Accessible Airwaves (became an opinion page)
From Accessible Airwaves:
 Mainline churches should be silent while Religious Right political leaders get to speak their mind? |
I’m posting this banner, because I’ve heard from various groups recently that the news we hear is slanted in favor of whoever owns those reporting it. I heard it in Chicago when I went to the peace rally and march. I heard it from doctors who are trying to get the message out that switching to a low fat whole food vegan diet will not only prevent disease, but reverse it. I’ve heard it from animal rights groups who try to get documentaries or PSA’s on regular TV stations. I’ve read how the number of cattle in the USA with Mad Cow Disease is being played down by the USDA. And now it’s which Christians get in the news.
Maybe someday, people in this country will start to question the information we’re being fed — not only by the media, but by advertisers, the pharmaceutical companies, the charities that fund animal research, the government, and anyone else that stands to profit by the information we’re given. The question ought to be, “Who’s benefitting?” from the information we’re given? In Chicago, I saw a banner that said something like “There’s no profit in peace”. There is no profit in protecting animals. In fact, all legal exploitation of animals is good for the economy — and especially good for the companies that depend on it for their bottom line. There is no profit in choosing a healthy diet. There is a profit in selling drugs (and especially a cholesterol lowering drug) that allows people to continue their lifestyles-of-choice. We are an over-medicated society, and we seem to like it that way.
Click on the following URL to watch, or listen to, a 45 minute excerpt from the 2005 Healthy Living Expo: http://www.healthylifestyleexpo.com. If you don’t have 45 minutes to sit, watching it, open it in a new window, click, and then listen while you’re doing other things on-line, like looking around at this site.
Here’s one quote by Neal Barnard, MD:
“Dietary changes are first-line treatments. The patient comes in with high blood pressure. The prescription should be a diet change…. The person comes in with high cholesterol problem, or they come in with a weight problem. The first line of treatment should be diet. Medications and surgeries are alternatives. Medication is a complementary medicine…. We should address the cause. And that’s diet.”
Here are a few other things that came to mind:
“Youíll Get the Truth Only If There Is Money To Be Made”, by Dr. McDougall