Homogenization and agriculture

 

West resorts to toss and to swing human beings between phobias and philias based on their inherent ideology of homogenization.

In a way good because it will check over hyped claims of all sorts of herbal foods and bring in quality checks.

While I do not claim to be an expert on any subject or prone to jump onto some conspiracy theory or resort to unloving criticism or uncritical love, I would also not like to overlook probable hidden agendas, ulterior motives and hide my lurking suspicions.

However, on the other hand, like everything else, behind the façade of these concerns over herbs may lurk a geopolitical stand by a group of nations whose abysmal shortcomings, atrocious prescriptions of wrong vaccines and lack of capabilities in handling the pandemic have all been exposed.

Therefore, this statement, may also be overloaded, especially why a few friendly nations with identical ideologies must come together to show a sudden concern.

This, obviously, may create suspicions of hidden agenda, perhaps imputing motives to Asian and African countries which are blessed by nature's sunlight for almost 10 months in a year with lot of herbal and agricultural production that can create totally new perspectives to food industry which in turn can look for other healthy edibles beyond corn, wheat, breads , cheese and meat.

This may be an indirect way of trying to arm twist the natural/ herbal food industry from Vietnam, Thailand, India, African countries and South American nations as well. Now fighting terrorism, AIDs have taken a back seat and WOKEISM , GLOBAL WARMING and anti-herbalism are taken up.

The world cannot afford to see everything through the geopolitical economic considerations.

It must also realise that almost majority of the medicines in any stream of medications have basically biochemicals which are present in nature , mostly in plants, flowers, leaves, vegetables and fruits.

Just two predominant health issues Diabetes and BP. Diabetes :- Especially type 2 all over the world the only medicine is Metformin is derived from the plant, Galega officinalis Linn. [Figure 1]. G. officinalis is commonly known as Goat's rue, French lilac, Italian fitch, and Professor-weed. BP :- BP from Rauwolfia Serpentina and the politics and false claims and credits in science. [“For example as early as 601 AD in the Vaghbata complied by Indian physicians there is mention about the medicinal herb ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA’ and only in 1949 in the prestigious British Heart Journal an Indian physician Rustom Jal Vakil published that powdered root of ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA is very effective in lowering blood pressure. Then in 1952 Reserpine was isolated by Swiss chemist employed by CIBA under the direction of Emil Schlitter who produced pure crystals of active ingredient in ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA and Boston heart specialist Robert Wallace Wilkins observed that Reserpine not only reduced blood pressure but also reduced anxiety. Now to whom will you give the Patents’? Leave alone all the controversies surrounding the product itself.].

This may also inadvertently lead to food crisis, malnutrition due to imbalanced diets and consuming not so easily digestible proteins.

After all, beyond religious justifications and regional biases, accessibility to certain food items etc., even most forms of meat that humans eat are from animals, birds, reptiles, and insects that consume herbs and plants.

Very few eat snakes, lion, or tiger meat. I find that the West resorts to toss and to swing human beings between phobias and philias based on their inherent ideology of homogenization.

The craze for homogenization and the claim of panacea are the ills that have marred evolution of human excellence to a very great extent. These two are the result of presumptive psychological fixations.

The former is pushed ahead with various justifications while the later is pushed forth out of some presumptions, mostly ethnocentric pride due to indoctrinated identity based on some ideology predominantly either religious or political. Nature is variety and variety is natural.

Denying and defying reality cannot work always.

Throughout history it has failed miserably.

Be it the Roman Empire’s greed to spread its tentacles [ be a Roman in Rome] ; be it the attempt to homogenize religion which failed with Spanish Inquisition; be it Nazism or Colonialism; all have failed.

Once these attempts at homogenizing cultures, beliefs, political ideologies have failed, the West resorted to Trade and Economics and tried to classify everything under either Capitalism or Communism, politically the Right and the Left .

Those scripting any political narrative realize to do away with the outdated dichotomy of Left and Right because life, especially socio-cultural and economic life, has many dimensions each having its own dynamics and in addition there are also those emanating from intersectionality and interactions and collectively these show up themselves with varying degrees of intensity.

Fortunately, life and all its concomitant evolutions happen despite and beyond the blinkered narratives peddled by status quo addicts of trite dichotomies and have made visible various options between, besides, beneath and above those dichotomies, and these may strengthen the wings and enable the discourse to soar into unbiased zones and offer some solutions to many present[1]day problems faced by humanity.

It is unhealthy if we do not realize that human race is far more than the opportunities it is consciously aware of as Jean Paul Sartre provides the example of the young man who puts his hand on his first date's hand. She, who does not really know him yet, must either leave her hand there or remove it.

Either choice reveals something not part of her consciousness. We are far more than the limited opportunities present in the world. It is unhealthy when we either deny or defy the importance of anyone or anything or any ideology as each may have evolved to fulfil a specific need and may fit in some gap in the jigsaw puzzle called life.