part 1 above..you can see the whole movie on youtube or get it from Netflix.
I finally got to watch the documentary ‘Food Inc.’, and it was very good. It reminded me in some ways of ‘The Future of Food’, but it also had different aspects. It tells how the farming in our country has drastically changed over the last few decades. The most radical change to food in the course of human history, yet still most food is packaged so that you still think of rural farm settings by looking at the packaging. It gives the appearance that farmer bill down the way grew your bacon from piglet to pig, when really that pig was raised in some industrialized farm packed in with thousands of other pigs in horrid conditions. Speaking of which, it told how back in 2001 a two year old boy died from a new strain of E. coli after eating at a fast food place. His mom now lobby’s for safer food regulations. It was sad. But the new strain of E. coli 0157 H7 has developed from these new farming conditions. From cows being fed a diet of all corn, packed in on factory farms with other cows standing knee deep in their own feces. The documentary also shows how chickens are raised. *shudders* First most chicken farmers have contracts with bigger companies like Tyson. Besides the fact that the farmers are not treated fairly by these companies, the chickens are treated far worse. One farmer who said she was fed up with things allowed cameras inside her chicken houses. She told how since the chickens are treated with growth hormones their bones aren’t strong enough to meet the needs of their growing bodies. The chickens limp, and drag themselves around. Most chickens never see sunlight. The movie also shows how seed giant and agent orange inventor Monsanto treat farmers. You can patent life, and Monsanto has done just that. They patented their GMO soybeans. If these soybeans by means of pollination, wind, animals, falling off a seed truck, etc. end up in a farmer who doesn’t use Monsanto soybeans, Monsanto can then come in and sue them for infringement on their patent. It told how there are almost no saved seeds around and any farmers who do save seeds are on a black list created by Monsanto. There was a seed cleaner who was sued. Monsanto claimed that Mo Parr had insisted that soybean farmers save their Monsanto seed, which is against the law.
Here is another better review of Food Inc, it’s getting late and I can’t recall every detail!
I recommend everyone see Food Inc.!
Jenn
When I got on the scale this morning I was down 2.8 lbs! Yippie!
Jenn
I have a confession. I have been eating whatever I want! During my pregnancy I found it hard to want to cook meals and stay healthy. A lot of times I just wanted fast fixes for the kids and for us to eat. We got off track. I still didn’t buy a huge amount of processed foods, but I did slack off a ton. Yesterday I went in for my 6 week check up after having the baby. The nurse told me the first 6 months are the most critical if you’re trying to loose weight. She said it is easier and after 6 months your weight will just plateau. I have gained 2 lbs in the last three to four days after eating pizza and halloween candy! So today I am getting back on track. I got out my food journal from the first of the year and started writing everything I put into my mouth. I had to do this after I found myself mindlessly eating 2 cookies! They ended up being around 60 calories! 60 calories that I wouldn’t have ever remembered eating and then wondering why I’m gaining. I was thinking yesterday that loosing weight reminds me of shopping. I went to Target and my bill was enormous. After getting to the car I couldn’t figure out how I had spent so much, but every little thing I throw into the cart really adds up, until I’ve spent hundreds of dollars. If I want to buy those items then I have to go work to make the money for them. Like with loosing weight, the little 32 calorie cookie adds up when I eat several throughout the day and then I can’t figure out why the scale is going up. If I want to fit into the size 6 dress, or eat whatever I want then I’m going to also have to do the work through exercise to get to that place. So my goal today is to loose 50 lbs in the next 5 months. I’ve already wasted one of my months, but I also wasn’t approved to exercise until after 6 weeks post-baby. I gained about 30 lbs with this baby and I have only lost about 13 of it. So today is day one!!! I will update on my progress.
Jenn
I think I need to find a new brand of chocolate chips! 
PhD in Parenting: ‘An Open Letter to the Attendees of the Nestle Family blogger Event’
Nature Mom’s Blog: ‘Nestle Blogger Firestorm’
Jenn
I found with no-pooing that having easy to use containers is key to keeping it up. My friend, Q-girl, told me that she uses baby formula containers for her no-poo needs. I went to the food isle at the store and found some rubbermaid 1 qt drinking containers with snap on lids. You can use whatever will work for you, but I think having something with a snap on and off lid that is attached is probably more efficient. I still use a small open lid container and pour my AC Vinegar into that so that I can soak only the ends of my hair. It’s a lot less wasteful, and if I use too much AC Vinegar my hair can be oilier. Always keep in mind your local ‘everything’s a dollar’ type store too when searching for containers. 
Pictured above is the Munchkin brand formula containers.
Pictured above is a Rubbermaid 1 Qt. container. Made for beverages.
Jenn
So I’m really excited that this weekend I decided to no-poo again. I gave it up several months ago because it just felt like a hassle and I was spending an extra 5 minutes in the shower. My biggest complaint was my system. Every time I took a shower I would have to measure out the baking soda and the AC Vinegar. I finally decided to just buy an organic shampoo, but it cost over $9 a bottle! This time my shampoo was almost gone I decided I needed to switch back to the more budget friendly way to wash hair. I decided to get a couple bottles that have lids that way I can keep all my ingredients in greater amounts in my shower ready for use. I may have to add to them every few days, but it’s better than every time I get in the shower. With a new baby coming I hope I can keep this up, and don’t give up again because of the extra time it takes. I absolutely LOVE the way no-pooing makes my hair feel. There is nothing like it. Back when I no-pooed all the time my hairstylist commented on how shiny and healthy my hair looked. I felt like telling her why but then I figured she’d never believe me since they use so many products on their hair. And I hate the way people look at you when you say “I no-poo”…You what? Once while I was trying my organic shampoo I still had some of my old regular shampoo left in the closet so I got it out and used it. When I dried my hair it felt really heavy and almost plastic. It is amazing what those products really do to your hair! I was excited today to see a blog post by simple mom on no-pooing. Here it is with some others.
http://simplemom.net/how-to-clean-your-hair-without-shampoo/
http://sortacrunchy.typepad.com/sortacrunchy/2008/05/another-way—s.html
http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2009/07/no-poo-update.html
http://babyslime.livejournal.com/174054.html#bad
Jenn
This is totally random, and so is this book. I love how insane this book is and how it just veers off in so many silly directions. I feel so silly, in a good way when I read this. ENJOY!
Transcription of
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
“One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish,
Black fish, Blue fish, Old fish, New fish.
This one has a littlecar.
This one has a little star.
Say! What a lot of fish there are.
Yes. Some are red, and some are blue.
Some are old and some are new.
Some are sad, and some are glad,
And some are very, very bad.
Why are they sad and glad and bad?
I do not know, go ask your dad.
Some are thin, and some are fat.
The fat one has a yellow hat.
From there to here,
From here to there,
Funny things are everywhere.
Here are some who like to run.
They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.
Oh me! Oh my! Oh me! oh my!
What a lot of funny things go by.
Some have two feet and some have four.
Some have six feet and some have more.
Where do they come from? I can’t say.
But I bet they have come a long, long way.
we see them come, we see them go.
Some are fast. Some are slow.
Some are high. Some are low.
Not one of them is like another.
Don’t ask us why, go ask your mother.
Say! Look at his fingers!
One, two, three…
How many fingers do I see?
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
He has eleven!
Eleven! This is something new.
I wish I had eleven too!
Bump! Bump! Bump!
Did you ever ride a Wump?
We have a Wump with just one hump.
But we know a man called Mr. Gump.
Mr. gump has a seven hump Wump. So…
If you like to go Bump! Bump!
Just jump on the hump of the Wump of Gump
Who am I? My name is Ned
I do not like my little bed.
This is no good. This is not right.
My feet stick out of bed all night.
And when I pull them in, Oh, Dear!
My head sticks out of bed up here!
We like our bike. It is made for three.
Our Mike sits up in back, you see.
We like our Mike, and this is why:
Mike does all the work when the hills get high.
Hello there, Ned. How do you do?
Tell me, tell me what is new?
How are things in your little bed?
What is new? Please tell me Ned.
I do not like this bed at all.
a lot of things have come to call.
A cow, a dog, a cat, a mouse.
Oh! What a bed! Oh! What a house!
Oh dear, oh dear! I cannot hear.
Will you please come over near?
Will you please look in my ear?
There must be something there, I fear.
Say look! A bird was in your ear.
But he is out. So have no fear.
Again your ear can hear, my dear.
My hat is old, my teeth are gold.
I have a bird I like to hold.
My shoe is off, my foot is cold.
My shoe is off, my foot is cold.
I have a bird I like to hold.
My hat is old, my teeth are gold.
And now my story is all told.
We took a look. We saw a Nook.
On his head he had a hook.
On his hook he had a book.
On his book was “How to Cook”
We saw him sit and try to cook
But a Nook can’t read, so a Nook can’t Cook.
SO…
What good to a Nook is a hook cook book?
the moon was out and we saw some sheep.
We saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.
by the light of the moon, by the light of a star;
They walked all night from near to far.
I would never walk. I would take a car.
I do not like this one so well.
all he does is yell, yell, yell.
I will not have this one about.
When he comes in I put him out.
This one is quiet as a mouse.
I like to have him in the house.
At our house we open cans.
We have to open many cans.
and that is why we have a Zans.
A Zans for cans is very good.
Have you a Zans for cans? You should.
I like to box. How I like to box.
So every day I box a Gox.
In yellow socks I box my Gox.
I box in yellow Gox box socks.
It is fun to sing if you sing with a Ying.
My Ying can sing like anything.
I sing high and my Ying sings low.
And we are not too bad, you know.
this one, I think, is called a Yink.
he likes to wink, he likes to drink.
He likes to drink, and drink, and drink.
the thing he likes to drink is ink.
The ink he likes to drink is pink.
He likes to wink and drink pink ink.
SO…
If you have a lot of ink,
you should get a Yink, I think.
Hop, hop, hop! I am a Yop
All I like to do is hop,
From finger top to finger top.
I hop from left to right and then…
Hop, hop! I hop right back again.
I like to hop all day and night.
From right to left and left to right.
Why do I like to hop, hop, hop?
I do not know. Go ask your Pop.
Brush, brush, brush, brush
Comb, comb, comb, comb
Blue hair is fun to brush and comb.
All girls who like to brush and comb,
Should have a pet like this at home.
Who is this pet? Say! He is wet.
You never yet met a pet, I bet,
As wet as they let this wet pet get.
Did you ever fly a kite in bed?
did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?
Did you ever milk this kind of cow?
Well, we can do it. We know how.
If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good.
Hello, hello. Are you there?
Hello! I called you up to say hello.
I said Hello.
Can you hear me, Joe?
Oh no, I cannot hear your call.
I cannot hear your call at all.
This is not good, and I know why.
A mouse has cut the wire, goodbye!
From near to far, from here to there,
Funny things are everywhere.
These yellow pets are called the Zeds.
They have one hair upon their heads.
Their hair grows fast. So fast they say,
They need a haircut every day.
Who am I? My name is Ish
On my hand I have a dish.
I have this dish to help me wish.
When I wish to make a wish
I wave my hand with a big swish swish.
Then I say, “I wish for fish!”
And I get fish right on my dish.
So…
If you wish to make a wish,
you may swish for fish with my Ish wish dish.
At our house we play out back.
We play a game called ring the Gack.
Would you like to play this game?
Come down! We have the only Gack in town.
Look what we found in the park in the dark.
We will take him home, we will call him Clark.
He will live at our house, he will grow and grow.
Will our mother like this? We don’t know.
And now, Good night.
It is time to sleep
So we will sleep with our pet Zeep.
Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day, from here to there.
funny things are everywhere.”
Now my fingers hurt! Not really! I totally found this already transcribed out. I did not sit here for hours typing it all. Just so you know!
Jenn
“Women planning birth at home experienced reduced risk for all obstetric interventions measured, and similar or reduced risk for adverse maternal outcomes,” Dr. Patricia Janssen
Hope this can help someone else. I may not be able to birth the way I choose but hopefully someone else can.
Jenn
For months now I have been debating on whether or not cloth diapers are for me. The upfront cost was one factor holding me back, but then so is changing and washing poo several days a week. Not to mention all the different brands and not really knowing which one would work for me. The one I have really been eyeing is the BumGenius 3.0 Organic with snaps. These puppies are really costly, and the reviews were mostly good. The regular BumGenius are also given mostly good reviews, but I’ve noticed where some people say the velcro eventually gives out. Not sure I am willing to pay that much for a diaper and have it poop out on me. So then I think maybe I should get cloth underneath and a cover for the top? That seems like more work, but then so does stuffing a diaper every time I wash it. Then there is the whole touching poo thing, and especially what you do with that out in public??? I would probably still use disposables for times like that. I do really like the idea of training pants for night time use that are re-usable. I’m getting really tired of paying $15 a bag every couple weeks. I really hadn’t even considered re-usables in that department, but now I am going to look into it. Well, if anyone has any tips or reviews on diapers please let me know!
Jenn
Over at another blog I read called SortaCrunchy she blogged today about ditching disposable products and replacing them with re-usables. I’m not sure how many on her list I have done, but there are several I would like to try. Here is the link: Ditch the Disposables Challenge
Which ones have you already replaced, and how many more would you like to check off the list?
Jenn
Psalm 69
1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. (Psalm 69, King James Version)
I thought I would post a little something about myself. I really enjoy being creative, and I love to bake. I don’t bake as much as I would like, but for my baby shower I made my own cake. I think most normal people would have just purchased one and used 15 hours of their life in a more productive manner, but I wanted a more personalized cake. Mind you this cake is in no way organic. When you are feeding 30-50 people organic is way too expensive, and when your icing is made up of marshmallows and sugar who really cares if there are hydrogenated ingredients underneath anyway?! So here is a pic of the cake I made. My best friend Emily really helped tremendously the first day of baking. She helped me bake and ice the cakes. It was an enormous amount of work and I am so thankful she was there to help! After she left I found myself wondering around the kitchen with no purpose and slightly scatterbrained. Luckily I did manage to pull myself together and finish the cake.
Jenn
Congratulations to Q-girl and family on the new baby boy!!! I can’t wait to meet him!
Jenn
Name change! For a while I have felt like my blog really isn’t personal enough. I’ve considered making a new blog, but then I thought all of the articles that I have found and recipes are already on here, so I am changing the name to ‘Naturally Jenn’. Hopefully this will help it feel more personal so I can blog about the ups and downs of trying to get myself and my family to eat and live a healthier lifestyle. Over the course of this pregnancy I really have slacked off some months and would notice a trend to start bringing back all the bad foods with all the processed ingredients, so then I would try to get back on the health/whole food wagon. I would say over the past month I have been doing better. My husband is even trying to give up soda, and eat less sugar! Now that is something! It makes life so much easier when everyone in the family that can make food choices is on the same track. I do still have to make sacrifices in the natural food area. Like when we run out of milk, I can’t drive 30-40 minutes to the only store around here that sells the best organic milk, or drive an hour one way to buy raw milk, so then we have to run to the super market to get regular milk. That really bugs me, but I feel like as long as I am incorporating the good stuff the majority of the time then maybe it’s not so bad. Hopefully sometime soon I can start driving to the farm to get raw milk and freeze several gallons of it to have. Now that my freezer is getting more room in it, from having fresh chickens, I have room for some milk.
The website address will still be onebodyonetemple.wordpress.com, it’s just the title of the blog is now Naturally Jenn.
Jenn
I LOVE raw milk, but the farm that sells raw milk is about an hour drive away from my house and on back country roads. So I have considered buying in ‘bulk’ so to speak, and then freezing a lot of it. Has anyone ever frozen their milk, and if so, what is the milk like once it is thawed?
Jenn
I am so excited for O to get here so I can wear him! I’ve had a New Native Carrier since K was a few months old (she’s 4!) and I did really like it, except for how it always pulled on my shoulder and caused pressure and tension. Eventually I would just have to stop wearing it. It also hindered one of my arms from really being free to do too much. When I used it with J he really didn’t care for being all tucked in the pouch, and he was almost always too fat to really lay in it right. So this time I did some research and came across several brands of carriers that use both shoulders for support. These are not new inventions and I had no idea that baby wearing was really popular the world over and has been for years and years. The wraps I found are the “Sleepy Wrap“, the “Moby Wrap“, the “Kylie Wrap“, and the “Wrap n Wear“. All four of these wraps seem to be the same basic idea, yet they are all made of different fabric. Some are stretchy and some are “crinkly” cotton. I was all about buying a “Sleepy Wrap”, which sell for around $35, until I figured again that it’s only fabric, I can make this myself! So I tried our Hancock’s and their cotton jersey knit fabric was outrageous! $8.99 a yard!!! So then I tried Hobby Lobby, and they had cotton jersey knit fabric for $5.99 a yard and 30% off! So I purchased 5.5 yards of fabric. I really should have gotten 6 yards because I didn’t account for it not having the spandex of the “Sleepy Wrap”, but it does fit, and will fit better once I have a mushy belly again. Even better about my purchase is that I really got two wraps out of one thing of fabric, and was able to give it to a friend! I almost had enough for 3 wraps! Here is pretty much how you wrap any of these baby wraps. Also Here are some videos that give a slightly better idea:
Jenn
I am planning on exclusively breast-feeding when O is born, and with the first two kids I really never had an appropriate cover. I had one cover that looked like a giant bib, and then another cover that I made that I can’t really even describe, it was bad. So this time around I wanted something that was nice looking, and covered the appropriate area’s without making me look like a giant baby with a bib. So the “Hooter Hider” seemed the way to go. Only thing was that this wonderful invention with an even cuter name cost around $35! I just couldn’t believe that a big piece of fabric with apron like attachments could cost so much! So I googled it, and came across a site that told how to make your own version of the “Hooter Hider”. Here are some pictures of the one I made. I’m considering making another one so I will have options. Here is the site where I found the instructions on how to make it: http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/free-pattern-to-sew-your-own-nursing-cover/
Jenn
BASIC FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT VACCINATIONS
from: http://www.vaclib.org/basic/basicfct.htm
1. Vaccines are toxic.
*Vaccines contain substances poisonous to humans (i.e. mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, etc.) Vaccine package inserts contain this and other information required by law to be disclosed to the public. Although these inserts are produced for consumers, doctors do not make them available to their patients.
*Vaccines are grown on and contain foreign tissue and altered genetic material of both human and animal origin.
2. Immunization (the act of injecting vaccines) depresses and disables brain and immune function. Honest, unbiased scientific investigation has shown vaccinations to be a causative factor in many illnesses including:
*Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (aka SIDS, crib or cot death)
*developmental disorders (autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, etc.)
*immune deficiency (i.e. AIDS, Epstein Barre Syndrome, etc.)
*degenerative disease (i.e. muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cancer, leukemia, lupus, fibromyalgia, etc.)
3. The high rate of adverse vaccine reactions is being ignored and denied by conventional medicine.
*Prior to 1990, doctors were not legally required to report adverse reactions to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
*Adverse reactions are considered “normal”, are ignored or diagnosed as other diseases. Even with this poor system, reported damage is substantial.
*Despite their current legal obligation, less than 10% of doctors report the damage they witness to the CDC.
*Throughout history, many prominent medical and non-medical health professionals around the world have voiced their vehement opposition to vaccination calling it scientific fraud.
4. Mass Vaccination Programs systematically and recklessly endanger the public while disregarding our rights.
*Since vaccination breaks the skin, it is technically a surgery. All surgeries by law require informed consent. Informed consent is rarely attained before vaccines are administered.
*Doctors vaccinate the unwitting and uninformed. The vaccine manufacturers’ package inserts which contain biased industry claims and the bare minimum required by law to reveal are not routinely made available to consumers so that they can make a more informed choice.
*Double-talk and unethical enforcement such as threats, intimidation and coercion are used to ensure vaccination compliance.
5. There is no proof that vaccinations are safe or effective.
*There are no control group studies. Authorities consider that “to not vaccinate” is unethical and have refused to study unvaccinated volunteers. If control studies were done according ‘ to honest science, vaccination would be outlawed.
*Studies which have been done are not designed to eliminate the examiners bias. Authorities who compile and report disease statistics work closely with and have a vested interest in companies which produce the vaccines. In other industries, this kind of bias is not tolerated. Injuries and deaths in these studies are attributed to anything but vaccination to skew the results and make it appear that vaccines have some merit.
6. Laws allow drug companies to violate the public trust.
*In private vaccine damage suits, information is revealed condemning vaccines as deadly.
*Vaccine manufacturers use “gag orders” as a leverage tool in vaccine damage legal settlements to restrict the plaintiff from disclosing to the public the truth about the dangerous nature of vaccines. Our government has allowed these unethical tactics to be used which jeopardize public welfare.
7. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1987 is a pacifier.
*This compensation program pretends to acknowledge the existence of vaccine damage by making “right” the wrongs done. Nothing in this Act attempts to avert these adverse events from happening in the future.
*This Act is the result of vaccine producers pressuring the government to “immunize” them from private lawsuits which can run an average of $4 million per case.
*The fund is made up of tax added into the cost to the consumer of each vaccine, thereby making vaccine consumers pay for one another’s and perhaps their own injury; the vaccine manufacturers have made themselves quite “immune” from accountability. In recent years it has become even more difficult to be compensated through this program due to the parameters for determining vaccine damage changing and coroners now ruling out vaccine damage and charging the parents with Shaken Baby Syndrome.
8. Private insurance companies, which do the best liability studies, have totally abandoned coverage for damage to life and property due to:
*Acts of God
*Nuclear war and nuclear power plant accidents
*Vaccination
9. Vaccination is not emergency medicine.
*It is claimed that vaccines avert a possible future risk and yet people are pressured to decide on the spot. A doctor’s use of fear and intimidation to force compliance is not ethical. Vaccines are drugs with potential serious adverse reactions. Time and forethought should be given before a decision is made.
10. There is no law enforcing vaccination for babies or anyone else.
*Vaccination is linked with school attendance but is not compulsory. Exemptions from vaccinations, although restricted and monitored, are part of every state public health law and can be expanded by public pressure.
*Departments of Health, Education and the American Medical Association personnel profit from the sale of vaccines. They keep the existence of and details about exemptions relatively unknown.
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later
Scientific Fraud and Conflict Of Interest In Vaccine Research, Licensing & Policy-making
By Michael Belkin
Presented at The 2nd International Public Conference on Vaccination 2000, Arlington, Virginia – September 2000
In Business School in a class on Organizational Behavior we studied what can happen to organizations that suffer ethical management breakdowns (such as Johns Manville with asbestos, Owens Corning breast implants, etc.). Nothing illustrates the syndrome of management ethical failure more clearly than the current scandal faced by Firestone and Ford. Those companies denied and concealed deaths and injuries caused by tread separation and a high center of gravity in the Ford Explorer for years. Management knew, denied and concealed that their products were defective and were killing people — the classic ethical breakdown.
In the vaccine industry, scientific fraud and conflicts of interest are causing a similar (but much larger) cycle of deaths and injuries that is being concealed and denied by regulators and vaccine manufacturers. However, (as with Firestone and Ford) a noose of their own making may be slowly tightening around the vaccine scandal perpetrator’s necks.
Financial conflict of interest is a complex issue — because few investors (except perhaps Tibetan Monks or Jesuit Priests) are likely to not have pharmaceutical shares in their diversified portfolios in this day and age. But financial conflicts of interest and scientific fraud (that lead to corrupt public policy) damage the public interest and could eventually bankrupt vaccine manufacturers that have perverted the regulatory process. Shareholders should investigate the issue carefully.
There’s only about 100 US Deaths from Firestone tire blowouts. There are thousands of deaths and many thousands of cases of disability and neurological damage lurking in the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). This is a potential legal scandal of much larger scope than the Firestone/Ford episode.
US vaccines are licensed by the FDA and immunization recommendations are made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which is a committee whose members are appointed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). ACIP immunization recommendations are enacted into law by public health departments and/or legislatures at the state level, via the energetic efforts of vaccine manufacturer sales representatives. While the ACIP does nothing more than craft and finalize the exact wording detailing recommended doses and ages for administration of vaccines, ACIP recommendations are extraordinarily influential, because they get turned into mandates at the state level.
These vaccine mandates are despotic intrusions into personal liberty and democracy. School districts and social service departments demand that: You must inject these viruses and bacteria into your body (or your child’s body) or you (or your child) may not attend school, you may be charged with child abuse and your children may be removed from your home, placed in foster care and forcibly vaccinated.
Such intimidation is taking place with greater intensity and frequency as more and more ACIP recommendations and subsequent state vaccine mandates are enacted. Furthermore, parents are being wrongfully accused and convicted of shaken baby syndrome in cases where their children die immediately after vaccination and have swollen brains in the autopsy report (brain inflammation is a classic vaccine adverse reaction).
The enforcement of ACIP vaccine recommendations at the state and local level by plodding and heavy-handed health and social service department employees is a threat to the neurological systems of those vaccinated. Vaccine adverse reactions are defined as the same thing as disease complications in the medical literature — encephalitis. “Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (postinfectious encephalomyelitis–see also Acute Viral Encephalitis and Aseptic Meningitis) is characterized by perivascular Central Nervous System demyelination, which can occur spontaneously but usually follows a viral infection or VIRAL VACCINATION (or, very rarely, BACTERIAL VACCINATION), suggesting an immunologic cause.” (Merck Manual http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section14/chapter180/180a.htm)
Thousands of reports of adverse reactions such as convulsions, brain inflammation, inconsolable screaming syndrome, SIDS and neurological diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Transverse Myelitis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome continue to flood into the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), where they are largely ignored or tolerated as the cost of some mythical victory over disease. Children and adults are developing the same encephalitic and neurological complications after vaccination that science takes credit for eliminating through immunization — but the CDC, ACIP and American Academy of Pediatrics all insist the vaccine adverse reactions don’t exist or are coincidences.
Their double standard is: You are required to receive this vaccination so you and society don’t develop encephalitic and neurological complications from disease, but if you die or develop encephalitic or neurological complications immediately after receiving the vaccine (which contains the same virus or bacteria that causes the neurological complications), then it’s all in your imagination, it’s a coincidence or we’re still doing studies and we’ll get back to you when they are done.
Shoot first and ask questions later.
Unelected, unregulated and unaccountable ACIP medical bureaucrats have blatant financial conflicts of interest and are committing scientific fraud by recommending administration of vaccines that have not been tested for safety in the age groups or populations targeted. Dr. John Modlin, current Chairman of the ACIP (Merck Immunization Advisory Board 1996-present, Merck shareholder) gave his definition of scientific validity in a March 1999 University of New Hampshire debate: ”Has the information withstood the test of peer review? Has the information been published in a respected medical or scientific journal? … this is the standard that you should hold me to today … has the information been published in a scientifically reputable journal?”
One month earlier at the February 1999 ACIP meeting Chairman Modlin lobbied for the ACIP to recommend the Rotavirus vaccine for premature infants, although no safety studies had been done, much less peer reviewed or published:
“.. available data are insufficient to fully establish the safety and efficacy of rotavirus vaccine in premature infants … there is a section under Adverse Events that details what little information there actually are with respect to premature infants … To my knowledge we don’t have data from a clinical trial specifically … Some bit of information from Seattle, as I recall, that had suggested that was a slight increase in relative risk for hospitalization for premature infants … Obviously a situation where we have to make a judgment in the absence of data, and with a vaccine that has not yet been tested in the group …” (ACIP transcript, pages 102-112) Modlin then held a vote and the recommendation for premature infants passed nine to one — Modlin voted yes.
Shoot first and ask questions later.
As a member of The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) and Chairman of the Rotavirus working group, Modlin had data showing a risk of intussusception (life threatening bowel obstructions) in clinical trails of Rotavirus vaccine before that February 1999 ACIP meeting. The Rotavirus vaccine was withdrawn from the market in October 1999 after 113 cases of intussusception. One premature baby died after getting rotavirus vaccine in a vaccine cocktail and another five-month-old infant died after developing intussusception five days after receipt of the vaccine.
By ACIP Chairman Modlin’s own definition, the ACIP’s recommendation was scientifically invalid. I’ll go one step further and say the ACIP Chairman committed blatant scientific fraud by issuing an ACIP recommendation that Rotavirus vaccine be given to premature newborns without scientific proof that it was safe to do so. And what was the penalty? Modlin was apparently reappointed to another term as ACIP Chairman by the CDC. Commit scientific fraud that causes death and grievous injury — and get reappointed. That is the incentive system in the US vaccine regulatory system.
Another case suggesting scientific fraud is the still-existing 1991 ACIP recommendation that every newborn baby receive the hepatitis B vaccine in the hospital within hours of birth. Samuel L. Katz, MD, who instituted that policy when he was ACIP Chairman in 1991 has admitted they had no peer-reviewed, published studies showing that it was safe to give to newborns when the ACIP made that recommendation. (Katz is former Chairman Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, former Chairman of the Public Policy Council of the Infectious Diseases Society of America).
When I asked Katz in the question/answer session after his April 12, 2000 NY/Cornell Medical School lecture on “Vaccines in the New Millennium” what peer-reviewed, published safety study he used when he was ACIP Chairman to recommend at-birth immunization of newborns in 1991 he answered: “you are quite right there was no published peer-reviewed study” (tape and transcript available). Newborns have negligible risk of contracting the hepatitis B virus, unless the mother is infected. That risk can easily be determined by a maternal blood test. No US vaccine had ever been mandated for newborn babies before. But Katz and the ACIP decided it was safe to vaccinate not-at-risk for hepatitis B newborns without any proper safety study.
Shoot first and ask questions later.
The results of that uncontrolled experiment are in: upwards of 36,000 adverse reactions and more than 440 deaths (VAERS). My daughter died after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine. Katz also admitted that vaccine adverse reactions are the same thing as neurological complications from disease when I pressed him if he disagreed with that definition from the Merck Manual saying “with measles vaccine it is possible that maybe one out of 150,000 children who get the vaccine may get something that mimics measles encephalitis.”
Parents report their children were perfectly normal until receiving the MMR measles/mumps/rubella vaccine, at which point the children became autistic after a neurological adverse reaction to the MMR vaccine (“something that mimics measles encephalitis”). The incidence of measles disease may be down to about 100 cases annually in the US, but the rate of Autism has soared hundreds of percent — a disease historically called “post-encephalitic syndrome.”
For vaccine manufacturers — the ACIP is a gold mine. ACIP recommendations are a license for vaccine manufacturers to use state governments, school systems and social service systems as a marketing department for their products. With an ACIP recommendation in hand, vaccine manufacturers use the government to say “you must buy my product and inject it into your body, even if it kills you or causes brain damage.”
This is a huge Anti-Trust violation. The Orwellian spectacle of monopolistic and oligopolistic pharmaceutical manufacturers subverting government agencies to ram unsafe products down children’s veins is a violation of the basic principals of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Our forefathers said “No Taxation Without Representation” to their British oppressors. I say “No Vaccination Without Representation” to the corporate tyrants at Merck, Smithkline and other vaccine manufacturers who have so utterly subverted the US vaccine regulatory process.
Dr. John Modlin must be removed as Chairman of the ACIP and the scientifically invalid newborn hepatitis B vaccine policy instituted without safety studies by Dr. Katz must be revoked. The investors and directors of vaccine manufacturers such as Merck and Smithkline must recognize that those companies are conducting the classic ethical blunder of selling products that are killing and injuring people — and then concealing and denying the evidence.
A Canadian doctor who treats hepatitis B vaccine adverse event victims told me when he called Merck, they told him he was the first one who had ever called them with such a problem. There are upwards of 36,000 reports in VAERS and I would be delighted to provide them to anyone who cares to investigate the issue for themselves, sorted by deaths, convulsions, screaming syndrome, liver disorder and neurological damage — median onset one day after vaccination.
This is the CDC’s Mission Statement
“To promote the health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability.” “CDC pledges to to be a diligent steward of the funds entrusted to it.” “CDC pledges to base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived.” CDC Core values: Accountability — we ensure that our services are based on sound science and meet real public needs …”
That’s What They Say, Here’s What They Do
The CDC misallocated funds that were targeted for chronic fatigue syndrome (a vaccine adverse event) to some other non-vaccine related pet project. The ACIP Chairman recommended the Rotavirus Vaccine for premature infants without any data whatsoever showing that it was safe. The ACIP recommended the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns without any public, peer-reviewed, published study showing it was safe. The head of epidemiology of the CDC presented a slide showing serious reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine were approximately 10 times higher than for other vaccines at the February 1999 ACIP meeting. The CDC has ignored FOIA requests for the scientific data used to justify the 1991 newborn hep B vaccine mandate.
The CDC has violated its own mission statement and current leadership needs to be replaced. Most people don’t realize that the CDC is a quasi-Military organization that takes great pride in dressing up in uniforms and strutting around one day a week. That might be part of the problem. If they were just dressing up and playing soldier marching around their compound in Atlanta and not harming anyone than they would just be comical figures like Colonel Klink of Hogan’s Heroes.
But it’s not funny — the reality is that these vaccine mandates are being rammed down the US public health system by the CDC and ACIP and are being imposed at the local level like the US is ruled by some Vaccine Gestapo. The agenda for recent CDC and vaccine industry conventions has had numerous panels on “How Can We Communicate Our Message to the Public More Effectively.” Obviously the CDC, ACIP and National Immunization Program(NIP) are extremely concerned with brainwashing the public to keep vaccinating no matter how defective the vaccines are and how many kids die or become autistic.
Personally I think that’s the wrong message and they ought to stop killing people and destroying lives. But if the CDC wants to communicate their message more effectively, as a management consultant I have a suggestion. They need a more charismatic front man. I suggest they get someone like Joseph Goebbels — propaganda chief of the Third Reich to go out and carry the CDC-ACIP-NIP message to the airwaves.
Michael Belkin is President of Belkin Limited, a financial and economic forecasting firm in New York City.
This article is dedicated to Lyla Rose Douglas Belkin, who died hours after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine. May other innocents be spared her tragedy.
