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COVID TRIBUNAL

Live Last Night

Wow! What a night! We held a COVID-19 Tribunal, a three-hour long epic live event featuring four inspiring panels of expert scientists, doctors, attorneys, authors, filmmakers and activists who shared their extraordinary expertise and insights, based on a collective 75,000 hours of research into the most important topic of our lifetime.

With all live events, hiccups are expected, but something happened that we couldn’t plan for. Just as we began an interview with Truth About COVID-19 coauthors Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, our Rokfin livestream crashed, our channel disappeared and the site was disabled.

Was the site pulled down by our 16,000 RSVPs all trying to join at once, or were we the victim of a cyber attack? Rokfin confirmed it was the latter, but they are bravely continuing to host us.

Luckily, those who had joined the broadcast early didn’t lose their connection and many used creative ways to connect their friends, sharing their screens in impromptu watch parties. Within the hour, Rokfin had fended off the attack and restored service.

We were able to keep recording throughout and the full broadcast is now available on Rokfin, and for safe keeping, it is also on Odysee.

If you were feeling alone in your concerns about the government’s response to the pandemic or the safety of the investigational new COVID-19 vaccines, once you watch this broadcast, you’ll realize you’re actually part of a vibrant and welcoming community of organic and natural health experts and advocates who are finding ways to improve public health, save lives and end the pandemic that don’t involve giving our power up to the pharmaceutical companies.

Watch the reply and join the movement.

A HISTORY OF FOOD

Animal, Vegetable, Junk

Well-known food journalist, cookbook author, and columnist Mark Bittman has recently come out with a new book that he believes is his most important work.

Bittman’s new book, Animal, Vegetable, Junk, explores the history of food and farming. It exposes the heavy toll that industrial agriculture and highly processed foods are taking on our health and environment. He debunks the myth that “cheap” foods grown in vast monocultures with toxic inputs will “feed the world” and reveals the disastrous consequences of free market capitalism on food and farming.

The Guardian writes:

“In a sweeping deconstruction of the history of food, spanning the past 10,000 years of organized agriculture, Bittman takes in everything from Mesopotamian irrigation to the Irish famine to the growth of McDonald’s to posit the rise of uniformity and convenience in food has mostly benefited large companies, fueled societal inequities and ravaged human health and the environment.”

Read: Mark Bittman’s Warning: The True Costs of Our Cheap Food and the American Diet

ENDANGERED MONARCH

“There are more Starbucks locations in California than overwintering monarchs.”

Pesticides, climate change, and habitat destruction have monarchs, once a familiar sight, plummeting toward extinction. This year, 1,914 of the insects were counted overwintering in coastal California. That is a 99.9% drop from the 1980s.

More than 80 groups have called on Congress to grant $100 million per year for the conservation of monarch butterflies.

In addition, the recently introduced “MONARCH Act” would provide $12.5 million a year to support on-the-ground conservation projects to stabilize and save the western population of monarch butterflies.

By advancing these measures, along with a concerted effort to protect the migratory pathways of monarchs, we can start pulling them back from the brink of extinction.

Read: The Monarch Butterfly Emergency Unfolding Before Our Eyes

Book by OCAs International Director Ronnie Cummins THE TRUTH ABOUT COVID-19

BOOK RELEASE

Ronnie Cummins & Dr. Mercola’s new book, The Truth About COVID-19, with a Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is now Available at Bookstores and on the Internet

In case you missed it in a recent issue of Organic Bytes, here is the Foreword to my new book, The Truth About COVID-19, co-authored with Dr. Joseph Mercola, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The book is now being shipped out to bookstores and individuals. Pre-orders of The Truth About COVID-19 are going strong, with Amazon in recent weeks ranking the book on their current bestseller list.

Learn more about the book and order your copy!

CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS

79% of Likely Voters Support the Idea of a Regenerative Civilian Climate Corps—So Do We!

Just before Earth Day, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D‑N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D‑Mass.) introduced the Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act of 2021 at a news conference reintroducing the Green New Deal.

The Corps will compensate at least $15 per hour for its 1.5 million workers, provide full healthcare coverage, support transportation, housing, and childcare for workers, and offer educational grants of $25,000 per year of service.

The CCC will have a major focus on regenerating agricultural and forest lands: “Conserve and restore public lands and waters, bolster community resilience, increase reforestation, increase carbon sequestration in the agricultural sector, protect biodiversity, improve access to recreation, and address the changing climate.”

It also includes explicit antiracist language to ensure “environmental justice communities” benefit from of at least 50% of the projects.

Take Action: Tell your Members of Congress: Support the Civilian Climate Corps and the Green New Deal!

Learn more: AOC and Ed Markey Want a Civilian Climate Corps. Here’s What It Could Look Like.

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LOCKDOWNS

Sweden Without a Lockdown Did Better than Other EU Nations

No face masks, #NoLockdown, no closure of restaurants or schools: the #Swedish government relied on the Swedes’ self-discipline to battle the Covid-19 #pandemic.

Reuters reports: “While many Europeans have accepted lockdowns as a last resort given the failure to get the pandemic under control with other methods, the moves have in recent months prompted street protests in London, Amsterdam and elsewhere.

Sweden, meanwhile, has mostly relied on voluntary measures focused on social distancing, good hygiene and targeted rules that have kept schools, restaurants and shops largely open—an approach that has sharply polarized Swedes but spared the economy from much of the hit suffered elsewhere in Europe.

Preliminary data from EU statistics agency Eurostat compiled by Reuters showed Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the preceding four years. Countries that opted for several periods of strict lockdowns, such as Spain and Belgium, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.”

Learn more: Sweden Saw Lower 2020 Death Spike Than Much of Europe – Data

Watch: this award-winning, humorous, and heart-warming 45-minute video by Argentinian filmmaker, mother, and tango aficionado, Claudia Nye. The video shows us how Sweden (in contrast to Argentina, the US, and others) has coped with and successfully controlled COVID-19.

Watch and share the video and read the commentary

CARBON EMISSIONS

Bitcoin is Bad for the Environment

Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker: “According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, bitcoin-mining operations worldwide now use energy at the rate of nearly a hundred and twenty terawatt-hours per year. This is about the annual domestic electricity consumption of the entire nation of Sweden. According to the Web site Digiconomist, a single bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of power that the average American household consumes in a month, and is responsible for roughly a million times more carbon emissions than a single Visa transaction.

Learn more: Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment

FEATURED INTERVIEW

The End of Democracy: Biofascism

Dr. Mercola interviews acclaimed author and political scientist Naomi Wolf on how U.S. and global elites have used the pandemic to destroy our constitutional rights, enact Emergency Decrees with no public or legislative debate, and drag us, terrified and confused, to “Step 10” of fascism.

“I’ve been trying to warn people… that we are at Step 10 and that once Step 10 locks in, there is no going back,” says Naomi Wolf.

The 10 steps start with “invoke a terrifying internal and external threat.” This can be based on a real threat, but it’s always hyped. Terrorism served as that threat from 2001 until the start of the COVID pandemic. It was used by presidential administrations to strip us of our liberties. But that ultimately that wasn’t effective.

As Naomi Wolf explains, “There was still freedom in the world. People were not saying, ‘Okay, ISIS exists therefore I’m going to give up my First Amendment liberties, my Fourth Amendment liberties, my Second Amendment liberties and so on…’ ”

Bill Gates surrounded by fake meat burgers and a view of the planet Earth

SYNTHETIC FOODS

Bill Gates: Let Them Eat Fake Meat

One of Bill Gates’ most recent promotions is his prescriptions of synthetic foods for developed countries as a means to combat climate change. In a recent interview with MIT Technology Review, Gates says he thinks “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.”

Fake food replaces animal products with highly processed food grown in labs, like fake meat, fake dairy products or fake eggs. It is made possible by technical innovations such as synthetic biology, which involves reconfiguring the DNA of an organism to create something entirely new.

For instance, plant-based meat companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods use a DNA coding sequence from soybeans or peas to create a product that looks and tastes like real meat. Some companies are also investing in cell-based meat, grown from real animal cells, but it has yet to reach the market.

Learn more: Bill Gates: Let Them Eat Fake Meat!

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