Happy Monday readers, and happy belated Father’s Day to any Dads out there who read my blog.  (I’m guessing there aren’t too many…?  Tell me if I’m wrong in the comments with a quick hello!)  We had my sister and her family over for one of Kent’s (and my) favorite meals:  Fajitas with Grassfed Flank Steak.  I had the steak marinating for over three days.  :)  What did you eat on Father’s Day?  Did you see my Father’s Day post with Kent’s 5 Favorite Meals and 5 Favorite Kitchen Gadgets?

• West Michigan readers, there are a couple of great events coming up in our local WAPF chapter and I hope you’ll join us!  This coming Tuesday is a “snack meeting” where people are bringing their real foodie favorites to share.  (We could use more snacks if you’d like to bring your specialty!)  On July 1st, Rami Nagel is coming to Grand Rapids to talk about how to Heal Tooth Decay!  Get tickets and details here.
• By the way, are there any readers near Lansing, Michigan who would like to see a local Weston A. Price chapter there? If so, please respond here!  (Or email me if you’re not on Facebook:  Kelly@KellytheKitchenKop.com.)
• Wish you could get your kids to eat more veggies?  Ours actually love this Roasted Cauliflower with Parmesan recipe.   (How could you not? Butter…Parm…YUM!)  There are even more ideas here from Yummy Inspirations:  Ways to Get Your Kids to Eat Cauliflower.

• Check this out Moms:  2-ingredient strawberry lemonade fruit snacks from Butter Believer – No corn syrup, lots of healthy grass-fed gelatin, this is going on my “to make” list for sure!   Pin it for later.  Find quality gelatin from grass-fed cows here.
• This breastfeeding picture on Facebook last week cracked me up!
• Is there such a thing as too much butter?  Join in on that conversation here.  I’m leaning toward a firm no.  

• People went nuts over this on Facebook last week so I thought I’d post it here, too!  Gluten-Free Brownie Cheesecake Bars from The Coconut Mama…. Did anyone else’s world come to a chocolatey, creamy, screeching halt when you saw that yummy picture?  LOL.  Pin it for later.
• Mold in your child’s juice box? EWWW!! One more reason not to trust the industrial food system with nourishing our kids!  Read the ER doc’s story and why she recommends avoiding juice (box or not) for kids here.
• These sandals are soooo comfortable.  Has anyone else tried and loved them?  Pin it for later.

• Last week I posted on the True Cause of Heart Disease, and then I found something else that you’ll want to check out:  the book Cholesterol Won’t Kill You.  The 98-year-old author has done his research in the lab where Chris Masterjohn will be continuing the work and research of Dr. Weston A. Price with your help!  Read more about this from Sarah.
• One more good one from Sarah:  What happens when you combine the most beneficial plant oil with the most nutrient-dense animal fat? An extremely well balanced, stable, nutritious blend of coconut oil and ghee for cooking!  Read more about it here.
• I’ll see you here later this week for Real Food Wednesday! (Did you know that participating is a great way to get more traffic to your blog OR to learn more about Real Food and get some great new recipes, too?!)

Happy Father’s Day to any Dad’s out there!  Just in case you still need some ideas for your Dad or husband today, what to cook him or what to buy him, I thought I’d share with you what Kent’s 5 favorite meals are, and because he loves to cook, I’ll also share what his 5 favorite kitchen gadgets are, too…

Kent’s 5 Favorite Gadgets (You’re not too late to shop for Dad today, just get a gift card for now or order these and tell him it’s coming):

1. His big, sturdy, grill spatula – I was surprised to see this on Amazon, but this is the one he has and loves.
2. Cast iron pans are the only frying pans he uses (except for the next one), and he is much better than I am about keeping them nice by rubbing oil all over them after cleaning.
3. This big stainless steel electric frying pan is BOTH our favorites, one of the BEST investments we’ve ever made, and they’re not actually that expensive.  It’s big enough to cook meals for our whole family, and it cleans up good, too.  (Read more about it in this post:  Bye Bye Teflon Skillet.)
4. Good knives – Anyone have some good ones at this link to recommend?  We need to invest in new ones and I’m sick of complaining about ours.
5. He loves his coffee made in this stainless steel percolator coffee maker.   It really does taste better, and I love that it doesn’t touch any plastic.  Read my post about it:  A Cup of Coffee Without the Plastic Toxins Please!

And now for Kent’s 5 Favorite Meals:

1.  Triple Pork Poutine - He made this for us once after he and Kal had been to a soccer game in Toronto and tried it at a nearby restaurant.

2.  Parmesan Pesto Pasta with Seasoned Chicken - This recipe came about after I pulled a few different ideas together…

3.  Fajitas with grass fed flank steak - This is what we’re eating for dinner today.

4.  Guinness Irish Stew - Kent loves anything with Guinness, and while I can’t stand the beer, this stew is really flavorful!

5.  Kitchen Kop’s Beef Stroganoff - This was one of my favorite meals that my Mom made as I was growing up.  She’s a great cook.

What are you giving your Dad or your kids’ Dad today?  More importantly, what are you cooking for him?!  :)

Still undecided on the safety of vaccines?  Wonder what infant vaccination schedule to follow?

A Facebook friend shared this recently:

“A friend posted an article this morning that was posted by a local pediatric office.  It’s very persuasive and convincing that you must be crazy if you think vaccines are not safe. I have three unvaccinated children and continue to wrestle with the issue, but also continue to build a strong natural medicine cabinet to fight illness. Anyway, I was curious what you or your readers had to say about it.”

Voices for Vaccines:  Why I’m Telling My Vaccine Story

So you may be wondering why I’m sharing this, when I’ve written quite a few anti-vaccine posts here in the past.  While we used to vaccinate, and gave our youngest some shots but not all (read all about that here including which ones we did or did not have him get), unless something changes our minds, you never know, we no longer vaccinate.

But here’s the deal.  I have often asked you not to make any of your own decisions based on what you read here on my site, but rather to use what you learn here to motivate you to do more of your own research.  I want you to be fully informed, and aware of both sides of the issues I write about.  That is why I shared that link.

But I’ll also tell you what I think of it.

I don’t disagree with a lot of the information in the article.  It’s true that coincidences can happen after shots that people could attribute to vaccine related problems.  It’s also true that most people who get shots never experience anything more than slight side effects.

Here’s why we still won’t vaccinate though…

• As a general rule, I do not trust pharmaceutical companies and the governmental agencies that regulate them.  (Here’s a glaring reason:  Wait ’til you read what happened when we went to the doctor’s office for shots once!)  No, I don’t believe that there’s some big conspiracy to inject something harmful into our kids through vaccines and bring down the human race.  But I do believe that their bottom line is money.  There just isn’t enough research to know for sure what the long-term effects of vaccines are.  Why would a drug company pay for expensive research like that, when it might show something that could put them out of business and that could easily be blamed on many other things in between the shot and when someone got sick years later?!  A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis at twenty-eight?  Cancer at six years old?  Learning issues beginning in third grade?  Hyperactivity disorder?  Autism?  I’m not saying that I think any of these things are related, I’m just saying who really KNOWS what the long-term effects of these vaccines could be?!  And not just because of what might be inside the vaccines, but also what it does to our bodies when our natural immune system processes are circumvented.  Besides, they make money not by keeping us healthy, but by keeping us sick.  Sad but true.
• Here’s a good book on the topic:  A Shot in the Dark.
• The more natural way is always my first choice.  Letting our bodies build up natural immunity whenever possible rather than injecting foreign substances into our blood stream just makes more sense.
• The 7 reasons that originally convinced me to re-think all of this still stand, look those over for more help in making your own decisions.  (Included there is information on whether or not vaccines really did eradicate certain diseases… Or if the rates were declining before the vaccines.)
• Be sure to watch this for more helpful information:  The Greater Good.
• Lastly, this chart is another commonsense wake-up for me.  It shows the CDC recommended shot schedule for 1983 vs. 2013.  Scary isn’t it?!

What do you think after reading that article?  Share below in the comments!

• Learn more about natural remedies here!
• Healthcare workers:  how to refuse mandatory vaccines and not get fired.
• Another good post about why one mom won’t vaccinate.

photo:  AJC1

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Welcome and PLEASE read below before you link up as this is a REAL FOOD carnival, and very different from others you may have joined in on.

I LOVE WEDNESDAYS!

It’s that crazy time of the week when you entice us with your links and comments to go check out your blogs and your great REAL FOOD WEDNESDAY tips and ideas or recipes!  (Visit that link if you’re new and want to learn more about this blog carnival.)  Remember, if you’re a blogger, you’ll draw some good traffic to your site by participating!  (This is how I built up my traffic in the beginning, and don’t miss my tips below.)

CAN YOU HELP?  (6 rules and tips!)  (Note:  here’s where those of you who are new will want to read carefully, thank you!)

1.  It’s not easy for me to catch them all on my own, and I’d really like everyone to play fair, so if you see any posts that don’t link back to this post (blog carnival etiquette you know!), can you email me please?  Kelly@KellytheKitchenKop.com.  If you don’t know how, I explain it at this REAL FOOD WEDNESDAY link.  (I hate playing hardball and removing links, so let’s all be good to the others who are bringing more traffic to your blogs with their links by doing the same, OK?)

2.  Also, PLEASE let me know if you see a recipe posted that is blatantly not Real Food.  Someone who is striving and on the journey is one thing (as we all are), but if it’s really bad (with things like canned bread, meat substitutes, Velveeta, margarine/vegetable oil/canola oil, Egg Beaters, unfermented soy/tofu or any other fake food), please tell me so I can remove it.  (If I’ve removed your post, I hope there are no hard feelings, but people come to this post for Real Food ideas, and I don’t want to disappoint.)

3.  I hope you’ll retweet, share on Facebook, and stumble this post and also any sites you visit – this will get more exposure to all of us, thank you!  (You can do this easily and quickly with the share links above and below the post.)

4.  Please don’t link up to your post where you’re writing about something as an affiliate if I’m already an affiliate for the same thing, OK?  That includes giveaway posts.  (Thank you for understanding!)

5.  Want more traffic at your blog?  if you’re linking up and hoping for more traffic to your blog, can I make a suggestion for how to boost your traffic?  Besides just adding your link to the Mr. Linky doohicky, if you also comment and include just ONE interesting sentence to grab the readers attention AND a link to that specific post, you’ll get more hits for sure.  But don’t put more than one link in there, or it will get hung up in my moderation area, and you never know how long it will be ’til I get around to approving those.

6.  Don’t have a blog? We still want to hear from you!  Please leave your tips or recipes in the comments.

Thank you!

You’re up, and we can’t wait to see your stuff!

Recently I was contacted by the makers of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.  Just that is funny in itself!  With very little searching on my site they could’ve found what I think of that stuff.  I thought you might like a laugh so I’m posting our email exchange…

Hi Kelly!

Just a short note to introduce myself; our agency is a nationally known word of mouth marketing company.
We love your straight forward approach to educating your readers on healthy eating and are familiar with your reputation working as an accomplished home cook.  I’ve noticed that you have written about butter substitutes including I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! before and I would like to get your point-of-view on healthy eating and making smart choices.

Right now, we’re working on a program with Unilever where we’re curious to hear your perspective on butter substitutes, as well as see if there are any opportunities to work with you to educate your readers.

So of course I couldn’t resist…

“What would you like to know specifically?”

I wanted to ask a few questions to gauge your use of butter and butter substitutes in regards to which you use, any brands you prefer, etc.  I’ll include the questions below… 

If you have a negative opinion on any of the below products/ subjects please let us know, we want to gather as much information as possible – good or bad.

*   Are you familiar with the product “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!”?
*   If “YES”, what do you think of it?  What experiences have you had with the product?
*   Do you use it regularly? If so, why do you use it more often than butter or margarine?
*   Do you have any buttery spreads in your refrigerator right now?
*   If NO, what do you use instead?
*   What is your debate between butter and butter substitutes?
*   What would motivate you to use it more often?
*   In general, are you a fan of healthier butter substitutes?
*   If yes, why? What brand do you prefer?
*   What do you educate your readers and clients about most often?
*   How often are you communicating? Do you have an opportunity to educate people outside of your blog and consulting business such as cooking regularly with friends, cooking demonstrations or classes or public appearances?
*   Have you recommended or addressed healthy eating/butter substitutes/making better nutritional decisions before either to friends or readers?
*   What do you generally recommend and why?
*   What is the main concern when talking with people about healthier eating/lifestyles/nutrition choices?  What are their reasons for choosing butter or margarine or a buttery soft spread?  What helps motivate them to choose a healthier option?
*   What other things do your audiences care about when it comes to making better choices?

We would love to send you a VIP kit including a sample of our product, coupons, information and recipes. If you’re interested in receiving one please send us your address.

Lastly, do you have any upcoming educational opportunities we could provide you information with in addition to the VIP kit?

Thanks, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer these questions!

Now I was starting to feel kind of bad for this gal, knowing how much fun I was going to have answering her questions, and then I got this:

Hey Kelly:

Thanks for your time and feedback!  We truly value your opinion…

Funny thing. This was purely a research project, and as we did a little more of our own, we saw your post from last year, which filled us in on your thoughts about “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!”… I think we have what we need.

It’s pretty obvious that they actually did not value my opinion, ha!  So I just replied with this:

“You’ve been very sweet in your emails and just for you personally and for your own health, I hope you’ll do even more research and see that “healthier butter spreads” are exactly the opposite.

Take care!
Kelly”

What do you think?  Should I have gone so easy on her?

Isn’t it sad that they, and many people out in the world, still think that a real food with ONLY cream and salt listed on the label is worse for them than a “food” loaded with unpronounceable fake chemical ingredients made in a factory?!  And it’s full of disgusting GMO vegetable oils that are high in omega 6′s and have NO benefit to our bodies!  As a matter of fact, they’re one of THE worst culprits in what is the true cause of heart disease!  WOW don’t get me goin’.  I guess it’s good that I didn’t let loose on her.

Did you see the post about when I almost got into a ‘butter fight’ with someone?!

Confused about fats?

• There’s a lot of info for you at this healthy fats post
• Or get my friend, Sarah’s, book (mentioned in the link above about the butter fight):  Get Your Fats Straight!

Good morning readers!  How was your first June weekend?  There’s just nothing like getting up with the birds, having coffee, bacon, and eggs (with cod liver oil, too, of course), and visiting the farmers market on a warm beginning-of-the-summer Saturday morning is there?  (Have you seen my post, Redeeming My Morning Coffee?)  After that it was soccer games, graduation open houses, and hanging out on our friends’ deck with the kids running around.  Not exciting stuff, but we love it. 

• I really hate to start whining about the garden already, but…  Since we’ve had so much trouble in past years with the various critters eating our produce before we harvest it, this year we’ve got a lot of plants up on our deck (pictured at right on our deck that’s in desperate need of restaining…), and in our garden we only planted onions and potatoes.  But now, already in early June, we’re pretty sure we have only onions left.  There are little tunnels of dirt pushed up where the potatoes were planted and Kent thinks some dumb little rodent has been eating what we planted.  Seriously, we do not have good luck with gardening.  Looks like we’re destined to pay top-dollar for quality produce at the market.  Grrrrrr…
• So if you don’t mess with all that and just go to the farmers market or have a CSA share, this post from my local blogging friend, Wendy, will be helpful to you:  Getting your pantry ready for your first CSA pickups.
• Don’t forget to sign up for VGN Premium so you can save on books and classes from your favorite bloggers AND get coupons from real foodie companies you love.  Also at this post there’s an interesting conversation going on about how much people pay each month for real food.  Check it all out here!
• Anyone else researching and reading like crazy getting homeschool plans and supplies around for fall?  We did end up buying a curriculum for next year.  Since our one son is going into high school, I really wanted the reassurance that all my ducks were in a row.  I’m sure I’ll be writing more about this soon…
• Want to learn the latest in the raw milk world?  Read this guest post at Kimberly’s blog from Mark McAfee on a Citizens petition that went to the FDA recently.  “Raw milk contains this biodiversity and the special sugars that feed and nourish it. Every American should and must have the right to access a farmer and drink this life and health giving food and no government agency should be able to block consumers access across a state line or erect any other barrier. It is a human nutritional right and this Citizens Petition if required will find its way into the highest levels of the courts in our great land and true nutritional justice will be done!“
• This photo from Health Impact News gives some perspective on raw milk safety:

• Here’s one you’ll want to pass on, it’s Sarah’s recent post on how Statin Use by Type 2 Diabetics is Worse Than Ineffective.  And did you see my post last week about the True Cause of Heart Disease?
• I’m curious…  Does anyone else get funny looks when you buy a dozen pounds of butter at once?  And then you’re back to the same store for another dozen before too long?
• Don’t these Shredded Brussels Sprouts sound good?  I found the recipe from a recent Real Food Wednesday (see below).  I tried to ask at the post what’s in those ‘Chinese spices’, but I couldn’t figure out how to comment on there.  (??)
• I’ll see you here later this week for Real Food Wednesday! (Did you know that participating is a great way to get more traffic to your blog OR to learn more about Real Food and get some great new recipes, too?!)

Being a real foodie can be expensive at times.

Yep, I said it.  While there are plenty of ways to save on real food, still, our food bill is higher than our mortgage payment.  By a lot.  But do you know what?  We’re proud of it.  Someone said that most Europeans feel that way, too, because they know that what they eat is that important.  There are certain areas we just aren’t budging on, but yes, we still try to watch the pennies where we can, because when you add in homeschooling expenses, braces, home repairs, and all the other stuff that comes up, it’s not easy.  I’m sure you can all relate!

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Have a great weekend everyone, OH and have you seen this related post?  5 Dave Ramsey Money Principles and 5 Kitchen Kop Real Food Principles. 

The vaccine article below is full of strong words and seems almost hokey at times, and due to the nature of the subject and who is being interviewed, it’s not like I can track the guy down to clarify anything.  But based on this post, Vaccine Rights Lawyer Speaks Out:  “There is Extensive Corruption”, written by a lawyer I have directly corresponded a lot with, I know that, sadly, what you read here is not far-fetched.  Just please understand something.  In no way am I sharing this to move you to forever write off vaccines.  There’s too much I don’t know, and besides, you can’t get off that easy anyway.  Instead, as I always say, I want what you read here to motivate you to research it more, go after more information, and THEN decide what is best for your family.  I most definitely do hope that this helps to make you aware of the other side of the vaccine issue, the side you don’t hear about from your doctor, and hopefully lead you away from blinding trusting anyone, especially someone holding a syringe and heading toward you or your child.

Here’s a book you might want to check out on the topic:  Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal.

First, though, did you see these previous vaccine posts?

• How we came to our personal vaccination choices:  Part 1: Vaccination safety issues and the 7 factors that led to our decisions.  Part 2: Our 5-part plan for vaccinations and how do school exemptions work?

• Healthcare workers:  how to refuse mandatory vaccines and not get fired.  Still more posts on mandatory flu vaccinations.  And another:  150 Employees Fired for Not Getting the Flu Shot.

• Read about a chat I had with the nurse at our doctor’s office. (About “mandatory” vaccinations.) And here’s the follow-up story to that post.  And one last update to the story with info on the school getting in on this, too, and what my doctor said when we sat down to discuss everything.

• More vaccine articles like these!

The information below is copied from Alternative-Doctor.com with permission…

Disclaimer: Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical OR legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you implement that decision is yours and yours alone.

Jon Rappaport interviews an ex-vaccine worker

“Dr Mark Randall”

Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the hallmark of good medicine.

A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won’t say which ones.

Q: Why not?

A: I want to preserve my privacy.

Q: So you think you could have problems if you came out into the open?

A: I believe I could lose my pension.

Q: On what grounds?

A: The grounds don’t matter. These people have ways of causing you problems, when you were once part of the Club. I know one or two people who were put under surveillance, who were harassed.

Q: Harassed by whom?

A: The FBI.

Q: Really?

A: Sure. The FBI used other pretexts. And the IRS can come calling too.

Q: So much for free speech.

A: I was “part of the inner circle.” If now I began to name names and make specific accusations against researchers, I could be in a world of trouble.

Q: What is at the bottom of these efforts at harassment?

A: Vaccines are the last defense of modern medicine. Vaccines are the ultimate justification for the overall “brilliance” of modern medicine.

Q: Do you believe that people should be allowed to choose whether they should get vaccines?

A: On a political level, yes. On a scientific level, people need information, so that they can choose well. It’s one thing to say choice is good. But if the atmosphere is full of lies, how can you choose? Also, if the FDA were run by honorable people, these vaccines would not be granted licenses. They would be investigated to within an inch of their lives.

Q: There are medical historians who state that the overall decline of illnesses was not due to vaccines.

A: I know. For a long time, I ignored their work.

Q: Why?

A: Because I was afraid of what I would find out. I was in the business of developing vaccines. My livelihood depended on continuing that work.

Q: And then?

A: I did my own investigation.

Q: What conclusions did you come to?

A: The decline of disease is due to improved living conditions.

Q: What conditions?

A: Cleaner water. Advanced sewage systems. Nutrition. Fresher food. A decrease in poverty. Germs may be everywhere, but when you are healthy, you don’t contract the diseases as easily.

Q: What did you feel when you completed your own investigation?

A: Despair. I realized I was working a sector based on a collection of lies.

Q: Are some vaccines more dangerous than others?

A: Yes. The DPT shot, for example. The MMR. But some lots of a vaccine are more dangerous than other lots of the same vaccine. As far as I’m concerned, all vaccines are dangerous.

Q: Why?

A: Several reasons. They involve the human immune system in a process that tends to compromise immunity. They can actually cause the disease they are supposed to prevent. They can cause other diseases than the ones they are supposed to prevent.

Q: Why are we quoted statistics which seem to prove that vaccines have been tremendously successful at wiping out diseases?

A: Why? To give the illusion that these vaccines are useful. If a vaccine suppresses visible symptoms of a disease like measles, everyone assumes that the vaccine is a success. But, under the surface, the vaccine can harm the immune system itself. And if it causes other diseases — say, meningitis — that fact is masked, because no one believes that the vaccine can do that. The connection is overlooked.

Q: It is said that the smallpox vaccine wiped out smallpox in England.

A: Yes. But when you study the available statistics, you get another picture.

Q: Which is?

A: There were cities in England where people who were not vaccinated did not get smallpox. There were places where people who were vaccinated experienced smallpox epidemics. And smallpox was already on the decline before the vaccine was introduced.

Q: So you’re saying that we have been treated to a false history.

A: Yes. That’s exactly what I’m saying. This is a history that has been cooked up to convince people that vaccines are invariably safe and effective.

Q: Now, you worked in labs. Where purity was an issue.

A: The public believes that these labs, these manufacturing facilities are the cleanest places in the world. That is not true. Contamination occurs all the time. You get all sorts of debris introduced into vaccines.

Q: For example, the SV40 monkey virus slips into the polio vaccine.

A: Well yes, that happened. But that’s not what I mean. The SV40 got into the polio vaccine because the vaccine was made by using monkey kidneys. But I’m talking about something else. The actual lab conditions. The mistakes. The careless errors. SV40, which was later found in cancer tumors — that was what I would call a structural problem. It was an accepted part of the manufacturing process. If you use monkey kidneys, you open the door to germs which you don’t know are in those kidneys.

Q: Okay, but let’s ignore that distinction between different types of contaminants for a moment. What contaminants did you find in your many years of work with vaccines?

A: All right. I’ll give you some of what I came across, and I’ll also give you what colleagues of mine found. Here’s a partial list. In the Rimavex measles vaccine, we found various chicken viruses. In polio vaccine, we found acanthamoeba, which is a so-called “brain-eating” amoeba. Simian cytomegalovirus in polio vaccine. Simian foamy virus in the rotavirus vaccine. Bird-cancer viruses in the MMR vaccine. Various micro-organisms in the anthrax vaccine. I’ve found potentially dangerous enzyme inhibitors in several vaccines. Duck, dog, and rabbit viruses in the rubella vaccine. Avian leucosis virus in the flu vaccine. Pestivirus in the MMR vaccine.

Q: Let me get this straight. These are all contaminants which don’t belong in the vaccines.

A: That’s right. And if you try to calculate what damage these contaminants can cause, well, we don’t really know, because no testing has been done, or very little testing. It’s a game of roulette. You take your chances. Also, most people don’t know that some polio vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, rubella and hep A and measles vaccines have been made with aborted human fetal tissue. I have found what I believed were bacterial fragments and poliovirus in these vaccines from time to time — which may have come from that fetal tissue. When you look for contaminants in vaccines, you can come up with material that IS puzzling. You know it shouldn’t be there, but you don’t know exactly what you’ve got. I have found what I believed was a very small “fragment” of human hair and also human mucus. I have found what can only be called “foreign protein,” which could mean almost anything. It could mean protein from viruses.

Q: Alarm bells are ringing all over the place.

A: How do you think I felt? Remember, this material is going into the bloodstream without passing through some of the ordinary immune defenses.

Q: How were your findings received?

A: Basically, it was, don’t worry, this can’t be helped. In making vaccines, you use various animals’ tissue, and that’s where this kind of contamination enters in. Of course, I’m not even mentioning the standard chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, and aluminum which are purposely put into vaccines.

Q: This information is pretty staggering.

A: Yes. And I’m just mentioning some of the biological contaminants. Who knows how many others there are? Others we don’t find because we don’t think to look for them. If tissue from, say, a bird is used to make a vaccine, how many possible germs can be in that tissue? We have no idea. We have no idea what they might be, or what effects they could have on humans.

Q: And beyond the purity issue?

A: You are dealing with the basic faulty premise about vaccines. That they intricately stimulate the immune system to create the conditions for immunity from disease. That is the bad premise. It doesn’t work that way. A vaccine is supposed to “create” antibodies which, indirectly, offer protection against disease. However, the immune system is much larger and more involved than antibodies and their related “killer cells.”

Q: The immune system is?

A: The entire body, really. Plus the mind. It’s all immune system, you might say. That is why you can have, in the middle of an epidemic, those individuals who remain healthy.

Q: So the level of general health is important.

A: More than important. Vital.

Q: How are vaccine statistics falsely presented?

A: There are many ways. For example, suppose that 25 people who have received the hepatitis B vaccine come down with hepatitis. Well, hep B is a liver disease. But you can call liver disease many things. You can change the diagnosis. Then, you’ve concealed the root cause of the problem.

Q: And that happens?

A: All the time. It HAS to happen, if the doctors automatically assume that people who get vaccines DO NOT come down with the diseases they are now supposed to be protected from. And that is exactly what doctors assume.You see, it’s circular reasoning. It’s a closed system. It admits no fault. No possible fault. If a person who gets a vaccine against hepatitis gets hepatitis, or gets some other disease, the automatic assumption is, this had nothing to do with the disease.

Q: In your years working in the vaccine establishment, how many doctors did you encounter who admitted that vaccines were a problem?

A: None. There were a few who privately questioned what they were doing. But they would never go public, even within their companies.

Q: What was the turning point for you?

A: I had a friend whose baby died after a DPT shot.

Q: Did you investigate?

A: Yes, informally. I found that this baby was completely healthy before the vaccination. There was no reason for his death, except the vaccine. That started my doubts. Of course, I wanted to believe that the baby had gotten a bad shot from a bad lot. But as I looked into this further, I found that was not the case in this instance. I was being drawn into a spiral of doubt that increased over time. I continued to investigate.I found that, contrary to what I thought, vaccines are not tested in a scientific way.

Q: What do you mean?

A: For example, no long-term studies are done on any vaccines. Long-term follow-up is not done in any careful way. Why? Because, again, the assumption is made that vaccines do not cause problems. So why should anyone check? On top of that, a vaccine reaction is defined so that all bad reactions are said to occur very soon after the shot is given. But that does not make sense.

Q: Why doesn’t it make sense?

A: Because the vaccine obviously acts in the body for a long period of time after it is given. A reaction can be gradual. Deterioration can be gradual. Neurological problems can develop over time. They do in various conditions, even according to a conventional analysis. So why couldn’t that be the case with vaccines? If chemical poisoning can occur gradually, why couldn’t that be the case with a vaccine which contains mercury?

Q: And that is what you found?

A: Yes. You are dealing with correlations, most of the time. Correlations are not perfect. But if you get 500 parents whose children have suffered neurological damage during a one-year period after having a vaccine, this should be sufficient to spark off an intense investigation.

Q: Has it been enough?

A: No. Never. This tells you something right away.

Q: Which is?

A: The people doing the investigation are not really interested in looking at the facts. They assume that the vaccines are safe. So, when they do investigate, they invariably come up with exonerations of the vaccines. They say, “This vaccine is safe.” But what do they base those judgments on? They base them on definitions and ideas which automatically rule out a condemnation of the vaccine.

Q: There are numerous cases where a vaccine campaign has failed. Where people have come down with the disease against which they were vaccinated.

A: Yes, there are many such instances. And there the evidence is simply ignored. It’s discounted. The experts say, if they say anything at all, that this is just an isolated situation, but overall the vaccine has been shown to be safe. But if you add up all the vaccine campaigns where damage and disease have occurred, you realize that these are NOT isolated situations.

Q: Did you ever discuss what we are talking about here with colleagues, when you were still working in the vaccine establishment?

A: Yes I did.

Q: What happened?

A: Several times I was told to keep quiet. It was made clear that I should go back to work and forget my misgivings. On a few occasions, I encountered fear. Colleagues tried to avoid me. They felt they could be labeled with “guilt by association.” All in all, though, I behaved myself. I made sure I didn’t create problems for myself.

Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?

A: First of all, there is no “if.” They do harm. It becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of research which should be done, but isn’t. Researchers should be probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the reasons. As you’ve said many times, at different layers of the system people have their motives. Money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and so on. But, at the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but it’s true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests. There is an underground, shall we say, in Africa, made up of various officials who are earnestly trying to change the lot of the poor. This network of people knows what is going on. They know that vaccines have been used, and are being used, to destroy their countries, to make them ripe for takeover by globalist powers. I have had the opportunity to speak with several of these people from this network.

Q: Is Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, aware of the situation?

A: I would say he is partially aware. Perhaps he is not utterly convinced, but he is on the way to realizing the whole truth. He already knows that HIV is a hoax. He knows that the AIDS drugs are poisons which destroy the immune system. He also knows that if he speaks out, in any way, about the vaccine issue, he will be branded a lunatic. He has enough trouble after his stand on the AIDS issue.

Q: This network you speak of.

A: It has accumulated a huge amount of information about vaccines. The question is, how is a successful strategy going to be mounted? For these people, that is a difficult issue.

Q: And in the industrialized nations?

A: The medical cartel has a stranglehold, but it is diminishing. Mainly because people have the freedom to question medicines. However, if the choice issue [the right to take or reject any medicine] does not gather steam, these coming mandates about vaccines against biowarefare germs are going to win out. This is an important time.

Q: The furor over the hepatits B vaccine seems one good avenue.

A: I think so, yes. To say that babies must have the vaccine-and then in the next breath, admitting that a person gets hep B from sexual contacts and shared needles — is a ridiculous juxtaposition. Medical authorities try to cover themselves by saying that 20,000 or so children in the US get hep B every year from “unknown causes,” and that’s why every baby must have the vaccine. I dispute that 20,00 figure and the so-called studies that back it up.

Q: Andrew Wakefield, the British MD who uncovered the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, has just been fired from his job in a London hospital.

A: Yes. Wakefield performed a great service. His correlations between the vaccine and autism are stunning. Perhaps you know that Tony Blair’s wife is involved with alternative health. There is the possibility that their child has not been given the MMR. Blair recently side-stepped the question in press interviews, and made it seem that he was simply objecting to invasive questioning of his “personal and family life.” In any event, I believe his wife has been muzzled. I think, if given the chance, she would at least say she is sympathetic to all the families who have come forward and stated that their children were severely damaged by the MMR.

Q: British reporters should try to get through to her.

A: They have been trying. But I think she has made a deal with her husband to keep quiet, no matter what. She could do a great deal of good if she breaks her promise. I have been told she is under pressure, and not just from her husband. At the level she occupies, MI6 and British health authorities get into the act. It is thought of as a matter of national security.

Q: Well, it is national security, once you understand the medical cartel.

A: It is global security. The cartel operates in every nation. It zealously guards the sanctity of vaccines. Questioning these vaccines is on the same level as a Vatican bishop questioning the sanctity of the sacrament of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.

Q: I know that a Hollywood celebrity stating publicly that he will not take a vaccine is committing career suicide.

A: Hollywood is linked very powerfully to the medical cartel. There are several reasons, but one of them is simply that an actor who is famous can draw a huge amount of publicity if he says ANYTHING. In 1992, I was present at your demonstration against the FDA in downtown Los Angeles. One or two actors spoke against the FDA. Since that time, you would be hard pressed to find an actor who has spoken out in any way against the medical cartel.

Q: Within the National Institutes of Health, what is the mood, what is the basic frame of mind?

A: People are competing for research monies. The last thing they think about is challenging the status quo. They are already in an intramural war for that money. They don’t need more trouble. This is a very insulated system. It depends on the idea that, by and large, modern medicine is very successful on every frontier. To admit systemic problems in any area is to cast doubt on the whole enterprise. You might therefore think that NIH is the last place one should think about holding demonstrations. But just the reverse is true. If five thousand people showed up there demanding an accounting of the actual benefits of that research system, demanding to know what real health benefits have been conferred on the public from the billions of wasted dollars funneled to that facility, something might start. A spark might go off. You might get, with further demonstrations, all sorts of fall-out. Researchers — a few — might start leaking information.

Q: A good idea.

A: People in suits standing as close to the buildings as the police will allow. People in business suits, in jogging suits, mothers and babies. Well-off people. Poor people. All sorts of people.

Q: What about the combined destructive power of a number of vaccines given to babies these days?

A: It is a travesty and a crime. There are no real studies of any depth which have been done on that. Again, the assumption is made that vaccines are safe, and therefore any number of vaccines given together are safe as well. But the truth is, vaccines are not safe. Therefore the potential damage increases when you give many of them in a short time period.

Q: Then we have the fall flu season.

A: Yes. As if only in the autumn do these germs float in to the US from Asia. The public swallows that premise. If it happens in April, it is a bad cold. If it happens in October, it is the flu.

Q: Do you regret having worked all those years in the vaccine field?

A: Yes. But after this interview, I’ll regret it a little less. And I work in other ways. I give out information to certain people, when I think they will use it well.

Q: What is one thing you want the public to understand?

A: That the burden of proof in establishing the safety and efficacy of vaccines is on the people who manufacture and license them for public use. Just that. The burden of proof is not on you or me. And for proof you need well-designed long-term studies. You need extensive follow-up. You need to interview mothers and pay attention to what mothers say about their babies and what happens to them after vaccination. You need all these things. The things that are not there.

Q: The things that are not there.

A: Yes.

Q: To avoid any confusion, I’d like you to review, once more, the disease problems that vaccines can cause. Which diseases, how that happens.

A: We are basically talking about two potential harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin with. Or two, he doesn’t get THAT disease, but at some later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That condition could be autism, what’s called autism, or it could be some other disease like meningitis. He could become mentally disabled.

Q: Is there any way to compare the relative frequency of these different outcomes?

A: No. Because the follow-up is poor. We can only guess. If you ask, out of a population of a hundred thousand children who get a measles vaccine, how many get the measles, and how many develop other problems from the vaccine, there is a no reliable answer. That is what I’m saying. Vaccines are superstitions. And with superstitions, you don’t get facts you can use. You only get stories, most of which are designed to enforce the superstition. But, from many vaccine campaigns, we can piece together a narrative that does reveal some very disturbing things. People have been harmed. The harm is real, and it can be deep and it can mean death. The harm is NOT limited to a few cases, as we have been led to believe. In the US, there are groups of mothers who are testifying about autism and childhood vaccines. They are coming forward and standing up at meetings. They are essentially trying to fill in the gap that has been created by the researchers and doctors who turn their backs on the whole thing.

Q: Let me ask you this. If you took a child in, say, Boston and you raised that child with good nutritious food and he exercised every day and he was loved by his parents, and he didn’t get the measles vaccine, what would be his health status compared with the average child in Boston who eats poorly and watches five hours of TV a day and gets the measles vaccine?

A: Of course there are many factors involved, but I would bet on the better health status for the first child. If he gets measles, if he gets it when he is nine, the chances are it will be much lighter than the measles the second child might get. I would bet on the first child every time.

Q: How long did you work with vaccines?

A: A long time. Longer than ten years.

Q: Looking back now, can you recall any good reason to say that vaccines are successful?

A: No, I can’t. If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination. I would move out of the state if I had to. I would change the family name. I would disappear. With my family. I’m not saying it would come to that. There are ways to sidestep the system with grace, if you know how to act. There are exemptions you can declare, in every state, based on religious and/or philosophic views. But if push came to shove, I would go on the move.

Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get vaccines and appear to be healthy.

A: The operative word is “appear.” What about all the children who can’t focus on their studies? What about the children who have tantrums from time to time? What about the children who are not quite in possession of all their mental faculties? I know there are many causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the government to have the last word. Government medicine is, from my experience, often a contradiction in terms. You get one or the other, but not both.

Q: So we come to the level playing field.

A: Yes. Allow those who want the vaccines to take them. Allow the dissidents to decline to take them. But, as I said earlier, there is no level playing field if the field is strewn with lies. And when babies are involved, you have parents making all the decisions. Those parents need a heavy dose of truth. What about the child I spoke of who died from the DPT shot? What information did his parents act on? I can tell you it was heavily weighted. It was not real information.

Q: Medical PR people, in concert with the press, scare the hell out of parents with dire scenarios about what will happen if their kids don’t get shots.

A: They make it seem a crime to refuse the vaccine. They equate it with bad parenting. You fight that with better information. It is always a challenge to buck the authorities. And only you can decide whether to do it. It is every person’s responsibility to make up his mind. The medical cartel likes that bet. It is betting that the fear will win.

Dr. Mark Randall is the pseudonym of a vaccine researcher who worked for many years in the labs of major pharmaceutical houses and the US government’s National Institutes of Health.

Mark retired during the last decade. He says he was “disgusted with what he discovered about vaccines.”

As you know, since the beginning of nomorefakenews, I have been launching an attack against non-scientific and dangerous assertions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

Mark has been one of my sources.

He is a little reluctant to speak out, even under the cover of anonymity, but with the current push to make vaccines mandatory — with penalties like quarantine lurking in the wings — he has decided to break his silence.

He lives comfortably in retirement, but like many of my long-time sources, he has developed a conscience about his former work. Mark is well aware of the scope of the medical cartel and its goals of depopulation, mind control, and general debilitation of populations.

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If cholesterol truly isn’t the bad guy, as most real foodies believe, what does cause heart disease?

Share with your hard-headed friends and family

Do you still have loved ones who are avoiding butter to “protect their heart” or because their cholesterol is high?  Even worse, do you have friends or family taking statins?

This video sent to me by a reader (thanks Erin!) explains very clearly…

• What really starts dangerous lesions in the vessel wall
• How cholesterol fixes the problems in our blood vessels
• How did the scientific community get this so wrong?  “Well it’s because cholesterol was at the scene of the crime but it is not the perpetrator.  It would be like if they’re a bunch of house fires in a neighborhood and you say, “I wonder what’s causing all those?”  Well there are firemen all over the place every time there’s a house fire, so they must be causing it.  But no, it’s actually something else and that’s how it is with cholesterol.“
• What are the different types of cholesterol and what foods raise the worst kind

Since it is presented so well, it would be a great tool to share with those in your life who still don’t “get it”.  So if someone sent it to you, don’t be offended, just watch with an open mind, and as you do, think of the health of our nation in the past twenty to thirty years or more.  Have we become healthier since believing the ‘eat low fat to protect your heart’ mantra, or have we become more sick?  Don’t we all know people, probably several people, who struggle with the top three:  obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?

NOTE:

Here’s a book that many in the comments have suggested on this topic:  The Great Cholesterol Con.

Shocker:  I Agreed with *Almost* Everything

The wild thing is, I agreed with almost everything in the video, how refreshing!

The main thing I didn’t agree with was the push for “fish oils”, which are often super processed in big labs and sold by pharmaceutical companies, and aren’t anywhere near as good as the more natural cod liver oil that we take.  “Ours” is not only less processed, but it also has the correct vitamin A and D ratios so you can safely take extra when needed (to boost immunity).  I’m guessing that most of you probably are already taking the same kind I am.    Here’s where to get it.

“Twenty years ago doctors told us to stay away from high-fat foods like butter, cheese, bacon and eggs because they raise cholesterol and could lead to heart disease.  America responded and stop eating fat.  In its place however we ate more sugar and other carbohydrates, and how’d that worked out?  Not great, as a whole Americans grew fatter and sicker then before.  It looks like back then scientists may have reached the wrong conclusion.”

• The fish oil I recommend is here
• Be sure to scroll down at this post on healthy fats for loads of scoop on statin meds.
• How Crisco Vegetable Oil Demonized Lard and Butter
• I was Poisoned by the USDA Food Pyramid
• Triple Pork Poutine – Heart Attack on a Plate?
• A 19-year-old success story:  How to Heal Your Body with Real Food

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