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The day I received my first basket of organic food from Desert Lake Gardens, I found a pair of ladybugs crawling over the produce. My initial reaction was surprise, because like most people, I’ve been conditioned to value picture-perfect fruit and vegetables and to think that it’s unsanitary for any insect — no matter how beautiful it may be — to contact fresh food.

I didn’t consider the ladybug for long before I realized something alarming. In all the years I had shopped in grocery stores, I’d never once seen any living thing on the produce. The sinister explanation is that nothing can live there.

Because Big Pharma Is Trying So Hard To Eliminate It

Nutritional and Natural Medicine (NNM) is under steady, complex and increasingly dangerous attack domestically and internationally. Since it provides the single most effective — and economically competitive — alternative to pharmaceutical medicine, eliminating NNM as a competitor is clearly a high priority for Big Pharma and its allies. These entities, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Pharma-friendly legislators, the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission (CAC), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and developing trade agreements, such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), each has its own attack style. But the common picture is clear: NNM is the enemy and must be destroyed.

A U.K.-based comedian tells a joke about a man who makes an insulting remark to a fat woman. “That’s an insult against me just because I’m overweight. You’re ‘fattist’,’’ she rebukes him.
           
“No,” he replies. “I think you’ll find that you’re fattest.”

And here is one of the latest web postings by a U.K. doctor in the ongoing debate about withholding treatments from obese people, a subject I covered recently.