Guest Post by Kit Knightly
We’ve been covering the emerging food crisis for months now. Detailing how the economy was deliberately sabotaged to drive up the cost of living, especially food, via lockdowns and sanctions.
But propaganda wars are like regular wars: They have theatres, fronts and overt for covert campaigns.
Yes, the big noise on food is that we need to change to “save the planet”, but there’s more going on in smaller spheres. A constant drip-feed of stories, articles and studies designed to undermine public faith in the food we eat.
Here are four examples, all from just the last ten days.
1. Beef causes cancer
On June 3rd MedicalXpress reported on a new study which – allegedly – (we’ll be using that word a lot) found red meat increased cancer risk in certain people.
The “study”, carried out at the Boston University School of Medicine and originally published in the Journal of Nutrition, claims to have found that “unprocessed” red meat increased the risk of colorectal cancer {CRC} – in black women:
Unprocessed red meat intake was associated with an increased CRC risk in the present study, the first positive evidence that red meat plays a role in the etiology of CRC in Black women.
2. So does Fish
Then, on June 9th, Sky News reported another study which found eating fish on a regular basis also increases your risk – this time of skin cancer.
This “study”, done out of Brown University and published in the journal Cancers Causes and Control, alleges those who eat over 40g of fish per day had a 22% increased risk of skin cancer:
We found that higher total fish intake, tuna intake, and non-fried fish intake were positively associated with risk of both malignant melanoma and melanoma in situ. Future studies are needed to investigate the potential biological mechanisms underlying these associations.
3. …Even more cancer, this time from dairy
A third study, again in MedicalXpress and this time from June 9th, found an increased risk of prostate cancer in men who drink a lot of milk.
The “study”, done at Loma Linda University Health and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, concludes:
Men with higher intake of dairy foods, but not nondairy calcium, had a higher risk of prostate cancer compared with men having lower intakes. Associations were nonlinear, suggesting greatest increases in risk at relatively low doses.
This parallels a study from last year, done by the same researchers, which found drinking milk increased the risk of breast cancer.
4. Oh, and keeping your own chickens gives you food poisoning
Not a study this time – and technically not just about food either – but on June 10th CBSNews reported that the US CDC was launching a “probe” into an increase in food poisoning cases allegedly linked to people keeping their own chickens:
Federal health officials are probing several multi-state outbreaks of salmonella infections linked to backyard poultry, saying more than 200 Americans have been stricken so far this year, with one death reported.
Already in vogue in parts of the U.S., the earthy hobby of raising backyard flocks grew even more popular during the pandemic, as Americans stuck at home set up coops with an eye on fresh eggs and animal companionship. But such efforts at small-time farming can come at a cost.
Of course, this is coming straight off the back of a “bird flu outbreak” which has seen 10s of millions of poultry culled, and price of eggs and chicken skyrocket.
Interestingly, organic and free-range chickens are already said to be the most impacted by bird flu, leading some to ask if bird flu could spell “the end of free-range chicken”.
No free-range chickens, no keeping your own chickens…hmmm…seems like some time soon the only way to get chicken (and eggs) will be through Big Food corporate giants.
The solution
So, according to The ScienceTM – all natural food humans (and most other animals) have been eating for literally thousands upon thousands of generations is somehow suddenly contriving to give us all cancer.
Personally, I’m freaking out.
But don’t worry, because there’s a few ready made solutions to this problem: If you want to save yourself from all that nasty chicken, eggs and milk, try “alternate forms of protein”.
That’s media-speak for eating insects.
The push on that front started years ago, with articles like this one from March 2021: “If we want to save the planet, the future of food is insects”
There was a lot of pushback, with “Eat Ze Bugs” becoming an ironic slogan for those resisting the new normal. That reaction effectively bullied the “let’s eat insects” stories out of the news for a while. But now they’re back.
On May 22nd, Forbes reported yet another a new “study” which apparently found “Eating Insects Could Cut Your Environmental Impact By More Than 80%”.
On May 28th, The Sun claimed that eating insects (among other things) could “solve food shortages”.
On June 6th the BBC’s kid-focused Newsround prompted children to ask the (rather leading) questions “Eating insects: Should we be eating more? Why are they so good?
And then on June 11th, the Toronto Star simply asked
Why aren’t we all eating insects yet?”
So, yes, there’s a renewed energy behind the pro-bug-eating media. But the big move being touted is undoubtedly the pivot to lab-grown meat and dairy. The propaganda is flowing thick and fast on that.
In late May, science magazine FreeThink reported a new company called Formo is researching lab-grown dairy products – “real cheese without the cow”. While TechCrunch was talking up YoEgg’s plant-based egg substitutes.
On June 6th Forbes reported that “Cell-Cultured Seafood Isn’t just An Idea; It’s A Reality”.
Just three days ago it was announced the Israeli company ReMilk was approved to begin selling its “precision fermented cow-less dairy products” across the US.
So, while the news cycle floods with stories that beef and fish and milk are causing cancer or food poisoning, the mainstream media is packed with stories on the benefits of cultured proteins.
Medical journals are publishing articles like this one, suggesting lab-grown meat is “healthier” than natural meat.
A Schmidt Foundation-sponsored article in the Guardian, on June 4th, tells us that lab-grown meat could save the planet if people can be “convinced to make rational food choices”.
On June 6th, CNN headlined:
How ‘lab-grown’ meat could help the planet and our health
…and goes on to suggest fake meat would prevent “future pandemics” by removing the risk of zoonotic viral transmission.
The messaging could not be clearer.
Cui Bono?
So, let’s say that over the next year or so more and more natural meat/fish/dairy products are replaced on the market by lab-grown or vegetable-based alternatives. Who stands to benefit?
The answer to that is unfortunately predictable: It’s the same people that always benefit.
The problems are manifold, the reactions diverse, but the solution is always pretty much the same – giving the elite more money and more power.
Bill Gates has heavily invested in lab-grown meat companies, as well as companies that make vegetable-based “eggs”. Jeff Bezos has been doing likewise.
It’s interesting to note that, just yesterday, the CEO of one of the biggest poultry suppliers in the world has called on the EU to allow the sale of cultured meat.
Why?
Because, just as big oil companies have responded to climate change hysteria by heavily investing in renewables, corporate meat producers are busily buying up alternate “meat” companies.
As “market forces” and “climate friendly policies” come into play, governments will institute measures such as the proposed “meat taxes”, making it cheaper to buy fake meat than real meat.
In the end the same people benefit no matter where you get your electricity, and – as the war on food continues – the same people will benefit whether you get real meat, lab-grown meat or “alternate forms of protein”.
The people most hurt by this will be family farms, small local companies, and any producers of organic and ethically sourced meat and dairy. Many of whom will be driven out of business.
Meanwhile the public will be left with a “choice” between extortionately expensive mass-produced actual meat clogged with hormones and antibiotics, or fake lab-grown meat made of god-knows-what.
And since the same corporate giants will be making both options, you’ll line the same pockets either way.
Bon appetit.
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In one phase of my career I inspected restaurants for a district health department. If you get sick approximately 8 hours after a consuming a food its most likely food poisoning. It takes time for the bacteria to develop in your GI tract, that’s the gurgle in your intestine feeling. However if you get sick quickly after consuming a food or substance then that is possibly chemical exposure.
As far as food processing at commercial facilities/restaurants compared to what I do in my home/back yard, I’ll take my sanitation and handling methods any day.
Scare stories sound like one more effort to corral people into using ‘the system’ which by the way puts you under their favored control………….
You ever wonder why they never do a chemical analysis when there’s a recall for ‘e-coli contamination’?
Many of the inputs for conventional agriculture are much more toxic to humans than any amount of scary bacteria.
Cultural secession is the answer now.
AAghgh! I’m gonna die from my chickens! Chikkin-itis! Flee! Flee!
Life causes cancer
I’ll start eating vegan liberals before I eat bugs…
Not me. I think they would be stringy, bitter and full of chemicals that are harmful – if not from drugs, definitely from the tattoos.
The key to health in food is eating a plant based diet. A fusion really of the Mediterranean diet and the blue zone diet. That does not mean that you can’t have seafood and meat. Just make sure that the meat is from organic, free range and grass fed sources. 90% of what you will find in the grocery store is processed food and it is bad for you. The following is an article I wrote for the local paper:
How I plan to beat Food Inflation and Supply Shortages
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
― Orson Welles
Food inflation and food shortages are looming. The ‘experts’ are telling us, as is the media, that the effects could be quite severe and will really hit home later this year. Sticking to my contrarian instincts….I smell a rat! I believe that these conditions have been engineered so that they can help stimulate public support for the long planned transhuman ‘reset’ culminating in the rise of a totalitarian New World Order. They plan to starve us into submission! ‘Let them eat cake!’ Marie-Antoinette famously proclaimed. You’ll be lucky if you can even get a hostess tastykake at the supermarket.
I could blame the current administration for these food related problems and you know what I will because they certainly bear a good portion of the responsibility for they have done much to exacerbate the problem. Honestly, though, this situation has been brewing for a long time. When you rely on mass production and global systems, with high energy and resource requirements you are bound to suffer when they fail and all things must fail due to the force of entropy, a thermodynamic law that guarantees that any system will fail over time. Luckily here in North Carolina we have a robust local farm to table economy. This will help us greatly where others in big cities, for example, will be left with few options for buying food.
Just the other day I had an epiphany that has helped me to understand how I can beat food inflation and the looming supply shortages. As I walked up and down the aisles of my local grocery store I came to realize that about 90% of what was for sale is processed food with very little nutritional value. The calories in calories out myth has been proven wrong many times and all calories are not the same. Taking it a step further I realized that the vast majority of the food sold in the local grocery store is actually bad for my health. It is important to note that much of our food is now genetically modified, the consequences of which are unknown. How does it feel to be a lab rat once again? As the ancient Chinese proverb says, ‘may you live in interesting times.’ My variation of the proverb would add ‘though not too interesting.’
What we need to do is to change our understanding of what food really is. The standard American diet consists almost entirely of nutritionally deficient processed foods. I am going to plan my menus around nutritionally dense, living foods that are organically grown from our local farms. This type of produce is not likely to increase as much in price because it is grown very close to market. The cost of processed foods is set to skyrocket because the inputs in the form of energy, fertilizer, pesticides and transportation are increasing dramatically. The products of large agribusiness companies are going to increase. Most of the produce in the grocery store comes to us via huge agricultural operations from around the country and the world. Supply chain issues may actually cause severe shortages of certain foods including produce. Food that comes from far away will increase in price. You may have to give up those wonderful grapes from Chile and Alaskan salmon if you can even get them. This is significant because much of our food and produce is grown elsewhere. I suggest you trade in those grapes for apples and the salmon for local trout. We need to eat produce that is sourced as close to home as possible.
I have chosen, for myself, to eat an essentially plant based diet. Occasionally I will eat meat that is local, free range, organically produced, grass fed and humanely raised. I can, if need be, survive without it. I eat very little sea food because of the relatively high levels of mercury that it contains. Obviously to the extent that we can produce our own food we are going to be much better off. Check with your neighbors and see if you can create a community cooperative garden. This is a critical point. We need to work creatively together to solve this problem. It would be best for us and the environment to grow food according to organic/biodynamic and regenerative principles. Healthy soil means a much higher level of nutrition pound for pound. Here is a short checklist of how I plan to beat both the looming supply shortage of food and the attendant price inflation.
Key points of my plan are as follows:
Eat less (seems kind of obvious).
Focus on only what you need to survive nutritionally (Not so obvious because most people don’t know what is good or bad for them and have been misled by the food industry).
Shift to a plant based diet (It is the optimum diet for human health).
Eliminate processed foods (They are laden with chemicals and harmful artificial ingredients).
Eliminate snack and junk foods (same as above).
Buy local & organic produce when possible (It is grown naturally without deadly pesticides and herbicides).
Stock up on local food that has been canned, pickled or otherwise soundly preserved.
Eat more fermented foods that you can make naturally with low cost starter cultures.
Buy meat very occasionally, Locally produced organic, grass fed, free range etc.
Learn to produce some of your own food (sprouts, microgreens, herbs, some veggies and you can do this right in your kitchen and on your front porch).
Stock up on legumes, nuts, seeds and grains (They pack a nutritional punch for their size).
Drink only pure filtered water or spring water.
Work in community with neighbors to produce some of your own food.
Establish relationships with local farmers.
Join the food revolution! Avoid the global food supply system, eat and or grow your food locally!
Unless there is no local, organic, etc. food. And for those of you who do have local sources, don’t count on them. Fuel, labor, inputs are going up just as much, and they are the least able to ride out a drop in demand when people just can’t afford it anymore. And they are less fuel efficient.
I wouldn’t trust the food from anyone I didn’t know personally. The Organic label doesn’t mean much.
I think family farms etc will do better. The conclusion is most people (meaning cities mostly) will not have access to good food.
This kind of propaganda works two ways though. The obvious way he states, but the hidden way of making people over focus on health, nutrition etc. That is one way we got into this plandemic mess. Fitness, health, foodies, organic , etc. All good in themselves but that’s why it so so insidious. Also, preventative medicine, regular checkups etc. all sound logical but it was teaching dependence and following authority/experts. . Intense focus on ‘health’.
For instance the Dr. Mercolas of this world were part of the programming and didn’t even know.
Take the carnivore diet, the Mediterranean diet, yoga, on and on.
I haven’t heard one doctor, nutritionist, health blogger notice this. More conditioning. We must examine ourselves to root out where we’ve been programmed.
Blogs that reveal the fake world and advertise vitamins probably thought it was a good, non exploitive way of making money. But it is really part of the programming that brought us this plandemic.
See the guy’s post right above. Perhaps good information but he’s put a lot of focus on it. I guess I escaped because I was surrounded y foodies and thought, just eat food, eat less, eat less sugar and processed foods, get exercise and left it at that.
In other words taking an experimental injection was just one more health fix for many.
I don’t think family farm means what you think it means.
“We found that higher total fish intake, tuna intake, and non-fried fish intake were positively associated with risk of both malignant melanoma and melanoma in situ”
Must be a small coastal fishing village near FUKUshima. not a concern then.
Take a look around. We can readily see what THEIR better food has done to waistlines and general health over the last 40 years. It’s a chemical soup of artificial substances and mutated GMOs….what could go wrong?
Nah, I’ll stick to the natural stuff that’s been here for thousands of years.
Thanks, but no thanks.
How long before we can’t eat bugs because we are depleting the bug supply for birds and they are dying en masse? My guess is a year or less. What will they offer instead? Kool-Aid! That’s right, Kool-Aid
A ha! The plan has been sometime in the making. more windmills will take care of more birds. They think of EVERYTHING, don’t they?
Premise #1: ALL people die.
Premise #2: ALL people who have died have eaten food.
Conclusion: ALL food will eventually kill you.
Now, fukoff and gimme my pile of bacon!
Exactly.
Do this, do that, you will live longer.
I DGAF about living longer, I want to live well.
If a tofu and kale diet would guarantee me another 50 years, I still would rather enjoy meat, dairy, fish and die sooner. Not that anyone can prove one diet is better than the other, at the INDIVIDUAL level.
Young health nuts die from cancer and heart attacks all the time.
My dad smoked, drank alcohol, ate fatty foods, cheese and smoked goods rarely accompanied by anything but peas.
He had almost zero health problems until he dropped dead from a heart attack at 91. I’ll take that life, thanks.
The Covid vaxxes cause cancer, they need something to blame for the millions of deaths in the future. Look for SCADS ( SUDDEN CANCER AGGREGATED DEATH SYNDROME) in a BS news story in the media touting certain foods as the cause.
This article has it all. Food, health, safety, sustainability, oil.
Triggers for ‘either side’.
There’s a lot of talk about fat people here too. Food is addicting (see guy’s post above- he seems a bit focused). But we have to eat, and eating/cooking is fun. . All these HEALTH things contribute to food addictions (including bulimia etc). There are other things too, like discipline, but you have to admit a real number is being perpetrated on food and health. Oh yes, don’t forget food guilt (I’m an unhealthy eater! Confession: I ate potato chips today. )
A ‘health crisis’ was the perfect target. We were prepped.
I TRULY hope the zombies heed the propaganda and switch to eating bugs… That leaves more for the PETA people such as myself to enjoy the products of the barbie…
Cell cultured leaders are the best. Like our president and the democratic leadership. Buy yours today!
That guy looks scared of the food with those yellow cleaning gloves on.
Beer (locally brewed) is food too