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On The Brink Of GMO Disaster
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By Robert Cohen
notmilk@earthlink.net
2-7-4
On The Brink of a GMO Disaster
Americans are walking along the cutting edge blade of an environmental
apocalypse.
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.
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.
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:
"Will I get to the truth? You bet. One way or another..."
I predicted:
"Mark down this date, 12/19/03."
This may very well be the defining moment that ends the use of
genetically engineered foods in America's food."
For my entire column, see:
<http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1499 >
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:
<http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1535 >
I could not stand it anymore. I called the person in charge at FDA,
Glo Dunnavan, and said:
"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:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1536
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.
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:
"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."
My entire column:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1547
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.
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.
OBSERVATION 1
"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."
"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."
OBSERVATION 2
"Equipment for adequate control over micro-organisms is not provided
when appropriate for the manufacture, processing, packing or holding
of a drug product."
As Jeff Goldbloom said to Geena Davis in the classic horror film, The
Fly (1986): "Be scared, be very scared."
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.
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.
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?
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.
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."
A third bacterium found was identified as Propionibacterium acnes
(P-acnes). What the heck is P-acnes? An Internet search revealed:
"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."
Will Monsanto's genetically engineered version be giving America's
teenagers super-zits?
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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