Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
Concerned Citizens Information Network
www.ccin.info (environmental website)
www.MyronStagman.com
email: artemesium@gmail.com
GMO
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:
(10)
GM (Bt)-cotton Fiber Disease
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
(Bt) cotton Fiber Disease
Genetically-engineered Bt
cotton killed 30% of the bees in the fields
when field-tested in
Thailand.
[Institute for Science in Society, London]
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Mass Deaths by Sheep Grazing on Bt [GM] Cotton"
(Institute of Science in Society,
London)
At
least 1,800 sheep were reported dead from severe toxicity after grazing
on Bt cotton fields in just four villages in Andhra Pradesh, India.
( Bt, bacillus thuringiensis, is a poison genetically engineered into
cotton and maize plants to kill an insect which feeds on the
pollen.
This poison, which seems to acquire much added 'oomph' from the genetic
engineering process, permeates
the crop which human beings and animals feed upon.)
If
you were an Indian shepherd caring for your animals, look at the face
of Frankenstein as it appeared in Andhra Pradesh: --- The
major
symptoms of the disaster as reported by shepherds were:
1. Sheep became dull/depressed 2 to 3 days after
grazing
2. Cough with nasal discharge
3. Reddish and erosive lesions in the mouth
4. Blood
5. Blackish diarrhoea
6. Sometimes red urine
7. Death within 5 to 7 days of grazing on the GM cotton fields
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GM (Bt-toxin) cotton and
maize: death of worms & soil degradation / lacewing
& ladybird deaths / textiles
Mark that the GM cotton plant leaches its Bt-toxin into the
soil. This causes worms to die (according to a a study
published in Nature), and almost assuredly
results in soil degradation.
Another
study shows that the mortality among lacewings, beneficial insects that
feed upon caterpillars and aphids, increased after feeding
on GM
(bt-toxin) maize.
The processed cotton fiber also contains this poison. When
you wear GM-cotton underwear, shirts or pants or sox or
whatever, will
it leach over time into the orifices and pores
of your body? What sense is there in
wearing such things?
The truly fearful danger is of the genetic engineering process giving
rise to pathogens,
and -- even worse -- combining with the Bt toxin to produce
who-knows-what.
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the mysterious Fiber
Disease epidemic
Here is another new, mystery disease erupting
in the Genetic Engineering era.
Although primarily
incident in the United States (where genetically-engineered cotton is
almost unavoidable), it too is becoming
international , like GM
products (in this case, Bt
cotton).
There are reports of incidence from 15 other nations including Canada,
the UK and The Netherlands.
Where
on this entire planet has Fiber Disease been most prevalent?
First,
California. Second, Texas. Third,
Florida. Three big cotton-growing
regions.
Certain
cotton products are
carrying something that gives rise to virtual science fiction symptoms
among users of these products.
The afflicted have
strange fiber-like
material (or tiny pieces of thread) sticking out of sores or
wounds that erupt.
Painful with intense itching, it
has been described as "an ever present sensation as if something is
crawling under the skin".
Signicantly
(as per our "GMO Disease Epidemics: Chronic Fatigue"), disabling
FATIGUE
is a common symptom of Fiber Disease, reported by 95% of
patients.
Commonly reported also is the full Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia (which features both
chronic fatigue and chronic myalgia).
Cognitive
(memory and thought-processing) difficulties, and, naturally, certain
behavioural problems are also associated with Fiber Disease.
(Genetic engineering seems to have a penchant for attacking the central
nervous system.)
Fiber
Disease certainly appears to be another genetically-engineered disease,
this one evidently brought to us by GM (Bt) cotton textiles and other
Bt cotton products.
Note: Pets, especially dogs but
also cats (and even horses) are beginning to suffer from this bizarre
Fiber Disease. What seems to link all of
them? I would
say it was exposure to genetically-engineered Bt cotton.
[Advance
NewsMagazines for Nurse Practicioners, article by Ginger Savely NP and
Mary Leitau, vol. 13, issue 5, p.16, www.nurse-practicioners.com;
["Morgellons
Fiber Disease", Ed Kasper LAc, reviewed by a Medical Advisory
Board/Morgellons Research Foundation,
www.happyherbalist.com/morgellons.htm;
[and see "The
Fiber Disease", www.biology-online.org/biology-forum; and
["Fiber Disease Alert: Cotton: A Clear and Present Danger" by Cliff
Mickelson, www.chemtrailcentral.com]
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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