Alternative outlook

Re: “Healthy options?” (PostBag, March 25).

Although Jayut Jayanandana is obviously not trained in medicine, he makes two excellent points. Allopathic medicine, which dominates in Western countries and increasingly globally, is extremely costly, is overly focused on alleviating symptoms, and, due to profitdriven obsessions with pharmaceutical treatment, is a leading cause of death.

Western medicine, combined with the agrochemical cartel and its handmaiden — the processed food industry is the leading cause of death and disability in the developed world. More than 90% of Americans are metabolically disabled, addicted to sugar and are either prediabetic or diabetic. More than half of what they eat bears no resemblance to real food. Insulin resistance which is associated with the consumption of sugar-laden, highly processed food, causes many common cancers.

Mr Jayut also rightly questioned whether Health Minister Anutin is fit for the job and wonders why the vaccine debacle is a taboo topic for Thai media. Apparently, the answers to these important questions await the advent of a society which values freedom of speech more than the present one does.

MICHAEL SETTER