What's it really gonna take to Make America Healthy Again??

Gordon Ellison
Nov 16, 2024
4 min read

I lay there, just awakening and my mind starts racing. This is not an uncommon occurrence for me. Often once I fully wake up, all those thoughts are gone from my immediate access. One that I held onto was RFK Jr's slogan MAHA. Then I thought of Joel Saltin's slogan. MAFA Make America Free Again. I encourage you to read his blog concerning the slogan's. He brings up some good points. I'll include a link below, I want you to read this first :-)

To try and address this question "What's it take to Make America Healthy Again?" We've got to look at a couple things. First, let's agree that we can get back to "healthier" but maybe not healthy. Saltin quotes some stats of "half of the children in America didn't make it to 5 years old in the 1800's". Okay, I can get on board with that. Maybe we were never "healthy" but we were "healthier" in many aspects. Some may validly argue, that America was healthiest during the pre-colonial times. When Native Americans moved around and foraged just like the rest of nature. That's a subject that justifies it's own article...

What do I see as the greatest component to our health in these current times? Individually and collectively? It's two words, Personal Responsibility. It's my responsibility, period. Evidence shows that I can not depend on agencies or even my loved ones to guide me to eat healthy."The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is made up of 29 agencies and offices with nearly 100,000 employees who serve the American people at more than 4,500 locations across the country and abroad." "We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management." https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda. Okay....and you're okay with brominated vegetable oil? Red dye #40, etc, etc...

The quotes above are taken directly from the US-Dah website. This next excerpt is from the FDA website. "The parts of a cow that are not eaten by people are cooked, dried, and ground into a powder. The powder is then used for a variety of purposes, including as an ingredient in animal feed. A cow gets BSE (Mad Cow) by eating feed contaminated with parts that came from another cow that was sick with BSE. The contaminated feed contains the abnormal prion, and a cow becomes infected with the abnormal prion when it eats the feed. If a cow gets BSE, it most likely ate the contaminated feed during its first year of life. Remember, if a cow becomes infected with the abnormal prion when it is one-year-old, it usually will not show signs of BSE until it is five-years-old or older."

There's the proof that you can't trust an agency who claims to "provide leadership on food". The next example that comes to mind is my dear ole' grandma. We called her "Mom". Mom was a great lover of sugar and she knew that a sugar cookie was the way to a grandchild's heart. Don't get me wrong, those are some of my fondest memories, but "Mom" was concerned about the reward that she would get by giving us one of her sugar cookies, even though I was a chubby kid that would've been better served with an apple. Was this a conscious thought made by grandma? Heck no! She just wanted to give us a sweet treat. Me, being a child, was like "Heck yeah, I'll have two"!! If we are really concerned with others, we have to do what's in their best interest, not what feels good to ourselves.

It brings to mind the verse "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things." 1Corinthians 13:11. "Childish things" may be one of the hardest things to let go as we reach maturity, but it essential. Essential because as we learn, we are to become independent and look out for our own interests as well as the interests of others. The means doing what is in our best interests, not just getting what we want. There's a self governance that is supposed to take place. We often shy away from this because we'd rather have what we "want" and not what we "need". This is where agencies capitalize on the same people that fund them. They endorse the delicious tasting products because it's what we want and they're okay with compromising on ingredients because everyone has to be profitable right? Now we see why the practice of feeding cow parts that humans don't consume ended up back in cow feed.

There's part of me that feels the need to apologize for the rant, but I won't! This information needs to be known. In the twillight of RFK Jr's Make America Healthy Again, I have to say, I'm cautiously hopeful, but I can not depend on anyone else to do this for me. It is a personal responsibility that, wait, It's a personal privilege that I have the FREEDOM to exercise. We chose and choose to do this by the way of our US Constitutionally protected PMA. Our PMA exists so that you too, have a resource to use in your journey to make yourself healthy. It's not up to an agency to make me healthy, it's up to me. It requires work. Work in my mind to make uncompromising choices. Work in the kitchen where I cook food, all motivated by health for myself and my family.

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