- Here in America, possibly because of our Puritan heritage,
we seem to feel the need to cast any rotten evil thing that we do in a
guise that makes us appear as the world's benefactor. This is no less true
of corporations than it is of government. Nowhere else in the world does
a nation's propaganda ministry spend so much effort to appear "good
while justifying the most evil things the mind of man can imagine. In America,
the "cover story has been raised to an artform. Consider the willful
destruction of the worlds food chain by a merger of corporate and government
interests as a case in point.
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- A conference on genetically engineered agricultural products
was recently sponsored by the US department of Agriculture in Sacramento,
California. Police in riot gear were sent to control the angry crowds that
swarmed the streets making very clear the fact that they do not want to
be forced to consume GM food.
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- The US department of Agriculture who, theoretically represent
the interest of the American people, presented the needed "cover story
for the forcible promotion of GM foods. According to their story, it seems
these GM food products were developed to "reduce hunger and improve
nutrition by using advanced technology. The benefit is designed to be all
for the small farmer who can "reduce the use of pesticides on his
GM crops. Of course they can use less pesticide--pests don't like to eat
franken food any more than people do.
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- US Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman said "What
we,re talking about is increasing food productivity in areas of the world
where people are both hungry and poor. Many developing countries get 90%
of their food from local production and there isn't any infrastructure.
That means that, without infrastructure, they save seed from one year to
the next and do not have to come to the seed companies to buy seed to plant
crops every year.
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- Lets get the facts on the table. What Ann Veneman was
really talking about is building a government/corporate monopoly that alone
has absolute control over the food supply of the entire world. The independent
farmer who does all the work becomes enslaved. Having total control over
the food supply has been a dream of those who manage the American food
chain since Wesson first started to engineer edible oils in 1911.
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- Where is our antitrust protection from these ravening
wolves? Exactly what is it that the FDA doesn't understand about its responsibilities
to assure a safe food supply.
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- A glimpse at agricultural history
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- The step up to using genetic engineering technology to
render our crops impervious to herbicides is a natural extension of the
practice of establishing hybrid seed technology that is now an accepted
fact throughout agriculture. Once, before the profit motive dominated every
area of life, seeds reproduced their own kind with great repeatability.
When seed companies got into the act they selectively bred a variety of
hybrid seed that would not reproduce themselves. When the farmer, typically
not any less gullible that most of us, bought into this scenario he found
himself forced to buy seed every year for whatever price the seed purveyor
chose to ask. Previously, with the expenditure of a little extra work every
year he could save his seed and not have to pay anybody anything to plant
his crops.
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- Now the farmer has to come to the seed companies every
year, hat in hand, to see what his seed is going to cost him. He is forced
to pass on these costs in the price of food.
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- GM agriculture was specifically developed to make the
crops immune to the use of herbicides. When weeds develop in a field containing
a food crop, the farmer sprays the field with an herbicide. Theoretically,
if the concentration of herbicide is correct, it kills the weeds and spares
the crops. The repeated use of this technology has bred a weed population
that has proved increasingly resistant to the use of herbicides. The window
between a lethal dose of herbicide for the weeds and a safe dose that would
not kill the crop also has narrowed dramatically. The money making solution
to this dilemma is to "engineer the gene structure of the crop for
increased resistance to the herbicide.
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- The keystone cops of the scientific community
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- Bad science; really, bad, inept, corrupt and bungled
science is the norm in the agricultural community. The reality of what
they,re doing is far removed from the cover story presented by the US
Department of Agriculture. Thinly veiled profit motives that rape the environment
commonly masquerade as science in this community. There are at least three
major scientific blunders hidden in Ann Veneman's plan to "reduce
hunger and improve nutrition by using advanced technology. If this community's
standard for advanced technology were the norm in other industries, as
for example the transportation industry, we would all be still riding in
horse drawn buggies, whose wheels kept falling off.
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- First the process results in development of herbicide
resistant weeds. When a field containing both weeds and herbicide resistant
crops is sprayed with an herbicide the herbicide is supposed to kill the
weeds and leave the crops. What actually happens is that the herbicide
kills most of the weeds but not all. Those weeds that are not killed reproduce
as herbicide resistant weeds. As this process is repeated from year to
year a new class of weeds evolves that is immune to the herbicide. This
process, at least outside of the agricultural scientific community, has
been well understood for over a hundred years as the process of natural
selection.
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- As the evolution of increasingly resistant weeds proceeds,
the "advanced technology of the agribusiness community prescribes
ever increasing doses of herbicide. Within a short time however, the weed
population has become so resistant to the herbicide that it no longer works.
That is where we are now in the battle of the weeds. That is why there
is such pressure to market GM food products that can stand the ever increasing
use of ever more ineffective herbicides. The so called scientists who want
to force their "advanced technology on the entire world have been
raping our fields and plundering our farmers for decades. This is the "infrastructure
that our Department of Agriculture wants to force on third world nations.
To a very large extent, the American farming community has been severely
damaged by these profit oriented practices. Now we want to export them
to the "poor farmer in other parts of the world.
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- Second, there is no way to prevent cross pollination
of these genetically modified products with natural non-modified strains.
Birds consume the seeds and scatter them where they will. GM seed will
inevitably be transported into fields containing non-GM crops. Bees cross
pollinate GM and non GM crops in a totally uncontrolled manner. The wind
blows the pollen all over the landscape. The use of herbicides on fields
that contain a mix of GM and non-GM crops preferentially kills the non-GM
crop. The end result of this process is to inexorably eradicate the non-GM
crop and replace it with the GM crop.
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- This gives the owner of the GM seed patents absolute
defacto dictatorial control over the food chain; a super efficient way
to establish profit margin superiority. By the exercise of patent rights,
good food has been rendered impossible to grow in these herbicide polluted
fields. The goons that did the destruction must now be paid dearly for
the only seed that remains capable of growing in the herbicide polluted
fields. Needless to point out, the same scientists that sell the GM seed
have a close business connection to the scientists that sell the herbicide.
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- Third there have been no useful studies done to provide
even a "cover story type of assurance that the resulting GM strains
are even edible let alone nutritious.
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- More on the health effects of soy products
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- This engineering of the seed causes foreign herbicide
resistant proteins to be present in the crop. No long term tests to determine
the effect of these foreign proteins on the human metabolism have been
conducted. Tests have been conducted only to demonstrate the increased
resistance of the crop to being sprayed by the herbicide. The crop looks
good, it is economical to grow and provides justification to continue the
use of modern herbicides. Only one minor problem; its so inedible that
the GM sponsors themselves admit that even pests won't eat it.
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- Numerous reports have been surfacing about the bad reactions
we humans are having to these foreign proteins.
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- Argentina, after their recent economic problems, decided
to supply GM soy as a staple to both their population and their cattle.
The immediate result was an incredible disaster. According to a report
in the February issue of the Ecologist. "The result of this use of
GM soy products was anemia, hormonal disruption, weak bones, rotten teeth
and malnutrition. The GM soy animal feed also was reported to contain over
"200 times the glcyphosate (Roundup herbicide) that the human GM soy
products contained. Glyphosate in any amount interferes with the absorption
of minerals, particularly iron and zinc.
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- When consumers ingest GM soy they also unknowingly ingest
the Roundup herbicide used for weed control in the fields. This is according
to a recent study out of Freiburg University.
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- The March 15, 1999 issue of The Journal of the American
Cancer Society contains an article that makes the connection between Roundup
(glyphosate) and non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a form of cancer.
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- The Ecologist, in January 2003, discussed the connection
between farmers that use the Roundup herbicide and increased incidence
of prostate cancer. Another California study demonstrated that pregnant
women that lived within a mile of farm where Roundup was sprayed on crops
experienced a significantly increased chance of losing their baby. A Chinese
study reported severe gastro-intestinal disorders as well as damage to
the immune system in a study they conducted with rats. Their report, released
under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Science, also concluded that:
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- GM products cause food poisoning. GM products cause cancer
GM products cause allergies and severe immune system disruption GM products
are deficient in nutritional value
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- The literature is replete with increasing evidence that
the reluctance of people to consume GM products is very well founded indeed.
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- The reaction of the American government in the "land
of the free and the home of the brave is interesting. It is to this we
turn next.
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- A few examples of government bullying and deception
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- The European Union has passed a law that prohibits the
importation of GM products into their countries for five years. This is
an altogether sensible idea that has caused a furious response from America.
The US is lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization
in an effort to force Europeans to accept this frankenfood.
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- The US has recently suspended plans to conduct free trade
talks with Egypt. This is punishment for Egypt because they refused to
join the US in a complaint about the five year ban on GM food products
put in place in the European Union.
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- The US congress has recently passed a law that makes
American help in combating the AIDS virus in Africa contingent upon Africans
accepting GM contaminated food.
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- Despite unprecedented levels of American dictatorial
coercion as well as a famine in their land Zambia, has refused to import
GM food. Mozambique and Zimbabwe refused to import GM corn grain but had
to accept milled corn because of a serious ongoing famine. We have produced
a furious reaction in Africa by attempting to force GM food on a poor population.
Nnimmo Bassey, Director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria, said
"African nations should have the right to decide what their people
are fed. It is immoral for the US to exploit the famine and the AIDS crisis
in this way.[1]
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- The US has regulations in place to conceal the fact of
GM contaminated food in the American supermarket. The idea is to prevent
Americans from being able to choose whether or not they want to eat it;
bad for business.
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- A step back to take a harder look at soy products in
general
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- Those of you who have been following my work exposing
our criminal epidemic of diabetes already have a built in protection against
this wholesale food chain fraud being perpetrated by the American corporate-government
complex. Ask any American about the dangers of saturated fat and he will
quickly parrot "saturated fat is bad- it causes heart attacks. This
widespread and totally false belief is the result of a massive marketing
campaign in America to replace good beneficial fats and oils that we once
had with these cheap junk oils. The idea was to greatly increase the profit
margin of processed food by using worthless oils instead of beneficial
healthy oils. Noteworthy among these junk oils that were successfully introduced
into our food chain by this deception is soy oil. An immediate consequence
of this marketing success has been the explosive increase in degenerative
disease including obesity and diabetes.
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- At one point, a few years ago, soy oil, cottonseed oil
and rape seed oil (canola) among others, were considered inedible. They
were not fit even to use as animal feed let alone human. A massive marketing
campaign was launched against healthy beneficial oils here in America.
The result was a huge gain in acceptance for cheap worthless food products
that up to then had no market. Another result was the stigmatizing and
removal from the marketplace of the more expensive beneficial oils, such
as coconut oil, we had always depended upon. The idea was, and is, that
soy is easy to grow and, if widespread market acceptance could be manufactured,
the use of soy in processed food could be made to produce immense profits.
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- Soybean products, even before being genetically modified,
were, and remain, almost worthless as human or animal food. There are
many really good studies that have repeatedly exposed the soy fraud..[2]
Genetic modification has simply brought products already known to be marginally
edible to the point where they are rightfully regarded as not just worthless
but poisonous.
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- Unprocessed soy whether GM or non-GM is basically a poisonous
substance. Although considered a high protein food, the protein is locked
up with trypsin inhibitors to the extent that the protein is not available
when it is eaten. This is why diets that are high in soy content lead to
malnutrition. Diets high is soy content have been associated with Parkinson's
disease because of their high phytate content and their disabling of zinc
absorption. Soy is associated with precocious puberty because of their
elevated phytoestrogen content. The daily amount of soy milk required for
a bottle fed infant contains the same amount of estrogen to be found in
five birth control pills.[3]
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- Fermented soy is a special case
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- Successful processing of soybeans to make them even marginally
useful in a dietary health program requires very long fermentation times.
The only healthy way to prepare soy for human consumption is by fermenting
it into products like Tempeh and Miso.
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- Tofu is not an acceptable processing method. Long time
users of Tofu have shown a significant increase in the development of Parkinson's
Disease and Alzheimer's.[4]
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- So what can we do
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- While we await the collapse of this crooked corporate
government complex under the weight of its own bungling, deceit, ineptitude,
thievery, bad science and criminal misuse of force against us, we need
to survive. And, we need to routinely throw as many lawful monkey wrenches
as possible into this criminal conspiracy.
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- First we can go to the root of the problem; money. Refuse
to buy or eat any of this junk that's being touted as food. Read labels
in the grocery store. Whenever you see soy oil or any soy product on the
label in these processed foods simply leave it on the shelf. In time this
refusal to be deceived into feeding your family worthless and dangerous
food products will have an effect. This desired effect can be speeded up
considerably by taking the time to tell the supermarket manager that you
will not buy food containing soy in any form. Because of GM soy's great
propensity to cross pollinate with non-GM soy and because of labeling fraud
that conceals the presence of GM food products, you must assume that any
product is contaminated with the genetically modified strain. Do not buy
or consume any food product that contains soy or soy oil or indeed, any
of the junk oils.
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- Second we can bombard our Congress with letters, phone
calls and faxes from an irate constituency that is well aware of the upcoming
election and our perceived need to replace unresponsive representatives.
Since the rigging of elections and the explosive increase in lying, double
dealing and bribery have become commonplace in our political arena, this
technique has become less effective than our founding fathers once envisioned.
However, it is still better than doing nothing. As the late Senator Everett
Dirksen once said, "When I feel the heat, I see the light.
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- Third, those of you out there that have a few extra bucks
in your jeans and want to do something useful might consider exhausting
available legal and administrative avenues of redress through regulatory
challenges. Others may form groups to share the expense and accomplish
the same thing. As long as these "regulators believe their chicanery
goes unnoticed they do their dirty work. When once they start getting exposed,
as individuals, in the press, in the courts and in their neighborhoods
they may find it considerably more difficult to hide the truth about what
they really do. You might start by publicly asking Ann Veneman exactly
why she said that less pesticide is required for GM crops.
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- These are only some suggestions. I,m sure that the remarkable
inventiveness that has characterized America throughout its history will
prove helpful once again as more and more Americans come to fully realize
what is being done to them, by whom and why.
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- Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator having
been forced into curing his own Diabetes because it was obvious that his
doctor would not or could not cure it. He has published the results of
his successful Diabetes investigation in his special report entitled "Insulin:
Our Silent Killer written for the layman but also widely valued by the
medical practitioner. In the US, the book may be purchased by sending $25.00
US to him at PO Box 7685, Loveland, Colorado 80537. He has also posted
a great deal of useful information about this disease on his web page www.Healingmatters.com
He can be reached by email at valley@healingmatters.com and by telephone
at: 1 (970) 669-9176
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- 1 Sunday Herald, Rob Edwards, Environmental Editor 2
"Soy infant formula could be harmful to infants: groups want it pulled,
Nutrition week, Dec 10, 1999;29(46):1-2 Enig M.G., Fallon S.A., "Tragedy
and Hype, The third International Soy Symposium. Nexus Magazine Vol
7, No 3, Apr-May 2000 Shepard T.H., "Soybean Goiter, New Eng J Med
1960;262:1099-1103 3 Setchell K.D., et al, "Exposure of infants to
phyto-estrogens from soy based infant formula., Lancet 1997 July 5;350(9070):23-27
4 White L.R., et al, "Association of mid-life consumption of tofu
with late life cognitive impairment and dementia: The Honolulu-Asia Aging
study, fifth International conference on Alzheimer's Disease #487, 27 July
1996, Osaka, Japan
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- Thomas Smith PO Box 7685 Loveland, Colorado 80537 Copyright
2003 by Thomas Smith All rights reserved (970) 669-9176 Email: Valley@healingmatters.com
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