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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 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. 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. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of bacterial endotoxins can start cancer in the colon .
Additionally, the human immune system reacts directly to viral phages. Thus, a person who eats a lot of processed deli meat is cert ain 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.
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 t hese 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.{Except Lyme- I added this}
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, provok ing 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, 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 pe ople 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. The Tip of an Iceberg Intralytix has an agenda for the American food supply, as well as for healthcare in general. This recent FDA ruling allows Intralytix and other similar biotech companies to get their foot in a door that should be slammed shut and bolted closed.
The company is also seeking FDA approval for viral sprays to treat foods that could be contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella, which means that similar "trained" virus es could end up in a majority of the protein foods in our food supply.
Intralytix sees financial opportunity. They have already licensed their now FDA-approved viral spray to an undisclosed multi-national company for use around the world. When the CEO of Intralytix, John Vazzara, was recently asked about this partner company, he refused to disclose their name.
The grand profit-driven biotech experiment on the health and well being of all Americans is now in full swing. Of course, we will need new wonder drugs to combat the new bio-tech produced infections. Americans will stay sick and the sickness-driven bio-tech industry will flourish.
The bio-tech industry will make people sick on the front end and treat them on the back end. It's a win-win situation for profit on illness. The FDA is Rapidly Becoming a Public Enemy Experimenting with viruses being added to the food supply is incredibly dangerous and reckl ess.
It is completely impossible for the FDA to guarantee safety in the near term or the long term. Thus, the FDA has made the bureaucratic decision that relative safety is acceptable to them. What right does the FDA have to tamper with the food supply in this manner?
It is quite clear that the Bush agenda has been to promote American biotech companies as the new future for American prosperity. Administrative opinions have trumped science in virtually every situation wherein safety conflicts with profit.
The FDA will refuse to require labeling on food sprayed with viruses, just as they refuse to require notification that food has been genetically modified and contains toxins in every cell. The reason is obvious; no person understanding these issues would buy or eat such food. Thus, the FDA acts to hide the information from the public to foster profits for biotech companies and the growth of the biotech industry.
This is a betrayal of the public trust. The leaders of the FDA are personally responsible and need to be held accountable. This means Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., temporary head of the FDA and his chief science officer, Scott Gottlieb, M.D.
These men are not only obsessed with approving risky drugs for the benefits of Big Pharma, it is now clear that they are willing to allow obvious adulteration of the food supply. They seek to control what we eat, and they are tampering with survival of the human race.
The FDA does not truly know how safe viral phages are to consume on a regular basis. They have no idea of the cumulative effect over the course of a lifetime, especially as more of these viral cocktails are added to the food supply.
They have no way to measure how this new type of adulteration in the food supply will interact with the poor digestive/immune health of half the American population, in combinatio n with all the other serious adulterations already approved by the FDA. The FDA lacks due diligence in honoring its mandate to protect the American public.
Boycott Viral Tainted Foods, Support Your Sustainable Farmers The only hope Americans have is to resurrect the quality of our food supply. Doing so is against the odds, as there are billions of dollars of profit-mongering taking our food supply in the wrong direction.
One day Americans will realize that food security is as important to national security as any other topic. It is now crystal clear that we cannot count on the FDA to do the job that Harvey Wiley, M.D., envisioned one-hundred years ago. How can any responsible parent feed virus-tainted food to their children?
The FDA should be forced to revoke this approval. Since the FDA is refusing to make food companies list the viruses as ingredients in food, consumers have no choice but to avoid buying all food s that could be sprayed. I see no other way that safety can be assured, since the FDA refuses to do its job and is putting American's health at risk.
Every American has an obligation to support food security for our nation. Congress must correct the leadership at the FDA and the FDA itself. Americans must quit buying poor quality toxic food. Your greatest ability to change this problem is based entirely on what you purchase.
Get connected to the sustainable family farms in your community. Demand that the food you are eating is labeled with a country of origin. Buy American; buy locally-produced food whenever possible. Support those who truly believe in being the stewards of our land and food for our people and for future generations.
These good people are being squashed out of existence by multi-national agribusiness, companies that could truly care less about the quality of our food supply or the security and health o f Americans. How you spend your money is your most powerful vote. Vote for those who care.
�1/2 2006 Truth in Wellness, LLC - All Rights Reserved
Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist and nationally-renowned health expert, radio personality, educator, and author. Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests who profit from keeping Americans sick.
Author of Mastering Leptin and Fight for Your Health, Richards is now joining forces with health freedom leaders in the U.S. and throughout the world. Visit his health blog for up to date happenings.
_www.truthinwellness.com_ (http://www.truthinwellness.com/) As founder of Wellness Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN (since 1985), he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade n utritional formulas.
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NP40
Thanks for posting this.
It sounds like it should be in some sci-fi monster movie.
Just completely insane.
Do you know when this goes into effect?
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It all evens out.
Because they are taking away our privacy but giving us live virus in our foods. Insert "favorite curse word "
Seriously- This is perhaps one of the most disturbing things I have heard in a while. And thats saying alot.
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Here's a twist for the movie:
The bacteria killing cocktail they end up spraying on all our foods actually ends up being the antidote to all the TBDs they set loose on us to study Germ Warfare.
Then everyone tests negative, noone can find any evidence of any of these diseases, and they lock us all up in Psychiatric Hospitals.
Maybe that's why they're moving the Plum Island facilities. They'll spray us with selective memory eliminator and we'll forget it was ever there.
I really need to get a life. Must be bedtime again.
Really, this is just unbelievable. Is it the FDA that pulls supplements off the market? What are they thinking? Or should I say, Are they thinking?
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Going out to eat has taken on a whole new meaning for me. Hmm Canada tonite or Im doing that hunter/gathering thing again.
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Well, in theory, it is interesting to fight bacteria with bacteriophages. They are already being used in other countries successfully, mostly with open wounds on the surface of patients.
I am not sure of the science in this article and would have liked to have some authorities with no conflicts of interest comment on it impartially.
Last time there was an article on the development of phages, it was going to be used in ways at first that did not involve humans, like in animal facilities, on surfaces to reduce bacteria, so the animals would not get sick and need to be treated with antibiotics. It is surprising that they have so quickly gone to a product that would be ingested by humans.
The things that the FDA does not want to tell us about worry me. I am all for labeling so people have a choice. But all the regulatory agencies have been taken over by political appointees who are trying to defeat regulations and encourage commerce without any oversight. This is a big mistake and the opposite of democracy. Then when people are injured and wish to file a class action suit, tort reform has taken that right away, and packed the courts with judges who always side with business interests. You people who voted for the current white house incumbent, is this what you wanted? This is what you have given us.
Didn't mean to get political here, but elections have consequences.
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