First, the less
obvious:
Did you know…if seeds from a GMO field blow over to a non-GMO field the non-GMO farmer can be sued for theft?
Did you know…normally, a farmer holds seeds to be used for the next season. But Bayer/Monsanto, who must be hurting for money, makes GMO farmers buy new seeds every year?
Did you know… if you ever wondered why GMO foods are not labeled as such it is because Bayer/Monsanto paid off whoever to make sure that GMO foods do NOT get labeled as such? Do you think they did that because they knew that no one would buy them if they were labeled?
Did you know… research was done that showed when GMO and
non-GMO foods are put in the wild the animals will not eat the non-GMO food?
One would think we would learn from that.
Did you know…one would ask why GMO foods are so readily accepted by the Fraud and Drug Administration? I wonder if Bayer/Monsanto’s former top executives having key positions in the FDA has anything to do with that?
Did you know… since 1996 Americans have been eating
genetically modified ingredients in most processed foods?
Did you know… GM plants, such as soybean, corn,
cottonseed, canola (what’s a canola?) and now sugar beets and alfalfa have had
foreign genes forced into their DNA and the inserted genes come from bacteria
and viruses that have never been in the human food supply?
Did you know… GMOs have been linked to thousands of toxic
and allergic reactions, thousands of sick, sterile and dead livestock, and
damage to virtually every organ and system studied in lab animals?
In 1992, the Fraud and Drug Administration claimed that they
had no information showing that GM foods were substantially different from
conventionally grown foods and therefore were safe to eat. But, internal memos
made public by a lawsuit reveal that their position was staged by political
appointees under orders from the White House to promote GMOs. FDA scientists,
on the other hand, warned that GMOs can create unpredictable, hard-to-detect
side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional
problems. They urged long-term safety studies, but were ignored. Why? Because
the Fraud and Drug Administration does not require ant safety evaluations for
GMOs.
Instead, biotech companies, who have been found guilty of
hiding toxic effects of their chemical products, are now in charge of
determining whether their GM foods are safe. The FDA official in charge of
creating this policy was Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s former attorney and later
their vice-president.
Although these biotech companies participate in a voluntary
consultation process with the FDA, it is a meaningless exercise. The summaries
of the superficial research they submit cannot identify most of the health
risks of GMOs.
In contrast to the statements of biotech advocates, FDA
scientists and others affirm that genetic modification is not just an
extension of the conventional breeding techniques that have been used by
farmers for lifetimes. Genetic engineering transfers genes across natural
species barriers, using imprecise laboratory techniques that bear no
resemblance to natural breeding. Furthermore, the technology is based on
outdated concepts of how genes and cells work.
Gene insertion is done either by shooting genes from a “gene
gun” into a plate of cells or by using bacteria to invade the cell with foreign
DNA. The altered cell is then cloned into a plant. These processes create
massive collateral damage, causing mutations in hundreds or thousands of
locations throughout the plant’s DNA. Natural genes can be deleted or
permanently turned on or off, and hundreds may change their levels of
expression. In addition, the inserted gene is often rearranged, may transfer
from the food into our body’s cells or into the DNA of bacteria inside us, and
the GM protein produced by the gene may have unintended properties or effects.
The primary reason companies genetically engineer plants is
to make them tolerant to their brand of
herbicide and pesticide. The four major GM plants. soy, corn, canola, and cotton and now, sugar beets and alfalfa are designed to survive an otherwise deadly dose of
weed killer. These crops have much
higher residues of toxic herbicides. Basically, Monsanto created GMOs to
withstand enormous amounts of their “cash crop”, Roundup *(see end of article for some interesting bits about
Roundup).
The second GM trait is a built-in pesticide. A gene from the
soil bacterium called Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) is inserted into cotton and
corn DNA, where it secretes the insect-killing Bt-toxin in every cell. About
19% of GM crops produce their own pesticide. Another 13% produce a pesticide and are herbicide, pesticide tolerant.
Also, small amounts of zucchini, and yellow crookneck squash
as well as Hawaiian papaya are engineered to resist plant viruses. In fact,
virtually all Hawaiian papaya is
genetically modified.
Now, let’s take a
look at some of the evidence of harm from GMOs:
Soy allergies skyrocketed by 50% in the UK, soon after GM
soy was introduced.
A human subject showed a skin prick allergic-type reaction
to GM soy, but not to natural soy.
The level of one-known soy allergen is as much as 7-times higher in cooked GM soy compared to non-GM soy.
GM soy also contains an unexpected allergen-type protein not
found in natural soy.
The biotech industry claims that the Bt-toxin found in corn
and cotton is harmless to humans and mammals because ” the natural bacteria
version has been used as a spray by farmers for years”. In reality, hundreds of
people exposed to Bt spray had allergic-type symptoms and mice fed Bt had
powerful immune responses and damaged intestines. Bt in GM crops is designed to be more toxic than the natural spray and
is thousands of times more concentrated.
Hundreds of laborers in India report allergic reactions just
from handling Bt cotton and their symptoms are identical to those exposed to Bt
spray.
No tests can guarantee that a GMO will not cause allergies.
Although the World Health Organization recommends a protein screening protocol,
the GM soy, corn, and papaya in our food supply fail these tests because they
have properties of known allergens.
If proteins “digest” slowly, there is more time for allergic
reactions. Because GM soy reduces digestive enzymes in mice, it may slow
protein digestion and promote allergies to many foods.
Mice not only reacted to Bt-toxin, they had immune responses
to formerly harmless compounds.
Similarly, a mouse test indicated that people eating GM peas
could develop allergies to the peas and to a range of other foods. The peas had
already passed all of the allergy tests normally used to get GMOs on the
market. It took this advanced mouse test, which was never used on the GMOs we
eat, to discover that the peas could be deadly.
Rats fed GM potatoes had smaller, partially atrophied
livers.
The livers of rats fed GM canola were 12-16% heavier.
GM soy altered mouse liver cells in ways that suggest a
toxic insult. The changes reversed after their diet switched to non-GM soy.
More than half the offspring of mother rats fed GM soy died
within three weeks.
Male rats and mice fed GM soy showed changes in their
testicles; the mice had altered young sperm cells.
The DNA of mouse embryos whose parents ate GM soy functioned
differently than those whose parents ate non-GM soy.
When sheep grazed on Bt cotton plants after harvest, within
a week 1 in 4 died.
Farmers in Europe and Asia say that cows, water buffaloes,
chickens and horses died from eating Bt corn varieties.
About two-dozen US farmers report that Bt corn varieties
caused widespread sterility in pigs and cows.
Filipinos in at least five villages fell sick when a nearby
Bt corn variety was pollinating.
The stomach lining of rats fed GM potatoes showed excessive
cell growth, a condition that may be a precursor to cancer. Rats also had
damaged organs and immune systems.
Unlike safety evaluations for drugs, there are no human
clinical trials of GM foods. The only published human feeding experiment
verified that genetic material inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of
intestinal bacteria and continues to function. This means that long after we
stop eating GM foods, we may still have their GM proteins continuously inside
us.
If the antibiotic gene inserted into most GM crops were to
transfer, it could create super diseases resistant to antibiotics.
If the gene that creates Bt-toxin in GM corn were to
transfer, it might turn our intestinal flora into living pesticide factories.
Animal studies show that DNA in food can travel into organs
throughout the body, even into fetuses.
Morgellon’s Disease is linked to GMOs.
In the 1980’s, a contaminated brand of a food supplement
called L-tryptophan killed 100 Americans and caused sickness and disability in
another 5,000 – 10,000 people. The source of the contaminants was almost
certainly the genetic engineering process used in its production. The disease
took years to find and was almost overlooked. It was only because the symptoms
were unique, acute, and fast acting. If all three characteristics were not in
place, the deadly GM supplement might never have been identified or removed.
If GM foods on the market are causing common diseases or of
their effects appear only after long-term exposure, we may not be able to
identify the source of the problem for decades, if at all. There is no
monitoring of GMO-related problems and no long-term animal studies. Heavily invested biotech corporations are
gambling away the health of our world for profit.
One last note:
Scientists generally believe that they can do things better
than God can and that God is limited in what he can do for mankind, especially
since our population is growing in leaps and bounds and our resources are
dwindling just as fast. Maybe if we all lived simply and we all saw ourselves
as caretakers, we would more
respectful of the world and its inhabitants and could put into a much clearer
perspective whose property we were taking care of. After all, it was here
before we got here and it will be here after we are gone. If we could all see
this, there would certainly be no more wars because we would all be sharing and
trading with each other the resources abundant in our part of the world. It is
only due to envy that we wage war. When someone else has what we want and we
have the bigger and better weapons or the greater force, we go and try to take
it. If God is the Owner and we are the caretakers and we, His children, are all
brothers and sisters, what would be the need for force?
Aloha!
One more piece of
info!
Roundup
is used in yards, farms and parks throughout thee world, and has long been a
top-selling weed killer. But now, according to an article in Environmental
Health News, written by Crystal Gammon, researchers have found that one of
Roundup’s inert ingredients can kill human cells, particularly embryonic,
placental and umbilical cord cells. Not only that but glyphosate, at any level
of exposure, causes cancer, liver, kidney and lung disorders, and DNA
disruptions. Pesticide researchers and activists from the U.S. To Argentina,
Japan and Croatia have been calling for public access to, and warnings about,
“inerts” (almost 4,000 solvents, surfactants and other chemicals included in
pesticides, approved by the U.S. EPA, yet not specified on warning labels
because they are not the “active” ingredient aimed at pest control).
Glyphosate,
Roundup’s active ingredient, is the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.
About 100 million pounds are applied to U.S. Farms and lawns every year. Until
now, most health studies have focused on the safety of glyphosate alone, rather
than the mixture of ingredients found in Roundup. In a study from the
University of Caen, in France, first published earlier this year, scientists
found that Roundup’s inert ingredients amplified the toxic effect on human
cells, even at concentrations much more diluted than those used on farms and
lawns. Their focus was on POEA – polyethoxylated tallow amine – an “inert”
detergent in Roundup that they were astonished to discover was far more dangerous
than the herbicide itself. The proprietary mixtures available on the market
could cause cell damage and even death at the residual levels found on
Roundup-treated crops, such as soybeans, alfalfa and corn, or lawns and
gardens.
Despite Bayer/Monsanto’s claims that the study is flawed, Giles-Eric Seralini, the molecular biologist that headed the French study, says that standard toxicological methods were used and that competitors can discover what is in formulations like Roundup with routine lab analysis. The purpose of the proprietary protection laws for inerts is solely for the purpose of keeping information from the public. And what’s worse is that when mixed together at concentrations officially considered “safe”, ten of the world’s most widely used pesticides can combine to produce a chemical cocktail that is deadlier than any of the chemicals acting alone.
Last but not least,
Hawaii’s GM Nightmare Politicians.
The following is a list of those I learned about and talked about on the radio that became “hookers” for Bayer/Monsanto by accepting their payoff:
Former Governor Neil Abercrombie, $1,000.00
Mufi Hanneman, $1,000.00
Calvin Say, Speaker of the House, $1,000.00
Rep Ryan Yamane, House Health Committee, $1,300.00 (Bayer/Monsanto, Pfizer, AstraZenaca)
Rep Bob Herkes, Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee,
$1,550.00
Rep Jerry Chang, Environmental Protection Committee,
$1,000.00
Lt. Governor Josh Green, now running for Governor, $500.00
Sen Clarence Nishihara, Ag Committee Chair, $750.00
Rep Cliff Tsuji, Ag Committee, $21,000 (Bayer/Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont)
Russell Kokobun, Abercrombie’s appointee as Head of the Dept
of Ag, $20,000.00
Sources:
Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a “plastic” community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, ” let’s become vegetarians”. I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, “okay”! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, “The Little Kitchen”.
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I’ll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to “The Little Kitchen”. Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, “Let’s make a deal. You do our tax return and we’ll feed you as well”. So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, “Hawaii”. Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called,” Mr. Natural’s”. I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at “Mr. Natural’s.” To make a long story short, that’s exactly what happened.
So, I’m working at “Mr. Natural’s” and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle – it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka’anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn’t really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that’s exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I’m asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn’t thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, “You expected anything less”? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, ‘enchilada’s at “Natural’s” tonight’. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That’s when they found out I was an accountant and “Down to Earth” was born. “Down to Earth” became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD’s that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii’s premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. She said,” If you want to be with me you’ve got to stop working on naked women”. So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a “chicken” or “egg” or “fish” or “pig” or “cow” was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
For more, please view www.healthtalkhawaii.com and www.asanediet.com.
Namaste!
