RE: Cures and Capitalisim
August 22, 2016 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2016 at 2:56 pm by Regina.)
I'm not usually into conspiracies, but this is one I really can see there being some truth to.
I don't think they're holding off on cures, genuinely. They couldn't really, as others have said. However, even in countries like The UK, where we have an exemplary free healthcare service that does help a lot of people, the focus of healthcare is always to go and see a doctor when you are ill. There isn't a lot of emphasis put on overall health and well-being, holistic health, and ways to prevent illness in the first place. We're not given complex education on what the best foods are to eat and for what purpose, how to cook well, how to find healthy food on a budget, or exactly how bad the shit like Burger King and Coca Cola is for you.
It's more mis-education rather than outright lies. They'll tell you "eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a day" and you think that's all the advice you need to stay healthy.
And I think that's the way the powers that be (in this case, both healthcare services and fast-food companies) want it. If you educate people on how to better take care of their bodies so they're significantly less likely to end up with cancer, heart disease, diabetes or obesity, the fast-food industry crashes catastrophically, and then in turn the healthcare services do as well, because people aren't needing doctors so often. That would have devastating impact on the economy and no government wants that.
I can believe it is in the best interests of both healthcare companies and a lot of food/agriculture companies to promote "treat the symptom and not the cause" approach to health. I would go that far with the conspiracy theory.
This farmer has to wear a protective suit so he doesn't get poisoned by the chemicals he is putting on the crops;
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Plenty of people are going to buy that food that he can't touch for his own health, and then consume it.
I don't think they're holding off on cures, genuinely. They couldn't really, as others have said. However, even in countries like The UK, where we have an exemplary free healthcare service that does help a lot of people, the focus of healthcare is always to go and see a doctor when you are ill. There isn't a lot of emphasis put on overall health and well-being, holistic health, and ways to prevent illness in the first place. We're not given complex education on what the best foods are to eat and for what purpose, how to cook well, how to find healthy food on a budget, or exactly how bad the shit like Burger King and Coca Cola is for you.
It's more mis-education rather than outright lies. They'll tell you "eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a day" and you think that's all the advice you need to stay healthy.
And I think that's the way the powers that be (in this case, both healthcare services and fast-food companies) want it. If you educate people on how to better take care of their bodies so they're significantly less likely to end up with cancer, heart disease, diabetes or obesity, the fast-food industry crashes catastrophically, and then in turn the healthcare services do as well, because people aren't needing doctors so often. That would have devastating impact on the economy and no government wants that.
I can believe it is in the best interests of both healthcare companies and a lot of food/agriculture companies to promote "treat the symptom and not the cause" approach to health. I would go that far with the conspiracy theory.
This farmer has to wear a protective suit so he doesn't get poisoned by the chemicals he is putting on the crops;
Plenty of people are going to buy that food that he can't touch for his own health, and then consume it.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
