Book: Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Modification Posted by: "Shahee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cybergypsyarts Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:28 pm (PDT) I recently received my copy of Seeds of Destruction; The hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl http:// globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html (a book I would recommend everyone read!) and Im loving it! This book reads like a Murder Mystery, yet its not fictional and tells about the hand shaking and intermingling between corporate giants like Monsanto, and the FDA who is supposed to be regulating them. In 1991, the Food and Drug Administration created the new position of Deputy Commissioner for Policy to oversee agency policy on GM0 foods. The agency named Michael R. Taylor to be its first head. Taylor came to the job as a Washington lawyer. But not just any old garden variety of Washington lawyers. As a food and drug law specialist with the Washington power firm, King & Spalding, Taylor had previously successfully represented Monsanto and other biotech companies in regulatory cases.
Monsanto has a long history of bribing, coercion and down right evil doings. This is one corporation that we all should keep an eye on. Excerpt: Though Monsanto claimed that its rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone - Which is genetically modified) was one of the most thoroughly examined drugs in US history, rBGH was never tested in the long-term for (chronic) human health effects. A generally accepted principle in science holds that two years of testing is the minimal time for long-term health studies. rBGH was tested for only 90 days on 30 rats. The short-term rat study was submitted by Monsanto to the FDA but was never published. The FDA refused to allow anyone outside the administration to review the raw data from this study, saying that publication would irreparably harm Monsanto. Monsanto has continued to refuse to allow open scientific peer review of the 90 day study. This linchpin study of cancer and rBGH has never been subjected to scrutiny by the scientific community. Not content to feed GMO milk exclusively to its own unwary population, the US Government exerted strong pressure on Mexico and Canada also to approve rBGH, as part of an effort to expand Monsantos rBGH market globally. However, the FDA-Monsanto campaign got a nasty setback in January 1999, when the Canadian counterpart to the FDA, Health Canada, broke ranks with the US and issued a formal notice of non-compliance disapproving future Canadian sales of rBGH, sometimes also called rBST or recombinant Bovine Somatotropin. The action followed strong pressure from the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and the Royal College of Physicians, which presented evidence of the adverse effects of rBGH milk, including evidence of lameness and reproductive problems. Monsanto had been very eager to break into the Canadian market with its rBGH, even to the point, according to a Canadian CBC television report, that a Monsanto official tried to bribe a Canadian health official sitting on the Government review committee with an offer of $1-2 million, to secure rBGH approval in Canada without further studies. The insulted official reportedly asked, Is that a bribe? and the meeting ended. Moreover, a special European Commission independent committee of recognized experts concluded that rBGH, as reported in Canadian findings, not only posed the above named dangers, but also major risks especially of breast and prostate cancer in humans. In August 1999, the United Nations Food Safety Agency, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, ruled unanimously in favor of a 1993 European Union moratorium on the introduction of Monsantos rBGH milk. Monsantos rBGH was thus banned from the EU. This setback was not to daunt the persistent bureaucrats at the FDA, or their friends at Monsanto. Since GMO labeling had been forbidden by the FDA, Americans were blissfully unaware of the dangers of drinking the milk. With regard to reporting the UN decision and the negative Canadian conclusions, the US media were respectfully quiet. Americans were simply told that the EU was trying to hurt American cattle farmers by refusing imports of hormone-fed US beef . Excerpt from Seeds of Destruction; The hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl http://globalresearch.ca/books/ SoD.html Buyer beware. You are what you eat - know your food. I highly recommend that you check this book out. It could mean the very survival of your family! No, seriously. Peace, love and light! Shahee, --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080323/518aed68/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
