Food pollution; the violation of our inner ecology by Marine Gene & Allen Judith Van

Author:Marine, Gene & Allen, Judith Van [Marine, Gene & Allen, Judith Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: health, Nutrition
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 2020-05-13T22:00:00+00:00

Black Is Beautiful

There is a massive lie which you have been told, probably, for as long as you can remember, unless you are very old, or were reared in some other part of the world. It is a lie so massive, and so massively successful, that to challenge it puts the challenger immediately into the classification of “crank” or “crackpot.” It is as though one were to suggest that the earth does not in fact revolve around the sun.

For a clear formulation of the lie, an excellent source is the President’s Science Advisory Committee’s Panel on Food Additives. The President was Eisenhower, and the year was 1960. On the panel were members of the National Academy of Sciences, university professors, and representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation and of cancer research institutes. This was a part of their statement:

Americans today are better fed and in better health than at any time in history …. The integrated contributions of the engineering, agricultural and chemical sciences have resulted in increasing quantities of uniformly high-quality and pure foods which have contributed demonstrably to the physical well-being of the nation.

The food industry says that we are the healthiest and best fed people in the world, and that “healthiest” and “best fed” go hand in hand. The government says so too. The medical profession (which fiercely resists, as a profession, any suggestion that diet and nutrition may be principal factors in most disease) says so louder than anyone.

In Today’s Health (published by the American Medical Association) for May, 1970, Philip L. White writes, “Scientists agree that the usual American diet is adequate for health. And federal experts and agencies concur.” It is another example of The Great Lie.

Americans are neither the healthiest people in the world nor the best fed. In fairness it must be noted that despite the best efforts of the food industry, and the organized propaganda machine of organized medicine, despite the virtual ownership by the industry of the government agencies that are supposed to regulate it, there are people in government who are determined to make the truth available.

Some of them, for instance, are in the Department of Agriculture. The Department issues a yearbook having to do with food, of which we have the 1969 edition. If read quickly, it, too, paints a glowing picture.

For instance: by the spring of 1965, urban families in the lowest third of the income distribution (that’s governmentese for the poorest third among city dwellers) were eating more meat, poultry, and fish than the highest third were eating 13 years before. Use of milk and milk products had also gone up.

But the overall use of milk and milk products, despite that low-income rise, has gone doum since 1955. Where once we took in only about a third of our calories in the form of sugar (and other sweeteners), the figure is now 52 percent. The use of grain products, of potatoes, and of fresh fruits and vegetables have all gone down steadily (though in some cases slightly) since World War II.

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