A Simple but Nagging Question Brought to Us by RFK Jr., “Sudden Death”, Unnaturally Red Salmon, and My Dearly Beloved Cheese Balls
I must begin this discussion by admitting that I’m very pro-freedom – and that includes the freedom to conduct honest business without government intervention – which intervention would include taxes. In fact, I have tended, over my lifetime, to scoff at people who want to restrict business over what I generally regard as unfounded allegations of harm.
Thus, I approached the following video, and its enclosing article, with some skepticism. Please read and watch, if you have not already.
Cory Booker? Do they mean, lying, hoaxing, finger-wagging Marxist Cory Booker?
Cory Booker, ally of the Maoist Obama minion Kamala Harris, and assisting perpetrator of the Jussie Smollett lynching hoax?
THAT Cory Booker?
So what video would HE promote? More hoaxes and lies?
Let’s take a look. But color me skeptical.
OK – there is a lot to unpack here. This will take a while.
Some background. I am both a scientist, and a lover of the history of science. Far too many scientists are NOT lovers of the history of science, because if they were, they would realize how bad scientists are at spotting the wrongness of contemporaneous science. Which is ALL THE TIME.
And, that would include me. Thankfully, I have often discovered my own wrongness in science within my own lifetime. We’ll get to that, as we move along here.
Now the first thing that irritated me about this video, is the way coal tar is used as a lead-in to attack a food dye called tartrazine, a.k.a. Yellow Number Five.
It almost sounds like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFKJ hereafter) is saying that tartrazine is obtained by draining it out of coal – or if not that, out of “coal tar”, which is somehow gotten out of coal.
Just a side point. Coal tar is a very useful substance, which is actually used as a medicine for treating skin problems.
So – just from the start, it’s not totally justified to demonize coal tar. Yet on the other hand, YES, thank you – hold the coal tar on my deli sandwich, please. It IS medicine, and can even cause cancer.
But FULL STOP. Back to the point. Tartrazine is not exactly “made from coal tar”. It is made from “organic” (carbon-containing) chemicals – basic organic chemicals – that can be made in a variety of ways, from a variety of things, including coal, petroleum, natural gas, biowaste, corn, soybeans, CO2 in the air, apples, healthy fruit – WHATEVER.
See what I’m saying? Tartrazine is being demonized by association. I was ready to bitchslap RFKJ here. Bear in mind that, years ago – before the COVID nightmare and revelations after that – I considered him a NUT – and would often say as much.
AND YET. If you know the history of science and organic chemistry, RFKJ has a point. A very valid point – in that association.
RJKJ clarifies in the video (3 min 6 sec) that tartrazine is now made almost entirely from chemicals which now come from petroleum – not coal tar. However, that original time period – the coal tar days – has something to teach us.
The discovery of synthetic dyes like tartrazine was back when mankind was in a state of “chemical hubris” not unlike the “biological hubris” of current times.
In the same way that we now look back and face-palm at the “irrational exuberance” of early organic and medicinal chemistry, which gave us the hormonal poison diethylstilbestrol (DES), injected into millions of pregnant women before we realized that it damaged their daughters, so we will one day look back at the “clot shot” – marveling at the combination of ignorance (most people), hubris (most scientists), and – behind layers of global governmental denial – malevolent or warped benevolent depopulation do-gooderism (top-secret scientists and psychopathic power players), that pushed bad experimental vaccines on an almost unsuspecting but increasingly skeptical public.
Once I was in the state of seeing the historical analogy, I was ready to realize that there is almost no excuse for allowing anything into food that is not food or a known nutrient.
If one asks WHY Yellow Number Five is in those wonderful-tasting but unnaturally yellow cheese balls, it is obvious – the chemical makes the cheese balls look “cheesier” in a weird but highly unnatural way. It’s psychological. It’s an “allowed psy-op” by makers of food.
Or take salmon. The last time I looked at a really good deal on salmon in the grocery store, I noticed that it was just a bit too strangely orange. Reading the label, there was an admission that the salmon “might” be treated with some dyes to keep it looking attractive.
Suddenly, the salmon didn’t look quite as good to me. It still looked reasonable, and I toyed with the idea of buying it. But I didn’t. In this post-mRNA world, I elected to put off a buy until I could do more research.
So now, after watching this video, I realize that RFKJ is correct. Dyes make foods more appealing, but they do so in a very deceptive way. To me, if dyes have ANY risks, putting them in food makes almost no sense, other than we are allowing “deception in the quality of food” as a kind of freedom. Well, murdering people, stealing their things, and doing other bad things to them are “freedoms” we used to have as humans – and we did away with those freedoms, while keeping most of the rest.
And yet, the enjoyment of food is right there in the Declaration of Independence.
Because I believe in freedom, including the pursuit of happiness in cheese balls and salmon, I don’t want to tell you what to believe, but I will tell you what I believe.
Some people may want vaccines with side effects and risks. I personally don’t, but I want those people to be free to have their vaccines – but not force them on me or my children. And I want the TRUTH about those vaccines to be KNOWN. Not just a little known – A LOT KNOWN.
Some people may want unnaturally yellow cheese balls. I certainly don’t – not any more. I would like some nice, corn-and-cheese-looking cheese balls that I know are healthy for me. But other people may want the yellow cheese balls with strange dyes. Is there a way that we BOTH can be happy? As the founding fathers wanted?
I would like to see more foods without risky, unnatural additives. I would like to see TRUTH IN FOOD and TRUTH IN DRUGS.
I think there is a way forward that will make America HEALTHIER, FREER, and TRUER.
But we have to be honest, if we want to get there.
And what do you know – there are now some people who believe in honesty! And they’re going to be in office, if we continue to support them!
https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1858017711290232892
So what do you think? Can we have freedom, health, and unnaturally orange cheese balls?
Can we have vaccines for those who want them, and ivermectin for those who don’t?
Or will the corporate mafia and demonic cabal always try to control us through government, to make us accept their “right” to control us as lab rats?
Good points, Wolf.
If DOGE wins – there will be very little federal government left to infringe on our Constitutional rights.
Freedom to choose with details and transparency about the product seems to be the American way IMO.
Freedom to choose with details and transparency about the product seems to be the American way IMO.
^^^ Was about to post something similar. Albeit, likely in my clumsy way. thanks for cleaning it up.
Your affirmation – as always – in whatever language you choose – strikes me as significant!
Oh, I like that possibility! LEAN and SMART government sounds heavenly!
I worked for a privately owned retail company, with an owner who wanted the very best store in our marketplace. Before I worked for them I worked for the competition with a union and shareholders. The difference was like night and day. Decision-making was done in a matter of days without the constraints of a union or shareholders. Lean and smart always wins IMO.
We need to be unburdened of the burden of Government bureaucracy.
AMEN!!! I like it. UNBURDENED.
See? Kamala can contribute – as long as she’s not in charge!
Yes!
IF you go lean and smart to become the very best, then the union and shareholders also benefit!
As Hubby says in our business, “Do you want to be Chanel #5 or Evening at Woolworths?”
Some is pricing and some is quality. Both lead to customer perception.
Make it so that if a manufacturer produces food with additives they are required to produce the same amount of the same food at the same price but without additives or suffer some kind of financial penalty equal to the difference in quantities.
I hate to interfere in business – BUT if we as consumers start changing in MAHA ways, maybe the companies will respond.
AND – if the government is not using our tax dollars to buy products we don’t want, I think the natural balance of “we don’t want to buy the dye” may actually work.
But it remains to be seen. Lobbyists for nasty chemicals are a real thing.
If the manufacturer who laces his product with additives is made to charge more or take a loss, the manufacturer who doesn’t use additives can undercut him in price.
Companies will respond, shelf space is king in retail. If an item doesn’t sell it’s removed. If RFKJ can convince consumers to purchase healthy food the companies will follow to meet the demands.
Everything comes down to profits in retail food stores.
T.H.I.S.
Wolf Moon
thank you for this! There’s a lot to chew on (no pun intended.)
I think there’s a difference between doing something like putting extra color into Cheetos that makes the product look more “cheesy-orange” — and outright deception.
I think there’s a difference between making scientific advances in things like vaccines — and developing a “new combination vaccine” of Measles/Mumps + THREE types of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein added in:
https://pediatricsnationwide.org/2023/12/20/a-novel-measles-mumps-vaccine-delivers-multiple-sars-cov-2-variants-by-nose-drops/
20 December 2023
by Jessica Nye, PhD
Why in H3ll do SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins need to be in a Measles-Mumps vaccine? Why would these spike proteins need to be given to YOUNG CHILDREN, who have a
99%+ ability to recover from a COVID-19 virus infection?
IMO, the following are in play here:
One: Getting this “new combination vaccine” funded for “clinical trials”; then getting an EUA, then applying for a BLA (Biologics License), these from the FDA.
Two: Getting this “new combination vaccine” put onto the CDC’s Immunization Schedule for young children.
**** Three: The federal government making sure that YOUNG CHILDREN are “vaccinated” against COVID-19 EVEN IF THEIR PARENTS / GUARDIANS REFUSE COVID-19 “VACCINATION” FOR THEIR CHILD (CHILDREN.)
**** Four: The federal government making sure that the IMMUNE SYSTEMS OF YOUNG CHILDREN are compromised / destroyed by the mechanisms of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein — as are the IMMUNE SYSTEMS of almost all other people are compromised / destroyed by the mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that THEY took, and continue to take.
Five: The “new combination vaccine” uses the spike protein of the original Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 lab-created virus + the spike protein of the Delta variant + the spike protein of the Omicron BA.1. variant.
The paper regarding this “new combination vaccine”:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220403120
“A next-generation intranasal trivalent MMS vaccine induces durable and broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern”
Jianrong Li, et al.
I have to say, this combination vaccine crap is maddening, disturbing, and anti-patient. It’s massive bullshit. They’re trying to shoehorn a dangerous, hated, feared, and highly suspected vaccine, into a depopper jab for all people.
Fuck that shit.
I hope RFKJ crashes their entire cruise ship of evil, and every single combined vaccine drowns in the wake.
No combination vaccines.
No vaccine requirements for schools. Just done with their crap.
Daughter has already said no to mandatory school vaccines. Will probably be homeschooling all eventually soon as the addition gets built onto their home.
Her pediatrician says they will not give any mRNA related vax, just long term proven ones.
Excellent! The feedback is coming!
I’ve noticed that the docs who are deepest in the vax propaganda are also the ones who lash out at the slightest perceived “misinformation” – very likely because they have the greatest number of “misinformed deaths and injuries” on their hands.
So true.
My niece is a nurse, just had a baby, is a vaccine sceptic (autism), and is leaning toward homeschooling. A trend!
I highly recommend homeschooling if parents/grandparents have that option. It has been a fantastic experience!
I have not had a tetanus vaccine because it is now a combo.
These are now the options (via Webmed)
For babies and young children:
For older children and adults:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In other words diphtheria is an ILLEGALS PROBLEM!
I believe they are giving children these mRNA vaccines to try to depopulate the planet.
There are definitely people who believe in putting humanity itself on population control regimens, and that would include everything they can throw at the problem. It’s a lot like the movie “12 Monkeys”, only I think most of them don’t want a real barn-burner of a mass depopulation – more like level it off and decrease it.
The clot shot seems like a “gentle depopulation solution” which is rather cunning. It’s strong enough to cause significant effects on fertility and mortality, between upper single and lower double digits, but not enough that it becomes obvious to everybody, or in such a way that the controlled media can’t handle it.
The shutting down of agriculture is tied to it as well. Very much tied to it.
Wolf Moon
The “gentle depopulation solution” of the COVID-19 “vaccines” is apparently OK to the human excrement types who developed them and then got people to take them.
Until the damages and deaths that these “vaccines” do hit home.
Like my cousin, who “died suddenly and unexpectedly.”
Like my brother, who went downhill after his 4th injection and who is now in the Beyond.
And the societal / emotional fallout caused by the damages and deaths induced by these “vaccines” is, in itself, damaging to the ones left behind.
All this, while more damned “gentle depopulation solutions” are being developed, like this “new combination vaccine” of MM + three types of COVID-19 spike protein—to be used on children.
My sister-in-law has dealt with debilitating rheumatoid arthritis for about 30 years. Her RA specialist had her take the jabs and the first booster to “help” her immunity despite us telling her to not do it. He intimidated her into it. Then she started getting worsening kidney and lung tests and caught COVID three times. The nephrologist told her she was in Stage 3 renal failure. She asked us once again about the jabs and once again we told her to stop. She did and began doing the regimen we talk about on here. A few months later she said she felt better than she had in a long time.
Because of the RA meds she is regularly tested and her recent tests on the kidneys showed marked improvement and the doc is no longer concerned. The unknown lung issue they thought were nodules are gone. She went to see the RA doc for a routine exam and he reminded her she needed her COVID booster. She told him he was stupid and there would be no more jabs. He tried to intimidate again and she laughed in his face and told him it was not going to happen.
No word yet if he is still her RA doc. 😂
Wow.
Great news, SIL is getting healthier.
AND SIL talked back to the quack, standing her ground.
👍
The good part is I cut up with her all the time and she loves it.
So i told her I was proud of her and asked her if she was finally tired of being lied to and would trust her favorite brother-in-law now?
She lost it laughing and hung up on me.
😂
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I am SO glad to hear that your SIL is following a program to mitigate the COVID-19 “vaccine” effects in her body. And it appears this program is helping the RA and lung issues too. Wonderful that she told off the MD who was trying to “convince” to get another jab!
I’m including this in “too much winning”!!! 🇺🇸
That is great news!!!
(Not having watched the video), I’d still say he’s wrong, to the extent that he’s claiming or implying that the additive is bad because it originally came from coal tar. (And if he doesn’t want to imply the connection, why mention coal tar at all?)
If he can show it’s actually bad from you, it doesn’t matter where it came from (coal tar, bald eagle droppings, bearded dragon poop, unicorn farts, whatever), and talking about coal tar is simply a scare tactic that should be unnecessary.
Let’s say someone breaks down a batch of coal tar to get amorphous carbon, then does whatever it is they do to make diamonds. Is that better or worse than a diamond that was made the same way, but from “star tar”? Or flowers? Or mined? Or pulled out of Neptune?
Exactly. The whole coal tar argument is manipulative. Most vitamins are synthetic now – and it’s OK.
There is a buried true assumption by readers – that random organic chemicals, sampled out of “chem-space” by arbitrary means, are going to be “synthetic” and “probably not good for you” – and thus that organic chemicals made from non-food sources, randomly, are more likely to be problematic for health, than those made from foodstuffs. It’s OK to begin with that assumption, but it should not be used to pass judgment on specific chemicals.
That said, there are plenty of poisons “chemically close” to foodstuffs, and at a certain average chemical distance, are probably more dangerous than random carbon compounds in chem-space.
Ultimately, the question is the toxicity of azo dyes in general, and specific members of the class. While azo dyes don’t seem especially harmful, they are biologically foreign, are processed and expelled, and are more likely (IMO) to have some minor negative effects at some dosage and time of exposure, than to be biologically inert. Thus, I’d just as soon not take the risk – just like I took great care in working with similar chemicals, at one point in my academic journey.
No need for me to poke sleeping bears, just to have festive cheese balls. I worked with many interesting substances. I never ate them intentionally!
Guys – what else should a big time attorney do but use hyperbolic speech as in the courtroom of public opinion? 😂 He’s good at it.
If Carbon Dioxide originates from coal tar, does it logically follow that polar bears are dying because we keep eating MacDonnells?
You’re making my head – I mean lungs – hurt! 😉
Another period of hubris…for a while there, about a century or so ago, many people believed that strong radioactivity had health benefits. Radium water was a thing.
Many died.
Yikes!
I had a radium watch dial as a kid – I remember there being much less fear of “civilian radiation” even then.
Oh, you’ve never heard of the Radium Girls?
They were hired to paint the first radium watches. They’d lick the brushes to get a fine point on them, and they came down with various cancers of different parts of the mouth at a huge rate. It was a huge impetus to occupational safety regulations, in fact.
Check the original Coca-Cola formula!
There’s a lot more I can say about this but let’s start with the framing.
We need to be suspicious of concentrated power: GOV _and_ CORP
Freedom belongs to the citizens, We the people. Not we the oligarchs.
It’s not about GOV protection -VERSUS- CORP freedom. It’s Both/And. We have to shift our perspective from all or nothing zero sum mindset.
FDA has no business going around banning everything chemophobia style, full stop. Bex powder should be on market.
CORP doesn’t get free reign to decieve lie to and gaslight the public either. No immunity from prosecution or class action lawsuits.
I would prefer to have an industry standard for safety like Underwriter’s Laboratories for medical products and food additives. We already have Orthodox Union for kosher as an example.
I could write a book but for now let’s get out of the old left/right framing of regulation versus freedom. Stop thinking oppositionally.
We can err towards freedom but we have to protect minors who cannot give informed consent on yellow dyes or gender mutilation. We have to protect minors. The gov cannot protect minors. Corp cannot protect minors. We the parents have a responsibility and duty to protect minors. If they harm our kids they need to be much very bad unspeakable. No ifs ands or buts.
I like this answer! FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY.
With Ya!!!!!
Didn’t they use carrot juice or carotene in the past to color butter and other foods?
What makes Vitamin B complex so yellow – could that be used to color cheese balls?
They still do! I just checked my Land-o-Lakes butter, and while it does not list either carrot extract or carotene as a component (probably not required by law), it does admit to providing 4% of the RDA of Vitamin A, which absolutely means that it contains carotene and/or similar substances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A
Remember Michelle Obama’s jackboot efforts with school lunches – and she only made things worse. The kids want comfort food – their favorites, not what she decreed, which looked bleak and unappetizing.
There are ways to make spaghetti and meatballs really healthy – unfortunately most lunch room food ain’t.
Yeah, I remember how great our school lunches used to be. We didn’t think much of them back then, but now? I can look back and say without qualms that they were healthy and tasty.
Heck if we didn’t have PB&J and bread to make our brown bag lunch for school and had to BUY our lunch it was a sacrifice for Mom and a treat for us kids.
School lunches USED to be about ensuring poor students had adequate nutrician!
So they would get at least ONE square meal a day!
And that was necessary for education outcomes.
Mike created a BS problem because city/suburban obesity is NOT why school lunch programs exist!
Sado-socialists punish the POOR KIDS who are the neediest! *SPIT*
The left criticized classification of ketchup as a “vegetable” under Reagan – but then they classified weeds and a few nuts as a main course for kids under Obama. And NO MILK FOR YOU KIDS, EITHER! 😉
You take one look at Big Mike and you know she didn’t eat any of that shiz she pushed on the school kids.
She’s ate a few Big Mack’s
just saying.
My Spaghetti sauce is full of hamburger, RED (quercetin) onions, garlic, bell peppers, & celery. I add the veggies in towards the end so they still have a bit of a crunch.
Oregano, Basil, Tarragon, parsley and black pepper are no slouches when it comes to health benefits either.
So Spaghetti & a salad can be a good healthy meal.
My Spaghetti sauce is full of hamburger, RED (quercetin) onions, garlic, bell peppers, & celery. I add the veggies in towards the end so they still have a bit of a crunch.
Oregano, Basil, Tarragon, parsley and black pepper are no slouches when it comes to health benefits either.
So Spaghetti & a salad can be a good healthy meal.
THE PROBLEM WITH ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr.
Bill Donohue
https://www.catholicleague.org/the-problem-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr/
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been chosen by president-elect Donald Trump to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). From a Catholic perspective, there are serious problems with that choice.
First and foremost is Kennedy’s position on abortion. It might be more accurate to say his positions on abortion. For most of his career he has been a staunch supporter of abortion-on-demand, but now he says he favors some restrictions.
Kennedy didn’t evolve over the years on this issue. He did so recently when it became apparent that if Trump were to win the election he may land some post in the administration. Being pro-abortion, he obviously reasoned, could be a real problem, especially if he were up for the HHS job.
When Kennedy was asked by former ESPN commentator, Sage Steele, whether there should be any limits on abortion, he said no. “Even if it is full term…I don’t think it’s ever OK…I think we have to leave it with the woman rather than the state.” He didn’t say that ten years ago. He said it in May of this year.
It gets worse. Literally three days after the Steele interview, Kennedy said abortion should be permitted only before viability.
There are other issues that should give Catholics pause. In December 2023 he told political commentator Patrick Bet-David that he did not support a ban on “gender affirming” care for minors. Why? Because he did not “know enough about it to say that it should be completely illegal,” and he needed “to look at the data” before making a decision.
But guess what? In May he decided he supported a ban on minors receiving “gender affirming” care.
Kennedy not only wants to make marijuana legal nationwide, he wants to legalize some psychedelics. That would presumably include psilocybin (magic mushrooms), the most popular psychedelic in the nation. He believes that there are significant benefits to psychedelics that have not been uncovered because the medical establishment has gone out of its way to prevent that research.
Here’s what we know about magic mushrooms. They can cause frightening hallucinations, distorted thinking, impaired concentration, unusual body sensations, nausea and vomiting, paranoia, confusion and emotions ranging from bliss to terror.
The fundamental problem with Kennedy is that he lacks a coherent understanding of these issues. He has no overriding philosophical vision.
He spent his entire life defending abortion-without-limits, and had no problem justifying puberty blockers, chemical castration and mutilating the genitals of disturbed minors—until he experienced his grand epiphany in May. That must have been quite a month for him. And now he thinks we need to make it easier for Americans to hallucinate.
This is Robert F. Kennedy’s vision of health and human services. It’s not ours.
The mari problem is significant.
I believe mari regulations are a classic case of bootleggers and baptists.
Republican RINOs like John Boehner *spit* are heavily invested in mari. They are the gatekeepers on when mari is legalized in legislatures so of course they stand to reap the PROFIT$$$$ off the legalization.
But they stay squeaky clean white as a sheet in the public eye in opposition to mari.
Democrats LOVE to go after big tobacco. Their law firm buddies make a killing off these cases and they can turn the screws to big tobacco as much as they please. Why do they squeeze big tobacco? It’s easy – MONEY. Donations.
The other part of it is that there aren’t as many smokers anymore. Tax revenues are going up in smoke.
The higher they crank up the taxes, the more people try to skirt them. Americans hate taxes. In New York taxes on cigarettes are sky high. Illegal cigarette sales are a booming business in the Big Apple – notionally, it’s cheap to load up a trunk from Philly and drive them to New York.
Don’t let anyone tell you “we’ll legalize but then we’ll tax the crap out of it” – that’s just catnip for a black market!
Taxes are NOT how we should solve social problems! Taxes are NOT the American way!
Less smokers is a good thing though if you want a new market for an addictive product. And what product is more addictive than tobacco?
Today’s mari is not like it was in the 60s – it is much more potent and powerful than in the past. ADDICTION is the name of the game – get as many people onboarded as possible and keep them on the train.
Hmm, didn’t RFKJ say something about Big Tobacco changing their addiction business model to pivot away from tobacco to things like junk food? Something to think about when we talk about these additives and companies putting makeup kits on cereal.
It’s not all bad, of course. Skittles are an excellent source of your daily supply of Titanium Dioxide, a compound renowned worldwide for producing pure white pigment for paints. Skittles are painted sugar with a little fruit flavoring. They are so delicious. If a few bits of rat poison are mixed in with Skittles . . . nevermind, I digress.
Back to mari, legalization doesn’t eliminate the black market, it exacerbates it. Look at Oregon’s experiment in mari – it didn’t end well.
Dems love to make money off black market drugs. Ask Nancy where she gets all her money from.
China loves to make money off mari too – buying up land in Oklahoma and elsewhere to cultivate mari using American land!
Kids need to stay away from mari – it ruins teenage brain development. There is NO HEALTHY AGE for using mari – but under 25 it is extremely destructive to brain plasticity. China loves stupid addled Americans. Big Medical and Big Pharma likes have patients for life. Mari creates mental illness which gives Big Psych and Big Pharma a pipeline of permanent customers!
DO NOT MESS WITH OUR CHIILDREN! Yes, I’m a dad. Deal with it. You want to legalize addictive poisons and give it to minors? F around and find out.
Gail has an important point – Pharma and GOV have buried any benefits of THC. So we literally have shamans everywhere selling CBD – makes me SICK to see it! They want any beneficial uses BURIED.
WHY?? Simple. If mari is legalized, and sold as “safe as coffee” then there is NOTHING to regulate! No medical uses means No medical regulation! Mari isn’t just OTC – it’s no longer sold in the pharmacy at all but behind the tobacco counters! If they could put it in the coffee aisles, you know they would – and they will try!
The [D] and the [RINOS] both stand to make a KILLING – literally and figuratively – on legalized mari industry at the expense of our families, our children, and taxpayers.
Everywhere mari is legalized people are inebriated. They are driving high – worse than driving drunk. Getting a drunk buzz wears off – but the effect of a mari high linger. These people become mentally ill, beligerant, and unproductive. Friday nights become hookah nights and they don’t care about the smoke wafting through neighborhoods where children play. They don’t care about smoking in plain sight of kids – child abuse as far as I’m concerned. They don’t care about normalizing criminal paraphernalia and addiction to kids. The children of the addicted suffer the most and I’m not going to start on the trauma they suffer for life from their irresponsible parents.
If anyone wants to legalize mari – How are they profiting? Who will be the victims? How will minors be protected? How will taxpayers not be on the hook for the medical and law enforcement bills created by derelict members of society whose dependency was entirely avoidable? Are they going to put in the research for genuine medical uses or just leave us holding the bill?
Excellent rant!
I DON’T think we should have unnatural, poisonous food that is widely distributed and available.
Mainly because children should be protected from exploitation by money-grubbing assholes who couldn’t care less about them. You eat all the cheeseballs you want, but I feel the same way about it that I feel about porn; put it behind the counter in a plain brown wrapper and require I.D. to purchase it.
We used to live in a world where most (but not all, of course) people had a least a modicum of conscience about their actions. Most had some religion, Christian generally, in the U.S.
Not anymore. We are cattle to these assholes. They not only don’t care if we are unhealthy, they BENEFIT from chronic illness. Give ’em a drug, and more shitty food!
There needs to be regulation of the ingredients in food, period. I mean, would you be ok if they were including arsenic, because it made the rice whiter, and more appealing? No, you would not, because it is a known poison. Well, those dyes are known poisons, too.
Another important point.
The European Union’s food additive standards – informed often by chemophobia and Soviet bureaucrats (no exaggeration) – are NOT the gold standard for world health.
I do NOT want a bureaucrat making decisions about what chemical needs to be banned from the US this week.
They banned CFCs for no reason except industry payoffs to force people to new refrigerants.
How many things has the FDA banned? I’ve lost count.
They banned Ephedra in 2004:
https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/small-entity-compliance-guide-final-rule-declaring-dietary-supplements-containing-ephedrine
Ephedra is a healthy and natural plant.
But because some people OD’d by downing far too many supplements at once . . .
. . . NOW IT’S BANNED IN THE US!
It used to be used by professional athletes and now it’s illegal.
Because someone decided that:
CITIZENS
don’t deserve the FREEDOM
to use supplements RESPONSIBLY
Instead of letting the citizen OWN the responsibility of his decision . . .
. . . the FDA says NO we’ll just take it away from all Americans!
And any other natural herb that is effective while we’re at it . . . to make our Big Pharma donors happy.
Why would anyone try to ban NAC?? What authority?
They didn’t – they THREATENED to ban it, and so now NAC is effectively de facto banned in the US!
When it could have saved many lives.
Why are they trying to regulate Vitamin D away from citizens? These people are sick.
You know what they did to HCQ and Ivermectin
Bex headache powder is banned because if you take 10 times the daily limit it will destroy your liver:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bex_(compound_analgesic)
Why aren’t the people using it forced to own the RESPONSIBILITY and CONSEQUENCES of their choices??
Tort reform would DESTROY the Democrat trial lawyers. Make John Edwards cry again.
Trying to regulate away Vitamin D? That is SICK, SICK, SICK!
Yeah. We have some work to do.
They were trying to cancel all the Vit-D scripts during COVID!
My doc has a pre-existing script for me for Vit-D but even still I had to fight to get it refilled. The PA was too busy following orders to bother with it and I had to escalate to the doc!
The message during COVID was stop people from taking Vit-D.
I don’t need a script to get Vit-D right now – but why take the chance that I won’t be able to get it later when I need it? Especially when it’s covered by insurance -vs- out of pocket?
Vitamin D at a good level is one of the best ways to keep minor colds in total check. Great stuff!
Interesting about phenacetin and why they banned it. I wonder if the possibility that it killed Howard Hughs had something to do with it.
Seems to me to be related to the original Linear non-threshold model {LNT} for radiation. If too much is bad, then any is also bad. We are brainwashed into any amount of a poison is bad, rather than knowing that the dose amount is the problem.