Farmers unite for Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Call YOUR Senator and support Bobby to support farmers and healthier food!!
The assault on Robert F Kennedy. Jr.’s confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services reveals more about his accusers than the man. The fact that he is anathema to corrupt, entrenched interests (and their legislative lackeys) is evidence that President Trump has placed an able ally over the proper target. Most of the flak consists of histrionic crocodile tears about his positions on vaccine safety and abortions, shifting attention from the core MAHA message about food safety. The nation’s farmers know better.
(With our amazing cow dog, Belle….)
A recent letter of support signed by over 130 farms across the nation (and submitted by yours truly) displays exuberant agreement that this cause should be a greater priority for the Senate Committee on Finance than Bobby’s abortion views or his justifiable skepticism about vaccine safety. The farmers’ letter is noteworthy for its diversity -- not merely racial but geographical, agricultural, and political. It is signed by conventional and organic farmers, big farms and small farms, southerners and northerners, conservatives and liberals. While Caroline Kennedy disgraces herself with unhinged ad hominem rants that her cousin is a predator and senators grandstand to see who can outdo the others in new lows of disinformation and slander, the farmers are demonstrating… Unity.
The greatest epidemic in America is obesity. Unhealthy fatty foods, excessive salt and sugar (including high fructose corn syrup), and loosely regulated food additives -- including dyes banned from children’s toys but fed to them in their school lunches -- have caught the eye of watchful moms seeking to navigate their children’s diets through a labyrinth of food dangers not present a few decades past. Steadily increasing imports of highly processed (cheap) products undermine domestic agricultural production while ducking U.S. regulatory oversight. “You are what you eat” is visible in the shocking U.S. obesity epidemic, especially among children.
The Amish are highly supportive of this Kennedy nominee. Amos Miller signed the letter (actually, two different Amish farmers named Amos Miller signed on!). Herb, horse, fig and pig farmers joined beef, sheep, and cow stewards (and a Maine lobsterman!) to assist maple syrup and honey producers to send a sweet aroma of unity and accord to the Senate Finance Committee in Kennedy’s support. The MSM has treated them like so many crickets, unwelcome to the hyena-like bullyfest unfolding before America against the latest Kennedy lamb sent to slaughter.
This in itself should reveal to Americans and their elected representatives just how vital Kennedy’s nomination is to reverse the nation’s health crisis. The money and influence of Big Pharma, allied with multinational corporations that profit astronomically by converting industrial waste byproducts from liabilities into salable ultra-processed faux foods, is visible in the media blitz to stop Kennedy from storming their regulatorily-controlled Bastille.
On the eve of his confirmation, MSM hellhounds released their collective Kennedy-honed krakens, revealing loyalties not to American children but to the invisible powers that pull their purse strings. The Atlantic joined with the Wall Street Journal to disparage Kennedy, as if the DNC’s anti-Kennedy election apparatus had been revived for the occasion. If Bobby Kennedy said eggs were a superfood, the hellions would howl to slay all the nation’s chickens. He has even been scorned for spreading the healthy truth about tasty beef tallow.
Scripture cautions, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” (Isaiah 5:20). Elizabeth Warren doesn’t want anyone to sue pharmaceutical manufacturers, and Bernie Sanders demands control over what is printed on onesies. Should Kennedy not be confirmed, woe unto the senators who said nay: they invoke not just heavenly but earthly judgment upon their own children and diets. Woe that being fat is called healthy, women concerned about their children’s diets are called “idyllic folks,” and the man raising an overdue alarm over food safety is slandered instead of heeded.
Just listen to America’s farmers, united for healthier domestic food supplies. If they are not heeded now, there will be Hell to pay as prices rise, grocery store shelves are emptied, and U.S. life expectancies continue to decline. Presumably, the corporate spin dieticians will announce, “Let them eat (ultra-processed, plastic-wrapped, government-controlled) cake!”
That is essentially the message of those who, throughout Kennedy’s confirmation proceedings, elevated abortion and vaccines above food safety and security. Elites never see the guillotine until their heads start to roll.
(Originally published at American Thinker.)
I think we all knew this, but watching the Warren/Sanders RFK Jr. confirmation session assures me that there is no rationality or logic that takes place within our organization of government. People just shriek with ad homenin and red herrings and strawman arguments and never get around to the point. It is all theatre, show, propaganda, whatever word you prefer. The fact is that whenever they “test” a vaccine the “placebo” isn’t a syringe with saline, but the vaccine formula minus the antibody. So any preservatives (propylene glycol) or adjuvants (aluminum) will be in the placebo. They shriek about the 12 poor Samoan children who died of measles (which that story is fishy) and they deny the thousands that have died from Gardasil and MMR, not to mention the mRNA tech. Go check out the history of polio, “The Moth and the Iron Lung”, presents and interesting hypothesis on the co occurrence of heavy metals in pesticides at the turn of the 20th century with spinal degeneration.
My point is that all of the relevant facts aren’t allowed to be discussed. This is the nature of our totalitarian information environment, some things, like the possibility of vaccines causing harm, are verboten because there is a Trillion dollar industry on the other side making sure they don’t have to get informed consent or be liable for the products they manufacture (we know that the lots of the mRNA differed between manufacturers and from lot to lot).
I am full MAHA, I read Callie and Casey Means book, “Good Energy”, and I agree with their main thesis which is that it is mitochondrial dysfunction that is the center of the vast majority of our health issues in the modern world and mitochondrial dysfunction is downstream of sugar, lack of micronutrients, lack of good sleep, lack of exercise, heightened levels of cortisol (all of these are interconnected). I think there are certainly connections between heavy metal adjuvants in vaccines and autism and other developmental disabilities. There are problems with glyphosate being used as a desiccant that almost assuredly gives rise to allergies, auto immune conditions, among other consequences. Atrazine is a strong feminizing compound that certainly can be explicative of lower rates of testosterone in men.
HOWEVER, in my humble opinion, toxins should not be the main focus of MAHA. Toxins are a part of the issue, but not even close to the root of the problem. Even if we were to remove all “toxins” from food, I am not confident we would have returned our nation to health. I think the much more important part of the conversation is nutrition as such. Proper micronutrients, anti-inflammatory phytochemicals and antioxidants are key building blocks that help our bodies deal with toxins and stress, and while their down regulation is also good, the human body and culture is anti fragile when properly nourished. I am confident that instead of focusing on removing yellow 5 (a good and achievable goal), we will get far more health ROI by making our beef and dairy grassfed and our eggs, poultry and pork raised on pasture, than by removing toxins from Cheetos. Or even more precisely, it is probably more important that the corn is grown well and the cheese came from a pastured cow than if the Cheetos don’t have yellow 5 and red 40. My fear is that the public will equate health with a lack of toxins, when corn isn’t corn anymore and beef isn’t beef.
I see this in a recent “MAHA” focused podcast between Vani Hari and Jordan Peterson. Peterson does pick her apart a bit, but not in a useful way. I don’t think Ms. Hari understands the difference between nutrition and a lack of toxins. Her company Truvani proves this by having all “clean” ingredients bars with terrible nutrition profiles.
My point is, if Mr. Kennedy wants to see marked improvement in the lives of Americans, it will take more than vaccine liabilities and informed consent, more than removing atrazine and glyphosate (which if he achieves I will be grateful and flabbergasted), more than removing red 40 and yellow 5. Fundamentally it will take a restructuring of America, not too dissimilar from the vision of Wendell Berry in his “Unsettling of America”. Health starts from farmers caring for land, not from removing the preservatives from Cheetos.
We are farmers in California. Calling our senators would do no good because our current senators are no good.