If, as on Family Feud, you asked a hundred people who know me to identify one of my characteristics, most might say that I talk too much about the Scamdemic.
I have found it so interesting, too, that the local independent organic foods store was the most tyrannical of all, during the masking and vaccine-passport phase of the scamdemic. This was a shock to me; but then I figured out that there are levels of knowledge and understanding among people who shop at health food stores; many are paranoid about their health, but don't have a depth of knowledge about what brings about health. Many converted to eating organic because of fears about cancer or other diseases. Those fears then, must have translated into fears about COVID.
Not understanding how our bodies and immune systems actually work.
This is also the politically-correct bunch. Their brains were hijacked.
Still can't seem to bring myself to go into a Trader Joes...they made people line up outside and only allowed so many in (masked!) at a time...for years. I am sure thousands of lived were saved this way...smh
I love my T-shirt. I'm going to publish a photo of me wearing it soon. Since Mark sent me my T-shirt for free, allow me to put in a plug for Mark's must-read book on our New Abnormal, "Dispatches from a Scamdemic."
I don't wear T-shirts but bought a dozen books for Christmas presents. I couldn't wait so have already given away half of them...Good reading and the book actually engages people that have been un-engageable. That's a worthy tome for sure.
I think the people that need most to read it, will refuse to do so.
If some people are open to reading story-based essays, I'm pleased by that. I wrote stories hoping to make my points to those who were just looking at graphs and news clips and freaking out.
I also use stories because I think that most of us understand the world via experiences we've had. Based on my pre-March, 2020 experiences and some basic biology, I saw a Scam while most others saw an unprecedented catastrophe that warranted a drastic response.
Even if there were one near by I would not go. When in AZ the Trader Joe were the nastiest people I ever shopped at. Rude to the point I almost left my wares on their counter. Never went again.
I hope you read Eugyppius on Substack. He is in southern Germany, I don't know how he still can live there, he reports on the awful things happening there.
This is his epistle of today:
Unlearning Carbon Dioxide: Shall we review a profoundly stupid climatard book, just for fun?
I started quite early on as my family lives in Belgium (near Antwerp) and usually Belgium follows what Germany does, or what France does, or both LOL.
Glad to be here though even here it is indeed going downhill. But I think with so many different people in the US, and a lot awake already, it is going to be harder to mess us all up. Still, I have a short list of countries I am considering moving to just in case. El Salvador and Peru on the American continent, Turkey (although a language problem), Russia, Hungary (same, and very strict immigration laws) and a somewhat easier Croatia. But then you get so close to the war zone... there is something everywhere. Mexico was okay until this year with the election (that is why I am not yet there!)
Me either. My experience was with an Austin branch - worst of the worst. The so called 'hippies' were absolutely the most obscene tyrants. SO strange that they hopped onto the government parade of lies when they were so anti-government beforehand. Fear of death makes fools of many.
The one I go to was ALL crazy for a little bit, but much later when I went back, they were all cool again. Must be where we are and who works there, or manages it.
recently the Walmart employees are all masked again, I think forced by the boss. IS TJ Tjmaxx? the one here in rural GA was quite bad in the full scam, but relaxed soon. The worst was, when we had some really hot days in spring 2 years ago and these poor girls at the register stood there in 80+ near the glass entry box, with a mask over their faces, all red headed - I think I would have left my job if it had been me !
Yes I so agree…the Food Coop where I live and have been a member for over 25 years, Ocean Beach People’s Food Coop in San Diego, CA was the worst during the Scamdemic. (And on many levels continues to be.) They required masking and even when the mask advisory BS was lifted by the CA Dept of Public Health, they continued to have a big sign at their entrance “Masks Required”! They had traffic pattern and social distancing ‘demarcations’ on the floor, and only allowed so many people in the store at a time! It’s was f**king nuts to say the least.
There was even a woman soliciting for some woke BS ‘non profit’ at the entrance, with a mask on. I challenged her as to why she was wearing a mask and she flipped out! Folded up her propaganda BS and split.
Now employees (new younger ones who I have never seen before) are still wearing masks, cashiers and stockers alike. One day I told them that I refuse to go to a cashier that is masked, and I had to wait for a a ‘mask less cashier’ before I could check out!
This Coop has been in business, in this same location for over 50 years! It has become woke, supporting the LGBTQ+ agenda BS, and all other phony, woke social/political BS in their monthly newsletter/magazine. I rarely go there anymore, because the whole vibe of the place is so disgusting.
What happened to these people? What does this have to do with health, and a healthy eating lifestyle? The promotion of propaganda BS that seriously doesn’t want anyone to eat or live a healthy eating lifestyle?
All NGOs (and this is one) become the same. They start out on a mission but are always taken over by AWFUL people who only have one goal: to tell you how to live your life. They become like mini-governments. If it hasn't happened yet to some NGO you like...it will. The only difference is that the government is 100% corrupt -- the NGOs are only 99.9% corrupt.
I remember buying Toms of Maine toothpaste. Then the box changed. A few months later Mother earth NEws had a small article that said, read what is in Toms now... the company had been taken over. You paid Toms price but got Colgate. At the time Mother was still a newspaper-kind of health and food magazine. I stopped subscribing when they went into photo mode.
I also was a long time subscriber of Mother. So sad how small it has become and it even ran a USDA ad for some shots for pigs. How can money corrupt every corner of the world??? SO depressing.
Sad isn't it? there were a few good farm and garden magazines, and I also subscribed to Victoria, a more picture magazine. When Mother started with photo reports, I wrote them that if I wanted a photo magazine I already had Victoria. Only a few months later it happened and I wrote a note again, that they published. I think they lost lots of subscribers when it went from information and sharing knowledge to photos and publicity. Glad I quit before the jab advertizing! There is nothing left for us small garden and farm people!
Of course it is. It is a non-governmental, generally tax-exempt organization virtually always originally organized for good purposes by good people. (I have been in several.) But give it time and it generally seems to go the path of all others...most of us are too distracted and assume that it will keep on doing what it was set up to do and the AWFUL people will step in and make sure that you are masking and following arrows and whatever else pleases their small, controlling minds because that is how it always seems to work. Sometimes it takes longer than others, but that always seems to be the trend, sadly.
It is likely that they caved to Governor Newscum and the State of California Public Health Dept, ‘mandates and restrictions’…because of the neurotic and easily propagandized by fear ‘owner/members’ that shop there.
Yep...I expect you are right. The root cause of most bad things is the government...that includes the corruption of NGOs who they buy off/threaten off.
Sadly you are misinformed about this particular ‘food coop’ I am referring to. It is a ‘member-owned food cooperative.’ It is a ‘for-profit’ entity and is not an NGO, nor is it operated under the auspices of a NGO.
Member/owners pay an annual fee to be a part of the cooperative. One does not have to be a ‘member’ to shop there. ‘Member/Owners’ have access to owner savings. Other non owners pay a bit more.
So technically as a member/owner I have the right to protest to The Board of Directors as to how the store is being operated and run. Or anything for that matter.
Not trying to pick a fight about it. It may have been a wonderful place. But did you "protest to the Board of Directors" about the covid insanity they foisted on their "members"? And did they care? I expect the answer to both is no, but I am certain that the answer to the second is no.
If it is organized as a for-profit, by law you have to have an annual vote for directors, bylaws that are subject to vote/amendment as to how it is run, etc. Are the profits delivered as dividends to the members? Just curious. You could/should run a competitive slate of more-informed directors if it is truly a for-profit corporation. That would be an interesting twist.
Ingrid, did you see the story on "BeagleGate?" Fauci apparently gave a grant to a research organization that experimented on Beagle puppies, which later had to be euthanized! And then he tried to cover this up.
If killing millions of humans doesn't upset the population, maybe killing puppies will?
I know. I have only seen a small fragment. I have a Beagle mix. I have been unable to sleep for a few days. Thankfully thousands of Beagles were set free after the story leaked. I sent the story to all my friends - almost all have or had dogs and all of us are dog lovers.
I totally agree. It's almost as if change agents were sent into these places to reinforce the programming.... it makes zero sense to me that people who want to eat and be healthy also have to be progressive nutjobs. Saving the planet, protecting the environment, is fundamentally a human thing, and it is also not true that conservatives don't care about the environment. People have been so divided.
Yeah. upon further consideration I now think the health food stores have been deliberately subverted and molded to serve the globalist agenda.
Lest we forget that the term “new age” and the “new age movement” was ‘coined’ and promoted by David Rockefeller. The Rockefeller Foundation supported and funded many of the “prominent” new age ‘thinkers and gurus’ over the course of the past 35 plus/minus years!
My father died March 9th, 2020 so I was a little clueless that first week about what was going on. Much to my surprise when I entered Natural Grocers less than a week after his passing I was honestly confused as to why literally all the “inner” store shelves were bare. But you know what was still completely stocked- the produce aisle! Think about that. A health food store, people scared about their health, and yet no one touched all the immune boosting foods but stocked up on snacks (but hey, they were from a health food store so they must be healthy, right?). Shopping at a health food store doesn't necessarily equate with optimal health nor health knowledge.
Yes, yes, and yes! It was mind-blowing. I still get flabbergasted when I think about the “natural” food stores that got very militant during the scam. I used to drop a lot of money at these places as they were my go-to. Now I am still making the transition to local private farmers and growers. They don’t necessarily have it all together either but if their food is grown a certain way, I’ll buy from them. I do even less-mindless shopping since 2020. And here I thought I was doing pretty well shopping at the natural food stores. Not so much.
Yes! The answer is to buy local - try to ditch the Big Guys like Whole "Foods" and Traitor Joes. Find local ranches to buy meat from and local growers for produce. We MUST make changes to fight the tyranny!! The bad guys want everything centralized so we MUST DECENTRALIZE!!!! It takes effort, but once you are out of the orbit of Evil you will feel so much more peace.
Re: "Thus, the virtue-signaling, “compassionate,” “kind” people who said they were saving grandma instead killed multitudes via their simple-minded, politically-motivated altruism."
— absolutely.
I don't know that it will be possible to stop this sort of nonsense, for there's always going to be someone gung-ho with a too-easy-to-grok idea that turns out to have noxious unintended consequences. What I do know is that, at the indvidual level, I can avoid eating junk and buy and cook with better quality fats, meats, grains, fruits and vegetables & etc. It's more expensive, yes, but, as the saying goes, do you want to spend it on food or on the doctor?
Also at the individual level I can do more locally (city, county, state) to put a stop to ruinous policies. That hasn't been true everywhere I've lived to date, but it is true where I live now.
I think Dr. Atkins - who was villlfied as a kook - was largely right. He was just promoting a low-carb diet he came to believe would help people better lose weight - and improve their prospects of NOT one day getting diabetes.
So true, the sinister bit is that in countries with socialised medicine the people get the medication subsidised by the tax payers but healthy food you have to buy from your own after tax earnings.
I also like Mark's point about how the destruction of the local, smaller farm gave even greater impetus to mass illegal migration. The negative effects are multi-fold and rarely discussed.
Ironically, many of these illegal immigrants end up in America working at businesses like poultry-processing plants for Big Food.
Fascinating parallels. I really learned something today from you. My mom, who passed away in 2015, came to a personal health/food revolution in the latter half of her life and tried to impart what she had learned. Me, being young and overwhelmed with the needs of my then six children, kept saying I'd learn more from her when I wasn't so busy with babies. But alas, I lost her wisdom too soon. I'm glad people like you are still out there to connect the dots for those of us still learning.
Like your mother I too have had a personal health/food revolution in my later years (now 59) with much success and I’m bubbling over with the desire to share all that I’ve learned to kelp others, but I have no one to pass it onto! Our daughter has been estranged from us for many years with no hope of reconciliation, so I cannot pass it on to her the way I would have loved to. Sounds like we should meet for coffee. 🤣
I absolutely agree. However, the same can be said for the energy industry or the education industry or the military industry or the building industry or foreign policy or pretty much any industry in the US. The government interventions, incentives and mandates are often well intentioned and designed to improve our lives, but the long-term considerations are seldomly considered. Sometimes, the long-term considerations are impossible to predict. It seems that as time progresses, the detrimental effects of policies start to show and the interventions, incentives and mandates become political, arbitrary and oppressive. The regulations eventually overstep the bounds of what is good for the people and the system switches to providing wealth for the member and friends of the government at the expense of the well-being of the general population.
This is a serious meditation on subjects that aren't getting nearly enough attention. Many in our community focus on the crimes and frauds of Big Pharma, but Big Ag and Big Food are right there with this industry, spear-heading changes that also harm far more citizens than they help.
Our foods and eating habits HAVE changed dramatically - and this has produced glaring negative consequences for individuals and societies. Big Pharma and Big Medicine benefit by marketing more pills for more ills.
This was great. I can also tell you had to do some research to provide data to support your excellent points.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. (and even his VP choice) is really the only political candidate talking about these issues. All these trends and changes tie-in together.
Essays like this are precisely why I subscribe to you. This is one of the best analogies. I am glad that you used the Green Revolution as the explanatory model, thus elucidating for more people new to the skeptic arena, the problem with our food system.
You have essentially encapsulated and synthesized a few of my favorite voices on both of these topics, Ivan Illich, Will Harris and The Consilience Project/Daniel Schmachtenberger. Thank you!
I loved Ivan Illich's themes. A few years before he died, I wrote Ivan a letter and he sent me a very pleasing response from Mexico. I think I still have it in my basement.
Will Harris is my favorite 'new' voice. He calls himself "a good old boy." I love that he is very knowledgeable, articulate, reverent and sometimes bawdy in his expressions. Same goes for Daniel :) Would love to meet them.
Will Harris came to our town last year. all our local farmers were there. 3 different chefs from prominent restaurants prepared his ground beef as small plates. with a higher priced ticket, you got a copy of his book. i read it first. my boyfriend is almost done and then we will give it to our partner on our farm. when we can, we'll visit White Oak Pastures. the book was great.
Thank you for saying this. I am planning a visit to White Oaks in September. I loved the book. I think Will's voice is more authentic and down to earth than any of the other books/voices I have read (with a degree in food management and nutrition, I have read many, really all post graduate) or heard on the subject of food politics and regenerative farming. My mother is reading the book now.
"Many assert that unlimited medical care is a right." No, it's not. A person has the right to NOT be harmed by another. Being Healthy is a goal. IMO. Unlimited medical care usually means the total costs are spread out over the entire population. If I love cheeseburgers and fries, you shouldn't have to pay for my medical needs. Likewise, if you have a cirrhotic liver caused by the love of Jack Daniels, that ain't my problem.
I am a Scientist and it was obvious long ago, that Covid and Climate hysteria are identical in that they involve the corruption of Scientific Institutions for the usual purposes, money and political control. It was shocking to me, as I had grown up believing in the objectivity of Scientific Institutions.
The problem is much worse than a simple one-off scam. Medicine has been corrupted by the Pharma giants. I think the politicians simply jumped on board, when they saw how much power (and fun) they could have ... stand in this little circle, etc. They might just as well have ordered people to wear a red beanie ... because. So money first, and then power. I could be wrong and it could be more sinister than that, but that is the simplest explanation. It also gets to the larger issue of the ever-growing power of 'government', and diminution of the rights of individuals.
Years ago I read about Masanobu Fukuoka, he passed away some time ago. His dad left him a regular farm. He started using all natural methods, has a greater and healthier crop than neighbors, and his method can be practiced both in large and small farms. Some months ago I saw a Tube with descendents of SouthAmerican native people. ( think it was in Brazil). They practiced farming in between the wild plants. Unless you go into the 'wilderness' their veggies are invisible ! Two ways of how it can be done, without any chemicals or destruction (Fukuoka lets everything grow including wild plants) and ! without experts. My yard grows very little but since I let the wild growth come up as well, I have several edibles, albeit chickweed, purslane, dandelion relatives, and only a handful of sewn plants. But how to stop the experts from ruining everything???
Honestly it would be better, more accurate, to call these dystopian FiatFoods, FiatMedicines, FiatMedicines, FiatMilitary, FiatEducation. The Fed is at the center of these dystopianistas. The answer is Bitcoin, period!
Wow, you hit it out of the park. What an articulate and coherent piece deconstructing both the plandemic and the global warming hoax without using inflammatory or hyperbolic rhetoric--just the calm, hard facts. Anyone who's written about what's happened since 2020 in particular should take a page from your example. Everything you wrote is true, and what undergirds the tragic death and destruction by the parasite class is only one thing: insatiable greed.
Mark, did you order a second printing of your book? I'd like a copy. I have your mailing address and your email. How do I order and how do you want to get paid? Thanks.
this really hit me. i too was a person who was obsessed with my food, knowing how it was raised, that no chemicals were used on it, etc. coming from a greek/italian family, we ate lots of real food.
i got in trouble in the 3rd grade for a drawing of the first thanksgiving with the foreground pilgrim woman holding aloft a massive tray of artichokes, my favorite food that my grandmother made only on thanksgiving, and leaving the turkey and the corn as distant seconds. the school called my mother in for a meeting, showed her the watercolor and queried her about the strange pile of spikey things. "oh, they're artichokes" my mother said and explained my fondness for them. she was instructed to tell me, with the teacher as witness, that artichokes WERE NOT a traditional american thanksgiving food. seeing opportunity, i asked "does that mean i can have them anytime?" which worked out way better for me than being put on ritalin or cross-sex hormones.
born in 1953, i only had vaccines for polio, TB and smallpox. no one put a rambunctious kid on medication and no one told me that i could be any gender i dreamed up.
the milkman delivered eggs and milk and my grandmother would go to the local poultry guy to select the very chicken or turkey that she wanted to roast or stew. her brother was a mozzarella maker and she used his cheese with her homemade sauce and dough for the pizzas she made us. after he died, i had my first taste (if you can call it that) of polly-o string cheese (horrible!).
my aunt was a nurse and i read an entire nurse's health study questionnaire. it seemed to my 9 year old brain that they asked an inordinate number of questions about hair coloring. there were more questions about hair dye then about smoking, each worded in a different way, scattered throughout the many pages i decided that the authors suspected hair dye as a causal agent and never even considered using it.
i hated the taste of margarine and much preferred the hard as bricks twice baked, stale whole wheat biscuits that italian men liked to dunk in their coffee (even though i hated coffee), to the wonder bread mom used for sandwiches. we ate mostly good, mostly homemade, mostly real food.
in 1963, i came down with a flu that lasted, alternating weeks, the entire winter. our idiot doctor gave me the same antibiotic every other week and, when i didn't get better, tried to pass his failure off on me, insinuating that i was malingering to avoid school. i overheard my mother giving him what for. i recovered on my own once winter passed and my teachers pleaded for my being allowed to pass to the next grade even though i had exceeded the number of allowable truant days in NJ public schools. i had done all my homework and gotten straight A's.
in 1976 my cousin's wife took the swine flu vaccine and spent a year in a wheelchair which pretty much severed whatever little faith i had in doctors. i remember the first time my mother ever had a mammogram and decided that all they seemed to do was train women to fear their own bodies. now 71, i have never had a cancer screening of any kind.
in college, i had a bout of anorexia, dieting myself down to 78 lbs and getting over it on my own. i also learned that autism was the fault of a cold unloving mother and had the audacity to ask about the role of cold, unfeeling fathers.
as a theatrical costume shop owner, i probably ate terribly, sometimes buying a 1/2 dozen of those massive double chocolate muffins that they sell in NYC delis and having one for breakfast every morning, but eating out in pretty good restaurants for dinner. when my friend abe got cancer and i was bringing him food every night, i started to wonder if nutrition might have something to do with health. at MSKCC, they'd bring abe a cellophane wrapped slice of pound cake, probably made in china, with which to take his chemo. i remembered that as a child, i had seen a PBS documentary about the Gerson Clinic (i can't imagine it would ever get air time these days) and i started to research food.
i joined a Weston Price food co-op and before long my fridge was filled with full fat raw dairy marked "not for sale" and meats labelled "pet food." i was put in charge of a delivery site and stayed with Amish families to help prepare for visitor weekends. when my widowed father reminisced about the days when he could safely eat raw eggs, i bought him eggs from those Amish farmers. i cooked everything myself using the best, freshest, least adulterated ingredients money could buy. i read the Omnivore's Dilemma and dreamed of being an intern at Polyface Farm. i had a roof deck atop my midtown apartment and grew corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and greens. i composted all my food scraps.
when we moved to Charleston, i planned a large backyard vegetable garden
like you, if i wasn't talking about theater costumes, i was talking about food. for our first thanksgiving here, i literally interviewed farmers to find a turkey i could feel comfortable with. we shop at the farmer's market and have visited every farm that we buy from. controlling your food supply is the cornerstone of liberty. or so i thought.
then came the pandemic when that belief in that liberty cost me my job of 40 years and a bunch of people who i had formerly considered friends. now i see everything- and i DO mean everything- through the lens of covid. there's hardly a news story that i can't find a way to link to it. i'm a broken record but honestly, until someone goes to jail (or hangs), until people apologize, until former friends admit that they regret ever taking the damn shots and feeling superior when i was right all along, until the CDC and FDA are either shut down or put under the leadership of RFKjr, i find the urge of others to "move on" completely offensive and dangerous. once inalienable rights become conditional, you are headed for a dark place. how can people not see this?
if anything good has come from all this, it's that more people now see the scam that is the US sick care system. we stock IVM, which i had never even heard of before, in our medicine chest. we pulled our retirement money and bought a small farm where our 7 cows, 8 sheep, 4 goats and a slew of chickens are working to improve the soil.
we've been to Peak Prosperity events at Chris Martenson's farm in MA and this summer we're going to Polyface Farm 4 times. we met the great Thomas Massie and Catherine Austin Fitts there. by coincidence your substack appeared in my e-mail while we were driving back from an intensive 2 day workshop at Polyface where we had delightful conversations with the great man himself, Joel Salatin. i read it out loud to my boyfriend while he drove back to our farm. perfect timing! i'm printing it to send to Joel if you don't mind.
I have found it so interesting, too, that the local independent organic foods store was the most tyrannical of all, during the masking and vaccine-passport phase of the scamdemic. This was a shock to me; but then I figured out that there are levels of knowledge and understanding among people who shop at health food stores; many are paranoid about their health, but don't have a depth of knowledge about what brings about health. Many converted to eating organic because of fears about cancer or other diseases. Those fears then, must have translated into fears about COVID.
Not understanding how our bodies and immune systems actually work.
This is also the politically-correct bunch. Their brains were hijacked.
Still can't seem to bring myself to go into a Trader Joes...they made people line up outside and only allowed so many in (masked!) at a time...for years. I am sure thousands of lived were saved this way...smh
I go and I wear my t-shirt.
I love my T-shirt. I'm going to publish a photo of me wearing it soon. Since Mark sent me my T-shirt for free, allow me to put in a plug for Mark's must-read book on our New Abnormal, "Dispatches from a Scamdemic."
Plug: "Great book. Buy it and read it."
got 2 Ts and bought 4 books, gave a way 3. Waiting for comments LOL
I don't wear T-shirts but bought a dozen books for Christmas presents. I couldn't wait so have already given away half of them...Good reading and the book actually engages people that have been un-engageable. That's a worthy tome for sure.
Thanks again, Ralph.
I think the people that need most to read it, will refuse to do so.
If some people are open to reading story-based essays, I'm pleased by that. I wrote stories hoping to make my points to those who were just looking at graphs and news clips and freaking out.
I also use stories because I think that most of us understand the world via experiences we've had. Based on my pre-March, 2020 experiences and some basic biology, I saw a Scam while most others saw an unprecedented catastrophe that warranted a drastic response.
I was right.
If you send me a free t-shirt, I'll advertise for you, too!
I'm being evicted soon, so I can't pay, but if I win the lottery, I'll buy a BUNCH of 'em and give 'em out! ;)
Even if there were one near by I would not go. When in AZ the Trader Joe were the nastiest people I ever shopped at. Rude to the point I almost left my wares on their counter. Never went again.
I hope you read Eugyppius on Substack. He is in southern Germany, I don't know how he still can live there, he reports on the awful things happening there.
This is his epistle of today:
Unlearning Carbon Dioxide: Shall we review a profoundly stupid climatard book, just for fun?
I started quite early on as my family lives in Belgium (near Antwerp) and usually Belgium follows what Germany does, or what France does, or both LOL.
Glad to be here though even here it is indeed going downhill. But I think with so many different people in the US, and a lot awake already, it is going to be harder to mess us all up. Still, I have a short list of countries I am considering moving to just in case. El Salvador and Peru on the American continent, Turkey (although a language problem), Russia, Hungary (same, and very strict immigration laws) and a somewhat easier Croatia. But then you get so close to the war zone... there is something everywhere. Mexico was okay until this year with the election (that is why I am not yet there!)
We're gonna SHUT THAT SHIT DOWN. xo xo
For your dad, and everybody else.
I wasn’t a huge fan of Trader Joe’s before 2020, but during that time sealed the deal. I haven’t been back in.
Me either. My experience was with an Austin branch - worst of the worst. The so called 'hippies' were absolutely the most obscene tyrants. SO strange that they hopped onto the government parade of lies when they were so anti-government beforehand. Fear of death makes fools of many.
That's weird. The TJs near me were the least Covid crazy, and they were the first to relax mask rules.
The one I go to was ALL crazy for a little bit, but much later when I went back, they were all cool again. Must be where we are and who works there, or manages it.
And even to this day I find more faces covered among both TJ’s shoppers and employees than just about anywhere else. Whole Foods also.
recently the Walmart employees are all masked again, I think forced by the boss. IS TJ Tjmaxx? the one here in rural GA was quite bad in the full scam, but relaxed soon. The worst was, when we had some really hot days in spring 2 years ago and these poor girls at the register stood there in 80+ near the glass entry box, with a mask over their faces, all red headed - I think I would have left my job if it had been me !
Poor man, his head is heavily infected....
Maybe that's why he masked up!!!!
He's a SAINT, lol.
You do realize that TAHOE has Covid!?!?!? ;)
Oh, but Covid can sneak up and get you ANYTIME. It has a big BRAIN and it wants to eat you up!!!
Cheryl - I won’t go to TRADER (JOE)s either…
Yes I so agree…the Food Coop where I live and have been a member for over 25 years, Ocean Beach People’s Food Coop in San Diego, CA was the worst during the Scamdemic. (And on many levels continues to be.) They required masking and even when the mask advisory BS was lifted by the CA Dept of Public Health, they continued to have a big sign at their entrance “Masks Required”! They had traffic pattern and social distancing ‘demarcations’ on the floor, and only allowed so many people in the store at a time! It’s was f**king nuts to say the least.
There was even a woman soliciting for some woke BS ‘non profit’ at the entrance, with a mask on. I challenged her as to why she was wearing a mask and she flipped out! Folded up her propaganda BS and split.
Now employees (new younger ones who I have never seen before) are still wearing masks, cashiers and stockers alike. One day I told them that I refuse to go to a cashier that is masked, and I had to wait for a a ‘mask less cashier’ before I could check out!
This Coop has been in business, in this same location for over 50 years! It has become woke, supporting the LGBTQ+ agenda BS, and all other phony, woke social/political BS in their monthly newsletter/magazine. I rarely go there anymore, because the whole vibe of the place is so disgusting.
What happened to these people? What does this have to do with health, and a healthy eating lifestyle? The promotion of propaganda BS that seriously doesn’t want anyone to eat or live a healthy eating lifestyle?
All NGOs (and this is one) become the same. They start out on a mission but are always taken over by AWFUL people who only have one goal: to tell you how to live your life. They become like mini-governments. If it hasn't happened yet to some NGO you like...it will. The only difference is that the government is 100% corrupt -- the NGOs are only 99.9% corrupt.
I remember buying Toms of Maine toothpaste. Then the box changed. A few months later Mother earth NEws had a small article that said, read what is in Toms now... the company had been taken over. You paid Toms price but got Colgate. At the time Mother was still a newspaper-kind of health and food magazine. I stopped subscribing when they went into photo mode.
I also was a long time subscriber of Mother. So sad how small it has become and it even ran a USDA ad for some shots for pigs. How can money corrupt every corner of the world??? SO depressing.
Sad isn't it? there were a few good farm and garden magazines, and I also subscribed to Victoria, a more picture magazine. When Mother started with photo reports, I wrote them that if I wanted a photo magazine I already had Victoria. Only a few months later it happened and I wrote a note again, that they published. I think they lost lots of subscribers when it went from information and sharing knowledge to photos and publicity. Glad I quit before the jab advertizing! There is nothing left for us small garden and farm people!
A Food Coop is not an NGO, if that is what you are referring to in (“and this is one)”.
Of course it is. It is a non-governmental, generally tax-exempt organization virtually always originally organized for good purposes by good people. (I have been in several.) But give it time and it generally seems to go the path of all others...most of us are too distracted and assume that it will keep on doing what it was set up to do and the AWFUL people will step in and make sure that you are masking and following arrows and whatever else pleases their small, controlling minds because that is how it always seems to work. Sometimes it takes longer than others, but that always seems to be the trend, sadly.
It is likely that they caved to Governor Newscum and the State of California Public Health Dept, ‘mandates and restrictions’…because of the neurotic and easily propagandized by fear ‘owner/members’ that shop there.
Yep...I expect you are right. The root cause of most bad things is the government...that includes the corruption of NGOs who they buy off/threaten off.
Newscum ! o h I like that new name LOL
Sadly you are misinformed about this particular ‘food coop’ I am referring to. It is a ‘member-owned food cooperative.’ It is a ‘for-profit’ entity and is not an NGO, nor is it operated under the auspices of a NGO.
Member/owners pay an annual fee to be a part of the cooperative. One does not have to be a ‘member’ to shop there. ‘Member/Owners’ have access to owner savings. Other non owners pay a bit more.
So technically as a member/owner I have the right to protest to The Board of Directors as to how the store is being operated and run. Or anything for that matter.
Not trying to pick a fight about it. It may have been a wonderful place. But did you "protest to the Board of Directors" about the covid insanity they foisted on their "members"? And did they care? I expect the answer to both is no, but I am certain that the answer to the second is no.
If it is organized as a for-profit, by law you have to have an annual vote for directors, bylaws that are subject to vote/amendment as to how it is run, etc. Are the profits delivered as dividends to the members? Just curious. You could/should run a competitive slate of more-informed directors if it is truly a for-profit corporation. That would be an interesting twist.
that is an interesting system. I would like something like that here too.
and the vegetarians who have themselves injected with cells from dogs, chickens, monkeys, fetuses... that astonished me even more
Oh Ingrid… don’t forget the ‘vegans’ who ‘injected themselves” along with the ‘vegetarians’!
Ingrid, did you see the story on "BeagleGate?" Fauci apparently gave a grant to a research organization that experimented on Beagle puppies, which later had to be euthanized! And then he tried to cover this up.
If killing millions of humans doesn't upset the population, maybe killing puppies will?
I know. I have only seen a small fragment. I have a Beagle mix. I have been unable to sleep for a few days. Thankfully thousands of Beagles were set free after the story leaked. I sent the story to all my friends - almost all have or had dogs and all of us are dog lovers.
And they also went for the C19 vax developed from aborted fetal cells!
I totally agree. It's almost as if change agents were sent into these places to reinforce the programming.... it makes zero sense to me that people who want to eat and be healthy also have to be progressive nutjobs. Saving the planet, protecting the environment, is fundamentally a human thing, and it is also not true that conservatives don't care about the environment. People have been so divided.
Yeah. upon further consideration I now think the health food stores have been deliberately subverted and molded to serve the globalist agenda.
Lest we forget that the term “new age” and the “new age movement” was ‘coined’ and promoted by David Rockefeller. The Rockefeller Foundation supported and funded many of the “prominent” new age ‘thinkers and gurus’ over the course of the past 35 plus/minus years!
My father died March 9th, 2020 so I was a little clueless that first week about what was going on. Much to my surprise when I entered Natural Grocers less than a week after his passing I was honestly confused as to why literally all the “inner” store shelves were bare. But you know what was still completely stocked- the produce aisle! Think about that. A health food store, people scared about their health, and yet no one touched all the immune boosting foods but stocked up on snacks (but hey, they were from a health food store so they must be healthy, right?). Shopping at a health food store doesn't necessarily equate with optimal health nor health knowledge.
Some nutrition majors I knew did not eat well.
Yes, yes, and yes! It was mind-blowing. I still get flabbergasted when I think about the “natural” food stores that got very militant during the scam. I used to drop a lot of money at these places as they were my go-to. Now I am still making the transition to local private farmers and growers. They don’t necessarily have it all together either but if their food is grown a certain way, I’ll buy from them. I do even less-mindless shopping since 2020. And here I thought I was doing pretty well shopping at the natural food stores. Not so much.
Yes! The answer is to buy local - try to ditch the Big Guys like Whole "Foods" and Traitor Joes. Find local ranches to buy meat from and local growers for produce. We MUST make changes to fight the tyranny!! The bad guys want everything centralized so we MUST DECENTRALIZE!!!! It takes effort, but once you are out of the orbit of Evil you will feel so much more peace.
Same at my local health food store. It was awful. Some young staff still wearing masks there.
Excellent points.
Re: "Thus, the virtue-signaling, “compassionate,” “kind” people who said they were saving grandma instead killed multitudes via their simple-minded, politically-motivated altruism."
— absolutely.
I don't know that it will be possible to stop this sort of nonsense, for there's always going to be someone gung-ho with a too-easy-to-grok idea that turns out to have noxious unintended consequences. What I do know is that, at the indvidual level, I can avoid eating junk and buy and cook with better quality fats, meats, grains, fruits and vegetables & etc. It's more expensive, yes, but, as the saying goes, do you want to spend it on food or on the doctor?
Also at the individual level I can do more locally (city, county, state) to put a stop to ruinous policies. That hasn't been true everywhere I've lived to date, but it is true where I live now.
Thanks, TB.
I think the main thing about food is to eat according to hunger, not according to the clock.
De-emphasize carbs. And no 4th meal.
I think Dr. Atkins - who was villlfied as a kook - was largely right. He was just promoting a low-carb diet he came to believe would help people better lose weight - and improve their prospects of NOT one day getting diabetes.
But he was going against huge vested interests.
"do you want to spend it on food or on the doctor?". Love that. So true.
So true, the sinister bit is that in countries with socialised medicine the people get the medication subsidised by the tax payers but healthy food you have to buy from your own after tax earnings.
Maybe it should be reversed?
Yes! This is the way forward.
Thank you for sharing!!!
I also like Mark's point about how the destruction of the local, smaller farm gave even greater impetus to mass illegal migration. The negative effects are multi-fold and rarely discussed.
Ironically, many of these illegal immigrants end up in America working at businesses like poultry-processing plants for Big Food.
Fascinating parallels. I really learned something today from you. My mom, who passed away in 2015, came to a personal health/food revolution in the latter half of her life and tried to impart what she had learned. Me, being young and overwhelmed with the needs of my then six children, kept saying I'd learn more from her when I wasn't so busy with babies. But alas, I lost her wisdom too soon. I'm glad people like you are still out there to connect the dots for those of us still learning.
Like your mother I too have had a personal health/food revolution in my later years (now 59) with much success and I’m bubbling over with the desire to share all that I’ve learned to kelp others, but I have no one to pass it onto! Our daughter has been estranged from us for many years with no hope of reconciliation, so I cannot pass it on to her the way I would have loved to. Sounds like we should meet for coffee. 🤣
I feel sad when I hear of estrangement. Kids can be hard.
I pray for peace in your heart, Juju.
Help * not kelp. Lmao
I liked the kelp pun! :)
I absolutely agree. However, the same can be said for the energy industry or the education industry or the military industry or the building industry or foreign policy or pretty much any industry in the US. The government interventions, incentives and mandates are often well intentioned and designed to improve our lives, but the long-term considerations are seldomly considered. Sometimes, the long-term considerations are impossible to predict. It seems that as time progresses, the detrimental effects of policies start to show and the interventions, incentives and mandates become political, arbitrary and oppressive. The regulations eventually overstep the bounds of what is good for the people and the system switches to providing wealth for the member and friends of the government at the expense of the well-being of the general population.
Thanks, Steve. That's a very thoughtful message, which applies broadly.
You left out the "Climate" industry.
This is a serious meditation on subjects that aren't getting nearly enough attention. Many in our community focus on the crimes and frauds of Big Pharma, but Big Ag and Big Food are right there with this industry, spear-heading changes that also harm far more citizens than they help.
Our foods and eating habits HAVE changed dramatically - and this has produced glaring negative consequences for individuals and societies. Big Pharma and Big Medicine benefit by marketing more pills for more ills.
Thanks, Bill.
Sorry for no story. The post was already too long.
This was great. I can also tell you had to do some research to provide data to support your excellent points.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. (and even his VP choice) is really the only political candidate talking about these issues. All these trends and changes tie-in together.
A full throated Amen to this Mark!
Essays like this are precisely why I subscribe to you. This is one of the best analogies. I am glad that you used the Green Revolution as the explanatory model, thus elucidating for more people new to the skeptic arena, the problem with our food system.
You have essentially encapsulated and synthesized a few of my favorite voices on both of these topics, Ivan Illich, Will Harris and The Consilience Project/Daniel Schmachtenberger. Thank you!
Thanks, AnnMarie.
I loved Ivan Illich's themes. A few years before he died, I wrote Ivan a letter and he sent me a very pleasing response from Mexico. I think I still have it in my basement.
Nice! I would cherish that. I would love for you to share that letter.
If I find it, I will.
Will Harris is my favorite 'new' voice. He calls himself "a good old boy." I love that he is very knowledgeable, articulate, reverent and sometimes bawdy in his expressions. Same goes for Daniel :) Would love to meet them.
Will Harris came to our town last year. all our local farmers were there. 3 different chefs from prominent restaurants prepared his ground beef as small plates. with a higher priced ticket, you got a copy of his book. i read it first. my boyfriend is almost done and then we will give it to our partner on our farm. when we can, we'll visit White Oak Pastures. the book was great.
Thank you for saying this. I am planning a visit to White Oaks in September. I loved the book. I think Will's voice is more authentic and down to earth than any of the other books/voices I have read (with a degree in food management and nutrition, I have read many, really all post graduate) or heard on the subject of food politics and regenerative farming. My mother is reading the book now.
"Many assert that unlimited medical care is a right." No, it's not. A person has the right to NOT be harmed by another. Being Healthy is a goal. IMO. Unlimited medical care usually means the total costs are spread out over the entire population. If I love cheeseburgers and fries, you shouldn't have to pay for my medical needs. Likewise, if you have a cirrhotic liver caused by the love of Jack Daniels, that ain't my problem.
"We're from the government and we're here to help."
"Run, Forrest, run!"
LOL
Wow! Excellent article! I agree with all that you wrote!
Thanks, Bonnie.
I am a Scientist and it was obvious long ago, that Covid and Climate hysteria are identical in that they involve the corruption of Scientific Institutions for the usual purposes, money and political control. It was shocking to me, as I had grown up believing in the objectivity of Scientific Institutions.
Yes, Stephen. So obviously a Scam--inside job--from Day 1.
The problem is much worse than a simple one-off scam. Medicine has been corrupted by the Pharma giants. I think the politicians simply jumped on board, when they saw how much power (and fun) they could have ... stand in this little circle, etc. They might just as well have ordered people to wear a red beanie ... because. So money first, and then power. I could be wrong and it could be more sinister than that, but that is the simplest explanation. It also gets to the larger issue of the ever-growing power of 'government', and diminution of the rights of individuals.
Years ago I read about Masanobu Fukuoka, he passed away some time ago. His dad left him a regular farm. He started using all natural methods, has a greater and healthier crop than neighbors, and his method can be practiced both in large and small farms. Some months ago I saw a Tube with descendents of SouthAmerican native people. ( think it was in Brazil). They practiced farming in between the wild plants. Unless you go into the 'wilderness' their veggies are invisible ! Two ways of how it can be done, without any chemicals or destruction (Fukuoka lets everything grow including wild plants) and ! without experts. My yard grows very little but since I let the wild growth come up as well, I have several edibles, albeit chickweed, purslane, dandelion relatives, and only a handful of sewn plants. But how to stop the experts from ruining everything???
The One Straw Revolution. I read it.
I like it that you eat purslane, dandelion and chickweed, Ingrid. So do I.
Honestly it would be better, more accurate, to call these dystopian FiatFoods, FiatMedicines, FiatMedicines, FiatMilitary, FiatEducation. The Fed is at the center of these dystopianistas. The answer is Bitcoin, period!
Wow, you hit it out of the park. What an articulate and coherent piece deconstructing both the plandemic and the global warming hoax without using inflammatory or hyperbolic rhetoric--just the calm, hard facts. Anyone who's written about what's happened since 2020 in particular should take a page from your example. Everything you wrote is true, and what undergirds the tragic death and destruction by the parasite class is only one thing: insatiable greed.
Thanks, Kim. A writer loses credibility when he exaggerates.
I've written a book about the Scamdemic in an unexaggerated tone.
Mark, did you order a second printing of your book? I'd like a copy. I have your mailing address and your email. How do I order and how do you want to get paid? Thanks.
Yes, Kim, I did reorder. It's $20, including shipping. You can send me a check at 240 Wayne St., Highland Park, NJ 08904.
Very well written and definitely on point
this really hit me. i too was a person who was obsessed with my food, knowing how it was raised, that no chemicals were used on it, etc. coming from a greek/italian family, we ate lots of real food.
i got in trouble in the 3rd grade for a drawing of the first thanksgiving with the foreground pilgrim woman holding aloft a massive tray of artichokes, my favorite food that my grandmother made only on thanksgiving, and leaving the turkey and the corn as distant seconds. the school called my mother in for a meeting, showed her the watercolor and queried her about the strange pile of spikey things. "oh, they're artichokes" my mother said and explained my fondness for them. she was instructed to tell me, with the teacher as witness, that artichokes WERE NOT a traditional american thanksgiving food. seeing opportunity, i asked "does that mean i can have them anytime?" which worked out way better for me than being put on ritalin or cross-sex hormones.
born in 1953, i only had vaccines for polio, TB and smallpox. no one put a rambunctious kid on medication and no one told me that i could be any gender i dreamed up.
the milkman delivered eggs and milk and my grandmother would go to the local poultry guy to select the very chicken or turkey that she wanted to roast or stew. her brother was a mozzarella maker and she used his cheese with her homemade sauce and dough for the pizzas she made us. after he died, i had my first taste (if you can call it that) of polly-o string cheese (horrible!).
my aunt was a nurse and i read an entire nurse's health study questionnaire. it seemed to my 9 year old brain that they asked an inordinate number of questions about hair coloring. there were more questions about hair dye then about smoking, each worded in a different way, scattered throughout the many pages i decided that the authors suspected hair dye as a causal agent and never even considered using it.
i hated the taste of margarine and much preferred the hard as bricks twice baked, stale whole wheat biscuits that italian men liked to dunk in their coffee (even though i hated coffee), to the wonder bread mom used for sandwiches. we ate mostly good, mostly homemade, mostly real food.
in 1963, i came down with a flu that lasted, alternating weeks, the entire winter. our idiot doctor gave me the same antibiotic every other week and, when i didn't get better, tried to pass his failure off on me, insinuating that i was malingering to avoid school. i overheard my mother giving him what for. i recovered on my own once winter passed and my teachers pleaded for my being allowed to pass to the next grade even though i had exceeded the number of allowable truant days in NJ public schools. i had done all my homework and gotten straight A's.
in 1976 my cousin's wife took the swine flu vaccine and spent a year in a wheelchair which pretty much severed whatever little faith i had in doctors. i remember the first time my mother ever had a mammogram and decided that all they seemed to do was train women to fear their own bodies. now 71, i have never had a cancer screening of any kind.
in college, i had a bout of anorexia, dieting myself down to 78 lbs and getting over it on my own. i also learned that autism was the fault of a cold unloving mother and had the audacity to ask about the role of cold, unfeeling fathers.
as a theatrical costume shop owner, i probably ate terribly, sometimes buying a 1/2 dozen of those massive double chocolate muffins that they sell in NYC delis and having one for breakfast every morning, but eating out in pretty good restaurants for dinner. when my friend abe got cancer and i was bringing him food every night, i started to wonder if nutrition might have something to do with health. at MSKCC, they'd bring abe a cellophane wrapped slice of pound cake, probably made in china, with which to take his chemo. i remembered that as a child, i had seen a PBS documentary about the Gerson Clinic (i can't imagine it would ever get air time these days) and i started to research food.
i joined a Weston Price food co-op and before long my fridge was filled with full fat raw dairy marked "not for sale" and meats labelled "pet food." i was put in charge of a delivery site and stayed with Amish families to help prepare for visitor weekends. when my widowed father reminisced about the days when he could safely eat raw eggs, i bought him eggs from those Amish farmers. i cooked everything myself using the best, freshest, least adulterated ingredients money could buy. i read the Omnivore's Dilemma and dreamed of being an intern at Polyface Farm. i had a roof deck atop my midtown apartment and grew corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and greens. i composted all my food scraps.
when we moved to Charleston, i planned a large backyard vegetable garden
like you, if i wasn't talking about theater costumes, i was talking about food. for our first thanksgiving here, i literally interviewed farmers to find a turkey i could feel comfortable with. we shop at the farmer's market and have visited every farm that we buy from. controlling your food supply is the cornerstone of liberty. or so i thought.
then came the pandemic when that belief in that liberty cost me my job of 40 years and a bunch of people who i had formerly considered friends. now i see everything- and i DO mean everything- through the lens of covid. there's hardly a news story that i can't find a way to link to it. i'm a broken record but honestly, until someone goes to jail (or hangs), until people apologize, until former friends admit that they regret ever taking the damn shots and feeling superior when i was right all along, until the CDC and FDA are either shut down or put under the leadership of RFKjr, i find the urge of others to "move on" completely offensive and dangerous. once inalienable rights become conditional, you are headed for a dark place. how can people not see this?
if anything good has come from all this, it's that more people now see the scam that is the US sick care system. we stock IVM, which i had never even heard of before, in our medicine chest. we pulled our retirement money and bought a small farm where our 7 cows, 8 sheep, 4 goats and a slew of chickens are working to improve the soil.
we've been to Peak Prosperity events at Chris Martenson's farm in MA and this summer we're going to Polyface Farm 4 times. we met the great Thomas Massie and Catherine Austin Fitts there. by coincidence your substack appeared in my e-mail while we were driving back from an intensive 2 day workshop at Polyface where we had delightful conversations with the great man himself, Joel Salatin. i read it out loud to my boyfriend while he drove back to our farm. perfect timing! i'm printing it to send to Joel if you don't mind.
Carolyn,, it's good to hear from you again.
I'd like to hear from you on the phone. Please email me at forecheck32 at g mail.
Thanks,
Mark