Lobby”, see also “Lobby vs. Lobby”
DDT – Modern Colonialism Included
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is an insect poison that was banned around 1950. The (correct) justification for the ban is that it accumulates in the tissues of humans and animals at the end of the food chain because of its chemical stability and good fat solubility. This was used by nurses (Red cross on the cap) around 1945 to spray children gram-wise with a pump (Wikipedia). Of course they exhibited symptoms of poisoning as well. If it had been highly poisonous, then those children who would have reacted particularly sensitively to poisons would have died.
DDT was used to make the Upper Rhine Trench mosquito-free. It was banned afterwards. The reprehensible thing is the way things are handled with self-evidence, thus bypassing reality: People in Africa suffer and die from malaria and other insect transmitted diseases. The evil of contracting malaria is much worse than any accumulation of the poison in their fatty tissue. This is similar to Germany 200 years ago when the intestine was cleaned of bugs using heavy metals: Heavy metals were a lesser evil.
The Good German Chlorine Chicken
The vegetables in France are chlorinated. In Germany, the Greens would immediately start climbing the barricades (“chlorine chicken”). Yet there’s no risk involved, especially since you already have hydrochloric acid in your stomach. You otherwise risk EHEC, for example. It can rear its ugly head again because countries are globally oriented and vegetables from abroad are allowed to be fertilized using fecal matter. Although it’s prohibited, it can’t be ruled out. The “chlorine chicken” was used to take a stand against TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
Humans can tolerate a lot of toxins since they used to sit in caves in prehistoric times and grill their food over a fire. Acrylamide was produced as a result. Charred food was certainly not thrown away. Those who couldn’t tolerate it can’t survive, are “de-Mendelized”. Say no more when it comes to the European Union’s new acrylamide law. So much for that law. Of course, one or two people out of one billion people won’t tolerate it, but that’s true for every substance (if you ignore the vital substances like water and table salt). It’s likely that someone can’t tolerate it: Where there are effects, there are side effects. The two can’t even be distinctly separated. Yet it seems to be life-prolonging for the rest. Any publications on it are ignored.
Gene Food
“Gene food” is a popular catchword these days as well. One of the first things that humans did was to cultivate things. Cultivation has three goals:
to reproduce the foodstuffs,
to increase their yield and
to reduce the stomach poisons contained therein.
For thousands of years, the only approach used was “trial and error”. Mutations were sought and cultivated further. Contemporary Chinese planted their rice seeds next to the “hot core” of nuclear power plants in order to produce these mutations faster. They, too, failed in this attempt to create new rice varieties, which required too much water. This attempt was then canceled.
BeriBeri
When I was young, people were harangued by “BeriBeri”. Sick Chinese children who had allegedly contracted a vitamin deficiency disease were shown eating peeled rice. That’s why we were always told to eat “whole grains”. The explanation for the origin of the disease was incorrect: the rice that had triggered the disease was infected by fungi. It was thus a storage-related problem. Quality assurance was improved and the problem went away. This false report, too, was never corrected.
Intervention is selective. The fact that the risk would be higher than with conventional cultivation. Why’s that? Nonsense, too, can result from random experimentation.14 What the Americans are doing with their genetically modified corn is unacceptable in part because it provokes resistance to glyphosate. Anything that is overdone is no good. However, this does not speak against genetic manipulation per se. Genetic manipulation (CRISPR) allows to react much more quickly to changing conditions, for example when fungi or pests begin to multiply in an explosive manner.
Everything you do involves risk.
But the risk of not doing something is
never considered. That’s absurd.
What’s more, neither modern laundry detergents nor dish washing detergents are conceivable without genetic manipulation. Phosphates have largely been banned for environmental reasons. This is technical progress, especially since washing at lower and lower temperatures is desired for energy related and environmental reasons.
Dish washing detergent
The dish washing detergents used to wash dishes at low temperatures (it can be assumed that the same applies to laundry detergents) are not completely safe. These low temperatures can cause black molds, which are hazardous to health.
This is especially true since phosphorus will be one of the first elements to be “depleted”. This represents a high risk to mankind since it is needed as a fertilizer.
“Superfoods”
I already mentioned that superfoods like goji berries can be toxic in medium doses. These berries are mostly imported from China and are sometimes relatively highly contaminated with harmful substances. But this example is not the only one: soy, for example, is a high-quality fruit. It has high quality proteins and oils. To protect the fruit from predation, it contains highly effective toxins: these are thermally stable hormone toxins (normal cooking is of little use) that prevent predators from reproducing. Zoos therefore had problems with heir offspring for decades. Asian monks were given it in small quantities. The soy sauce alone, which isn’t drunk by the gallon and fermented for months at a time, had found its way into Chinese cuisine. It arrived in German healthy cuisine two decades ago. Children, by the way, are particularly sensitive to these kind of poisons.
Measuring and Detecting Poisons
There’s a simple reason why new toxins or poisons are always being discovered: their methods of detection have significantly improved. Today’s press releases that report on certain poisons found in food would never have been possible twenty years ago because the detection methods were simply lacking back then.
It could never have been proven that Cyclist Lance Armstrong had doped during his career. However, samples of his blood were frozen and were then unfrozen years later to reveal that he had doped himself with EPO (erythropoietin). He was consequently stripped of all of his Tour de France victories.
The measuring instruments required to determine the composition of vehicle exhaust gases used to be stationary devices. Because these were so large, measurements could only be made on a test bench. Measuring methods have since improved more and more as the measuring devices became smaller and smaller until it was possible to create these the size of a car trunk. That was the point when the deception by various automobile companies came to light.
Twenty years ago, the astronomer Harald Lesch said in an Alpha-Centauri video, that “gravitational waves” will be detected in 100 years. These waves represent 1/10 proton diameter (= 10-10 m) from the earth to the sun (150 million km = 1.5 × 1011 m). This is a wave with a distortion length of 1 to 1021 or 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1 meters. Mr. Lesch misjudged this somewhat because it became possible to prove this five years ago.
A statement like “It was proven” says exactly nothing in general since these traces are most often micro traces. This becomes apparent whenever how much was detected is not mentioned. That this kind of information is lacking indicates that “manipulative forces” are at work here because the dose makes the poison.
By the way, the most important things for a long life expectancy are clean water and sanitary facilities.