Comments on: Cancer Cause and Cure: A 20th Century Perspective by Percy Weston

By: John Thomson

John Thomson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:10:55 +0000

Very interesting. I am researching for my own benefit any information about superphosphate. I bought a farm 20 years ago and everything looked rosy. Everything except that the animals were not well and we had lots of birthing difficulties. We had a lot of problems with excess fertilizer run off into our dams and algal blooms. I took advice and stopped applying super. After 5 years I noticed the pasture was deteriorating so I spread rock minerals and waited to see what happened. I have seen a gradual improvement since then so I will get my soil tested and see what else it needs. The main point I am making is that after 5 years and the addition of a couple of Alpacas I have basically a zero fatality rate wiith the lambing. My brother in law swears by lime and super and he is having problems with pink eye in his cows as well as enormous birthing difficulties. He puts it down to the cows being too well fed so he starves them for the last couple of weeks before they are due to give birth. He thinks all this discusion comes from the rear of a bull and say that fish and kelp fertizer is rubbish. Can’t help some people. I am wondering if the massive increase in allergies in children might stem from milk produced from cows on supered paddocks,. It has to be linked. I grew up on a dairy farm and had raw milk and loads of weet bix and I have never suffered from any allergies. Is this food for thought or am I mad too.

By: Angela Helleren

Angela Helleren — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:53:09 +0000

Bill Johnston -spoken like a modern day fertilizer salesman without any consideration to the consequences of the chemical cocktails being delivered through the food chain. If I’m wrong, watch the doco Patent the Pig and you will understand why your comments caused my reply.
Fortunately farmers are discovering better more cost effective ways to produce crops and the health of their live stock while improving their land. In fact it was one such farmer who suggested I seek out Percy Weston’s Book.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:17:46 +0000

In reference to your comment above. You are the one that need s a reality check.
Have you ever had anyone close to you have cancer or similar?
Yes! Sick people are sick but what you should be saying is why? and how can we help? we have vaccinations, would you get vaccinated if you knew if it was going to cure you if you had caught a deadly disease,? of cause you would.
I do believe that Percy Westons way has cured some people, I do know of a small child that was sent home from the hospital as they said that they have done as much as they can do, he was then put on the Percys diet 3 years later he is like any normal 4 yr old. There are no guarantees with chemo as there are no guarantees with this. Not everyone responds to the same treatments.
Anyone with a loved one sick from cancer or similar will do just about anything to try to cure that person and I think if Percys ideas have just help to save one of these people than “thank god for Percy Weston”
Next issue chemical fertilizers, take a good look at Australia where over use of Chemicals have ruined thousands of acres, they now cannot use this land as it has turned to salt pastures and has no tree life, erosion now is a very big problem with this land. Chemical fertilizers kill many living organisms in the soils, also killing all worm life as well, so how is this good.
Chemical sprays used on our foods, many over the years being banned why? because it was found that they caused cancer or other health issues. In the US many chemicals have been ban but in Australia we still have these chemicals available to buy in our local supermarkets-many of these chemicals are owned by US companies- banned in US but ok to sell in Australia- goes to show how much our government cares

By: stuart bradbury

stuart bradbury — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:31:15 +0000

Having read the book and understood everything Percy is saying, I think Mr Johnston is the one who is ridiculous as he has failed to see the writing on the wall.
If Mr Johnston reaches the age of 101 after a life of hardship, maybe then we will be able to give him some credence.
There is absolutely no substitute for experience.
Percy Weston is not the only one to have identified cancer causes another farmer in NZ came to the same conclusions.
Cancer is such a cash cow, don’t expect anyone who derives an income directly or indirectly from it, to be shouting from the roof tops that maybe there is a way to stop the suffering.

By: Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:39:54 +0000

This is a ridiculous story. I firmly believe that sick people are sick and dead people are dead, only because they were born in the first place. The biggest challenge faced by agriculture is to continue to feed the burgeoning numbers of people on the planet. Industrialisation of agriculture had many roots, including of course the concentration of people in cities. City people are not interested in carting a bucket of poo back out to some farmers field on a daily basis. Nutrient flows changed because the people at large changed. Fertilisers were a response variable, not the driver as implied here. People demanded WC’s, then sewers and drains, their rising prosperity allowed them to seek greater comforts, to look for solutions to problems such as the great plague and other ‘plagues’ that accompanied the move of people to the convenience of city-life. Many people live to 100+ these days; many fit people have death imposed on them during their younger years - by accidents. So where are the causes and effects. If they are so believable, why is the world continuing to support more people, who are living generally longer, happier, more convenient and better-fed lives? They do it because agriculture allows them to. And one of the keys to this is that farmers can (and should) replace the nutrients they export from their farms; nutrients destined to end up in some sewer somewhere. When we run out of the capacity to replace nutrients exported from our farms, we will also run out of the capacity to produce food at the increasing rate that it is being demanded! Percy needs a reality check!