8
Oct 2016 ~ 6 Tishrei 5777
Torah
Parashah Vayelech - He Went
D’barim
31:1-30 RSTNE p 162
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“Global
rates for maternal mortality have fallen by close to one-half, except in the
U.S., where the number of women who die related to their pregnancy has
significantly increased.Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016; 128(3):447-455”
“In
a similar fashion, infant mortality rates are higher than any of the other 27
wealthy countries reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). National Vital Statistics Report, August 6, 2015; 64(9):
1-6”
“Cost
for medical care in
the U.S. is the highest in the world. Unfortunately, high medical
expenditures do not translate into better outcomes for
mothers and infants. In fact, the number of infant deaths in the U.S.
for every 1,000 live births is higher than in Bosnia, Slovenia, Cuba and
Belarus. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook”
“Researchers
found the number of childhood
immunizations given in the first year of life had predictive value
on infant mortality rates. A higher number of childhood immunizations given
resulted in higher rates of infant mortality. Human and Experimental Toxicology, September 2011; 30(9):
1420-1428”
“The
U.S. vaccination schedule specifies 26 doses of vaccination before age 1, the
most of any other country. Using linear regression, scientists compared results
from 34 countries and found those countries with the lower number of vaccines
given also had the lowest rates of infant mortality. Human and Experimental Toxicology, September 2011; 30(9):
1420-1428”
“Of
the 34 countries, 33 had lower infant mortality rates than the U.S.”
But
wait... we have cheap food right??
“How
One Man is Destroying Our Health and Environment”
Oct.
4, 2016
“Shut
up about sustainability and just be happy there's plenty of cheap food to be
had.”
Doctor
Mercola goes on and writes:
“Never
mind the fact that Americans have the lowest health rating7 in the developed
world thanks to this industrial, processed diet, and the fact that we have the
most expensive health care system in the world, even though it ranks 37th in
terms of quality.”
That
could pay for a lot of organic veggies, yet using Vilsack's reasoning, you
should be happy that cheap food affords you to pay for your ill health.
Cheap
food is no bargain when it leads to the permanent "vacation" that is
premature death either, at least not for the surviving family members who have
to bear the loss of a loved one.
Vilsack
also stays mum on the fact that your tax dollars are used to:
Over
the past 15 years, more than $96 billion in agricultural subsidies have been
handed out to industrial farmers who pollute the environment and contribute to
the destruction of the ecosystem,13 all in the name of
efficiency.
•
Provide industry farmers with crop insurance. Last year, this price tag came to
a whopping $14 billion. Virtually all U.S. corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton
crops are insured under this program, and as noted by Bloomberg:17
By
using your tax dollars to prop up the industrial farming system, it falsely
makes the food appear inexpensive when in reality you're paying for it in other
ways and in other places than your grocery store.
The
same corn and soy subsidies that plague our health are the foundation for the
CAFO production of meat and dairy. By feeding cattle this species-inappropriate
diet, they promote disease in the animals, and to counteract that, they
routinely feed the cattle antibiotics. This in turn promotes drug-resistant
bacteria, which now threatens human health like never before. The antibiotic
"apocalypse" is nearing, yet no affirmative action is being taken to
stop it. Why?
Nearly
80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in agriculture, yet
many in the CAFO industry still quibble about lack of evidence. In the
meantime, conservative estimates suggest 2 million Americans contract drug-resistant
infections each year and at least 23,000 die as a result.22 Yet Vilsack wants
to remind you that, thanks to industrial farming, you "only" have to
spend 10 percent of your paycheck on food, and for that, you should be
grateful!
What
price can you place on all these various forms of destruction, really? By the
time you add up farm subsidies, crop insurance subsidies, biotech promotion
paid by taxes, environmental cleanups and water treatment, health care costs
for chronic disease and antibiotic resistance, you're definitely looking at far
more than 10 percent of your income.
Consider
this: As of 2013, health care spending averaged out to nearly $9,100 per capita
in the U.S.24
What percentage of your income does that amount to? I believe it is crucial to
understand that this cost is heavily influenced by diet, so when calculating
what you can and cannot "afford," you really should include an
estimate of future health care costs.
Could
you still afford to eat junk food today if you knew with a fair amount of
certainty that you will get diabetes from it? Diabetics incur average medical
expenditures of about $13,700 per year.25 How does that
figure fit into your current food budget? Vilsack's obnoxious statement does
not take this into account, but you'd be wise not to fall for his simplistic
view of the matter.
Dr. Mercola goes on to write about the effects
agricultural chemicals has on the environment....
Interestingly...
This same guy also has another responsibility - Vilsack oversees the White House
administration’s response to the opioid addiction epidemic.” And he said, in order to put small
communities in a better place after this mess... we should all invest in
organic farming and other “green” things...
And
never mentions the real cause of opioid addiction - the prescriptions the MD’s
are writing.
-The
article goes on....
***
So
those are some of the issues in our world... and they certainly effect all of
us....
But
what about even more personal??
Yom
haKippurim is coming up on Wed.
-
you
know the ONLY FAST that YHUH commands His people - Kol Yisra’el to do....
B’midbar
(Numbers) 29:7
p 131
Uyiqara
(Leviticus) 23:27-33
p 99
We
could talk about something that bothers me very much... how in these feast
times- they talk about making offerings... and we do not do dead animal
offerings like Torah writes about.....
Why do we do some and not all??
So
maybe this would be like Matthew Nolan - teaching we don’t need to fast -
BUT
when I read...
Uyiqara
23:31
p 99
“You
shall do no manner of work; it shall be
a chuk le olam-va-ed throughout all your generations.”
Remember
that a chuk - is the “because I said so” - not logical to our brain -
instructions of Yah.
“Le
olam-va-ed throughout all your generations” - is pretty hard to get around!!!
But
consider our personal lives...
you
know - the way we think.
If
you were going to place yourself on a HOPE - meter right now - how much would
you have?
-
or
joy - or shalom - or positive thinking -
-
how
much would you have??
How
are you thinking about your life and the things going on ??
**
Here’s
an example of a way of thinking...
I
was at a store yesterday and the clerk was someone i spent a lot of years with
in Sunday School Class... as an adult....and
she got around to asking about me... I
told her i have been a pastor for 12 years...and
of course she wanted to know where... etc...I
told her we keep the 7th day Sabbath meet on Saturdays - and where we meet.
She
said...
“Well,
I don’t think God is so concerned about which day - He is all about our
heart. If our heart is right - the day
doesn’t matter.” !!!
wow. I just looked at her and said...“I
think the Word is very clear about the day.”
And
I wanted to ask her where she found this sort of thinking in Scripture!!!
**
Let’s
consider the Word and the way we think:
Romia
12:2
p 848
“Be
transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
2
Tim 1:7
p 906
“For
YHUH has not given us a the Ruach of fear: but of power, and of ahava, and of a
sound mind.”
2
Corinthians 10:3-5
p 870
“For
though we are walking in the world (flesh), we do not WAR according to the
world (flesh).
4
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through our YHUH to
the pulling down of strongholds;
5
Casting down imaginations, and every high human matter that exalts itself
against the da’at of YHUH, taking captive every thought to be obedient to
Moshiach.”
Yochanan
Moshe (Mark) 16:17-18
p 723
“And
these signs shall follow them that believe;
In My Name shall they cast out shedim; they shall speak with new
tongues;
18
They shall take up serpents; and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover.”
Gilyahna
(Revelation) 9:21
p 916
“Neither
did they make teshuvah from their murders, nor from their pharmakia (not
sorceries!), nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.”
Gilyahna
(Revelation) 19:23
p 924
and
the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the
bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for the
merchants were the great men of the olam;
for by your sorceries (Pharmakia) were all nations deceived.”
**
You
can get upset about the mess we live in in this nation and world.... Monsanto
and chemicals... and even the fact that now Bayer is going to buy Monsanto....
(think about that one!)
you
can get upset about politics... and you could even just be focused on who wins
the games....
BUT
- What about inside us??
Yom
HaKippurim is coming up....
and
if our thinking is a mess -then we have a problem......
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