By clearly defining the physical problems vaccination causes at the outset, she establishes a frame of reference for the subsequent data and commentary that oppose it. "The general public has been sucked into believing that decayed animals, diseased blood, sera, bacteria, viruses, formaldehyde, mercury derivatives, acetone, aluminum and carbolic acid - shot directly into our blood systems - is the answer to keeping us free of disease. How barbaric." As she permits the reader to view the issue through the clear lens of common sense by removing the opacity and confusion caused by vested interests, she justifies her findings that vaccination "is not about protecting our animals and children, but about money and greed." Skillfully interweaving the opinions of medical and veterinary authorities, as well as evidence exposed by medical historians and researchers, McKay uncovers the hidden agenda in the vaccination question. Citing such renowned authorities as Robert Mendelsohn, MD; Viera Scheibner, Phd; veterinarians Michael Lemmon, Christina Chambreau, Russell Swift and the noted Richard Pitcairn, she produces a consensus of informed opinion that demonstrates how and why vaccination is indeed hazardous to the health. Following Pitcairn's admonition, "If you knew...that you would be sentencing an animal to a lifetime of chronic disease...would you still vaccinate?", she supports the point that repeated vaccination, in human and non-human animals, causes both acute and chronic diseases, but to which problems the medical establishment conveniently attaches other labels and causes. Concurring with medical historian Eustace Mullins that immunization may well be the most pernicious of practices, McKay underscores the fact that vaccination "goes directly against the discovery of modern holistic medical experts that the body has a natural immune defense against illness."

        Russell Swift, DVM, pointedly asks, "Who could think it is safe to inject several mutated viruses and/or bacteria directly into the body?" In answer to Swift's logical question, McKay looks at the intertwined political and legal issues that assure the survival of vaccination despite the growing indications that prove it is deleterious to health. Seeking a return to common sense, the author acknowledges that it is the general public's complicity, a product of its naive and unfaltering belief in the integrity of the medical and veterinary establishments, that remains the foundation of the vaccination industry. A major business, it generates great financial gain, not only in the overt manufacturing and administering of the vaccines, but in the covert residual income of repeat business in terms of ensuing acute and chronic disease treatment. Vaccination is definitely lucrative. In light of this information, it is clear why vaccination propagandizing is carefully planned and orchestrated, with the full participation of other key players, including the educational system and the media.

        Greed and power, asserts McKay, fuel the vaccination industry: "Even veterinarians and pediatricians who are aware - because they are so controlled by the bureaucratic medical and legal system - are afraid to state their concerns over the effects of vaccines." Apparently no one cares to rock so gold-laden a boat, least of all the politicians whose reward transcends the obvious financial "incentives" they receive from pharmaceutical laboratories and medical lobbies, but extends to their desire for increased control over the private lives of individuals. Along with J M Peebles, MD, McKay agrees that vaccination is a political connivance; not only is it a principal threat to health, but also "an outrage upon the personal liberties of the American citizen." She emphasizes the true (largely unpublished) failures of even the most celebrated vaccination successes, such as smallpox, which abated only when general hygiene conditions improved; rabies, a calculated campaign of fear, fraud and misinformation, and polio. At a national conference in Washington, it was announced that "all cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine." Faced with such statistics presented by the medical establishment itself, common sense dictates that this dangerous practice should cease. Yet, with a nod to that hidden agenda, McKay sagely notes that common sense and reason are dismissed as "simplistic" by those "overeducated professionals."

        Written in the author's usual good-natured style, by presenting the scientific data and opinion in an understandable and cohesive format, accessible to all, she provides the reader ample initiative and ammunition to think for himself/herself in this vital issue. Offering additional information on how legally to avoid mandatory vaccinations for animals and children, and a practical resource guide and bibliography, NATURAL IMMUNITY speaks not only to animal guardians and parents, but to all of us who value our health and our natural right to self-determination to maintain it.