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Robert Cohen's Victory -
Death Of Bovine
Growth Hormone!
By Robert Cohen
notmilk@earthlink.net
Not Milk.com
5-22-4
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... I love the
man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress
and grow brave by reflection."
-Thomas Paine
I admit to murdering the bastard. I plunged a knife deep into the
belly of the beast. Get the handcuffs and leg restraints. I am a
dangerous criminal. Lead me off to jail.
Monsanto will neither press charges nor credit me with the kill. Why
give their least favorite person credit where credit is due?
FDA will not admit it either. After all, they still work for Monsanto.
So too, for that matter does the George Bush administration. See:
http://www.notmilk.com/pelican.html
You will soon be reading a remarkable headline. The genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone is dead. Posilac, aka rbGH, rbST,
cow-fuel, milk-poison, will soon cease to exist.
What did this cost me? Ten years of my life, and it was worth it. The
ten potentially highest earning years of one man's life, from ages
42-52, all sacrificed for a principle. Like a pit bull, I grabbed onto
Monsanto's leg and would not leg go.
A tough decision awaits executives at the upper echelons of Monsanto.
A decision is being debated in corporate corridors. They cannot afford
to take Posilac off of the market, for that would be the end of their
genetic engineering technology. On the other hand, they cannot afford
to keep Posilac on the market, for the entire dairy industry has woken
up to this fact of economic reality: the genetically engineered bovine
growth hormone was bad for business.
Surplus milk resulting from this hormone kept milk prices low.
Adverse publicity from the bovine growth hormone caused people to
question all milk consumption.
Adverse publicity from the bovine growth horomone caused people to
explore milk alternatives, like soymilk.
Adverse publicity from the bovine growth hormone created the
"Notmilkman," the dairy industry's worst nightmare.
Before his death, my webmaster, Dave Rietz, often used a favorite
expression. "Every avalanche begins with a snowflake." At first, Dave
and I each represented one snowflake. Then we grew into two large
snowballs. We rolled down a hill, all the while gaining momentum and
mass. Some avalanche! Dave will enjoy today's column.
Four months ago (Sunday, December 21, 2003), I filed a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request with the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA).
One day earlier, I had received a copy of a letter alerting dairy
farmers that Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone
(rbST) would be in short supply. Monsanto wrote:
"Supplies of Posilac bovine somatotropin (rbST) are temporarily
limited while necessary corrections and improvements in manufacturing
are made by Monsanto's supplier."
I smelled something rotten in Monsanto-land.
That next day, I called many people at FDA, attempting to get the
facts. Nobody was talking. In 1999, I had filed a citizen's petition
with FDA to take Posilac off the market. I submitted evidence of how
Monsanto defrauded FDA. It took FDA five years to act. They closed
Monsanto's Posilac factory a few months ago. Monsanto lied to dairy
farmers, calling it a "temporary production problem."
Monsanto had created a potential catastrophe for humankind. I give FDA
credit for finally acting.
I discovered that Monsanto had made a gene transcription error during
the development of their new genetic technology. Proteins are made up
of amino acids. Each time that Monsanto attempted to re-create their
new hormone, one amino acid, lysine, was incorrectly transcribed as a
"freak" amino acid, epsilon-N-acetyllysine.
For nearly five years, FDA ignored my request.
Then, things became interesting. Monsanto mailed a letter to
Posilac-using dairy farmers on December 19, 2003. Monsanto shocked
farmers by alerting them that Posilac would be in limited supply
until:
"Conditions and improvements in manufacturing are made..."
Monsanto accepted no new customers, and anticipated their "shortfall"
to last for "several months."
Monsanto attempted to fix the errors. They have not been successful.
FDA now knows of those mistakes because my whistleblowing broke
windows.
What became the snowflake to make the snowball to begin the avalanche?
On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, I received the damning evidence that
confirmed Monsanto's crime against humankind. Thirty hours of non-stop
research and confirmation later supported the magnitude of Monsanto's
crime.
In a column written before last Christmas, 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."
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."
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 was 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.
With this last FOIA request, we learned 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."
The world works in funny ways, but there is always balance. Monsanto's
hormone will soon be off the market. FDA will allow Monsanto to
withdraw their drug with corporate dignity. Posilac will soon take its
own life and cease to exist.
Farmers will produce less milk. The price of milk and dairy
commodities will soar, as they have been doing since the first Posilac
shortage began. Cows will be less stressed as their udders shrink
because they are no longer injected with high octane hormone fuel. The
pus cell rates will mysteriously decrease. Farmers will be given
credit for producing safer and cleaner milk.
And I? I'll be pointing my finger (guess which one) at the dairy
industry, shouting: "It's hormones, stupid!"
All milk naturally contains powerful growth hormones. Even the
healthiest organic milk from the healthiest cow. Thank you, Monsanto,
for teaching me the basics.
Ellen White warned about the evils of Monsanto, long before the
company existed:
"So long as we are in the world, we shall meet with adverse
influences. Day by day and year by year we shall conquer self, and
grow into a noble heroism. (Ministry of Healing, p. 487)
Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com Forward this message to your
milk-drinking friends: MILK from A to Z:
http://www.notmilk.com/milkatoz.html 2O QUESTIONS:
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