Yes, we've just returned from our holiday. Doreen is concerned about
how the garden now looks. Indeed, a pretty looking garden is something
we'd all like. As for myself, I'm disturbed over something that slightly
more troubles me. I happen to be categorised as having glaucoma and new
drops have been prescribed. Having sampled these and experienced a
horrendous side effect that cannot be confirmed, what am I to do? A
local GP quite matter of fact states: "if you don't take these drops
which may well have nasty side effects you'll go blind. The warnings
upon the pamphlet are merely there so that however disastrous the
effects you could experience you cannot sue the manufacturers'"!. Well,
I don't doubt that appalling side effects often follow from products
that have involved cruel animal experimentation. The Draize test is a
typical one in which helpless bunnies have all types of chemicals
forcefully dropped in to their eyes; and often for mere cosmetic
testing. Proctor & Gamble no doubt being the vilest culprits in this
appallingly cruel procedure! I sense, however, that the vast majority of
folk we rub shoulders with couldn't care a toss, They may well reason -
provided they think at all! ~ 'animals are put on this earth for us to
eat, so why not experiment on them as well? Provided we might benefit
what's the problem?' Yes, this is, undoubtedly, the mentality of the
masses.
Well, I seem to have digressed here! What I want to know is; 'do I
hand the future of my sight in to the hands of those wed to the drug and
chemical Mafia? Or do I look for alternative therapies for glaucoma?
Indeed, I learn that Cannabis (Marjuana) lessens pressure in the eye ~
and I know that for arthritics it's almost a miracle drug! - I also know
that the herb Coleus certainly lowers intro-ocular pressure - as
witnessed by at least one ophthalmic surgeon. Indeed, better news still,
so does inexpensive Ginkgo Biloba! But more enlightening still: one
leams that Laser Trabeculoplasty treatment is now the first line of
treatment offered to glaucoma patients at both St Thomas's hospital
London as well as at Clayton Hospital in Wakefield. However, as for
elsewhere in the UK, the power of the drug industries appear to pull the
most weight; and are making millions at our expense through collusion
with this present government's highly questionable and unethical
priorities
Indeed, the 'assumed' caring amongst the general public may well
reason: 'should the torture of countless animals result in one
breakthrough for some horrendous human disease, so let it be!' In other
words: the end product for humanity is all that counts. But, sadly, they
are too short sighted to see that the desensitising of all our highest
qualities towards the torment of weaker forms of life than our own has a
knock on effect. Who would want to live in a society in which the most
scientifically advanced and the most morally and spiritually stinted
bore rule? Yet, under this present government's regime, we are
unbelievably going that way; and unless stopped in its tracks, this
society will evolve into a living nightmare. I'm no prophet of doom, but
I sense that Armageddon may be nearer than we realise.
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