reposting from Steve Z of MCS-Canada
Old news but....................
Steve Z, forwarded
-from Eileen
On Friday, August 18, 2006, the _FDA approved a viral cocktail_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/us/19viruses.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) to be
sprayed on foods we eat.
The first virally contaminated foods entering our food supply with the
blessings of the FDA will be luncheon meat and poultry. Live viruses will be
sprayed on foods such as cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and
chicken.
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FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
August 24, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
On Friday, August 18, 2006, the _FDA approved a viral cocktail_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/us/19viruses.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) to be
sprayed on foods we eat. This is the first time viruses have been approved
for use as food additives. The FDA wants you to believe it will be safe to
consume these viruses every day for the rest of your life with no adverse health
effects. Not surprisingly, the FDA doesn't want you to know which foods are
adulterated in this manner, for fear you may not buy them; thus, no labeling
will be required. This is a monumental announcement by the FDA, indicating
they are throwing all caution to the wind regarding the safety of our food
supply.
Are you willing to stand in line for a virus-laden sandwich? How do you like
the idea of buying virus-infested food for your family? The first virally
contaminated foods entering our food supply with the blessings of the FDA will
be luncheon meat and poultry. Live viruses will be sprayed on foods such as
cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and chicken.
At issue is the very real problem of a poor quality FDA-approved food supply
that is already full of diseased and sickly animals, many of them imported
from other countries. The use of antibiotics during growth and radiation
during food processing is required by the fast-food animal farms owned by
multi-national companies to cover up the horrendous health of the animals they wish
to feed to Americans. Animals in poor health are a friendly place for bacteria
to grow and prosper, especially after such meat goes to market. Rather than
address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to add another adulteration
into our food supply.
The stated goal of the new FDA-approved viruses is to kill a rare bacterium
known as Listeria monocytogenes. This bacterium is killed by cooking;
however, it poses a problem in meats that are cooked during processing and not
cooked again prior to consumption, so it can readily infect foods such as deli
meats.
Yes, the FDA plans to use one infectious organism to fight another. The
carnage of battle will end up in your digestive tract along with the victorious
live viruses, which the FDA assures us will not attack human cells. However,
they cannot possibly be certain the viruses will not attack the friendly
bacteria that make up the lining of your digestive tract. And they want you to
believe this is completely safe while refusing to require the additive viruses
to be listed on the food label so that you would have a choice.
Turning Loose the Bacteria-Killing Viruses
The company that produces these biotech viruses is Baltimore-based
_Intralytix, Inc_ (http://www.intralytix.com/) . The viruses are known as
bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, or phages for short. Phages have been around
a long time, living as parasites inside many bacteria.
Intralytix uses biotechnology to grow viral phages in a culture with
Listeria, in theory teaching the viruses to recognize the bacteria. The FDA-approved
cocktail contains six different viruses intended to attack one strain of
bacteria.
This concoction is then sprayed on food. If Listeria is present in the food,
the bacteria will ingest the viruses. This results in massive viral
replication inside the bacteria, until such point as the bacteria simply bursts. This
battle results in significant production of bacterial poisons called
"endotoxins", as the bacteria tries to defend itself. When the bacteria burst, these
endotoxins are released. These, along with the victorious live viruses, will
now be on the food that will be eaten.
The FDA and Intralytix would like us to believe that these viruses will only
attack the specified bacteria they are intended to kill and will be harmless
to humans. I'm sorry to burst their bubble, but they can't possibly
guarantee such safety. It is true that the viruses, at least at this time, cannot
recognize human cells. However, the virus can potentially recognize normal
bacterial cells in the human digestive tract and may be able to adapt to infect
one or more of these friendly bacteria.
The FDA Certainly Knows There Are Risks
The FDA had some concerns about the amount of bacterial endotoxin in the
Intralytix product before it is sprayed; however, FDA tests apparently showed
that the product was adequately purified and so they declared it safe if used
as approved. Will the FDA diligently monitor the quality of this product once
it is on the market, or will it go the path of many FDA-approved drugs that
the agency can't keep track of?
There is certainly a risk that humans will be exposed to excessive amounts
of endotoxin. This could come from the manufacturing of the viral cocktail,
the interaction of the viruses with bacteria after being sprayed on food,
and/or the interaction of the viruses with bacteria in the digestive tract.
The human immune system is highly reactive and sensitive to bacterial
endotoxins. They provoke allergy, asthma, autoimmune problems, and elevate
cholesterol. They also interfere with the healthy function of _cells lining the
digestive tract _
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15057745&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum) .
Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of _bacterial endotoxins can
start cancer in the colon_
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=12384057&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_D
ocSum) .
Additionally, the human immune system reacts directly to viral phages. Thus,
a person who eats a lot of processed deli meat is certain to evoke an immune
reaction to the viruses. What will this reaction be? Allergy? Asthma?
Autoimmunity? Cancer? How can the FDA approve a food additive that it knows can
induce a variety of human immune responses? Phages are so good at disrupting
normal immunity that they are being considered for use as part of _organ
transplant medicine _
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16504739&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum) .
The ingestion of significant amounts of viral phages into the human
digestive tract is a wild card full of unknown outcomes. For example, it is certainly
possible that these phages, which constantly mutate in order to survive, are
likely to find a way to infect bacteria they were not intended to infect.
Since phages are parasites, they could hijack the friendly bacteria of the
digestive tract and turn them into viral machines, constantly generating viral
particles that are likely to confuse the human immune system, if not directly
infect the body. We know from history that these viral phages can turn
innocuous bacteria into a killer, which is how cholera occurs.
Furthermore, the Listeria bacteria are not going to take the issue lying
down. They will develop resistance to the viruses over time, as we have seen
with the overuse of antibiotics. Going down this path we are likely to have
hundreds of viral food additives in the food we eat, all designed to combat some
possible infection coming from poor quality food. Sooner or later we will
inadvertently create deadly new super-strains of bacteria and/or parasitically
infect the human digestive tract with an untreatable infection.
There is also the very real possibility of unintended viral recombination.
What happens when a person with viral stomach flu eats food containing a dose
of this viral food additive? It is certainly possible for the genetic
material of the flu virus to interact with the genetic material of the viral phages,
provoking an undesirable new viral infection.
Let's not forget that the FDA won't tell us which foods in the food supply
contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Seventy percent of the packaged
food on grocery shelves already contains GMO adulterated food. These foods
have viral promoter genes woven into the DNA of every cell, a technique used to
implant a pesticide toxin into every cell of this fake food (see _Fight for
Your Health_ (http://www.newswithviews.com/HNB/Hot_New_Books32.htm) , chapter
15). What happens when the viral phages interact with the viral promoter
genes in GMO food? What new virus will be encouraged to form?
Keep in mind that the FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food
supply to protect a small minority, only about 2500 people, who are made seriously
ill by this infection each year. The ill are mostly pregnant women, elderly
with compromised immunity, and small children. It would be a lot more to the
point if the FDA would simply warn such people that eating these foods, due
to their poor quality of production, may be dangerous. What the FDA should
really do is improve the quality of our food supply, the true source of the
problem. Why expose millions of Americans to an unproven ingestion of live
viruses for the benefit of so few?
The FDA has failed miserably for the past century to protect the public from
the adulteration of our food supply by vested interests. This is just one
more insult added to a long list of injuries.
Regards,
Eileen Dannemann
former director, National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW)
_www.ProgressiveConvergence.com _ (http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/)
917 804-0786
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