charles Barber
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 In fact, there is less and less actual plot, and more and more of the various forms of torture.
Ours apparently not being a comedic age, there are few sitcoms anymore, and the only breakthrough domestic drama of recent years has been the appropriately named Desperate Housewives, in which one of the housewives gets addicted to her child's Ritalin. |
David Wolfe
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 The torture and suffering of animals in useless attempts to find cures for diseases does no good, actually it can only do bad — it only produces more of its own kind: more torture and suffering...more disease.
If you find yourself suddenly aware of new food choices grabbing hold of you, then please throw a fruit and raw-food party and experience the best day ever!
True therapeutics involves releasing the power within each person to heal. It is not the disease that must be stopped, but the poisoning of the body by an unhealthy lifestyle. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has even been used to label animal rights activists "terrorists" for merely attending meetings that sought to free animals from corporate torture experiments (testing cosmetics, chemicals and the like).
I'm fairly certain that when lawmakers signed the Patriot Act, they weren't thinking of abortion rights protestors and animal rights activists, but laws have a way of expanding their scope far beyond their original intent. |
Anne Harrington
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 Some two hundred cases of blindness in a group of Cambodian women forced by the Khmer Rouge to witness the torture and slaughter of those close to them, particularly their menfolk. Examination of these women confirmed that there was nothing physically wrong with their eyes. Their own understanding of what had happened to them was that, having been made to bear witness to the unbearable, they had all "cried until they could not see";16
4. The case of Mr. |
Pam Montgomery
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| He is referring to the techniques for torture put forth in the most widely distributed book of the time, other than the Bible, the Malleus Malefkarum, otherwise known as the Hammer of the Witches. It is interesting to note that Francis Bacon was not actually a scientist but a lawyer—one who was dismissed as Lord Chancellor from Parliament for accepting a bribe. It is from this man, who could easily have been beheaded instead of merely dismissed from his position, that our entire way of approaching science (the scientific method) has been founded. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 In Rome, slaves never had civic rights; slaves could only give evidence under torture (because without torture, the witness could not be believed); when a man died suddenly, all his slaves were murdered, regardless of guilt or innocence; industrial slavery on a vast scale was set up in Sicily, Spain, and the Po valley. Slavery became a structured part of the institutional sadism of the later Roman State, and of a moral deficiency which casts doubt on any admiration of Imperial Rome.9 The Arabs, by and large, understood the inefficiencies of servitude. |
Dawson Church
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 Based on the victims' self-assessments, they experienced complete recovery from "the post-traumatic emotional effects of 247 of the 249 memories of torture, rape, and witnessing the massacre of loved ones" that were treated.
The chief medical officer (surgeon general) of Kosovo wrote the following letter of appreciation:
Many well-funded relief organizations have treated the posttraumatic stress here in Kosovo. Some of our people had limited improvement but Kosovo had no major change or real hope until...we referred our most difficult patients to [the inter national treatment team}. |
Richard Bartlett
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 I have made an intuitive leap, which I must confess is not well supported by the body of research derived from the systematic torture of rats. I was once asked by one of my professors if what I was telling him about a particular clinical subject consisted of my own ideas, or if it was supported by research. I replied to him that my thoughts were my own, and that instead of going over the same often tired old areas of thinking that research can represent, I preferred to have ideas that no one had thought of before. In other words, instead of research, I preferred "search. |
Jack Challem
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 At first, it felt like torture. After I struggled to the top of my first hill, my heart was pounding and my lungs were straining.
I've since come to enjoy my brisk bike rides, zipping along the snaking paths of a nearby river park for fourteen to twenty miles several mornings a week. I discovered that cycling could clear my head of stress, and it's been great for my physical health as well. My energy levels are higher, and I've gained more muscle. Cycling has also reduced my cholesterol and triglyceride levels and improved my glucose tolerance—that is, resistance to diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And a fair amount of torture and propaganda, too. It just blows my mind that these pacifists don't get the fact that you can't have freedom unless you also torture people and limit their disruptive speech. Geesh. You can't have uncontrolled freedom, you know. There have to be limits on freedom if you truly want freedom. And the Iraqis hate us for our freedom, didn't you know? Which is why we are shoving freedom down their throats at gunpoint.
(Tip: In all speeches by President Bush, just replace the word "freedom" with "imperialism" and the whole thing suddenly makes sense. |
Alex Steffen
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| Indeed, if we want more effective law enforcement and more protection over human rights, we ought to be simultaneously spreading better and more legitimate policing techniques and more aggressively holding accountable those who torture. If what we want is a safe and democratic world, torture chambers can have no place in it. |
| In fact, torture may even produce less reliable information than traditional interrogations do. In the 1940s, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited police from applying physical pressure on suspects. Police departments have since taught a range of new psychological techniques that are equally (or more) effective. People will confess to anything to escape the pain of torture, and false confessions and coerced false intelligence are worse than useless. After all, if a' cop is chasing the wrong guy, the bad guy is running free. |
David Wolfe
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| Things produce after their own kind. The torture and suffering of animals in useless attempts to find cures for diseases does no good, actually it can only do bad — it only produces more of its own kind: more torture and suffering...more disease.
If you find yourself suddenly aware of new food choices grabbing hold of you, then please throw a fruit and raw-food party and experience the best day ever!
True therapeutics involves releasing the power within each person to heal. It is not the disease that must be stopped, but the poisoning of the body by an unhealthy lifestyle. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| FACTOIP torture. And the stakes are high: a weakened immune system, increased risk of heart disease, and a brain that works about as fast as a Commodore 64 computer.
Now, you may think that your occasional restless night or your shift from a good eight hours a night to lucky-if-you-get-six isn't much to worry over, since you're still managing to live OK, albeit a tad tired. The truth is that sleep problems affect 70 percent of Americans, up from 60 percent in 1990. A sleep disorder is defined as having a problem sleeping or not feeling rested at least a few nights per week. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Tomorrow, it might be water boarding or other torture methods. Think that's impossible? Think again: Just five years ago, nobody in their right mind would have thought that parents who did not want to get their children vaccinated would end up in prison, their children kidnapped by state authorities and forced to subject themselves to dangerous chemical injections at gunpoint. Yet that is precisely what is happening right now in the state of Maryland. It happened on Saturday, in fact.
Where is the outrage? |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 You're about to embark on a way of life that could nurture instead of torture you. Right now pulling the plug on your unhealthy carb habit may seem like a daunting proposition, but I'm convinced that you'll soon feel more energized, centered, focused, and cheerful. Now, because I know how you're feeling, I'll share with you my 21 favorite tips, tactics, secrets, and strategies so you, too, can be successful.
1. SEE YOURSELF FREE.
You now need to convince your mind, heart, and soul to get in the sugar-kicking mood to bring about your desired outcome. |
Henry Hobhouse
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| In Rome, slaves never had civic rights; slaves could only give evidence under torture (because without torture, the witness could not be believed); when a man died suddenly, all his slaves were murdered, regardless of guilt or innocence; industrial slavery on a vast scale was set up in Sicily, Spain, and the Po valley. Slavery became a structured part of the institutional sadism of the later Roman State, and of a moral deficiency which casts doubt on any admiration of Imperial Rome.9 The Arabs, by and large, understood the inefficiencies of servitude. |
Mike Adams
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| But once again, I think even that would be unethical, because mice are mammals too and it is downright evil to torture a mouse by feeding it human foods. Now some people might find that statement shocking. But I think the really shocking thing is that as a society, we are feeding each other and our children the exact same foods that would be considered inhumane if you fed them to a pet, or even to a mouse.
Our nation's public school systems feed our children foods that would be unethical to feed to lab rats — that's the real shocker here. |
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