Showing posts with label eugenics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eugenics. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2015
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
A Voice of Sanity About Childhood Vaccines from a Respected Nephrologist
Apr-11-2014
(DULUTH, MN) - Gary G. Kohls MD for Salem-News.com
To my medical colleagues, BigPharma sceptics and others
truly concerned with public health issues and the accelerating
sickening of America:
In the following link,Dr. Suzanne Humphries talks about vaccines in a 10
minute videointerview justifiably, with science backing her up (and
directly refuting what those corporate entities who have immense wealth
and power), claiming that there has never been a safe vaccine.
This video needs to be viewed by all health reporters to “immunize” them
against the powerful, corporate-controlled profit-motivated factions
(including the media and our indoctrinated physicians and nurses) that
are pushing more and more unsafe and highly toxic vaccines upon
unsuspecting parents and vulnerable infants, who then go on to develop
hyperimmune/autoimmune disorders such as our escalating incidence of
chronic asthma, rheumatoid disorders, etc (for an important list of
other vaccine injuries that have been documented, see below). Gary
Also
check out the University of Pittsburg study that showed that monkeys
who received the recommended vaccine schedule from the 1990s
CDC-approved schedule got autism while the control group who did not
receive vaccines did not acquire autism: http://vaccineliberationarmy.
Then study the several videos, including one feature film, about the Wakefield case, available at: http://vaccineliberationarmy.
For those who have only heard the smear campaign false
charges in the US about Wakefield: he was the victim of a highly
orchestrated smear campaign in England, funded by vaccine-maker Glaxo,
and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire [Rupert’s son James Murdoch sits on
the board of Glaxo; and a Murdoch-funded pseudojournalist named Brian
Deer did much of the dirty work]).
The smear campaign was supported by Britain’s threatened medical
establishment and its two previously “prestigious” medical journals
[Lancet and British Medical Journal] to discredit Wakefield and his
well-done study of 12 children who were diagnosed with regressive autism
after their MMR shots (that contains 3 varieties of live viruses) and
whose bowels became infected with the measles virus from the vaccine,
causing abdominal pains and chronic diarrhea. Biopsies taken by
Wakefield and his colleagues proved vaccine-related measles virus
infections in the intestinal lymphatic tissue, findings that have been
replicated in a number of other studies world-wide (refuting the medical
establishment’s claims of fraud).
One of those studies came out of Wake Forest University:
"
… a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North
Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel
disease - and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles
virus … the team's leader, Dr Stephen Walker, said:
'Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild measles.
This
research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of
children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is
evidence of measles virus. What it means is that the study done
earlier by Dr Wakefield and published in 1998 is correct.
That
study didn't draw any conclusions about specifically what it means to
find measles virus in the gut, but the implication is it may be coming
from the MMR vaccine. If that's the case, and this live virus is
residing in the gastrointestinal tract of some children, and then they
have GI inflammation and other problems, it may be related to the
MMR."
Says Dr. Wakefield of his original 1998 findings:
"…
it's been replicated in Canada, in the U.S., in Venezuela, in Italy…
[but] they never get mentioned. All you ever hear is that no one else
has ever been able to replicate the findings. I'm afraid that is false."
See a recent videointerview of Wakefield at http://articles.mercola.com/
The threat to the vaccine industry (from the connection
between regressive autism and inflammatory bowel disease following live
virus vaccination) was perceived to be so great that various corporate
entities orchestrated the unheard of refutation and retraction of the
1998 Lancet study and the revocation of the medical licenses of
Wakefield (and one other of the dozen authors of the study, who was, by
the way, later exonerated of the charges and then compensated for the
unjust charges against him).
At any rate, the US corporate media and medical establishment have
joined in the smearing of Wakefield (who now lives in the US after
writing a book about the affair that was appropriately titled “Callous
Disregard”). And the reason for the intense campaign to discredit
Wakefield and his very valid research is clear: because any doubts about
the “safety” of the vaccines in the minds of the public that are so
profitable (for the powerful and obscenely wealthy multinational
vaccine/drug makers, the CDC [which is a major vaccine pusher in
America], the American Academy of Pediatrics, the AAFP and the AMA, none
of whom will ever be able to bring themselves to admit their
wrong-doing that has damaged tens of thousands of vaccine-injured
children who now have to endure chronic illnesses like autism spectrum
disorders, chronic asthma, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid disorders and
other autoimmune disorders that are dramatically increasing in incidence
– co-incidentally with [or because of] the massive increase of
vaccinations in America – see list below).
For much more that American health writers
absolutely need to read to be doing valid journalism, please click on
– and study – some of the 80+ websites (listed at: http://www.vaclib.org/links/
And here is a partial list of some of the vaccine injuries that have been documented in the literature:
Deafness,
asthma, diarrhoea, inconsolable screaming, encephalitis, convulsions
and seizures, blindness, behaviour problems, autism, anaphylactic
shock, neurological disabilities, immune malfunction, arthritis,
epilepsy, brain damage, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, polio,
diabetes mellitus, chronic fatigue, paralysis, negative change in the
genetic structure of humans, Alzheimer, meningitis, and Death.
And here are just some of the ingredients used to make a vaccine:
Ethylene glycol: antifreeze
Phenol: also known as carbolic acid and used as a disinfectant, dye
Formaldehyde: a known cancer causing agent (carcinogenic)
Aluminium: is
associated with alzheimers disease and seizures also cancer
producing in laboratory mice (it is used as an additive to promote
antibody response)
Thimerosal: can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease (used as a mercury disinfectant/preservative)
Neomycin: Streptomycin (used as antibiotic) have caused allergic reactions in some people
It
is ironic, but telling, to note that a few years ago there was a
$10,000 award offered to any physician who would (after being made
fully aware of the above ingredients of vaccines) be willing to swallow the contents of what they freely inject into their unsuspecting patients. There were no takers. Gary G. Kohls, MD
Link: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april112014/vaccine-reality-gk.php.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
Lioness Arising Mother #8: Robyn Charron
I’d like to introduce my next mother from the Lioness Arising Mother series, Robyn Charron. I first learned about her story a few months ago. When a mothers story grips me and I can’t stop thinking about it, I know I have to re-tell their story. Robyn fits the definition of a Lioness Arising Mother in every way and I am honored that she is allowing me to share her sons story. It is both heartbreaking and encouraging. Heartbreaking because this is the new normal and represents so many children. And encouraging because this momma gets it. She. Gets. It.
If you or anyone you know has a child with colic, reflux, head-banging, food allergies, or constant rashes please share this story.
Share. This. Story.
In Robyn’s own words….
“If you wait until your child is born to think about vaccines, a vaccine injury is almost impossible to recognize. You are too tired and overwhelmed when it strikes. You are too immersed in the trees to see the forest. Too busy putting band-aids on symptoms to see the syndrome. You might be told that you have a sensitive, high-needs baby on your hands and his sensitivities manifest as colic, reflux, head-banging, food allergies, or contact rashes. You will be told that it is all normal, which is the truth, considering what passes for normal these days. Now I see these signs in other infants and I try to intervene. I try to warn the parents that these sensitivities mean so much more than their doctor tells them. I know that these parents are too down in it to see for themselves.My son was born and like a lot of people, we put more thought into the paint in his bedroom than we had into vaccinations. I knew one person, nearly a decade ago, who didn’t vaccinate his children. He said, “We don’t put that crap into our kids.” He scared me. I thought he was a conspiracy theorist. I would never be like that guy.
We were presented with the Hepatitis B vaccine paperwork on our child’s third day of life, just before leaving the hospital. I have a Bachelor of Science in Biology but I didn’t know what Hep B was. None of the parenting books I’d read mentioned that I would be expected to make a decision I knew nothing about while I was high on painkillers. If you don’t already know, Hep B is a sexually transmitted blood borne disease that is also spread through using dirty needles. Children don’t catch Hep B at the playground, or from a sneeze, or from drinking water. The vaccine administered to a newborn baby will have long worn off by the time the child becomes sexually active. If a mother is Hep B positive and has been receiving prenatal care, she certainly knows her status prior to the baby arriving.
So why are hospitals vaccinating all of our newborns for Hepatitis B? Because they can. Because almost no one says “No.” It is as simple as that.
We all want to trust our doctors. No one wants to believe that the CDC and the AAP aren’t looking out for our best interests. No one wants to retroactively realize they were responsible for harming their babies. No one wants to debate their child’s pediatrician. No one wants to have this battle with their spouse.
We allowed the Hep B vaccine that day. We actually said, “It must be a really big deal or it wouldn’t come with all of this consent paperwork,” but allowed it anyway. We took our baby home that evening and spent the wee morning hours wishing we could put that hysterical child back into my body. We didn’t make a connection between the two events. We were already too down in it to see.
A week later we were still miserable. My husband would race home from work to help me. I would still be in my pajamas, covered in spit-up, leaking milk. Our baby would be crying. I would be crying. I wouldn’t have fed myself, brushed my teeth or folded any laundry. At two weeks old our son was diagnosed with “classic colic” and it did not let up for the next five months. It was the most severe case of colic anyone in our lives had ever seen. We ended up medicating him with an antispasmodic to save our marriage.
Day before 2 month vaccinationsThey try to strip you of all maternal instinct when you are in your most vulnerable postpartum state.
My postpartum anxiety was sky-high. I was a shell of my former self and sleep-deprived. I had been screamed at for hours on end by this tortured baby. I was too down in it to think.
I asked to nurse him through the shots and was denied. I signed off on the vaccines. Within 20 minutes he fell into a deep unwakeable sleep. This colicky child of ours did not usually fall asleep out in the middle of commotion. He did not ordinarily pass out the moment I put him into the car. I called my husband to tell him that something was wrong. I put our son into his crib but even the transition did not wake him. I hovered over him as he slept for hours—something he’d never done before.
When he finally did wake, he screamed a high pitched scream I’d never heard before or since.
I remember running into his room and standing over him with the phone, letting the nurse at the doctor’s office listen. She insisted this hysteria was due to “pain from the injection site” and said I should give him more Tylenol. I didn’t believe her. The note they sent me home with said to call if he had a high-pitched scream so why were they saying it was normal?
He didn’t want to be held. He didn’t want me touching him. After 15 minutes of ear-splitting screams I nursed him back to sleep. I was sitting inches from him in his baby hammock chair when he woke the second time. I will never forget the way his arms stiffened up and shot out from his body with his piercing screams. His eyes scrunched tightly shut as he put every ounce of his energy into the terrifying sounds coming out of his teeny, tiny person. He wasn’t looking at me. He didn’t even know I was there. He went back to sleep and the scream stopped.
I stayed up all night doing the research I should have done 2 months before.
His scream was cry-encephalitis, also known as the DTaP scream. It is brain inflammation. It is literally an allergic reaction to vaccines in the brain. It is not uncommon. Had I taken him to the ER, it would have been documented with an EEG. Instead I was lied to by my pediatrician’s office until the event had passed.
That was the beginning of the end of vaccines for us.
Children do not have the requisite myelin sheath coating their nervous system pathways to withstand bombardment of viruses, aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, MSG, and animal DNA. Damage to the nerves not covered by myelin sheath is autism. It is Asperger’s. It is epilepsy. It is asthma. It is well-documented and accepted by mainstream media that damage to the myelin sheath is physically and mentally debilitating in head injuries, yet the connection to autism remains unacknowledged.
Believe me, it made me sick to think about not vaccinating my child. I flip-flopped on my stance countless times. I told myself that at his next vaccinations we would go wait in the parking lot of the emergency room just in case. Then I told myself that was crazy talk—what kind of mother would subject her child to something that might send him to the emergency room? The day before his 4-month doctor appointment I finally got up the nerve to tell his doctor we were holding off on more vaccinations until he turned one. The doctor took the news so well that I felt silly for making myself sick over it.
Our baby now had eczema all of the time. At 4 months he was covered head to toe in a body rash from his first tablespoon of banana. We held off two more months for solid food. At 6 months old he developed a contact rash on his face from sweet potatoes. I pushed his doctor for answers, and a blood test came back positive for a peanut allergy.
My 6 month old breastfed baby had deadly peanut allergy. I didn’t see a connection. I was way too down in it by now.
At 12 months old his pediatrician who promised us that he “wasn’t a stickler” for the CDC vaccination schedule kicked us out of the practice for not resuming the shots. “It’s stressing me out not to vaccinate your child,” he said. I was holding my baby in my arms, trying to explain our fears, describing how horrible that terrifying day ten months prior had been. I told him how worried I was that we would end up in the ER this time. I was humiliated. He’d told his entire staff he was kicking us out that day. I left in tears. I thought of all of the things I’d wished I said to him for months to come.
We never did resume the vaccines. It took some time to feel confident in that decision. My supportive husband stood by me in our defiance even though neither of us knew what we were doing, and man we were scared.
Today at 4 years oldI had to learn how to feed him all over again. The natural process of these eliminations led to putting him on an organic Paleo/Primal diet, and my husband and I followed suit ourselves six months later.
My child was 16 months old when he was diagnosed with the slew of allergies and I didn’t make the connection that he was harmed by the vaccines even then. I was mystified. I asked the allergist what caused these problems in my child. His answer was, “He’s under-vaccinated. We need vaccines to challenge our immune systems in order to eat food without our bodies attacking it.”
Although I did not believe such an unfounded statement, I was too busy putting band-aids on symptoms to see the syndrome. It wasn’t until The Greater Good was released in October of 2011—nearly 2 years after the fateful vaccinations—that the anvil hit me on the head. It all made sense. The colic, the encephalitic scream, the rashes, the mast cell issues, the hyper-vigilant immune system.
There is now no doubt in our minds what path we were forcing our sensitive child to go down had we continued vaccinating. I know in my heart that he cannot handle vaccines and he would have autism today had we continued. All the signs were there. My second child who statistically shares half of his DNA is nothing like this. A needle has never pierced her skin. She can eat anything. She does not get contact rashes. She never had colic. She does not have eczema.
This is what really gets to me, though: The staunchest defenders of vaccines. The parents who will go toe-to-toe with me in a public forum saying what a bad parent I am for not vaccinating. And then what do I find out months later, years later, always in private?
Their child has food allergies. Their child has a learning disability. Their child is medicated for ADHD. Their child is crippled with asthma. Their child is on the spectrum.
How do they publicly proclaim, “We vaccinated on schedule and my child turned out just fine!” but in private they are dealing with these problems?
Welcome to the new normal. Your child isn’t fine. Your child is vaccine injured– just like mine”
About Lioness Arising Mother #8
Robyn has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and years of experience as a lab tech. She previously wrote a public blog The Robyn Nest, but it is now private due to security reasons. Sadly mothers who share the truth are persecuted. Pieces she has written have been published by Scary Mommy, Mass Appeal, The Girl Who for Babble, Bonbon Break, Just Eat Real Food, and MSN. The Thinking Mom’s Revolution published a video she made. And she has done a live interview for the Huffington Post, that you can watch (HERE). This video shares her powerful story in more detail. Please watch.Lastly, please pray for this mother and her son. A message I received from her today: “My son just went into respiratory failure at noon yesterday for unknown reasons. The doctors’ best guess is that his peanut-free school has traces of peanut butter from kids who ate it for breakfast and didn’t wash their hands. It seems he touched something and it got into his eyes. He had to be epipenned by the director and took his 3rd ambulance ride in 8 months. Everyone needs to know that for the majority of kids, this is preventable. Skip the vaccines. We are living a nightmare”
It doesn’t have to be this way.
“If there ever comes a time when
the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit
of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known”
-Matthew Arnold, Nineteeth-Century British Poet and Philosopher
-Matthew Arnold, Nineteeth-Century British Poet and Philosopher
Friday, May 2, 2014
A Voice of Sanity About Childhood Vaccines from a Respected Nephrologist
Apr-11-2014
Gary G. Kohls MD for Salem-News.com
Source: Salem-News. com
It is ironic, but telling, to note that a few years ago there was a $10,000 award offered to any physician who would be willing to swallow the contents of what they freely inject into their unsuspecting patients.
Gary G. Kohls MD for Salem-News.com
Source: Salem-News. com
It is ironic, but telling, to note that a few years ago there was a $10,000 award offered to any physician who would be willing to swallow the contents of what they freely inject into their unsuspecting patients.
To my medical colleagues, BigPharma sceptics and others
truly concerned with public health issues and the accelerating
sickening of America:
In the following link,Dr. Suzanne Humphries talks about vaccines in a 10
minute videointerview justifiably, with science backing her up (and
directly refuting what those corporate entities who have immense wealth
and power), claiming that there has never been a safe vaccine.
This video needs to be viewed by all health reporters to “immunize” them
against the powerful, corporate-controlled profit-motivated factions
(including the media and our indoctrinated physicians and nurses) that
are pushing more and more unsafe and highly toxic vaccines upon
unsuspecting parents and vulnerable infants, who then go on to develop
hyperimmune/autoimmune disorders such as our escalating incidence of
chronic asthma, rheumatoid disorders, etc (for an important list of
other vaccine injuries that have been documented, see below). Gary
Also
check out the University of Pittsburg study that showed that monkeys
who received the recommended vaccine schedule from the 1990s
CDC-approved schedule got autism while the control group who did not
receive vaccines did not acquire autism: http://vaccineliberationarmy.
Then study the several videos, including one feature film, about the Wakefield case, available at: http://vaccineliberationarmy.
For those who have only heard the smear campaign false
charges in the US about Wakefield: he was the victim of a highly
orchestrated smear campaign in England, funded by vaccine-maker Glaxo,
and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire [Rupert’s son James Murdoch sits on
the board of Glaxo; and a Murdoch-funded pseudojournalist named Brian
Deer did much of the dirty work]).
The smear campaign was supported by Britain’s threatened medical
establishment and its two previously “prestigious” medical journals
[Lancet and British Medical Journal] to discredit Wakefield and his
well-done study of 12 children who were diagnosed with regressive autism
after their MMR shots (that contains 3 varieties of live viruses) and
whose bowels became infected with the measles virus from the vaccine,
causing abdominal pains and chronic diarrhea. Biopsies taken by
Wakefield and his colleagues proved vaccine-related measles virus
infections in the intestinal lymphatic tissue, findings that have been
replicated in a number of other studies world-wide (refuting the medical
establishment’s claims of fraud).
One of those studies came out of Wake Forest University:
"
… a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North
Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel
disease - and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles
virus … the team's leader, Dr Stephen Walker, said:
'Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild measles.
This
research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of
children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is
evidence of measles virus. What it means is that the study done
earlier by Dr Wakefield and published in 1998 is correct.
That
study didn't draw any conclusions about specifically what it means to
find measles virus in the gut, but the implication is it may be coming
from the MMR vaccine. If that's the case, and this live virus is
residing in the gastrointestinal tract of some children, and then they
have GI inflammation and other problems, it may be related to the
MMR."
Says Dr. Wakefield of his original 1998 findings:
"…
it's been replicated in Canada, in the U.S., in Venezuela, in Italy…
[but] they never get mentioned. All you ever hear is that no one else
has ever been able to replicate the findings. I'm afraid that is false."
See a recent videointerview of Wakefield at http://articles.mercola.com/
The threat to the vaccine industry (from the connection
between regressive autism and inflammatory bowel disease following live
virus vaccination) was perceived to be so great that various corporate
entities orchestrated the unheard of refutation and retraction of the
1998 Lancet study and the revocation of the medical licenses of
Wakefield (and one other of the dozen authors of the study, who was, by
the way, later exonerated of the charges and then compensated for the
unjust charges against him).
At any rate, the US corporate media and medical establishment have
joined in the smearing of Wakefield (who now lives in the US after
writing a book about the affair that was appropriately titled “Callous
Disregard”). And the reason for the intense campaign to discredit
Wakefield and his very valid research is clear: because any doubts about
the “safety” of the vaccines in the minds of the public that are so
profitable (for the powerful and obscenely wealthy multinational
vaccine/drug makers, the CDC [which is a major vaccine pusher in
America], the American Academy of Pediatrics, the AAFP and the AMA, none
of whom will ever be able to bring themselves to admit their
wrong-doing that has damaged tens of thousands of vaccine-injured
children who now have to endure chronic illnesses like autism spectrum
disorders, chronic asthma, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid disorders and
other autoimmune disorders that are dramatically increasing in incidence
– co-incidentally with [or because of] the massive increase of
vaccinations in America – see list below).
For much more that American health writers
absolutely need to read to be doing valid journalism, please click on
– and study – some of the 80+ websites (listed at: http://www.vaclib.org/links/
And here is a partial list of some of the vaccine injuries that have been documented in the literature:
Deafness,
asthma, diarrhoea, inconsolable screaming, encephalitis, convulsions
and seizures, blindness, behaviour problems, autism, anaphylactic
shock, neurological disabilities, immune malfunction, arthritis,
epilepsy, brain damage, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, polio,
diabetes mellitus, chronic fatigue, paralysis, negative change in the
genetic structure of humans, Alzheimer, meningitis, and Death.
And here are just some of the ingredients used to make a vaccine:
Ethylene glycol: antifreeze
Phenol: also known as carbolic acid and used as a disinfectant, dye
Formaldehyde: a known cancer causing agent (carcinogenic)
Aluminium: is
associated with alzheimers disease and seizures also cancer
producing in laboratory mice (it is used as an additive to promote
antibody response)
Thimerosal: can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease (used as a mercury disinfectant/preservative)
Neomycin: Streptomycin (used as antibiotic) have caused allergic reactions in some people
It
is ironic, but telling, to note that a few years ago there was a
$10,000 award offered to any physician who would (after being made
fully aware of the above ingredients of vaccines) be willing to swallow the contents of what they freely inject into their unsuspecting patients. There were no takers. Gary G. Kohls, MD
Link: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april112014/vaccine-reality-gk.php.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
African Center for BioSafety Orders Mnsanto to StopMaking False Claims about GMOs
6 April 2014
by Christina Sarich
Source: Nation of Change
The Advertising Standards Authority in South Africa recently banned a Monsanto radio ad claiming it was making unsubstantiated claims about GMO. Mariam Mayet, the executive director of the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), is enraged by the arrogance of corporations like Monsanto.
Since the 1970s Monsanto has falsely advertised their products – from insecticides to DDT, even when independent research proved how vile these substances truly were. DDT was eventually banned, overturning Monsanto’s then claims, that the substance was ‘safe.’ It now seems that the African Center for Biosafety is among the clear-headed, realizing that Monsanto’s GMO crops are nothing but another false advertising campaign gone amuck.
Furthermore, the Advertising Standards Authority in South Africa recently banned a Monsanto radio ad claiming it was making unsubstantiated claims about GMO. Mariam Mayet, the executive director of the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), is enraged by the arrogance of corporations like Monsanto. She believes, like others, that they are trying to control the world of agriculture through falsifying information and promoting their propaganda with deep pockets.
The ad played on radio 702 claimed that GM crops used fewer resources and have been “strictly regulated and have been extensively researched and tested for safety.” The ad touted increasing crop yields, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and less pesticide use also — all unproven. Monsanto also claimed that they ‘produced more food sustainably,’ even though their Round Up Ready chemicals and GMOs have destroyed butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. How is this more sustainable farming?
The ASA also warned Monsanto to “ensure that it holds proper substantiation for its advertising claims” or risk attracting further sanctions.Perhaps South Africa is paying heed to other countries who have banned Monsanto from more than their airwaves – but also their agricultural markets. France and Sri Lanka recently banned Monsanto’s seed and Sri Lanka is banning the use of glyphosate – the main ingredient in Round Up, completely.
Link: nationofchange.org/african-center-biosafety-orders-monsanto-stop-making-false-claims-about-gmos-1396797498.
by Christina Sarich
Source: Nation of Change
The Advertising Standards Authority in South Africa recently banned a Monsanto radio ad claiming it was making unsubstantiated claims about GMO. Mariam Mayet, the executive director of the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), is enraged by the arrogance of corporations like Monsanto.
Since the 1970s Monsanto has falsely advertised their products – from insecticides to DDT, even when independent research proved how vile these substances truly were. DDT was eventually banned, overturning Monsanto’s then claims, that the substance was ‘safe.’ It now seems that the African Center for Biosafety is among the clear-headed, realizing that Monsanto’s GMO crops are nothing but another false advertising campaign gone amuck.
Furthermore, the Advertising Standards Authority in South Africa recently banned a Monsanto radio ad claiming it was making unsubstantiated claims about GMO. Mariam Mayet, the executive director of the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), is enraged by the arrogance of corporations like Monsanto. She believes, like others, that they are trying to control the world of agriculture through falsifying information and promoting their propaganda with deep pockets.
“We are elated with this decision,” said Mariam Mayet, executive director of the African Centre for Biosafety. ”Monsanto has already been warned by the ASA as far back as 2007, that it needs to substantiate its claims from an independent and credible expert … regarding its claims of the so-called benefits of [GMO] crops. However, it appears Monsanto does not have much regard for South African law as it is hell bent on disseminating false information to the South African public.”Mayet and the ACB lodged a formal complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa, reporting that Monsanto’s radio ads are unsubstantiated, and they upheld the complaint, according to AllAfrica.
The ad played on radio 702 claimed that GM crops used fewer resources and have been “strictly regulated and have been extensively researched and tested for safety.” The ad touted increasing crop yields, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and less pesticide use also — all unproven. Monsanto also claimed that they ‘produced more food sustainably,’ even though their Round Up Ready chemicals and GMOs have destroyed butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. How is this more sustainable farming?
The ASA also warned Monsanto to “ensure that it holds proper substantiation for its advertising claims” or risk attracting further sanctions.Perhaps South Africa is paying heed to other countries who have banned Monsanto from more than their airwaves – but also their agricultural markets. France and Sri Lanka recently banned Monsanto’s seed and Sri Lanka is banning the use of glyphosate – the main ingredient in Round Up, completely.
Link: nationofchange.org/african-center-biosafety-orders-monsanto-stop-making-false-claims-about-gmos-1396797498.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Dangers Associated With Vaccinations Have Been Withheld From Public For 30 Years. Here Are The Documents
I
In
this day and age, it’s very dangerous and naive for us, health
professionals included, to assume that health authorities and
pharmaceutical companies have our best interests at heart. We are living
in a time where people are pushing for the freedom of information and
as a result, it’s coming to the surface. For years, a massive amount of
advertising has led people to believe that all vaccinations are safe and
necessary. Many individuals continue to promote themselves as believers
of science, without actually looking at and examining the science
behind vaccinations. Meanwhile, babies and children are bombarded with a
rigorous North American vaccination schedule that more and more parents
are choosing to opt out of. Much of this mistrust has to do with the
lies and cover-ups from health authorities and vaccine manufactures, who
have been involved in a 30 year scandal.
In
this day and age, it’s very dangerous and naive for us, health
professionals included, to assume that health authorities and
pharmaceutical companies have our best interests at heart. We are living
in a time where people are pushing for the freedom of information and
as a result, it’s coming to the surface. For years, a massive amount of
advertising has led people to believe that all vaccinations are safe and
necessary. Many individuals continue to promote themselves as believers
of science, without actually looking at and examining the science
behind vaccinations. Meanwhile, babies and children are bombarded with a
rigorous North American vaccination schedule that more and more parents
are choosing to opt out of. Much of this mistrust has to do with the
lies and cover-ups from health authorities and vaccine manufactures, who
have been involved in a 30 year scandal.
Documents obtained by Lucija
Tomljenovic, PhD, from the Neural Dynamics Research Group in the
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of
British Columbia reveal that vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical
companies and health authorities have known about multiple dangers
associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them from the public.
This is scientific fraud, and suggests that this practice continues till
this day. (1)
The documents were obtained from the UK
Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and
Immunization (JCVI), who advise the Secretaries of State for Health in
the UK about diseases preventable through immunizations.(1)
Documents
reveal that the JCVI made “continuous efforts to withhold critical data
on severe adverse reactions and contraindications to vaccinations to
both parents and health practitioners in order to reach overall
vaccination rates, which they deemed were necessary for “herd immunity.”(1) Wouldn’t
it be illegal to deliberately conceal information from parents for the
sole purpose of getting them to comply with an official vaccination
schedule? Is this not an ethical violation? All potential adverse
affects should be known and completely disclosed, especially with
regards to vaccines, which are administered to individuals to prevent
disease of which an individual will most likely never be exposed to.
Many of them contain harmful toxic chemicals.
The documents further reveal that
British health authorities have been engaging in these cover-ups of
information for the last 30 years. As a result many children have been
vaccinated with their parents not knowing important information about
the serious risks and adverse affects associated with multiple
vaccines. (1)
“The
transcripts of the JCBI meetings also show that some of the Committee
members had extensive ties to pharmaceutical companies and that the JCVI
frequently co-operated with vaccine manufactures on the strategies
aimed at boosting vaccine uptake. Some of the meetings at which such
controversial items were discussed were not intended to be
publicly available, as the transcripts were only released later, through
the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). These particular meetings are
denoted in the transcripts as “commercial in confidence,” and reveal a
clear and disturbing lack of transparency, as some of the information
was removed from the text (i.e., the names of the participants) prior to
transcript release under the FOI section at the JCVI website.” (1)
In summary, here are what the transcripts appear to show with regards to the JCVI/DH meetings that took place from 1983-2010.
- Instead of reacting appropriately by re-examining existing vaccination policies when safety concerns over specific vaccines were identified by their own investigations, JCVI either a) took no action, b) skewed or selectively removed unfavourable safety data from public reports and c) made intensive efforts to reassure both the public and the authorities in the safety of respective vaccines
- Significantly restricted contraindication to vaccination criteria in order to increase vaccination rates despite outstanding and unresolved safety issues
- Persistently relied on methodologically dubious studies, while dismissing independent research, to promote vaccine policies
- Persistently and categorically downplayed safety concerns while over-inflating vaccine benefits
- Promoted and elaborated a plan for introducing new vaccines of questionable efficacy and safety into the routine pediatric schedule, on the assumption that the licenses would eventually be granted
- Actively discouraged research on vaccine safety issues
- Deliberately took advantage of parents’ trust and lack of relevant knowledge on vaccinations in order to promote a scientifically unsupported immunization program which could put certain children at risk of server long term neurological damage
The report goes on to provide some
incredible and shocking information that is important for people to
know. The report is cited in the article, but again, you can read the
full version HERE.
In the last 30 years, the United States
vaccine schedule has tripled, along with various ailments and disease.
From birth, babies are bombard with a variety of different vaccinations.
As a result, many have died, fallen ill and acquired a number of health
problems. A 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, passed by
congress as a result of pharmaceutical lobbying shields pharmaceutical
companies and drug companies from injuries and deaths caused by the
vaccines they manufacture. So, regardless of vaccine manufactures and
health authorities knowing about the dangers associated with vaccines,
and covering them up, they are still protected. Nevertheless, taxpayer
money has dished out billions of dollars in vaccine injury related
ailments.
This isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a reality.
It’s always important to look at information on both sides of the coin.
Sure, some vaccinations may have been successful in disease prevention,
that doesn’t mean all of them are and have been. Health authorities and
vaccine manufactures do commit scientific fraud and cover up
information that might hurt their interests. Apart from this
information, there are a number of credible studies that show how some
vaccines can, are and have been harmful to human health. To view more
articles from CE on this, click HERE
“Just because a study sponsored
by the manufacturer does not identify problems with the vaccine does
not necessarily mean that the vaccine is safe. In fact, if one looks at
the manufacturer studies, their often not designed to detect serious
adverse events. Obviously, you’re not going to find what you’re not
looking for.” – Lucija Tomljenovic (2)
Sources:
Link seems to not be working for some ***
Here is another one:
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Malaysian company to provide halal vaccines
April 13, 2014
by OnIslam & Newspapers
Source:muslimvillage.com
Comment: This article is about producing vaccines for Muslim countries. It angers me that such a thing is being done. There is tremendous evidence that not only are vaccines ineffective, but they do significant damage to the body. Here is the article:
By: OnIslam & Newspapers
Source: http://www.onislam.net/
Filling an important void for millions of Muslims worldwide, a leading Malaysian corporation has announced plans to provide first-ever halal vaccinations by 2017.
“We are finding ways to make the vaccines halal, and hope to complete it as soon as possible,” said Jamil Bidin, chief executive officer of Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC), Arab News reported on Thursday, April 10.
“The vaccines that are the focus of local and international scientists and Shariah experts are meant to treat meningitis, hepatitis and meningococcal (disease),” he told reporters on the sideline of the World Halal Week 2014.
With a 100-million-dollar budget, HDC and a Saudi corporation promised to provide vaccinations for meningitis, hepatitis and meningococcal within three years.
According to the Malaysian minister of international trade and industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, “The halal vaccines will help alleviate fears and doubts among Muslims on the integrity of the products.”
The new halal vaccines are to be extracted from animals that are slaughtered according to Islamic Shari`ah.
The producers also promised to exclude pork from the manufacturing of the vaccines.
The concept of halal – meaning permissible in Arabic — has traditionally been applied to food.
Muslims should only eat meat from livestock slaughtered by a sharp knife from their necks, and the name of Allah, the Arabic word for God, must be mentioned.
Muslim scholars agree that Shari`ah provides a divine law of mercy that should be applied on all Allah’s creations, including animals.
Now other goods and services are certified as halal, including cosmetics, clothing, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
Malaysia, a mainly Muslim country, is becoming globally recognized as the world’s halal food hub.
In 2004, Malaysia launched a bi-monthly magazine, The Halal Journal, as the first trade and business publication serving the global halal market.
Serving Pilgrims
The world’s first halal vaccine for meningitis would benefit thousands of Muslim pilgrims who are in danger of being infected with it.
Meningitis vaccines are produced in the West from pig extracts, which don’t comply with Muslims.
“We are focusing more on meningitis vaccines, which are required for those who perform the Hajj pilgrimage, but are currently pork-based,” Bidin said.
“Pork-free vaccines will be in high demand, not only among Muslims but also non-Muslims. People will go for the alternative once they know about it. After developing these three vaccines, we will continue to produce others,” Bidin said.
Meningitis is an infection of the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
It can cause complications including brain damage, deafness and learning problems.
About 5-10 percent of patients die from the illness, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Along with offering halal vaccinations, HDC aims to standardize halal certification for all Muslim countries.
“Malaysia is partnering with Turkey to tackle the differences in halal certification and to come up with new standardized criteria that will be applied in all OIC countries,” Bidin revealed.
Link: http://muslimvillage.com/2014/04/13/52279/malaysian-company-to-provide-halal-vaccines/.
by OnIslam & Newspapers
Source:muslimvillage.com
Comment: This article is about producing vaccines for Muslim countries. It angers me that such a thing is being done. There is tremendous evidence that not only are vaccines ineffective, but they do significant damage to the body. Here is the article:
By: OnIslam & Newspapers
Source: http://www.onislam.net/
Filling an important void for millions of Muslims worldwide, a leading Malaysian corporation has announced plans to provide first-ever halal vaccinations by 2017.
“We are finding ways to make the vaccines halal, and hope to complete it as soon as possible,” said Jamil Bidin, chief executive officer of Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC), Arab News reported on Thursday, April 10.
“The vaccines that are the focus of local and international scientists and Shariah experts are meant to treat meningitis, hepatitis and meningococcal (disease),” he told reporters on the sideline of the World Halal Week 2014.
With a 100-million-dollar budget, HDC and a Saudi corporation promised to provide vaccinations for meningitis, hepatitis and meningococcal within three years.
According to the Malaysian minister of international trade and industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, “The halal vaccines will help alleviate fears and doubts among Muslims on the integrity of the products.”
The new halal vaccines are to be extracted from animals that are slaughtered according to Islamic Shari`ah.
The producers also promised to exclude pork from the manufacturing of the vaccines.
The concept of halal – meaning permissible in Arabic — has traditionally been applied to food.
Muslims should only eat meat from livestock slaughtered by a sharp knife from their necks, and the name of Allah, the Arabic word for God, must be mentioned.
Muslim scholars agree that Shari`ah provides a divine law of mercy that should be applied on all Allah’s creations, including animals.
Now other goods and services are certified as halal, including cosmetics, clothing, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
Malaysia, a mainly Muslim country, is becoming globally recognized as the world’s halal food hub.
In 2004, Malaysia launched a bi-monthly magazine, The Halal Journal, as the first trade and business publication serving the global halal market.
Serving Pilgrims
The world’s first halal vaccine for meningitis would benefit thousands of Muslim pilgrims who are in danger of being infected with it.
Meningitis vaccines are produced in the West from pig extracts, which don’t comply with Muslims.
“We are focusing more on meningitis vaccines, which are required for those who perform the Hajj pilgrimage, but are currently pork-based,” Bidin said.
“Pork-free vaccines will be in high demand, not only among Muslims but also non-Muslims. People will go for the alternative once they know about it. After developing these three vaccines, we will continue to produce others,” Bidin said.
Meningitis is an infection of the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
It can cause complications including brain damage, deafness and learning problems.
About 5-10 percent of patients die from the illness, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Along with offering halal vaccinations, HDC aims to standardize halal certification for all Muslim countries.
“Malaysia is partnering with Turkey to tackle the differences in halal certification and to come up with new standardized criteria that will be applied in all OIC countries,” Bidin revealed.
Link: http://muslimvillage.com/2014/04/13/52279/malaysian-company-to-provide-halal-vaccines/.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Aspartame Linked to Leukemia & Lymphoma in Groundbreaking Study
by Joe Martino
Source: collective-evolution
Each year, Americans consume about 5,250 tons of aspartame in total. 86 percent of this aspartame (4,500 tons) is from the consumption of diet sodas. Diet soda is the largest dietary source of aspartame in the U.S. A study recently published at the beginning of December 2012 links the consumption of Aspartame to increased risk of Lymphoma and Leukemia. The study was conducted by the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. The study was a follow up after a 22 year period of data collection including frequent dietary and health check ups of the study group.
We have covered the subject of aspartame on several occasions that included findings that deomstrate how aspartame damages the brain.
This new study suggests that as little as a single 355ml can of diet
soda daily greatly increases the risk for cancers in men and women. It
can also increase the risk of multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma
in men. The results of this study forces us to really look at the
effects of aspartame as there has never been a more comprehensive, long
term study ever done on the topic. It is important to note that this can
also reveal many more serious diseases and illnesses as data is
observed even further.
The Most Comprehensive Study to Date on Aspartame
This study tracks over two million
person-years giving it a huge pile of data to generate results from.
Researchers prospectively analyzed data from the Nurses’ Health Study
and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study for a 22-year period. A
total of 77,218 women and 47,810 men were included in the analysis, for a total of 2,278,396 person-years
of data. It is not just the sample size of this study that makes it
impressive, it is also the thoroughness with which aspartame intake was
assessed in comparison to previous studies. Over the course of the
study, every two years participants were given a detailed dietary
questionnaire, and their diets were reassessed every four years.
Shockingly, previous studies done on aspartame who revealed no link
between aspartame and cancer in humans, only assessed participants’
aspartame intake at one point in time. This poses a major weakness in
the accuracy of previous studies.
- 42 percent higher leukemia risk in men and women (pooled analysis)
- 102 percent higher multiple myeloma risk (in men only)
- 31 percent higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (in men only)
- 102 percent higher multiple myeloma risk (in men only)
- 31 percent higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (in men only)
This is a powerful set of results as it
leaves little to ponder about when it comes to the long time talked
about risks of aspartame on our health. The results were based on
multi-variable relative risk models, all in comparison to participants
who drank no diet soda. It is important to note that it still remains
unknown why only men drinking higher amounts of diet soda showed
increased risk for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the
continuation of this study may reveal these results later.
Most of the past studies showing no link
between aspartame and cancer have been criticized for being too short
in duration and too inaccurate in assessing long-term aspartame intake.
This new study solves both of those issues. The study in fact shows a
positive link to cancer and it should come as no surprise given that a
previous best-in-class research study done on animals (900 rats over
their entire natural lifetimes) showed strikingly similar results back
in 2006. More worrying is the follow up mega-study, which started
aspartame exposure of the rats at the fetal stage. Increased lymphoma
and leukemia risks were confirmed, and this time the female rats also
showed significantly increased breast (mammary) cancer rates. This
raises a critical question: will future, high-quality studies uncover
links to the other cancers or diseases in which aspartame has been
implicated?
My Own Thoughts
I have been researching aspartame and other health related ilnesses for a few years now and have found a lot of different information as it relates to effects of various substances on health. This study stands out from many as it illustrates the importance of conducting research that is of quality and done over time. While we cannot confirm with 100% accuracy that this was the key factor in these ilnesses, we can confirm that it does play a big role. Also, when we look at what exists today as studies that are in favor of Aspartame being safe, we find that there are many weaknesses behind them that would produce poor results in accuracy.
I have been researching aspartame and other health related ilnesses for a few years now and have found a lot of different information as it relates to effects of various substances on health. This study stands out from many as it illustrates the importance of conducting research that is of quality and done over time. While we cannot confirm with 100% accuracy that this was the key factor in these ilnesses, we can confirm that it does play a big role. Also, when we look at what exists today as studies that are in favor of Aspartame being safe, we find that there are many weaknesses behind them that would produce poor results in accuracy.
If previous research on the subject was
not enough, there is now undeniable evidence that suggests we should not
be consuming aspartame at all in our diet. Switching over to sugar
sweetened soda is also not a good alternative as this study also found
that men consuming one or more sugar-sweetened sodas daily saw a 66
percent increase in non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It has become clear that
having no soda at all in our diet is the ideal way to go. This would not
only remove the aspartame and sugar risks, but it will also help in
keeping your body in a more alkaline state.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418
Link: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/12/09/aspartame-linked-leukemia-lymphoma-groundbreaking-study/.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
New Research Fuels Roundup Weedkiller Toxicity Concerns
February 04, 2014
By Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
By Dr. Mercola
Last year, groundbreaking research was published suggesting that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup, might be "a crucially important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions."
If you missed it, please take the time to listen to Jeff Smith's interview with one of the authors of that research, Dr. Stephanie Seneff, reposted above. The lead author and researcher on this groundbreaking study was Anthony Samsel.
They spray nearly one BILLION pounds of Roundup every year for conventional crop production, but genetically engineered (GE) crops see some of the heaviest use, as so-called Roundup Ready crops are designed to withstand otherwise lethal doses of this chemical.
Tests published last year also showed that people in 18 countries across Europe have glyphosate in their bodies,1 while yet a third study revealed the chemical has estrogenic properties and drive breast cancer proliferation in the parts-per-trillion range.2
Now, research published in the International Journal of Toxicology3 in January adds even more fuel to the fire, as it reveals that glyphosate-based formulations like Roundup pose a threat to human health through cytotoxicity and oxidative effects. Such formulations were also found to be lethal to human liver cells.
You may think you are safe if you only eat organic produce but nothing could be further from the truth as most of the glyphosate contaminated crops are fed to animals. This means you also need to get organic meat and eggs. Also, beware you CANNOT wash glyphosate off your produce as it is actively integrated into every cell in the plant and impossible to wash off.
Commercial Formulations of Glyphosate Threaten Human Health
The researchers found that while glyphosate and its amino acid metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in isolation appears to be non-toxic to human cells, toxicity does become a concern when glyphosate is added to other ingredients found in commercial formulations.
It's also well worth noting that the featured study assessed the effects of glyphosate-based formulations on human cells at dilutions that are far below normal agricultural applications. As reported by the featured article by GreenMedInfo.com:4
"The researchers discovered that while glyphosate and its amino acid metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), showed little to no observable toxic effects in isolation, a glyphosate-based formulation containing adjuvants produced a variety of adverse effects on cellular oxidative balance, including the following signs of oxidative stress:According to the authors:
The glyphosate formulation studied also triggered two 'death proteins' in human cells known as caspase 3/7, inducing pathways that activate programmed cell death (apoptosis), a clear sign of significant toxicity."
- Increases in reactive oxygen species
- Increases in nitrotyrosine formation
- Increases in superoxide dismutase activity
- Increases in glutathione levels
"These results confirm that G [glyphosate] formulations have adjuvants working together with the active ingredient and causing toxic effects that are not seen with acid glyphosate...Altogether, these results challenge the establishment of guidance values such as the acceptable daily intake of glyphosate, when these are mostly based on a long term in vivo test of glyphosate alone.Since pesticides are always used with adjuvants that could change their toxicity, the necessity to assess their whole formulations as mixtures becomes obvious. This challenges the concept of active principle of pesticides for non-target species."
Glyphosate in Isolation Preferentially Targets Beneficial Bacteria
Please note that in my earlier interviews with Dr. Don Huber, who is one of the most prominent scientific experts in plant toxicology, he firmly believe glyphosate is FAR more toxic and dangerous than DDT.
Previous research also shows that glyphosate alone wreaks havoc on soil and gut bacteria, so while glyphosate in isolation may not be able to kill your liver cells, it has been shown to wreak havoc on the beneficial bacteria that are absolutely critical to your overall health. Your gut bacteria (opposed to other human cells) are a key component of glyphosate's primary mechanism of harm, as microbes have the same pathway used by glyphosate to kill weeds.
The issue of glyphosate toxicity—whether in isolation or in formulation—implicates genetically engineered foods as being potentially far more hazardous to your health than less contaminated crops, and is indeed a significant reason for opting for organically-grown foods.
Labeling GMOs could help you select products that are less likely to have heavy contamination, although you'd also avoid many other hazardous chemicals used in conventional farming by opting for products labeled 100% organic.
There's also the environmental angle, as glyphosate also effectively kills beneficial soil microbes and damages the fertility of the soil. Glyphosate is in fact patented as an antibiotic, and killing bacteria is the main function of such drugs. It's also a potent chelator, which prevents valuable minerals like iron, calcium, manganese, and zinc from being utilized by the plant.
As previously explained by plant pathologist Dr. Don Huber, genetically engineered (GE) foods, as well as conventional crops that are heavily sprayed with glyphosate, have lower nutrient density than organic foods for this very reason. GE crops also contain high amounts of pesticides with documented harmful health effects, along with novel, highly allergenic, proteins.
Glyphosate's chelating and antibacterial activities also promote soil and plant disease, including but not limited to fungal root disease, highlighted by USDA scientist Robert Kremer in a previous Mother Jones article.5 The chemical's damaging effect on soil has a detrimental effect on yields too, of course, which appears to be part of the explanation for why the chemical technology industry's promises of improving yields have largely fallen flat. The only "yield" that's really gone up is that of glyphosate-resistant superweeds which, as of 2012, affected nearly half (49 percent) of American farmers!6 That was up from a reported 34 percent of farmers in 2011, so clearly, the spread of resistance is swift, and the entire agricultural system is at stake.
Global Land Crisis and the Threat of Worldwide Famine
In related news,7 a recently published paper in the journal Science8 by a Colorado research team found that modern chemical-based agriculture has "drastically altered" the biology of American farmland across the prairies, concluding that: "The soils currently found throughout the region bear little resemblance to their pre-agricultural state."
The paper calls for dramatic and swift changes to our agricultural system, stating that it's the "only viable route to feeding the world and keeping it habitable." A key factor causing the rapid degradation of soil, topsoil erosion, and declining soil fertility, is the adverse effect that agricultural chemicals have on the soil.
Academic analysts from South Africa's Witwatersrand University also weighed in on the issue, warning that unless we change course in how food is grown, we will repeat the same mistakes committed by civilizations in the past, where overexploitation of the land resulted in a vicious circle of famine and social disintegration... To learn more, you can review the PDF booklet, Food Plague Primer: Glyphosate and Genetically Engineered Crops,9 which is a free preview to the book: Food Plague: Could our daily bread be our most deadly exposure,10 written by Arden Andersen PhD, DO, who is both a medical doctor and horticulturist.
Food Industry Pulls Out All the Stops to Prevent GMO Labeling
There's also important news from the GMO labeling front. I recently told you about the Grocery Manufacturers Association of America's (GMA) multi-pronged game plan for preventing US states from implementing any kind of GMO labeling. A major part of the GMA's plan is to prevent states from creating their own labeling laws by pushing for an industry-friendly, voluntary labeling law at the federal level. But that's not all.
A GMA document11 created for use by industry lobbyists also lays out a clear-cut strategy for addressing any state that successfully implements a GMO labeling law, stating that, "The first state to implement a GMO labeling law will be sued on the constitutional grounds seen in IDFA v. Amestoy."Costly litigation is clearly part of the GMA's master plan to protect industry profits in the face of growing consumer awareness about the many problems inherent with potentially toxic, genetically engineered, and grossly adulterated, processed foods.
Maine and Connecticut both passed GMO labeling laws last year, but they contain "trigger" clauses that prevent them from taking effect until or unless at least four neighboring states, with a combined population of at least 20 million inhabitants, pass similar bills.
Vermont also produced a GMO labeling bill in 2012, which was quickly put on ice when Monsanto threatened to sue the state. Still, Vermonters pushed through and, last year, the Vermont House of Representatives passed H.112, which would require GE foods to be labeled as such, and would prohibit GE foods from being labeled "natural." While the bill didn't make it into the Senate before the end of the legislative session in 2013, now that the state legislature has reconvened, the bill has been taken up by the Senate's Agriculture Committee.
The problem Vermont now faces for the second time is the threat of being sued by the industry. The GMA document referred to above falsely insinuates that GMO labeling is in violation of the First Amendment, which protects commercial speech, and therefore unconstitutional.
Breaking News: Highest Rated Law Firm Confirms GMO Labeling IS Constitutional
Alas, one of the highest rated law firms in the US, Emord & Associates, has analyzed the Vermont Genetically Engineered Labeling Bill, H.112, concluding that the bill is, in fact, constitutional.12, 13 Emord & Associates is an AV-rated constitutional and administrative law firm located in Washington, D.C., Clifton, Virginia, and Chandler, Arizona.
An AV rating is the highest rating a law firm can achieve, based on legal ability and ethics, from the Martindale-Hubbell organization. Since 1999, the firm has successfully represented clients in eight First Amendment challenges against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Vermont Law School's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic has also concluded that Vermont's GMO labeling bill would withstand a legal challenge from industry, stating that:14
"We have researched and analyzed challenges that may be made in opposition to such legislation and have concluded that Vermont can pass GE labeling legislation that will meet all constitutional requirements."That said, the threat of costly legal battles may still have a cooling effect on legislators that would otherwise support GMO labeling, which is surely the GMA's intent. As reported by the Organic Consumers Association:15
"...GMO labeling activists are also concerned that some lawmakers will use the GMA's threats as a convenient excuse to reject the majority opinion of their voters, in favor of siding with industry instead. Or as a means to convince their colleagues to add trigger clauses, similar to those in the Maine and Connecticut bills, in an attempt to stall or permanently sabotage GMO laws.
Food manufacturers insist that GMO ingredients are perfectly safe. Still, they've spent more than $70 million--some of it illegally laundered—to defeat GMO labeling initiatives in California and Washington State. And the GMA, representing more than 300 food makers and trade associations, has drafted a bill (which so far has no sponsors) that would preempt state mandatory GMO labeling laws and allow the use of the word 'natural' on GMO-contaminated products....What's next? Vermont lawmakers could pass a clean bill. Or, they could pass a meaningless bill with a trigger clause. Or, they could cave into industry's threats entirely, and vote against the 90 percent of Vermonters who support H.112—knowing that the bill is bullet-proof, and their failure to pass it a failure of courage."
Take a Stand Against Industry Bullying
Vermont isn't the only state having to muster up a backbone to face a potential legal challenge by the GMA. Rhode Island and Florida have also introduced GMO labeling laws this year. Massachusetts and New York are expected to follow suit. But no matter where GMO labeling laws are considered, you can be sure GMA lobbyists will be present, spewing falsehoods and intimidating lawmakers. The Organic Consumers Association has created an Action Page where you can voice your opinions with the lawmakers in your state. Please tell them to stand firm; ignore the threats from the food industry, and do what's right for the people they were elected to represent.
Vote with Your Pocketbook, Every Day
Remember, the food companies on the left of this graphic spent tens of millions of dollars in the last two labeling campaigns—in California and Washington State—to prevent you from knowing what's in your food. You can even the score by switching to the brands on the right; all of whom stood behind the I-522 Right to Know campaign. Voting with your pocketbook, at every meal, matters. It makes a huge difference.
If you buy processed food, opt for products bearing the USDA 100% Organic label, as organics do not permit GMOs. You can also print out and use the Non-GMO Shopping Guide, created by the Institute for Responsible Technology. Share it with your friends and family, and post it to your social networks. Alternatively, download their free iPhone application, available in the iTunes store. You can find it by searching for ShopNoGMO in the applications.
For more in-depth information, I highly recommend reading the following two books, authored by Jeffrey Smith, the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology:
- Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating
- Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods.
Please, do your homework. Together, we have the power to stop the chemical technology industry from destroying our food supply, the future of our children, and the earth as a whole. All we need is about five percent of American shoppers to simply stop buying genetically engineered foods, and the food industry would have to reconsider their source of ingredients—regardless of whether the products bear an actual GMO label or not.
Link: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/04/roundup-glyphosate-toxicity.aspx?e_cid=20140204Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140204Z1&et_cid=DM38971&et_rid=417779972.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)