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If you stay clear of pork and shellfish, as the Bible instructs, you need to know flu vaccines include: animal tissues and fluids forbidden in the Bible Lev. 11:3-8, 27, Deut. 14:4-8
Vaccines include horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue among other things (see list below).
Clean and Unclean foods were established by God and understood by Noah, long before the Mosaic Covenant (i.e., Torah, Law, Old Testament). (Gen 7:2, 8; 8:20).
The Lord’s teachings in Mark 7, etc., reconfirms that certain foods are clean and certain foods are unclean. Although it is certainly what comes out of the heart that defiles us, the willful, deliberate, habitual violation of His biblical instructions on what is proper/improper food is important. It deserves greater study by all of us.
God has not changed His mind, we need to take it more seriously. Jesus most certainly did not nullify the biblical dietary food laws. The chemistry of the animals have not changed. See
- What are the Bible Dietary Laws
- Did Jesus Do Away with the Dietary Laws?
- What’s the Difference Between Biblical and Rabbinical Kosher
What’s in your Flu Vaccine? (humor)
The following humorous skit by the Royal Canadian Air Farce - looks at the main ingredients that go into flu shots, and how little the general public knows about what’s being injected into their bloodstreams:
Dissidentvoice.org reports:
Known Toxins in Seasonal Flu and Other Vaccines
Millions voluntarily take annual flu shots not knowing their harmful ingredients. With variations by producer, they contain numerous stabilizers, neutralizers, carrying agents, and preservatives, including:
- 25 micrograms of mercury (thimerosal), a known neurotoxin; one microgram is considered toxic; according to the NIH, “mercury and all of its compounds are toxic, exposure to excessive levels can permanently damage or fatally injure the brain and kidneys;” even “exposures to very small amounts” can also cause “allergic reactions, neurological damage and death;” it’s also linked to autism;
- aluminum hydroxide and phosphate, known to be linked to some neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease; the Office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports x-ray evidence of pulmonary fibrosis among workers studied; it also reports that patients undergoing long-term kidney dialysis develop speech disorders, dementia, or convulsions;
- formaldehyde, a known carcinogen according to the National Cancer Institute; it’s also linked to upper respiratory tract problems and effects on lymphatic and hematopoietic systems (relating to human blood cells);
- gelatin, polysorbate 80 and resin – ingredients causing severe allergic reactions;
- ammonium sulfate, a suspected gastrointestinal, liver, and respiratory toxicant and neurotoxicant;
- sorbitol, a suspected gastrointestinal and liver toxicant;
- phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), a suspected developmental and reproductive toxicant;
- beta-propiolactone, a known carcinogen and suspected gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory, skin and sense organ toxicant;
- gentamycin, an antibiotic;
- triton X100, a strong detergent;
- animal tissues and fluids, including potentially contaminated horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue;
- calf and fetal bovine serum;
- macerated cancer cells;
- diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue; and/or
- other ingredients varying by producer.
Flu Shot Safety Articles
- No safety studies done before releasing flu vaccine. The American people are the guinea pigs!
- 97% of all flu shots contain 25mcg of thimerosal, a form of ethyl mercury that is extremely toxic.
Bible Dietary Resources
Holy Cow: What the Bible Says About Eating Meat begins with the author’s attention-grabbing story personal story. The author was raised as a Jew but only discovers what the Bible really says about eating after she becomes a Christian. She shares the challenges she had to face when she tried to share her new found Bible truth to her husband.
This book is a simple-to-understand overview in plain words the differences between clean and unclean meats. The author presents a balanced explanation of eating biblically and explains where some of the non-biblical traditions (such as separating milk and meat) come from. Egan addresses the verses that most Christians use to rationalize that all foods are clean (Mark 7 and Acts 10). She uses basic hermeneutic principles to properly interpret the text. Eagan is very clear that our diets are not a salvation issue while also encourages obedience to God’s Word. I highly recommend this fine book.$14.00 Add to cart
Join biblical health author Hope Egan and lifelong healthy eater Amy Cataldo as they unveil the long-awaited follow-up to What the Bible Says about Healthy Living.Helping you incorporate God’s ingredients into your life—simply and without sacrificing taste—this companion cookbook shows you how to prepare meals, snacks and desserts based on the principles outlined in What the Bible Says about Healthy Living. For years biblical health experts have been telling you how to think about biblical eating. Now there is a complete cookbook that helps you take action:
• More than 150 tasty and easy-to-prepare recipes, such as Sweet Potato Fries, Pesto-Crusted Salmon and Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls.
• Insights into the Three Principles from What the Bible Says about Healthy Living that will change your diet and improve your health.
• Nutritional facts that highlight the amazing design behind God’s ingredients. 17.95 Add to cart
The great thing about being a publishers' sales rep is that as each season of frontlist selling ends, there's a quiet reflective period before the next season begins. There's always email, and the customer service side of working with my bookstores but I do spend a lot of that time puttering around the office with chores and projects, going through the next season's sales kits, and catching up on my reading.
I usually like to focus on extracurricular reading (I spend the whole season collecting books that I hope to have time to get into during this less frantic period) but sometimes, as samples of the books that I just spent three months selling are published and show up on my doorstep, I will spot one or two that I somehow missed.
Luckily enough, I've found three books recently that I spent the entire summer representing but somehow, until I saw the actual finished books and started to read them, I missed out on their magic. So here we go.
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)
by Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press | 9780763645762 | $9.99 | July 2009
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)
by Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press | 9780763644901 | $18.99 | Sept 2009
If you loved The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, and are ready for a new YA SF series that is just as compelling and thrilling; if you read Ender's Game and the sequels and hoped for another book with the same kind of emotional complexity and SF detail; if you like to be surprised and delighted when the novel you're reading takes a sudden turn and becomes So. Much. More. Awesome. because of the twist, you owe it to yourself to read The Knife of Never Letting Go. And be prepared to dive into the sequel, The Ask And The Answer, immediately upon finishing Knife."
Without giving anything away, here's a little to get you started. Todd Hewitt is a 12 (going on 13) year old boy in a settlement on a new planet - a settlement that has seen its share of disaster and disappointment since the settlers first arrived. Todd is the last boy in the settlement - all the other boys have become men upon their 13th birthday and no longer have time to spend with mere boys. A war with the native species of bipeds has left all the women dead, thanks to a strange virus unleashed by their enemies. This same virus has caused all the thoughts of the men in the village to be heard by all around them - they call it The Noise. And the settlers are also able to hear the thoughts of the animals around them, as well.
Todd and his dog Manchee discover a secret outside their settlement that sends them fleeing for their lives, and as his knowledge of the world they live upon expands, he discovers that much has been kept secret from him by the men in his village.
To describe anything at all about what lies ahead for Todd and Manchee in both The Knife of Never Letting Go and its sequel, The Ask and the Answer, would be to give away secrets that should be discovered by the reader alongside Todd.
Let me just say that I've found my new favorite books to handsell.
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The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book
by Joe Daly
Fantagraphics Books (Norton) | 9781606991633 | $22.99 | Aug 2009
Where has Joe Daly been hiding? I'm pretty sure that if someone had told me about a young comics creator who was working on a series of eco-mystery comics set in Cape Town, South Africa starring a red-headed, monkey-footed comics creator with a deadpan sense of humor, wildly ethnic neighbors (who work hard to avoid being mere ethnic stereotypes), and a heavily stoned, moochy best friend, I would have jumped at the chance to read it.
Despite the over-the-top collision of elements I listed up there, what The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book really brings us is a tasty blend of cleanly detailed art straight out of Herge, hipster stoner humor and a couple of mysteries that work just as well in Cape Town as they would in the Los Angeles of Robert Towne's Chinatown or Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer stories.
Red Monkey is his second collection from Fantagraphics, the first being a 2007 book called Scrublands.
Fantagraphics is offering an exclusive 10-page excerpt from the first mystery in Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, The Leaky Cello Case. You can download it here.
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