From Organic Consumers Association <[email protected]>
Subject War on Life?
Date September 24, 2020 5:49 PM
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Health is about life and living systems. The “philanthroempirilaism” peddled by
Bill Gates is a threat to both. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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ESSAY OF THE WEEK‘WAR ON LIFE’

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Health is about life and living systems—and the "philanthroempirilaism” peddled
by Bill Gates is a threat to both.

In her latest book, “ Oneness vs. the 1%
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increase his own wealth and power, Shiva says.

Meanwhile, democracy, biodiversity, nature and culture are “erased.”

The health emergency of COVID-19
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of biodiversity loss, and the health emergency of the climate crisis,” Shiva
says, and is rooted in the worldview that humans are separate—and superior
to—other beings.

“As we clear-cut forests, as we turn farms into industrial monocultures that
produce toxic, nutritionally empty commodities, as our diets become degraded
through industrial processing with synthetic chemicals and genetic engineering,
and as we perpetuate the illusion that earth and life are raw materials to be
exploited for profits, we are indeed connecting. But instead of connecting on a
continuum of health by protecting biodiversity, integrity and self-organization
of all living beings, including humans, we are connected through disease.”

Our survival hinges on whether we resist the “war on life”—or whether we allow
our humanity to be extinguished by a “greed machine” that knows no limits.

Read ‘Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life’
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Buy “Oneness vs. the 1%” by Vandana Shiva
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COVID-19'BAT WOMAN'

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She’s known as China’s “Bat Woman.”

Shi Zhengli is a virus hunter and microbiologist
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Academy of Sciences’ Wuhan Institute of Virology.

She also plays a central role in a whodunnit that may ultimately prove
impossible to solve.

Shi’s work involves collecting bat viruses and using techniques of genetic
engineering and synthetic biology to enable these viruses to infect human
beings.

Since the Biological Weapons Convention
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In other words, Shi, and other scientists like her, are in the business of
weaponizing viruses by genetically engineering or otherwise altering them to
make them more lethal, and more easily transmitted, to humans .

Did Shi have a hand in creating the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the current COVID-19
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necessarily mean we'll ever learn the full truth.

Read 'Shi Zhengli: Weaponizing Coronaviruses, with Pentagon Funding, at a
Chinese Military Lab'
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Visit our Gain-of-Function Hall of Shame
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SIGN THE PETITION: Stop the Genetic Engineering of Viruses! Shut Down All
Biowarfare Labs Now!
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With the passing last week of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we were reminded of the many
issues she stood for and fought for, and of some of her words of wisdom.

This one often-cited quote attributed to Ginsburg hits close to home for those
of us trying to reform food and farming policy:

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

Like you, we’re often frustrated by how long it can take to create “real” and
“enduring” change.

We’re even more frustrated by what stands in the way of that change—corporate
greed and the corporate takeover of not just our food and farming system, but of
our entire political system.

But we can’t, we won’t, give in to frustration. Because real, enduring change is worth fighting for—and
we live in a time when real change is desperately needed.

With your support, we’ll keep at it. One step at a time. If you can, please make
a donation today to support our work.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit
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Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not
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#BOYCOTTBIGMEAT‘CONSCIOUS CONSUMPTION’

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As early as June, COVID-19
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Food Navigator, reporting
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consumption.”

Increasing sales
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animal products is great news—for independent farmers, for consumers, for the
environment and for farm animals.

But will consumers go back to buying industrially produced meat after the
pandemic is declared officially over?

Or can we educate enough consumers on the value of “conscious consumption” to
have a permanent impact on the marketplace?

One roadblock, for some consumers, is knowing how and where to buy meat that
doesn’t come from industrial factory farms. To help, the #BoycottBigMeat
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pasture-raised meat next week, on Tuesday, September 29 at 7 p.m. CDT.

Panelists will include: Valerie Shannon, Buffalo Gal (bison); Chris Petersen,
C&K Farm (pork); Doug Darrow, Rapid Creek Ranch (beef and chicken); and Greg
Gunthorp, Gunthorp Farms (pork, poultry, duck).

Not yet convinced that it matters where your meat comes from? Watch this video
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life are considered essential to a healthy ecosystem.

Register to join the panel discussion via Zoom
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Sign up here to watch the panel discussion via Facebook
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Can’t join live? Register here, and we’ll send you a link you can watch anytime
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VIDEO OF THE WEEKPOWER TO THE PEOPLE

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If ever we needed a reminder that our government is supposed to work for “we the
people,” that time would be now.

And this video
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Six years ago, during Climate Week NYC, musician Jesse Paris Smith and cellist
Rebecca Foon founded Pathway to Paris [[link removed]] , a non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions to climate change.

This week, Paris Smith and Foon launched a video, featuring Patti Smith, Joan
Baez and artists, activists, students from 24 countries, 38 cities and 6
continents.

About the video launch, Paris Smith told
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“A vision for the future includes a just transition out of the era of fossil
fuels and into an era of 100% renewable energy, including the critical issues of
racial justice, gender equality, protected rights of the indigenous and the end
of suffocating poverty. An adoption of true human compassion while dismantling a
climate of fear, leaving prejudice and hate in the past and moving toward a
future of global unity.”

Hear, hear!

Watch the video
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SIGN THE PETITION: Green Consumers for a Regenerative Green New Deal
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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING

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International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Is a Food Industry Lobby Group
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Our Food System Is Broken and Inhumane, But It Can Be Fixed
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Climate Disruption Is Now Locked in. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
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Axios-Ipsos Poll: Distrusting Big Pharma and the FDA
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Why Some US Cities Are Plotting a 'Green Recovery' After the Pandemic
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These 10 Pills Could Obliterate COVID-19, Where's the Media?
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