Irradiated food is really bad stuff. Of course, it is not radioactive, but it is filled with disease-causing free radicals caused by the process of bombarding it with high energy radiation, the contents of dead organisms killed by the radiation, inactivated, worthless enzymes, and the bits and pieces of what is known in the legal trade as “filth”: insect parts, rat excrement, hairs, dead vermin, etc., which careful handling would eliminate or minimize.
Food that is going to be irradiated, however, does not receive careful handling typically since it will be “sterilized” by the irradiation. If your food is not only irradiated, but genetically modified and stuffed with toxic chemicals, in other words, meets FDA, USDA and Codex standards, now THAT’s as bad as it gets. That’s fully weaponized, “loaded and locked” food. Don’t go near the stuff.
UGH!
Consumers do not want irradiated food. So the ever corporate-friendly agencies of the government, and of course, Codex Alimentarius, take the crafty step of not telling us whether food is irradiated or not if they can get away without doing so. Once food is processed, it does not have to have the familiar “radura”, the radiation symbol, which the law previously required.
Now that fresh lettuce, spinach and other greens are defined as a “health hazard” by a berserk FDA, they, too, will be irradiated before we can eat them. All of them, unless consumed locally or grown by you or your friends.
What does that tell you? Eat locally. Grow your own food.
Print bumper stickers that say “Grow or Glow” and tell people what that means. Get good at “4 foot square” gardening, or growing on your patio or balcony. Organize window box growing for your community or community gardens. You ARE in control of what goes into your body. If you are not, get yourself organized and get into that position. Meet with your neighbors to make this happen for all of you. You and your neighbors are something else besides neighbors: you are CONSUMERS.
Consumers are very powerful when they take the time and effort to be. Since your food is being weaponized against you and your family (!) GET organized.
Email Kathy Greene, kathy.greene@usa.net, the Community Organization Coordinator of the Natural Solutions Foundation and let us help you get your neighbors motivated and activated. We have an excellent eBook on Community Organizing that we will send you if you ask. Just put “Organizing” in the subject line.
Consumer organizations perform valuable services. Not only can they be watchdogs and whistleblowers, they can provide significant information to other consumers, government officials and agencies, university decision makers and the people who attend and shape policy at national and international meetings. According to our West African sources, in that part of the world, consumers organizations who become upset about an issue can literally bring down a government.
Of course, what that takes is a strong sense of ownership: this is MY body, this is MY environment, this is MY child, this is MY body. And the people living right next store to me, and across town, and across the country care about what happens to me, and to themselves, too.
If companies and governments are lying to me, or poisoning me or corrupting my food, or my field or my child’s body, or keeping deadly secrets of putting me in harm’s way for your own good, we, the Consumers, should, can, will, say “NO!” to what is bad and “YES!” to what is good for us.
Up with consumers and consumerism, I say.
The diametrical opposite to consumerism, of course, is “corporatism”. What is good for corporations, which is generally what governments decide is good for them since so much money is involved, is very often exactly NOT what is good for people, for consumers, for you, for me. And, oh, by the way, it may not be at all good for the environment. In fact, when their decisions and actions are good for the consumer or the environment, that is the cause for press releases and hoopla.
It’s up to us.
The Organic Consumers organization has published a very useful compendium called “WHAT’S WRONG WITH FOOD IRRADIATION, http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/irradfact.cfm. Although food irradiation is presented by government and industry, and, of course, by the ever corporate-friendly FDA and USDA, as benign and helpful, it is neither. Read below and see why irradiation, sometimes misleadingly called “Cold Sterilization” or “Cold Pasturization” is neither.
And then start eating and growing organic!
Check it out and take control of your health by taking control of what you eat!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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What’s Wrong With Irradiated Food?
Irradiation damages the quality of food.
· Irradiation damages food by breaking up molecules and creating free radicals. The free radicals kill some bacteria, but they also bounce around in the food, damage vitamins and enzymes, and combine with existing chemicals (like pesticides) in the food to form new chemicals, called unique radiolytic products (URPs).
· Some of these URPs are known toxins (benzene, formaldehyde, lipid peroxides) and some are unique to irradiated foods. Scientists have not studied the long-term effect of these new chemicals in our diet. Therefore, we cannot assume they are safe.
· Irradiated foods can lose 5%-80% of many vitamins (A, C, E, K and B complex). The amount of loss depends on the dose of irradiation and the length of storage time.
· Most of the food in the American diet is already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for irradiation: beef, pork, lamb, poultry, wheat, wheat flour, vegetables, fruits, shell eggs, seeds for sprouting, spices, herb teas. (Dairy is already pasteurized). A food industry petition currently before the FDA asks for approval for luncheon meats, salad bar items, sprouts, fresh juices and frozen foods. Another petition before the USDA asks for approval for imported fruits and vegetables.
· Irradiation damages the natural digestive enzymes found in raw foods. This means the body has to work harder to digest them.
· If unlabeled, raw foods that have been irradiated look like fresh foods, but nutritionally they are like cooked foods, with decreased vitamins and enzymes. The FDA allows these foods to be labeled “fresh.”
· Irradiated fats tend to become rancid.
· When high-energy electron beams are used, trace amounts of radioactivity may be created in the food.
Science has not proved that a long-term diet of irradiated foods is safe for human health
· The longest human feeding study was 15 weeks. No one knows the long-term effects of a life-long diet that includes foods which will be frequently irradiated, such as meat, chicken, vegetables, fruits, salads, sprouts and juices.
· There are no studies on the effects of feeding babies or children diets containing irradiated foods, except a very small and controversial study from India that showed health effects.
· Studies on animals fed irradiated foods have shown increased tumors, reproductive failures and kidney damage. Some possible causes are: irradiation-induced vitamin deficiencies, the inactivity of enzymes in the food, DNA damage, and toxic radiolytic products in the food.
· The FDA based its approval of irradiation for poultry on only 5 of 441 animal-feeding studies. Marcia van Gemert, Ph.D., the toxicologist who chaired the FDA committee that approved irradiation, later said, “These studies reviewed in the 1982 literature from the FDA were not adequate by 1982 standards, and are even less accurate by 1993 standards to evaluate the safety of any product, especially a food product such as irradiated food.” The 5 studies are not a good basis for approval of irradiation for humans, because they showed health effects on the animals or were conducted using irradiation at lower energies than those the FDA eventually approved.
· The FDA based its approval of irradiation for fruits and vegetables on a theoretical calculation of the amount of URPs in the diet from one 7.5 oz. serving/day of irradiated food. Considering the different kinds of foods approved for irradiation, this quantity is too small and the calculation is irrelevant.
· Even with current labeling requirements, people cannot avoid eating irradiated food. That means there is no control group, and epidemiologists will never be able to determine if irradiated food has any health effects.
· Science is always changing. The science of today is not the science of tomorrow. The science we have today is not adequate to prove the long-term safety of food irradiation.
Irradiation covers up problems that the meat and poultry industry should solve
· Irradiation covers up the increased fecal contamination that results from speeded up slaughter and decreased federal inspection, both of which allow meat and poultry to be produced more cheaply. Prodded by the industry, the USDA has allowed a transfer of inspection to company inspectors. Where government inspectors remain, they are not allowed to condemn meat and poultry now that they condemned 20 years ago.
· Because of this deregulation (continued under President Clinton, a protégé of Tyson Foods), the meat and poultry industry has recently lost money and suffered bad publicity from food-poisoning lawsuits and expensive product recalls. Irradiation is a “magic bullet” that will enable them to say that the product was “clean” when it left the packing plant. (Irradiation, however, does not sterilize food, and any bacteria that remain can grow to toxic proportions if the food is not properly stored and handled.)
· In 2000, seven meat industry associations submitted a petition to USDA to redefine key regulations relating to contamination. If accepted by USDA, this petition would permit unlimited fecal contamination during production, as long as irradiation was used afterward.
Labeling is necessary to inform people so they can choose to avoid irradiated foods
· Because irradiated foods have not been proven safe for human health in the long term, prominent, conspicuous and truthful labels are necessary for all irradiated foods. Consumers should be able to easily determine if their food has been irradiated. Labels should also be required for irradiated ingredients of compound foods, and for restaurant and institutional foods.
· Because irradiation can deplete vitamins, labels should state the amount of vitamin loss after irradiation, especially for fresh foods that are usually eaten fresh. Consumers have the right to know if they are buying nutritionally impaired foods.
· Current US labels are not sufficient to enable consumers to avoid irradiated food. Foods are labeled only to the first purchaser. Irradiated spices, herb teas and supplement ingredients, foods that are served in restaurants, schools, etc., or receive further processing, do not bear consumer labels. Consumer labels are required only for foods sold whole (like a piece of fruit) or irradiated in the package (like chicken breasts). The text with the declaration of irradiation can be as small as the type face on the ingredient label. The US Department of Agriculture requirements have one difference: irradiated meat or poultry that is part of another food (like a tv dinner) must be disclosed on the label.
· The US Food and Drug Administration is currently rewriting the regulation for minimum labeling, and will release it for public comment by early 2002 [now long past – REL]. They may eliminate all required text labels. If they do retain the labels, Congress has told them to use a “friendly” euphemism instead of “irradiation.” [Hence “cold sterilization” or “cold Pasteurization” and similar inaccurate terms on foods which must be labeled, a small minority of foods which are consumed after irradiation -REL]
Electron-beam irradiation today means nuclear irradiation tomorrow
· The source of the irradiation is not listed on the label.
· The original sponsor of food irradiation in the US was the Department of Energy, which wanted to create a favorable image of nuclear power as well as dispose of radioactive waste. These goals have not changed. Cobalt-60, which is used for irradiation, must be manufactured in a nuclear reactor.
· Many foods cannot be irradiated using electron beams. E-beams only penetrate 1-1.5 inches on each side, and are suitable only for flat, evenly sized foods like patties. Large fruits, foods in boxes, and irregularly shaped foods must be irradiated using x-rays or gamma rays from nuclear materials.
· Countries that lack a cheap and reliable source of electricity for e-beams use nuclear materials. Opening U.S. markets to irradiated food encourages the spread of nuclear irradiation worldwide.
[Codex Alimentarius supports the universal irradiation of all foods moving through international trade except those which have been fully processed to an end product like roasted coffee. The USDA requires all fruits and vegetables (with very few limited exceptions) to be irradiated before they are imported into the United States. -REL]
Irradiation using radioactive materials is an environmental hazard
· The more nuclear irradiators, the more likelihood of a serious accident in transport, operation or disposal of the nuclear materials.
· Food irradiation facilities have already contaminated the environment. For example, in the state of Georgia in 1988, radioactive water escaped from an irradiation facility. The taxpayers were stuck with $47 million in cleanup costs. Radioactivity was tracked into cars and homes. In Hawaii in 1967 and New Jersey in 1982, radioactive water was flushed into the public sewer system.
· Numerous worker exposures have occurred in food irradiation facilities worldwide.
Irradiation doesn’t provide clean food
· Because irradiation doesn’t kill all the bacteria in a food, the ones that survive are by definition radiation-resistant. These bacteria will multiply and eventually work their way back to the ‘animal factories’. Soon thereafter, the bacteria that contaminate the meat will no longer be killed by currently approved doses of irradiation. The technology will no longer be usable, while stronger bacteria contaminate our food supply.
· People may become more careless about sanitation if irradiation is widely used. Irradiation doesn’t kill all the bacteria in a food. In a few hours at room temperature, the bacteria remaining in meat or poultry after irradiation can multiply to the level existing before irradiation.
· Some bacteria, like the one that causes botulism, as well as viruses and prions (which are believed to cause Mad Cow Disease) are not killed by current doses of irradiation.
· Irradiation encourages food producers to cut corners on sanitation, because they can ‘clean up’ the food just before it is shipped.
Irradiation does nothing to change the way food is grown and produced
· Irradiated foods can have longer shelf lives than nonirradiated foods, which means they can be shipped further while appearing ‘fresh.’ Food grown by giant farms far away may last longer than non-irradiated, locally grown food, even if it is inferior in nutrition and taste. Thus, irradiation encourages centralization and hurts small farmers.
· The use of pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and other agri-chemicals, as well as pollution and energy use, are not affected. Irradiation is applied by the packer after harvest or slaughter.
· Some so-called Free-market economists say irradiation is ‘efficient’: it provides the cheapest possible food for the least possible risk. But these economists are not concerned about the impaired nutritional quality of the food. They are not considering the environmental effects of large-scale corporate farming, the social costs of centralization of agriculture and loss of family farms, the replacement of unionized, impartial government inspectors with company inspectors , the potential long-term damage to human health, and the possibility of irradiation-resistant super-bacteria. All of these developments should be (but are not) considered when regulators and public health officials evaluate the benefits of food irradiation.
In a truly free market, consumers would have access to truthful and not misleading information about all their food choices and could decide for themselves what risks to take. Honest companies would be free to truthfully tell that their products are organic, non-GMO, non-toxic, non-irradiated. Free people are free to choose risks… or to reject them. Slaves, of course, have to take whatever sh-t is dolled out to them.
Which are you?
August 21, 2008
Codex Alimentarius is a friend to Genetically Modified (GM) foods since it allows the US to replicate its devastatingly dangerous lack of labeling for GM foods. Here in the US, such labeling is forbidden since, in 1992, George H. W. Bush, then President, issued an Executive Order granting, as if by the magic of lobbying, equality to natural foods and those produced by biotechnology. Once equivalent, the GM foods not only did not have to be labeled, they MAY not be labeled, according to the ever corporate-friendly FDA — “GM Free” labels are not lawful, according to the FDA.
Not only that, but, playing the heavy at Codex, the US has managed to overcome the resistance of nearly all African countries, the EU and a host of other nations with grave reservations about both the safety of these “foods” and the ethical nature of denying consumers information they overwhelmingly say that they want to have — whether their food has been genetically tampered with or not.
A New York Times – CBS Poll earlier this summer indicated that 87% of Americans want GM labeling; over half would not buy GM food if it were so labeled: http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/05/23/half-of-all-americans-wouldnt-buy-frankenfoodsif-they-could-tell-the-difference/
Prince Charles, Heir Apparent to the throne of England, Wales and Scotland, however, got it right and did so in the face of the Press. Read what the Prince had to say below.
Natural Solutions Foundation commends Prince Charles for his stand on Genetically Modified foods and crops. The prince has long been an advocate of natural food production and a champion of organic farming. He notes, as does the Natural Solutions Foundation, that the industrialization of food production leads not only to inferior food, but drives the subsistence or peasant farmers off their lands creating social devastation along with the devastation of the environment and health for which GM foods are responsible.
The Prince warned that the bio tech corporations are taking us all towards a grim environmental disaster of unprecedented magnitude.
Whatever else the Royal Family of the UK may be engaged in, on this particular battle, they are on the right side and must be welcomed to the Natural Solutions Foundation Hall of Fame.
Congratulations, Prince Charles!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Charles in GM ‘disaster’ warning
BBC News August 13, 2008
Prince Charles has his own organic farm at his Gloucestershire estate
Companies developing genetically modified crops risk creating the biggest environmental disaster “of all time”, Prince Charles has warned.
GM crops were damaging Earth’s soil and were an experiment “gone seriously wrong”, he told the Daily Telegraph.
A future reliance on corporations to mass-produce food would drive millions of farmers off their land, he said.
The government said it welcomed all voices in the “important” debate over the future potential role of GM crops.
However, Dr Julian Little, chairman of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council, said he was “disappointed” by the Prince’s comments because “they do not seem to be based on any solid evidence”. *
“Our experience from over 10 years of GM cultivation shows that GM technology has been [sic] found to deliver real environmental and economic benefits,” he said. *
Mr Little added: “At a time when demand for food and fuel is rising and in the face of growing environmental challenges, we need to find ways to feed an ever-increasing global population.”
FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME
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BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the Prince’s “robust” comments were “likely to rankle with the government”, which has given the go-ahead to a number of GM crop trials in the UK since 2000.
“Even for a prince who’s a long-established champion of organic farming and critic of GM crops, these are comments which verge on the extreme,” our correspondent said.
Prince Charles told the newspaper that huge multi-national corporations involved in developing GM foods were conducting a “gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong”.
Relying on “gigantic corporations” for food would end in “absolute disaster”, he warned.
“That would be the absolute destruction of everything… and the classic way of ensuring there is no food in the future.”
What should be being debated was “food security not food production”, he said.
He said GM developers might think they would be successful by having “one form of clever genetic engineering after another”, but he believed “that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time”.
Prince Charles, who has an organic farm on his Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, said relying on big corporations for the mass production of food would not only threaten future food supplies but also force smaller producers out of business.
“If they think this is the way to go, we will end up with millions of small farmers all over the world being driven off their land into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness,” he said.
The prince also told the Telegraph he hoped to see more family-run co-operative farms, with producers working with nature and not against it.
The Prince’s comments come at a time of rising world food prices and food shortages.
The biotech industry says that GM technology can help combat world hunger and poverty by delivering higher yields from crops and also reduce the use of pesticides.
‘Untenable’
In June, Environment Minister Phil Woolas said the government was ready to argue for a greater role for the technology.
But green groups and aid agencies have doubts about GM technology’s effectiveness in tackling world hunger and have concerns about the long-term environmental impact.
Responding to the prince’s comments, a spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “Safety will always be our top priority on this issue.” …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7557644.stm
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* In the opinion of the Natural Solutions Foundation, the statements made by Dr. Little are disingenuous at the least. We know of no conclusive evidence that GM products are safe; certainly no long-term studies have been undertaken. Further, there are many suggestive developments, such as the upsurge in Morgellon’s-like syndrome, the reported devastation of the bee population, and similar instances that suggest the long term safety of GM products is not proven. Under the usual Precautionary Principal GM products cannot be deemed safe.
Weaponized Avian Flu Intelligence Update
As of August 15, 2008 (Revised 08.24.08)
Index:
Current Updates
Disclaimer
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Resources
August 21, 2008: Internet Abuzz Media Release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1227944.htm
Previous Update: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=755
Original WAF Warning: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=742
1. Even when the news is non existent or nonsensical, the drum beat continues to keep Avian Flu in front of everyone who reads, watches or listens to the news.
2. Multiple strains of Avian Flu are being created and “identified”
3. Avian Flu vaccines are being readied in the US even though, assuming that such a vaccine would, in fact, be protective and effective, they would be ineffective against any Avian Flu strains except the one they were prepared from
4. Avian Flu vaccines might well be used to spread, rather than to prevent against the disease.
5. The full contents of Avian Flu vaccines is unknown to us at this time but we do know that the Sanofi-Pasteur version, due in the US in August, 2008, was produced using human kidney cells allowing the hemagglutinin receptors to become “educated” on how to invade human cells.
6. UK health official note that although they have purchased 3.3 million vaccine doses, the protection they offer is unknown at best since until the pandemic flu has been identified, there can be no vaccine and that creating it after that point will take 4-6 months at the least. Therefore, the entire US story about being able to vaccinate “every man, woman and child against the pandemic Avian Flu” is shown to be totally flawed and nonsensical.
7. If the currently predicted “inevitable Avian Flu Pandemic” were not a weaponized version of the recently resurrected 1918 pandemic flu, why would the media suddenly start touting the idea that survivors of the 1918 pandemic are still producing antibodies which Dr. James Crowe, Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University, says “might provide a key to a good interim treatment while a vaccine is being produced.” Note also that, like the spokes person in the UK, Dr. Crowe believes that until a virus is identified, no vaccine is possible. Compare this with the repeated US assertion that a pandemic vaccine has already been produced in the absence of any pandemic virus mutation, a scientific impossibility.
http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/immune-system-still-fighting-the-1918-flu-pandemic.aspx?googleid=245818
We see no indication that the Avian Flu engineered pandemic events are “off the table” and believe that news outlets and journals indicate an escalating threat of an induced pandemic.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
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Disclaimer: No one knows if the pandemic will be unleashed. Let us pray that it will not. However, we note with alarm that there are an increasing number of indicators suggesting that this Pandemic is being prepared to be used against us all using a variety of weaponized viruses. If our ringing of the alarm bells is successful, we will be spared – and we will have been wrong. Let us all devoutly hope that the Natural Solutions Foundation’s urgent and effective information dissemination is that successful.
Please help to make the Pandemic secret so ineffective that the authors of this nightmare are backed off by our shared awareness. Disseminate this information to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.
Our best weapon against the coming Pandemic is truth.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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1. May, 2008 Multiple hybrids of Avian Flu created, all “biologically fit”.
The Canadian Press, Toronto, “An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were biologically fit, a new study reveals. And while none of the offspring viruses was as virulent as the original H5N1, about one in five were lethal to mice at low doses, showing they retained at least a portion of the power of their dangerous parent. The work suggests that under the right circumstances – and no one is clear what all of those are – the two types of flu viruses could swap genes in a way that might allow the H5N1 virus to acquire the capacity to trigger a pandemic. That process is called reassortment. ‘This study is just showing exactly that: There is a risk this virus can successfully reassort with a human virus,’ said Richard Webby, director of the World Health Organization’s collaborating center for influenza research at St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9833
2. H5N1 DNA found in Vaccines, Rima E. Laibow, MD Video http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zcniJxck0gI
3. August 16, 2008: April 1, 2005 Amended Bush Executive Order including novel influenza as trigger of Marshal Law appears again in Google Avian Flu Updates/Alerts.
“EXECUTIVE ORDER: AMENDMENT TO E.O. 13295 RELATING TO CERTAIN INFLUENZA VIRUSES AND QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003, section 1 of such order is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.”
Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
George W. Bush
The White House
4. Public being indoctrinated with “inevitable” flu pandemic/Many strains of potentially pandemic virus exist.
a. May 8, 2008 WHO warns of rising bird flu pandemic risk: http://www.fiercebioresearcher.com/vaccines/story/who-warns-of-rising-bird-flu-pandemic-risk/2008-05-08
b. August 16, 2008 “Influenza experts agree that a deadly pandemic of some kind of flu is inevitable….More humans could be infected with bird flu, specifically the H9N2 strain, and that could lead to a worldwide pandemic, according to a Hong Kong expert.”: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1523201/avian_flu_threat/
c. August 13, 2008 “Our results suggest that the establishment and prevalence of H9N2 viruses in poultry pose a significant threat for humans.” http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813210710.1u3dk61t&show_article=1
d. August 13, 2008 Multiple strains of Avian Flu may cause Pandemic, US Scientists warn: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813210710.1u3dk61t&show_article=1
e. August 16, 2008 Avian Flu Threat New strain of potentially pandemic flu becoming established. “More humans could be infected with bird flu, specifically the H9N2 strain, and that could lead to a worldwide pandemic, according to a Hong Kong expert.
“It’s quite possible … H9N2 is infecting humans quite a lot, much (more) than we appreciate merely because it is beyond the radar,” said Malik Peiris, a Hong Kong-based microbiologist.
“In humans, it is very mild, so most of the time it’s probably not even recognized or biologically tested,” said Peiris, who has co-authored several papers on the strain in recent years.”
f. Ohio spends millions to convince public of pandemic reality with “It…will…happen….again!” propaganda campaign: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1218789179323820.xml&coll=2&thispage=1
g. “Pandemic”, a movie about the coming plague, released: http://www.moviestrailer.org/pandemic-movie-trailer.html
h. August 17, 2008 Despite a total lack of “New News”, articles like this one are front page news all over the world: Uganda: New Strain of Bird Flu Poses a Major Threat, Jane Nafula, The Monitor, Kampla, Uganda, http://allafrica.com/stories/200808170059.html
i. Pandemic II, computer game, launched, “Do It Yourself Pandemic As a biology major in undergrad, you can imagine my glee when I found a fantastic infectious disease game at Kongregate called Pandemic II.
Basically you get to play an infectious disease, with the goal of strategically plotting infection, transmission and death across the entire globe. Chose Virus, Bacteria, or Parasite and do your best to ensure that you take special care to get Madagascar, that pesky island nation has a habit of shutting down its shipyards and ruining your chances of global domination.
Is it wrong when you’re trying to beat your own record for wiping out the whole of humanity?“:http://www.play-girlz.com/do-it-yourself-pandemic/
j. Pandemic leads list of worries in UK, beats terrorism. NOTE: UK says that no pandemic vaccine will give much protection and no vaccine will be available until the virus has been identified and then it will take 4-6 months to create it, thus giving anyone accepting the US’ story about having an effective Avian Flu vaccine available great pause: “…a flu pandemic still tops the bill in the register of risks because of the greater impact it could have across Britain and the overwhelming damage it would do to the economy because of the huge casualty rate. The assessment is that the number of deaths would be between 50,000 and 750,000, and that more than a million could need hospital care.
Experts cannot predict when it will happen but say when it does it will come in several waves of three to six months over a two-year period. A Ministry of Defense document recently released under the Freedom of Information Act said that a pandemic would generate ‘unprecedented levels of public fear, stress and panic’
The Department of Health has purchased 3.3 million doses of vaccine for the H5N1 strain of bird flu that could give a degree of protection. But the Cabinet Office gives warning that no pandemic vaccine will be available until the virus has been identified and that it will take, it is estimated, four to six months for it to be developed and manufactured.”: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4481505.ece
k. Absurd comparisons to real pandemics make the threat seem immense. Nigeria, Lagos, 9 August 2008 Segun Awofadeji, Gombe – The Gombe State Public enlightenment committee on Avian Influenza has described the disease as more dangerous and deadlier then HIV/AIDS.
This, according to the Desk Officer, communication on Avian Influenza in the state, Mr. Kassim Toro, is because it kills many people at once if it is allowed to transmit and infect human beings. He noted that although there are no confirmed cases of Avian Influenza in the State, the committee will not rest on its responsibilities of enlightening people about the dangers of the disease. According to him, over 26 states have confirmed cases of the disease including those States that are bordering Gombe State. …. [and] he vowed that the deadly disease would not be allowed to surface in Gombe State. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808200568.html
l. Inevitable is spelled “New Hampshire”. Pandemic preparation: Planning, partnerships By JOHN KOZIOL Wednesday, August 20, 2008
“Somewhere out in the world, there’s a potential pandemic with America and the Granite State’s name on it, but the good news, said state Director of Public Health Services, is that New Hampshire and local communities are planning for it….There is then the more “dicey” decision of which employee gets an antiviral drug and how it is administered to them, said Montero.There are no answers yet, Montero admitted, but along with many others, “I’m trying to figure this out.” http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/GJNEWS02/1911/-1/CITNEWS
5. Avian Flu Deadly in Factory Farms, Never in Outdoor Flocks
a. Deadly Avian Flu is a product of industrial poultry farms and never arises in outdoor flocks, Michael Gregor speaks at the Health Sciences Learning Center, Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpv5FmJ5tg&feature=related
b. February 2006 The Poultry Industry’s Central Role in the Bird Flu Crisis, “The transformation of poultry production in Asia in recent decades is staggering. In the Southeast Asian countries where most of the bird flu outbreaks are concentrated—Thailand, Indonesia, and Viet Nam—production jumped eightfold in just 30 years, from around 300,000 metric tonnes (mt) of chicken meat in 1971 to 2,440,000 mt in 2001. China’s production of chicken tripled during the 1990s to over 9 million metric tons per year.” http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=194
c. Avian Flu detected in US Chickens, June, 2008. Large numbers destroyed.
Ominously, on June 3, Associated Press reported, “Tyson Foods Inc. has begun killing and burying the carcasses of 15,000 hens from a flock that tested positive for exposure to a strain of the bird flu in northwest Arkansas, state officials said.” The strain, H7N3, is a less virulent strain than the better-known H5N1 strain. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-03-hens_N.htm
d. The industrialization of chicken-raising and slaughtering in the USA has progressed to the point that by 2003 when the first cases of H5N1 Avian Flu virus were reported from Asia, five giant multinational agribusiness companies dominated the production and processing of chicken meat in the United States. The five companies were Tyson Foods, the largest in the world; Gold Kist Inc; Pilgrim’s Pride; ConAgra Poultry; and Perdue Farms.5 Most outbreaks of Avian Flu in Asia have been traced back to such mass chicken industrial factory centers. F. William Engdahl, Saat der Zerstörung: Die dunkle Seite der Gen-Manipulation, Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg am Neckar,2007, pp. 269-271. http://newresearchfindings.blogspot.com/2008/08/pentagons-alarming-project-avian-flu.html
Tyson Foods is the largest industrialized producer of chickens in the world and has been repeatedly under attack for its unsanitary conditions of breeding and slaughtering. In January 2005, a US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to the US Senate, “Safety in the Meat and Poultry Industry,” concluded that US meat and poultry processing plants had “one of the highest rates of injury and illness of any industry.” They cited exposure to “dangerous chemicals, blood, faecal matter, exacerbated by poor ventilation and often extreme temperatures. Workers typically faced hazardous conditions, loud noise, must work in narrow confines with sharp tools and dangerous machinery.”
Canadian experiments create new avian flu strains, all of which could become highly pathogenic and pandemic.
“In May this year, The Canadian Press reported from Toronto, “An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were biologically fit, a new study reveals. And while none of the offspring viruses was as virulent as the original H5N1, about one in five were lethal to mice at low doses, showing they retained at least a portion of the power of their dangerous parent. As well, a report by a Canadian organization, Beyond Factory Farming, described the transmission likely pathways from the giant industrialized chicken centers: ‘In Thailand, China and Vietnam there is a highly developed industrial poultry industry which has expanded dramatically in the past decade. The large poultry companies raise millions of birds, hatch chicks to supply other intensive poultry operations, export live birds and eggs to countries such as Nigeria (where the first Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreak in Africa was recently reported) and produce and export feed which often includes “litter” (i.e., manure) in the ingredients….Manure that may contain live virus is spread on surrounding farmland, or exported as fertilizer, and through run-off may end up in surface waters where wild birds feed and rest.
Chicken manure is even found in fish farm feed formulations where it is introduced directly into the aquatic environment. Wild birds and poultry that have fallen victim to HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) in Asia, Turkey and Nigeria appear to have been directly exposed to HPAI virus originating in the factory farm system. In Asia, a flock of wild ducks died from HPAI—after having come into contact with the disease at a remote lake where a fish farm used feed pellets made from poultry litter from a factory farm. In Turkey a massive cull of backyard flocks—and the deaths of three children—took place after a nearby factory farm sold sick and dying birds to local peasants at cut rate prices. Nigeria has a large and poorly regulated factory poultry production sector which is supplied with chicks from factory farms in China.’” William Engdahl, Saat der Zerstörung: Die dunkle Seite der Gen-Manipulation, Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg am Neckar,2007,p. 289, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9833
4. “Solution to Avian Flu – Genetically Modified Chickens to Replace All Natural Ones” Researchers in the UK are pursuing transgenic bird flu-resistant chickens. “Once we have regulatory approval, we believe it will only take between four and five years to breed enough chickens to replace the entire world population,” said Laurence Tiley, Professor of Molecular Virology at Cambridge University. Mark Henderson, “Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens,” The Times, London, 29 October 2005: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25149-1847760,00.html
5. April 2007 Sanofi-Pasteur H5N1 vaccine approved [in US – Dr. Rima] without human trials although its effectiveness is “limited”. FDA approved the Sanofi Pasteur vaccine for H5N1 even though one year before the FDA cited Sanofi Pasteur for producing contaminated Fluzone vaccines.12 The FDA approved H5N1 vaccine is itself apparently not really effective in event of a human-to-human outbreak of Avian Flu. On announcing its approval, the FDA stated, “two injections given 28 days apart may provide ‘limited’ protection if a pandemic occurs. About 45% of people who got the vaccine in a study developed an immune response to the virus. ” This is apparently the same vaccine which causes significant numbers of deaths in Polish vagrants who received it. The doctors and nurses involved are on trial for murder in Poland. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html.
6. August 15, 2008 Armed Forces Set To Control Pandemic in Malaysia.
“The armed forces will emerge as a major player in giving assistance in case of pandemic influenza, as it has done in times of national disasters and outbreaks. Armed forces health service director-general Lt-Gen Datuk Dr Sulaiman Abdullah said it was well prepared to assist, be it in terms of human resources, transportation, handling and containing the spread of disease.”
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1522551/armed_forces_ready_to_handle_pandemic/
7. Rapid Detection of Avian Flu Being Automated. “Scientists at Nottingham Trent University in Britain said they are developing a machine that can rapidly diagnose different types of bird flu, including the extremely infectious H5N1 bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza.”:http://www.themedguru.com/articles/avian_flu_breakthrough_virus_detection_in_two_hours-8617572.html [Note: Avian influenza is NOT “extremely infectious”- Dr. Rima]
8. Dissident Opinion.
a. Dr. Stefan Lanka, virologist and molecular biologist, who has been questioning the very existence of “HIV” since 1994. In the past years, however, he stumbled over a breathtaking fact: Not even ONE of the (medically relevant) viruses has ever been isolated; there is no proof of their existence. says isolated particles identified as viruses are artifacts, HIV and others do not exist. tp://www.neue-medizin.com/lanka2.htm
b. Many viruses being weaponized. Viruses do not evolve without assistance into something new, “I had never thought about this aspect of their agenda. If you can get people to believe a virus can evolve into something that didn’t exist before, you can mask your genetic manipulation as natural, and it will be easily accepted by the ‘masses’.” M. Borg
c. A. True Ott, PhD says Avian Flu Misnamed: Really 1918 Flu Pandemic Repackaged.
9. Vaccine Dangers abound. 14 Argentine children die after experimental SKG vaccine: http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080815/ap_on_he_me/argentina_children_s_deaths
10. July 10, 2008, Poultry Avian Flu Vaccine Looses Effectiveness, mutates in Hong Kong over the past 7 years of use.
dYuen Kwok-yung, who heads the microbiology department at the University of Hong Kong, said the virus is shifting away from the Fujian strain that it was developed for, according to a Jul 8 Deutsche Presse-Argentur (DPA) report.
He told city officials that they must ban all live chickens from markets before the vaccine becomes completely ineffective. Tests on birds in 2005 suggested that the vaccine generated only a quarter of the antibody response it did in 2001.
In early June, animal health workers detected the virus in poultry feces at several market stalls. They did not say if the testing was done in response to sick or dead birds, and the source of the virus has not been determined.
Since then, officials have banned poultry from overnight stays in the market and have proposed a total ban on live poultry in Hong Kong markets. They have offered traders and farmers compensation packages in return for surrendering their sales licenses, but the offer has angered the poultry merchants, who have said the government’s offer was too low.http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jul1008avian-br.html
11. July 7, 2008, Avian Flu now officially endemic in Egypt. Officials in Egypt told the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that several H5N1 outbreaks that have occurred since February and formally declared that the disease is endemic in Egyptian poultry flocks. The report said Egypt will now file updates on its H5N1 outbreaks only every 6 months.
News about poultry outbreaks in Egypt has been sparse this year, though the country reported a handful of human cases in February, March, and April.
According to the latest OIE report, covering the months February though mid June, Egypt has had 19 new outbreaks since the last update. Seven of them occurred after May 1. The most recent one was a small outbreak in Luxor that affected backyard chickens, geese, and ducks.
About half of the most recent outbreaks occurred in backyard flocks; five occurred at live bird markets and four struck commercial farms, three of which housed layer chickens. Most of the outbreaks were along the Nile River delta. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jul1008avian-br.html
12. Natural Solutions Foundation data on weaponized Avian Flu goes viral. The first 24 pages of 13,300 Google search results for “Weaponized Avian Flu” are Foundation information. Foundation data sighted by noted researcher F. William Engdahl:http://qwstnevrythg.com/archives/2352 among many, many others. http://newresearchfindings.blogspot.com/2008/08/pentagons-alarming-project-avian-flu.html
Resources and Previous Related Information
Weaponized Avian Flu Update, Videos: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=742
Weaponized Avian Flu – Assault on the Body Politic: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=746
Avian Flu: Well Designed Fear: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=747
Weaponized Avian Flu Press Release Stiffled: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=750
Protecting Yourself in a Pandemic: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=752
Weaponized Avian Flu: Current Intelligence Estimate.1: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=755
Further GMO Files
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18387118_ITM?email=releyes@gmail.com&library=
Greenpeace noted today that the reexamination of “safety” data presented by Monsanto to the European Commission for review was so seriously flawed that it should be removed from the list of permitted foods.
The corn (or “Maize” as it is often called) is a genetically engineered variety called MON863 which was approved in the European Commission for human use despite 2003 when it was shown to be associated with blood and organ changes and damage. Despite fierce opposition, the failed food has been approved for farming and human consumption in the EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, the Phillipines, and USA.
A review of the data presented by Monsanto, the owner of the patent on this organism, showed that the methodology and rigor of the data were woefully lacking according to an article published in “Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology” earlier this week.
The data for the study was only obtained after a successful court case in France in which Greenpeace and other concerned citizens and organizations sued to gain access to the data presented to the European Commission and resulting in its subsequent approval.
http://www.greenpeace.org/internationa…
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“Laboratory rats, fed with a genetically engineered (GE) maize produced by Monsanto, have shown signs of toxicity in kidney and liver, according to a new study.(1) This is the first time that a GE product which has been cleared for use as food for humans and animals has shown signs of toxic effects on internal organs.
The study, published today in the journal “Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicologyâ€, analyzed results of safety tests submitted by Monsanto to the European Commission when the company was seeking authorization to market its GE Maize variety MON863 in the EU. (2)
The data shows that MON863 has significant health risks associated with it; nonetheless, the European Commission granted licences to market the maize for consumption by both humans and animals. (3)
The incriminating evidence was obtained by Greenpeace following a court case (4), and passed on for evaluation by a team of experts headed by Professor Gilles Eric Séralini, a governmental expert in genetic engineering technology from the University of Caen. (5)
In a joint press conference with Greenpeace at Berlin, Professor Séralini said, “Monsanto’s analyses do not stand up to rigorous scrutiny – to begin with, their statistical protocols are highly questionable. Worse, the company failed to run a sufficient analysis of the differences in animal weight. Crucial data from urine tests were concealed in the company’s own publications.â€
Greenpeace is demanding the complete and immediate withdrawal of Monsanto’s MON 863 maize from the global market and is calling upon governments to undertake an urgent reassessment of all other authorised GE products and a strict review of current testing methods.
“This is the final nail in the coffin for the credibility of the current authorisation system for GE products. Once it’s known that a system designed to protect human and animal health has approved a high-risk product despite clear evidence of its dangers, we need to start ‘strip-searching’ all GE products on the market, and immediately abort this flawed approval procedure,†said Christophe Then, Genetic Engineer campaigner, Greenpeace International.
The data in question has been the subject of fierce debate since 2003, when significant changes were identified in the blood of tested animals fed on MON863. MON863 was approved by the European Commission, in spite of opposition by a majority of EU member states, who raised concerns over the safety of the maize. Professor Séralini’s analysis now scientifically confirms these concerns. As the study states, “with the present data, it cannot be concluded that GM corn MON863 is a safe product.†And yet, MON863 has been authorised for markets in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, the Phillipines, and USA, besides the EU.
“This is an international emergency alert, requiring a global response,†concluded Then, “Only a complete withdrawal from all markets will curtail the possible damage”.â€
What are the chances we have already eaten this corn? I’d say pretty good, even though consumers aren’t allowed to know if they are eating it. Don’t you just love knowing you may be eating food produced by the same company that made PCBs and Agent Orange?
http://current.com/items/89139842_study_reveals_signs_of_toxicity_of_ge_maize_approved_for_human_consumption?xid=46
Dr. Laibow speaks about GMOs and Five Action Steps you can take to protect your self and your families.
Five Action Steps:
1. Become a Natural Solutions Health Freedom Food Ranger (contact food producers about GMO status and let us know their answers for publication)
2. Buy Organic, Wildcrafted, or Local Natural Foods and products
3. Join No GMO Yahoo!Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-genetically-modified-foods/join
4. Join Health Freedom eAlert: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=187
5. Donate to support Natural Solutions: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189
Genetically Modified Organisms
Following is an article which should give you pause: Unless your food is grown by someone you can reliably feel is using only organic seed, organic means of production and is not subject to wind drift from genetic fields, OR UNLESS YOU GROW YOUR FOOD YOURSELF, you ARE eating FrankenFood.
What is FrankenFood? It’s food created from genetically modified (GM or GMO for Genetically Modified Organisms) plants and animals which have been feed GM feed stock.
Back when we were in school and in our mother’s kitchens, food was made from ingredients with simple names: corn, rice, beef, tuna, green peppers, beans, whatever. Today, what passes for food in the US and, increasingly, elsewhere, is fake food, food that has its origen in corn or soy which has then been torn apart in vast, gleaming laboratories and put back together again as new ingredients with old names: starch, flavoring, protein, and so on. But if the original vat stock was GM, then the resultant “food” is GM as well. And, as you will see in the article below, the vast bulk of corn and soy, the products from which a huge proportion of your food is made, are genetically modified in the US.
Any animal which eats GM food incorporates the foreign DNA into its cells and then, when you eat the meat of the animal, you incorporate them and any foreign or novel proteins which that DNA is coding for.
What effect do they have? The independent science carried out so far is uniformly damning: GM “foods” are dangerous in both the short term (as the tryptophane tragedy showed), in the intermediate term (as the studies in France, Russia and Scotland show) and in the long term … who knows? No studies have been carried out. Plants like the Epicyte Corn (patented in 2001 by Epicyte) and purchased by a consortium of Monsanto and DuPont, confer permanent male sterility in those who eat them since their novel DNA causes the cellular production of a spermicide. Unlabeled. Other intentional changes are equally horrific, to say nothing of the unexpected changes, which are untraceable since the food is unlabeled – by FDA fiat!
I was sitting at a meeting in California when a call came for the hostess of the meeting from a distraught young PhD food scientist. He had written, and tried to publish, a paper on some of the environmental dangers of a particular type of GM crop. Not only had his paper not been accepted by the journal to which he had submitted it, he had been immediately fired and was black listed at every university in the US. Interestingly enough, the department in which he had been employed has a huge grant from a major biotech giant. It seems that the grant ensures obedience and the death of academic freedom. The hostess was asked if she could help this PhD researcher find another job anywhere in the English speaking world. His efforts has been for naught to that point, despite outstanding qualifications.
What to do? Break the prepared food habit. Source your own food from organic growers, combine with neighbors to grow your own or move out of the US to someplace like Uganda, which has a moratorium on GM foods. It is probably easier to choose the first three options for most of us.
But farmers and consumers must be the voice – and the pocket book – of reason. Say no if it doesn’t say “Organic”. Protect yourself and those you love from contamination with dangerous, untested and unsafe FrankenFoods. Your life depends on it.
For more information on this critically important topic, sign up for the free and highly informative Natural Solutions Foundation’s Health Freedom eAlerts at https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=187, let your friends know that this is important to you by asking them to sign up too and make your tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation now by clicking here, https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189.
Oh, yes, there is one other thing you can do. Become a member of the Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Rangers! Call the companies that make the products you like to eat. Ask to speak to someone in Customer Service. Get their name (write it down) and then, when you have the name right, ask if the products you are calling about are free from Genetically Modified Ingredients. Ask for a letter or an email stating that fact (or stating that they are not free from them). Then send that information to me at dr.Laibow@gmail.com with FRANKENFOOD as the subject. We’ll publish that data so that all of us can protect ourselves. The Power of the Pocketbook, like the Power of the Pen, is what works! We are the most powerful health freedom force on the planet. Information is our fuel and we can make these changes happen if we act together.
You probably do not want to eat FrankenNutrients, either.
Don’t forget that your supplements have to be organic, too. The Codex Commission, bowing to US pressure, as always, does not require labeling of GM food for export or import AND it is on the attack against adequate nutrition so supplements, both imported and domestic, are often made by, or from, genetically modified organisms. That means that you are being subjected to that foreign DNA and its effects even when you are spending money to be healthy! Buying organic, non-irradiated herbs and supplements, and those free of contaminants from those processes is exquistely important. If your manufacturer cannot assure you that your supplements and other health aids are not free from GM sources and ingredients, then they are not. Let us know about that, too, and visit Natural Solutions Foundation’s organic virtual store, www.Organics4U.org for nutrients which are free of GM contamination.
Remember, the choices are yours to make – for now. If you don’t make those choices now, there will come a time, in the very near future, in which the choice won’t be available anymore. Let’s work together to make sure that does not come about for ourselves and for the future generations on the planet.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSoltuionsFoundation.org
PS – Last month CNN and the NYTimes polled Americans about GMOs. 87% want GMO labeling; 57% won’t buy GMO if labeled.
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Published on Sunday, July 13, 2008 by The Times Herald-Record (New York)
Is Your Picnic Filled With ‘Franken-Foods’?
by Shawn Dell Joyce
Some 200 million acres of the world’s farms grew biotech crops last year, with over 90 percent of those crops coming from genetically engineered seeds patented by U.S.-based Monsanto.0713 04 1
Scientists have taken genetic material from one organism (like a soil bacterium), along with an antibiotic resistant marker gene, and spliced both into a food crop (like corn) to create a genetically modified crop that resists specific diseases and pests.
There has been no long-term, independent testing on the effects of these “Franken-foods†on the ecosystem or human health.
In the early 1990’s when biotechs were being evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, several key FDA scientists warned that GE crops could cause negative health effects. These scientists were ignored and blanket approvals of GE crops were passed.
It would be difficult to avoid eating genetically modified organisms in our country because they are so pervasive in the food system and unlabeled in the grocery stores.
Part of the reason for this is biotech giants fought to keep GMO foods unlabeled.
Most recently, the growth hormones from GE organisms known as rBGH, which is given to cows to make them produce more milk, were banned in Europe and Canada after authorities learned about the health risks of drinking milk from cows treated with rBGH hormones.
American milk producers started labeling their milk “rBGH and rBST free.†Monsanto, which sells bovine growth hormones under the brand name Posilac, has successfully sued dairy producers to force them to stop labeling their milk.
In addition to most milk products, GMOs can be found in commercially farmed meats and processed foods on store shelves. In our country, 89 percent of all soy, 61 percent of all corn, and 75 percent of all canola are genetically altered.
Other foods, like commercially grown papaya, zucchini, tomatoes, several fish species, and food additives like enzymes, flavorings and processing agents, including the sweetener aspartame and rennet used to make hard cheeses, also contain GMOs, according to Greenpeace.
To complicate matters, GMOs move around in the ecosystem through pollen, wind and natural cross-fertilization. The Union of Concerned Scientists conducted two independent laboratory tests on non-GM seeds “representing a substantial proportion of the traditional seed supply†for corn, soy and oilseed.
The test found that at “the most conservative expression,†half the corn and soy were contaminated with GM genes, eight years after the modified varieties were first grown on a large scale in the U.S.
The reports states that “heedlessly allowing the contamination of traditional plant varieties with genetically engineered sequences amounts to a huge wager on our ability to understand a complicated technology that manipulates life at the most elemental level.â€
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What can you do to avoid GMO’s?
• Know how your food is grown by buying directly from local farmers.
• Support organic agriculture, and food producers who label their ingredients, particularly dairy farmers.
• Eat pastured meat raised on organic feed. The only way to ensure this is to buy from someone you know.
• Support farmers who are sued by biotech giants. Monsanto has set aside an annual budget of $10 million and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting more than 150 farmers for a total of more than $15 million.
• Demand labeling on all GMO-containing products.
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