Message from the President — Chester Yozwick, N.D., P.M.D. Ph.D.
Roast Suckling Pig a la Tetracycline

One of the oldest sources we have as to how we should be eating is the biblical record. In the opening Chapters of the book of Genesis it says: “And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” (Genesis 1:29) In fact in this same passage it declares the identical food fare for every beast on earth.What has happened to the nature of creatures that today we find man eating 1.6 million Big Macs per day?

When Christ told the Pharisees that no man may divorce what God has joined together, they asked, “Then why did Moses say a man may divorce his wife by merely writing her a letter of dismissal?” Jesus replied, “Moses did that in recognition of your hard and evil hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended.” (Matthew 19:2-8, Living Bible)

I believe the same logic holds true with meat eating. Man was forced to eat it for survival during the flood crisis only. But because of his “hard and evil heart” he refused to return to the “diet of the garden.” So because of the hardness of his heart to eat flesh, dietary guidelines for eating flesh were established. (Deuteronomy 14:4)

It was the genius of biophysicist Dr. Carey Reams and his “Biological Theory of Ionization,” which demonstrated that unclean meat, such as reptiles of all kinds, shrimp, pork, snails, crab, lobster, mussels, clams, oysters, hare and all common type scavengers, are biologically “unfit” for humans, and that even though fish with fin and scale, lamb, chicken, turkey, beef and venison were not biologically correct either, at least they were less harmful than the “unclean meats.”

Setting aside the aforementioned findings, the Agriculture Department says that it is looking for better ways to protect consumers from food poisoning, but one of its processing plant inspectors says government labels on beef, pork and poultry products should read: “Eat at your own risk.”

The National Academy of Science reported that americans suffer several million cases of food poisoning every year because federal inspectors fail to detect salmonella and other bacterial organisms on poultry products. The Federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported that more than 56,000 cases of salmonella and food poisoning, which produces flu-like symptoms, were reported in 1985.

In a Senate hearing on the latest criticism of the government's food safety inspection system, dissident federal inspector Vernie Gee told the Senate Governmental Affairs Oversight Subcommittee that recent Agriculture Department assurances of progress in overcoming inspection deficiencies should be discounted. “In the last year, the flies have been getting meaner, the roaches fatter and the rats bolder,” Gee said, “There are still holes in the roofs at some plants... I regularly see pigeon droppings tracked around the buildings... Workers at the plants seldom have sanitary facilities sufficient to keep their hands clean.”

Gee complained of Agriculture Department laxity in enforcing food inspection regulations, favoritism toward plant operators, “petty corruption” among inspection service managers, poor training of inspectors and bureaucratic retaliation against employees who blow the whistle.

“As long as the mismanagement continues, then filthy or diseased products will keep being approved for consumers to eat,” he said. This means that the 4 billion chickens processed annually are subjected to microbial hazards and there is very little done to protect the public against it.

In addition, evidence is accumulating that the use of antibiotics to fatten livestock leads to bacteria that threaten human health because they no longer are susceptible to antibiotics. Since the 1950s, livestock animals have received small amounts of broad spectrum antibiotics, such as penicillin and tetracycline, in their feed to promote growth.

Today, this usage totals millions of pounds of antibiotics, almost half of those produced in the USA. While this practice produced dramatic results initially, today it is controversial.

Bacteria can move between humans and animals. Some can produce disease in both groups, such as the salmonella outbreak in Minnesota traced to cattle in South Dakota.

When an animal or person takes an antibiotic in normal or low doses, all bacteria susceptible to the antibiotic will die. Sort of like crabgrass taking over lawns where weed killer has destroyed the grass, the surviving resistant strains find a fertile area for growth. Looking at it in this light, can meat eating have anything to do with AIDS?

Since there are two to four times more livestock than humans in the USA, the large numbers of livestock fed low levels of antibiotics produce more resistant strains than the small numbers of humans given normal therapeutic amounts.

Importantly, animals can excrete up to 400 times more fecal material laden with bacteria than do humans. The dispersal of this fecal materials is relatively uncontrolled, making it a source of resistant bacteria that contaminate animal products and the environment. That is why the low-level use of antibiotics in animals is an important and potentially harmful source of resistant strains of bacteria for humans.

In addition, meat contains 13 times as much pesticide as fruit and vegetables. People often ask me about the pesticides and chemical sprays on fruit and vegetables. Remember, if you are eating an abundance of fish, poultry and red meat, in addition to fruit and vegetables, there is cause for concern. However, an exclusive vegetarian diet prevents 90-97% of heart disease.

Raising the question of getting enough protein today is ludicrous. The human body recycles 70% of its proteinaceous waste. The human body only loses 23 grams of protein per day. That's 8/10 of an ounce lost through feces, urine, hair, skin and perspiration. To replace 8/10 of an ounce, one only needs to eat 11/2 pounds of protein per month. The RDA is only 56 grams or less than 2 ounces a day, and if you are eating fresh raw fruit and vegetables, the digestive system will extract the essential amino acids and store them. The cells will exchange them, the liver deposits them when needed, and the body manufactures the other fifteen non-essential amino acids, so there is no possibility of ever suffering a protein deficiency.

Isn't it enough that swine's flesh (pork and pork products) is naturally infested with parasites such as ascarids, thorn-headed worms, lung worms, trichinae, liver fluke, bladder worm, hydatid, roundworms, stomach worms, nodular worms, whipworms and kidney worms? Now you add the antibiotics to fatten these little creatures and what do you get? Any one for roast suckling pig a la tetracycline?.