Is cultured meat just another frankenfood?
With growing calls for a significant reduction to meat consumption comes increased interest in meat alternatives such as the Beyond Meat Burger and cultured meat. Investors are scrambling to be at the forefront of the development of lab-based ‘meat’ to satisfy the demand for ‘sustainable’ meat. A technology still in its infancy, there is still so much unknown about the safety of such products for human consumption given that they’re new-to-nature. We know that our bodies don’t respond well to processed and ultra-processed foods, so it could be a giant human experiment moving to cultured meats. The process requires live animals to provide stem cells, that are then engineered to provide all the nutrients that well-managed higher welfare meat gives us. ‘Frankenfood’ or healthy sustainable alternative to meat? Only time will tell.
WHO names ‘vaccine hesitancy’ as top-10 health threat
The World Health Organization (WHO) has named vaccine hesitancy among its ‘Ten threats to global health in 2019’. The report states that, “…vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways of avoiding disease”. It also outlines its intention to ‘ramp-up’ efforts to eliminate cervical cancer and wild polio virus. The war on vaccine hesitancy is escalating around the world as more and more people begin to question the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. ANH-Intl has long campaigned for informed choice when it comes to vaccines so that any decision is based on sufficient evidence of both risk and benefit.
Philanthropic funding for natural health education in Australia
Despite the desire from certain quarters to see natural health extinguished, it’s refreshing to see philanthropic donations breathing life into ongoing education for natural health practitioners. Marcus Blackmore, a well known figure in Australian naturopathic medicine, has, together with his wife, donated $10 million AUD to Southern Cross University to further education in naturopathic medicine. University vice-chancellor, Adam Shoemaker, said the generous gift will be used to establish a National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine as a “World-class centre of excellence in innovative education and research in naturopathic medicine”. Ensuring the future of natural health practitioners is essential if we are to stem the tide of chronic disease and move from a model of managing to disease to promoting health as set out in our health sustainability blueprint.
Malaysian sugar reduction focuses on traditional drinks
Malaysia is soon to introduce a sugar tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). The tax will not cover traditional drinks often consumed in mamak shops, such as sirap bandung, Milo, teh tarik (tea with condensed milk), kopi susu (coffee with condensed milk) and three layered tea, which are all extremely high in sugar. The Ministry of Health is now reaching out to local outlets offering such drinks to voluntarily reduce their sugar content as part of the fight against the obesity epidemic. Given the Malay's addiction to all things sweet, this could present more of an uphill battle than anticipated with local outlets disinclined to risk valuable business.
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25 January 2019 at 12:26 pm
WHO may be the No1 threat to health! Vaccine globalism is a political entity targeting fear of disease as a vector for control of our thought - and mandatory overriding of laws of protection of our natural freedoms on which any sane society depends.
Show the science and open it to accountability or resign the rights to engage in human 'experimentation' upon whole populations. SHOW it is safe. Show it is effective. Let independent Science IN!
Imposed consensus is a contradiction in terms and the accusation of 'denial' is made by the denier.
The law of returns; does the way we treat the natural world become the terms of our own subjection to being pharmed, managed or 'cultured'? While we are not mostly penned in purely physical terms, the inner life of many is not unlike the outer life of the natural being that we abuse and exploit. IE: Are we doing not only unto the least among us, but unto ourselves?
(As a lack of relational awareness under a permanently activated 'threat' mentality of 'fight or flight - or in corporatespeak 'lack of sustainability' driving the machine of 'survival' instead of waking within Life?)
Philanthropy CAN be a mask of kindness with a hidden agenda - as in the origins of 'Rockefeller medicine'.
Is it a true gift (no strings attached) or an investment? Vigilance can lapse when we see a prospect of a hope or wish fulfilled.
There is nothing an addict won't ultimately sacrifice to protect his/her addiction. This doesn't make them 'evil' so much as not in possession of their right mind. Socially acceptable forms of addiction are invisible - but all work as a way to evade or escape a greater fear or indeed intolerable or overwhelming self-conflict. The choice for the 'devil-we-know' is the persistence in what does not work and cannot work - excepting as a delay or diversion to push the issue down the road or 'store up our unresolved emotional conflicts' in the 'unconscious', the body, and the world.
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