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We Have the Right To Know – Label GE Foods
92% of Americans want the FDA to label genetically engineered foods. Watch the new video from Food, Inc. Filmmaker Robert Kenner to hear why we have the right to know what’s in our food. Will you join these individuals — and over half a million Americans — in contacting the FDA to require the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods?
What are Genetically Engineered Foods / GMOs?
Plants or animals that have had their genetic makeup altered to exhibit traits that are not naturally theirs.
-From the glossary on the Monsanto website.
Organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally.
-World Health Organization
“Genetically Engineered Foods”, “Genetically modified organisms,” or GMOs, are organisms that have been created through application of transgenic, gene-splicing techniques that are part of biotechnology. These transgenic methods for moving genes around are also called “genetic engineering,” or GE.
This relatively new science allows DNA (genetic material) from one species to be transferred into another species, creating transgenic organisms with combinations of genes from plants, animals, bacteria, and even viral gene pools. The mixing of genes from different species that have never shared genes in the past is what makes GMOs and GE crops so unique. It is impossible to create such transgenic organisms through traditional crossbreeding methods.
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Shots In The Dark: Silence on Vaccine
Following the increase in cases of autism and other immune disorders among some particularly vulnerable people, several recognized specialists are questioning the safety of large-scale vaccination. Despite the serious side effects, pharmaceutical companies, the medical profession and government authorities continue to bury their heads in the sand, refusing to see a serious problem. In Quebec, the United States and France, as in most industrialized countries, victims are almost without recourse despite the high toxicity of substances such as mercury and aluminum contained in vaccines. With this hard-hitting documentary, Lina B. Moreco highlights a very worrying public health problem.
Since they were introduced in the early 20th century, vaccines have been a tremendous medical and scientific success. Today perceived as a necessity, they are so familiar to us that their potential risks are rarely mentioned.
However, the stakes are significant. Based on recommendations of health agencies, North American children receive about 48 doses of 14 different vaccines before the age of 6 — double the amount prescribed 25 years earlier. Despite this extraordinary increase, few studies independent of the pharmaceutical industry have been conducted into their long-term side effects. This is a disturbing situation given the numerous toxins, including mercury and aluminum, contained in some commonly administered vaccines.
Several worried pediatricians and scientists are sounding the alarm. Some of the research underway indicates that vaccination is directly responsible for immune or neurological disorders among certain people genetically or neurologically predisposed to react badly to vaccine components. Cases of autism, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, macrophagic myofasciitis, encephalitis, paralysis and neuropathies indicate the seriousness of the situation.
Despite these findings, the pharmaceutical industry and government authorities deny there is a serious problem. Relying on perfunctory studies, some of which date back to the late 1920s, they reject out of hand any cause-and-effect relationship. Given the known fact that adding preservatives such as thimerosal (mercury) helps reduce production costs, the reaction of the pharmaceutical industry is at the very least puzzling. Preferring not to question a system that has proved its worth, a majority of the medical profession’s members reject any potential toxicity in vaccines.
Autism made in the U.S.A
In this award-winning documentary film Gary Null explores the causes and solutions to the recent epidemic of autism in our children. In this film you will see children who have made an extraordinary recovery from autism speak in their own words.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield takes legal action against Brian Deer, BMJ and Godlee
The scandal involving Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s case study research into the link between the combination measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism may go down as one of the biggest cases of malicious fraud in history — but such fraud was not committed by Dr. Wakefield. In a new lawsuit, Dr. Wakefield is seeking to recover exemplary damages for the heinous libel, slander and defamation committed against him by the British Medical Journal (BMJ); Dr. Fiona Godlee, BMJ‘s editor; and pseudo-journalist Brian Deer, all of whom have worked tirelessly to destroy his life and career throughout the past year.
The lawsuit, filed in Travis County, Texas, District Court, names BMJ, Godlee, and Deer as the defendants for having maliciously published deliberate lies about Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 case study paper that was published in The Lancet back in 1998. These lies, which officially began their spread back in early 2010 when Dr. Wakefield’s paper was forcibly retracted, include falsely accusing Dr. Wakefield of fabricating and manipulating research data, and using autistic children for his own personal gain (http://www.naturalnews.com/031211_Andrew_Wakefield_BMJ.html).
BMJ first published Deer’s “investigative” hit-piece on Dr. Wakefield, entitled Secrets of the MMR Scare: How the Case Against the MMR Vaccine was Fixed, back on January 5, 2011. This was followed by several corresponding editorials written by Godlee that were published just a few days later.
Within days, these vaccine industry-funded slam pieces snowballed into a worldwide slander-fest against Dr. Wakefield, which included several appearances by Deer on CNN’s American Morning show and Anderson Cooper’s 360 show, where he had the audacity to call Dr. Wakefield a “determined cheat.” So not only did BMJ knowingly publish lies against Dr. Wakefield, but Deer traveled the world spreading them as well.
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Evidence suggests hard-to-find raw camel milk may improve autism symptoms
After observing considerable improvement in her own son’s autism symptoms through the integration of raw camel milk into his diet, author and journalist Christina Adams is now convinced that this unconventional food delicacy holds much promise in treating autism. Writing for Autism File, Adams offers a wealth of empirical evidence showing that camel milk can help to increase motor skills, improve eye contact, and ease inflammation and gastrointestinal disorders in autistic children, which can greatly improve their human abilities and quality of life.
Because it does not contain casein or lactoglobulin, two allergenic components found in cow milk, camel milk is not problematic for autistic children, nor does it exacerbate their condition in any way. On the contrary, camel milk’s unique composition of vitamins and minerals, protective proteins, and immunoglobulins (Igs) appears to aggressively mitigate symptoms of autism in a way not typically associated with consumption of others forms of milk.
Dr. Reuven Yagil, a veterinarian and expert camel farmer who first wrote about camel milk’s ability to treat autism symptoms in a journal-published study, believes that autism spectrum disorders do not necessarily originate in the brain as most people think they do. He and a growing number of other experts in the scientific community, in fact, say that autism for many people is actually an immune response that manifests itself primarily as gastrointestinal inflammation.
“Autism is not a brain affliction but an autoimmune disease afflicting primarily the intestines,” Dr. Yagil is quoted as saying by Autism File. And Dr. Amnon Gonenne, an American-Israeli scientist that helped pave the way for Adams to discover the benefits of camel milk for her autistic son, agrees, noting that one of the key mechanisms of camel milk is to ease this inflammation and help rebuild intestinal health.
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Genetically Modified Food and Autism – Is There A Connection?
A diagnosis of Autism can be one of the most devastating diagnoses a parent can hear. At best, children with high functioning autism are able to lead, with limited social skills, somewhat normal lives. At worst, children diagnosed with Autism will never be able to function in society. The toll placed on the families and society is staggering. Statistics in the United States report that 1 in 110 children have Autism today and this rate is expected to rise.
There are several factors researchers have looked at in attempting to uncover the cause of Autism, such as genetics and infections. Many researchers believe that the cause of Autism stems from environmental factors such as vaccines and mercury. One environmental factor that does not get a lot of attention is the ingestion of genetically modified (GM) crops. Jeffrey Smith’s recent article entitled Dangerous Toxins from Genetically Modified Plants found in Women and Fetuses brings to light the idea that a possible cause of Autism is the Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) toxin found in patented, transgenic corn and cottonseed crops. Smith, Director of The Institute for Responsible Technology and bestselling author, connects the dots between the evidence of toxicity of Bt and the severe immune, neurological, digestive, dermatological, and cognitive problems found to be associated with it.
