Please Stop Saying Joe Mercola Is Firing Christians

(It's Dumb, and Not True)

Every day someone sends me Barbara Loe Fisher’s condemnation of Joe Mercola, whose new corporate management has canceled their $300K a year donation to Barbara’s nonprofit vaccine group.

She even states that she believes that because the Mercola Corporation just let a bunch of people go, that they’re on some kind of Christian witch hunt.

Of course Barbara provides no evidence of this. And does not seem to consider that generally people lay folks off when they can’t afford to pay them.

(Also: I hate to tell you this, but you’d be hard pressed to run an English-speaking Florida company without employing Christians. There’s a Christian church on every other block here, I’m not exaggerating.)

And I know Joe, I have plenty of things I take issue with him on, but he couldn’t care less what church you go to on Sunday or whether you read the Bible, as long as you can do your job. (And preferably actually follow the moral code of the Bible.)

Perhaps if Barbara Fisher had ever run a business in a recession, she’d know that sometimes you have to make difficult decisions to make sure you’re not spending more money than you’re taking in.

She’d be a lot classier if she just thanked Joe for the millions and millions of dollars he’s given her that she personally lived on!

And that she’s been able to run her nonprofit organization with it, not having the worries that the rest of us do who have to make quality products and be profitable, sell $300K of profit or go under.

That annual donation was never an entitlement.

I don’t always agree with Joe. I openly mock his belief that salads will kill me, he told me that to my face once, when his plate was a ribeye and mine was a salad-- and that everyone should be terrified of oxalates (which are found in virtually every whole food, by the way, the whole foods that tens of thousands of studies support as the path to good health).

I am embarrassed for him that he spent several years promoting and eating the Carnivore Diet. I am sent an article at least once a day written by Mercola Corporation’s young staff writers with a note – every time! -- that “Mercola said this.”

Hate to tell you this guys, but he doesn’t write those articles, and he doesn’t have a girlfriend, and he serves you up every new fad because if it’s trending, it sells.

That said, he landed on the right side of the vaccine fight, which I am grateful for, and he’s backed off telling people it’s a good idea to eat nothing but beef and salt.

Barbara Loe Fisher should correct her sour-grapes article to be more gracious and thank Joe Mercola for his generosity toward her for many years now, even if the company can’t continue to give her $300K/year.

Personally, I’ve been doing activism for years, to educate people about the falsehood of the “safe and effective” narrative, and I’ve not asked for a dime.

And in fact, I am in two big fights with the IRS because they’re auditing me for all the non-profits I’ve given a lot of my income to, the last few years. (ICAN network, Liberty Counsel, and more.)

I think Barbara should apologize to Joe, and thank him.

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