What happens in American homes! Well, the FDA

As a youth growing up in the fifties, it seemed as though we were living this carefree existence that was not unlike the lives of those we watched on the old black and white TV every evening.  Uncle Milty dressed up in a dress, (I had a lot of neighbors in Austin that did the same thing) the Cleaver boys got sent to their rooms after doing bad things, and Huntley and Brinkley made moms everywhere sigh dreamily.  Other than those pesky Ruskies causing the incredibly stupid duck and cover drills in every school in America, life was pretty idyllic.  Number one cause of death back then, heart disease.  Not surprising, I, like most everyone else, enjoyed the meat eaters diet along with the best the Western World could provide.  White bread, white rice, minute rice, canned vegetables and a huge artery clogging array of meat products.  Yeah, people got cancer, but just like the crazy uncle that smelled bad and took his clothes off and sat on his porch talking to a tree, nobody talked about it.
Since 1950, the overall cancer rate in the population of the United States has risen 44%.  The incidence of breast cancer and male colon cancer by about 60%; testis, prostate and kidney by 100%; and other cancers, such as malignant melanoma, multiple myeloma and some lymphomas, by over 100%. (1)

America has the highest rate of cancer in the world.  As of today, we see that 1 out of 2 American men and 1 out of 3 American women are expected to develop cancer.  Quite a change from when I was growing up.  Now 1 out of 8 women get breast cancer, and of those women, 1 out of 10 who get breast cancer can be linked to genetic causes.  That leaves 9 out of 10 attributed to environmental factors.  (2)

What happened?

The FDA happened, that's what.  The FDA was created to shepherd the food supply of Americans and to prevent contamination and adulteration of fresh and processed foods.  I think that most Americans truly believe that the FDA exists to protect us from dangerous additives, farming practices and poorly processed food products.  Well, it isn't true.  Today, the FDA is overworked, understaffed, and concerned more with taking payoffs and positioning themselves with future jobs in private industry than they are with the concerns of the people whose livelihood they are mandated to protect.  I know that sounds harsh, but their track record speaks for itself.  The numbers of questionable additives to our foods, and into livestock is the highest in the world.  The FDA has taken the philosophy that differs from the rest of the world.  Most other countries look at additives and do not approve them unless they are proven completely safe.  The FDA instead approves new additives on the basis that at that time, they haven't been proven dangerous.   And even then, if the additive makes tons of money for the manufacturer, then forget about getting rid of it.  Case in point--

Aspartame.  " Dr. Woodrow Monte, who authored the journal article “Aspartame, Methanol and the Public Health” wrote: "...think twice about taking it with your breakfast cereal. Aspartame or Equal, the controversial sweetener virtually forced down the throats of the American FDA by the notorious former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (the president of the company that produced it), turns into Formaldehyde inside your children's bodies. It is well known aspartame or Equal (E951/951) turns into wood alcohol when it is consumed, however, few people realize this wood alcohol morphs into formaldehyde in the cells of the human body. Formaldehyde is a Class 1 causing agent (the world class of carcinogens) and is responsible for everything from sick house syndrome to birth defects."  And   " toxicologist Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress at least one of Searle's studies "has established beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this predisposition of it is of extremely high significance."  (3)

I could go on and on about how the FDA is making people sick, and in truth, I have.  (see most of my entries on this blog)  But what good will it do.  It won't change the FDA.  What I hope will happen is that you will begin to look at the ingredient list on everything you buy.  Then look up those additives on the internet.  Bread doesn't need potassium bromate in it!  The stuff is poisonous.  the US is the only country in the world to allow it to be consumed.  Look at everything you buy.  And then tell your friends.  If we, as informed consumers stop purchasing the crap that is presented to us as healthy foods, then perhaps they will stop making it and start making the foods that they are capable of making.  Ones that truly are nutritious, promoting health and vitality.  It is possible, the rest of the world does it.  The Ruskies no longer are a threat, we ourselves are our biggest threat to our health and livelihoods.

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Where is the FDA at when it comes to deceptive advertising?

Should big businesses be allowed to advertise their products as healthful and being able to promote joint and bone health, enhance the musculoskeletal system, prohibit age related eye diseases, reduce the risk of chronic diseases and supports optimum immune function.  If those big businesses are selling apples, or maybe carrots, whole and unadulterated, then yes, they should be allowed to advertise all those claims and proudly print that stuff on the labels.  But if you are making VitaminWater, and putting all of these very same health claims into your advertising and printing the same unproven lies right on the bottles; well, no. The marketing and business model for this product is incredible.  The good wholesome folks at CocaCola, are once again making literally hundreds of millions of dollars on this product with their ads and labels that promise health and vitality and in fact give you crap.

I don't want to be deceptive about their stuff, so I went to Vitaminwater.com and went to try to download the nutritional info on one of the flavors.  Oh, the nutritionals are only available to those people in the US.  (says so right on the website)  I started to download the pdf file that is only 3.7 MB.  These guys have it set up so that it takes 24 minutes to download the file over a high speed connection.  They don't want anyone looking at it.  I could have gotten into the van and driven to the QT and bought a bottle in the time it took to download.  The file is two pages.  It lists the nutrient content of each product, and in the tiniest print imaginable, they show the ingredients.  At 200% magnification I was able to read the ingredients.  Water, Crystalline Fructose, Cane Sugar,  and then less than .5% of a few vitamins.

In 2010 the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the CSPI, a wholly independent group funded by consumer support, filed a lawsuit against Coke stating that they used deceptive advertising and marketing practices to sell this sugar water to the public.  In their lawsuit CSPI nutritionists state that the SUGAR content of the stuff more than offsets ANY purported health benefits.  They state that this is part of what is called the "Jellybean Rule" wherein because a jellybean has no cholesterol, therefore it is good for your heart.  CSPI states that Coke cannot deceptively state that a product, in this case Vitaminwater, on the label and then on the back of the label list the ingredients that show that the health claims are indeed false.  And that just because Coke lists the ingredients does not indemnify them of responsible advertising and marketing.  The judge that heard Coke's motion to dismiss the lawsuit in an INCREDIBLY fantastic decision stated that he saw evidence to proceed with the lawsuit.  He also stated that although the FDA frowns on advertising that promotes one ingredient to the exclusion of more prominent ingredients, in this case sugar.  The judge also stated that there was enough evidence that Coke violated FDA regulations by making health claims about Vitaminwater even though it does not meet required minimum nutritional thresholds, by using the word ‘healthy’ in implied nutrient content claims even though Vitaminwater’s fortification does not comply with FDA policy, and by using a product name that references only two of Vitaminwater’s ingredients, omitting the fact that there is a key, unnamed ingredient [sugar] in the product,”

Whew.  Two things about all of this scare me.  And also make me happy.  First, that Judge Gleeson points out that the FDA frowns on deceptive advertising.  FROWNS?.  The second, all of those products on the shelves of supermarkets that market themselves as having "Fruit" and have labels depicting fruit with their crap like waffles, yogurt, cereals and all kinds of other crap, in fact do not contain actual fruit, but "FRUIT BITS" .  Tiny bits of artificially created sugar, coloring, artificial flavoring, and in a few cases, tiny bits of dried fruit.  WHY?
The FDA is once again showing how well they are protecting consumers here in America.  Big business, big money.  It isn't as though the FDA has done anything to protect the interests of American consumers in the past.  Well, they have done a few things, like close down a peanut butter production facility that was so rampantly deteriorating as to have huge amounts of contaminants in their products as to sicken the inspectors.  But other than that, the real health hazards in our food system, GM food, toxic additives, grossly huge amounts of pesticide and herbicide residues, the proliferation of the use of antibiotics in mega farms and other SERIOUS health concerns are overlooked because big businesses are ready and waiting with HUGE amounts of CASH to spread out to governmental entities and elected officials.  Hmm. where do most of the directors and department heads of the FDA and USDA work once leaving government jobs?  Monsanto.  Which of the unbiased Supreme Court judges used to be lawyers for Monsanto?  Who used to be a lawyer for Monsanto and was specifically picked by Obama (in a GROSSLY confliction of interest) to be the nations food safety czar? 

The FDA has proven time and time again that their focus is not on the HEALTH of the Americans that they are entrusted to protect, but the WEALTH of the big agribusinesses that funnel MONEY into the pockets of anyone with the power to make decisions.  It is never going to change.  EVER.  Money talks louder than the needs of citizens.  What can change is that you, me, everyone out there, begins to recognize what is going on in the world and stands up against big business.  Shop at farmers markets, don't buy crap anymore.  ASK the grocery managers if the zucchini they have on sale is GMO or non-GMO.  If they don't know, tell them you won't shop there until they know what they carry.  And do it loudly in public.  Alert your friends to the threat to their lives and their very health and well being if they continue to spend their food dollars on toxins and poisons.  We have to care enough about our own health to take action, our government does not give a rat's ass about you at all.  Think about it. 

What to do to make a difference

Have I made a difference?  I don't know, I think that I have influenced a few people, made them think differently about food a bit maybe.  Yesterday, after spending the better part of the day walking around the Fountain Hills Arts and Craft Fair, I met up with Karrie and her luckiest guy in the world fiancee, Jay for a couple beers and conversation.  Karrie, has made a difference.

A few years ago she and her parents, who are both Healthcare Professionals, got together and spent a lot of time getting donations of medications and medical supplies and then they went to Kenya.  There they went way out past civilization and helped out at a remote medical aid station.  They treated the native people for a host of basic medical needs, and helped in ways that are unimaginable to most of us.  And they volunteered and paid for most of the trip themselves.

The one thing that Karrie told me was the most haunting thing that they did there was when these parents had walked over 60 miles with their 18 year old son with them in a wheelbarrow.  The boy had years earlier started off with a large tumor on his wrist, which the village medical person cut off with a hack saw and then bandaged with banana leaves.  A couple years later, he grew an even larger tumor on his elbow, which was treated in the same way.  Now, at manhood, he had tumors on his face, shoulders and in his neck.  These tumors had grown into his neck to the point they interfered with his breathing and left him unable to talk.  And in a great deal of pain.  Incapable of walking they hauled him there in the wheelbarrow.  The prognosis, was not good at this little facility in the middle of nowhere.  The parents were understanding, and just asked to help them alleviate his pain and help him to pass from this morbidly painful existence, into the next.  They did.  And the long suffering youth left the life that he had known for so long and in the presence of his loving parents he passed over.  Then they wheeled him back home to be buried.

What must it take to ask for the means to provide a son a quick and painless death.  To watch your own child grow up, with horrifyingly debilitating health problems, and to know with certainty, that there is no hope for any sort of cure.  What must go through the minds of those parents.  And certainly, it isn't just the parents living out in the bushlands of Kenya, or other remote places, but here, today, in modern society.  There are unfortunately large numbers of ailments that destroy life, and modern medicine is unable to provide any long term solution.  It happens all too often, and without the simple defining answer that the couple in Kenya received.  As doctors practice their profession, they make life miserable for a whole host of patients that they know that there is no hope for.  But continue to prolong the agony because no one wants to take a stand and to provide the type of final care that some, Dr. Kevorkian for example, provide.

Well, that was a deep subject for today's blog entry, one that will hopefully make some of you think hard and long, and maybe, just maybe, one more person out there will volunteer and do what my wonderful friend Karrie and her parents did once a few years ago.  We need more people in the world to make a difference, and not like me that just makes you think about what you eat.

The White House-Do what I ask, don't look at what I do!

Walter Scheib is the man to ask about whether or not the man in the highest office in the country eats the same things the rest of the people do or not.  He was Executive Chef of the White House.  In his interview for Mother Jones News, he stated,
"From 1994 to 2005 I was the executive chef at the White House. This offered me not only the personal honor of serving two unique and interesting first families, but the professional challenge of fulfilling Hillary Clinton's mandate of bringing contemporary American cuisine and nutritionally responsible food to the White House."
"This meant that nearly all the product used was obtained from local growers and suppliers. There was a small garden on the roof of the White House where produce was grown. The ethic of the purchasing and the cooking at the White House under my direction and under the continuing direction of [current Obama White House executive chef] Cris Comerford is one of respect for the pedigree of the product and manner it is grown, gathered, raised or caught."
"The Clinton and Bush families dined regularly on organic foods. Both wagyu and grass-fed beef were frequently used."

Sam Kass's title is assistant White House chef and food initiative coordinator.  He is the guy that cooks primarily for the first family while the the White House chef, Christeta Comerford, primarily takes care of the more formal events.  Once he came to the White House staff in 2008, he was a bit of a thorn in the side of the president's drive to help big agribusiness make money to the exclusion of health of Americans.  Mr. Kass made this statement on his blog-

“We find ourselves in a fight to salvage a food system that has been ravaged by an approach of quantity over quality,” he wrote. “The industry our society has built around food is harmful and unsustainable.”

Well, isn't that interesting.  As the last three presidents have received huge amounts of cash from big agribusiness firms  have championed the biotech companies and helped to push through blanket approval of most genetically modified plants, and of course, the huge increase in agricultural chemical use; they themselves have stayed as far away from the food that is produced by their very actions.  They have in fact turned to the organic lifestyle.  If the food that they want all Americans to have available to Americans isn't good enough for them, why is it good enough for us?  Are they, the Obamas, the Romneys, the heads of the biotech companies all aware of something that they do not want us to know about?  Maybe they already know about the research that shows how long term toxicity of GM foods will cause kidney, liver, reproductive failure and degenerative brain disorders and therefore distance themselves from the very food that they championed.   Is it because they want desperately to be the breeding stock that is available to repopulate the world after we, the peons of America, the riffraff, all die off?  something to think about.

Info on the FDA

I did not write this, I have copied it, with their permission, from www.naturalnews.com.  But it definitely addresses the things about the FDA that I feel.  It was written to garner interest in the incredibly stupid Senate bill 510 that was passed back in 2010.  Everything there is still descriptive of the FDA and their tunnel vision of America.  Hands out begging for all the more cash from agribiz they look toward citizens as disposable.  The picture at the bottom was inserted by me.

Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:

Lie #1 - Most deaths from food poisoning are caused by fresh produce

Here's a whopper the mainstream media won't dare report: Out of the 1,809 people who die in America every year from food-borne pathogens (CDC estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer's contamination of fresh produce. By far the majority of food poisoning is caused by the consumption of spoiled processed foods, dead foods and animal-human transmission of pathogens.

For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to the CDC is Toxoplasma gondii, a disease that people acquire from cat feces coming into contact with their food, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203). Salmonella poisoning accounts for 553 deaths a year. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving a car has a roughly 7600% higher chance of killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-mult...)

In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurized milk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address these food contamination deaths, since those foods are considered "sterilized" at the time of sale.

Lie #2 - Under S.510, the FDA would only recall products it knows to be contaminated

Not true. S.510 merely requires the FDA to have "reason to believe" a food is contaminated. So right there, that means all raw milk will be targeted by the FDA because even without conducting any scientific tests at all, the FDA can say it has "reason to believe" the milk is contaminated merely because it is raw.

In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needs an opinion.

Is this "reason to believe" section really true? Yep, and here's how it was amended:

SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bi...)

In other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S. Senate removed the requirement that the FDA needed "credible evidence" in order to recall a product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing "reason to believe."

It is utterly amazing that the U.S. Congress would give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and even imprison people based entirely on what the agency "has reason to believe."

Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement that has any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don't even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you'd have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.

The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.

This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge of the food supply, is the belief system of an insane government agency that has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.

Lie #3 - They didn't tell you that nearly 70% of grocery store chickens are contaminated with salmonella every day

Yep, it's true: Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody forgot to notice that the vast majority of fresh chickens sold at grocery stores every single day are widely contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_chickens_salmonella.html). Yet S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It's not even mentioned in the bill.

In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh produce in many kitchens across America. So the so-called "food poisoning" that's often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the contaminated chicken meat people bring home and slice on their kitchen cutting boards.

Lie #4 - S.510 will exclude and protect small farmers

The Tester Amendment, which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork and compliance burdens described in the bill. But this dollar amount is not indexed to inflation, meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more "quantitative easing," anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket -- and this will shift even small family farms into the $500,000 sales range within just a few years.

In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.

Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand will refuse to hire more people or expand their operations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.

Lie #5 - The FDA needs more power to enforce food safety

The FDA already has the power to effectively recall foods by publicly announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already has the power to confiscate "misbranded" products, too, and it could easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.

But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in a reaction to the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the health freedoms and food freedoms of the American people.

Lie #6 - Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork

There is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will make their food safer. The real cause of produce contamination is the existence of factory animal farms whose effluent output (huge rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and equipment that comes into contact with fresh produce.

The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you've got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meat industry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren't even addressed in the bill!

Lie #7 - The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food

The truth is that Americans are dying from processed food laced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce. Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame, MSG and artificial food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial contaminations.

The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals -- anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science and drug company trickery. The FDA doesn't seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out by Big Pharma in the name of "medicine." (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_health_news_Big_Pharma.html)

To think that the FDA -- the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharma death machine -- is now going to "save us" by controlling food safety is highly irrational.

Lie #8 - The FDA just wants to make food "safer"

Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more DEAD. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of live food. They think that the only safe food is sterilized food, which is why they've supported the fumigation, pasteurization and irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.

California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize their almonds before selling them (http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html). This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S. food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.

Lie #9 - Food smuggling is a huge problem in America

One of the main sections of S.510 addresses "food smuggling." Yep -- people smuggling food across the country. If you've never heard of this problem that's because it's not actually a problem.

Not yet anyway.

But there's a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they're probably planning on criminalizing fresh produce and then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the "intent to distribute."

Yep, farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer's market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the "food smuggling" provisions of S.510.

Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.

Lie #10 - S.510 will make America's food supply the safest in the world

Actually, even with S.510 in place, America's food supply is among the most chemically contaminated in the world, second only to China. You can find mercury in the seafood, BPA in the canned soup, yeast extract (MSG) in the "natural" potato chips, and artificial petrochemical coloring agents in children's foods.

Eating the "Standard American Diet" is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It's the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume the American diet starts to show record rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the "safe food" that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.

Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html#ixzz2BYxAijfZ

A big loss for the health of our descendants

Well, it is done, the votes are in and the majority of the people in California have told big agribusiness that we as Americans do not want the same choices that the rest of the world gets relative to the poisonous Genetically Modified foods.

Yay.

With the September release of the first long term feeding studies showing that there is a definitive correlation with feeding GM corn to rats and their getting significantly higher rates of tumors, degeneration or liver, kidneys and brains; it is a good thing.  Of course it is due here as well, as India banned GM plants last week.  Most of the people in Europe are turning away from GM foods and they do not sell there.  It may take some effort, but eventually we here in American will ban them here as well.  The unfortunate thing is that it will take thousands and thousands of innocent people here dying from ALS type symptoms, huge increases in cancer, kidney failure, degenerative liver problems and other terrible consequences that are just now coming to light about these horrific abominations.  Genetically Modified plants, and salmon.   Just another way for Monsanto to make millions while killing humans.  Remember, Monsanto is quite used to litigation, the trillions of dollars of lawsuits that are expected from their poisoning of our food supply is just another drop in the hat to them,  Remember PCB's, Agent Orange, the violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the French government nailing them for false advertising cuz Monsanto said Roundup was biodegradable and them froggy boys discovered the truth, that it isn't.  Sheesh, what else have they been hauled into court for, destroying the water quality with PCB and a whole host of other toxins in Broficin Quarry in Wales.
Of course there are the Monsanto filed lawsuits, those are unbelievable.  If a farmer is planting crops, like he has done for years and years, then at the end of the season if he keeps seed aside to plant again the next spring, that should be a normal thing to do right.  Not so, if the farmer's neighbor plants GM crops and our innocent farmer then has his fields contaminated with the pollen from his neighbors fields; then that farmer is liable for damages in the amount of any profit he might make because the plants he is growing have GM genes and Monsanto says they own them.  And they have sued farmers and won even though the farmers did not want the GM, never bought the GM and want to get rid of the GM plants.  But because of contamination by GM plants in nearby fields, they were screwed.  Doesn't seem right does it?  But then again if you are stupid and spill hot coffee in your lap, you can sue and get a million dollars.  Just another failure of our American way of life.  Or perhaps it is a failure of Americans to give a shit about anything other than fast food, diet cola, reality TV shows and sitting on their butts to watch them.

This truly is a story of Goliath once again winning in the battle and terrorizing the people living in the valley.  Only the valley is all of California, and now the whole country.  Yes, it is true, a million dollars a day in TV ads spouting out and out lies has brainwashed the Reality TV show watchers and those that went out and voted sided with Big Agribusinesses and now they have an unbridled ability to foist ever more toxic poisons on the unsuspecting (and apparently uncaring) public. 

I don't understand it.  GM foods are failures!  They have not brought the huge increases in output they were supposed to have.  They no longer fight off insects as the insects now have resistance to them.   Weed killers no longer are effective because the weeds are resistant.  The weed killer is now shown to not only not be biodegradable but accumulate in human tissue. The BT Toxin has been shown to NOT be broken down in the human digestive tract and the BT Toxin producing genes are now part of the bacterial flora in human guts and continue to produce BT Toxin in our own systems.  Newly released studies show long term ingestion of GM corn produces tumors and degradation of kidneys, liver and brain tissues.  And yet California voters don't care if they eat the stuff. 

The last three presidents only eat organic food.  This is from interviews with the last two white house executive chefs.  We pay for their food so they can.  Romney only eats organic.  His wife had MS and got better after switching to an organic diet.  I wonder if the board at Monsanto eats organic.  A million dollars a day spent to defeat Prop 37, and they make billions on poisoning our food, no, they aren't stupid enough to eat their own crap. 

Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody! Help! We need a GM Superfund

I need to find someone with money to burn.  Someone that has the right attitude toward GM plants and animals.  A lawyer would be nice, but anyone with money would work.  I want to get a team off lawyers together and file a class action lawsuit against Monsanto and all the other gene technology companies out there.  I don't want the money, I want the money to go into a fund that will be used to help clean up the ecological disaster that they have caused.  Kind of like the big tobacco lawsuit, money into a fund for healthcare.  Here gene tech profits all go into a fund to help take care of the massive problems that we are just beginning to find.

To start, all the weed killer resistant weeds that exist. At this time, researchers have found 28 species of weeds or weedlike plants covering 16 families of plants that are not only roundup resistant but also Agent Orange resistant.  These weeds are resistant because farmers are CONTRACTUALLY required to use roundup on their crops when they plant GM plants.  It is required of them.  Monsanto and Dow along with DuPont bought up all the seed companies in the 90's and pretty much they only offer GM seed to farmers.  Their only option is to buy the GM seed, use the chemicals and say their prayers like the rest of the world hoping that all these lies told to them by GM tech companies are true.  Even though we are finding out that they really and truly are lies.

GM crops were supposed to increase the yields of farmlands with less work, less toxic chemicals and greater output.  Not so, this has been proven to be a complete and total fantasy.  The Department of Agriculture itself has found that the soybean crop from GM fields to be on average 15% less than non-GM crops.  Herbicide sales have skyrocketed.  And pesticide sales have gone way up as well, with the advent of BT toxin resistant insects now showing up everywhere.  The promise of less chemicals is just another fantasy as the natural world adapts to the horrors of GM technology.

Corn is Genetically Modified.  There is no non-GM corn anywhere in the world now.  High in the mountains of Mexico the native people there have been raising their native corn for over a thousand years.  Indigenous to that area, it was perfectly suited to conditions on the volcanic soil where it has grown and fed the people for generations.  GM corn is based on highly technolized corn plants.  Shallow roots, dependent on high phosphate chemical fertilizers; today's GM corn could not survive and flourish in nature.  Mexican corn is now infected with the genes from GM corn.  Five years ago scientists speculated that there would not be any non-GM corn left by 2018.  They were wrong, it has happened as of 3 years ago.  The corn pollen from GM corn fields is airborne and has drifted into the high Mexican mountains and destroyed the corn population there.  Now, the hybridized corn no longer grows freely in the rich volcanic soil, but withers without applications of high phosphate chemical fertilizers that the native people cannot afford to purchase.

In India, Monsanto convinced the government that BT Toxin cotton was the plant of choice as it is resistant to the boll worm and will increase the yields and cut the costs to the farmers.  Indian farmers planted thousands of hectares of the miracle GM cotton.  By the second year, boll worms had become completely resistant to the BT toxin and devastated the crops.  Crop yields have been less than 25% of previous yields and costs to the farmers have skyrocketed as now they not only have to pay for their seed, they have to buy high phosphate fertilizer and pesticides.  And to top it all off with yet another problem, when farmers allow their sheep to graze on the cotton stubble, as they have for years and years; the sheep sicken and die.  With no recourse, and bankruptcy, Indian farmers are committing suicide in huge numbers.  Over 25,000 have taken their own lives in total desperation.  The government of India just last week banned GM crops.

I've said this before, I will repeat it again here.  In 1996 when Monsanto went before Congress to get their BLANKET APPROVAL FOR ALL GM PLANTS, they testified that the genes inserted into plants will not, cannot, in anyway transfer to any other organism.  They lied.  Princeton researchers have found GM genes in the bacteria living in the intestinal tracts of human beings.  The bacterial flora that live within our systems is one of the main parts of our immune systems.  When our gut bacteria die, we have lots of problems.  If our gut bacteria suddenly begin to take on the characteristics of Genetically Modified plants, such as producing BT toxin, we have no studies as to what will happen.  However, in 1996, Monsanto scientists told Congress that BT toxin is harmless and is destroyed by the human digestive system.  They lied. Scientists have recently discovered BT toxin in the blood stream of human volunteers.  And the worst part, they found it in the blood of unborn fetuses.

Monsanto has NEVER done any long term studies on the effects of eating GM foods.  Someone else just did.  They fed a large number of rats a diet that consisted of 11% GM corn.  After 13 months, they sacrificed the rats and autopsied them.  They found tumors in their breasts and deterioration of the kidneys, livers and brains.  And they had pretty poor overall health before their deaths.  

I want that super GM fund to be there to help the Indian farmers.  To help the Mexican farmers.  And most of all, I want it to be there to help Americans that down the road find out that cancer, kidney disease, ALS type brain disorders are found to be caused by BT toxin, or some other unimagined problems that are found to be caused by Genetically Modified foods.