Allergy Asthma

Welcome back again to Allergy Asthma, where we’ll take a look at the effects of pollution and its connection to allergy asthma attacks, especially in children. This article is manly based around the proliferation of pesticides used by the agriculture industry to spray the crops that we eat and the effect that they are having on the health of the nation.

When a politician says publicly that the pesticides that are sprayed on our food crops are safe, you can bet that they are the opposite. Why? Have you ever known an honest politician?

So we can safely assume that everything any politician who manages to keep their job (because let’s face it the few truly honest ones simply get pushed out) says is a lie, especially when it comes to defending a multi billion dollar industry such as agriculture. How stupid do they really thing we are? Ok, pretty stupid because too many people believe them.

But there are also a damn load of us who are intelligent enough to see through their bare faced lies and see the truth for what it is.

Pesticides are sprayed onto our food crops because if they didn’t do it, then the yield would be lower, meaning not a reduction on the ability to feed the nation, but a reduction in the profit the big companies can make. Its all about money people, not health! They don’t care if allergy asthma is on the rise in the population because it is not generally life threatening except in a few cases. Wake up to that glaringly obvious fact and you begin to see through all their charades. So what if a few million people have a problem breathing? The profits justify the sacrifice, right?

I don’t think so.

But its not me, or anyone else who’s lives are touched by sufferers of asthma who matter to the greedy company directors and their equally greedy shareholders and the equally greedy vote grabbing politicians. Feathering their own nests is more important to them than the health of the nation.

Don’t believe me?

What could I care less what you believe. I know what I know! And if you don’t see it then you should either open your eyes a little wider and look around you or switch off the damn television which is brainwashing you with all the politicians’ damn lies. Its true baby. We’re all being slowly poisoned via the water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we eat. All because of someone else’s greed.

What can you do about it?

Plenty. Ever heard the saying “united we stand, divided we fall”. Well it holds true when you get together and stand up for what is essentially your health and the health of your children. Maybe you can’t fight the big companies directly because they have deep pockets and teams of expensive lawyers that are ready for just about anything. But you can still cause change to happen by changing your own shopping patterns.

Boycott the big supermarkets and buy your food in small stores, or if you can get to them, local farm shops. Demand organic produce in preference to intensively farmed (aka sprayed) food. Do it on a big enough scale and the big companies will have to bend to where the money is. And if the money is only being spent on organic, pesticide free crops, then that’s what the industry will move to produce. But it will only happen if millions of consumers make the change and force the industry to follow.

It is happening slowly in the UK, where sales of organic produce is climbing rapidly and farmers are abandoning the intensive farming methods in favor of traditional organic methids because consumers are demanding the change in big numbers.

So you see it can be done and then fewer and fewer people will have to suffer asthma as a result of change.

Allergy Asthma

Now that I have taken care of the introductions here it Allergy Asthma, I’d like to begin the posts with a letter from a friend who suffers from allergy asthma quite badly and lives in a large city in England. I’ll keep the name hidden as the person does not wish to be known, so I’ll call her Annie and this is her story:

Hi, I’m Annie and I live in Camden in north London. I have suffered with asthma ever since I was very young and now I’m 36 year old. I’m married with three kids all under 12. But this is not about them, its about me and how I’m coping with asthma daily.

I’ve always had an inhaler since I can remember and get a regular prescription from the doctor, so I’m never without it. Its like a crutch for me, a safety net which re-assures me all the time that if Ido have an asthma attack, wherever I am, I can relieve it fast. So the fear of getting into problems is not too bad and I can usually cope very well.

I don’t think it is good for me to live in teh city, as the air quality is never very good, especially with all the traffic that clogs up our streets every day. The fumes belched out by cars, taxis, vans and lorries is disgusting but nobody seems to care. The electric car has been around for long enough now but almost nobody uses them becaus the greedy oil companies have got their jackboot placed firmly on the jugular of anyone who tries to make them popular. So we all have to suffer while the oil barons get fatter and richer.

They’re bastards and I wish they’d all go to hell.

Then the air would be cleaner and people like me wouldn’t have to suffer with so many bronchial problems that are drought about by the fumes their products fill the air with and pollute the water with. I’m sorry I’m writing so strongly about this, but I feel very strongly and I wish someone had the guts to stand up to these greedy swines. Someone with the clout to turn the motor industry onto its head and prove that there are other, cleaner and better ways to power our motor vehicles. We all know there exists many alternatives that are not harmful to our atmosphere, such as bio-diesel or hydrogen for internal combustion engines and electric engines for the cleanest city cars that don’t do many miles and don’t need to go fast.

But then I’m dreaming, because it will not happen until the oil runs out or gets so expensive that no one can afford to buy it any more. I look forward to that day, if it comes within my lifetime. I believe it will, because I’ve heard it said that the oil will all be gone within 20 years at our current rate of consumption.

Anyway, I’ve written nearly all about what I want to see changed and not about my own asthma problems. But I think that all I’ve said so far is totally relevant to asthma sufferers, because this disease is increasing in direct proportion to the increase in the amount of petrochemical fuels that are burned daily. It also goes with the increase in the volume and diversity of pesticides and other chemicals that farmers are spraying on their crops. But maybe that’s a topic for a future letter.

For now, I’m coping with asthma quite well and perhaps in a few years my family can afford to move out of the city into the countryside where there is less traffic and pollution. I’ll write again soon

Annie

Allergy Asthma