Actually this is spot on as for the intentions. Sure the pharmaceutical 
drugs do help those with some diseases not caused by   other drugs 
themselves so there is that argument, but just like one can turn the word 
around with half truths in any desired direction, one must really stand 
back and look at the big picture and separate yourself from propaganda in 
either camp, looking at the intensions, results and state of things. When 
you can watch TV and 6 out of 10 commercials are pushing some drug, some 
not even telling you what the drug is for but rather... "Check with your 
doctor and see if Injectuseedamidaphin is for you". And then take note the 
politicians that are heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies. And of 
course then see FDA giving the OK for our meats to be treated with "carbon 
monoxide", wait you say, carbon monoxide? Isn't that what comes out of the 
tail pipe of my car, and the weapon in which some folks use to commit 
suicide in the garages with cars running? Yes, one in the same. They treat 
meat with the gas so you can't see the freshness quality by the color. It 
is always red and fresh looking despite its age as long as it is treated 
with the gas. So FDA is selling public deception. Oh, and remember 
Clinton's  promise that there will be no cloning in this country? Well? You 
can now clone meat and soon you'll be buying it never knowing which   is 
natural or which is test tube altered. This country in particular is so, 
so, so deceived in the food nutrition it is an atrocity and unfortunately 
those blowing the trumpet are accused of being health fanatics out in left 
field. Did you know seed companies of course have hybrids, seeds that grow 
once and you can't take seeds from that fruit or veggie and grow 
again,  making it harder and harder to have natural seeds from plants but 
rather their chemically and genetically altered seeds in which you'll be 
reliant on buying from them unless you find a source of hand-me-down seeds. 
Did you know they have a genetically altered chicken which grows no 
feathers to make processing easier. Did you know FDA tries to put the 
kaboshes on Stevia, a natural sweetener which has no cavity producing agent 
and I believe safe for diabetics to eat? But they will not let it be sold 
as a sweetner despite European countries using it for centuries and 
centuries with no ill affects. You can buy it as a supplement but it isn't 
found in your grocery store. It is very disheartening to think of how food 
use to be and how it is now with the antibiotics and steroids with our food 
and we're eating it. Our immune systems make using antibiotics when 
absolutely necessary of little affect  because of the use in our milk and 
meat processing. Find yourself a local family or farmer who raises organic 
chicken, you know, the kind that roamed the barnyard naturally and ate 
natural corn and etc., and have one of those butchered up and notice the 
difference in taste alone, you'll say... "That's how I remember chicken 
tasting when I was a kid". There is a very noticeable difference. We have 
been wanting to eat healthier and unless you can find local farmers markets 
and etc. it gets to be more expensive. There has got to be a way though, or 
eating as we do will only be supplemented by the pills many Americans take 
for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am currently in search of a low 
cholesterol meal plan or recipes as cholesterol build up is  prone in our 
family and I want to do  something about it before I'm the next one laid 
out on an operating table with my chest spread open and subsequently take 
the drugs needed after such an operation. There are some good books on 
biblical eating at BookShare.org if you like. Stormie O'Maritain has some 
Don Colburt is another. When I first heard of fast food being addictive, I 
was... "Yah sure right... another cry baby blaming others for their lazy 
eating habits", but it is a fact, your body, due to its desire to gain 
nutrition, seeks carbs and that coupled with our fast paced lifestyles many 
folks result in fast foods or eating out where the nutritional value 
is  little but loaded with the carbs. So we eat more, and gain weight, and 
there go the health issues. Just like we can be addicted to sweets, we can 
as well to empty carbs. It isn't until you stop them that you realize that 
"Yeah, I was sort of addicted or craving that all the time, but now that I 
stopped purposefully, I don't". Whether or not the Scripture quoted is 
right or not, it wouldn't surprise me, and even if it isn't, it doesn't 
take away the fact that pharmaceutical companies and the inside partner FDA 
do not  have the best interest of the public in mind. Remember, on the 
horizon is the chip implant in which they'll likely utilize for health 
monitoring, and so they need a large complicated health concern so people 
will more openly agree to its use as well. Our former governor, and your 
former Secretary of Health and Human Services in Bushes first stint, Tommy 
Thompson has one of these chips and sees nothing wrong with it and praises 
it. Ten years ago when this technology was being developed, such a  warning 
seemed like a science fiction alarmist gloom and doom farce, and it is 
being used daily now in our livestock and pets. Try and buy a pet that is 
registered these days without a chip in the ear, you can't. OK I'm done 
with my rambling rant *smile* but we all, myself included, need to take the 
time, and make eating healthier a priority now more than any other time in 
history.

Brad