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come back, ever more ferociously, into in the dark, but rather operating on the not give us the right to eat what we want.
a largely competition-free environment. sound premise that the laws of nature This is a staggering misunderstanding,
But far more deadly is what happens are far more important to follow than the and is either intentional deceit or this
when their numbers grow. Once their dictates of partially understood science. lawyer is a tribute to the misinformation
numbers grow, their quorum-sensing Sushima Gokhale being taught in law schools. The Con-
mechanism signals these microbes to Larkspur, California stitution is not the source of any of our
express genes that cause them to secrete rights. Those are explicitly defined as
toxins they were previously unable FERTILIZE OR DEFERTILIZE? coming from God (see the Declaration
to exude. These previously harmless I saw this on ScienceDaily: "Long- and other early writings of the Found-
creatures now become deadly to their term nitrogen fertilizer use disrupts ers). The Constitution is mainly there
host. This is because there aren’t enough plant-microbe mutualisms" (sciencedai- to limit government. According to the
commensal bacteria left to curb their ly.com/releases/2015/02/150223142254. enumerated powers clause and the Tenth
destructive forces. In a two-pronged htm). Amendment, the federal government
attack on our health, our body becomes When exposed to nitrogen fertilizer can only function in the areas listed in
deprived of the life-giving metabolites over a period of years, nitrogen-fixing the enumerated powers, nowhere else.
these friendly bacteria once served up, bacteria called rhizobia evolve to be- Therefore most of the actions of the
and at the same time we become vi- come less beneficial to legumes, the federal government today are crimi-
ciously attacked by pathogens that are plants they normally serve, researchers nally illegal. Apparently the public is
now capable of doing immense damage. report in a new study. so dumbed down we don't even notice.
All this of course was as yet undis- Fertilize or defertilize? Another This is a really important issue. Ignor-
covered by science for many decades. In snafu. Can we beg for forgiveness, for ing it has allowed almost the complete
the meantime, we poured on the antibi- we knew not what we did? But how destruction of our inherent freedoms.
otics. But our wise ancestors figured out much longer can we go on discount- How could the two of you in the debate
these complex relationships with great ing Nature’s ways, because we know not have jumped on this as soon you had
perception over the centuries. They better—and there’s money to be had the opportunity to rebut this nonsensical
might not have spoken to us in terms of from it—and then pleading ignorance statement?
quorum-sensing bacteria, nor did they when the lessons come home? Science Second, I have been an independent
have access to genomic sequencing, but supposedly should let us appreciate the holistic health scientist since 1965 and
they were giving us the right counsel— consequences before we act, but sadly have done decades of deep research and
make and eat ferments, add commensal that’s not how it’s being applied. experimentation into nutrition, detoxifi-
bacteria to your internal and external Poco a poco, enlightenment! cation and other health aspects in order
biome, and you will live in health. Henry Becker to see how to prevent and cure most
Somewhere between refrigeration Kingston, Ontario or all degenerative diseases as well as
and our arrogance in the belief that sci- most of what is now considered normal
ence has discovered all there is to know, PASTEURIZATION ALWAYS BAD “aging.”
we got lost on eating and medication. I just finished watching the debate What I have found is that the argu-
While double-blind studies and genomic sponsored by the Harvard Law School ments you have in favor of raw milk
analysis will carry on for decades, it is with Sally Fallon Morell and David are one hundred percent correct. Even
unwise to put our health on hold as we Gumpert debating Fred Pritzker and organic milk is in my opinion not ed-
wait for results to trickle in. Heidi Kassenborg. I have a couple of ible after pasteurization and becomes
In eating fully with our senses, in observations to share (www.youtube. a health-destroying food. Commercial
eating the way nature intended us to eat, com/watch?v=iLRdihFi6gwsponsored). poisoned milk is far worse. Yes, I am one
and in eating the way our wiser ances- First, I was amazed the attorney got hundred percent against pasteurization,
tors ate, we are not taking a leap of faith away with saying the Constitution does whose only real use is to allow the sale

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