MST website
10/23/02

Thus, health is how and where you live, what you eat, and how you make a living. It is feeling well physically, being mentally at peace, living in a family setting where there is respect, affection, and equality among all, respecting nature, and living in a society in which justice and equality go hand in hand.

The industries that produce chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and foods are the ones that most damage the environment and human beings. For them, the health of the environment and of humans is seen as a market: the sicker people get, the more the companies can sell chemical medicines and agrotoxins, and therefore, their profit will increase.

In this respect, the MST is fighting to end social illnesses, such as inequality, poverty, and unemployment, and to build a healthy society in which everyone's rights are respected, where everyone can participate in decisions with freedom, and where health means more than not having physical diseases.

We are building a culture of health. The family that lived alone and isolated before joining the MST is now part of a community: learning solidarity and sharing responsibilities, preserving its health instead of its sickness.

Clearly the relationships between people are based on equality, respect and building. This means cultivating relationships with health, happiness, love, contentment, and permanent learning, to free onesself of the brutalities that our unjust and unequal society insists on imposing, such as sexism, individualism, racism, and the lack of solidarity.

The health of MST begins with the family, understanding that children, mothers and fathers possess roots of knowledge, culture, talent, friendship and dreams.