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"In the public's view, the pharmaceutical industry has recently joined the oil industry as the most exploitative and reviled sector of corporate America. The perception of manipulation and arrogance on the part of Big Pharma is starting to stick. A trust factor appears to have been violated. Between 1996 and 2002, the portion of the public who distrusted information from clinical research professionals shot up, from 28 percent to 75 percent.91 The New York Times noted that by 2005, consumers seemed to be less confident in drug marketing. " - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"If all of us together break the shackles the oil industry has on the auto industry, it will be critical to our national security, as well as curbing greenhouse emissions. It will also help to create a more diversified and competitive marketplace—and we hold the power with one of the most important purchases, financially, most of us will ever make. We are all talking about the hydrogen highway, but we can't get on it until we take a test drive. So, if you haven't, go drive a hybrid or buy a flex-fuel vehicle and support your local farmer. See what it is like to drive a cool car." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"It became popular in herb gardens and later formed the basis of a large spearmint oil industry in the USA - mainly for sweets, toothpaste and oral hygiene products. Fresh or dried leaves are also produced on a commercial scale in Egypt and eastern Europe. Parts used Fresh or dried leaves (or the essential oil). Cultivation & harvesting Plants are very easily propagated from cuttings. Many people have a plant in the garden to supply fresh mint leaves for the kitchen. uses & properties Mint is famous for making mint sauce, a traditional accompaniment for roast leg of lamb in England." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines are propaganda machines controlled by the drug industry, the food industry, and the oil industry. • My first book was, I believe, the first book in U.S. history to be censored by the United States Government! I was told in so many words that if I put certain things in my first book my books would be confiscated and burned." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Corruption and politics in the soybean oil industry As with all industries, there's a push for self-survival in the soybean oil industry. By managing to convince the entire Western world that saturated animals fats were evil, they achieved a stunning economic success: 25+ years of heavy margarine consumption by an ignorant public. Their primary message? Tropical oils were bad for you, and hydrogenated soybean oil was good for you: The ASA [American Soybean Association] succeeded in producing a health crisis where none had existed." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"The edible oil industry began to promote the idea that polyunsaturated oil (mainly corn oil) was healthy and saturated fats were unhealthy. By 1965, the American Heart Association (AHA) changed its recommendations by removing any negative references to trans fats and removing the suggestion that people decrease their intake of hydrogenated oils. This new statement was then promoted by government health agencies. After all, it came from the prestigious American Heart Association, the leader in heart health recommendations." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"I am telling people the truth about Big Pharma, the food industry, the oil industry, governments, and the media. For those who listen, and have experienced positive changes in your lives for the better, your letters of appreciation give me the strength to carry on with this mission. I am not the devil, a con man, charlatan, or snake oil salesman. I am not the messiah, superman, or some radical conspiracy theory extremist. I am a real guy who has turned his life around. I am simply sharing with you what I know. Some suggest my thoughts and opinions are dangerous." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"As for the soybean industry's involvement, coconut and palm kernel oils had a long and safe history of use in the food industry, providing a major impediment to the growth of the vegetable oil industry. Soybean farmers and their families were encouraged to write to the media, government officials and food companies, expressing their 'concern' over the use of highly saturated tropical fats like palm and coconut oils in the American food industry." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"I have heard with my own ears how Big Pharma, the food industry, and the oil industry are working together with governments and media outlets around the world. I have been in over sixty countries, yet there are no stamps of evidence in any of my passports. I have been to Area 51 in Nevada. (This top secret military installation is still denied to exist by the U.S. government.) This is where much of our technology has been developed. Area 51 houses most extraterrestrial artifacts, including a working spacecraft and dead alien bodies. I've seen these things with my own two eyes." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "The people on the boards of the major media, the officers, and the shareholders have major financial ties to the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the fast food industry. They are using the media, including the news, to increase their wealth by brainwashing us into believing that only those products produced by the pharmaceutical industry, to which they have financial ties, can treat, prevent, and cure diseases like cancer. This is the big lie." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROCESSING INCREASES TRANS FATS IN CANOLA OIL Canola oil was born out of the need for the oil industry to produce an oil high in healthy monounsaturated fats that was more plentiful and less expensive than olive oil. They turned to rapeseed oil, an oil high in monounsaturated fats that has been used extensively in China, India, and Japan and contains a whopping 60 percent monounsaturated fat. Unfortunately, about two-thirds of that fat is from erucic acid, a kind of fatty acid that has been associated with Keshan's disease (fibrotic lesions of the heart)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "Through admirable lobbying on behalf of the olive oil industry, the FDA took a look at the massive evidence for the health benefits of monounsaturated fats and allow a health claim to be made for olive oil as a result. Understand that the health benefit comes from monounsaturated fat in general, but because it was the Olive Oil Association who petitioned the FDA, the FDA limited its investigation of the research to "monounsaturated fat in olive oil" while recognizing that other oils provide this same fat. It's all political." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"It could indeed be proved that without the oil industry, food would never have caught up with world population. Hunger would be general without fertilizers, weedkillers, pest control, infinitely variable feedingstuffs, and mechanization, all of which are available only courtesy of the oil industry. There was no hint of the existence of a "modern" petrochemical industry such as we now enjoy until the end of World War II. Significantly, the possibility of preventing world hunger has only existed since 1950." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"I found these experiences instructive, because I had previously assumed that oil industry impacts were overwhelmingly harmful."15 His experience occurred in divided New Guinea. A portion of the island is ruled by Indonesia, and a portion as an independent democracy. Salawati Island is off the coast of Indonesian New Guinea. He was asked to conduct a bird survey of islands of the region. Much of the island was leased for oil exploration by Pertamina, the national oil company of Indonesia." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Shortly after Ronald Reagan took office, twenty-three oil industry executives contributed $270,000 to redecorate the White House living quarters. According to the Associated Press: The solicitation drive . . . came four weeks after the President decontrolled oil prices, a decision worth $2 billion to the oil industry . . . Jack Hodges of Oklahoma City, owner of Core Oil and Gas Company, said: "The top man of this country ought to live in one of the top places. Mr. Reagan has helped the energy business." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The AHA's proposed link between cholesterol and CHD, coupled with experimental evidence that polyunsaturated fats lowered cholesterol, presented a huge opportunity to the vegetable oil industry, one that was seized upon immediately. An intensive promotional campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the 'heart-healthy' benefits of polyunsaturated oils was launched." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "The foreign-based tropical oil industry made attempts to counter these scare tactics, but was paid little attention. Scientists familiar with tropical oils also tried to set the record straight, but were similarly ignored. The campaign against tropical oils was yet another powerful testament to the ability of money and scare-mongering hype to successfully fan the flames of ignorance. The Gravy Train Rolls On..." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Not content with their obscene profits, the oil industry in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina immediately raised gas prices to more than three dollars a gallon—an increase of more than forty-five cents a gallon in two days. The Bush administration used the cover of crisis to suspend environmental laws for refineries and chemical companies so they could "cope" with the economic impact. This was on top of the $14.5 billion worth of tax breaks and incentives given in the industry-friendly energy bill passed in August 2005. Hmm . . ." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "One hundred years ago, a big oil industry did not exist and most people cooked their food in water, so they steamed, poached, boiled, or pressure cooked. Even olive oil, which is now recommended for frying, was not used for frying." Udo also suggests that people should minimize the use of plastic in their food storage. "Plastic leaches into water," he reveals, "and I found out that oils swell plastics and make that leaching easier. So I get my water in glass and I've thrown all the plastic out of my kitchen. Oils don't swell glass, and glass doesn't leach." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"How Does The Commercial oil industry Manufacture The Fats We Eat? The natural soybean, cottonseed, sunflower seed, canola, and peanut seed is washed then crushed and heated to 248 degrees to break up the cell wall facilitating the extraction of the oil. Living enzymes are destroyed by temperature over 110 degrees. The dead mash of cooked seeds is then forced through a giant press which exerts up to several tons per square inch of pressure. As the seeds are forced against the press the friction generated raises the temperature to 203 degrees F." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Minority opinion is that it is an overhyped, unhealthy oil whose success is completely due to brilliant marketing on the part of the oil industry. I am firmly in the camp of the second group. This book is not the place to go into the extremely dense details of the debate on canola oil. If you're interested, a great place to start is with the writings of the esteemed lipid biochemist Dr. Mary Enig (for starters, Search for "The Great Con-ola," at www.mercola.com) and Dr. Fred Pescatore's article "The Real Story on Canola Oil (Can-ugly Oil)" at www.diabetesincontrol.com/)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"To convince the public that the major danger to their health was saturated fats, the edible oil industry (primarily the soybean oil producers) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) led a campaign to attack the use of saturated fats and the tropical oils, such as palm oil (which is a very healthy oil). This campaign resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of partially hydrogenated oils containing high levels of trans fatty acids. Soon, virtually every product using oils now contained these harmful trans fats." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Almond Oil Underappreciated for Its Healthy Monounsaturated Fats Through admirable lobbying on behalf of the olive oil industry, the FDA took a look at the massive evidence for the health benefits of monounsaturated fats and allowed a health claim to be made for olive oil as a result. Understand that the health benefit comes from monounsaturated fat in general, but because it was the Olive Oil Association who petitioned the FDA, the FDA limited its investigation of the research to "monounsaturated fat in olive oil," while recognizing that other oils provide this same fat. It's all political." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Commercial Houston, headquarters of America's oil industry, is ransacked. Blizzards of paper belonging to some of the most powerful corporations in the world rise into the hurricane's central vortex, scattering high into the troposphere. The shrieking winds are so powerful they strip leaves and even bark from the trees in the nearby recreation ground. The sound is like a freight train hurtling through the sky above. Wooden buildings crash and topple - only concrete and steel survives. On television screens around the world, people are watching the destruction with a mounting sense of dread." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"It was the blending of the oil industry, railroads, steel, banking in America, banking in Germany, and Wall Street. Each player in the game had his own turf and empire, and they were indeed connected in a whole far greater than any one of the parts. Others joined the empire, such as Henry Ford, who needed both steel and oil for cars, which is exactly what the others wanted to provide. The only companies that survived in this cut-throat business environment existed through mutual usefulness." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "The main companies profiting in the global economy are the multinational corporations in the food industry, drug industry, banking industry/Wall Street, high-tech industry, chemical industry, and oil industry. A majority of politicians, in both political parties, have family wealth connected to these industries. This is not government of the people or for the people. It is government for profit. These are the real reasons for international trade agreements: 1." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "To concentrate wealth into the hands of multinational agribusiness, biotechnology companies, chemical companies, the oil industry, and the bankers behind these activities. 3. To turn the world body of sustainable farmers into slave labor, including sustainable farmers in the United States (a policy that is destroying our rural communities). 4. To place complete dominance of humankind's food supply in the hands of a few multinational corporations and to take control away from the hundreds of millions of workers who produce the food. 5." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "This history explains how drug companies, Wall Street investors, bankers, the oil industry, and the government formed a network of profitable relationships that, in essence, made them one large group. The FDA is simply a player on their team, the police force that helps stamp out competition, hide their crimes, and keep the public in line. The largest chemical company in the world, Bayer, was directly involved in the deaths of six million Jews. Bayer executives who helped orchestrate the genocide were back running the company a few short years following the end of World War II." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Daniel, The Whole Soy Story There are literally billions of dollars of influence in the edible oil industry that is promoting soy's use in natural medical circles so it's use can then be promoted in the general medical public. They are even able to fool otherwise knowledgeable natural medical physicians. Dr. Joseph Mercola In addition to the allergenic nature of soy, there is the issue of its estrogenic properties, which has fostered much debate. Asian women have very low rates of menopausal complaints, heart disease, breast cancer and osteoporosis." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"After World War II, the tea tree oil industry stagnated for more than 30 years. There were a number of reasons for this, including the general trend away from natural medicines toward synthetic medical drugs. However, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Australian tea tree oil industry was reborn as successful plantations growing Melaleuca alternifolia were established." - Michael T. Murray, N.D., The Healing Power of Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

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