EZEKIEL
and YHWH’s
Judgment
for the
Good News
PEOPLE
VOLUME XVII
Health and Healing
EZEKIEL and YHWH’s
Judgment for the
Good News People
Volume XVII--Health and Healing
by
an unworthy servant
And you shall know the truth,
and the truth will make you free.
(John 8:32)
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Contents
Volume XVII--Health and Healing
CHAPTER PAGE
- Cover Page 1
- Title Page 2
- Contents 3
- Publisher’s Preface 5
Part YY--Christian Food
250 Sun Worship and Diet I 6
251 Sun Worship and Diet II 13
252 Sun Worship and Diet III 27
253 Sun Worship and Diet IV 32
254 Sun Worship and Diet V 43
Part ZZ--Christians and Health
255 Sun Worship and Health I 57
256 Sun Worship and Health II 71
257 The Health Crisis I 85
258 The Health Crisis II 94
259 Tobacco and Smoking I 105
260 Tobacco and Smoking II 115
261 Caffeine 124
Part AAA--Healing Alternatives
262 Health Alternatives? 138
263 Healing in the Scriptures 150
SHEERIT YISRAEL
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Calder, Idaho 83808, USA
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Chapter 250--Sun Worship and Diet I
Sun Worshippers Eat Anything
One of the common characteristics of Western, sun worshipping people is their willingness and propensity to eat almost anything (sometimes, within certain limits), and particularly pork, duck, shrimp, lobster, catfish (the bad fish of Matthew 13:48), fat and blood (yes, blood pudding is popular among many Europeans).
Some of the Blacks in Africa have been cannibals--even in modern times. In the East, Mongolian sun worshippers go far beyond pork when they extend their diets to mice, rats; and of course, dogs (yes, almost all of the historic Mongolians and their fall-out peoples have been dog eaters). In portions of Asia, the animals are often skinned alive before killing and cooking. Asians claim that this helps the taste.
For sure, Mongoloid peoples have traditionally eaten cats, dogs, rats, mice, snakes and similarly small forms of life. The American Indians were dog eaters. Early historical records indicate that all the Indian tribes ate dogs, except for possibly the Shoshone Indians who may have not ate them.
Years ago, this writer heard the story of how an American boy in an American town used to make a little spending money. There was a Chinese restaurant in his town. Late at night, he could and often did bring a cat by and knock on the door where the Chinese owner lived. The owner would take the cat and pay the boy a quarter (this was years ago before inflation set in). One should keep this story in mind when eating out at an Asian restaurant.
My mother told the story of how a man used to sell hot tamales out of a street cart at Sulphur, Oklahoma where there was a local state park. On the weekends, many people would come to the park. The man and his hot tamale cart would set up at the park and sell to the tourists. Eventually, the man left town. Someone moved into his former house. Under the house, the new resident found a huge assortment of cat and dog bones.
A news report on Mar 2, 1998, noted that there is now a cat shortage in Vietnam which is causing a rat explosion. The cat shortage has surfaced because the people there have been eating most of them. The government is encouraging people to switch from cats and snakes to rats.
An exception to this attitude of widely experimenting with food and diet in Asia might exist with the Chrishna sun worshippers, who even today in the Hindu East tend to be ascetics and vegetarians, like some Christian sects. With the loss of records and writings of ancient times, it is somewhat difficult to determine any details on diet in early Chrishnaism in the West.
However, it does seem evident that the Chrishna worshippers probably tended to be vegetarians--as was their European leader and founder, Apollonius of Tyana (mentioned earlier). The question of eating plant foods versus meat will be broached in the following chapters. But for now, the focus will be on meats.
Clean and Unclean
Importantly, the Scriptures repeatedly emphasize the classification of meat products for human food (with a life source such as animals, fish, insects, etc) as being clean or unclean--to include an absolute restriction on blood (animals must be properly bled when killed), among other things, as discussed in a prior chapter examining the Acts 15 religious conference in Jerusalem.
Actually, there are a host of Scriptures which deal with food and what food items can be eaten in the vein of clean meats (Gen 7:2; 9:4; Lev 3:17; 7:23-27; 11:1-47; 17:10-14; 20:25; 22:8; Deut 12:16, 23; 14:3-21; I Sam 14:32-36; Acts 15:29, etc.). As a minimum, clean animals are those that part the hoof and chew the cud. Clean fish are those that have both fins and scales.
Clean fowls are more complicated; but can be defined as those that have craws or crops and gizzards, have elongated middle front toes and hind toes which spread so that the three are on one side of the perch while the hind one is on the other side, catch food in the air and bring it to the ground to divide before eating (as opposed to those who eat their food in the air), and must not be birds of prey.
While there seems to be restrictions on insects, there are some allowances to eat certain ones that “creep on all fours” --like certain locusts, destroying locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers (Lev 11:20-23). The problem here is that the insects cited have six legs and not four legs (Aug-Oct 2002 “Hebrew Roots,” p. 4). One explanation is that they only use four for walking and all six for jumping. But this theme remains unclear.
Most of these Scriptures are fairly plain and not subject to confusion. Some Christians try to make a big deal over the restrictions on using contaminated pots and pans (Lev 11:33). Likely, this reference focuses on pots and pans that cannot be properly cleaned after use (like pottery, in the days of old). Stainless steel is “possibly” in another category since it can be cleaned.
The point of these Scriptural references is that The ELOHIM wasn’t just filling up space in His Book when He caused those remarks to be recorded.
If it was sin for Adam, Avraham, Moshe, Shmuel, David, Eliyahu and YESHUA to eat unclean meats, then be assured that it’s sin for others to eat them as well. YHWH is the same forever and He does not change His definition of right and wrong to appeal to ancient or modern peoples.
Christian Thinking
So, 2,000 years ago, Christianity came along and adopted the food precedents already established and followed in the Western, sun worship culture. Christians declared that YHWH’s Torah was done away with and that they could eat anything that they wanted to eat. And Christians have generally done that precise thing for the last 2,000 years. They eat almost anything!
In order to support their rebellious desire to eat anything and everything, Christians typically seize upon a couple of New Testament texts which they almost always misunderstand and misapply to themselves and their acts of contempt and rebellion towards the Torah.
The two primary texts are Mark 7:1-15 (with the words of YESHUA on the matter of washing hands before eating) and Acts 10:9-28 (regarding Kefa’s visit to Cornelius). Both of these references have been discussed at some length in previous chapters herein--but not in the vein of the food and diet issues.
Mark 7:1-15
In the first place, the presentation in Mark 7:1-15 concerns the several ritualistic washings and dippings in water of the hands, fingers, pots, cups etc in connection with the process of eating. These rituals were pushed by the Haverim and/or Shammai Pharisees in the Talmudic teachings that they were trying to impose on the population on a law or commandment level.
Obviously, people can and do eat with dirty hands (from common, ground dirt, which is usually clean and especially if worms and soil bacteria are present and the soil is exposed to sun light) without defiling their food--as YESHUA correctly notes.
However, let us suppose that a medical individual has been working in a morgue and dissecting a dead person who died from AIDS, EBOLA, TB, or hundreds of other terrifying diseases. Does The MESSIAH’s words about eating suggest or imply that the medical individual can now, all of a sudden, eat without washing his hands?
The same analogy applies if an individual has been handling toxic wastes or perhaps has some very poisonous antifreeze splashed on his hand. Should this person proceed to eat without washing his hands? Would not the handling of diseased body tissues or toxic poisons render the hands unclean and demand that they be washed? Of course, the answer is yes.
Any person above the idiot level would say that the hands must be washed. No thinking and intelligent person would thereupon try to argue that what goes into the stomach (from dirty hands defiled with diseased body tissues or toxic poisons) will only pass harmlessly from the body as waste products (in the urine or fecal matter).
Plainly, hand washings for sanitation purposes are categorically essential and are surely communicated (at least in principle) in Leviticus (chapters 11, 15 and 17) on the questions of sanitation and quarantines.
Of course, YESHUA’s whole focus in Mark 7 was only upon the issue of whether a believer had to submit to ritualistic washings, as prescribed in the traditions of the elders (per the Haverim/Shammai Pharisees). Here, the answer is no!
Not Addressed
Mark 7:1-15 categorically does not address the question of the food mitzwot already established in the Torah. This condition can furthermore be proven by a little logic and common sense. Certainly, in Mark 7, none of the disciples of YESHUA took the discussion in Mark 7 to mean a setting aside of the clean and unclean meat mitzwot already established in the Torah.
All of the disciples understood that the OT food laws, per se, were not even at issue in YESHUA’s words in Mark 7. If the disciples thought that the clean and unclean mitzwot were abolished in Mark 7, then there would be no need for the events (on the question of diet) in Acts 10 or 15 even to take place.
For sure, Acts 10 to 15 (as with Acts 10, Acts 15 has been previously discussed in some detail) happened from ten to twenty years after the death of YESHUA. Obviously, if YESHUA set the clean and unclean meat laws aside in Mark 7, the disciples would have correctly understood what had happened and thereby rendered Acts 10 unnecessary.
Therefore, ten years later Kefa would not be confused over eating meat in Acts 10, nor would Shaul and the Jerusalem leadership have the discussion they did on the eating of blood and so forth in Acts 15. The very fact that we have these issues arise in Acts 10 and 15 many years later, clearly proves that YESHUA did not abolish the food laws in Mark 7.
Acts 10:7-28
In turning to Acts 10:7-28, the context is clear that Kefa certainly had no preconceived ideas or thinking about the setting aside of the clean and unclean meat mitzwot when he was told to eat unclean species. As the Book reports, Kefa said “no” that he would not eat because he had never eaten any thing unclean earlier in his life.
Thereafter, Kefa never went against his word that he would not eat unclean species. But he did get the message or the instructions which The RUACH HA KODESH was putting across in the vision. The issue was not over the propriety of eating unclean foods; but rather, the subject was the matter of Kefa going to the uncircumcised and supposedly unclean Cornelius.
Thus, Kefa got the point of the vision and complied with it. He manifestly never tried to mix apples and oranges, as Christians try to do when improperly mixing things up when reading texts like this one.
In the reality that this discussion in Acts 10 did take place long after the death of The MESSIAH, it would be impossible to change His testament that was sealed at His death (Heb 9:15-17, as described in a former chapter). It becomes assuredly ludicrous to try to talk about changes at this late date in the course of events.
Furthermore, since The ELOHIM is immutable and changes not, it would also be totally and completely impossible for any changes to appear any place in His Word--whether in Mark 7, Acts 10 or Acts 15. It is pure and simple Christian hogwash, rebellion and contempt for the Torah to believe that any thing in the NT changed the mitzwot in the Torah. It is out of the question.
More Christian Theology
In their decision to do away with The ELOHIM’s mitzwot in general and particularly those affecting food and diet, the willingness of Christians to eat almost anything extends to polluted and poisoned foods (to be discussed in later comments herein) which ultimately bring great harm and hurt on the health of persons consuming such items.
Anyway, some Christians like to argue against YHWH’s commandments on clean and unclean meats. Some have tried to argue that chickens are as dirty as pigs (in eating anything and everything). In their warped thinking, it must be wrong to eat chickens if it is wrong to eat hogs. Alternatively, from their perspective, if it is all right to eat chickens, then it must also be all right to eat swine!
In rebellion and contempt toward The ELOHIM, sinning Christians apply their own reasoning and thinking to the subject, as if they have personal knowledge about right and wrong. But there is a difference. The difference is that The CREATOR has declared pork eating wrong while He “seems” to allow the consumption of chickens in His Word, as most students of the Word suggest.
Does The CREATOR have more perception about this issue than a little man (an insignificant part of His creation)? In other words, why is it that the created order insists on trying to argue with The CREATOR and ends up committing sin?
Even the modern medical profession (as sorry as it is, as will be shown in subsequent chapters) recognizes that pork eating can cause human health problems. Whenever a person gets sick, his or her doctor will often prescribe that no more pork be eaten. Pork and tobacco products are especially condemned whenever one has a heart attack.
Fat
The problem with fat should be obvious to anyone (Lev 3:17). Poisons seem to accumulate and are stored in fat tissues. A person eating animal fat is eating a vast quantity of stored poisons. Significantly, the restriction in Leviticus 3:17 was not repeated or mentioned in Acts 15 for whatever the reason, which does not seem to be stated.
It’s hard to fathom why fat was left out in Acts 15; but “possibly,” there was some limited allowance for the use of clean animal fats for those Israelites removed from Palestine, who did not have access to olives and other warm climate vegetable oils which could be used to grease skillets to make bread.
Today, almost all Israelites have ready access to vegetable oils in their culture. There is manifestly no reason to have or use the fats from clean animals. However, historically, in past ages when Israelites were in land areas where there was no olive trees and where technology was not available to press oils from various vegetable products, people could have had a problem in making bread, as just noted.
It is said that some of the early Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia used beef tallow to grease their skillets since they were totally opposed to pork, as was commonly used in early America. Of course, it would have been virtually impossible to find olive oil in most of early Canada or America.
Still the fat prohibition is in the Torah and seems to deserve obedience by the faithful and particularly in the context that vegetable oils are readily available commercially. There is absolutely no problem in finding and using vegetable oils today. So the question need not come up for believers today in our time.
Moreover, vegetable oils do not break down and become rancid as fast as animal fats. Because of this factor alone, most bakers prefer to use vegetable oils. The faithful should always check labels for ingredients when buying products from sun worship stores. Such a check only takes seconds, and it is imperative that the believer walk the extra mile in an effort to obey and please The MOST HIGH.
It is no problem to find vegetable oils in products and rarely do producers use animal fats. Consequently, only products made with vegetable oils should be bought and used. This practice is not hard to follow.
Since olives and olive oils are Scriptural products, they should always be preferred (extra virgin olive oil is the best since it is more natural and less subject to man’s processing). Above all else, pork fat or lard is totally out in the Word and should never be consumed by followers of YHWH.
Blood
For many obvious reasons, blood is assuredly condemned in both the OT and the NT (Lev 3:17; Acts 15:20, 29). Blood is bad because life is in the blood and because blood carries waste poisons which will either be disposed of or stored in fat. Blood streams also carry disease bacteria and viruses to further prohibit blood consumption.
Modern meat packers are interested in one thing and one thing only--profits! In this context, their products are sold by weight. So the more pounds that they can put into a side of beef means the more income to them. Accordingly, meat packers seem to go out of their way to be sure that their meat is oozing with blood, as it is sold to stores and wholesalers.
The Scriptures demand that “clean” animals be properly bled when slaughtered for Adamic consumption. That’s one of the reasons that strangled animals were out for food in the Acts 15 conference, discussed previously herein.
But as just noted above, modern meat packers could care less about what the Word says--because profit is the name of their game. So they make little or no effort to properly bleed animals.
The result of this common commercial practice to make money means that even so-called “clean” meats often have an excessive amount of blood still present. This blood is so diffused throughout the meat (since the animal was not properly bled) that it is extremely difficult to get the blood out.
Sometimes, it takes several washings in clean water and a good soaking over night in more clean water to even begin to get the blood out. But there is a problem here because too much washing and water will cause the meat to lose much of its taste and nutritional value.
Regardless, this extensive washing costs money and it is something that businesses are just not going to do. Most canneries, stores and restaurants making chili, soup or stew take few if any steps to wash the blood out before putting the meat into their products. Again, money is the name of the game and the added weight from the blood helps in this regard.
Since the Christian, sun worship public could care less about the presence of blood in their food, the producers have no incentive to try to clean up their act. They literally get away with selling blood in their food items and Christian sun worshippers accept it and never bat an eye.
Because canneries and food producers are so careless, indifferent and irresponsible about selling blood, this writer has long ago abandoned any desire to eat their products.
If a believer must eat clean meats, by all means buy “kosher” meats, as certified by Jewish Rabbinic authorities. But there is still more to this problem of eating (clean) meats in the current sun worship culture, as will be shown in the next chapters.
Chapter 251--Sun Worship and Diet II
Poisoned Meats
While the Word defines certain meats as being clean and proper for human consumption, as opposed to unclean meats not proper for eating (as described in the prior chapter), that is only the beginning of the problem in terms of eating meat in today’s world. True, one should eat clean meats. But even the Scripturally clean meats may be “unclean” and thus questionable to eat at present. Why?
Well, all of a sudden, the people raising of what should be clean livestock for eating (cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, etc) have begun injecting (or feeding) them growth hormones (like DES, to be later discussed), antibiotics (24.6 million pounds per year, per Tom Valentine, in the Feb 26, 2001, “Spotlight,” p. B-1), drugs for various purposes (even as they walk into the packing plants); and in recent years, foods grown with pesticides and poisons, plus changing their diets from historically proper animal foods to unbelievable things to save money.
For example, modern animal producers are feeding animals the remains of other dead animals (like cats, dogs and others found along the roads or wherever they can be obtained--dead remains that used to go to soap factories), manure and waste products from various other animals (like chicken manure to cattle), newspapers (with lead poisoned printing/ink), cardboard, sawdust and on and on (usually mixed with some traditional grains and hay).
Most cities and towns across America have dog pounds which collect stray cats and dogs--many of which are diseased, sick, injured and/or dying. These pounds generally make every effort to place all picked up animals in a new home. But that option is not always possible and unwanted dogs and pets have been a problem--that is before the new feeding methods came along.
The last several years have seen dog pounds across Europe and America turn their unwanted animals over to animal food processors to kill, cut up and process into feed for cattle (or for dog and cat food). The cattle producers don’t seem to have any problem at all over feeding dead dogs and cats (even those that were sick or diseased, to include their blood) to cattle, awaiting butchering for human consumption.
NBC News
NBC’s nightly news with Tom Brokaw had a special on this tragedy on August 22, 1997. As the NBC report suggested, alfalfa for cattle costs a lot of money in the present society. Conversely, chicken manure (often from the diarrhea of sick birds) and waste products of dead animals and birds can be bought for pennies on the dollar, in comparison with using alfalfa and historic grains to feed animals.
Money is the name of the game and most of these cattlemen don’t eat the cows they raise and sell to the public slaughter houses.
Since most producers could care less what they feed to animals going to the packing plants (providing that they are not killed by the poisons before they reach the packing plants) and since the public willingly buys the finished products (steaks, hamburger or whatever), everybody seems happy with the status quo.
One cattle feedlot operator on the NBC report said that he didn’t see any difference between the cattle raised by the old grain and hay feeding methods, as opposed to the modern approach of feeding them manure and waste products. He expressed his (unlearned) opinion that the meat was the same in both cases.
The only difference between the two feeding methods that this man could see was the costs of production. Manure and ground up dead animals are a lot cheaper than alfalfa. A news report on Feb 1, 1998, said that 14% of the feed for American cattle is now the remains of other dead animals. On this theme, it has a clear linkage to the Scriptures (which suggest that it is sin to sell and eat such defiled meat).
This whole situation resembles one mentioned in the media years ago. It seems that a vegetable producer in Southern California was using an excessive amount of deadly pesticide poisons on his crops. A colleague expressed concern to him over it. He replied that there was no problem over the produce since it was being shipped to New York.
Clean and Unclean Meats, Revisited
The earlier outline in the preceding chapter on clean and unclean animals discussed YHWH’s laws on which meats are suitable for human consumption.
A study of those animals communicates that meat eating animal species are generally unclean, while clean animals are those that can be classified as vegetarians (like cattle, sheep, goats, deer, etc, which by nature naturally eat vegetation), with horses being a clear exception since their hoofs are not divided.
In “God’s Key to Health and Happiness,” Elmer A. Josephson noted that unclean animals were created to be scavengers to clean up anything left dead in the fields. As a rule, they are meat eaters prepared to eat and clean up the worst of filth--the remains of dead animals which have bloated and broken open, and are filled with maggots and putrefaction. Scavengers eat this filth to keep the disease germs from spreading.
Meat eating scavengers like hogs, buzzards, hawks, dogs, cats, catfish, etc are always unclean. Hogs, for example, are so unclean, that as scavengers, they can eat the most dirty, vile, dead remains and poisons that would kill most other forms of life. Allegedly, their system can even consume strychnine without bad side effects. Ducks are also unclean because they are web-footed walking disease banks.
Chickens are in a questionable status here since the Scriptures are not so clear on them, though most students of the Word believe that they are clean (as noted earlier) because of their gizzards and digestive systems. While chickens naturally may tend to eat various items (like insects), they have clearly been designed to be fed grains, mash and other vegetarian foods.
Obviously, cattle were designed, created and meant to eat vegetation products and not meat. The modern aberration of grinding up cannibalistic remains of dead animals and feeding them to vegetarian animals, as a part of their diet (by force, since the animals have no choice in what man feeds them in the penned up feedlots), is totally unscriptural and contrary to nature.
Cow Diseases
By the way, cattle producers in Britain started feeding dead animals to their cattle some years ago--including even the dead remains of sick and diseased cows. In time, Britain came to have an outbreak of Mad Cow decease which many observers said could be traced to the feeding of dead, diseased and sick animals to other animals that were destined for human consumption.
A reader’s letter in the Mar 1998 “Prophecy Flash” (p. 83) outlines the origin of the Mad Cow disease phenomenon now on the world scene. The letter said the disease first began in Britain because of sheep, some of which had a disease called “Scrapey.” The Scrapey disease was not transferable to humans.
But when sheep leftover byproducts (feces matter and the remains of dead or slaughtered sheep) were processed into regular cow feed, the malefactor (or malefactress) proteins were sometimes able to mutate into a new form of protein which is malignantly able to cause the “Crazy Cow” disease.
The disease is worse than AIDS. It cannot be cured or arrested. It represents a sure death. Present research indicates that no way has been so far found to kill or obviate the new mutant protein. As soon as it comes into contact with another protein molecule, it causes the captive protein to mutate also, in a doubling or compounding process. It is a life quenching process (a curse).
In America, a related or similar disease is apparently called “downer cow syndrome” (per Dr Brander C. Kitchin’s article on the Internet), although the US national leaders try to hide and cover-up from the public the connection of the disease to Britain’s Mad Cow disease (Jun-Jul 1998 “Prophecy Flash,” p. 43). Reportedly, some 300,000 to one million US cattle die annually from the downer cow syndrome.
While authorities did not believe that Mad Cow disease, per se, had spread to North America, bad news surfaced in early 2003 in Canada when the Mad Cow disease was found in Alberta, Canada (May 21, 2003, Spokane “Spokesman-Review,” p. A1). So, in the vein of Mad Cow or downer cow syndrome, North America does have the problem.
Mad Cow Spreads
In the year 2000, the Mad Cow disease spread into large areas of Europe--especially in France, Spain, Italy and Germany because those nations irresponsibly also allowed cattle producers to turn their animals into meat eating cannibals. After all, profit is the name of the game in Europe in the same way that it is in Britain and the US.
Some of the countries in Eastern Europe responded by establishing embargoes on meat from Western Europe. France passed a law to discontinue the practice of feeding animal remains to their cattle in an effort to try to stop the epidemic from spreading. Soon the European Union proper took a similar action and even went further to order the slaughter of older animals which could have been exposed.
It appears that the massive slaughter of animals seems to be the reaction of the various governments to the threat of the Mad Cow disease. The Dec 31, 2001, “American Free Press” (p. B1, B9) had a report from the Acres staff on “How Bad is ‘Mad Cow.’” Per this story, the US government already has plans for the slaughter of livestock as being the solution if the disease breaks out here in force in 2002 or later.
Though not mentioned in the report, there are at least three features of this typical government reaction. First, of course, the diet being fed the cattle will never receive any attention at all. Instead, the solution will be one of reaction by the massive slaughtering of cattle at large.
Next, there will be a huge benefit or fall out of this process to the big cattle producers. This effort will wipe out a lot of production from small producers. Only the more richer, larger and stronger producers will remain in business (yes, the eliminating of competition serves to benefit the big time producers).
Last, this whole motion could be one more step in the move to world government and the complete control of a dwindling supply of food. This reality will be discussed in later chapters herein.
Suffice to say, the massive slaughter of cattle will greatly curtail beef supplies. In turn, this will further enhance the role of government in the overall control of food (as is envisioned in the coming New World Order, to be described in some detail in subsequent chapters).
In early 2001, the Mad Cow disease was reportedly in Brazil (which is a big cattle producing nation). Many other countries (including the US) followed the precedent set in Europe by declaring that they will no longer buy beef from Brazil. In March 2001, animals with the disease have allegedly been found in Vermont and in Minnesota. At least, two Americans died with an illness which could link to the Mad Cow disease.
US health authorities announced in January 2001 that they would not accept blood from donors who had been in Europe in the past several years. They will surely soon follow suit on people visiting Brazil since the disease is now there. Thus, what a tragedy it is that man’s whole focus is upon greed, get, gain and profits. Why can’t men concentrate instead upon truth and righteousness, rather than on making profits?
Hoof and Mouth
Beyond the absolute explosion of Mad Cow disease all over Britain and Europe, news reports of Feb 23, 2001, said that Britain is now experiencing a wild outbreak of Hoof and Mouth (or foot and mouth) disease which may finish off the cattle industry in Britain. Even Britain’s pigs and sheep are suffering a disaster as well.
In March 2001, Hoof and Mouth spread to Argentina, France and Holland and may soon cover much of Europe and South America. Millions of animals are being slaughtered in an effort to head off the disease, but it was still spreading rapidly in Aviv of 2001. Soon, it logically should be in America.
Apparently, this 2001 outbreak of Hoof and Mouth disease commenced in Britain from livestock brought there from Asia (when will man learn to quit moving life forms around?)--or alternatively, from an act of internal terrorism (to be later discussed).
This disease is deadly serious and it spreads rapidly through the air. Although not mentioned in news reports, one has to wonder if the rapid spread of the disease in Britain is some way related to the diet and state of health of British animals.
More on the US Situation
Otherwise, the US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration (which would oversee this issue) have maintained that these cattle diseases have not reached the continental United States.
Despite these assurances, some observers feel that Mad Cow disease is already here in March 2001 (like in Minnesota and Vermont, as noted above, and possibly in the presence of downer cow syndrome, as cited in the preceding comments).
Investigative reporter Linda Howe (cited elsewhere herein) was on the “Dreamland” radio program on Feb 4, 2001, with Whitley Strieber. She had a report on the possible surfacing of something similar to Mad Cow disease with elk and deer in the Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska areas.
This wild animal disease is slightly different from the Mad Cow disease of Europe. But it seems to have some similarities in definition and in effects. With these animals, it is called a “chronic wasting disease” which also seems to describe the European Mad Cow version.
No one seems to understand what could be causing deer and elk to come down with this disease. Although nothing was settled in Linda’s presentation on the subject, she did open the door to the possibility that it could be passed on to wild animals when they feed upon the cannibalistic diets being fed to US cattle.
More on the Wildlife Problem
The managers of one Colorado state agricultural farm station said that they were feeding their animals a grain based diet which should not present a problem to deer and elk. While it might be true that this one agency might have been using decent grains for their animals, there must have been thousands of other ranchers and farmers who were feeding the cannibalistic remains of dead animals to their cattle.
Once this food is placed out in the wilds for cattle to eat (and especially in the winter when snow covers the ground and grass is hard to come by), it is routine and normal that deer and elk will come into areas with cattle and feed upon the hay, etc, as provided to the cattle.
The Jan-Apr 2002 “Hebrew Roots” (p. 36) had a news report on “Mad Deer” which indicated that the deer and elk version of Mad Cow (the “chronic wasting disease” as noted above) had jumped from Colorado to Wisconsin.
Per the story, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently conducted a ten county winter deer hunt to kill some deer which could be tested for the disease. Some ten deer in this recent hunt have been found testing positive. Three others were discovered earlier--making a total of thirteen.
While officials suggest that the disease is probably spread by the animals in contacts in the wild, the “Hebrew Roots” editor asked if the animals may have picked it up from food being fed dairy cattle? If so, does this possibility raise questions about the safety of milk and other dairy products?
The Jun 14, 2002, “The Week” (p. 20) had a report indicating that the chronic wasting disease (Mad Cow or Mad Deer) is reaching epidemic proportions in wildlife (deer and elk) in eight states (CO, WY, MT, SD, WI, NE, KS and OK) and two provinces in Canada. Five people have died with a brain wasting disease called Creutzfeldt-Jacob which could be related.
Neurobiologist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California says that “We don’t understand the transmission, we don’t understand the origin... We don’t understand anything” (ibid, p. 20).
The Feed Problem Generally
This writer sees wild animals feeding on hay and grain put out for cattle often here in the Pacific Northwest and especially in the winter when deer and elk really have to scrounge for food with the heavy snows that blanket the ground.
If there is a further outbreak of this disease in the US West, it makes perfect sense that it is being passed to deer and elk when they come to cattle areas and feed upon the food provided by the ranchers/dairy owners for the cows. If it is being passed to wild life, it won’t be long and US cattle will soon be killing people. Will anyone stop and ask why this is happening? Or will the status quo continue?
Still More on the US Situation
There seems to be several other aspects about the Mad Cow disease which has only surfaced in early 2001. Just as a very similar and related disease may be striking deer, elk and wild animals, there is also some possibility of other strange variations and cognates of Mad Cow disease affecting other traditional domestic animals used for food.
On the Coast to Coast AM radio program on Feb 6, 2001, Art Bell mentioned some comments from Dr Laurane Day of San Francisco. Dr Day is one of the American physicians who has been extremely familiar with the AIDS crisis and the government efforts to bungle it and not address it properly.
She told Bell that the Mad Cow disease is now in the US and that it affects more than just cattle. Per Dr Day, a similar variation can occur with pigs, chickens, sheep and so forth. Perhaps the cannibalistic remains of dead animals do not react the same in all animals. Maybe, the remains of dead sheep being fed cattle kicked the disease off in Britain. But it seems to have went beyond that state.
Evidently, per the words of Dr Day and the Linda Howe report on deer and elk in the West, the evidence seems to be that the dead remains of different animals may react differently in various animals. Also, it seems clear that different species of animals themselves have a propensity to produce a slight variation of the disease.
Therefore, maybe the basic problem is called Mad Cow disease in terms of cattle (or “downer cow syndrome,” as mentioned in the above comments). But with deer, sheep, elk and other animals, the disease pops up in a slightly different form and context.
Dr Day mentioned one other aspect about this disease which could have far reaching repercussions. She noted that many food supplements have bovine or other animal products in them. Also, many gelatin products are animal based--to include the gelatin capsules used by drug stores and pharmaceutical houses to provide the containers for small doses of drugs, vitamins, herbs and so forth.
While some of these capsules are vegetarian based, many are derived from animals--especially pigs. The question comes up--can this Mad Cow or related disease be spread in any of these gelatin products derived from animals? Clearly, there can be a number of ways for this disease to spread in America, once it gets started.
Oprah Winfrey
The American public is absolutely goo goo eyed over television talk show host Oprah Winfrey (as they are over most big shot Black entertainers and sports figures). In 1997, Oprah made the mistake of mentioning the Mad Cow disease problem in Britain and the allegations of a link between it and the diet that cattle are fed.
Immediately, the US cattle industry sued Oprah for liable. She was tried in Texas. Now, Oprah is one of the richest entertainers in America. She had the best of lawyers. Being Black, she personally had the most favorable media news coverage and plenty of it for her trial in Amarillo in early 1998. Yet, the media rarely gave any of the details on what the suit was all about.
In other words, the nightly news showed pictures of Oprah and mentioned her trial, but never bothered to explain that the real issue focused on the cannibalistic diet fed to animals. For her benefit, she won in court. But most people watching the controlled media never had the foggiest clue on what the real reason was that prompted the litigation.
More Health Fallouts
The fall of 1997 saw all kinds of reports surfacing about contaminated meat products in the US. In one instance, a packing plant in Nebraska had to recall something like 25 million pounds of beef that had been shipped to stores and restaurants (including Burger King). Apparently, there was concern that some or all of this beef had E Coli bacteria contamination.
On Apr 29, 1998, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that they had just issued another recall order for 282,000 pounds of beef because of E Coli bacteria contamination. The USDA noted that the public should cook beef thoroughly to 160 degrees to be sure that all bacteria is killed.
Another recall of 172,000 pounds of beef was issued on June 30, 1998, because of believed E Coli bacteria contamination. On Nov 4, 1998, two recall orders were issued on the same day. Some 550,000 pounds of beef was recalled for an alleged E Coli bacteria presence and around 1.5 million pounds of hot dogs, bologna and other meats were recalled by Winn-Dixie stores for suspected bacteria.
From 1998 and on forward, meat recalls continued to spiral upward across America and real reports or allegations of E Coli contamination continued to surface. On December 4, 2000, a meat packing plant in St Paul, Minnesota had to recall one million pounds of hamburger because of E Coli contamination which caused a disease outbreak in the Mid West.
On April 23, 2001, a packing plant in Canada (the IBP plant) had to recall some 2.4 million pounds of hamburger because of alleged E Coli bacteria contamination. On May 6, 2001, Impact Foods of Milwaukee, WI recalled almost one-half million pounds of hamburger for reported E Coli contamination.
The week of July 22, 2002, saw the Con-Agra Foods of Greeley, Colorado recall 18.6 million pounds of hamburger meat because of E Coli bacteria contamination (Aug 2, 2002, “The Week,” p. 5). This recall was the second largest to date in US history. The problem is becoming so common place and routine that almost no one in public pays any attention to it.
As late as Oct 9, 2002, Wampler Foods of Philadelphia issued a recall of 295 thousand pounds of cooked deli products possibly contaminated with listeria. And on Oct 14, 2002, the company followed up with a recall of 27.4 million pounds of the same type of products (Oct 14, 2002, Spokane “Spokesman-Review,” p. A2). The interesting thing about these recalls was that they concerned so-called “cooked” meats.
Too, while there is some media notoriety on the recalls, it is clear that some significant portion of contaminated meat is not discovered and recalled. In other words, for every recall order, there are other instances of meat problems which do not face publicity and recall actions.
Thus, it seems that the meat packers are having to face periodic and constant recall orders because of the dangers of contamination--principally, in hamburger products. Historically, in American culture, such dangers were unheard of. Now, they are routine and commonplace.
Obviously, something is profoundly wrong with what should be clean meat. It should not take too many brains to figure out that the once clean meats are typically no longer clean meats in today’s modern world (hence, it is sin to produce, sell and eat them). Yet, almost no one in power seems able to put two and two together and understand why (the reason is that profits are involved and no one can question the money factor).
More Gross Problems
The E Coli bacteria problem has even entered incredibly new dimensions--per a news report in early September 1999 from upstate New York. Per the story, some 600 people become infected with E Coli bacteria from drinking some water at a county fair in Greenwich, NY. At least two died and many more were on the critical list.
The water came from an underground well source which had become contaminated with the bacteria, merely from run off from the fair’s cattle barn (Sep 20, 1999, “US News & World Report,” p. 56). A few days later, on Sep 15, 1999, another E Coli bacteria problem erupted when 313 people became infected in Petersburg, Illinois, while they were attending a cornstalk festival in a cow pasture.
Another concern over E Coli was outlined in the May 4, 2001, “The Week” (p. 19) which noted that people can pick up the infection by simply petting animals at zoos or farms. Children are notorious for petting animals and then eating food without washing their hands. Petting animals can lead to a contagion of E Coli. It now seems dangerous to have any contact with animals.
The latest E Coli outbreak was reported by National Public Radio on July 30, 2002, when several US beaches had to be closed to swimmers that summer because of E Coli bacteria. This NPR report focused upon the closure of the beaches at Lake Michigan. Authorities said that they did not know what was causing the contamination.
Historically
This writer once lived on a farm and believe me there should be no problem at all of getting sick from the feces of cattle. But there is today--because something is wrong with the cattle!
In the old days, many American farm families used to use hot cow manure as a poultice to be placed on the chest of a person sick with pneumonia or a bad cold which was in the lungs. On the American plains, people burned dried buffalo dung for fuel. Cow manure was also burned for heat in some areas. Even YHWH allowed Yechezkel to burn cow dung for baking his bread (Ezek 4:15).
For ages, it used to be said that a raw beef steak was good to bring healing to cuts and bruises. When children (or adults for that matter) had a fist fight in the old days, which resulted in some bruises to the face or a black eye, a raw beef steak was supposed to be the perfect poultice to bring healing. Today, the public is warned about even handling raw meat and told to wash their hands afterward.
The purpose in mentioning cow dung and raw beef steaks is not to endorse either or both of them as being good for healing, in the context noted. Instead, it is to show the incredible change that has occurred in cattle over the years. Historically, there never was seemingly a former time when people had to flee cow dung and raw beef steaks for fear of becoming sick to even be in their presence.
Something is now fundamentally wrong and no one (in authority or in the media) appears to even be aware of it or care about it. Will the national leaders and people ever put two and two together and understand that profits and money are not the most important things in life?
Still More Problems
Beyond all the other problems, some persons believe that modern meat products also contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. John T. Hale, in the fall 1997 issue of “The Omega Times” (p. 10), alleges that 80% of all of America’s beef and dairy cattle have “bovine leukemia cancer virus and 50% have bovine immunodeficiency AIDS virus and an unknown percentage have Mad Cow disease.”
He suggests that all this stuff is transmissible to humans in infected milk and beef products. Hale’s insight is so provocative that it is enough to scare the day lights out of people trying to live and subsist in this present contemporary sun worship society.
Yes, Dairy Cattle
While the preceding comments have primarily focused upon meat products from cattle, one should not lose sight of the same type of implications that can be found in the dairy industry (as just briefly alluded to above, in observations by John T. Hale and the previous Jan-Apr 2002 “Hebrew Roots” article).
Thus, many dairy cattle are being fed the same cannibalistic diets--plus new kinds of female hormones to make cows give more milk.
Apparently, almost all dairy products now sold in stores (milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, etc) can pose potential health problems. It would appear that butter fat could be especially dangerous since poisons would tend to accumulate in butter fat more quickly than in most other dairy products.
There may not be a solution in this regard. But if someone must eat dairy foods, perhaps fat free items might be preferred. However, some better alternative sources are available--like soy milk (although modern soy beans can have problems--as will be addressed later on genetically engineered foods).
Also, goat’s milk is great if a person can find a local source where some confidence can be had in the diet being fed the goats. Goat’s milk is naturally homogenized and can be fed infants and others who cannot handle cow’s milk.
Pigs Too
While this discussion has focused primarily on beef, it goes without saying that if greedy animal factories are feeding cannibalistic products to cows (chickens are also fed similar diets), you can imagine what all they are feeding to hogs.
Hogs were made by The CREATOR to be scavengers with a diet of almost anything to include garbage and dead animals. Obviously, producers are feeding the same diet or something far worse to pigs. Perhaps this sickening diet does not adversely affect pigs as much as it does cattle. After all, pigs were designed and created to handle such filth.
More on Poultry Problems
Moreover, Salmonella bacteria is now a growing problem in poultry being currently produced by the new methods. Constantly, the public is being told about Salmonella which was largely unheard of in historic times.
As late as October 10, 1998, the USDA announced a recall of two million pounds of poultry products that were in the hands of schools, hospitals and other institutions. The problem was Salmonella bacteria. And as always, the establishment leaders were at a loss on what could be the cause.
A news report in the June-July 1998 “Search the Scriptures” (p. 10) noted that a new drug-resistant Salmonella bacteria is increasing dramatically. Researchers said that the continued practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock is exacerbating the problem. Salmonella poisoning now affects four million Americans annually and 500 die from it each year.
Tom Valentine, Revisited
Tom Valentine, previously quoted, addressed the drug problem in animals in a story on “The Drugging of America’s Food” in the Feb 26, 2001, “Spotlight” (p. B-3). Valentine says that the massive quantities of drugs and antibiotics being fed animals is beginning to have a fall-out on people who later eat those animals.
Specifically, he noted the situation with “Escheria coli,” a common organism in the human gut that is not normally pathogenic to so-called human beings. The poultry industry uses a drug called Baytril to supposedly control this bacteria in chickens. Now, per Valentine, this bacteria has mutated to form a resistant strain which can be deadly to humans/humanoids, eating the poultry.
In treating a flock of chickens for E-Coli bacteria, the drugs used may cure the E-Coli, but the fall-out is that they cause another kind of bacteria to surface--campylobacter (which builds up a resistance to the drugs being used). This means that people eating the chickens later run a risk of contacting fluroquinolone-resistant campylobacter. Campylobacter is the most common bacterial cause of diarrhea in the US today.
The Jan 6 & 13, 2003, “American Free Press” (p. 2) had a report that almost half of the chickens being sold in supermarkets contain bacteria and much of it is drug resistant. The bacterium Campylobacter was found in 42% of chickens and Salmonella in 12%.
Surely, someone with brains would come along and put two and two together and understand the source of the problem with these drugs, but not so. After all, Americans (like their old, sun worship ancestors) eat almost anything, including dirty pigs and dirty ducks.
More on the Drug Problem in Meat, Milk and Eggs
Previous comments mentioned the growing dilemma over both milk and meat products because of the extensive use of antibiotics, various drugs and hormones to make either more meat on animals or make animals produce more milk, eggs and so forth. Actually, there are a host of drugs and chemicals in use--like the previously mentioned female hormones, DES, pesticides, poisons and on and on.
A story on “Organic foods offer peace of mind--at a price” by Mary Brophy Marcus in the Jan 15, 2001, “US News & World Report” (USNWR, p. 48-50) assessed the problem and outlined some of the present concerns.
Marcus pointed out that there is now some speculation that some of the growth hormones used on cattle, goats, chickens, etc show evidence of some dangerous trends--like the increasingly early onset of puberty by children (especially girls--some of whom are showing signs of breast development and pubic hair as early as age eight).
This writer is aware of this growing trend and also the fact that many young boys seem to be developing breasts that protrude from their bodies. This process may excite and please the demented faggot population. But it should be a point of serious concern to parents (it should be, but it does not seem to be of much concern in the real world).
USNWR went on to suggest that the heavy doses of antibiotics given animals appear to represent an even clearer threat to human health because they seem to spawn antibiotic resistant bacteria that may spread from animals to humans.
Ms Marcus quoted a report from the April 2000 “New England Journal of Medicine,” which said that antibiotic-resistant microbes in livestock can be linked to Salmonella in a young farm boy, whose infection resisted 13 powerful drugs (as allowed earlier, in the discussion on drugs used in the poultry industry).
The point of this USNWR story is that man may be stupidly releasing or creating all kinds of new problems with the increasing use of chemicals, drugs and poisons in the production of animals for meat, milk and eggs. A very dangerous trend or motion can be underway which may offer enormous problems down the road.
The Russian Fall-out
The growing US use of antibiotics, drugs and chemicals in the production of animal based foods is now causing concern even in Russia, as a news report in the March 8, 2002, “The Week” (p. 7) outlined.
The problem arises because the Russians love chickens for food. They are big chicken consumers and particularly chicken legs, which they seem to especially cherish. Since the United States is a big chicken producing country (which makes massive exports worldwide), it was only natural that Russia would become a big buyer of US chickens.
However, the Russians have not been moved to continue to be utterly stupid and indifferent about what is happening to the US food supply. Maybe Americans are lost in a daze over the incredible excessive use of chemical poisons, hormones, antibiotics, etc in the production of animals, but the Russians have not been--or at least, they finally have awoken in early 2002 to the threat.
Anyway, the Russians have become so concerned that they have threatened to stop all imports of American chickens unless the US tells it what kind of chemicals are being used on the chickens. Of course, a revelation of this magnitude would cause a strong reaction from the US chicken industry. These people are simply in no mood to allow consumers to know the truth about the poisons being used.
Since this chicken business was promoted to Russia by the former President George H. W. Bush, the Russians now call the drumsticks-- “Bush legs.”
The Historic Farms
Years ago, this writer lived on a farm (as briefly allowed above) where the chickens were on the ground. Beyond what the chickens ate on the ground, they were fed a diet of traditional grains and mash.
Eggs from chickens on the ground are a world apart from eggs from the egg factories where the hens are cooped up all of the time, and where they are fed a fixed diet of some of the mentioned poisons--coupled with drugs and antibiotics to keep them from molting (as is naturally required), and alive long enough to make them profitable.
Chickens on the ground produce egg yolks that are firm and really a beautiful, tasty orange. Eating those eggs is a wonderful experience. Compare eggs from chickens on the ground with the modern, store-bought, pale ones from egg factories. Not only do they look different, but the taste difference is quite obvious.
It used to be true that people could eat eggs cooked sunny side up, over easy, etc. Indeed, some persons could and would even eat raw eggs and particularly so in cocktails. But this condition has changed dramatically. Modern Americans have been warned by the public health people to cook eggs thoroughly and hard. The reason for why is that the eggs today are contaminated and will cause disease and illness.
Even chickens eaten after being on the ground, versus those from poultry houses, taste differently. The ones off the ground taste really good (like organic vegetables taste, as opposed to those grown on poisoned fields). There is a distinctive difference!
Chapter 252--Sun Worship and Diet III
The Need for Space
The CREATOR made animals in a way that they need space and sufficient land area to transit about and roam. In nature, it’s always that way. Yet, modern man pens these animals up; so that in many cases, they are cramped together, almost side by side, with no opportunity to move about and while wading in their own fecal and urine wastes.
They are forced fed a hostile diet, as noted in preceding chapters, and pumped full of antibiotics and drugs to keep them alive long enough to be slaughtered for meat. The many of them that die are ground up and fed to the survivors so that nothing is lost to the producers (often large, multi-national corporations which have no conscience or concern for right or wrong).
Greed, get, acquire and profits are the names of the game in the historic sun worship society. It was that way 3,000 years ago and it’s still that way today in the Christian, sun worship culture. However, something is fundamentally wrong with this pen up of animals and the diet that they are fed. This should be obvious to anyone!
Many people who have lived on a farm in the old days (pre WWII--before the new animal factories took over) know and understand that something is now wrong with even the smell which used to be tolerable on American farms. Farm animals and their waste products have not historically stunk, as they do today in the animal factories.
The stench of modern, penned-up animals is almost unbearable. Physically pass by any of these animal factories and the stench can make a person sick. Their fecal matter is totally different from the way it was on the traditional American farms. Why? The answer is obviously due to their penned up conditions, coupled with the drugs and cannibalistic food which they are fed.
Healthy animals are like healthy people. Their fecal matter generally does not stink and it comes out of them in a solid, firm, semi-soft condition. But animals in animal factories are usually sick (although kept alive by drugs). Many of them have diarrhea and their fecal waste comes out as a watery squirt. It stinks beyond description.
Not only are these manure and waste products diseased, stinking and sickening, but under the new feeding methods in use today, the animal factories merely turn this stuff around and process it into feed (usually with sawdust) for other surviving animals that have not yet died or been slaughtered (often, meat packers quickly butcher sick cattle before they have a chance to die. It is no wonder that the US has problems).
Art Bell
Art Bell, on the Coast to Coast AM radio program for May 14, 2001, read some recent news reports, some of which are quite alarming. Bell noted the situation with foot and mouth disease and its spreading around the globe. He reported that there is now some concern that it is being spread by biological terrorists. If so, this issue could add a whole new dimension to the problem.
In his news summary, Bell also related another most shocking and potentially terrifying thing now happening in America--or at least, in Kentucky. Just recently (during the month of Ziw 2001), mare horses in Central Kentucky have aborted fetuses, birthed dead foals or produced sick foals which soon died after birthing.
On May 23, 2001, Art Bell’s Coast to Coast program had a follow-up report by Linda Howe on the situation in Kentucky. The count of aborted horses or dead or dying foals had reached 532, as of that day. Linda’s report included interviews with various authorities in Kentucky. They have suspected diet in some way is causing the problem, but they have been unable to precisely establish what it is.
One horse nutritionist suggested that only a very few of the aborted fetuses have been reported. He put this reported figure at 10%, which would mean that the total number of deaths have been more in the range of 5300. Many of these lost colts were expensive race horses which supposedly received the best of care and diet.
The disease is called the “Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome.” Kentucky veterinarians suggest that one in five mares will lose her foal next year (May 28, 2001, “US News & World Report,” p. 42).
Some agricultural scientists first speculated that there must be some strange fungus in the grass this spring in Kentu