“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” – Henry Kissinger, 1970
This is the future Henry Kissinger had in mind in 1970.
Without the knowledge of how our bodies work we can not fully understand how to feed our body. Not putting biology at the forefront of education is a disservice to humanity, the planet and all its inhabitants! Biology should be the foundation on which all else is built and integrated into. Education should begin with counting the bones in our feet and developing an understanding of our place in the web of life.
What is Biology? Merriam-Webster defines Biology as:
Forbes says food is The World’s Largest Business. And as those before us have known; food is the best way to control people. The ways in which our food is being controlled today is much less direct than for instance, ‘our war to win the American west’. There are no Buffalo to target this time. Now the control is much more illusive. More scientific. The human population is approaching seven billion…and everyone has to be fed! The World Bank puts the food and agriculture sector at 10% of global gross domestic product, which, taking the bank’s 2006 estimate of about $48 trillion, would make the sector worth about $4.8 trillion.
”Governments have figures for the percentage of personal-consumption expenditures that go toward food,” says David Palmer, senior food analyst at UBS(nyse: UBS - news - people ). “But if you want not just any food, but what we call packaged food, you have to define what packaged food is. Then you start to deal with the nuances of that, and you have a near impossible task.”
Who is responsible for undertaking the monitoring of nuances going into our food? The population has put trust in our governments’ to safeguard our food. What kind of job has been and is being done? Those in power are obsessed with procuring ‘cheap food’ for the masses. Growing food in an abundance as fast as we can, using whatever science to fertilize this obsession in order to feed an ever growing population. Cheap food and cheap labor is the dream of the 1% controlling our world. Encouraging population growth is essential to having a constant source of expendable and renewable energy. A type of slavery that President Polk’s administration could not have imagined when they sought to win the American West!
“For most opponents, the war to win the west was a transparent attempt to extend slavery into new territories that would become new slave states, thus ensuring that the South would control Congress and the presidency into the foreseeable future.”
- Miller Center, University of Tennessee, An american President: A Reference Resource
”In 1870, some U.S. government officials promoted the destruction of the bison herds as a way to defeat their Native American enemies, who were resisting the takeover of their lands by white settlers. One Congressman, James Throckmorton of Texas, believed that “it would be a great step forward in the civilization of the Indians and the preservation of peace on the border if there was not a buffalo in existence.” Soon, military commanders were ordering their troops to kill buffalo — not for food, but to deny Native Americans their own source of food. One general believed that buffalo hunters “did more to defeat the Indian nations in a few years than soldiers did in 50.” By 1880, the slaughter was almost over. Where millions of buffalo once roamed, only a few thousand animals remained. Soon, their numbers dwindled, with the largest wild herd — just a few hundred animals — sheltered in the isolated valleys of the newly created Yellowstone National Park.”
- Nature, American Buffalo: Spirit of a Nation
Food Manipulations: A Quick Fix for Humanity
On a much broader and bolder scale, our government and industry have developed manipulations to our food which have deathly affects to our Biology. Our educational institutions have not prepared us to understand the implications of the food manipulation to our biology; the masses are inflicted with an inferior education; stressing reading, writing and arithmetic without biology as there foundation and point of integration. The people of the world suffer disease and dying…and look to science for a fast cure! We fight not feeling good, little energy and apathy with drugs. We hunker down and do little to take responsibility for our condition. We are a nation of non-believers…we don’t believe in ourselves and our bodies ability to heal itself.
The Way of Nature
Humankind’s health and well being is reflected in the condition of nature and the planet. Look closely at the heart and soul of what life is about, not just what it looks and smells like; new doors to how we connect are opening and ‘What happens to the least of us, happens to all of us’.
The changes needed today will go beyond much of what we have loved and coveted. We have a couple of choices when it comes to changes; we can choose to leave a bright and shiny world full of everything healthy and beautiful; or, continue chomping away at the heals of our world, leaving a sick and fearful world.
We must strive to understand how our body works, how to become the ‘super beings’ we are meant to be. Embrace our congregation and keep our temple clean and healthy. Understanding our innate connection and benefit to each other. This acceptance and understanding will dissolve our discord, fear and discontent. We have the power and responsibility to all that is apart of this web of life. W e are obligated to insure the highest quality of life for all.
Happy trails within!
