Why can't we just kill ourselves off with war?

i was searching google for how i can prevent cancer (my dad has it... it's hell and i do mean hell) and i came across these few bits of info i didn't ever really know. so i thought i'd share. of coures, the best way to prevent cancer is to be healthy and happy and expose yourself to as few chemicals as possible - especially 'unatural' ones.



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American Beef: Why is it Banned in Europe?

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Most U. S. beef cattle are implanted with synthetic hormones in feedlots prior to slaughter. On January 1, 1989 the European Economic Community (EEC) placed a ban on hormone-treated U. S. meat, preventing U. S. meat products from being sold in any European nations. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has challenged the ban and accused the EEC of unfair trade practices, but the action of European governments raises some important questions about American meat.

Q. Why did the Europeans (EEC) place a ban on hormone-raised meat?

A. The European Economic Community banned hormone-raised meat because of questions on the dangers of meat that has been treated with synthetic sex hormones. European consumers pressured the EEC to take this action to protect their health.

More than a decade ago, Roy Hertz, then director of endocrinology at the National Cancer Institute and a leading authority on hormonal cancers, warned of the carcinogenic risks of estrogenic additives which can cause imbalances and increases in natural hormone levels. Hertz warned against the uncontrolled use of these potent carcinogens. No dietary levels of hormones are safe and a dime-sized piece of meat contains-billions of millions of molecules.

Breast cancer has been raised as a primary concern in light of associations between breast cancer and oral contraceptives, whose estrogen dosage is known and controlled. The risk of breast and other cancers only increases with the uncontrolled use of hormones in meat.

Q. During the seven years after the EEC ban on hormone-raised meat, the U.S. beef industry has continued to use sex hormones in meat. Why?

A. Hormones can be used to stimulate growth in cattle. Because farmers are paid based on the weight of the animals they sell for slaughter, the use of hormones has been seen as a way to boost profits.

Q. Which hormones are used on feedlots?

A. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was one of the first hormones used to fatten feedlots. It was banned in 1979 after forty years of evidence that DES was cancer-causing. In its place, sex hormones, such as estradiol and progestins (synthetic forms of the naturally occurring hormone progesterone) have been implanted to virtually all feedlot cattle. The least hazardous way to administer hormones to animals is through an implant near the animals ear. Unfortunately, many farmers inject hormones directly into the muscle tissue that will be later used to make meat products. The only USDA-imposed requirement is that residue levels in meat must be less than one percent of the daily hormone production of children. This requirement is unenforceable because there is no USDA testing for hormone residues in meat. Furthermore, hormonal residues are not practically differentiable from natural hormones created by the cow's body. As a result, the use of hormones to boost meat production is completely unregulated.

Q. What kind of policies should be in place in the U.S. to address this problem?

A. Hormonal and other carcinogenic additives (pesticides from food fed to animals, some antibiotics, etc.) should be banned immediately, as should be all additives that are not proven effective and safe. Additive use and residue levels in animal products, including milk and eggs, should be subject to explicit labeling requirements. Until then, state initiatives that establish hormone-free certification for European shipments, should be applauded and extended domestically.

Q. What can consumers do to protect themselves?

A. Consumers can boycott chemical treated meat in favor of organic meat and insist on the fight to know which additives have been used and what residues might exist. Consumers should speak with their butchers or grocers about hormone-free meat product availability.

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Milk: America’s Health Problem

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Why is American Milk Banned in Europe?

• American dairy milk is genetically-modified unless it’s labeled “NO rBGH”
• Genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in milk increases cancer risks.

American dairy farmers inject rBGH to dairy cows to increase milk production.

European nations and Canada have banned rBGH to protect citizens from IGF-1 hazards.

Monsanto Co., the manufacturer of rBGH, has influenced U. S. product safety laws permitting the sale of unlabeled rBGH milk. (Monsanto would lose billions of dollars if rBGH were banned in America.)

Q. Is there any milk not contaminated with rBGH and IGF-1?
A. Yes. Milk that is clearly labeled “NO rBGH” is free of rBGH and does not contain excess levels of IGF-1.

Q. What about cheeses?
A. American-made cheeses are contaminated with rBGH and excess levels of IGF-1 unless they’re labeled “NO rBGH”. Imported European cheeses are safe since Europe has banned rBGH.

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" A decade-old multi-million dollar deal between National Breast Cancer Awareness Month sponsors and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) has produced reckless misinformation on breast cancer," stated Dr. Samuel Epstein, a leading international authority on cancer-causing effects of environmental pollutants.

Zeneca Pharmaceutical, a U.S. subsidiary and recent spin-off of ICI, has been the sole funder of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month since 1984. ICI is one of the largest manufacturers of petrochemical and chlorinated organic products, such as acetochlor and vinyl chloride, and the sole manufacturer of Tamoxifen, the world’s top-selling cancer drug used for breast cancer. Financial sponsorship by Zeneca/ICI gives them editorial control over every leaflet, poster, publication, and commercial produced by NBCAM. NBCAM is promoted by the cancer establishment, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) with their corporate sponsors.

Imperial Chemical Industries has supported the cancer establishment’s blame-the-victim attitude toward the causes of breast and other cancers. This theory attributes escalating cancer rates to heredity and faulty lifestyle, rather than avoidable exposures to industrial carcinogens contaminating air, water, food, consumer products, and the workplace.

" The ICI/NBCAM public relations campaign has prevented women from knowing of avoidable causes of breast cancer," concluded Dr. Epstein.

Chicago, October 14, 1996-- released by the Cancer Prevention Coalition

 

read my post in the new thread posts on the main page

 

righto

regarding my first post: i guess that's mostly common knowledge... we also ban some of their shit, too, but still...

 

hm, well i looked up Laetrile, myth and fact. it doesn't seem that bad. i like apples... it wouldn't hurt grind up a few seeds every now n then i spose. thanks.

"Large ingested doses of Laetrile can cause poisoning in humans."

"Laetrile broken down in the gut will not reach cancer cells in the body and be preferentially hydrolysed by them. This is why proponents of its use in cancer therapy recommend the intravenous form be used (at least initially)."

"In the early 1970s, after its claim to be a cancer cure was banned in some US states, Krebs Jr started calling it vitamin B17. This compound is still peddled as a cancer preventative (or even a cure) by some Naturopaths." "As far as I am aware amygdalin has never been shown to be a micronutrient essential for normal health in humans or animals, so calling it a vitamin is misleading."


http://finch.customer.netspace.net.au/skeptics/argos/aug03.html


"In 1982, a Phase 11 study with 178 patients at the Mayo Clinic investigated which types of cancer might respond to treatment with amygdalin. Most of the patients on the study have breast, colon or lung cancer. All patients had tumour masses that could easily be measured and most of the patients were in good physical condition. The study included patients for whom no other treatment had been effective or for whom no proven treatment was known. Injections were given for 21 consecutive days followed by oral maintenance therapy as evaluated in the first study. Vitamins and pancreatic enzymes were also given as part of a metabolic therapy, which also included dietary modifications. The results were mixed as one patient showed a decrease in tumour size, which was only maintained whilst on the amygdalin treatment. In 54% of patients, there was a measurable progression in the growth of the tumour during treatment. Any reported improvement in symptoms ceased once treatment was discontinued. On this basis, the NCI concluded that no further investigation of Laetrile was required."

"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved laetrile as a treatment for cancer. However, one must bear in mind that the pharmaceutical industry has a close working relationship with the FDA and that it is not in the interests of the large pharmaceutical companies manufacturing cytotoxics to have an effective rival that can be produced from a natural source such as the pits of apricots."


"There is without doubt some convincing evidence presented by Ernst Krebs. In combination with the theory postulated by Professor John Beard relating to pre-embryonic cells, the Krebs theory could have substantial benefits for mankind if proved to be true. Krebs idea was that cancer is simply a deficiency of Vitamin B17. The huge increases in cancer cases during the 20th and 21st centuries can be attributed to a move away from our natural diets to a more processed one where natural protective elements such as Vitamin B17 are removed or no longer present. Independent research has proved that a Himalayan tribe known as the “Hunza” never contract cancer of any kind so long as they continue with their native diet which is exceptionally high in millet and apricots, both containing substantial levels of Vitamin B17. However, once exposed to Western style diets they become vulnerable to cancer."

" However good anecdotal evidence is, there is still no substitute for ethical, thorough and methodical clinical studies that can be corroborated. Unfortunately, there is no such evidence in favour of amygdalin, Laetrile and Vitamin B17 as a treatment for cancer."


http://www.alternativehealth.com.au/Articles/laeatril.htm

 

this is why i hunt.

 

why is that?

 

Same here; when you buy farmed meat, you have no idea what's gone into it, and how the animal has been treated. When you shoot a wild animal, you know that it led a totally natural life free of synthetic bollocks. The next best thing, to my mind, is to buy meat from a farm that you know personally, or from a butcher whom you trust implicitly. Otherwise, you're almost certainly paying to have animals tortured.

 

i think jim explaned it

 

eating a few seeds with the fruit isn't going to kill you - i have tried and am still alive, so what the heck give it whirl. by the way you can buy millet seed that has been ground down at the supermarket or healthfood store- i eat it with my porridge