Hello guys welcome back to my channel as
you all know I've gone down the MLM or
multi-level marketing company YouTube
internet rabbit hole and in the course
of my research I have discovered another
conspiracy theory and this conspiracy
theory really is my own conspiracy
theory but in putting together some
pieces of information well let's just
say I've come to the conclusion that
multi-level marketing companies are in
some ways responsible for the recent
outbreaks of communicable diseases that
we have seen going around our country
that were previously eradicated now hold
on I know I sound crazy but there has in
measles outbreaks chickenpox outbreaks
major major anti vaccination movements
that we have seen in the news before you
call me crazy and I am crazy I'll cop to
it but before I say this conspiracy
theory is just completely out of left
field and irrelevant how in the world
can multi-level marketing companies
irresponsible in any way for the recent
outbreaks of things like measles and
chickenpox and even mumps that we
previously thought were eradicated due
to vaccinations and now all of a sudden
we're seeing them again well has to do
with obviously the anti-back smoove mint
which has become very very popular and
especially in certain areas around the
country touting the ills of vaccinations
and chemicals and poisons and how it's
all a big conspiracy between doctors and
pharmaceutical companies to make us sick
make us buy things make insurance pay
for poisons that do us absolutely no
good in fact keep us as regular
customers at doc in the doctor's office
is
in the hospitals and keep us as regular
customers of the pharmaceutical
companies because by then poisoning us
we now have to keep being consumers of
Western medicine that that sort of line
of thinking now this is an article from
CBS News the anti backs movement is
among the top ten global health threats
for 2019 the World Health Organization
says the anti-vaccination movement made
the list of the World Health
Organization's top threats to global
health in 2019 the organization said
some people's reluctance or refusal to
vaccinate threatens to reverse progress
made against a host of preventable
diseases vaccination is one of the most
cost effective ways of avoiding disease
it currently prevents two to three
million deaths a year and a further 1.5
million could be avoided if global
coverage of vaccinations improved who
said in a statement the effects of what
who called vaccine hesitancy are already
significant for example cases of measles
have surged 30 percent worldwide in
recent years despite an effective
vaccine that can prevent it who noted
that some countries that were close to
eliminating the disease have seen a
resurgence and countries like the United
States for example countries like Israel
for example now you may remember some of
you who and thank you thank you thank
you to all of you who subscribe and who
have watched my videos a few months back
I made a video it was a Dunkin Donuts
mukbang and measles talk and in that
video I talked about my son who
underwent a bone-marrow transplant last
year and has been immunosuppressed he
was pretty much in isolation for many
months on end about a year actually from
the time of his transplant to the time
he was able to go back to school and he
finally got the go-ahead to be able to
go back to school
but when he did we were in the middle of
a potential measles outbreak where I
live the outbreak was the worst in the
East Coast in New York in New Jersey but
it had started spreading because people
travel and they spread the illness to
the Midwest where I live and there was
one confirmed case actually there were
two confirmed cases but there was one
confirmed case in my immediate community
and due to the efforts of many
physicians school principals community
leaders pediatricians such as my husband
there were basically free vaccination
clinics booster shot clinics for adults
and a big push to get anybody who wasn't
previously vaccinated vaccinated but
there were a few resistors
fortunately with everybody taking
control and being proactive the measles
never spread so but that's not to say
that the measles outbreak has been
eradicated it's still going on I heard
some statistic today that there's still
between 10 to 20 new cases every day
within the Orthodox Jewish community to
which I belong so when I was talking
about the measles outbreak that was
because I was concerned and my husband
was very concerned about sending my son
back to school when there was a
potential outbreak because while his new
immune system at this point can handle
the common cold certain other illnesses
such as measles he would not be able to
handle very well and it could make him
seriously ill deathly ill and young
babies who are too young for the vaccine
older people people with compromised
immune systems for any reason or illness
can be very very
negatively affected by getting the
measles and it's not necessarily a
benign illness and even for people that
don't get horribly deathly ill measles
is is no fun things can go wrong and to
assume that it's a harmless childhood
illness is folly to say the least
okay so that being said taking that
little trip down memory lane and my
concerns about measles well as you can
imagine back then my research that I was
looking up what we're about this measles
outbreak and how it was being spread and
why exactly was it being spread in my
community which is a close tight-knit
community where children are very very
much prized and valued why would parents
want to put their children at risk and I
discovered an article well actually
I discovered the information that was in
the article before this article but a
lot of articles were being written about
how this is being spread Brooklyn
measles outbreak how a glossy booklet
spread anti vaccination messages in the
Orthodox Jewish communities the vaccine
safety handbook looks legitimate but is
filled with wild conspiracy theories and
inaccurate data
this booklet can be found online if you
go searching for it but it's by a group
called peach but I will read some of
this article as New York officials
declared a public health emergency and
this was written in April of 2019 in
parts of Brooklyn this week establishing
mandatory vaccinations in an effort to
stop the city's worst measles outbreak
in almost 30 years how the advocates
pointed to what they believe is a major
source of vaccine misinformation in the
affected neighborhoods the false
messages that they say convinced
hundreds of New Yorkers not to vaccinate
their children weren't spread in a
Facebook group or on YouTube but through
a glossy magazine
in fort worth attacks Jewish parents
copies of the magazine were shared in a
way that seemed old-fashioned and the
age of misinformation through family
friends and neighbors the vaccine safety
handbook looks legitimate but it's
filled with wild conspiracy theories and
inaccurate data published by an
anonymously led group called parents
educating and advocating for children's
health or peach the handbook disputes
the well-established dangers of
illnesses like measles and polio
challenges the effectiveness of vaccines
and eradicating those illnesses and
likens the US government's promotion of
vaccines to the medical atrocities of
Nazi Germany inside its forty pages
between cartoons mocking the medical
establishment peaches magazine
inaccurately suggest vaccines are made
up of toxins without evidence it claims
that vaccines are the nation's greatest
threat to public health linked to autism
ADHD sudden infant death syndrome
miscarriage and other maladies a note
from the handbooks editor-in-chief
explains why parents educating and
advocating for children's health is an
anonymous organization well please
forgive us for our anonymity it is not
because we don't believe in our cause we
do it's because many of us have suffered
abuse from fellow community members for
questioning the medical authorities and
advocating for children's health yet
according to New York State's Department
of State and Internet domain
registration records peach appears to be
linked to both a decade old
misinformation hotline targeting the
Orthodox community and to enriched
parenting a website that pebbles new-age
cures from a Jewish perspective
alongside vaccine hoaxes enriched
parenting's website features retouched
photos of children picking flowers and
fields of lavender along articles that
explain how concern over the measles
outbreak is overblown their articles
about how to beat back-to-school blues
and treat urinary tract infections with
herbs
there's also former members trade
sourdough recipes and alternative cancer
treatments hmm Wow if only my child
tsukimiya could have been cured with
sourdough recipes that would have been
wonderful it's not just trendy it's
effective research shows that combining
vaccine miss information with all
of Medicine homeopathy and Diet content
this way is one of the most pervasive
and persuasive techniques used by anti
vaccination advocates to forward their
agenda when a piece of misinformation is
linked to other beliefs attitudes values
and behaviors that one already accepts
that misinformation becomes easier to
understand and accept anti vaccine
websites can leverage this by
associating this information about
vaccines with alternative medicine or
holistic health care in 2017 members of
Pittsburgh's Orthodox Jewish communities
which has largely embraced vaccinations
complained on Facebook that peach was
targeting their neighborhoods by mailing
out unsolicited copies of the handbook
okay since the start of the New York
measles outbreak in October of 2018 285
cases have been confirmed in the city
most are unvaccinated or partially
vaccinated children resulting in 21
hospitalizations five admissions to the
intensive care unit this outbreak like
others last year in new New York and New
Jersey spread within Orthodox Jewish
communities ok blima marcus who is an
amazing lady i've had communications
with her she's a nurse practitioner at
Memorial sloan-kettering Cancer Center a
member of the Orthodox Jewish Nurses
Association told the New York blog
Gothamist that the magazine was a piece
of anti vaccination propaganda dr. Ochs
Aris bar boat city's health commissioner
said that the outbreak is being fueled
by a small group of anti-vaxxers in
these neighborhoods that has been
spreading dangerous myths this
information based on fake science for a
decade through the acara bias hotline a
recorded message center for thefox
jewish woman
peach has been spreading unfounded fears
about vaccines and the Orthodox
community helping skeptical parents
avoid them
honey Silber 41 has been moderating the
conference call since 2011 according to
advertisements and Jewish magazines in
2014 according to internet registration
records silver bought the domain name
peach moms org
website that never appears to have
gotten past the coming soon phase silver
declined to interview when the website
Gothamist rang her doorbell last month
but claimed that the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention says a lot of
fake things Gothamist reported Silber
did not respond to an email and text
message requesting comments there are
several connections between peach and
enriched
parenting and online and public records
peaches registered as a nonprofit group
with New York State's Department of
State and those state records peach
lists in rich parenting which described
itself as dedicated to informing parents
on how to promote their children's
lifelong physical and emotional
well-being as his website in the past
donate links from enriched parenting
site access by internet archives wayback
machine led donors to a peach donation
page the websites enriched parenting org
was registered in 2015 under the email
address a founder and current president
Rebecca
Fleischman and lists its organization's
name parents educating and advocating
for children's health according to
historical internet domain records so
enriched parenting in peach are
connected they both spread vaccine and
health misinformation and they're both
very much into holistic methods of
curing illnesses and preventing
illnesses and this is the website for
enriched parenting I they tried to
confuse people and pretend that they
have no affiliation with peach they made
a press release although we welcome
press we do not appreciate the recent
articles that as there are inaccurate
and misleading to avert for the
confusion we have changed our Anthony's
name to evaluating novel and relevant
information for comprehensive health and
emotional development Inc man they
changed their name a lot our
organization is not affiliated nor did
we create or distribute peach magazine
we're an organization that that supports
religious philosophical and medical
choice we're not in or ever been anti
anything other than coercion and loss of
civil liberties this is a very big
defense against being an anti-vaxxer
that you are stepping on their civil
liberties and their freedom of choice to
not vaccinate
never mind that their decision now puts
many other American citizens at great
risk
we support inform decision making and
the right of choice for all individuals
our activities are geared toward
education and health options on a wide
variety of subjects not limited to
vaccine information the BuzzFeed news
article stated representing the group
that she Rebecca Fleischman in 2017
signed a letter to the Department of
Health and Human Services
protesting current vaccine standards
accusing federal health officials of
misleading the public about vaccines and
autism enriched parenting was thought to
have sign along with over fifty five
other organizations nationwide that's
just a little background there and if I
click the about Us page you will see the
founder in question Rebecca Fleischman
who is accused of being one of the
founders of peach and behind the glossy
publications spreading vaccine
misinformation
she's driven by her passion for wanting
to spread awareness and education of
holistic health to better the lives of
Children and Families her parents are
both medical physicians okay she has a
degree in special education and speech
language pathology was privileged to
work for many years with children with
autism she became an avid a researcher
da da da alright so I kind of give this
background to talk about the concept of
multi-level marketing companies that
tout themselves as being about health
making wild health claims anything from
herbal supplements to essential oils
this is an article from a nurse kid
nurse pediatric nurse house of cards the
toxic combinations of essential oils in
multi-level marketing and how the
essential oil revolution has rapidly
grown due to multi-level marketing
companies essential oils have been
around a long time since the dawn of
time to companies young living in
doTERRA the largest essential oil giants
have brought whales in to dinner
conversations nationally there are
multi-level marketing schemes they
target women stay-at-home mothers and
they talk about making insane health
claims that about what these oils can do
this nurse is trying to bring to the
attention that there are some essential
oils that are absolutely dangerous and
she kind of likens them to
the olden days of dr. Goodes you know
cure-all remedy before the FDA in the
1800s and 1900s people were just selling
anything and everything
dr. Williams pink pills for pale people
blood builder soothing syrups okay but
some of these wails and she gives a
download of link are actually quite
quite dangerous and potentially toxic
and poisonous particularly for children
to be sniffing or having it on their
skin or anywhere near them okay so that
that's an aside but those two companies
stood out to me to tear up and Young
Living because many many Orthodox women
sell those brands and are part of the
multi-level marketing and you can see
this by the fact that here's the Young
Living well this isn't the Young Living
website this is a kashrut a kosher
certification organization that
certifies products as kosher for
consumption for for Jews Jewish people
that keep kosher and you can see that
Young Living has a laundry list of their
products that are kosher telling you
that they do have many kosher consumers
I would be willing to bet that many many
of these consumers are either the
distributors themselves the women who
have now made a career out of selling
essential oils stay-at-home mothers with
many many children who don't have very
many other job options available to them
to work away from home who are selling
these Shaklee is another supplement
company that is very very very popular
this is a Jewish woman's job board it is
a publicly access board they do have a
membership board that you need to type
in your username and they don't want
everyone to find it so I'm only showing
what's available through a standard
Google search without needing to login
there are also many Facebook groups and
lately in the Jewish women's groups
conversation has run amok about MLM and
the arguments back and forth both pro
and con because so many Jewish women
have turned to MLM marketing but this is
just about Shaklee anyone have info what
products they sell my mother-in-law grew
up with her mother selling Shockley and
she just enrolled the other day my dad
sells it to healthy healthy my friend
sells Shaklee Shaq leaves and just
vitamins it's also cleaning supplies
these are products I use and how to find
and how I find they work these are all
these cleaning supplies that supposedly
are chemical free and healthy for
laundry and wiping your counters and
kosher laxatives and multivitamins my
mother sold Shaq late till my family
moved to Israel
she still occasionally has people bring
her products there alright so this is
how I am sort of linking the two I had
previously done a lot of research about
measles and how an organization like
peach and their propaganda could
possibly take hold over otherwise
intelligent people loving mothers who
care about their family who care about
their communities who spend their lives
doing charitable acts how could they get
taken in by this but when I think about
how many many of these women are being
plied with in misinformation in their
quote-unquote careers selling for
multi-level marketing firms that tout
holistic and natural health solutions
you know what maybe maybe it's more
plausible than I thought this is a
really interesting channel on anti MLM
information genetically-modified skeptic
I will link his channel down below but
he talks about his journey with
essential oils apparently it was the
family business and he does have a video
about how he almost got hooked but this
video talks about how MLMs break the law
and get away with it basically
multi-level marketing firms are not
allowed to make outrageous health claims
like my vitamin cares cancer or rub
these essential oils onto you and it
will prevent measles better than any
vaccinations they're not allowed to say
that it's illegal so how do they get
away with it because we know that these
companies are making these claims to
their distributors and the distributors
to their potential customers who let's
face it are really potential future
distributors how can they perpetuate
these lies and gross exaggerations now
if you sell a product classified as a
dietary supplement it's illegal to
directly claim it treats any disease
only science-based FDA approved legal
drugs can be said to treat diseases if
you break that law your products can be
seized you can be fine and you can even
be put in prison obviously since we've
all seen MLM products touted as cures to
diseases these claims are being made
somewhere so let's go on to how MLM
should make that happen without getting
in legal trouble testimonies this may be
the simplest and most obvious way this
is done but it's probably where the most
absurd claims about MLM s come from as
you likely already know since you were
interested enough to click this video
MLM encourage their independent
distributors to market the products on
their own especially to their friends
and family naturally most distributors
share their experiences with the
products as a part of that marketing
where those stories start to become
outlandish is where the legality of this
process ends I've even covered MLM
essential oil facebook groups where
members are encouraged to share their
experiences with oils to inform others
but every post devolves into explicit
discussion of drug claims and medical
advice looking for recipes for pain and
scarring for my niece who is in a
terrible car accident and had multiple
surgeries one of the very first comments
this is awesome for pain
morphine blend with lemongrass majorem
and free
and sense who has used oils and seen
real results give me your stories I've
got enough all my medications using the
oils I started using essential oils
about two years ago and I haven't used
any pharmaceutical since there are
stories about allergies chronic pain
even autism here you get the idea now
people may argue the distributors aren't
supposed to do that the MLM itself
doesn't encourage it no that's a lie
first of all the culture surrounding
these companies is so easy to see that
there are literally huge communities
based around making fun of the alien
form legally problematic statements MLM
distributors make those in charge know
these claims are made about their
products and they don't do anything
about it unless they get in trouble with
the FDA they're letting it happen on
purpose second plenty of companies have
lore behind their founding or the
invention of their products which imply
that their products have miraculous
properties as many of you know I'm a
little too familiar with Young Living
Essential Oils so I'll use them as an
example when new distributors are being
recruited they're nearly always told
about Gary young the founder discovering
essential oils for himself Young was
apparently paralyzed after a logging
accident as a young man but when he
discovered essential oils and began
studying how to apply them he was able
to use them to make a 100% recovery his
recovery was so miraculous it's almost
as if he sought traditional care or was
never paralyzed in the first place
MLMs like Young Living purposely steeped
their company culture in these stories
of the distributors will consistently
use them as a selling tool evidently
these stories often morph into direct
curative claims which MLMs themselves
are not legally allowed to make since
most distributors make these illegal
claims for their friends and family
they're rarely ever reported and besides
even if they were as long as an MLM
didn't directly tell a distributor to
make a curative claim the legal
repercussions largely fall on the
independent distributor not the company
how the model protects the company the
rule of thumb for MLM is taking
advantage of these methods of illegal
advertising is always maintain plausible
deniability
if a customer gives a testimony
applying that in MLM products can hear
cancer the MLM can say they said it not
us if an author claims that products
like theirs can cure anorexia and
emmalin can say they wrote it not us if
the distributor gives a presentation
inspired by that literature making
further cured it claims the MLM can say
that distributor misused that literature
and we did not condone such behavior and
if a lecturer claims that their products
are better than medicine the MLM can say
that speaker represents no one but
themselves they said it not us this is
what the MLM structure is for it's a
shield for false advertising there's
enough distance between distributors and
the company itself that the MLM
maintains plausible deniability in most
situations when an MLM sells supplements
and health products this means that
countless drug claims about their
products can be made without the company
facing the legal consequences you may
have heard the saying that the true
customers in an MLM are the employees or
distributors that's true but they're
even more than that they're a proxy for
the company in illegal and unethical
advertising they're a patsy in the
company's legal defense they're at the
bottom of the pyramid bearing the weight
and getting little in return if you're
in an MLM I'm sorry to say it but those
the top know how much you give and they
know how vulnerable you make yourself in
doing so what you need to realize is
they don't care how much you do or
sacrifice or make yourself legally
accountable for them as long as they're
making money and you're helping them do
it there you have it I thought that was
a really great concise explanation about
how these rumors get spread about how
essential oils or supplements or
vitamins or these products that are not
really reviewed by the FDA because I
think they're listed under cosmetics and
and such how they can take importance
and prominence for some people over
Western medicine and to me this is how
something like
a measles outbreak can take hold in a
community that is very much invested in
these types of MLMs and i will show you
an article this is an older article from
2001 so it goes it goes back even
further than this close social networks
of Hasidic women other tight groups
boost Shaklee sales a group of women are
gathered around a dining room table in
Brooklyn talking about nutrition Shaklee
corpse new soy protein is very exciting
it says hostess sera Stuber she has her
guests to share what they love about
Shaklee I just live on it that's all
this one woman adds another I love the
protein I use it in my go filter fish we
are hooked on it and this group knows
it's go filter fish they're Hasidic Jews
and 33 year old mrs. Stuber is part of a
contingent of Hasidic sales people among
Shockley's 500,000 representatives like
other multi-level marketing companies 45
year old shackly relies on individual
distributors to sell its wares in
Shockley's case food supplements water
filters and personal care and cleaning
products and many of these companies
have found sales momentum builds
quickest among tightly knit groups
that's why you'll also on youtube you'll
find some videos about MLMs and Mormon
the Mormon community and how many of
them start there and Utah is like one of
the MLM capitals of the world because
they're tightly knit groups with larger
social networks and there are very
family-oriented tend to have large
families and moms that are looking for
some sort of flexible way to make an
income they're talking about Amway the
largest such company all decor inks my
company has historically had success in
small blue-collar town Salt Lake City
based nu Skin Enterprises Inc sells
products through countless Mormons
Shaklee has excelled at recruiting
salespeople from groups most companies
would consider unrecruited including the
Amish Mennonites and ha sido a movement
with an ultra Orthodox Judaism that
began Eastern Europe in the 18th century
she
luckily has done so partly by
accommodating the special needs of such
highly insular communities and shackle
is another one of those companies where
if you look down there ingestible
product listing you will see many of
them have kosher certification
specifically to accommodate these groups
Shaklee Awards bonus buggies instead of
cars because these women have a lot of
babies and I'm saying these women I mean
I'm not Hasidic but I do belong to the
Jewish community and as I have hinted at
and have indicated have a number of
children myself so getting a brand
spankin new Deluxe baby buggy I'm too
old for that now but back in the day hey
that would have been a real prize for
the Hasidim company representatives
holds separate meetings before the
Sabbath and find synagogues for husbands
to pray in on convention trips when
women complain the products kosher
certification wasn't strict enough
Shaklee switched to one of the strictest
kosher certification companies the
payoff is an army of enthusiastic
salespeople just before Yom Kippur last
year when Hathi them fast for twenty
five twenty five hours twenty
seven-year-old high oh sorry Friedman
distributed to customers and prospective
clients a homemade flyer that read
fasting is no pleasure now you can fast
without the common challenges like
weakness headaches dehydration Shaklee
performance drink mix is the answer okay
I not sure if Jack lees performance
drink mixed drunk before 25 hour fast is
really going to do you but okay sales
women spent hours on the phone
counseling their patrons mostly friends
and family on which ailment invokes
which Shaklee Sal last year before
Passover when the kitchen must be
painstakingly cleaned
pecci Herzl 33 hawked a shock clean
prepay soft package that included
laundry detergent hand lotion vitamin B
tablets an industrial-strength cleaner
with lives of strict religious
observance Hasidic women seem unlikely
candidates for entrepreneurship
procreation is a chief commandment so
the typical family has at least five
children mother
have little time for work between
weddings births frequent holidays and
religious observances what we look
forward to is the building of
generations not of careers says one
Hasidic chocolate consumer but laws and
customs cost money expenses like
elaborate weddings private school
handmade wigs for the women and fur hats
for the men weren't to cover their heads
in keeping with aesthetic tradition can
strain family budgets our lifestyle is
more expensive says mrs. Herzl a mother
of six and one of mrs. Stars recruits
with a home-based business I'm making
the money and I'm there for the children
says mrs. Herzl she says she has 300 to
400 customers and of those about 70% are
ultra-orthodox it's easier to build
trust in your own community where you're
accepted and selling primarily to other
women allows them to avoid contact with
men who are not their husbands or close
relatives in accordance with US ADA
custom then there's the promise of high
earnings achieved as distributors deepen
their network of recruits or downlines
mrs. Stuber a petite woman who wears a
short brown weight is a coordinator in
2000 Shockley estimated average annual
income for coordinators was $42,000
master coordinators Shockley's highest
ranked salespeople of whom there are 124
nationwide earn an average of $300,000 a
years as the company the climb scaled by
only a determined few as recruits
beneath them sell more products begins
with a membership and discounts on
products since his wife first started
selling Shockley 7 years ago Jacob
Sauber 36 a social worker who practices
private psychotherapy in Brooklyn has
grown to depend on her income with six
children under the age of 15 the couple
says Shaklee earnings have enabled them
to move out of an apartment in mrs.
Stoddard's grandparents house early last
year traveled to Shaklee convention in
places like Portugal and Hawaii and
drive a chevrolet venture ban with a
built in car seat multi-level marketing
has its critics some of whom say an
insular community like the Hasidim is
especially vulnerable to corporate
promises of riches Robert L Fitzpatrick
co-author of the 1997 book false profit
seeking financial and spiritual
deliverance in multi-level marketing and
pyramid schemes says the chance to make
as much as 300,000 a year without having
to leave the community as electrifying
but he also says such profit is illusory
and over 90% of the people who get
involved in such businesses will
ultimately lose money
most quit the business within the first
year having spent thousands of dollars
on promotional and training material and
other business-related necessities and
never moving beyond breaking even
critics say part of the problem is
simple math Shaklee writes in a recent
brochure discover the Shaklee
opportunity find three who find three
the fallacy in this detractors say is
that if everyone were successful at
finding three who found three a mere 11
levels deep into the pyramid would yield
one hundred and seventy seven thousand
one hundred and forty-seven Shaklee
salespeople more than all the
ultra-orthodox Jews living in Brooklyn
Jaclyn's a subsidiary of Yamaguchi
pharmaceutical Cohen Tokyo and asserts
its business plan works for people who
recruit successful downlines
da da da we don't need to read any more
of their bias propaganda at least one
Orthodox rabbi who's not heceta Kelly
Teitelbaum speaking out against
multi-level marketing since his wife was
almost recruited into an unrelated
illegal pyramid scheme in 1997 that
ensnared large numbers of Brooklyn Jews
he has urged other rabbis to forbid
participation in multi-level marketing
companies he also warns of false
promises made by distributors and notes
that making them is forbidden in Jewish
custom mrs. saw versus Robert ed Odom
didn't do his research and is reacting
to the notorious 1997 sting and I'm not
sure which sting this is I tried to do
some brief research and came up a little
empty because it's such a long time ago
so I probably could dig deeper going
into some library databases that have
more searchable archives of older
materials so I'm not sure but I think
that this just goes to show you that a
groups small insular groups such as the
Jewish Orthodox community that I'm a
part of have a long history with
multi-level marketing schemes popular
Shaklee is among the Hasidic women who
sell at the constant focus and
determination needed to generate an
income drive many out of the business
even when you're home you're not totally
home since 31 year old Mindy Stauber
Sarah saw her sister-in-law who has five
children and left the business after
about five years
like most Jack lees sales women she's
loath to criticize friends and family
still in the business and she remains a
loyal Shaklee customer yes she better if
she wants to get along with her
sister-in-law and her mother-in-law and
all the
her in-laws and her husband meanwhile
Sarah strauber meanwhile has the
burgeoning population growth of a cm on
her side there's always new potential
she says youngsters are getting married
all the time and they have their own
children and then you have a fresh wave
of clientele or a fresh wave of recruits
so yes
multi-level marketing companies prey on
stay-at-home mothers who need an extra
income need flexibility and promised
them the world and most really do not
make it but the focus of this video is I
want to stress that some groups are more
susceptible to certain types of MLMs
than others and it seems that an
Orthodox Jewish community the holistic
health vitamin essential oil natural
cure type of MLMs seem to have really
taken hold and I personally believe my
own conspiracy theory that that is one
large factor contributing to the
anti-vaccination movement today in those
communities and the outbreak of measles
let me see if I have anything else I
think I I think I showed you everything
that I have that I want to show you
right now and this video is getting too
long but hey you tell me if I'm crazy
could there be a connection and I'm only
pointing out my community because that's
what I was researching early on when I
was worried about my family and my
children and my son in particular being
exposed to measles and I found out about
peach and that whole hotline and the
organization spreading this information
about vaccines and now connecting it
with the MLM research that I've been
doing but it could apply to any insular
groups that are taken in by these types
of MLMs mentioning the Mennonites and
Amish and Mormons and other religious
groups and it would be interesting to
know if those groups have been
susceptible or more susceptible than
other areas to
outbreaks of measles or mumps or I don't
know rubella or chickenpox what do you
guys think do you think that MLMs could
be responsible for other major social
issues and potential catastrophes by
spreading their misinformation through
their business quote-unquote
opportunities let me know anyway as
usual I am wishing you all strength hope
love and sending all of you a giant hug
and hoping that you are all doing well
and thanks for tuning into this video I
will see you in the next one bye
