by Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
Thursday, Jul. 20, 2006 at 10:32 PM
artemesium@gmail.com
Genetic Engineering (GM, GMOs) has caused many disease epidemics, unpublicized by the corporate mass media. This article, the first in a series, reveals these documented epidemics. The article also explains about Patents on Life, and offers an Action Plan to OUTLAW both GM and sacrilegious Patents on Life upon which GM depends.
Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
Concerned Citizens Information Network
www.ccin.info (environmental website)
www.MyronStagman.com
email: artemesium@gmail.com
GM
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:
(1) Tryptophan
I.
The Face of Frankenstein's Monster
Genetic
Engineering Biotechnology (GE, GM, GMOs) evades Evolution's safeguards
by injecting genes of one species into a totally unrelated species,
something impossible in Nature.
GM evades Evolution's safeguards, and may therefore give rise to PATHOGENS that can
-- and HAVE, many times -- caused crippling and deadly
DISEASE EPIDEMICS -- documented but unpublicised.
Genetic Engineering is also ideal for developing horrific biological
and other military weapons --- sufficient cause to OUTLAW GM.
The Greatest Racket in History (Listen to this !): ---
GM contamination is virulent, spread by wind, bird, insect, animals and
travelling human beings. Co-Existence with GM is
completely impossible, only fools or liars would say differently.
GM
has contaminated crops in areas of North America which dwarf
the UK
and even Western Europe. Planetary contamination is
inevitable, if We
don't stop it.
The Biotechnology corporations know oh-so-well how contamination
spreads and spreads and spreads.
Now
get this: Through their political influence, these
Corporations have
been able to acquire the obscene, sacrilegious, and indeed revolutionary
PATENTS on LIFE-FORMS.
Before
these revolutionary Patents on Life, a farmer could have sued
--
successfully without any doubt -- the Biotechnology corporation for
having contaminated, poisoned his crops.
However, given these Patents on Life (here, on the seeds), the
Corporation can -- and DOES, successfully -- sue the
victimised farmer for (Hold your nose) "infringement of patent".
[Our tainted, corrupted
political systems allow this monstrosity.]
Thus the formula the reader might keep in mind:
GM Contamination + Patents on Life-Forms equals Corporate
Ownership Rights in the crops of victimised farmers.
This formula spells the
serfdom and ruin of all small family farmers on this planet.
(They are the majority of the population in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America).
The
Chemical-Drug-Biotechnology syndicate and its Enforcers (corrupted
governments in the West and Third World, corporation-dominated
organisations like the WTO, World Bank, IMF) have started a WORLDWIDE
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION.
They want to destroy small family farming, and have only gigantic
Corporate GM Plantations with farmers working as serfs.
[This
process is underway, especially in South America where the U.S.
Military has begun to intervene on behalf of GM Plantations to crush
farmer opposition.]
Already, according to the Research Foundation for Science, Technology
and Ecology (RFSTE) in New Delhi, 40,000
farmers in India have committed suicide
primarily as a result of the Corporate Enforcers' so-called "free
trade" policies --- dumping heavily-subsidised Western farm produce
onto glutted Indian markets, pushing GM crops, insisting that Patents
on Life-Forms be accepted so farmers must sign contracts with GM
Corporations and can no longer save seeds, etc.
The Greatest
Racket in History --- GM Contamination + Patents on Life-Forms equals
Corporate Proprietary Rights in the crops of victimised farmers, and
spells the serdom and ruin of small family farmers everywhere on this
planet.
We
MUST OUTLAW GM and PATENTS on LIFE-FORMS -- or else !!
(e.g. No more organic, healthy food --- you and your children will only
be able to eat unsafe GM)
See the Action Plan in Part III designed to OUTLAW GM and PATENTS on
LIFE-FORMS.
But beforehand, read about the first in our series of "GM Disease
Epidemics".
II.
GM TRYPTOPHAN Epidemic
A food supplement
called Tryptophan had been produced for many years by various
companies, including Showa Denko of Japan. These companies
had been
producing Tryptophan with the usual ingredients without ill effects.
Then, Showa Denko,
to increase profits, gene-spliced
(genetically engineered) a bacterium into the previously harmless
product. Result:
37 dead and 1,535 crippled. Another estimated
5,000-10,000
were afflicted with a blood disorder due to this new, strange and
incurable disease (now called Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome, EMS).
The corporation paid out two billion dollars to people who threatened
to sue.
Hundreds of these victims have died since the initial onset,
apparently in most cases the end result of contracting EMS.
[for extensive coverage of the GM Tryptophan epidemic, see the excellent book Seeds of Deception,
Jeffrey M. Smith, 2003, chapter 4. The full title indicates
the inclusion of vital political information: Seeds of Deception:
Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of Genetically
Engineered Foods You are Eating]
[read
Dr. John B. Fagan's report "Tryptophan Summary", typing that into the
Google search. John B. Fagan, professor of molecular biology,
returned 613,000 dollars
of federal grant money
to the National Institutes of Health on the grounds that his DNA
research might lead to dangerous applications in genetic engineering
with unforeseen consequences for humanity.
The U.S. government then offered him two or three million dollars to
continue his research into GM. Dr. Fagan refused
the money and went
to teach chemistry in a university.]
[also "The Thalidomide of Genetic Engineering", Institute of Science in
Society, London, www.I-SIS.org.uk; and "Tryptophan and EMS:
the
Skeleton in the GMO Closet" found online as an excerpt from the book Unnatural Harvest: How
Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food, by
Ingeborg Boyens]
III. Conclusion
and What To Do
Human beings and Nature, as we have known them, cannot
survive in a GMO-Frankenstein world.
The nightmare technology of Genetic Engineering Biotechnology, and its
incestuous Patents on Life-Forms, must be OUTLAWED.
How To Do It?
There is only one way to overcome this extremely powerful,
ruthless Corporation-Government-corporate Mass Media axis.
It
is to conduct grassroots Public Education Campaigns to educate and
politically activate the General Public, university / college students
in particular.
The General
Public
!! Stop forever talking to the Converted.
To get around the
corporate media's suppression and distortion of truth, one
must talk
to people and go
door-to-door with leaflets and vocal messages.
And major efforts must be made to inform and activate university students.
Important Hints:
(1) Concentrate on university students.
And senior
citizens.
I
speak to you now, elder citizens like
myself. Put moral purpose into
your lives and help rescue this planet and your grandchildren.
(2) AVOID
NGOs and all established organisations, especially large ones.
They are not what they seem.
Their hierarchies and decision-making are corporation-influenced if not
outright purchased.
Never ever join
them. Never ever give them Money.
[see George Monbiot's very important article in The Guardian, 4
September 2001, "Sleeping
with the Enemy: Consumer and Environmental Groups are Getting
into Bed with Big Corporations]
[Note: In
developing countries there are some exceptions, but very very very few
in the West. If by a miracle one of them ever conducts a genuine and
sensible public education campaign, then you can help out.
But NEVER
join or give money to them.]
The environmental field especially is riddled with wealthy, prestigious, deceptive
organisations adept at dilutng and derailing environmental
causes, GM in particular.
[I am thinking at this moment of one such organisation I have observed
over a long period of time, in my view a very slick and dangerous FOE
of environmentalism, originally created by polluting Corporations to
deal with the growing environmental movement.
Don't go anywhere
near this one.]
When they talk about being 'practical' and seeking 'Coexistence'
with GM, let a red
flag go up.
Nothing short of OUTLAWING GENETIC ENGINEERING and PATENTS ON
LIFE-FORMS will save us and our planet.
Do your educational work
as individuals or in small groups of people you know.
In a little of your
SPARETIME (perhaps 3 or 4 hours a week, but regularly, as part of an
ethical life-style):
Educate and activate
the Public by writing and telephoning and just talking to your family
members, friends and acquantances;
Write letters and make telephone calls to local, regional and national
media;
Write, call and especially visit your legislative representatives and
other government personnel, and
Take appropriate Direct
Action.
Good Luck to You.
P.S.
For a detailed Action Plan on conducting education/activation campaigns
(e.g. composing A4 leaflets for distribution, lobbying your legislative
representative) see "Creating a Grassroots Democracy While Outlawing
Genetic Engineering" (or a similar title) on several current Indymedia
websites (e.g. Biotech, UK, Los Angeles and San Francisco).
Or email
me and request it.
For extensive information on the
casualties and unprecedented dangers of Genetic Engineering, see
"Genetic Engineering Fact-Sheet" on the website of the Concerned
Citizens Information Network, www.ccin.info
www.ccin.info