#adulterated

If only...

If only Christians could see Jesus' family like this.

The racism that pours from the pages of the Bible destroys any hope of Christians thinking of the family of Jesus looking like this--with a white mother and a black father.

The hatred taught by the Book of God prevents the followers of God from seeing any god other than one that looks like they do.

While the Bible gives no description of Jesus--no color, no height, no weight, no anything, Christians have made Jesus look like them.

European Christians made Jesus white, so Mary and Joseph both became white in the minds of many Christians. If he did exit, Jesus was not white.

Christians should be color blind, but they have used race to separate themselves into different camps, not loving each other as Jesus taught, but hating each other over meaningless differences. Not one parable tells of Jesus denying someone because of the color of their skin, but this is how Christians have destroyed their own gospel.

Important Context ‘Experts’ Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with The Wellness Company. Walker Bragman Aug 17, 2025 The 181-page document, “COVID-19 mRNA ‘vaccine’ harms research collection,” which is hosted on an open website, is a bibliography of misrepresented studies—the overwhelming majority of which have nothing to do with the vaccines. It originally appeared in an independently published 2024 anti-vax book “Toxic Shot: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines,’” according to its opening page. Co-authored by Canadian immunologist Bryan Bridle, a professor at a veterinary college in Ontario and one of the authors on the bibliography, the book featured a foreword from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Naomi Wolff—both of whom have promoted conspiracy theories about the mRNA vaccines.

Deregulation of supplements has funded the right-wing greatly, so much so some think that regulating it would go a long way toward defeating the far right.

Supplements need regulation! Defeat the right-wing step 2 according to It Could Happen Here podcast… Chloe Humbert Sep 18, 2024 Even if this doesn’t defeat the right-wing, it’s the right thing to do, because for pity’s sake I am so exhausted by overpriced products that have no standards, and might be adulterated or counterfeit. And especially the sheer volume of pseudoscience quackery involved in selling all and sundry products. It’s bonkers level, and I’m not even listening to the right-wing shows that really hammer people with ads for this stuff…

My letter to reps:

Supplements need to be regulated. It’s ridiculous that the supplements and rogue alternative medical products industry is billions and even more than prescription pharmaceuticals. And there’s no guarantees you even know what you’re getting, if it’s counterfeit or if it’s adulterated or if it’s harmful, or whether it’s useful at all.

LOOK before you eat--

Although Congress began investigating drug purity in the 1840s, it was during the Progressive Era that it approved the first federal regulations protecting consumers’ health and safety. When Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle revealed food adulteration and unsanitary practices in meat production, public outrage prompted Congress to establish federal responsibility for public health and welfare. 

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

I have here . . . a number of adulterated articles. Here is a bottle of cherries, originally picked green, in order that they might be firm, with the green color all taken out with acid until they were perfectly white, and then colored with an aniline dye which is poisonous in any quantity.

Representative James Mann of Illinois, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, June 21, 1906

Image Details As train transport and industrial processing changed the way food was produced and sold, Americans grew alarmed by the introduction of chemicals and other adulterants into canned and packaged products. In 1884 Puck, a popular magazine, called attention to these dangerous practices with a dire warning: Look before you eat!

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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