Children, as any parent knows, are not small adults. Their brain is growing and being acutely shaped by their environment and experience. Social skills and values are learnt from those around them, with teamwork, risk-management, personal boundaries and tolerance being learned through play with other children. Their immune system is imprinting environmental contact into a set of responses that will shape health in later life. Their bodies grow physically and become adept at physical skills. They learn both trust and mistrust through interaction with adults.
This rapid physical and psychological growth makes children highly vulnerable to harm. Withdrawal of close contact with trusted adults and enforced distancing has large emotional and physical impacts, in common with other primates. Lack of experience also leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by adults who are pushing certain attitudes or beliefs – often called ‘grooming’. For these reasons, our forebears put specific protections and norms of behaviour in place that elevated the needs of children above adults.
However, protecting children did not involve enclosing them in a padded cell – policymakers knew this to be harmful to psychological and physical development. It involved allowing children to explore their environment and society, whilst taking measures to shield them from malfeasance, including from those who would harm them directly or through ignorance or neglect.
The act of imposing risks on children for the perceived benefit of adults was therefore considered one of the worst crimes. The most cowardly use of ‘human shields’.
Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child places children at the centre of public decision-making:
In all actions concerning children…. the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
When we are complicit in acts that we know are wrong, we naturally look for ways to avoid acknowledging our part in it or excuse the actions as being ‘for a greater good’. But lying to ourselves is not a good way to correct a wrong. As we have seen in other acts of institutional child abuse, it allows the abuse to fester and expand. It advances the interests and safety of the perpetrators over that of the victims.
Covid as a means for targeting children
In early 2020, a virus outbreak was noted in Wuhan, China. It was soon clear that this relatively novel coronavirus overwhelmingly targeted the sick and elderly, particularly those on unhealthy Western diets. The Diamond Princess incident showed, however, that even among the elderly the vast majority would survive the illness (COVID-19), with many not even becoming ill.
In response, Western public health institutions, politicians and media turned on children. Society implemented policies never seen before: a whole-of-society approach that was expected to increase poverty and inequality, particularly targeting lower-income people, and disrupt childhood development. It included restrictions on children’s play, education and communication, and used psychological manipulation to convince them that they were a threat to their parents, teachers and grandparents. Policies such as isolation and travel restriction, normally applied to criminals, were applied to whole populations.
The novel public health response was designed by a small but influential group of very wealthy people, often called philanthropists, and international institutions which they have funded and co-opted over the past decade. These same people would go on to be greatly enriched through the ensuing response. Encouraged by these same but now even wealthier people, governments are now working to entrench these responses to build a poorer, less free and more unequal world into which all children will grow.
Whilst rarely discussed in public spaces, strategies of targeting and sacrificing children for the gratification of adults are not new. However, it is a practice that normally elicits disgust. We can now understand better, having been part of it, how such actions can creep into a society and become integral to its character. People find it easy to condemn the past whilst excusing the present; asking reparations for past slavery whilst advocating for cheaper batteries produced through current child slavery, or condemning past institutionalised child abuse whilst condoning it when it happens within their own institutions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was not asking us to look to the past, but to the present. The most mature society is one that can face itself, calmly and with its eyes open.
The abandonment of evidence
Aerosolised respiratory viruses, such as coronaviruses, spread in tiny airborne particles over long distances and are not interrupted by cloth face coverings or surgical masks. This has been long-established and has been confirmed again by the US CDC in a meta-analysis of influenza studies published in May 2020.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus was somewhat unusual (though not unique) in its targeting of a cell receptor in the lining of the respiratory tract, ACE-2 receptors, to enter and infect cells. These are expressed less in children, meaning children are intrinsically less likely to be severely infected or transmit large viral loads to others. This explains the study outcomes early in the COVID-19 epidemic that demonstrated very low transmission from children to school teachers, and adults living with children having a lower-than-average risk. It explains why Sweden, following former evidence-based recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO), kept schools open with no ill effects on health.
Armed with this knowledge, we (as a society) closed schools and forced children to cover their faces, reducing their educational potential and impairing their development. Knowing that school closures would disproportionately harm low-income children with poorer computer access and home study environments, we ensured that the children of the wealthy would widen their advantage for the next generation. In low income countries, these school closures worked as expected, increasing child labour and condemning up to 10 million additional girls to child to child marriage and nightly rape.
Abusing children at home
For many, school provides the only stable and secure part of their lives, providing the vital pastoral and counselling work which identifies and supports children in crisis. When pupils are out of school the most vulnerable are the most affected, teachers can’t pick up the early warning signs of abuse or neglect, and children have no one they can tell. For children with special needs, essential access to multi-agency support frequently ceased.
Sport and extracurricular activities are important in children’s lives. Events such as school plays, school trips, choirs and the first and last days at school mark out their lives and are vital for their social development. Friendships are crucial for their emotional development, particularly during the crucial stages of growth – childhood, adolescence and young adulthood – and especially when there are vulnerabilities or special needs, children need access to family, friends, services and support.
The result of this neglect, as highlighted by a recent a UCL study on the outcomes of U.K. Government restrictions on children in 2020-2022, was nothing short of a disaster:
The impact of the pandemic will have detrimental consequences for children and young people in the short and long-term, with many not yet visible, it will have continuing consequences for their future in terms of professional life trajectories, healthy lifestyles, mental well-being, educational opportunities, self-confidence and more besides.
As the study finds: “Children were forgotten by policymakers during Covid lockdowns.”
Infants, children and teenagers endured numerous lockdowns during their most formative years, despite accounting for a diminutive proportion of Covid hospitalisations and deaths. The UCL study found that politicians did not consider children and young people a “priority group” when English lockdowns were enforced. Infants born into the Covid restrictions have marked delays in brain and thought development.
Education is provided to children as it benefits their educational and psychological development, provides a safe and protective environment and is a way of improving equality. So it was to be expected that when schools closed there would be development losses in very young children, reduced education attainment throughout the age profile, mental health issues and a rising tide of abuse.
In the U.K., 840 million school days were lost to the class of 2021 and nearly two million of England’s nine million pupils are still failing to attend school regularly. As early as November 2020, Ofsted, the body which inspects and reports on schools in England, reported that the majority of children were going backwards educationally. Regression was found in communication skills, physical development and independence. These impacts are seen across Europe and are likely to be lifelong. Despite this, the policies continued.
In the United States, school closures affected an estimated 24.2 million U.S. schoolchildren absent from school (1.6 billion worldwide) and the educative deterioration there is particularly clear. Schoolchildren have fallen behind in their learning by almost a year according to the latest assessments from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). About a third of the students didn’t reach the lowest reading benchmark and maths saw the steepest decline in history. As poorer students will have less access to the internet and support for remote learning, school closures also widen racial and ethnic inequalities.
And when schools did reopen in the U.K. a damaging and restrictive set of regulations were introduced: wearing masks, testing, bubbles, playground restrictions and static timetables. Post-primary children were spending all day in the same room, masked for nine hours per day if they used public transport to get to school. Isolation and quarantining led to continual absences. Teachers trained to know this approach was harmful continued to implement it.
The recent Ofsted report from Spring 2022 highlighted the damaging effects of the restrictions on the development of young children and should have been enough to set alarm bells ringing as it recorded:
- Delays in babies’ physical development
- A generation of babies struggling to crawl and communicate
- Babies suffering delays in learning to walk
- Delays in speech and language (noted to be partly attributable to imposition of facemasks)
This latter has also been noted by practitioners such as the Head of the Speech and Language unit in N. Ireland:
A growing number of young children are experiencing significant communication problems following the lockdowns and some who can’t talk at all, they grunt or they point at things they want and who don’t know how to speak to the other children.
A study by Irish researchers found that babies born during March to May 2020, when Ireland was locked down, were less likely to be able to say at least one definitive word, point or wave goodbye at 12 months old. A further study published in Nature found children aged three months to three years scored almost two standard deviations lower in a proxy measurement of development similar to IQ. With 90% of brain development taking place in the first five years of life, this has been tragic. Many children in this age group are now starting school far behind, biting and hitting, overwhelmed around large groups and unable to settle and learn with the social and educational skills of a child two years younger.
From a mental health viewpoint, we as a society attacked the mental health of children, following policies we knew were harmful and even designed to stoke fear; a direct form of abuse. Children were shut away in their bedrooms, isolated from friends, told they were a danger to others and that non-compliance may kill granny. An agenda of fear was imposed on them.
In the U.K. there are an astonishing one million children awaiting mental health support, whilst more than 400,000 children and young people a month are being treated for mental health problems – the highest number on record. More than a third of young people said they feel their life is spiralling out of control and more than 60% of 16-25-year-olds said they were scared about their generation’s future, 80% of young people reporting a deterioration in their emotional well-being.
As early as autumn 2020, U.K.’s Ofsted had identified:
- A 42% rise in self-harm and eating disorders
- An ‘explosion’ of children with disabling tic disorders
- Record numbers of children being prescribed antidepressants
- Increases in self-harm
In addition, five times more children and young people committed suicide than died of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic in the U.K. In the U.S., CDC reported that emergency department visits were 50.6% higher among girls aged 12-17 due to suicide attempts From early 2020, it was known that children were barely affected by the virus, having a 99.9987% survival chance, while they were not a danger to others.
Abusing children far away
Numbers are not people, so when we discuss dead or harmed children in large numbers, it can be difficult to understand the real impact. This allows us to gloss over the impact. However, UNICEF tells us that almost a quarter of a million children were killed by the lockdowns in 2020 in South Asia alone. That is 228,000, each with a mother and father, probably brothers or sisters.
Most additional child lockdown deaths will have been particularly unpleasant, as malnutrition and infections are hard ways to die. These deaths were anticipated by the WHO and the public health community in general. They would have lived without the lockdowns, so they were ‘added’ deaths.
The WHO estimates about 60,000 additional children are dying each year since 2020 from malaria. Many more are dying from tuberculosis and other childhood illnesses. With about a billion additional people in severe food deprivation (near starvation), there will probably be some millions more hard, painful deaths to come. It is hard to watch a child dying. But someone like us, often a parent, watched and suffered through each of these deaths.
While many in the public health and ‘humanitarian’ industries tell tales about stopping a global pandemic, those watching these deaths knew they were unnecessary. They knew that these children had been betrayed. Some perhaps can still claim ignorance, as the Western media have found discussion of these realities awkward. Their main private sponsors are profiting from the programmes causing these deaths, as others once benefitted from the abuse and killing to secure cheap rubber from the Belgian Congo or the mining of rare metals in Africa today. Exposing mass child deaths-for-profit will not please the investment houses that own both media and media’s Pharma sponsors. But deaths are the same whether the media cover it or not.
Why we did this
There is no simple answer as to why society reversed its norms of behaviour and pretended, en masse, that lies were truth and truth was a lie. Nor a simple answer as to why child welfare came to be considered dispensable, and children a threat to others. Those who orchestrated the closing of schools knew that it would increase long-term poverty and, therefore, poor health. They knew of the inevitability of increased child labour, child brides, starvation and death. This is why we run clinics, support food programmes and try to educate children.
None of the harms from the Covid response were at all unexpected. The children of the wealthy benefited, whilst the children of the less well-off were disproportionately harmed. This is the way society has worked historically – we just fooled ourselves that we had developed something better.
What is most concerning is that three years in, we are not just ignoring what we did, but are planning to expand and institutionalise these practices. Those who gained most financially from COVID-19, who backed this society-wide attack on the most vulnerable, wish this to be a permanent feature of life. There is no serious enquiry into the harms of the global response because these were expected, and those in charge have profited from them.
The desired reset was achieved; we have reset our expectations regarding truth, decency and the care of children. In an amoral world the happiness, the health and the life of a child only carries the importance we are told to attach to it. To change that, we would have to stand against the tide. History will remember those who did and those who did not.
Dr. David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease.
Hugh McCarthy is a retired headteacher in Northern Ireland who until recently served as a director on two of the province’s main education councils and who remains a ministerial appointment on one.
This article was first published by the Brownstone Institute.
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As an Antipodean, who has just been part of a jubilant rebellion by the plebs, I pose the following:
Do the numbers of hard core Khan disciples, for whom support for every radical shibboleth is just another way of garnering even more social currency, outweigh those who just want a simple life?
If so, I would be leaving London, as my parents did 60 years ago.
Yup, already left London. Shame in a way, it could be so much better. The virtue signallers that can afford to live in nice parts of London stay there, others hold their nose and move to the home counties – some of them think the home counties are full of horrid racists. I think they are frightened by places that have a lot of white working class British people in them.
My guess would be that a large part of Khan voters are ethnic Pakistanis voting as the head of the family told them to who don’t even understand his political speeches.
Or English.
Not so sure. He is hurting them as well as everyone else living under this what? Fill in the blank.
Wouldn’t it be easier if he just left town?
Khan does not care what we eat, he only seeks destruction, poverty and chaos.
All going according to plan, all tying into the Great Reset and Agenda 21. They’ll be after our woodburners next.
Coming for us boaties first…
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/23/ban-on-wood-burners-threatens-british-boat-dwellers-with-winter-freeze
You boaties are too damned independent of the government which is why you are in the cross hairs.
I live in a canal village so know & understand just how self reliant you are. Dangerous to the plan of control
So, it’s the depth of winter, in the middle of nowhere, I light up the small wood burner, as you really don’t need it very large in such a small space, the bit of wood smoke is bothering absolutely no one and thats £300 is it..
It’s absolutely ludicrous & in my book criminal. All designed to tip those who already live on very little into greater poverty. What does it matter if a few hundred boaties freeze to death??
We’re all expendable to the parasite class…
I posted this a fews ago, but it relevant here..
Its not just Birmingham council that is broke, one of my employees was in magistrates here in Plymouth a few weeks ago as he wanted to stand his ground, he was being fined by the council for fly tipping, he left a cardboard box no larger than a shoe box next to his wheelie bin, as the bin was full a day before collection day.
Further to his research he notified the council that the legal definition of fly tipping was a bin liner or more.. They then changed the fine to “littering”
He had the day off work as court was 2pm, he stood his ground but to no avail, they fined him 375£,he has 5 kids and lives in the poorest area of the city….
This screams of desperation, but what does one expect after throwing 400 billion around like confetti during the Covid scam and spending 60 billion a year on keeping immigrants happy..
The poor man. They are nothing but tax collectors & thieves
And they always spend your money so wisely – NOT!
I don’t believe this would ever happen here in our unsmart part of south London. The bin men either take it or leave it, I really don’t think they’d report it. Besides which, it’s worth making friends with your bin men. We still give them a Christmas tip (£20 for each of three teams of three – recycling, landfill, garden/kitchen waste) and I go out there to chat with them when I give it (getting myself up at crack of dawn to do so). As a result, they take whatever we leave out (eg three or four bags of garden waste sometimes during the summer when it’s supposed to be only two); not only that, they push all our bins and bags, once emptied, back up three steps from the pavement, up our windy path and put them away down the side of our house for us. Every single week. We never asked them to do this. We, in our mid-70s, consider that cheap at the price. And shows how kind people can still be. But even just to go and chat with them once or twice a year and thank them for doing their job would probably help.
Well, as the story goes, there was actual fly tipping at the other end of his street, and he suspects that when the council cleared that they saw this box and used it as a way to try to cover the cost of the clear up of this flytipping.
The council is broke, they are no longer true councils but for profit corporate entities
Your poor friend
Like you I still tip the bin men, although I think ours are all just one team. We also tip (Christmas box / card) everyone who delivers to us too.
Okay it’s not much, a token, but it results in friendly service every year. Perhaps we shouldn’t have to pay over the odds for good service but a little bit of acknowledgement of the people around us who do service jobs is no bad thing. The boot could be on the other foot sometime.
I totally agree.
Those who vote for establishment parties don’t deserve to have one
Khan, like Sunak, Starmer and 90% of all establishment party grifters are just following orders from above. They don’t govern they are mere functionaries and they know it. They simply focus on building their political careers and accruing secondary income streams. It is those who vote for anyone (or spoil their paper) that appear to be the enlightened voters. They are the ones who can see the elephant in the room and not prepared to be taken for a sucker by the uni party.
The same story applies to Citizen Khan as applies to what I wrote here:
Just try to snatch a Big Mac out of the hands of a pleb!
Somehow the phrase ‘Big Meal Deal’ has a different ring to it when you consider insects!
As a beef farmer, I get very confused. No meat animals, no leather or wool.No fossil fuels either, so no plastic (‘fake/vegan leather’, anyone) or nylon. What are people going to wear?
Nothing, just like we used to in prehistoric times. It’ll be interesting when they come to take the smartphones out of the hands of the youf.
Didn’t we wear animal skins and twigs?
Loin cloths knitted from the hair of virgins?
Don’t forget you will already be in your 15 minute mud hut village, using wooden spears to kill the local wildlife!! And using large leaves and tree bark as plates.
while your wife and children trudge the 20 miles and back to bring water from the nearest source….!
….and…the 40g of meat will not be real meat it will come from Bills ‘fake meat shit factory’ while he and his cohorts chow down on their chateaubriand …
no pets either .. as they are meat eaters….(and you may have had to kill little Timmy for food..)
This is the time to take that course (or make money from offering them?) in woodworking, ancient art of flint tool making, identifying mushrooms, and making meals from ingredients foraged from the hedgerows!!
LOL!!! ???…..
You would freeze to death in Manchester.
LOL!
It’s fine for the Muslims. They have 72 virgins waiting for them in Paradise. No problem weaving a coat from a wife’s hair.
What people? None of this will apply to “the Elite.”
Don’t you understand the real objective yet?
If it gets that far, Charlie, they’ll be rounding us up and transporting us to smart prisons where we’ll wear orange jumpsuits!! No, that won’t happen. I don’t things are going the way THEY say they are going. People are not going to put up with it. I live on a large organic dairy farm and the farmer has woken up to the lies of climate change thank god! No one is going to start bossing our farmers about!
You livestock farmers need to get together to deal with what is coming down the line. We’ll be on the barricades (see my post above) with you, with our pitchforks. We’re fortunate carnivores as we have grass fed beef from local farms easily available, and are indeed, friends with one of the farmers.
It’s a joy to hear what she has to say about Vegans
Worth pointing out. We are the most ecologically friendly people in the country. Our food miles are minimal; the only things we buy that do not come from our butcher or the farm shop run by the farm noted above (they have been farming the same patch of land in Somerset for over 300 years, have always practised what is now called “regenerative” farming (rotating livestock and arable and feeding the land with shit), and if that sort of thing worries you, have been assessed as carbon neutral) are goat milk, tea and coffee.
Food waste? None – any fat too gristly for us to eat (and animal fat is as important to good health as animal protein) the dog gets (boy is he a fit dog – mince and offal his base diet), the tea bags and egg shells go in the compost.
They take our red meat off us over our dead bodies….
Breakfast today
Bacon
Fresh black pudding (i.e. made with fresh blood, so moist, not dry like the horrible stuff sold in supermarkets and most butchers), fried in loads of butter
Lamb’s Liver – finely sliced, and flash fried in the bacon fat.
4 x scrambled eggs, cooked in butter, with slabs of butter on top.
Yowser,
I suspect that your diet and lifestyle is in line with the EAT-Lancet proposal just not with Morrison’s depiction of it.
Mean Time to Failure returns again.
I think you’re wrong about so many things.
Obviously most people on this forum disagree with me on most issues. Some of them find it valuable to hear an opposing opinion. You presumably don’t.
I wasn’t being insulting, you seem to have chosen an apposite handle for your posts which chimes with how my old engineer’s brain works.
Debate is all very well except that much of it is from entrenched positions and thus more like ships that pass in the night.
You replied so quickly you got my original version of the comment. Surely debate from entrenched positions is better than no debate?
You might find that most people disagree with you because you want to use exaggerated claims of a climate crisis which is not supported by any science to support your eco socialist world view that our standard of living in the west is too high based on the Maurice Strong way of looking at things. ——Basically that we have used up more than our fair share of the worlds resources and that Industrial Society must be brought down by removing the use of fossil fuels. But that is a political argument not a scientific one. If you want to be an eco socialist then that is fine, but don’t try to pretend it is all just about the climate because it clearly is not.
Never heard of it. If you want to know why we ended up Carnivore, go check out Dr. Jordan Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila, on YouTube and her tale. Nothing to do with Lancet. Or Morrison, whoever he is (not Jim, I guess?)
The Supermarket perhaps?
Wot, no fried bread??!!
Don’t eat carbs! Don’t eat plants! Fit as a ******* fiddle
I remember reading a book a few years ago about a guy who wanted to start a small holding in Wales. He was an idealistic ‘trendy’ vegetarian (no vegans then) he decided he would grow giant (elephant) garlic as his mates in Birmingham had told him what a great crop it was. Needless to say he failed, the crop failed and he discovered fairly quickly that people in rural areas weren’t interested in ‘trendy’ foods.
Soon after that he got a cow as his next project couldn’t survive without animal dung fertiliser. He eventually came to realise that vegetarian doesn’t work as his cow needed to get pregnant to produce milk for his family, 50% of the calves born to the cow were male and they would have to be slaughtered as they couldn’t remain on the farm, and there was so much milk produced from even one cow that he needed other animals (pigs) to consume it to just get rid of it all.
so eventually he came round to the idea that he had to eat meat, drink milk and grow mainstream vegetables to survive.
Read the plan rather what Morrison implies about it. It does not propose a ban on meat only a reduction. With 7 billion people on the planet I think you will find there is plenty of demand for your beef even under this plan.
Chris Morrison said “meat rationed to just 44 grams a day”, not “a ban on meat”.
Apparently 40g is about two very small meatballs! Just for visualisation! LOL!
I think I may have tracked down the source of confusion. It appears to be common medical advice to consume no more than 44 gms of protein a day. This corresponds to a lot more than 44 gms of meat (apparently a 70g steak has about 20 gsm of protein). However, it is also common medical advice to eat no more than about 70 gms of red meat – the rest of your protein is better obtained from other sources. Somehow this got mangled into no more than 44 gms of meat a day.
It’s common medical advice to keep having Covid boosters.
Me? I avoid “common medical advice” as it is almost always bad for you. I’m old enough to know what’s good for me.
Anyone here cook in seed oils?
Hands up?
You do realised you are cooking with industrial waste don’t you? Highly inflammatory. Not to mention that as well as sugar, seed oils are in almost ALL processed food, in all plant milk filth as well.
Olive, avocado oil and ghee for me. the oil is made from the flesh of the plants not the seed and ghee is clarified butter.
The 44 grams of meat is mentioned in the article….and as for medical advice..sheesh…I take that with a pinch of salt….if I’m allowed salt?! LOL!
Yes, your body needs salt. Once again the daily recommended intake is poppycock, just a figure gleaned from thin air by those that seek to control your diet.
But don’t take my word for it, please research the subject your self. Many electrolyte drinks that athletes use are chock full of salt.
I’ve just eaten one fairly small grass fed steak and it was 235gr approx the size of the palm of my hand.
He also wrote:
did I tell you that my globalist friends inform me that banning your burgers and meat pies will help save 11 million lives each year?
There are no bans of any kind that I can see in the proposal. This is key paragraph:
“While meat is an important source of key nutrients including protein, iron and vitamin B12, excess meat consumption can harm our health and the planet. Aim to consume no more than 98 grams of red meat (pork, beef or lamb), 203 grams of poultry and 196 grams of fish per week.”
Note that this is just advice and obviously a broad guideline for an “average” person. Similar to the advice to drink no more than 2 units of alcohol a day. It is not that controversial – I would think many doctors would agree. Curiously it works out as 70 gms a day not 44. I can’t find the 44 anywhere.
(Given that the population of the globe is 7 billion I would have thought a healthier diet would save far more than 11 million premature deaths per year)
“did I tell you that my globalist friends inform me that banning your burgers and meat pies will help save 11 million lives each year?”
And provided links and citations to this? No, of course not…
It is in the bleeding article!
I’m guessing the 11 million is the cows, pigs, sheep etc. after all the article doesn’t say ‘human’ lives does it?
““While meat is an important source of key nutrients including protein, iron and vitamin B12, excess meat consumption can harm our health and the planet. “
Eating only beef and water for a year saved my wife’s life and halted her “terminal” bone cancer in its tracks.
And yes, even her Oncologist is amazed.
And if you think medicine progresses all the time, think again.
Victorian doctors treated Diabetes mellitus with a diet of beef and water.
Worked.
Now they don’t tell you to stop eating crap, stop eating so much, and get OFF your arse – rather they just make you insulin dependent. Way to go.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-meat-diet
“The Arctic Explorer Who Pushed an All-Meat DietVilhjalmur Stefansson wanted to prove a point.”
“While doctors condemned the diet as dangerous, Stefansson was defiant, attributing his increased vigor and “ambition” to his all-meat diet. Newspapers and magazines across the country ran stories on his experiment, contrasting it with the vegetable-heavy diets most doctors recommended. Soon, Stefansson left the hospital, having lost a few pounds, and continued his meat-eating endeavor from his New York apartment. Doctors examining the two men during the year-long trial reported that neither had heightened blood pressure or kidney trouble, the expected result of a carnivorous diet. The one thing lacking in their diet, Stefansson noted, was enough calcium.”
It’s all connected…the planetary health diet is actually part of the C40 Smart Cities goals…towards a “fossil free future”….and details how to ‘implement solutions that make it easier for people to eat more plant based options’ LOL!
All of which is part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals…
…..they are bloody trying to force everyone into it, and we are way down the road…..
Isn’t the point that we don’t need any politician, especially an unhinged climatic like Khan, telling us what we can and can’t eat. Frankly, it’s none of their bl00dy business.
You got it.
And by the way, chitin, which the bugs they want is to eat is a) indigestible by human beings & b) causes inflammation.
There are days when one thinks they really are trying to kill off us serfs…
…if it was natural for human beings to eat insects and bugs..we would have been doing it for thousands of years….
I’ll follow the ways of my ancient ancestors thank you very much…LOL!
Us too.
Think about it. Homo sapiens (never mind our precursors) has been around c250,000 years.
Until c 8000 years ago, we had no agriculture. Ergo, meat was our staple; and when starving and waiting for the next mammoth, berries and roots.
Meat is our species-adapted diet.
Have a look at Elaine Morgan’s Elaine Morgan and “The Descent of Woman” — Lady Science – she points out that our ancestors likely spent a lot of time in or near water and that fish and shellfish were also an important part of our diet. Shellfish are very nutrient dense. A most enjoyable read with much to make one think about.
So how do the wealthy get wealthy if there are no serfs to produce goods for them to sell. Or indeed service their possessions, will they fix their own houses, cars and aircraft?
People are eating more meat. And a meat free diet stunts kids (way to go, VEGANS – nothing to beat deliberately harming your chidren eh? !)
ps – the stunting is cognitive as well as physical.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918945/
“Meat consumption is associated with less stunting among toddlers in four diverse low-income settings”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743850/
“A Systematic Review Investigating the Relation Between Animal-Source Food Consumption and Stunting in Children Aged 6–60 Months in Low and Middle-Income Countries”
People are eating more meat
Maybe globally as more and more countries come out of poverty. Not in the UK:
Daily meat consumption in the UK has decreased by approximately 17.4g per person per day – just under a 17% reduction – in the last decade finds new research from the University of Oxford
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/reduction-in-uk-red-and-processed-meat-intake-but-more-needed-to-meet-our-climate-targets
Sure people in low to middle income countries might well benefit from more meat. But that doesn’t mean it is healthy to eat more than 70 gm a day.
Yeah. We’re getting more stupid by the day. And eating a lot more than you state stopped wife’s terminal bone cancer in its tracks.
I’d say that’s healthy. And we are now sure that the chemo she had for breast cancer in 2017, and the appalling mess the NHS made of treating it, caused the bone cancer.
She’s had no chemo this time round. Just stuck to beef.
Keep up——–We passed the 8 billion mark a few months ago.
8 billion ! I thought we had a Pandemic
We were supposed to but it did not go to plan.
Don’t worry though, planning for the next one will fix it.
Keep your eyes on 2025.
These people don’t do workable proposals.
Greengrocer’s apostrophe at the end of paragraph 6.
“Nitpicker in aisle 3”. LOL!
Nutpicker, perhaps?
Is there any intention whatsoever to subject this to a democratic vote? And even if there is, is that what democracy is for? So that a majority can tell a minority what to eat?
If that’s democracy, no thanks.
None of these things get put to democratic votes, but people’s education on politics and law are so abysmal, that they think politicians can just do what they want and that laws have been handed down by god and must be obeyed no matter what.
Just look at the US, where the criminality and corruption of the current WH administration knows no bounds and gets supported by courts at every turn. I think we’re going to have to wait for society to collapse around our ears before people realise we have to do and decide for ourselves.
I think it’s rather worse than that.
People chose a political team and then convince themselves that their team is looking out for them and has their interests in mind. And in addition, the other teams are bad people with bad ideas and their own team is there to fight against and protect them from the other teams. Their own team might not be perfect but it’s better than the other teams and when their own team does bad or stupid things, it’s a mistake or the odd bad apple to be accepted from time to time.
People don’t think their political leaders have to be obeyed, they are deluded in thinking that the political leaders they like care about them and are somehow working to get the best for them.
Fools.
Democracy is analogous to being mugged by a rape gang. You are given the choice which member of the gang does the deed and if you refuse the choice is made for you.
Much as I’d like to think the Dutch government is hanging by a thread due to the farmer’s political movement, it has in fact already collapsed and is only in place until the elections in November. Of the current 4 coalition parties, only one, PM Rutte’s VVD is likely to be part of the next coalition, sans Rutte, fortunately. Rutte brought the government down (supposedly) over an asylum-related issue.
I would have expected the farmer’s party to win big, but a very popular politician, Pieter Omtzigt, formerly of the CDA, has set up his own party and is expected to have the biggest party and take votes from the farmer’s party. I think he’s sympathetic to the farmers, but I don’t think he will fight the EU particularly hard and I think he is to some extent on board with the ludicrous idea that the earth is boiling. Most of his fights have been related to other issues, so it’s not that clear, but he is old-school big tax nanny state, so I’m not holding out much hopes, even though I have a lot of respect for him. Although he will hopefully keep former EU green commissioner Timmersmans out as PM, as he would have out-Khanned Khan.
I’m starting to think one of the reasons the West seems to want WWIII, particularly in the Middle East, is because it allows all these tossers to back down from their net-zero nonsense by saying we need to pump up fossil fuels and increase farming due to the war – without having to say they’re giving up on their net-zero ideals.
I now see what the NL in your name means. You and the lovely Eva would get along fine. ———Thanks for all your very thoughtful comments.
I doubt if this was in Khan’s Manifesto, so he has no democratic legitimacy for it.
But then he isn’t a democrat and this isn’t about climate or health: it’s about control and Khan getting a new, lucrative, role in a WEF-approved organisation when he’s kicked out of Office.
Unless he screws up and his fellow travellers declare a fatwa on him (does the ULEZ rob all his compatriots of their cheapo taxi cars).
I pointed out a while back that Khant is in place to test the water & wind us up , backed by all political groups ! They all know whats going on , apart from a few Mayoral grillings that he gets where he gets to revel in showing his smug arrogant & actually un civilised self with bells on he does as he pleases ! HOW long has he been there ? How long has his extension been due to Covid & HOW can he be running again with predictions saying he will win again ! HOW ????
As I understand it, in WW2 rationing didn’t apply to restaurants,which is why in the famous episode of Dad’s Army Mainwaring was able to send out for fish and chips for the U-boat crewmen :”I vont plaice”. (Whoever suggested occupying the Faeroes and Iceland was a genius.)
Will this be how the wealthier are intended to get round the restrictions?
You can have plant based diets or you can build huge solar farms across vast swathes of arable farmland but you can’t have both.
You can ban non-organic fertilisers or you can hugely reduce manure producing animals but you can’t do both.
Every ecosystem works best when it is in balance. A catastrophe is looming.
You drink, you smoke, you eat meat and cheese and own pets and, according to the fanatics, have a life expectancy in the low 70s.
You do none of these and have a life expectancy in the low 90s. But you get euthanised at 70.
Whatever happened to the ice-free Arctic? latest leaflet
This is what happens when you rely on models full of assumptions and guesses for your truth rather than the real world.
When are people going to wake up to the pretend to save the planet eco socialist SCAM? Probably never. Here is a little experiment for everyone who comments on this website who does not accept the phony climate crisis emergency nonsense.————-The next time you have a house full of relatives make the following observation “There is nothing unusual about current temperatures or climate and there is no evidence of dangerous changes to the climate” ————-Pay attention to how many will stare at you like are from Mars. This is why the vast majority will never be able to avoid the scam. They have allowed themselves to be manipulated and brainwashed, and it is well known that humans prefer to be with the majority. It has something to do with feeling safer and not wanting to be considered an outsider, or to face ridicule. I would love to be a fly on the wall when Khan and his fellow Mayors get together at one of their globalist junkets discussing how to impoverish their own citizens while pretending it is all about the climate, when infact it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with that.
A few points that might not be obvious from Morrison’s polemic:
EAT-lancet does not propose banning anything. The suggested action that is closest to a ban is a tax on unhealthy foods such as sugary drinks (not meat). An idea that has been around for some time.
The objective is less meat not zero meat- something which would be healthier for most people in affluent countries. “Meat and dairy constitute important parts of the diet but in significantly smaller proportions than whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes.”
This is not just about climate change. It is about several things such as better health and protecting biodiversity.
The nation was healthier than it had ever been on the WW2 diet (except for the ones being shot or blown up of course).
I’ll be you can’t wait for the WW3 diet.
What I eat is none of your business, none of the state’s business and none of anyone else’s business either. Define “unhealthy” and “healthier”. You won’t be able to. And in any case, who cares what people eat? If you like you can spend your time and money persuading other people to eat the things you think they should eat. Knock yourself out, just don’t ask the state to get involved using my money. Taxes should be raised for providing the essential functions of the state like protecting our borders and preventing crime and locking up criminals, based on income or land use or across the board consumption, not for the purposes of behaviour modification.
We are each entitled to trade quantity of life for quality.
Who said that nothing is worth giving up for an extra couple of years in a home?
Indeed, though sadly the world is full of people like MTF who seem happy not only for themselves to have their choices micromanaged by others, but for that micromanagement to be forced on everyone. Exactly the attitude that led to the covid tyranny, “vaccine” carnage, nut zero etc.
My wife, diagnosed with terminal bone cancer two years ago, with 6 to 9 months to live, is still very much alive and kicking.
How? We went Carnivore a year or so before the diagnosis. She’d already had breast cancer, and the RUH in Bath so messed her treatment we are convinced that the chemo she had caused the bone cancer.
Going carnivore stops feeding cancer cells. She is by NO means alone in staving off terminal illness with this diet.
So restricting her to 44 gms of meat a day will kill her.
You really are a fucking Khant, Khan.
Fyi.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-meat-diet
“The Arctic Explorer Who Pushed an All-Meat Diet”
At 72, I wish I had known that this was the way to eat when I was 22.
Putting one’s body into an alkaline state is how it can successfully deal with the rogue cancer cells. Another successful nutrition based intervention is B17.
I wish your wife continued good health.
Thanks. This worked for her, and we are now finding many other, also with other chronic conditions, especially autoimmune ones.
It is not quite correct to put one’s body into an alkaline state.
Our cells have a very tight narrow range of pH for normal healthy function of between 7.35 to 7.45.
pH 7 is neutral so a slightly alkaline level is the normal level for healthy cellular function.
Cancers thrive in an acidic environment so if your pH is below 7 you should think about doing things to correct that.
You can buy professional quality test strips which indicate the pH of saliva and urine.
To restore normal pH a diet rich in cruciferous vegetable is important. One can also take alkaline drops or as an alternative drinking during the course of the day from glasses of water with 10 drops of fresh [ideally organic] lemon juice will provoke your body to produce an alkaline rush.
You can use the test strips to tell that it works.
A word of warning about juicing cruciferous vegetables – too much can deny essential iodine to the thyroid and cause serious harm if allowed to continue.
Dizzyness and loss of balance in the morning when you try to stand up after sleep is a sign of this.
Iodine supplementation is a good idea.
But of course this is all pretty complicated stuff and profesional advice from a knowledgeable professional is important. Don’t think you can just read up online and DIY. That applies to what I have written here.
I concur entirely with you. A good diet of freshly cooked foods rich in vegetables, quality proteins & not too much of any one thing is the way to set one’s body into it’s optimum pH range, which is ever so slightly alkaline. Processed, artificial foods tip the body pH into the opposite direction with sugar being a prime culprit.
Like everything in life, balance is key. Dr Robert Young has done a lot of work on this, my criticism of him is that to access a lot of the information one has to pay a lot. Recompense oneself, yes. Charge the earth? No.
I collected haws yesterday and then read what to do with them Apparently the seeds contain B17. I tried hawthorn leaf tea yesterday, a bit bitter. Will try a few berries in hot water today. Good for circulation apparently.
“Going carnivore stops feeding cancer cells.”
Whilst it is good to hear this has worked for your wife JeremyP99 there is much journal published science [which BTW your average NHS doctor never looks at and did not learn in med school] which explains which foods to avoid to:
1) reduce cancer risk
and
2) to reduce what cancer cells need to thrive.
It has been established science for decades that sugars feed cancer:
Glucose Metabolism in Cancer: The Warburg Effect and Beyond
So cut out sugars and precursors to sugars like quickly digested carbohydrates. Slow energy carbs like ancient grain breads and whole rolled oats for porridge are apparently OK.
That is in effect what your wife has done – it is not the meat eating which is the factor and it can be a harmful factor.
Cancers are complex and there are many different varieties so professional guidance is important – but the average NHS doctor will turn to chemo and cutting and not give any advice on diet which happens to be a crucial factor.
There is for example an effective US FDA approved and licensed product for two kinds of skin cancer including the most common but it is not available to NHS patients – dermatologists here seem to know nothing about it and you will not find it with most online searches [thanks Google and big Pharma].
There are many books published by doctors who have read the science and by cancer survivors and others which explain aspects like the importance of diet – including eating and juicing cruciferous vegetables [broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts to mention a few], eating oily fish, avoiding beef, pork, with only very occasional lamb or chicken, avoiding dairy.
If you stick to organic then you help to eliminate environmental toxins like pesticides and weedkillers like glysophates which don’t help you to stay cancer free or to go into remission once you have a cancer.
I am only mentioning a few aspects here so please do not act on what I write here and rely on professional advice from those who really know all the options [if you can find anyone – but they are like hens teeth and not all those who claim to know necessarily do know].
The Gerson method of treating cancer follows those principles. I know someone who treated her breast cancer using this method, no chemo, was told she’d be dead if she didn’t follow the conventional chemo route, yet 12 years & counting later is healthy & cancer free.
I don’t think Khan has as many supporters as one might think. Participation in the Mayoral election is dismal; well under 50%. If enough anti-Khanites turn up to vote then I don’t think he could survive on the Corbynite and ethnic vote alone.
It’s a good microcosm of what is wrong with the UK and why direct democracy should be strongly preferred – even if the majority isn’t always right they are unlikely to directly vote against their immediate economic interests.
Where does Khans authority and mandate come from to sign and commit London to wide ranging societal change like this..?
Hehe. Little did the people of London think that when electing the Mayor, they were actually electing a tinpot dictator…
Seems to come from Labour & Tory being too scared to stop him! Starmer could kick him out of the Party and force him to stand as an independent. Sunak could put London into special measures.
The wide ranging societal change is coming to us all.
Some really aggrieved citizen could test out whether his Range Rover is really as bullet / bomb proof as he thinks it is, but they won’t.
My car mechanic is under the impression Citizen Khan got the motor because there is a contract out on him.
Sounds a bit far-fetched but MPs don’t get cars like that provided out of tax or rate-payers’ money.
Next we’ll hear he has a similar adapted London bus and an underground carriage so he can prove his green credentials and use his Oyster card to get around.
Just in from X:New Study blows ‘greenhouse theory out of the water’‘All observed climatic changes have natural causes completely outside of human control’“This climate controversy is costing billions, making the wrong folks rich, and keep us from solving real environmental problems.”
https://www.wnd.com/2017/07/study-blows-greenhouse-theory-out-of-the-water/
It strikes me that if the 500 or so most influential/powerful people in the world were imprisoned on an island from which escape was made impossible, the rest of the world would be a lot safer, peaceful, more prosperous and fairer.
That’s only a (granted arbitrary) small number of people ruining it for the rest of humanity.
While we were sleeping…the World Economic Forum took over the world… “…so we penetrate ze cabinets…”
They’ve blatantly colonised ‘our’ governments.
Consider for example in Australia – the former Health Minister, Greg Hunt, was the strategy director for the World Economic Forum from 2000 to 2001, before he entered the Australian Parliament in 2001. Note also he was Engagement Manager at McKinsey and Co from 1999 to 2001.
See his bio on the Parliament of Australia website.
After presiding over the Covid debacle in Australia, along with former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Hunt is now ‘Honorary Enterprise Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Services and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne’
“He advises a wide range of businesses and not for profits in the areas of innovation, leadership, strategic planning, health and the environment.”
Hunt’s current bio also includes reference to his time at the World Economic Forum, noting he was “responsible for the development of global strategy for the WEF, working directly to the CEO”.
I don’t think the electorate knew what they were getting when Hunt was elected to the Parliament in 2001…
So much has been and is being done without our informed consent…
Life imitating art.
Comedy
Citizen Khan “Larger than life, self-appointed leader Mr Khan is the voice of Muslim Birmingham – whether the community likes it or not.”
Series 1: Episode 1 (28 mins)
Democracy does not exist between Citizen Khan’s ears.
Who TF voted for this? I certainly did not. Where is the democratic mandate?
It’s just like the move to hand WHO powers to make decisions regarding national health security.
I didn’t vote for that either.
Believe me if and when Sur Kurr Stammer becomes our Supreme leader next year he will be weak and forced to do what the left demand.
He has the same frightened eyes that Margaret Thatcher’s Sir Keith Joseph had. Sadly Sir Keith suffered mental health problems and I fear Sur Kurr Stammer will go the same way under the pressure of office.
Someone has to get to this guy…
It’s all very well to say we can vote him out (and let’s hope and pray we do at the next mayoral election). But should he succeed in getting in again next time, then we’re stuck with him for another four years. And surely his fellow Muslims are just as affected by his crazy anti-motorist, anti-human rules as anyone else. BTW, just escaping London isn’t necessarily going to help since the grass very often proves to be less green on the other side than hoped. Eventually these things (if they succeed with their Great Reset) will catch up with people wherever they are; it’s just a question of time. And, BTW again, pride often/usually comes before a fall (a good biblical saying), and maybe it will with Khan too. (We can’t escape our quite unsmart, very racially – and everything else – mixed area of London, because we are in our mid-70s and want to remain close to our children and grandchildren – and our son, for one, won’t leave, as he says he’ll go down with the sinking ship (he is one of the elders of our little church and most members don’t have the easy option of upping sticks and escaping). So we’ll stay and fight! Let’s hope lots of others join us!!
Er excuse me Mr Morrison you’re not turning into a conspiracy theorist are you?
Why is there so nuch aqueasence on these posts. Khan, won’t even be Mayor next time around and don’t forget when they tried to ban alcohol in the USA. Supplies popped up everywhere and based on the performance of the UK Keystone Cops, it’ll be a crime heaven
Another Psychotic Gifts to Londoners.
I wish these guys would just mind their own f*ing business. Oh yes, it is their businesses and profits they’re looking after plus a nice bit of control & power.
Gratefully sadiq will be out of office by 2030, just like old Boris and a few others promising a draconian future. Thank god.