Quotes about International Trade from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Ctesiphon, like Constantinople, was simultaneously an intellectual, literary, religious, and commercial center, overseeing a huge expansion of trade during late antiquity, especially the high-margin international trade in luxury goods, particularly silk and objets d'art. Khusro's empire "dominated international trade, both in the Indian Ocean and in Central Asia and South Russia,"'1 and the best-known Sassanid motif, the mythical phoenix-like bird known as the senmurv, appears on art objects as far from the Iranian plateau as India and China."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "In today's world, however, the increases in international trade and travel make any kind of virulent new flu outbreak an overnight global emergency. The international trade in wildlife is now enormous, with hundreds of millions of wild animals and their products being transported around the world every year. The emergence of West Nile virus in North America, and AIDS and SARS globally, Cunningham points out, arose from such travel and trade in an age when "travelers can be in the middle of a tropical jungle one day and commuting to their desk in London the next."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "According to the U.S. international trade Commission, mango consumption tripled from 1990 to 2000. Per capita consumption of papayas increased by 56 percent from 1998 to 1999. Nowadays, it's becoming common to see cherimoyas, pummelos, passion fruits and Asian pears in our supermarkets. Unfortunately, many of these are also subpar—despite immaculate appearances.
Selling fruits has become a lucrative and essential form of trade, generating millions of dollars for countries with climates well suited to major crops."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Such strong-arm tactics have long dominated international trade. America is the world's leading food exporter, selling 40 billion dollars' worth of agricultural exports a year—funded by 20 billion dollars of taxpayer subsidies. Many of these crops are indigenous to countries that now find it cheaper to buy them from the United States rather than to grow their own. Wheat, for example, originates in Iraq—but now America sells it to them. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Although a select few species dominate international trade, our whole planet is brimming with fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden. There are mangoes that taste like pina coladas. Orange cloudberries. White blueberries. Blue apricots. Red lemons. Golden raspberries. Pink cherimoyas. Willy Wonka's got nothing on Mother Nature. The diversity is dizzying: most of us have never heard of the araga, but Amazonian fruit authorities say there are almost as many types of this yellow-green guava relative as there are beaches in Brazil." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "CITES [the Convention on international trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna] and he didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. I was falsely accused. I never even fathomed anything like this illegal plant-and-seed smuggling interdiction service existed." It's becoming clear that some of these fruit lovers can be pretty intense about the objects of their desire. The Fairchild garden's director Mike Maunder, who seemed a bit freaked out by the crowd, describes the fixation with tropical fruit as a prime example of horticultural fanaticism. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "Plague was also an urban disease in India, and therefore immediately threatening to domestic Indian manufacturing and business as well as international trade. Action was imperative?and it was draconian. Civil liberties and community standards were given short shrift; suspected Indian plague victims (Europeans were exempt) were forcibly examined, and if found to be infected, they were quarantined or hospitalized and their personal property destroyed. These actions violated caste practices, and infringed dearly held social and religious principles—especially where women were concerned. "- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "But perceptions of cross-cultural medical expertise were also influenced by far less arcane matters: for instance, the politics of international trade. Simply put, when Britain's political and economic relationship with China was, or was expected to be profitable, British attitudes towards China and all things Chinese tended to be buoyant. When that relationship soured, as it did after the failure of successive missions to China seeking more favourable trading terms, and in the period preceding and during the Opium Wars, so did attitudes towards other aspects of Chinese culture." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
| "The international trade in wildlife is now enormous, with hundreds of millions of wild animals and their products being transported around the world every year. The emergence of West Nile virus in North America, and AIDS and SARS globally, Cunningham points out, arose from such travel and trade in an age when "travelers can be in the middle of a tropical jungle one day and commuting to their desk in London the next." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
| "Khusro's empire "dominated international trade, both in the Indian Ocean and in Central Asia and South Russia,"'1 and the best-known Sassanid motif, the mythical phoenix-like bird known as the senmurv, appears on art objects as far from the Iranian plateau as India and China.31
Philosopher-king, builder, warrior prince, patron to physicians and astronomers, Khusro enjoyed a reputation—he well earned his surname Anushirvan, or "Immortal Soul"—that would have loomed large even had he not lived on the other side of Justinian's mirror." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "But will they be willing to be more transparent when international trade is booming and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is close at hand? China consumes most of its poultry, but the numbers of domestic chickens and ducks are staggering. Despite the odds, in 2004, China adopted a policy of vaccinating all poultry against bird flu. Farming practices in most of China are primitive, however, and contact with animal feces routine.
I went to China several times in the 1980s and 1990s and have experienced the masses of people in Chinese cities. Even the Chinese call it a "sea of humanity."- J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) |
 "Ripe, hand-picked fruits are used fresh but are usually sold in the international trade as dried fruits ("Chinese dates" or "red dates").
Uses & properties The delicious and nutritious fruits are eaten fresh, dried or candied. They are also used in pastry-making and in savoury dishes, and as ingredient of stuffings, sauces and soups. Nutritional value The dried fruit has a high calorific value (315 kcal per 100 g) and the fresh fruit contains up to 70 mg vitamin C. This is an important functional food in China, used to improve general health, gain weight and alleviate respiratory disorders."- Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.) |
 "Our import operations are in full compliance with the Convention on international trade in Endangered Species, to which the United States is a party. We are also committed to following the laws of the countries of origin for the tropical wood products we purchase, especially those laws that apply to the harvest, acquisition or export of these products. As a member of the International Wood Products Association (IWPA), BlueLinx supports IWPA's efforts to promote compliance, by all parties, with national, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to logging and forest management."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "A sizeable attack on a New Jersey petroleum and petrochemical port "could quickly cascade into a national or international crisis, with the potential to ultimately bring international trade to a virtual standstill and inflict billions of dollars of damage on the world economy," the report stated. International terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda have demonstrated a persistent interest in attacking American and other Western maritime targets, according to this report." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Gaia Herbs American herbal medicine is an important source of international trade, and American-grown herbs are often prized for their vitality and health benefits. Gaia Herbs, with 250 certified organic acres in Brevard, North Carolina, has worked extensively with government grants to explore the health benefits of such heavyweight herbals as echinacea. Their natural methods of cultivation and scientific insight into the active chemicals in such plants has led to a breakthrough in cultivation to make echinacea a potentially more useful cold and flu remedy." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "The difference, however, with the environmental standards now flowing from Europe is that enforcement does not come necessarily from Beijing, or from within China, but from the market dynamics of international trade. It is, in essence, the European Union that will enforce standards for Chinese industry by ensuring the safety of products destined for its markets. The lucrative European market is both carrot and stick."- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "In fact, the story of international trade, circa 2005, is the most preposterous tale economists have ever heard. One nation buys things that it cannot afford and doesn't need with money it doesn't have. Another sells on credit to people who already cannot pay and then builds more factories to increase output.
Every level colludes with every other level to keep the flimflam going. On the banks of the Potomac, people of all classes, rank, and station are pleased to believe that all is well. And there, at the Federal Reserve headquarters, is another caste of loyal liars."- William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) |
 "This has to be based on international trade disagreements," he said. "Maybe it's the old cattle/sheep wars."
As I hung up I realized the story was getting more complex. Was this retaliation for the EU not accepting U.S. hormone-treated beef? Was someone in the sheep industry angry over our importation? Was the dairy industry feeling threatened? And what was the political pressure Detwiler referred to? The National Cattleman's Beef Association? The pharmaceutical industries?"- Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "What did our flock of sheep have to do with international trade? BSE did not exist in sheep, so why would U.S. markets be concerned? On Election Day 1998, Larry, Mr. Freeman, and Tom Amidon met with Senator Leahy, who was very friendly and listened as Larry updated him on the science concerning the issue. "It doesn't make sense," he said. "I'll see what I can do." A few weeks later Larry and Mr. Freeman met with Governor Howard Dean. "Dean and his wife are medical doctors, and they should be able to see that the USDA is not using science," Larry told Mr." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) |
 "International Trade Organization (ITO) in Havana, Cuba.
United States congressional leaders immediately resisted the ITO, seeing it as a charter for trade control. Representative Samuel Pettingill (D-IN) said the ITO was "part and parcel of international socialism, one-worldism, and the slow surrender of national sovereignty." The ITO never caught on in the United States, and until 1995 foreign trade was based on an informal General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)."- Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "Beyond the individual government is the 'local' international trade organisation; for Britain this is the European Union.
In the next chapter, I show how Wyeth joined with the British Government and with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), to maintain - if not increase - its guarantee of drugs sales to the British socialised health care system. Some of this work is done by playing a part in the socialised health care system by, for example, funding nurses to administer vaccines in community health practices."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
| "It needs to be supported and strengthened, at the same time that regional and international trade agreements need to be negated or overturned.
The Congressional Attack
The current Republican neo-cons, led by the Bush administration and sponsored by Big Pharma, attack supplements through Codex and use the FDA to harass supplement companies." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "The United States participation in international trade sells out American ingenuity and American profits on future major inventions. Even worse, the patent laws are now being used to own the technology of life, in terms of genetic science—a complete sacrifice of freedom at the most fundamental level of health. This includes attempts to patent natural ingredients. Rockefeller groups either own directly, or their friends own, virtually all patents on the new genetic technology affecting your health. This should not be." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "After the war, the Allied nations, led by the United States, advocated a system of reduced international trade barriers, convertible currencies, and trade among one another. As their economies recovered, Japan and Germany also bought into this system, and when the Soviet Union fell, newly independent Eastern European and Asian states joined in. With rare exceptions, like Cuba and North Korea, the world's nations have chosen—or have perhaps been coerced—to play by a single set of trade rules."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "These are the real reasons for international trade agreements:
1. To forward the national-security interest of the United States, which, as clearly stated in the Kissinger plan, is population control, sitting in judgment on the lives of millions of people.
2. To concentrate wealth into the hands of multinational agribusiness, biotechnology companies, chemical companies, the oil industry, and the bankers behind these activities.
3." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "At any rate, this speech was followed by a series of typically ecologist criticisms and denunciations; the main focus of attack as far as the future of food was concerned was the damage caused by industrial systems of agriculture and the iniquities of international trade.
I listened with interest, but I was also impatient for them to start talking about food."- Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.) |
 "The greatest impact on concerns over indigenous and local-community rights can be traced to the mercurial rise of biotechnology on the international trade front and the 1995 version of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). These two factors have created a large potential market for indigenous and local knowledge and resources, while at the same time raising concerns about the risk that these resources will be misappropriated."- Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru (Get the book.) |
 "The common view among the participants was that the worldwide depression of the 1930s and the rise of fascism could be traced to the collapse of international trade and isolationist economic policies. The aim of Bretton Woods was a planned global regulatory framework for trade and finance, establishing a postwar international system of convertible currencies, fixed exchange rates, and free trade, with the American dollar as the benchmark for all relative values."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "There was, in general, no international trade to alleviate a local famine, except for an occasional lucky surplus in the young United States.
Between 1760 and 1840 the population in the whole island increased from 1.5 million to 9 million, an increase of 600 percent in eighty years. Between 1801 and 1841 the population of what is now Eire increased five times. This had nothing to do with the English, but everything to do with the potato. Without the potato all the land in Ireland could at best have enabled only 5 million people to be fed with bread."- Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
 "In accord with 1994 international trade agreements, Congress increased the basic patent term from seventeen years after issuance to twenty years after filing— which is usually longer. And finally, the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 added six months of protection if drug companies test their drugs in children. One might think that drugs to be used in children should be tested in them anyway, as a condition of FDA approval. But while the agency can require such testing, it seldom does. Instead, Congress offered the industry a gigantic bribe."- Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.) |
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