Innate Healer

With food prices rising, many fear that the era of cheap and abundant food is drawing to a close. Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and Omnivore’s Dilemma, talks about what our next president should do about American food policy. His recent article in the New York Times Magazine is “Farmer in Chief.”

Michael Pollen Interview

Do you think what you are thinking and deciding is really our own?  There is much to the illusion that we are a free thinking people. According the Noam Chomsky, generating consent is part of the democratic society.  Are we really free to think and act ourselves?  Or someone else is putting thoughts in our mind?  We are accepting this fact that our mind is controlled by some others?  What is the consequences of deciding for ourselves, but in fact, not the case? 

Google Video: Manufacturing Concent–Noam Chomsky and the Media

It is like rats jumping off a sinking ship. Pfizer is going to stop research and development of heart drugs.  It is not profitable for the drug giant to continue to fool the public with its uselss poison, it is dumping this side of its business. But is it going to have anything better to offer of another potential blockbuster for any chronic diseases that it is interested in developing?  Personally, I doubt it.

“New York, NY - Pfizer is getting out of the cholesterol-lowering game to focus on what it perceives to be more lucrative diseases, according to an internal memo obtained by Forbes [1]. And for the most part, the chosen “disease areas” don’t include the heart.

In the memo, Martin Mackay, president of Pfizer Global Research & Development (R&D), informed his staff that the company plans to “exit” the fields of atherosclerosis/hyperlipidemia, heart failure, obesity, and peripheral arterial disease.

Instead, the company, whose cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin (Lipitor) is the world’s top-selling drug, says it is turning its attention and R&D dollars to cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, pain remedies, and mental health as its “higher-priority areas.” “

Read the full article: http://www.theheart.org/article/908435.do

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