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GMO Danger Talking Points
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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are called by industry, “biotech products” because identifying them clearly as GMOs arouses vigorous rejection by consumers and independent scientists. Their detractors call them, “Frankenfoods” after Frankenstein’s monster. By any name, however, they violate several major principles of food science, biology and sound regulatory principles.

1. The ‘Precautionary Principle’

A principle of law in the EU and public policy in the US, The precautionary principle states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action….
 

[Under the Precautionary] Principle there is a social responsibility to protect the public from exposure to harm, when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk. These protections can be relaxed only if further scientific findings emerge that provide sound evidence that no harm will result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle

The Precautionary Principle is violated in both FDA and USDA regulatory structure and practice leading to failed protection and serious threats to the well-being of both human health and the environment.

• Novel products must not be introduced into the market, especially unlabeled, so that their identities are hidden from consumers, without some reasonable showing that the products are not dangerous to the health and safety of the consumer or environment.

• There is no such reasonable showing. In fact, all independent science shows considerable risks and dangers in the use of this technology, both current and future.

• FDA has permitted widespread introduction of novel GMO products without any significant safety testing requirement and is forbidden from pursuing its own safety testing of GMOs.

• FDA prohibits the identification of GMO products or ingredients and makes identification of products which do not contain GMOs or GMO ingredients very difficult for manufacturers.

• Accurate identification of problems caused by GMOs is now impossible since more than 90% of the US food supply is made of GMO products or ingredients and no identification of these items is possible because of FDA policy and permitted unidentified food contamination.

• USDA regulation allows unmonitored and unsecured field trials of pharmaceutical and other modifications in plants and animals.

• USDA admits, in its own reports, that it cannot keep track of GMO trials or prevent contamination of non-GMO crops, animals and the food supply.

2. The ‘Truthful Labeling’ Principle.

 
Under US law, products in the marketplace must have labels which are truthful and not misleading.

• FDA permits GMO products and ingredients while forbidding that information from being revealed on the label or elsewhere.

• Dr. Barbara Schneeman, US Codex Alimentarius Delegate, told a Codex meeting (Oslo, 2006) that the US forbids GMO labeling because most Americans would reject GMO products if so labeled.

• “Organic” foods are understood by the consumer to be free of GMO contamination. USDA regulation permits an unlimited amount of GMO contamination and admixture without identification of that contamination.

• FDA forbids companies from honestly labeling their products “GMO Free”, a position which is directly contrary to US Law. In Thompson v Western States Medical the Supreme Court held that the government does not have a legitimate interest in preventing people from making what the government believes to be “bad” decisions with truthful commercial information.

3. The ‘Rule of Reason’ Principle.

The reasonable person (historically ‘reasonable man’) is a legal fiction of the common law representing an objective standard against which any individual’s conduct can be measured. It is used to determine if a breach of the standard of care has occurred, provided a duty of care can be proven. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person

This Principle is violated by a number of FDA, FTC and USDA Practices

• No reasonable person would willingly subject him/her self, family or unborn descendents to uncontrollable genetic manipulation with unknown consequences.

• FDA and USDA allow economically powerful and politically well-connected companies to continue to plant GMO crops and produce GMO animals (regulated as “animal drugs”) despite their already-known, and as-yet-uncharacterized, impacts and dangers.

• GMO crops contaminate heritage, conventional and organic produce with their novel genetic materials and proteins. Every year their patent holders sue farmer’s for “trespass” when patented DNA invades the fields and bodies of plants and animals whose owners do not wish to grow GMOs, but whose land and flocks/herds are contaminated by the unwelcome intrusion of such GMO material.

• Foreign DNA creates super bugs and pests which are resistant to known methods of control, but which induce farmers to use increasing amounts of the pesticides and herbicides to which their creating companies have made them resistant when they were genetically modified. The result is increasing chemical use and decreasing control.

• The human body, and the probiotic, beneficial bacteria upon which it depends for immune and nutritional integrity, has no evolutionary experience and therefore no ability to detoxify GMO genetic material, bacterial markers and other GMO contents, nor the increasing exposure to toxic chemicals that the GMOs were deigned to withstand, through food, water and air exposure.

• The insertion of foreign DNA into the bodies of humans, bacteria, plants and animals threatens the long-term integrity of the human genome and normal functioning of the human immune system.

• No scientific studies show that GMOs are either safe or benign while all independent science shows that they are dangerous for the consumer and the environment.

• Although the FDA accepts a principle of “substantially equivalent”, GMOs have never been shown to be substantially equivalent since their DNA is substantially different.

• GMO feed transfers foreign DNA into the animal consuming it and then into humans consuming it.

• The impact of foreign proteins, different in different cells of the same body, coded for by foreign DNA, is unknown.

• The cost of DNA seeds and animal use permits or licenses can be set at any level, changing the economics of food production substantially, to the disadvantage of the small or independent farmer. Hundreds of thousands of cotton farmer suicides in India attest to the dangers of this public policy.

• Most GMOs are created in order to confer resistance to heavy chemical input. The chemicals are therefore used in greater abundance leading to increased contamination of soil and water and decreased crop yield, according to the consensus of scientific evaluation of GMO technology on food and farmers.

• Every independent study conducted of GMO impact and safety shows massive health and genetic problems including, but not limited to:

Reproductive: Infertility and Sterility, Fetal Death, Sexual inability and sterility in offspring, Fetal Abnormalities in Offspring, Neonatal Mortality, Low Birth Weight, Failure to Thrive;

Immunologic: Damaged Immune Competence, Auto Immune Diseases, Cancer, Enhanced Allergenicity, Even to Previously Non-Allergenic Proteins Leading to Lethal Allergic Responses Previously Either Very Rare or Unknown;

Bacteriological: Marker DNA conferring antibiotic resistance is inserted into GMOs. This marker DNA transfers not only to human and animal DNA, but to bacterial DNA as well, creating new classes of antibiotic-resistant DNA and new diseases;

Pathophysiological: Small Kidneys, Punctate GI Walls and Membranes, Hair Growth on the Mucosal Surfaces of the Body;

Neurological: Reduced Adaptability, Problem Solving, Low Weight Brains in Fetuses and Neonates.

4. The Principle of ‘Local Control’. Local control over local activities, such as food production and consumption, should be in the hands of local consumers and producers through local regulations if they so desire.

• FDA seeks to impose fake “food safety” standards to nationalize local production and impose GMO products on unwilling communities

• High Carbon Footprint foods traveling long distances encourage loss of nutrients, require chemical and other treatments to forestall

• GMO seeds cannot be saved legally so farmers are prevented from using ancient cost-saving, and stock-improving practices

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Clean Food on the Hoof! Report from the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project

The Grand Opening Videos
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Not only is the Natural Solutions Foundation active in the political education process and running forums like this one, hosting our 3 hour weekly radio show, the Dr. Rima Reports, www.OracleBroadcasting.com (10 AM to 1 PM Eastern Time, every Sunday), we are also running a Boots on the Ground Eco Demonstration Project in Panama. We opened on August 9 (see www.MyValleyoftheMoon.org ) and now we are building our recognition and activities.

I thought you might be interested in some information about what Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project in Volcan, Panama, in the temperate, hospitable Highlands of Panama. We are carrying out a 3 phase program and are now in Phase II which includes teaching greenhouses and work with farms and farmers, running a restaurant called the Valley of the Moon™ BeyondOrganic™ Restaurant and Cafe, teaching greenhouses, a seminar/webinar program, a natural health center and a variety of activities with the Panamanian government and private organizations to build the supply and the demand for clean, unadulterated food and natural health options Valley of the Moon™ BeyondOrganic™ Restaurant and Cafe is not just a place for great food and wonderful ambiance.

Our Special Events are, we believe, a welcome addition to community life for the Chiriqui Highlands.

Thanks for your support.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.Dr.Rima.net

Reservations are suggested for dinner and required for Special Events:
[011-507] 6936 5226 Dining at the Movies
7 PM: Saturdays in English, Sundays in Spanish!

Complete Dinner includes Homemade, BeyondOrganic™
Soup
Salad
Choice of Main Course with Vegetables
Bread Basket
Choice of Dessert
Choice of Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee or Organic Tea
Please Feel Free to Bring Your Own Bottle ($2.50 corkage fee per bottle applies)

Every Saturday night you can join us for a gourmet meal and a full length feature film in English on our large screen.
As always, you have your choice of menus which are
Unrestricted
Raw
Gluten Free
Vegan/Vegetarian

On Sunday Evening our movies are be in Spanish and our menu options will be, as they always are, totally organic

Call to find out what this week’s movies will be and make your reservations.
Dining at the Movies: $15.00 ($2.50 corkage fee for alcoholic beverages)

We are open from 9 AM to 9 PM Every Day except Tuesday.

More Special Events: Healthy Sunday Lectures in Spanish and English: Luncheon at 12:00 Noon, Lecture at 1:30 PM Luncheon and Lecture: $10.00 per person.

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October 3, 2010 Healing Heart Disease Without Surgery or Drugs
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Consultant
Natural Solutions Center, Volcan

Dr. Laibow is a physician licensed in New York, Connecticut and Washington State. She graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) in 1970.

Trained in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, Environmental an Nutritional Medicine, she was trained in Chelation Therapy through the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine. Dr. Laibow has practiced drug free medicine and psychiatry since her graduation from Medical School, treating a wide variety of seriously ill patients and watching them return to robust health without drugs.

Come learn more about heart and vascular health through natural means. Dr. Laibow will take questions at the conclusion of the lecture.

October 10, 2010 In Your Ear! Acupuncture Without Needles Through Electro-Auricular Acupressure
Rodolfo Quintana, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Center, Volcan

Dr. Quintana graduated from Coahuila University Medical School in Mexico in 1972. He is trained in Internal Medicine and has specialized in the treatment of pain through acupuncture and acupressure. He is one of very few licensed MDs practicing acupuncture in Panama. His mastery of auricular (ear) acupressure gives him a unique and powerful tool for treating diseases and disorders without needles or drugs.
Come learn more about treatment options for pain which may help you master and resolve long-standing, chronic problems associated with pain, insomnia, digestive issues and more. Dr. Quintana will take questions at the conclusion of the lecture.

General Information About Valley of the Moon™ Restaurant and Cafe

LOCATION: From the direction of Via Volcan/Conception (“Old Road” or “New Road”), travel until you see “Cabana Reis” on your left hand side. Shortly thereafter you will see a large brown, round building on your left. Turn left.

From the direction of Volcan town, Cerro Punta Rio Serrano, etc., travel until you see a large brown, round building on your right. Turn right.

After your turn, continue 1 block until you come to a white wall. Make a right turn followed by an immediate left turn. You have just made a 90 degree turn around the corner of the wall. There is a road that goes off to the right. DO NOT TAKE IT!!!

Continue straight along the wall and then continue counting 7 houses on your left. You will come to a large white single story building with a thatched patio. Part in front (nose of car toward the building, please, to allow as many people as possible to park – thanks!) and come in!

Valley of the Moon™ Restaurant and Cafe is the only fully organic – in fact, BeyondOrganic™ – in Central America! It is located in the Natural Solutions Center, a multipurpose teaching and service facility housing:

1. The Restaurant and Cafe
2. A Teaching Kitchen
3. A webinar and seminar center
4. A natural health center using a variety of techniques to help healing at all levels. Director Rodolfo Quintana, MD, and consultants such as Rima E. Laibow, MD, make this a very special healing center, unique to Panama and Central America
5. Teaching and productive greenhouses, chicken coops and other agricultural activities designed to help restore the production of clean, unadulterated food to farmers and consumers world-wide.

The Natural Solutions Center and its components are activities of the Natural Solutions Foundation, the world’s largest Health and Food Freedom Nongovernmental Organization. We are a tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization in the United States and registered to conduct activities in Panama. We focus on every aspect of health freedom, including the right to access clean, unadulterated food if we chose. For that reason, after a more than 3.5 year search the Trustees of the Foundation decided that it was essential to establish an Eco Demonstration Project in Panama where we selected the Chiriqui Highlands for our site.

The Natural Solutions Center represents Phase II of a three phase program.

For more information on the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project of the Natural Solutions Foundation please visit

www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org .

For more information on the Natural Solutions Foundation please visit either www.HealthFreedomUSA.org or www.GlobalHealthFreedom.
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration just might be where you want to be!

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From 9 AM to noon Central Time every Sunday, visit www.OracleBroadcasting.com .
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Take a Look: Please visit www.MyValleyoftheMoon.org to see who we are and a bit about what we do.