So, when you feed worried about food and want to turn to the FDA for more regulations, keep a few things in mind:
1. If you are a liberal, remember that you distrust everything else the Bush administration say is urgent, so why are you so gullible now?
2. If you are a conservative, you distrust regulations. Good for you. Talk to your liberal friends and start telling them how those regulations are wiping out the small guy.
3. You can just heat the damn food for a few minutes and it's fine, so quit letting food scares have you push for draconian government/corporate measures - unless they are designed to regulate the industry and not the little guy.
4. Recalls are a powerful weapon in the hands of corporate/industrial agriculture, easy to use to destroy any small producers they wish, and thus easily available (as they have proven themselves ready) to destroy their competition, the sustainable food movement.
4. And there is a good alternative treatment (wouldn't you know?) for salmonella, and it comes from milk (raw milk is rich in the pro-biotics that destroy salmonella). Notice that your friendly corporate Big Pharma Monsanto-influenced FDA is not telling you this and is, in fact, pushing the criminalization of nutrients in Canada right now and is destroying vitamin companies here has been providing and educating on these natural alternatives:
Alternative treatment
A number of alternative treatments have been recommended for food poisoning. One very effective treatment that is stongly recommended is supplementation with Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. bulgaricus, and/or Bifidobacterium to restore essential bacteria in the digestive tract. These preparations are available as powders, tablets, or capsules from health food stores; yogurt with live L. acidophilus cultures can also be eaten. Fasting or a liquid-only diet is often used for food poisoning. Homeopathic treatment can work very effectively in the treatment of Salmonella food poisoning. The appropriate remedy for the individual and his/her symptoms must be used to get the desired results. Some examples of remedies commonly used are Chamomilla, Nux vomica, Ipecac, and Colchicum. Juice therapy, including carrot, beet, and garlic juices, is sometimes recommended, although it can cause discomfort for some people. Charcoal tablets can help absorb toxins and remove them from the digestive tract through bowel elimination. A variety of herbs with antibiotic action, including citrus seed extract, goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), and Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium), may also be effective in helping to resolve cases of food poisoning.
(Orthodox)Treatment
Even though Salmonella food poisoning is a bacterial infection, most practitioners do not treat simple cases with antibiotics. Studies have shown that using antibiotics does not usually reduce the length of time that the patient is ill. Paradoxically, it appears that antibiotics do, however, cause the patient to shed bacteria in their feces for a longer period of time. In order to decrease the length of time that a particular individual is a carrier who can spread the disease, antibiotics are generally not given.
In situations where an individual has a more severe type of infection with Salmonella bacteria, a number of antibiotics may be used. Chloramphenicol was the first antibiotic successfully used to treat Salmonella food poisoning. It is still a drug of choice in developing countries because it is so inexpensive, although some resistance has developed to it. Ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfonamide have been used successfully in the treatment of infections caused by chloramphenicol-resistant strains. Newer types of anibiotics, such as cephalosporin or quinolone, are also effective. These drugs can be given by mouth or through a needle in the vein (intravenously) for very ill patients. With effective antibiotic therapy, patients feel better in 24-48 hours, the temperature returns to normal in three-five days, and the patient is generally recovered by 10-14 days.
It is imperative to stop ANY more power being given to the Bush administration. Currently, they are setting up a system to limit your access to real food and to natural supplements that are the foundation of the alternative health movement, and they are trying to block importation of supplements and natural products from abroad. If successful, you will be living locked solely within a corporate food and drug system. That is where they are taking things.
Just as the terrorist threat is being used by this administration to gain power over us, food scares are being the used in precisely the same way. And the power gained by these multinational corporations over food and drugs is already badly harming us and others around the world.
Contact your Congress people and tell them you are opposed to any more power being given to the FDA (and that word "globalization" in the bill is just hair-raising in its implications). Send Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) this article, thanking her for caring but informing her that the FDA needs to BE regulated itself, not set loose with more regulations that will harm family farmers and are designed to cut off Americans' access to any health care they choose (in this case, vitamins and supplements).
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