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Well the acronym MAP is relatively harmless and also amusing,
especially when thrown into a scientific report. You know the sort ...
75% of the abstract, looks like the ingredients list on a packet of
processed food ... all numbers, gobbldegook and cancer, but no real
substance. Unless you are one of the cognoscenti one does not have a
clue what is being spoken about.<br>
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The word 'Conservation' is another mystery, I say this because it
appears to have a different meaning depending on which vested interest
utters the word. It appears to maintain its original meaning when
applied to a cute panda happily munching its way through bamboo forests
.... But applied to the world of herbs, the scientific meaning is
legislation, and restriction, for scientific and pharmaceutical use
only. With that also come the costly task of enforcement, abuse of
human rights and punitive penalties for the peasants. Seen in that
light, the peasants also pay for their own striped suit, and ball and
chain via taxation.<br>
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Speaking as a peasant I find it unacceptable that the people
responsible for the total mess then try to blame me and my ilk for all
of the scientific problems especially in matters of medicine. All the
scientific whinging about non compliant peasants who failed to
complete a course of anti-biotics, and thus unleashed a scourge of
madly mutating microbes, who after all were only trying to escape the
medical WMD. Oh yes, and let us not forget the 'Ephedra' nonsense for
which the peasants also now have to pay the price for. <br>
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Surrounding the word 'Conservation' is a whole raft of other issues
such as graft and corruption. Not from the peasants, but from the
pharmaceutical companies and those that accept pharmaceutical money.
This cannot be denied ... the evidence is on plain view ... and all the
peasants that can read ... can see it.<br>
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The synthetic medicines market is collapsing ... No more magic lolly
trolleys .... they have even dusted off Thalidomide for a second throw,
and carefully swept HRT under the carpet. That is the real reason why
our heritage is being taken away from us. Imagine 3 months in the
slammer for picking a Dandelion ... improbable ? Well the mess we are
now in, was also improbable 50 years ago. Things seem to move faster
nowadays.<br>
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Legislation is rarely enlightened, it is usually imposed from the top
down, for the benefit of a favored few. For example, we are in the
process, of having our right to buy vitamins and minerals, except via a
Doctors prescription taken away. Herbs are next ..... it will also be
done in the name of safety and conservation. <br>
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If there is a shortage of any specie of herb, it is because of the
'active ingredient mindset' that has led to that situation. A single
herb can produce 3 or 4 ... or even more doses of an effective
medicine. Yet Science persists in the practice of gross overdose of a
single constituent, and thereby hastens the depletion of our herbal
stocks. The answer is always 'Legislation' and jobs for the boys and
girls. Not to mention the unspeakable scenario outlined by Ivan Illich
(Medical Nemesis) <br>
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The issue of herbal conservation, is also tied to the matter of health
freedom, and who it is that owns your body. Because if your right to
pick the herbs are taken away ... for the benefit of the Pharmaceutical
and Medical Industries .... then we are going to enter upon a
totalitarian age .... we already have one foot in the door, and we are
being ushered in by a wave of artificially generated paranoia ... we
have a war against everything these days.<br>
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We cannot separate the issue of conservation from its wider social
implications, and most importantly ... who is it ? ... that must bear
the burden of any solution that is imposed from above. This time the
decision must not be made by small groups of people, with links to the
pharmaceutical companies and academia .... and then to the politicians
... it must be made by everyone. <br>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
"I know of no safe
depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people
themselves, and
if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a
wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their
discretion by education." <br>
</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thomas Jefferson,
letter to
William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820 </font><br>
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Neither can we seperate the issue of conservation from that of GM
crops and other living creatures. It is blindingly obvious that GM is
not compatible with conservation. The GM plant does not stop at the
pollen or seed. The root secretions have an effect upon the soil
biota, and as usual no studies have been done by those who have
unleashed this monstrosity. It will be also blindingly obvious that if
the biota are affected then the damage will be rapid and very serious
and possibly far beyond our capabilities to rectify.<br>
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We cannot separate the issue of conservation from the practice of
chemical mono cropping. Which by its very nature has become the prime
despoiler and shrinker of habitats. We cannot separate it from the
issue of Chemical spraying by land and air. We cannot separate it from
the issue of Global Warming .....<br>
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The word 'conservation ' means many things to many people ... what does
it mean to you ?<br>
<br>
Ivor Hughes<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.herbdatanz.com">www.herbdatanz.com</a><br>
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