Nature: A Conclusion

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Nina Moliver <nmoliver

 

> Nature: A Conclusion

> by Nina Moliver, Tikkun, May 10, 1999

> First they milled the flour, threw away the germ and the

>bran, and added a few vitamin extracts.

> And I didn't speak up, because I eat whole grains.

> Then they removed babies from the breast and fed them

>artificial formulas with cow's milk.

> And I didn't speak up, because I breastfed my baby.

> Then they laced the beef with hormones and antibiotics.

> And I didn't speak up, because I don't eat beef.

> Then they fed the chickens artificial pellets and kept them

>from sunlight.

> And I didn't speak up, because I don't eat

>chicken or eggs.

> Then they marketed dairy produced by recombinant hormones

>and laced with dioxin and pesticides, and all the rats got cancer.

> And I didn't speak up, because I don't eat dairy.

> Then they marketed fish contaminated with mercury and dioxin.

> And I didn't speak up, because I don't eat fish.

> Then they poured pesticides over the vegetables and grew

>them with commercial fertilizer.

> And I didn't speak up, because I eat only organic vegetables.

> Then they altered the genes of the vegetables, and the

>pollen from the altered vegetables blew in and contaminated the organic

>vegetable gardens.

> And I spoke up, because there was nothing

>left for me to eat.

> Paraphrased from Reverend Martin Niemoeller's original.

> This was published in the Fall 1999 issue of Tikkun Magazine.

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