Telos Journal Edition Four November 2013 | Page 12

proven to be effective against malignancy, money which could make or break the
banks of those within the vast medical web, whose combined figure lurks up to the $2
trillion mark annually.
However they find themselves caught in the disease-management system, the
pharmaceutically dependent web of disgrace, and however lavishly or modestly they
choose to live their lives—many young and old practitioners, some still inspired,
organized, and eager to heal people, have wallowed on hospital floors from room to
room, “incessantly throwing pills” at their patients because they haven’t the allotted
time to systemically take proper care and assess patient needs.
There’s good and bad news. The good news is that global citizens are fighting for food
transparency because toxins can’t be closer to home than in the digestive tracts. The
‘Monsanto Protection Act’, for example, as a result of relentless petitioning, has recently
been shot down by a hesitant Congress. The bad news is that pesticide-herbicidefungicide-GMO diagnosis is far from complete. Monsanto executive Robert Fraly and
Synergenta founder May Dell-Chilton are co-winning the Nobel Prize of agriculture on
World Food Day this year, even though their most popular products create
‘superweeds’, kill important bee populations that regulate ecosystems, contaminate
organic farms indefinitely, cause cancer in animals, etc.
Perhaps we would gain some wisdom by looking to the Italians who know food better
than most, and the native populations of South America like Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
who live exceptionally close to Pachamama (Mother Earth). All have been successful in
banning most GMOs, despite the imperial impositions by the chemical giants to sue
entire countries and international confederations, like Syngenta and Bayer are planning
to do to Europe for disallowing bee-killing pesticide usage. Many other states are
banning deleterious agro-products one by one with rewarding resolution.
Whether we blame the soaring cancer rates on ignorance, negligence, propaganda,
or tripped-out advertisements that lead us to buying unessential and potentially toxic
stuff, the past is the past for the reason that the future—the new unfolding reality—looks
to survive, and survive well. While the old complaisant saying, “everything causes
cancer,” is bearing malignant fruit, ‘everything’ was not actually food. But when we use