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And it's a beautiful morning in downtown, clear, or at St. Petersburg. 73 degrees and showers. And it's going up to about 75, something like that today. But it's going to be mild. Kind of nice. We need to rain. So that's good. This one's not going to last too long. It's kind of drizzling out there today. I'd like to remind you, first of all, of course, pick up our Health Signals newsletter. You can do that by going to services in the TFNN site there. And yet the bottom, you'll see the Primal Edge Daily Nutrition and our Health Signals newsletters, both of which are involved in the show. Of course, the Primal Edge is our one-shot wonder. It has over 310 cell-ready ingredients all to make it healthy. Of course, the Health Signals newsletter follows the show, so you can do your own research on what we're talking about. I got a chance to see Paige over the weekend. So it was really nice. She looks great, I'll tell you. And the injury she has, you know, in our ankle, we have three major bones in her ankle. She broke all three of them. It's a major thing, and people have died from this. There's a certain percentage that just don't do well on it. And because of the balance and everything, all those three bones have to be wired together. But she showed me the scars and everything like that. I mean, if you ever want a testament on how lifestyle, how good eating, the Primal Edge, and all the stuff that we do and talk about on the show reveal themselves, this is how they do it, because she just looks fantastic. One of the things she was saying is that the nurse practitioner was telling her, you know, when this cast comes off, most of the time you have real problems. There's usually infections in there because of the surgery. So it was so drastic. You have to go in from both sides. And she says, don't be, you know, when you look at this after the cast is off, don't be concerned. This is what we go through and you probably have to adjust. Well, they took the cast off and they couldn't believe it. There was nothing. I mean, there was not even ridges where the cuts were made. It was a beautiful thing. And she looks really wonderful. She's going to be back next week. So we're looking forward to that. And the other thing is, I have a wedding anniversary with my wife, Ellen, 24 years today. So we're celebrating that, and we've been celebrating that. And it's a beautiful thing, and I love you, baby. So we're looking for 24 more or more, maybe 48. Who knows? I want to start off the show today about the pork industry. Now, back in, I think it was 2013, I've got an article here, who's behind the Chinese takeover or over the world's biggest pork producer. Now, the biggest pork producer is Smithfields. And it was acquired by the Chinese firm in 2013 for nearly $5 billion, more than the company's market value. The surprise purchase caused some lawmakers to wonder if there might be a hidden player as part of a series food for $9 billion. Nathan Habelson of the Center of Investigative Reporting examines how the Chinese government is involved in this. And this comes from PBS, and they have a transcript here about the show. Nathan says the Treasury Department approved the deal last September. A special committee which meets behind closed doors to evaluate for purchases of American companies reviewed the acquisition to assess whether it posed a threat to national security focusing on the defense, military defense. So the company was Shang Hu Hai, his name in the company, S-H-U-A-N-G-H-U-I. And it was approved by the Chinese government's bank, the Bank of China, approved $4 billion loan to buy this, and they did it in a single day. So Bank of China is owned by the government of China also. So that's kind of concerning. Some other things they say in 2011, the government issued a five-year plan for food companies such as Shang Hu Hai to obtain more meat for their production lines by purchasing overseas businesses. They took a tour of the plant. The Chinese government has been supporting this company with their peripheral policy. I guess it's a policy that they really like, so that's why they're financially and politically supporting this, and this is why they got the loan. The other thing, let's see anything else in here. He says, I don't think I could go out today and get the U.S. government to support making a $4 billion loan as a social responsibility for Smithfield to move forward on a foreign country's territory. So apparently, so Smithfield, being the largest pork producer in the world, is now owned by a Chinese firm that borrowed the money from the Chinese bank, and the bank is owned by the Chinese. So that's kind of the start of this whole thing that I saw. Then I went on to look at a couple of more sites, and here is a thing by Reuters, a Chinese buy U.S. pork despite the tariffs as hog disease spreads. So in China, they're loading up on pork and they're having a real problem there because they have a swine flu over there. It's the African swine flu is raising concern of the eventual supply shortfall, potentially suspending trade tensions between the world's two largest economy brokers. It's kind of like, why would you buy from your enemy and Chinese being our enemy? But in this new thing that I'm reading, this is 2018, November 29th, they don't mention that the company they're buying it from is Smith, that company, and they don't mention that it's owned by Chinese. They're just saying here, well, Chinese has imposed tariffs also on U.S. farmers, blah, blah, blah. But now November 22nd of 2018, they bought 3,348 tons of pork to be shipped this year. So they're buying lots of pork from around the world and from us. Now, another article I have here talking about Chinese, the world's largest consumer of pork made its biggest purchase of meat from the U.S. in nearly two years. So again, this is March 14th, 2019. The Asian country bought 23,800 metric tons in a week ending March 7th of this year, the largest sale since April of 2017. And this is the third largest going back to 2013. And again in here, they really don't mention that they're buying it from Smithy. So it's kind of sick here that now it's kind of hidden before they were saying we're buying it now. So I don't really get the thing, but I think I'll wait until after the break. But this is concerning me. So we get the largest pork industry person being bought or company being bought by the company in China that is loaned the money by the Bank of China, which is owned by the Chinese government. So that, and that's just the beginning of it. We've got more coming. So right after break, I'll be right back. 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In 2013, the largest company, Smithfield, was purchased by a company in China. And it was loaned money. The Bank of China loaned the money to that company. And of course the Bank of China is owned by the Chinese government. So there we have connections. So now we have something new that just popped up. And this is really the reason I brought this whole thing up. I was talking about this to Tom O'Brien Saturday when he was working out, or Thursday maybe it was. Pork industry will soon have more power over meat inspections. So the Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork industry as early as this May of 2019. Cutting the number of federal inspections by about 40%. And replacing them with the plant employees. Under the proposed new inspection plan, the responsibility for identifying disease and contaminated pork would be shared with plant employees whose training would be at the discretion of the plant owners. The Chinese, I think. There will be no limits on the slaughter line speed. So this will allow them to speed up the line. No longer will you have a USDA inspector on the line inspecting the pork as it goes on. It will be done by employees if they want to, apparently. A new pork inspection system would accelerate the federal government's move towards delegating inspections to the livestock industry. During the Obama administration, poultry plant owners were given more power over safety inspections, although that administration canceled plans to increase line speeds. The Trump administration in September allowed some poultry plants to increase line speeds. And of course, if you're increasing line speeds, that means you're producing more of whatever you're producing, which means you'll have a higher profit than this again, is another example of that money over everything else. This proposal, part of the administration's... Oh, there's also... The administration's also working to shift inspections of beef to plant owners. Agriculture department officials are scheduled next month to discuss the proposed changes within the meat industry. So these proposals, part of the administration's broader efforts to reduce regulations come as the federal government is under fire for delegating some of its aircraft safety oversight inspections to Boeing, which developed the 737 MAX jets. And they were, of course, involved in those two tragic and fatal crashes over the past six months. Federal Aviation Administration certifications of two aircraft involved in the crashes took place under President Trump, but the major shift towards delegating key aspects of aviation oversight began during the George W. Bush administration. So slowly but surely, we've been whacking away no matter what administration is going, some a little bit slower, some a little bit faster. Right now, we're kind of in the faster mode. And this is the plan for, you know, the weekend kind of police ourselves, which in the past has been very, very bad. Look, at the FAA, it took a year or so before the crash happened, this could pass, and everything would be okay for a while until some disease is missed, and we all have a breakout all over the country. And this is concerning. This comes from Pat Baso, who's the chief veterinarian with the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and he was there from 2016 to 2018. He refused to sign off on the new pork system because of safety concerns for consumers and the livestock too. The USDA sent the proposed regulations to the federal register for about a week after he left, and they were published less than a month later. So he says, this is a bad thing. Baso's top concern is with the plan, giving the plant workers the responsibility for identifying and removing live, diseased hogs when they arrive at the plant. He said the job shouldn't remain with trained USDA veterinarians so they can identify the contagious diseases like foot-and-mouth disease, which maim and destroy livestock, creating profound effects on the economy. One analysis by the Kansas State University researchers determined such an outbreak could cost producers and the public $188 billion and state federal government's $11 billion. The National Pork Producers' Council, the association for the $20 billion pork industry, said the new system will create more. Symbiotic relationship with USDA workers who will partner with the pork industry to better ensure the safety in the workplace, according to the papers. The USDA officials declined interviews, saying they will not speak publicly about the new regulations until they're finalized. In the past, and this will be finalized in May. In the past, the officials at USDA Food Safety Inspection Service has defended their efforts to transfer more control over food safety oversight to the pork industry. They said federal inspectors will spend less time assessing the quality of the pork, gives them more time to look for disease and contamination. But if they're not there, how can they look for that? Food-borne industries' illnesses, they say, typically come from microscopic pathogens and are best detected through testing. More emphasis will be placed on preventing contamination rather than reacting to it afterwards, they said. These inspection systems have evolved since the 1980s and will continue to do so. We cannot do things the same way as we've always done them. However, the USDA officials confirmed there are no plans under the new system to test for salmonella, for which the USDA DA tested. The Ashesville agency will rely heavily on pathogen testing by plant owners, but those results will not be made public. There's no disclosure in this. The hog plants also no longer require to test for E. coli, the record show. John Ferguson is a former USDA hog inspector who retired in 2015 after working 23 years under the traditional inspection system, as well as with the trial program that created the proposed system. He said federal regulators lost control when the plant workers sub-planted them. Hog carcasses whizzed by him and the plant inspectors at so much speed that fecal contamination, important indicator of E. coli and salmonella could not be detected. So the problem some of these inspectors are saying, when you go too fast, you can't really spot the small little things like the salmonella, which is usually spotted by scraping something and testing it, that type of thing. The proposed, let's see, all power gets handed over to the plant. Ferguson says, I saw the alleged inspections that were performed by plant workers. They weren't inspections. They were supposed to exceed the USDA standards. I never saw that happen. The proposed hog slaughter rule is based on a study that began 20 years ago, ultimately including five large plants. Efforts to expand the program have sputtered unpassed administrations, but to the Trump administration officials told the industry trade groups they can expect the proposed regulations to be soon finalized. They saw, say, 40 of the 612 hog plants will begin using the new system. So this is the new thing. And the shrinking staff, naturally the USDA, 35 of the 40 plants will have, let's see, from 365 down to 218 inspectors. They'll save about $6 million annually and they'll increase profits more than $2 million. So out of $6 million that they save $2 million as profit. That's a pretty nice profit. Food Africa say that giving more control to the plants is a step away from blah, blah, blah, naturally. So I recommend buying pork from a small farmer near your home, folks. I'll be right back. Stick around. Tell you about the personal training studio that Nico is the owner and president of, Performance Training. Since 1998, Nico has trained individuals and groups to improve their health both mentally and physically. As a certified personal trainer, Nico's main focus is on demonstrating exercises correctly to avoid injury and teaching his clients how to manage their past injuries while getting the most out of their personal training sessions. 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It wasn't that great to begin with, but at least we had a chance, you know. Now they're going to be relying on the consumers really to report problems and then kind of figure out where this comes from. This is not a good sign. So it becomes very important for us to find good purveyors. A farmer, perhaps. Somebody close by, somebody that you can talk to that, you know, doesn't happen this way. There's another assault on us too, of course. There have been demonizing meat these last few years. It's been going on for a long time really, but it seems like more and more. Of course, with the, you know, Burger King and lots of fast food chains now are getting the alternative meat, so made out of soybean. Tastes just like it's supposedly whatever. I don't even want to get near that stuff. But here's another one that, and this is even crazier, folks, turning wood into food. So converting wood into food has enabled an American agricultural biotechnical company called Arbium to share in 10.9 million euros of EU funding. They have successfully produced tons of its high protein, sile protein, production from timber. This product could be a modern equivalent of the ancient alchemy's dream of turning base metals into gold because there's a growing deficit of sustainable protein across the global food and agriculture industry. And that's what we're going to do for animal food feed alone. So they're going to start with the animal food. Believe me, this is probably going to sink in. No, if we just add a little percentage, it's not going to do any harm. So of course, we, on living a primal lifestyle, love to feed our animals the best food possible, so they in return can return it back to us. This is the philosophy we have on living a primal lifestyle, and it's part of the paleo, part of the ketone type of philosophy that we need to eat closer to wild. The closest to wild is possible. Let's put it that way. Domesticated meat is not the best. We know that wild is better. But now the domesticated meat, and it's financially, it's probably the only meat that a lot of people can afford because the other stuff is more expensive. Although I've said many times when you start going paleo or with the ketone type of diet, you're going to eat less. So slowly but surely over that first year, you're going to realize that you're eating way too much. I eat way less than I've ever eaten now because of this, and it's a very liberating thing. So this product could well be the modern equivalent of the ancient alcoholic era that already for animal food alone, the global protein ingredients market is set to surpass $200 billion by 2024. Soybean remains the most important and preferred choice of high quality vegetable protein for animal feed. But there is over dependence on soy and its cultivation has drives deforestation. That's something I want my animals eating for sure. The use of fish protein in animal food put pressure on the ocean ecosystems. And you've got to think how many cattle or pigs eat fish. Maybe a pig would once in a while, but it's a little hard for them to catch it, I think. The use of fish protein in animal food puts pressure on the ocean ecosystems. Because of these and other market factors, prices for protein are undoubtedly going to rise in the future. So finding sustainable and affordable local produced alternatives is seen as critical. There's a huge amount of innovation and alternative protein ingredients from insects to methane-based products. But the RBM's Sile Pro has become the frontrunner. A more sustainable alternative is with minimal impact on the environment. Less land and water is required for its production. It gained extra global exposure last week at the Global Summit, staged by the Hilo Tomorrow Organization, which is based on a mission to unlock power of new technologies to tackle the world's toughest environmental and social and industrial problems, I guess. Out of 4,500 projects which took part, RBM was one of 70 startup companies selected as finalists to pinch to a selected audience of 400 industry experts and investors in Paris. So they featured in the industrial bio category it was not one of 12 winners, so they didn't win, but its Hilo Tomorrow Global Challenge appearance follows earlier participations in the high-profile European Forum on Industrial Biotechnological Aqua Culture Innovation showcase. That's quite a title. The Global Summit of Paris was another opportunity for them to showcase the new technology for converting wood into protein-rich feed. Last year, RBM was one of 12 winners in the U.S. of the Trial Business Journal Life Sciences Award for its work in transforming wood, the most sustainable and readily available carbon source in the world into intermediate purposes or materials for applications in feed, food production, and chemical industries. So of course they're not feeding 100% of this, they're just putting it in the feed like they do the cow parts, like they do the fish parts, like they do the soy, and like they do the fertilizers and all the other stuff with the other things. More, let's see, Cypro is more than 60% crude protein with enhanced amino acid profile and digestible for use in animal feed. I wonder how they determine this. I'd like to see the study of going through the animals and determining that it's good for them. Cypro is a nutritional, economical, traceable, and sustainable protein-rich ingredient developed to solve the challenges of protein sourcing and improve gut health in the aquaculture and livestock. Technically, it is an enhanced strain of Torrella yeast, Candida utilis, a globally approved feed and food ingredient with a history of safe use. The breakthrough production of this in tons enables Arbium to launch several animal feed trials in order to validate its nutritional quality as a protein source for several species, including salmon, tilapia, hybrid striped mass in the aquaculture, along with wienlingling pigs and a number of pet animals. I wouldn't feed this to my pets. I'll tell you that. Trial performance data measured the growth rate, the body weight, the feed intake, the feed conversion ratio will be available to the public. I don't think the public. It says it's available in 2019. It doesn't say public. More studies to assess additional nutritional benefits are going to be taking place this year. Arbium will hope to confirm that it has significant benefits over other protein sources such as feed, fish meal, and soy protein. And it's on the par with whey protein concentrate for nutritional quality. Headquarters in Jury, North Carolina. Funding has been awarded by the EU so they're not funding it themselves. They're getting a loan, apparently. And also involved are Pryron, a global leader. And there's other companies and they have other companies doing this, too. So this will be interesting to follow. Stick around, folks. I've got a new segment coming in and we'll be talking about compresses and poultices. And this is really interesting. So stick around. I'll be right back. You know what's cool? Taking something that's good for you. Something specifically formulated to help with weight loss, better sleep, stress reduction, and the need to detox. 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Get in on the ground floor of the next big thing today. Welcome back to the show. You know, part of my job here is to find different ways of being healthy, and I have a couple of companies that send me books to review, and this is one of them that I received last week, natural compressors and poultices, safe and simple folk medicine treatments for 70 common conditions, and this is written by Christopher Vassie and D. And this is a fascinating book. Of course, this is the type of medicinal techniques that we use for thousands and thousands of years. This is probably a catalog that's been built up over thousands of years of medicine, men and people, and this is all we use probably till around the turn of the last, the 1900s, 18 to 1900s when the AMA started policing health conditions, I would say. When suffering from headache, toothache, congestion, painful menstrual periods, joint inflammation, nerve pain, cough, and so on, the patient's primary desire, even before that being cured, is to find rapid relief from pain and suffering. So what is the most effective non-pharmaceutical way of someone who is not a healthcare professional to do this? A simple way that can be easily done by anyone is using materials that you probably already have on hand. It is the uses of compresses and poultices. When applied to an ailing part of the body, a compressor poultice can make the patient feel better immediately. It can soothe pain, reduce swelling and inflamed tissues, relax the patient, take an active role in the healing process. Applying one of these remedies is extremely easy, and the necessary ingredients of materials, which are scrapes of cloth, onions, potato, and so forth, are usually ready immediately. They're usually in your home. Rapid relief can therefore be easily and quickly achieved in all circumstances, even if no professional health practitioner or a prescription is available. Compresses and poultices are not only useful for first aid, they also provide valuable treatments for existing illnesses, whether chronic or acute. But we would be mistaken to believe that compresses and poultices can cure all disorders. While it is true that in certain cases they represent the most appropriate treatment in other instances, they are merely a backup or complementary treatment. In these cases, their use will not be sufficient to adequately treat the condition. If compresses and poultices were highly valued by your grandmothers and the traditional medical practice of mentoring countries through the centuries, it is because they provided a healing method for a quick and effective treatment. In addition, they should not be underestimated in our modern times. They offer natural, non-toxic methods for healing. And that's really what they do. They've been used for thousands of years as a healing method. Both are used to relieve burns and abscesses and skin infections, boils infections, any kind of infections. They can be used for external and also internal ailments. They are not used as much in modern times because there's a bit more time consuming to compare to the herbal capsules or just popping a pill, I guess. And, of course, we have natural doctors around that can help you with these things. And there's many different types of compresses, too. So I'd like to go over a few of them. I have them here listed. Oops. Twelve old-school remedies that work. And the first one is which hazel for pain relief and itching. Which hazel is like a gentler version of rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. It can be used on the skin as a skin toner, but it also is amazing anti-itch properties and produces pain relief. These are great for cuts and stings and insect bites, scrapes, abrasion. It also helps for healing bruises and takes the swelling down. Which hazel is great for kids for relief from those conditions because it does not sting as much as rubbing alcohol. Next one is peppermint tea for gas and bloating. If your stomach is in knots or if that bloating and gassy feeling just won't leave you alone, try brewing some peppermint tea. Peppermint herb is also known as slow spasms of the intestines and colon which can provide relief for diarrhea and cramping. It's purposely soothing to the stomach and can help evaluate... alleviate, excuse me, gas. Peppermint tea also refreshes the breath, provides a good source of fluid minus the dehydration effects of caffeine or alcohol that you would have. It has zero calories as long as you skip the sugar. Number three. Epsom salts for muscle aches. This is probably one that everybody knows. You soak in the tub for a little while and it's great and it works really well and it's a natural product, so it's great. Here's one I didn't really know. Chocolate for a cough. We've got to keep that chocolate on hand, folks. It's pretty much universally accepted that chocolate is good and coughs are bad. But what is goodness and deliciousness of chocolate? What if it could help alleviate the cough? It turns out that may be true. The compound therabromion found in chocolate is effective in suppressing tricky coughs, perhaps even more so than the regular cough drops or cough syrups. If nothing else, it will be better than a consuming codeine, which is often used in the cough syrups to suppress the coughs. As far as losages go, many have sugar in them and those suffering from persistent dry coughs would rather get their sugar from delicious chocolate. Of course. Number five. Apples for tummy troubles. I didn't know that. Every chat with a friend includes eating an apple. If that sounds more unlikely and adult, consider that apples like bananas are a good source of Picton. Picton helps break down and flush away various food particles that could be irritating the stomach. While apples are good, sipping apple juice instead could make stomach ailments, including diarrhea, even worse. That's because of the sugar content of juice, which could lead to more diarrhea. And apples tend to be the cause of the opposite stomach, not raw. An apple day may really keep the doctor away. I'll let that. And number six. Salt, water, and sore throats. I've heard of this one before. My mother used to tell me that, feel pain and throbbing of sore throat coming on. Skip the losage. Head straight for the kitchen instead, dissolving the plain table salt and hot water. Produces a very effective throat rinse that should be garbled for at least 30 seconds. In addition to quantities, try a quarter to a half a teaspoon of salt in eight ounces of water, not boiling water, just warm water. And then rinse. The rinse can potentially kill the bacteria in the throat that is making you sore. Garling with the rinse also may remove some of the mucus and some of the other stuff that's in there. Remember not to swallow it. Number seven. Another one I recognize. I'm doing pretty good on this. Dry lavender tucked between the sheets and linen closets to make them smell fresh can be effective in repelling moss and other insects. But that's not the only reason why this habit has been practiced for centuries. The studies from the Mayo Clinic show that lavender is effective in relieving headaches and anxiety as well as promoting sleep and relaxing sleep. Deep and relaxing sleep. Lavender is also a concentrated form of that rather than dry. The oil can be inhaled. You can use it as incense, things like that. Let's go to number eight. Eight baking soda for insect bites and removing splinters. And baking soda is another substance with a variety of amazing uses. So when we get back, we'll finish this. 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Sesame is what I use. The tip involves gargling. I don't think gargling, more like swishing with about a tablespoon or so of oil. The ancient method includes doing this for about 20 minutes, which may be not possible for some people. It's a little difficult in the beginning, but once you get used to it, it is easier. The bottom line, the practice associated with wider teeth, reducing genivitis and fresher breath. It also moisturizes your lips. Some claim oil pilling has additional health benefits. No studies to prove it, blah, blah, blah. And number 10 is penitent for our cream. That sticky penitent is used in diaper stuff. This is urban legend. The tip whispered at summer camps and in college dorms involves dotting that thick sticky penitent diaper cream onto pimples in attempt to shrink. It doesn't work. Turns out that maybe some truth to this practice, penitent cream contains zinc oxide, which is effective in, yeah, it kind of dries it out. So if you have a lot of pimples and stuff like that, look at your diet. It's probably your diet that's doing it, eating lots of grains and bread and things like that. Number 11, eucalyptus oil for colds and bronchitis and steam rooms and spas and yoga studios have diffusers that have the eucalyptus smell and it's amazing. It immediately conjures up feelings of relaxation and well-being. Plus, there's a reason that Vix vapor rub has a long time been the go-to help for the colds and coughs. Eucalyptus helps calm the cough and opens up the nasal patches and the tidal chest. Number 12 is honey for wound healing. And this is a lot of people don't think about this, but honey is a really good thing, and especially when you're talking about that new Zealand honey, the maleca, I think it's called. That's the show today, folks. I'll be shooting all this stuff in the Hellsign of Dutler so you can do your own research and next week we'll see you with Paige Clark. See you then, bye-bye.