Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
Concerned Citizens Information Network
www.ccin.info (environmental website)
www.MyronStagman.com
email: artemesium@gmail.com
GMO
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:
(6)
Food-Induced Anaphylactic (Life-Threatening) Shock
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 the next in our series of "GMO Disease
Epidemics".
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II.
Genetically-Engineered
Food-Induced Anaphylactic (Life-threatening) Shock Epidemics
GM StarLink Corn (Maize)
epidemic
--- Thousands of Americans reported having suffered allergic reactions
to maize (corn) after a genetically-engineered maize fodder, StarLink,
entered the food supply. Reports included affliction of anaphylactic shock.
(Note: Independent scientists had warned that splicing
foreign proteins into common food products could cause life-threatening shock and even
death.)
Therefore, the
following information should not be altogether surprising:
There have been approximately
30,000 cases of food-induced anaphylactic (life-threatening) shock each
year in the United States since genetically engineered food pervaded
the American food supply.
[Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, vol. 107, no. 1,
January 2001, pp. 191-3; Andrew Rowell, Don't Worry , It's Safe To Eat,
p.131; www.Parents.com]
This 'unexplained' and
strikingly dramatic increase over previous times
can only be explained by GM ("Frankenstein") food and crops.
[To
wit, the Genetic Engineering process evades Evolution's
safeguards
and thus opens up terrible possibilities that Evolution has tried to
prevent; the StarLink epidemic gave
evidence that genetic
engineering, GM maize in particular, could -- and did --
cause
anaphylaxis; the timing coincidence of the GM era being the
food-induced anaphylactic shock era; and everything else you
read in
this series of "GMO Disease Epidemics" bears witness to the assertion
that Genetic Engineering is a nightmare technology which can and does
produce anaphylactic shock as one of its ugly and persistent
consequences.]
In the UK, where GM crops have not been grown commercially, the
incidence of food-induced anaphylactic
shock has jumped 560%
since American genetically engineered food has entered UK supermarkets
en masse.
[UK figures drawn from data supplied by the Anaphylaxis Campaign,
London]
Note,
re UK children: "The
director of the Royal Children's Hospital's allergy unit, Donald Hill,
said yesterday that hospitals needed to set up planning systems to cope
with what was being described as an allergy 'epidemic'.
The Royal Children's allergy unit has a six-month waiting list. . . . British research showed the number of
children with food-induced anaphylaxis had tripled in 10 years,
he said." (Rachel Kleinman, The Age, 20 July 05)
In France,
the percentage of emergency admissions to hospitals related to
food-induced anaphylactic shock has increased fivefold
in the last 10 years.
[Allergy Vigilance Network, University Hospital, Nancy, France]
This is becoming an international pattern. Food-induced
life-threatening shock now accounts for one-third to one-half of
all anaphylactic cases treated in hospital emergency rooms
in Europe and Australia as well as in the United States.
[Pediatrics,
Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, vol. 111, No. 6, June
2003, pp. 1601-1698, "Anaphylaxis and Emergency Treatment" by Hugh
Sampson, MD]
Note:
Typical symptoms of anaphylaxis:
a swelling in the throat and mouth, difficulty breathing, there is a
drastic fall in blood pressure, the victim collapses with a terrible
sense that death has come.
This
is what people face more and more in a Frankenstein world. We
play Russian roulette with our food.
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P.S. Peanuts
-- They
are not yet genetically engineered (but it could happen at any time),
and understand that peanuts account for a tiny, miniscule
number of
cases of food-induced anaphylaxis.
Tiny. Miniscule.
Peanuts are normally
eaten in PROCESSED FOODS, which
all contain at least one GMO and usually more.
To all appearances, GM
soya and maize are, in an overwhelmng majority of cases,
the guilty parties -- not poor peanuts.
It
seems to me that corporate influence over scientists and the media is
trying to make peanuts a scapegoat and red herring, diverting you from
comprehending the true causes of food-induced anaphylactic shock.
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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"currently on the Indymedia Biotech
website. 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