- On The Brink of a GMO Disaster
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- Americans are walking along the cutting edge blade of
an environmental apocalypse.
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- On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, I received the damning
evidence that confirms Monsanto's crime against humankind. Thirty hours
of non-stop research and confirmation later supports the magnitude of Monsanto's
crime against humankind.
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- The FDA is a co-conspirator because Monsanto's genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone should have been immediately banned from
the market upon receipt of this news, which will be revealed in this column.
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- I have just received the results of my Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request that was made a few days before Christmas, 2003. On
the day I filed that request, I also spoke with a number of FDA bureaucrats.
I smelled a cover-up of major proportion at FDA and wrote:
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- "Will I get to the truth? You bet. One way or another..."
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- I predicted:
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- "Mark down this date, 12/19/03."
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- This may very well be the defining moment that ends the
use of genetically engineered foods in America's food."
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- For my entire column, see:
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- <http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1499
>
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- FDA finally responded to my FOIA request by intentionally
ignoring my actual request and sending me non-relevant information about
an incident that occurred many years earlier. See:
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- <http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1535
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- I could not stand it anymore. I called the person in
charge at FDA, Glo Dunnavan, and said:
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- "I no longer give a damn about working with the
FDA. I give up. You win. The American people lose." I invited you,
my readers, to kick me in the butt. My column:
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- http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1536
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- I then called the FDA Ombudsman, Marcia Larkins and voiced
my frustration. She called me the next day to tell me that she would handle
my FOIA request. After telling her not to bother, and after her insisting
that she would, I hung up the phone, expecting very little.
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- On January 30, 2004, I received a warning that represented
a threat to my well being. I wrote a column the next day, responding to
that threat:
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- "I have been threatened, and my enemies can go to
hell. They will read this, and know that there will be many witnesses to
any future coincidences. You, my readers, are an insurance policy that
may or may not have matured to its full term...I will not turn my back
on the children. So, I continue my course. Full speed ahead."
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- My entire column:
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- http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1547
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- Four days after writing and posting that column, I received
an envelope from FDA confirming my worst fears. My FOIA request. Truth,
at last. The entire request cost me $18.30. This revelation shall cost
Monsanto and its stockholders considerably more.
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- The most damning evidence can be found in observation
number 1, filed by an FDA investigator after inspecting Monsanto's rebombinant
bovine somatotropin (rbST or Posilac) production facility at Biochemisetrasse
10, Kundl, Austria.
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- OBSERVATION 1
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- "There is a failure to thoroughly review the failure
of a batch or any of its components to meet any of its specifications whether
or not the batch has been thoroughly distributed."
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- "Specifically, the corrective actions implemented
after the investigation of nine sterility failures reported > since
2001 (3 for 2001, 3 for 2002, and 3 for 2003) for Posilac injection or
for the lyophilized active ingredient (Sometribove zinc) have not been
effective in preventing reoccurrence. In five instances (2 for 2001, 1
for 2002, and 2 for 2003) the organism was identified as Propionibacterium
acnes; Staphylococcus species have been > identified in three instances
and in one instance (in 2002) Bacillus pumilus was found. Propionibacterium
was found in environmental samples of the manufacturing areas. Batches
manufactured around the same period of time and under the same conditions
of the affected lots have been released to the market."
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- OBSERVATION 2
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- "Equipment for adequate control over micro-organisms
is not provided when appropriate for the manufacture, processing, packing
or holding of a drug product."
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- As Jeff Goldbloom said to Geena Davis in the classic
horror film, The Fly (1986): "Be scared, be very scared."
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- The first attempt to produce a new food by pretending
to understand God's genetic code resulted in a new kind of milk, supersaturated
with powerful growth hormones. FDA lied to America, claiming that milk
had not changed. That was the beginning.
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- At the end of the twentieth century, biotechnology produced
another new food, made by re-combining genetic material from deepwater
fish living in cold water with a gene from a potato, hoping to grow a new
variety of potato in cold weather. A similar attempt at producing the "Flavor-Saver"
tomato produced a variety of tomato that looked great, but lacked flavor.
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- With this latest FOIA request, we learn the answer to
the query, "What hath God wrought?" Humankind will now be asking,
"What hath man wrought?" > It has been well reported that
a new emerging species of bacteria has developed, immune to antibiotic
treatment. Staphylococcus aureus plagues many American hospitals in this
new outbreak. Could the etiology of the mother of all deadly Staph infections
be traced to a new genetically engineered version of Staph, a superbug
inadvertently produced by Monsanto and then introduced into the food supply?
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- In 1989, such Staphyloccus infections were unknown to
hospitals. By 2002, nearly two-thirds of all hospital infections could
be attributed to antibiotic-resistant Staphlococcus infections.
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- A second bacterium on FDA's (once) secret report reveals
that Posilac samples were found to contain Bacillus pumilus. This bacterium
degrades cellulose. What would be the result of genetically engineering
something that breaks down the heartiest of plant cells with a cow hormone?
As my dear departed Grandma Ruth used to say, "God only knows."
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- A third bacterium found was identified as Propionibacterium
acnes (P-acnes). What the heck is P-acnes? An Internet search revealed:
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- "P. acnes is the causative agent of acne vulgaris
(pimples)... Other infections for which P. acnes has been implicated include
corneal ulcers, heart valves and prosthetic devices, and central nervous
system shunts. A rare heart disease known as Propionibacterium acnes endocarditis
has been discovered in a prosthetic valve infected with P. acnes. The valve
was also complicated by multiple mycotic aneurysms."
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- Will Monsanto's genetically engineered version be giving
America's teenagers super-zits?
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- I am not a microbiologist. I am just a plain old guy
who has predicted that these genetically engineered Frankenfoods might
one day produce an environmental disaster. That day has arrived.
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- > Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com
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