-Caveat Lector- AlienZoo presents: The View from Marrs Is a new Chernobyl waiting within your body? By Jim Marrs Date: 12/14/2000 URL: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/200012140001.cfm Anyone remember Thalidomide? DDT? "Our Friend the Atom" nuclear power? All these are examples of technology prematurely made public with horrifying consequences. Thalidomide was a mild sedative available to women beginning in the late 1950s. When it was discovered that the drug affected embryos in early pregnancy resulting in numerous birth defects, it was belatedly withdrawn. DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) for years was sold to farmers as a safe way to rid crops of pests until it was found that accumulated doses of the chemical had found its way into the food chain causing health problems in humans. The U.S. Government finally restricted the use of DDT in 1972. Nuclear power, pressed on the American public following passage of the Price-Anderson Act which absolved the nuclear industry of any real liability in the event of a catastrophe, finally fell into disrepute following a series of nuclear disasters including Love Canal and the Chernobyl plant near Kiev in Russia. With the advent of the virtually unsupervised development of new genetically engineered food products, we may be creating a potential biological Chernobyl within our bodies. Genetic engineers used a germ known as a "viral promoter" to trick a cell into accepting an alien gene into its own DNA. But these invasive agents can lead to the creation of viral infections immune to antibiotics as well as new, unknown infectious diseases. Once again, the American public obviously suffers short-term memory loss thanks to the distracting corporate news media that is oblivious to the encroachment of genetically altered substances harmful to our health and even our future descendants. One person who is not oblivious is Dr. John Hagelin, the nuclear physicist who was the Natural Law Party presidential candidate in the recent election. Hagelin was prepared to also take the Reform Party candidacy and thus produce a truly significant third-party coalition, but was ousted by Pat Buchanan after a series of court maneuvers. On November 28, instead of resting from his campaigning, Hagelin addressed the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) of the Environmental Protection Agency. The panel met to consider the effects of StarLink corn, a brand of genetically engineered corn not yet approved by the EPA. "I want to address an issue much deeper than whether the CRY9C protein in StarLink corn is likely to be allergenic," Hagelin told the panel. "I want to address the assumptions that underlie the entire agricultural bioengineering enterprise. I am deeply concerned that life scientists are implementing bioengineering technologies without adequately understanding the lessons we have learned . . . "Numerous eminent molecular biologists recognize that DNA is a complex nonlinear system and that splicing foreign genes into the DNA of a food-yielding organism can cause unpredictable side effects that could harm the health of the human consumer. "Yet, the genetic engineering of our food � and the widespread presence of genetically altered foods in American supermarkets � is based on the premise that the effects of gene-splicing are so predictable that all bioengineered food can be presumed safe unless proven otherwise. This refusal to recognize the risks of unintended and essentially unpredictable negative side effects is just plain bad science� "Moreover, the premise of predictability is not just scientifically unsound; it is morally irresponsible. The safety of our food is being put at risk in a cavalier, if not callous fashion, not only in disregard of scientific knowledge, but in disregard of recent technological history." Hagelin noted that with the advent of nuclear energy came the sale of radium tipped wands designed to painlessly remove facial hair only to be quickly withdrawn once users began suffering skin cancers. "In the case of genetic engineering, even greater caution is called for," warned Hagelin. "A nuclear disaster only lasts 10,000 years, whereas gene pollution is forever - self-perpetuating and irreversible." Hagelin clearly pointed the finger at the corporations, who in their pursuit of profits denigrated any thought of public safety. "The irresponsible behavior that permitted the marketing of bioengineered foods has not been limited to the scientific community, but includes the executive branch of the federal government," he said. "The FDA�s internal records reveal that its own experts clearly recognized the potential for gene-splicing to induce production of unpredicted toxins and carcinogens in the resultant food. These same records reveal that these warnings were covered up by FDA political appointees operating under a White House directive to promote the biotech industry." It was noted that genetically altered StarLink corn, though not yet approved by the EPA, was being sold in supermarkets nationwide. "The StarLink fiasco further demonstrates the shoddiness of the government�s regulation, since the system failed to keep even an unapproved bioengineered crop out of our food," Hagelin charged, adding, "Indeed, the contamination was discovered not by the government, but by public interest groups . . . "This incident also demonstrates how difficult it will be to remove a bioengineered product from our food supply if it is eventually found to be harmful and, therefore, how important it is to prevent the introduction of new ones and to phase out those currently in use." How are such potentially disastrous decisions made within the government that is supposed to watch out for the public�s best interest? Dr. Don Lovejoy writing in The Providence Journal, noted how a recombinant cattle growth hormone (rBGH) was "approved" by the government: "A Monsanto lawyer drafted a letter to the FDA to get rBGH approved. He then stepped down from Monsanto and took an appointment as FDA deputy commissioner for policy. He then opened his own letter and helped draft the FDA�s 1992 policy on genetically engineered food and rBGH. The law that followed, in true violation of First Amendment rights, states that it is illegal to say rBGH is in milk and it�s illegal to state that it�s not in milk. The lawyer returned to corporate life and became Monsanto�s vice president for public policy." And who headed the administration which either went along with or initiated this travesty of public service? Why, the impeached Bill Clinton and "Mr. Environment" Al Gore ,both recipients of "campaign contributions" from home folks and foreigners alike who paid for a stay in their White House. While the mass media has our attention focused on the outcome of an election which is essentially meaningless considering that both candidates are controlled by the same interests and that a 50-50 split Congress will be stalemated on any issue, control over the purity of the food we consume has been passed to the same corporate interests which have proven so shortsighted in the past. To learn more about the people who control the corporations which control our lives, read Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects The Trilateral Commission, The Freemasons and The Great Pyramid by Jim Marrs, now available from finer bookstores everywhere and from JimMarrs.com. For an in-depth look at UFOs read Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs, available from this Web site. Also, Jim Marrs�s book on the U. S. Army�s remote viewing program, Psi Spies, which was suppressed in 1995, is now available online right here at AlienZoo. Order yours today. �2000 AlienZoo, Inc. ================ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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