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Samuel Phillips
THE CHALLENGE OF MODERN writer, photographer,

songwriter and singer.
FARMING AND MEDICINE As a content creator, he is passionate

A Cycle Of Poisons And Deaths? about creating a better image and
positive narrative about Afrika.

hen you look at the mostly because he was told by the
“As a retired physician, I can honestly state of our world foreign corporations that made the
say that unless you are in a serious and the multiple chemicals that using their products
accident, your best chance of living to Wissues we face (agro-chemicals) would increase his
a ripe old age is to avoid doctors and everyday; from health issues, to diet yield, and also because of his own
hospitals and learn nutrition, herbal issues, family matters, moral degra- greed to make more money with
medicine and other forms of natural dation, corruption, mismanagement less work and time, while ignoring
medicine, unless you are fortunate in leadership and political spaces the fact that these agro-chemicals
enough to have a naturopathic physi- etc., and then take a cursory look have been found to cause fatal dis-
eases in humans and malformations
at the foundation of where most
cian available. Almost all drugs are of these things come from, almost in new born babies.
toxic and are designed only to treat all the time, they come from the
symptoms and not to cure anyone”- deep insatiable greed and avaricious Same thing for the modern day
Dr Allan Greenberg, MD. tendencies of humans who want to medical doctor who was taught in
have all things to themselves alone. medical school how to deal with
sicknesses and diseases, not neces-
Frankly speaking, the farmer who sarily from a place of deep concern
decided to use poisonous chemi- for the healing of the patient, but
cals to “increase” farm yields, did from how much medicine and
so, not because the farm actually medical interventions are paid for
yielded more than it would have if by the patient. I am not saying that
he hadn’t used the chemicals, but modern medicine is bad or that a

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