LET OUR FOOD BE OUR
MEDICINE AND OUR MEDICINE BE OUR FOOD
By Fahim A. Knight-El
We are presently living in the age of information and the digital age where media is constantly shaping and molding public opinion. Information is being acquired in real time. Yet, advertisers have always chimed into methods and ways to influence consumers in what products/brands they should purchase and the corporate media has always played a huge part in market and consumer influence. Marketing firms now have highly trained psychologist and social scientists experts (masters of social engineering) on staff who have studied human behavior and human impulses working along side advertisers (this is not coincidental). For example, they strategically use colors, enticing displays, music, mind catching props and stocking schemes to appeal to the human brain and to trigger certain emotions in the consumer, which causes us to often purchase consumer products that we do not need. These techniques are rooted in the persuasive power of subliminal seduction and the consumer often do not know why they are attached to a product or service and/or what led them to spend their money.
I am a proponent of healthy eating, wellness, organic
agriculture and sustainable living. This writer, thinks that all food grown
(imported and/or exported) in the United States of America should be mandated
by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to be grown as agriculture products free of pesticides,
free of being genetically modified, free of chemicals and dangerous toxic
substances that will alter or impact the natural process of our food chain and
agribusiness—that has the potential to negatively impact our long term and
short term health prognosis (grown with the highest quality and prepared with
the utmost health and safety standards in mind, that is safe for human
consumption and to insure good societal health). Moreover, in the last fifteen
to twenty years scientists have entered into a very dangerous paradigm relative
to creating what I deem as 'Frankstein' foods better known as Genetic Modified
Organism (GMO). We do not know enough about the long term and short term health
affects that GMO foods could possibly have on human beings and how it will
impact future society (is this a health risk that we are willing to take?). The
pharmaceutical companies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA), Center for Disease Control (CDC), etc; are
working in cahoots with high level U.S. governmental politicians and with
private business conglomerates that are more powerful than governments to move
us more toward a GMO and synthetic drug society (they have induced these market
trends based on profit motives).
I think to allow powerful corporate conglomerates such as
Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, etc., to monopolize the agricultural food seeds (in direct
violation of U.S. anti-trust laws) and use their wealth and influence to alter
our food processes in the name of profit incentive in my opinion is a crime
against humanity. We as a society might look back on when GMO was allowed to
enter our food markets and perhaps in the not so distance future will come to see
linkages to higher incidents of all forms of cancer, Diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer,
autism, down syndrome, child and adult obesity, mental health diseases,
hypertension, etc., will the GMO food paradigm potentially increase early
mortality rate in the U.S.?
There are just too many health unknowns about the GMO science
because it is relatively new and still evolving in which to adequately assess
and evaluate the health and nutritional risk will ultimately take decades of
scientific testing (yet that should not curtail our speculations and inquiry to
proceed with caution when it comes to assessing any process that alters our
food from its natural and original state, moreover should be enough to sound
the alarm in spite of the government signing off on bio-tech food as allegedly
being safe). Some European countries do not allow GMO foods to be imported or
grown in their countries (for example, GMO is banned in Germany , Scotland , France , Italy ,
Austria , Greece , Poland ,
and Belgium United States
I think all GMO foods and products grown, manufactured and
sold should have warning labels from the oversight regulatory agencies such as the Center
for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) that state on the labeling packages (GMO is
considered toxic, poison, hazardous, biohazard, etc.).
1).GMO food products have been altered from its original
state and all the health science and evidence are not in and any human
consumption of this product could lead to long term and short term illnesses and
even death. Eat at your own risk.
2). GMO products could possibly put you at risk for cancer,
heart disease, obesity, Diabetes, etc., and/or other debilitating diseases,
which could lead to sickness and an even death. Eat at your own risk.
3). All GMO products could negatively affect your human reproduction, infertility and could cause childbirth deformities and sterilization. Eat at your own risk.
4). I advise all consumers who partake and consume GMO
products at your own risk, but we legally indemnify ourselves from any
potential lawsuits or litigation that might be directly or indirectly caused by
human consumption of any and all GMO products.
I think we all in the United States of America and the
entire human family could benefit from good natural health practices and cures
presented by herbal doctors, homeopathic practitioners, organic nutritional
scientist, and natural healers who have been led to revisited the curing, healing
and treatment remedies of plant based medicines in order to create a more
natural path to wellness—these ancient sciences have been around since the dawn
of time. Health care should be a human entitlement and nationalized with no
free market incentives. The food and pharmaceutical racketeers do not desire
for us to know that natural herbal medicinal healing power was here and
practiced for generations amongst all indigenous people and cultures of the
earth (they were the first practitioners of holistic natural medicine).
Indigenous people of mother earth understood the mind, body
and spirit and how these entities worked in direct correlations to the
spiritual laws of the universe and applied these sciences in unison to living
in harmony with God and all its creation. Social Darwinism and the survival of
the fittest was rooted in European ethos and at the formation of the United
States, it would be the impetus to the establishment of rugged capitalism and
what Adam Smith called in his book titled, The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations the inception of the
free enterprise system which has created global social and economic
disparities. Moreover, when indigenous people planted and farmed crops
they did so in respect of the universal principles that governs mother earth; the
Europeans worked and did just the opposite and this is what has created a
universal imbalance on the earth between God and man, this is the root of the
mindset that has led to the exploitation of human and natural resources that
have truly upset the physical and spiritual balance on the planet.
They as I have stated above, created such an imbalance in
nature that the bees are being destroyed and crops and plants are not being
adequately pollinated and this has led to bee farms and bees are now being
imported in which to pollinate farmer’s crops. The wealth disparity phenomenon
in America and throughout the globe is systematically being driven by greed
(there is enough resources on the earth to comfortably sustain every human
being on the planet) relative to having wholesome and healthy foods, which
should not be a barrier based on false economic and social standards of living
models that are rooted in greed and capitalism that benefits the few and
subjugate the masses. The Earth's energy has moved into a negative sphere
and it is destined to continue to turn against man until we learn how to once
again live in harmony and peace with this magnificent planet we call earth and
is considered our home.
My African ancestors (in particular my great, great, great grandparents who arrived to
Many Africans who were forced into Chattel slavery had
direct blood lineages to the Dogons and were well versed in the meaning of the
constellations of the stars and studied the moon and communicated in a
spiritual way with the heavenly bodies, which instructed them on the highest
level of agriculture/horticulture science and they knew how to systematically
chart the sun, moon and stars (these black farmers knowledge were beyond some
of the astrological pseudo science associated with daily horoscope readings—their
charts were written deep into the subconscious of the human psyche) to ensure
the harvest outcome would be abundantly rewarding based on their projection of
the phases of the moon (they never planted out of season and everything we ate
was naturally grown and organic). They were in direct communication with a
higher spiritual force and they had respect for the land.
They did not rely on pharmaceutical drugs and synthetic
medicines as treatment alternatives, they went directly to Mother Earth for all
medicinal solutions. I preach to young African American sisters the importance
of having a willingness to learn about what it means to be the Goddesses
of the universe (our babies and what we put in them is sacred, it will
determine if we have a future as a people). There is no alternative to
breastfeeding (God does not make any mistake in his creation, mother's milk is
the life blood of our children's health for today and tomorrow) cow milk
and formulas are manufactured in the laboratories of the wickedly wise who
practice 'tricknology' and stand opposite of God and his will as the
Creator. The black woman has to be the scientist in the house by ensuring the
family is getting wholesome cooked food and prepared (eating live and non-GMO
foods and having a daily diet of organic foods). Yes, having a garden and practicing
sustainable planting and eating from the harvest, it is both physical and
spiritually rewarding. Our sisters in particular have to be the natural healers, doctors, nutritionist and homeopathic scientists.
I was going through my library looking for a certain book
and I pulled out a book that I have had for some years, it was not the book of
my intentions. Yet, I believe that I was led to this book and it was beyond
coincidental, which was authored by Kurt Mendelssohn titled, The Riddle of
the Pyramids, I started skimming through the pages of the book and just
started reading and more I read there was a section in the book dealing with
Imhotep whom the Greeks called Asklepios he was the father of medicine and the
Greeks stole their Hippocratic oath from the black Nubian scientist. Powerful
not so coincidental knowledge, Imhotep built the first step pyramid.
Moving right along Dr. Sebi held a dual citizenship status of American and
Honduran, perhaps was one of the greatest and most profound natural Healers in
the late 20th and 21st century in which he was
assassinated in Honduras United
States Honduras
Dr. Sebi’s perspective on homeopathic treatments, organic
natural cures, and wellness put him on a collision course (he was perhaps the
only natural herbalist and healer who took on the United States Government
after being indicted for practicing medicine without a license and won his case
in the New York Supreme Court). Dr. Sebi had cured black people who had cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, hypertension, HIV, etc. I believe
the United States Government was complicit in the assassination. Dr. Sebi’s
natural approach to medicine and dispensing treatments solely from organic
plant based herbs and natural healing products were creating positive health
results, but in the end this did not matter in the grand scheme of things—all
though this might have appeared as unconventional medicine to some, but the American
Medical Association were fully aware of the health benefits of natural
homeopathic medicine; the pharmaceutical companies saw him as threat to their
profit and capitalist interest (our health is played as a commodity on the
stock exchange, it is about money).
They prefered creating prescription drug dependence and
causing addiction on prescription medications (giving rise to legal medicated
dope feigns) and feeding the long money chain associated with occidental
medicine and/or synthetic medicines as opposed to supporting natural herbal
based treatments (which is better and less expensive, as well as being a lot
less dangerous relative to the side effects). Dr. Sebi was deemed a threat
because he offered inexpensive organic wellness treatments to black people Dr.
Sebi was definitely assassinated, because his perspective on wellness was
transformative on the lives of us as Africans on the continent and us who
live in the Diaspora (Dr. Sebi became a threat to the powers
that-be). Organic food growing is essential to our personal and
collective sustainability (liberation means nothing, if we cannot feed
ourselves all revolutions are based on land). Our Elders and great grandparents
knew how to use the blessings and life offerings that came from Mother
Earth to cure and treat diseases, viruses, sicknesses and illnesses by
understanding the natural environment in which they lived (man and woman first
studied from the natural creation) and from there found every solution that
lends itself to the question of life sustainability. The ancient masters of the universe taught African people (and
this knowledge was passed down to them old black farmers in the south) they did not
rely on pharmaceutical drugs and synthetic medicines as treatment alternatives
(unnatural and chemical based remedies), they went directly to Mother Earth for
all medicinal solutions.
But it all starts from having the knowledge of self and using our kitchen as our sacred sanctuaries to cook and prepare wholesome foods that have life (yes digging a plot in our yard and planting is an excellent first step and eating from our harvest is next to heaven on earth). We must make our food our medicine and our medicine our food. The health and wellness pieces that I have written are perhaps some of the most vital pieces in our struggle for liberation and those writings outweigh everything that I have written relative to philosophy and ideology. We have no more time for saying I am not equipped or I am not prepared, if we are not ready and prepared to move forward in 2017, our future off-springs will render us a generation of cowards and beggars who did nothing, but worked in complicit with the devil and his white supremacy agenda. I must always emphasize the importance of studying liberating materials. Here are some titles on my reading list and are in my library: Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body by Aqiyl Aniys, How To Eat To Live, by Elijah Muhammad, African Holistic Health, by Llaila Afrika: Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity by Queen Mother Afua, Vaccines are Dangerous by Curtis Cost, Colin Health: The Key to a Vibrant Life by Norman W. Walker, The Herb Book by John Lust, The Master Cleanser with Special Needs and Problems by Stanley Burroughs, The Natural Way by Dr. Paul Goss, More Ultimate Healing by Bottom Line Publication, The Hog: Should it be Used for Food, etc.
But it all starts from having the knowledge of self and using our kitchen as our sacred sanctuaries to cook and prepare wholesome foods that have life (yes digging a plot in our yard and planting is an excellent first step and eating from our harvest is next to heaven on earth). We must make our food our medicine and our medicine our food. The health and wellness pieces that I have written are perhaps some of the most vital pieces in our struggle for liberation and those writings outweigh everything that I have written relative to philosophy and ideology. We have no more time for saying I am not equipped or I am not prepared, if we are not ready and prepared to move forward in 2017, our future off-springs will render us a generation of cowards and beggars who did nothing, but worked in complicit with the devil and his white supremacy agenda. I must always emphasize the importance of studying liberating materials. Here are some titles on my reading list and are in my library: Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body by Aqiyl Aniys, How To Eat To Live, by Elijah Muhammad, African Holistic Health, by Llaila Afrika: Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity by Queen Mother Afua, Vaccines are Dangerous by Curtis Cost, Colin Health: The Key to a Vibrant Life by Norman W. Walker, The Herb Book by John Lust, The Master Cleanser with Special Needs and Problems by Stanley Burroughs, The Natural Way by Dr. Paul Goss, More Ultimate Healing by Bottom Line Publication, The Hog: Should it be Used for Food, etc.
The huge food conglomerates who specializes in Genetic
Modified Organism (GMO) foods and products such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer
(biotech giants), etc; in which ties them directly to powerful international
trading companies like Archer, Daniel, Midland (ADM), Cargill, ConAgra, Tate
and Lyle, etc., this is a huge industry that has residual off spins to teaching
universities such as Harvard University, University of California--San
Francisco, Duke University, Columbia University, John Hopkins University, Stanford
University, Yale University, etc. Educational endowments are established
by billionaire Invisible Hand Elitist (research grants are allocated and
disbursed and fellowships are made available) and the pharmaceutical companies
use their lobbying influence on Capitol Hill and monetary influence, as well as
power to persuade these prestigious teaching universities to initiate and
fast-track in getting potential profitable medicines and treatment therapies
moving in the right direction pursuant to getting approved for clinical and
research trials, that are often endorsed in the interest of capitalist motives
and not necessarily in the best heath interest of the American people or the
international society at large (synthetic medicines are a trillion dollar
industry).
The National Rifle Association (NRA), the weaponry and armament
lobby who solicited U.S.
government contracts to buy and sell weapons around the world, the Jewish Lobby
and the pharmaceutical lobby are some of the most powerful lobby groups on Capitol
Hill and in Washington DC
Lastly, we should be on the street corners proselytizing—in
the churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., in the institutions of higher learning
and academics or wherever our people are teaching them and imparting the
knowledge and wisdom to awaken and enlightened them to the pending danger that
lie ahead. I am quite sure most of you who visited my Blog understand and have
already decoded Donald Trump's political agenda and have deciphered why he has
all these white ultra nationalist billionaires in his cabinet. However, Trump
coming to power and the present national and global predicament cannot be
assessed outside of the scheme of white supremacy. We all have a
personal responsibility to take it upon ourselves to make a bigger difference
in our personal lives and the community (we have no choice the handwriting is
on the wall). We can no longer shun our God giving responsibility, in
particular, if you know and understand who God and the devil is. We do not need
charismatic leaders to guide us anymore—you are the messenger (interpreted to
mean Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus and Muhammad are dead and will not be
returning to this earth, but you are here now). If you have been awakened to
some of this knowledge then you have a mandate from a Higher Source and a
responsibility to enlightened and stand on that which you know to be
the truth. We all will forever be
students in our eternal quest to know and learn. Yet, our spiritual and
intellectual growth will always revolve around how discipline we are when it
comes to study and developing ourselves as human beings. We have to be willing
to do the research and internalize our history, traditions and culture before
European slavery, colonialism and imperialism. Truth frees our bodies and
minds only then will we put ourselves in the best position to alter change. All
knowledge is inspired and we take no credit for the universal wisdom, it
belongs and comes from God and we are only vessels and servants being used to
execute his will.
Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in Durham ,
NC
