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We’re Losing the Human Touch in Food

Food, which generally originates with a farmer, gardener, or orchardist, is fast losing its hands-on persona and increasingly gaining a mechanical, chemical platform.

Over the last decade, the United States has lost about 28,000 farms annually. While some of the loss is due to urbanization, most of the land remains farmland, either managed by other farmers or simply abandoned. While there are 1.3 million farmers over age 65, only 300,000 are 35 or younger. In 2022, the average American farmer was 58—years older than the average age in other vibrant economic sectors.

The American business landscape is largely anti-people. The current rush to artificial intelligence reflects how eagerly most businesses seek to eliminate people. The farming sector illustrates this trend better than most.

Between 1960 and 2019, the percentage of disposable personal income spent on food dropped from 17 percent to 9.5 percent. Meanwhile, health care spending rose from about 9 percent in 1980, to 18 percent today. Could the two possibly be related? One more data point: In the last 80 years, the farmgate share of the retail food dollar fell from around 40 percent to just 15.9 percent in 2023.

Farming is out of sight and out of mind for most people. Food appears on grocery store shelves. It’s treated as a pit stop between life’s more important activities. Fortunately, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is beginning to shine a spotlight on food, including revised and more truthful dietary guidelines.

For decades, American agriculture policy and practice have replaced farm labor with machines, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. This raises the question: Is food a living thing, or simply an inanimate pile of protoplasmic matter to be manipulated like wheel bearings or bottle caps?

As technological sophistication pulls our culture away from its biologically vibrant roots, it jeopardizes our functional microbiomes. Yes, that’s a packed sentence. You might need to reread it—slowly. The point is, our internal systems are more aligned with the ancient world than with Star Trek. Do we really want machines, chemicals, and drugs to be the medium in which our food is grown?

Wes Jackson, co-founder of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, has long advocated for a healthy “eyes-to-acres” ratio. He suggests that when fewer people interact with the land and the growing of food, both land stewardship and food integrity suffer.

Per-person agricultural output—the number of people one farmer feeds—has increased dramatically over the past century. Cyrus McCormick’s invention of the reaper in the 1830s launched the agricultural industrial revolution, enabling farmers to produce far more than ever before. Replacing the scythe with the reaper was revolutionary.

While technology brought many agricultural efficiencies, without ecological ethics, it may have gone too far. The introduction of subtherapeutic antibiotics in chicken waterers enabled the rise of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). With feed augers, water pumps, and massive barns, individual farmer output soared. And along came super bugs, C. diff, MRSA, avian influenza, polluted water, and fecal-stench air in surrounding neighborhoods.

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FDA Removes Web Content Saying Cellphones Are Harmless – HHS Launches Study

Without fanfare, the Food and Drug Administration has deleted multiple web pages asserting that cellphones are not dangerous. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the move comes as the Department of Health and Human Services has begun a new investigation into potential health effects of cellphone radiation.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has previously declared that cellphones are causing harms that are not yet fully acknowledged. “There’s cellphone tumors. I’m representing hundreds of people who have cellphone tumors behind the ear. It’s always on the ear that you favor with your cellphone…We have the science,” Kennedy said in a 2023 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. “You should never put one next to your head… I put it on speakerphone or use earphones.” 

Responding to a Journal inquiry about the change to the FDA website, HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said, “The FDA removed webpages with old conclusions about cellphone radiation while HHS undertakes a study on electromagnetic radiation and health research to identify gaps in knowledge, including on new technologies, to ensure safety and efficacy.” 

One of the deleted pages included a passage declaring that “the weight of scientific evidence has not linked exposure to radio frequency energy from cellphone use with any health problems.” There may be more scrubbing of the site to come: The Journal notes that the FDA’s site still has summaries of the deleted pages, but the links redirect to other generalized content about the agency’s regulatory mission. 

Kennedy, who had a career as an environmental litigator, has long engaged on this issue. Kennedy represented people suing phone companies for allegedly causing brain tumors, and won a 2020 case that compelled the Federal Communications Commission to reassess its wireless-radiation regulations. He was also chairman of Children’s Health Defense, which has been involved in litigation over 5G technology, and a case blaming an Idaho man’s cardiac issues on a cellphone tower. He has also pointed to radiation as a prime suspect in the mystery of widespread chronic illnesses among America’s children, “Our children are swimming around in a toxic soup, the Wi-Fi radiation is a lot worse than people think it is…yeah, from your cellphone,” Kennedy told Rogan in 2023.  

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Top US court to review suit against German chemicals giant

The US Supreme Court will hear an appeal by German chemical company Bayer on a Roundup-related case in which a man was awarded $1.25 million, claiming the herbicide gave him blood cancer.

The court made the announcement regarding Monsanto Co. v. Durnell in a statement on Friday, with a verdict expected by July. Bayer is currently facing thousands of similar lawsuits.

Roundup originally belonged to the now-defunct American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto, which was purchased by Bayer in 2018.

At the heart of the case is whether Bayer and other manufacturers should be held liable if they comply with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rulings on product warnings, while still running afoul of state laws requiring warnings on goods that may be carcinogenic.

Bayer argues that the EPA has determined that glyphosate, the main component of the controversial herbicide, is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, and approved Roundup labels without cancer warnings.

In a statement on Friday, Bayer CEO Bill Anderson said that “it is time for the US legal system to establish that companies should not be punished under state laws for complying with federal warning label requirements.”

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Imports contaminated with radioactive isotope likely to continue for foreseeable future: US bulletin

Commodities from Indonesia beyond shrimp will almost certainly test positive for a radioactive isotope in the coming weeks and months, according to a new intelligence bulletin that follows a recall last month of 84,000 bags of frozen raw shrimp imported from Indonesia.

Federal regulators announced the recall on Dec. 19, after finding the shrimp may have been prepared, packed or held under conditions that could have exposed them to cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.

The new Homeland Security bulletin, a copy of which was obtained by ABC News, said the contamination is “very likely” to continue for the foreseeable future and spread beyond Indonesian imports that have already been interdicted — including shrimp, as well as spices and sneakers.

“Due to the high number of factories and wide variety of goods produced at facilities in the area of the contamination, additional commodities from Indonesia will almost certainly test positive for Cs-137 in the coming weeks and months,” the bulletin said. “While improbable, we cannot rule out the potential that Cs-137 contaminated goods will arrive in the United States via tourism or passenger travel.”

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Pesticides Derived From World War II Nerve Agents — Still Sprayed on Fruits and Vegetables — Found in Pregnant Women

A study in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health finds peak concentrations of organophosphate pesticide (OP) metabolites in the urine of pregnant mothers 6-12 hours after consuming contaminated fruits and vegetables.

“High detection rates were observed for dimethylthiophosphate (DMTP, 96%), dimethylphosphate (DMP, 94%), diethylphosphate (DEP, 89%), and diethylthiophosphate (DETP, 77%) among 431 urine samples taken from 25 pregnant women, over two 24-hr periods, early in pregnancy,” the researchers reported.

The levels of metabolites within the urine correlate to the consumption of foods treated with organophosphate pesticides, highlighting the importance of adopting an organic diet — particularly for pregnant individuals and their children.

“In 2009-2010, 80 pregnant women were recruited from Ottawa, Canada for the Plastics and Personal-care Product use in Pregnancy (P4) Study,” the authors said.

“A subset (n = 25) collected multiple spot urines (up to 10 each; total n = 431) over two 24-h periods in early pregnancy — one weekday and weekend day — while logging their food consumption beginning 24 h prior to the first urine void and continuing through the following 24-h urine collection period.”

This is the first study looking at the variability of organophosphate metabolites within 24 hours in maternal urine, giving insight into “the primary sources of exposure and the temporal variability in a population of Canadian pregnant participants.”

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Majority Of North Carolina Trucking Licenses Issued To Foreigners Are Illegal: Duffy

A review of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) granted in North Carolina found that 54 percent were issued illegally, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a statement on Jan. 8.

The review was conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and is part of its ongoing nationwide audit of trucking licensing systems, the department said.

DOT warned that if North Carolina does not “fix their serious failures” and revoke licenses issued illegally to foreign nationals, the department will withhold almost $50 million in federal funding.

“North Carolina’s failure to follow the rules isn’t just shameful—it’s dangerous. I’m calling on state leadership to immediately remove these dangerous drivers from our roads and clean up their system,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

According to audit findings, North Carolina illegally issued non-domiciled CDLs to drivers whose lawful presence in the United States had expired, and some of those drivers were found to be ineligible to hold a non-domiciled commercial license.

FMCSA sent a letter to North Carolina Department of Transportation Commissioner Paul Tine and Gov. Josh Stein, outlining audit results and the corrective actions that must be taken to prevent funding from being withheld.

The agency asked North Carolina authorities to “immediately” pause the issuance of non-domiciled CDLs, identify unexpired CDLs that fail to comply with FMCSA regulations, and conduct a comprehensive internal audit to identify errors, practices, quality assurance, and other issues that led to such CDLs being granted.

“The level of noncompliance in North Carolina is egregious,” FMCSA Administrator Derek D. Barrs said. “Under Secretary Duffy, we will not hesitate to hold states accountable and protect the American people.”

The Epoch Times reached out to the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Stein’s office for comment, but did not receive a response by publication time.

North Carolina is one of the latest states the DOT has warned regarding the illegal issuance of CDLs to foreign nationals.

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Will Dropping Rotavirus Vaccine Cause Harm?

Vaccine promoter Dr Paul Offit alleges that dropping the rotavirus vaccine with the new CDC vaccine schedule will lead to thousands of American kids being hospitalized. Can this be true? Before widespread vaccination in 2006, nearly every U.S. child was infected by age 5, typically through daycare centers, preschools, and home contacts. Before vaccination, approximately 20-60 deaths occurred per year in children without ambulatory intravenous fluids and proper treatment. AlterAI assisted with this review.

The 2021 Cochrane analysis “Vaccines for Preventing Rotavirus Diarrhoea: Vaccines in Use” evaluated the efficacy and safety of four WHO-prequalified oral rotavirus vaccines—Rotarix (GSK), RotaTeq (Merck), Rotasiil (Serum Institute of India), and Rotavac (Bharat Biotech)—using data from 60 randomized controlled trials enrolling 228,233 infants and young children worldwide. This systematic review stratified findings by national child mortality strata (low, medium, and high), acknowledging stark differences in vaccine performance and access to early treatment including antiemetics, antidiarrheals, and intravenous fluids.

Rotavirus infection is nearly universal among young children. Severe dehydration from diarrhoea if not managed, drives hospitalization, particularly in low-resource settings lacking adequate rehydration therapy.

The WHO recommended adding rotavirus vaccine to routine infant immunization schedules in 2009. By 2021, over 100 countries had implemented it. The standard number of rotavirus vaccine doses for American infants is two or three, depending on the specific vaccine brand used. Both vaccines are administered orally (as drops in the mouth) and provide protection primarily through the first few years of life, but the duration of benefit is unknown.

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UK’s approval of self-amplifying vaccines is a catastrophic “mistake”

In 2018, Imperial College London entered into a partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (“CEPI”) to develop a self-amplifying RNA vaccine platform (“saRNA”) to enable tailored vaccine production against multiple viral pathogens.

“The consortium aims to develop ‘RapidVac’, a synthetic saRNA vaccine platform, which will be used to produce vaccines against influenza, rabies and Marburg, with hopes to move these products to Phase I clinical testing in humans,” Pharma Times wrote.

In June 2020, a team at Imperial College London announced that it had developed a vaccine against covid that used “bits of genetic code (called self-amplifying RNA).” 

“Once inside the cell, the self-amplifying RNA produces copies of itself, which can instruct the cell’s own machinery to make the coronavirus protein,” Imperial College said.  “The muscle cells will then produce lots of the spike protein … Some of the proteins will be presented on the surface of the muscle cells … When the immune system comes across these tiny spikes, it recognises them as foreign.”

Imperial College completed Phase I and II clinical trials, but due to the approval and rollout of several other covid injections, the decision was made not to proceed with trials in the UK.  Instead, the team focused their UK efforts on “developing self-amplifying RNA technology to adapt to new variants, to boost other vaccines and to be deployed against future pandemic threats,” Imperial College threatened in a January 2021 article.

Imperial College has also been working on saRNA vaccines for rabies, Chikungunya, Ebola, Lassa and Marburg. It has been a key pioneer in saRNA vaccine research, particularly through its collaborations with VaxEquity and AstraZeneca, but it is the US company Arcturus Therapeutics’ saRNA vaccine that has been approved for use in the UK.

On 2 January 2026, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) approved Kostaive (also known as Zapomeran), a self-amplifying mRNA (“sa-mRNA”) covid vaccine developed by Arcturus Therapeutics, for use in adults aged 18 years and older. 

Kostaive uses sa-mRNA technology, which includes genetic instructions for both the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and a viral replicase enzyme, enabling the mRNA to amplify itself within cells.  The stated aim is to enhance immune response with lower doses.

As Pharma Phorum described it, “Unlike regular mRNA vaccines, sa-mRNA vaccines – as their name suggests – instruct the body to make more mRNA and protein to boost the immune response, rather than relying on a finite dose which results in protection waning over time.”

“It is administered as a single 0.5 ml booster dose by intramuscular injection into the upper arm … Once injected, the sa-mRNA in lipid nanoparticles enters cells, where it directs production of the spike protein. The immune system recognises this protein as foreign,” Pharmacally wrote.

Recognising a protein in our bodies as foreign is the problem.  As Dr. Mike Yeadon explained in a video last month, making our bodies’ cells manufacture a foreign protein that our immune systems would attack results in autoimmune conditions, a self-to-self attack where our immune systems attack our own cells, thinking they are foreign invaders that need to be killed.

It would seem the vaccine industry is not satisfied with the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines waning over time, what they might refer to as “waning protection,” and so are seeking to extend the risk of autoimmune conditions through the use of saRNA “vaccines.”

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The Fifth Big Lie of Vaccinology

The Fifth Big Lie of Vaccinology: Declaring Vaccines Fundamentally “Safe and Effective” as a Class, is a manipulative, unethical propaganda device that must be brought to an end.

Slogans, catch phrases, and advertising jingles comprise an enormous amount of the information that the media sends out to all of us every day. Marketing is largely based on attaching simplistic, positive connotations to whatever product is being sold.

Sometimes manipulative advertising is easily identifiable and seems harmless enough. Depending on your personal preference for fast food, you may either decide that “You rule,” or instead choose to make sure “I’m lovin’ it.” When purchasing an automobile, you can be content just to say “Let’s go places,” or you can insist on owning “The ultimate driving machine.”

However, marketing, news, and yes, government directives frequently overlap – and even merge – to an extent that can be very difficult to detect. If an advertising jingle takes hold firmly enough, it can become conventional wisdom. Sometimes it can even be assumed to be objective fact. 

Generations of Americans grew up accepting as an article of faith that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” However, this claim was first made – without evidence – in 1917 by a protégé of breakfast cereal magnates named the Kellogg Brothers. While this assertion about the primary importance of breakfast has been challenged in recent years, it still resonates in the minds of many as a basic truth of daily life.

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HHS Moves to Overhaul Childhood Vaccine Schedule — Recommending Fewer Shots Amid Growing Safety Concerns

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that it will recommend fewer routine vaccines for most American children.

The change follows a directive from Donald Trump in December, who ordered federal health agencies to examine how peer-developed nations structure their childhood immunization schedules and whether the United States has fallen out of step with international best practices.

In his announcement, Trump decried the current U.S. schedule as a national outlier, with “far more than is necessary” required for healthy children.

“Today, the CDC Vaccine Committee made a very good decision to END their Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation for babies, the vast majority of whom are at NO RISK of Hepatitis B, a disease that is mostly transmitted sexually, or through dirty needles.

The American Childhood Vaccine Schedule long required 72 “jabs,” for perfectly healthy babies, far more than any other Country in the World, and far more than is necessary.

In fact, it is ridiculous! Many parents and scientists have been questioning the efficacy of this “schedule,” as have I!

That is why I have just signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Department of Health and Human Services to “FAST TRACK” a comprehensive evaluation of Vaccine Schedules from other Countries around the World, and better align the U.S. Vaccine Schedule, so it is finally rooted in the Gold Standard of Science and COMMON SENSE!

I am fully confident Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the CDC, will get this done, quickly and correctly, for our Nation’s Children. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAHA!”

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