Ever heard of George Seldes?

He was a newspaper report who got his start in the Pershing campaign of World War I.  When he returned to the US to continue his career, he began noticing a pattern: newspapers would refuse to print stories that shone negative light on their advertisers. 

His frustration grew when, in 1938, a conclusive study demonstrated that smoking cigarettes led to premature death. Yet no big newspaper would cover the story. Seldes began publishing his own 4-page newsletter, titled "In Fact: An Antidote to Falsehoods in the Daily Press."

I'm quoting here from Brasscheck.com:

In the January 13, 1941 issue of In fact, Seldes published his first cigarette story: a report about the 1938 study by Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University that showed that heavy cigarette-smoking severely limited one's life span. By 1941, this 1938 study should not have been news. But that is exactly why Seldes wrote about it - while several scientific journals had published Pearl's study at the time it came out, Seldes pointed out that almost no mainstream American daily carried the story - this despite the fact that it had been carried on the AP wire. The REASON for this widespread omission was obvious to Seldes: newspapers did not want to offend tobacco advertisers, one of their biggest sources of revenue.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If you haven't yet, please get your hands on a copy of The China Study by T. Colin Campbell. He tells the same story - big business spinning and lying. In this case, about nutrition.

There's no debate in real scientific circles that the human requirement for protein is somewhere between 3-10% of total calories. There's also no question that animal protein consumption in the 20% range is a huge cancer risk. It's been shown in population studies and in innumerable lab studies. By the FDA definition of a carcinogen, casein, the main protein found in cow's milk, is a more serious threat to public health than dioxin, alar, nitrates, asbestos, and just about every other carcinogen combined.

So why haven't you heard this information? Will it take 30 years for the truth to come out, as it did in the tobacco example? Let's see what's going on behind the scenes.

The biggest funder of government nutrition propaganda - US and global - is an organization called The International Life Sciences Institute - www.ilsi.org.

Check out their donor list.

Monsanto, Cadbury, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kelloggs, Kraft, P&G, Pfizer, Hershey, Heinz, General Mills, ConAgra, Red Bull, Nutrisweet, MasterFoods, DuPont, ADM - and that's just North America!

They fund the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, which came out with its recent recommendations that 25% of our calories can come from simple sugars - ie cookies, soda, candies - and 35% of our calories can come from fat. Contrary to all scientific evidence, they also recommend that up to 35% of our calories can come from protein.

Here's the 2005 report, smothered in scientific doublespeak to intimidate the non-biochemists.

And that's just one small example, one in which the money is traceable without the services of Interpol and a bloodhound.

if you still have doubts that the mainstream media is misleading us about the effects of our deadly diets on our health, look at history. Look at George Seldes, and think what would have happened had his voice been believed. Think of all the lives that would not have been cut short by cancer, heart disease, emphysema. Think of all the family and personal tragedies that would have been averted.

Now, please go get a copy of The China Study.