Published on Oct 31, 2012 by TheHealthRanger
The latest parody satire video from the satirical mind of Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, this video is a commercial for a fictitious beverage known as Monster Chemo Agent Orange Diet Fluoride Soda.
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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) I’m hearing grumblings through the grapevine that an effort may be underway to steal the election against Proposition 37. So far, these are just rumors, but knowing how these evil corporations trying to defeat the ballot measure really operate, there is NOTHING they won’t do to protect their dirty little (agricultural) secrets. Including stealing the election.
Stealing elections is only really possible in close elections, but that’s exactly where Proposition 37 is right now. It’s just barely ahead in the polls: 44% to 42%, with the remainder undecided or neutral. This means Prop 37 is well within the “stealing” range.
How do you steal an election? Use electronic voting machines, of course. And then hack the crap out of them until the numbers come out the way you want. That’s how most clinical trials are conducted, of course, so fudging the numbers is nothing new to the kind of evil corporations that dominate the GMO hellscape.
Electronic voting machines are being rolled out all across California right now. These machines, as we’ve seen in past elections, are full of bugs and backdoors that allow your vote to be altered at will by whoever owns or influences the voting machine engineers. There is no paper trail, so your electronic vote goes into a vast black hole where it is easily and invisibly altered.
The entire purpose of using electronic voting machines is, of course, to eliminate accurate vote tracking of any kind, thereby allowing elections to be manipulated at will. And if you think evil globalist corporations wouldn’t stoop to this kind of behavior, think again: The “No on 37″ campaign has already been caught violating federal law by fabricating fictitious FDA quotes and mailing them out to California voters.
Truthfully, knowing what really goes on behind the scenes, I wouldn’t put it past these people to engage in vote fraud, death threats, extortion, bribery or whatever it takes to defeat Proposition 37. This is the way they routinely conduct business, folks. We are talking about the most evil cabal of demonic, destructive corporations on the planet. Absolutely nothing is out of bounds for them. Think Al Capone… criminal mafia… death threats and professional hackers. That only scratches the surface!
After all, the very products they sell — GMOs, pesticides, Agent Orange — are nothing short of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Stealing an election doesn’t even rank at any level worth noting in their dark, smoky rooms where global domination schemes are hatched and plotted through the use of every evil tactic that has ever been invented.
Stealing elections is only possible when the vote results are close, so the best way to ensure evil forces don’t steal the outcome on Proposition 37 is to help us achieve a wide margin of victory at the polls.
This means spreading the word on GMOs and Proposition 37. Visit the YES on 37 website, watch the videos, donate funds and share knowledge with your family and friends. Check out the new music video We Have the Right to Know about GMO, featuring top celebrities and health experts, all commenting on GMOs and singing the song, too. (I contributed background vocals to this song, in case you were curious.)
If you know someone who is into healthy living, honest food and grassroots activism, make sure they get to the polls in California and vote! And make sure they vote YES on 37!
In fact, I personally think the way Californians vote on Prop 37 is far more important than the way they vote for President. Because both Romney and Obama are pro-GMO sellouts who are in bed with big business. Only the People are truly anti-GMO, and that’s why this ballot measure is such an important expression of people power!
Your vote on Proposition 37 is more important than ever! With the biotech criminals running a steady stream of LIES on television, all funded by Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and all the other usual suspects, they are managing to trick or confuse a large number of California voters who know nothing about food labeling or GMOs. We’ve got to fight back with sheer numbers!
Together, we can win this vote for food freedom and honest food. It’s the home stretch, folks, and every bit of your effort, donations, activism and good will is needed right now. We are facing off against a terrible, destructive monster, and we are in a position where we can sever its head on November 6th and put an end to its rampage of death and destruction. We must take every opportunity available to achieve victory right now, because another such opportunity may not come along for years.
Spread the word: Vote YES on 37 if you live in California. Defeat GMOs now, at the ballot box, and help overwhelm any attempt by malicious forces to steal the election results via black box voting.
by: S. D. Wells
(NaturalNews) “Chronic care management” means someone has a disorder or a disease and the doctors and hospitals aren’t really helping to cure it, they just treat the symptoms with pharmaceuticals and wait for it to get worse. U.S. chronic care management is a well-planned out healthcare system based on the sobering fact that most people make themselves sick and diseased by what they eat and drink, and the popular medicine used to treat this sickness is made from the same chemicals found in what causes it. Still, fewer than 30 percent of the country understands this, and even fewer than that are doing anything about it.
Agent Orange Food Disorder, AOFD, is an ongoing mutation of cells from consuming pesticide regularly, in other words, it is the cumulative effect of consuming toxins over time. This type of cancer is not contagious and is not inherited, rather it is created inside the body and perpetuated, until it’s often too late to defeat, or so “chronic care management” would have you believe.
Big question: Exactly WHEN does this non-contagious, non-inherited “disorder” of the cells begin, so modern science can really find that cure? The answer to this question is complicated, but explainable. First of all, asking a doctor, an oncologist, or a nutritionist, “When does cancer start?” is like asking someone to tell you exactly when they fell asleep. They don’t know. Nobody knows exactly when or where in the body cancer starts. Doctors simply don’t know.
There’s a more intriguing question to consider: How long will people believe that the U.S. government, the FDA, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the entire pharmaceutical industry, and all those so well-promoted “walk for the cure” events keep conning people into believing they are searching for the cure? Let me tell you something now, no organization searches for the cure for something they are perpetuating; that would be stupid on their part. They do just the opposite without ever saying so. Plus, if any money actually does go to research, it goes to pay scientists to look for a magic vaccine to cure Agent Orange Food Disorder (PESTICIDE DISEASE), which is coming from the pesticide-laden foods you’ve been eating and keep eating, all while they continue searching, searching, searching “for the cure!” Yeah right.
GMO food delivers a small amount of Agent Orange ingredients into your blood and mutates your cells over time. How long that mutation of cells takes to overwhelm one of your vital organs, or strangulate your lungs or your brain, well, that’s just a matter of how much of it you eat, how often, and for how long. The genetically-modified vegetable contains herbicides that kills so-called super-weeds, which is linked to the notorious “Agent Orange” used in Vietnam. (http://www.cbsnews.com)
If you don’t know already, Agent Orange was a defoliant used in Vietnam to decimate the Southeast Asian jungles so the enemy couldn’t hide. Because of the ingredient “2,4-D’s” links to Agent Orange, people have dubbed the GMO corn as “Agent Orange corn,” but that’s just the beginning of the cancer breeding madness. (http://www.sott.net) Most of the U.S. soldiers who hiked through Agent Orange came home to the U.S. with cancer, and they didn’t even know it. Now, most Americans are “walking” through the same nightmare by consuming GMO foods. What is the cure? Understand this; there is no starting point for AOFD, only an end. People must use their common sense to beat cancer. Put it this way, would you spray a little “Raid” roach killer on your food if it made it taste better? What if “RAID FOOD” was a little cheaper than organic food, would you buy that instead? Wake up and smell the bug killer!
Let’s follow the 100 YEAR CANCER BREEDING historical time line:
Dow Chemical: The infamous Herbert Dow failed several times before finding the formula for cancer causing food. There are many years of corruption when it comes to pesticide laden food, but Dow and Monsanto are the reigning devils. Here’s a MASSIVE list of Dow Chemical’s violations, the same company the International Olympic Committee deemed “a proud Olympic partner:” (http://athletesagainstdowchemical.wordpress.com) Dow Chemical also manufacturers Bisphenol-A (BPA), the chemical used in plastics that leads to infertility, breast and prostate cancer, diabetes, thyroid malfunction, miscarriages and Down syndrome.
After Dow Chemical, we saw the true beginning of GMOs and insecticide use on humans by Hitler’s “right arm” of the German uprising, I.G. Farben: (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dow_Chemical_Company)
I.G. Farben’s “Business With Disease.” Interessengemeinschaft Farben, or IG Farben, was a powerful cartel of BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and other German chemical and pharmaceutical companies. IG Farben was the single largest donor to the election campaign of Adolph Hitler. I.G. Farben created chlorine gas for Hitler to use on humans in WWI. In 1915, German troops began dispersing chlorine gas from tens of thousands of cylinders at the front lines of the enemy and in the trenches. They first used it against French and Canadian troops. The types of chemical weapons employed ranged from mustard gas to lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine.
(http://www4.dr)
The most effective and efficient technique developed for killing the Jews at Auschwitz depended on the same pesticide that was used to kill the lice in prisoners’ clothing. Thanks to I.G. Farben, the disinfectant, sold under the trade name of Zyklon B, was in plentiful supply. (http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/killing/) Hitler killed about three million Jews with pesticide. How many innocent people has Agent Orange food killed? Since cancer in the U.S. kills about 750 thousand people per year, you might start referring to agricultural biotechnology as the modern day Nazi SS.
Monsanto is the “wicked witch” of agricultural biotechnology. In 2010, the company reported sales of approximately $10.5 billion and had over 27,000 employees. This monstrous company produces biotechnology and the horror toxin of the cancer epidemic called Roundup. Other Monsanto products include the now ubiquitous PCBs, DDT, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) and Aspartame. Monsanto is one of the “Big Six” biotech corporations, along with BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemical Company, Dupont, and Syngenta. Starting to sound familiar? Yes, we are talking about Nazi scientists working for American corporations and breeding cancer in vegetables. (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto)
Vietnam’s Agent Orange and Roundup: Monsanto’s deadly legacy. August of 2011 marked 50 years since Agent Orange was first used by the U.S. military in its war against Vietnam, and its effects persist to this day, with three generations of exposed Vietnamese families and American veterans suffering from horrific birth defects and disabilities. Of course, Monsanto and Dow profited greatly from its production and use, but are not responsible for reparations for the millions it crippled with disabilities and birth defects. Instead, Monsanto and Dow continue to profit from their poisons. Today, they are currently seeking approval for genetically modified crops that can withstand massive doses of 2,4-D, the major chemical agent used in Agent Orange.
Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide RoundUp causes birth defects. A new generation of babies born near fields of “RoundUp Ready” (genetically modified) soy in Argentina are suffering birth defects as terrible as those found in the Agent Orange contaminated areas of Vietnam. Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, causes endocrine disruption, damage to reproductive organs and to DNA, and it causes cancer. (http://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob281.htm)
What do GMO, Zyklon B, RoundUp, Pesticide, Glyphosate, 2,4-D, Dimethylphthalate, and “Raid” Ant & Roach Killer have in common? They all kill bugs, weeds, rats and humans, but still most Americans have NO IDEA just how pervasive genetically-modified organisms (GMO) have become throughout the food supply, especially in GMO corn, soy, cottonseed oil and canola oil. So called “inert” ingredients can kill you! (http://www.getipm.com/government/ny-inert.htm)
Predatory marketing practices by multinational biotechnology companies like Monsanto effectively seize the reigns of agriculture and dictate how it will proceed. Check it out:
(http://www.naturalnews.com/033368_farmers_Monsanto.html#ixzz28uN8cLHT).
We are currently experiencing the GMO wars, where one biotech giant sues another for control. Monsanto is suing DuPont and vice versa, over patents and anti-competitive business practices, to see who will dominate the world’s toxic food supply and benefit the most from AOFD (cancer causing food and chemotherapy treatment). (http://www.naturalnews.com)
GMO foods, pesticide, and chemotherapy are cooked up by the same handful of companies, who all have the same dual agenda: MAKE MONEY AND MAKE PEOPLE SICK. These companies run the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries of America, and they don’t just feed Americans these toxins, they export them to countries all over the world. Continents are bombarded with exported contaminated vegetables which are simply molecular-twisted chem-food. Many countries are just starting to figure it out now, thanks to French researchers blowing the whistle over the past few weeks. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
Will people figure out cancer is mainly caused by eating chemicals, or will they get fooled for another generation or two, and serve their kids and grandkids Agent Orange food? Do you think there will be a pill or vaccine for that same cancer then? Do you still believe there will be a drug people can take for a few weeks or months that will reverse all those warped cells back to normal, and fight off the pesticide that you may still be eating? Will everything return to normal in your body, like it was before you began regularly eating what killed thousands of Vietnamese families, children, and U.S. soldiers in Vietnam? (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_23429.cfm)
I feel horrible for people suffering from cancer. As of now, only about 50 percent will survive it, unless they learn about organic food (http://www.forksoverknives.com/). I feel bad for the people who have cancer now and don’t know it. I also feel bad for people who don’t know how to cure themselves.
There is a cure for cancer. Oh, you didn’t know? Stop eating GMO, pesticide-laden food. Stop eating processed food. Stop drinking fluoridated water. Start drinking spring water (http://www.findaspring.com/). Change your ways! Start eating organic food. Only eat certified organic food. Try Superfoods! (http://store.naturalnews.com/) Question everything and read the labels on every product you buy, including what you put on your skin.
You can stop eating GMOs now or die of cancer later, it is YOUR CHOICE! Do you still want to “march for the cure?” March down your block and hand out brochures about organic food and spring water. You can even wear pink if you want to and I promise not to call the “pink” police. http://www.naturalnews.com/033783_Komen_for_the_Cure_pinkwashing.html
Sources for this article include
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_23429.cfm
http://www.naturalnews.com/033783_Komen_for_the_Cure_pinkwashing.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dow_Chemical_Company
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/killing/
http://www.getipm.com/government/ny-inert.htm
http://www.forksoverknives.com/
Published on Jun 13, 2012 by wish
There’s a farming controversy over what pesticide critics are calling “Agent Orange Corn”. At the center of the issue is the commonly used herbicide 2-4-D.
Uploaded by journeymanpictures on Jan 21, 2008
July 2004
The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War means that for many the war never ended. They’re still suffering the effects of chemical warfare.
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Photo Credit: AFP
This article was reported in collaboration with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, where Barrett is a reporting fellow.
Though Mitt Romney has been campaigning for president since 2006, it’s alarming how little is known about critical chapters of his business biography. Nothing spells that out more clearly than his ties to Monsanto—the current target of a mid-September Occupy nationwide action —whose dark history features scandals involving PCBs, Agent Orange, bovine growth hormone, NutraSweet, IUD, genetically modified (GM) seed and herbicides, reaching back to the 1970s and ’80s. That’s when Monsanto was the largest consulting client of Romney’s employer, Bain & Company, and when Romney helped move Monsanto from chemical colossus to genetic giant, trading one set of environmental controversies for another.
The romance between Romney and Monsanto began back in 1977, when the recently minted Harvard Law and Business School graduate joined Bain, the Boston-based consulting firm launched in 1973, the same year Monsanto became one of its first clients. One of Bain’s founding partners, Ralph Willard, described to the Boston Globe in 2007 how “Romney learned the technical aspects of the chemical business so thoroughly that he sounded as if he had gone to engineering school instead of business school,” and that Monsanto executives soon began “bypassing” him to go directly to Romney.This history matters not just because of the light it sheds on Romney’s self-ballyhooed business experience but because of the litany of Monsanto corporate objectives that clash with planetary concerns. If Romney is elected, this bête noire of environmentalists will have a very old friend in a very high place.
John W. Hanley, the Monsanto CEO at the time, has said how “impressed” he was with the 30-year-old Mitt. Hanley became so close to Romney that he and Romney’s boss Bill Bain devised the idea of creating Bain Capital as a way of keeping Romney in the fold. Unless Mitt was allowed to run this spin-off venture firm, Hanley and Bain feared, he would leave. Hanley even contributed $1 million to Romney’s first investment pool at Bain Capital. Monsanto’s Hanley is in fact the only business executive outside of the Bain founding family to so shape Romney’s career—jumpstarting the two companies, Bain & Company and Bain Capital, that account for all but two years of Romney’s much-ballyhooed business experience. Bain and Romney whispered in Monsanto’s ear until 1985, when Hanley’s successor Richard Mahoney says he “fired” them and when Romney moved on to Bain Capital.
A year before Romney began to work with Monsanto, Congress passed a 1976 bill banning PCBs, a liquid chemical monopoly of Monsanto’s, exposing the company to an onslaught of litigation throughout the Bain years. Monsanto was also besieged by charges that its decade of Vietnam War defoliation with Agent Orange dioxins—branded by a Yale environmentalist “the largest chemical warfare operation” in human history—had contaminated as many as 10 million Vietnamese and American people, leading to a $180 million settlement covering the claims of 52,000 troops in 1984.
Dr. Earl Beaver, who was Monsanto’s waste director during the Bain period, says that Bain was certainly “aware” of the “PCB and dioxin scandals” because they created “a negative public perception that was costing the company money.” So Bain recommended focusing “on the businesses that didn’t have those perceptions,” Beaver recalls, starting with “life science products that were biologically based,” including genetically engineered crops, as well as Roundup, the hugely profitable weed-killer. “These were the products that Bain gave their go-ahead to,” Beaver contends, noting that Romney was a key player, “reviewing the data collected by other people and developing alternatives,” talking mostly to “the higher muckety-mucks.”
The first Monsanto biotech product, bovine growth hormone, became another headache for the firm, crippling cows, alarming parents concerned about the health effect on kids, meeting with rejection among developed countries outside the United States and sparking bans by American retailers from Starbucks to Walmart. Monsanto announced it invented the hormone in 1981, midway through the Bain period, but didn’t get FDA clearance for it until 1993. By 2008, the company got out of the business altogether, ostensibly selling it for far less than it invested in the technology.
Now the king of GM corn, soybean, alfalfa and other seeds, engineered to resist Roundup and increase yield, Monsanto is awash in global disputes, having lost two recent, at least $2 billion, court decisions in Brazil, for example, where 5 million soy farmers sued them. The Brazilian farmers’ issue is also a source of frustration for US farmers—the contracts farmers are forced to sign pledging not to save seeds for future harvests, a common farm custom that resale-fixated Monsanto has hired a seed police army to stop.
While Monsanto can trot out its own and FDA findings to support its seed safety claims, there are independent studies linking its corn to organ damage, obesity, diabetes and allergies. The company’s profits plunged in 2010 as evidence mounted that GM seeds, 90 percent of which originate with Monsanto, weren’t boosting yields as promised. Consumer resistance has already forced Monsanto to retreat from the GM potato, tomato, wheat, rice, flax seed and bio-pharmaceutical crops. Peru recently banned GM products for ten years and Hungary destroyed all its Monsanto cornfields, joining ninety countries that aggressively monitor and restrict, or ban, GM imports, according to the Center for Food Safety.
The Union of Concerned Scientists criticized the absence of independent and long-term research findings on GM safety, charging that we are placing “a huge wager” on this little-examined technology. Monsanto’s onetime communications director shrugged his shoulders to this kind of concern, telling the New York Times : “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.” In fact, Monsanto pressured the Reagan administration, starting during the Bain years, to develop a friendly regulatory framework it could exploit as a seal of approval.
The critical shift to “life sciences” started in 1979, when Monsanto installed a University of California biologist, Howard Schneiderman, as its research director and began investing hundreds of millions a year in biotech hormones and seeds. Monsanto’s website reports that by 1981—when Bain was intimately involved in determining the company’s strategic direction—biotech was “firmly established as Monsanto’s strategic research focus.”
Roundup Ready seeds, of course, are inextricably tied to the success and safety of Roundup itself. But “super-weeds” are developing a Roundup tolerance, requiring more and more spraying to work, which is harmful ecologically and financially damaging for farmers. Introduced in the Bain years with Bain boosting, Roundup’s supposedly “biodegradable” and “nontoxic” claims have led to false advertising findings in France and by the Attorney General of New York. Studies are also now beginning to link Roundup to cancer and birth defects, the first indication that it may be going the way of Lasso, another Monsanto herbicide endorsed by Bain that was forced from the market because of health hazards.
Corporate Assault on Our Lives And Our Health - Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) : Community – Activism – Poisons in Our Foods
Uploaded by renagade12 on Mar 12, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/user/renagade12?feature=mhum
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this is great!! more kids need to get out of the whole brainwashed mindset.. and start looking into this themselves!
this kid has some balls… and he doesn’t care what people think( the most important thing!!)
ALOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THAT MONSANTO IS A WEAPONS COMPANY THEY CREATED WEAPONS SUCH AS AGENT ORANGE, DDT, AND MANY OTHERS… DO WHAT THIS YOUNG MAN DID AND RESEARCH!! RESEARCH!! AND THEN ONCE YOU’VE RESEARCHED PASS THE INFO ON TO OTHERS!!
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION.
A new study conducted at Stanford Center for Health Policy and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine questions whether organically-grown foods are safer or more nutritious than conventionally produced foods. This systemic review, which extracts data from English-language studies, says no. Seventeen studies in human beings and 223 studies of nutrient and contaminant levels in foods were examined. There were no long-term studies of health outcomes among people eating organic versus conventionally raised foods.
Three of the human studies researched clinical outcomes; those found no difference between populations who ate organic foods and those who ate conventional foods for allergic reactions or Campylobacter infections. Two of the human studies found significantly lower pesticide levels in the urine in children, but found no “clinically meaningful” differences among adults.
Estimates of any differences in nutrient and contaminant levels were “highly heterogeneous” except conventionally grown foods had significantly higher phosphorus levels. The risk of pesticide residue contamination was lower among organic produce, as is to be expected, but there was little difference in the risk of exceeding maximum limits. In other words, even produce that had pesticide residue had levels that were below safety limits set by the EPA.
The risk of E. coli contamination was unrelated to the farming method. But the risk for ingesting antibiotic-resistant bacteria was higher in conventionally raised chicken and pork than in organically raised meats.
The requirements for organic certification can vary, but there are some common standards. For instance, foods with the organic certified label must be grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, processed without irradiation, not grown from genetically modified organisms. Farm animals used for food must be raised without antibiotics or growth hormones and given pesticide-free animal feed.
What does this mean for the consumer? If you want to buy organically raised produce and meat, you will consume fewer pesticides and lower your risk of ingesting antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But the nutritional profiles of both groups are the same. And organically grown and produced foods are not safer in terms of bacterial contamination. No matter where you buy your food or if you have conventionally raised or organically produced food, it must be handled correctly and cooked to a safe final internal temperature.
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The Original Report on the study can be found here
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1355685
A Washington State report criticized the techniques used in this study, and it’s findings.
Mother Jones briefly touches on them
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/09/five-ways-stanford-study-underestimates-organic-food
And the Washington State University critique
http://organicfarms.wsu.edu/blog/devil-in-the-details/
http://www.tfrec.wsu.edu/pdfs/P2566.pdf
defensive chemicals produced naturally by plants…
http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v33.n31/story16.html
http://claylab.commons.yale.edu/research/
The source of an unusual E. coli outbreak that has sickened 10 people in the Finger Lakes region of New York since early August has yet to be identified, Joan Ellison, Livingston County’s director of public health told Food Poisoning Bulletin today.
Nine Livingston County residents and one person from Onondaga County have developed E. coli infections over the last month. Three of them had cases so severe that they were hospitalized, but have since been released. Lab tests that use a genetic “fingerprinting” method called pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) have confirmed that eight of the cases patients were sickened by the same strain of E.coli 0157:H7. Test results for two case patients from Livingston County are pending.
While public health authorities have been able to identify the outbreak strain, they have not yet been able to identify a specific source of the outbreak. “There is a thread that connects them, but not a rope that ties them all together,” Ellison said. “It’s really hard to say where it’s coming from.”
The outbreak began in early August with a cluster of seven cases in Livingston County. Then, last week, new cases popped up, including one in a second county. “It’s kind of odd that we’re adding them sporadically,” Ellison said.
Symptoms of an E. coli infection include vomiting, bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps which usually develop three to four days after exposure and last up to a week. Those most at risk are young children, seniors, people who take antacids on a regular basis and anyone whose immune system is compromised. The victims of this outbreak range in age from 10 to 75.
John C. Cordell, Public Information Specialist with the Michigan Department of Corrections told Food Poisoning Bulletin that there is an outbreak of STEC, or Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, at the Saginaw Correctional Facility. The facility is quarantined with no prisoner transfers, no group programming or prisoner visitation.
So far, 89 prisoners and seven staff have been confirmed ill with the E. coli bacteria. Four prisoners have been hospitalized, but there are no cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome. The hospitalizations have been for dehydration.
Most cases occurred from August 27 to August 30, 2012. The outbreak may be over, since no cases were identified on September 3 or 4, 2012. The facility may be able to return to normal operations at the end of this week, since the incubation period for this type of bacteria is 3 to 10 days. The facility is also monitoring prisoners who transferred out of the prison to other correctional facilities in the days before the outbreak.
Public health officials are looking at all avenues of transmission, focusing on food and food preparation. The Saginaw County Health Department, the Michigan Department of Community Health, and the Michigan Department of Agriculture are assisting with the investigation.
Get Shiga toxin E. coli help here.
STEC bacteria produce Shiga toxins, which go into the bloodstream and destroy red blood cells, causing anemia. The toxins can target the kidneys, which causes hemolytic uremic syndrome that can destroy that organ. The central nervous system can also be affected by Shiga toxins.
At least 14 people have been sickened in a multistate Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to contact with hedgehogs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Cutting Edge Concessions is recalling 0.5 ounce Shake’Ems seasoning cups distributed in movie theaters because they contain undeclared milk and the food dye red 40. Anyone with an allergy to those ingredients could have a serious or life-threatening reaction if they consume the product.
The cups were distributed in Arkansas, California, Colorado, and Tennessee. The product is in a 0.5 ounce plastic cup in flavors White Cheddar, Nacho Cheddar, Ranch, Cinnamon Sugar, and Parmesan Garlic. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with the consumption of these products.
The problem was caused by a temporary breakdown in the company’s labeling process. Production is suspended until the FDA and the company are sure the problem has been corrected. You can return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund. For questions, call 952-237-1551 Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET.
A raw milk recall for products produced by Organic Pastures Dairy of Fresno County and a quarantine order has been announced after Campylobacter was detected during routine testing, California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Jones. has announced. No illnesses have been reported in conjunction with this recall.
The recalled products include Grade A raw cream, Grade A raw milk and Grade A raw skim milk, all with a labeled code date of SEP 13. Retailers must immediately pull these products from store shelves and consumers are strongly urged to dispose of any product they might have purchased.
Inspectors from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) found the bacteria in a sample of raw cream during routine testing conducted as part of routine inspection and sample collection at the facility. In May, raw milk from Organic Pastures was recalled after it was linked to a Campylobacter outbreak that sickened 10 people. At that time, Campylobacter was also detected in a sample of raw cream. Of the 10 people sickened, six were under the age of 18.
Symptoms of a Campylobacter infection, called campylobacteriosis ,include diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever which usually develop two to five days after exposure and last about a week. The infection can be serious or even life-threatening for some people. Those most at risk include children, seniors and people who have compromised immune systems. In some cases, campylobacteriosis can trigger the development of a rare disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, which causes weakness and paralysis that occurs several weeks after the initial illness.
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The Center For Food Safety (CFFS) wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reject Dow Chemical’s request that a genetically modified soybean that is resistant to a major component in Agent Orange be approved for use. The group is circulating a petition to show the agency that consumers resist the move.
Agent Orange is the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Health concerns about exposure to it are still being explored but include increased risk of some types of cancer and birth defects in offspring of those exposed. Dow’s genetically engineered soybean is resistant to 2,4-D , a component of Agent Orange.
CFFS is concerned that approval of the soybean will lead to a greenlighting of approval for similarly engineered crops, harm wildlife and expose millions of Americans to a toxic chemical. According ot the petition, “Dow plans to sell this GE 2-4,D soy “stacked” with resistance to glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup—and glufosinate herbicides, yet neither Dow nor USDA has analyzed the potential synergistic or cumulative impacts that these planned combinations pose. Glufosinate has both reproductive and neurological toxicity to mammals, and on this basis is slated to be banned in the EU by 2017. ”
CFFS is a non-profit organization that challenges food production technologies and practices it considers harmful and promotes sustainable alternatives. It is based in Washington, D.C..
A retired Chicago public health inspector who took almost $100,000 in bribes was sentenced to two and half years in federal prison last week. Maryanne Koll who taught food service sanitation classes and administered state certifications is alleged to have accepted at least $96,930 in bribes in exchange for fraudulently arranging to provide 531 people with certifications as food sanitation managers.
Koll, 69, who operated Kollmar Food Safety Institute from her home in Burr Ridge, Ill., was convicted of one count of bribery conspiracy in federal court in September 2011. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced her to 30 months in prison and ordered her to begin serving the sentence on Dec. 31, 2012.
llinois state law requires that all food service establishments have someone on site who s certified as a food service sanitation manager. The coursework for this certification includes 15 hours of training on various topics including foodborne illnesses, time/temperature relationships, personal hygiene, pest control and prevention of food contamination.
From 1995 to 2007, Koll was authorized by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to teach the state-approved coursework and to administer the certification exams. During that time, she certified individuals who had not taken the coursework or passed the exams in exchange in exchange for cash bribes.
Food safety education and training is one of the most important ways to reduce foodborne illness. Every year, one sixth of all Americans are sickened by foodborne pathogens incurring $365 million in direct medical costs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Published on Apr 21, 2012 by RTAmerica
Friday marked the two year anniversary of America’s worst oil spill. British Petroleum was behind the disaster that took two months to maintain yet also spawned side-effects that caused a downward spiral in the economy, tourism and wildlife still to this day. In recent ads, images of green grass and beautiful water have been advertised in an attempt to lure people to the US Gulf coast. But is everything back to normal? Abby Martin takes a closer look at spill two years later.
Daisy Luther
Inalienably Yours
April 22nd, 2012
If ever there was a company that embodied evil, it would be the Monsanto Company.
The combination of unfettered corporate greed, a eugenics agenda and corrupt political manipulation forms an unholy trinity that could make Monsanto the real Cyberdyne Systems. In the Terminator movies, Cyberdyne Systems created the artificial intelligence computer system Skynet, which destroyed most life on earth and forced survivors to live.
Proving once again that fact is indeed as strange as fiction, the Monsanto Company could single handedly cause TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It).
The History of Monsanto
Monsanto was started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, whose background was in the pharmaceutical industry. Beginning as it would continue, the first product made by Monsanto was saccharin, a controversial artificial sweetener now banned in many countries for its links to cancer.
Over the last century, Monsanto was responsible for bringing many controversial substances to the market.
Initially a chemical company, it wasn’t until 1982 that Monsanto branched into agriculture, immediately tying the chemical background to the formerly wholesome business of growing food. Monsanto was determined to improve on nature and by the late 1980s had begun trials with genetically modified crops.
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By Jared Newman, PCWorld Apr 23, 2012 9:07 AM
PC users infected with a strain of malware called DNS Changer will face their own personal Internet doomsday in July unless they disinfect their computers, the FBI warns.
Users have until July 9 to rid themselves of the DNS Changer malware, which can infect Windows PCs and Macs alike. After that, the FBI will throw a switch that prevents infected computers from accessing the Internet.
It’s not as Big Brother as it sounds. DNS Changer is a Trojan that surfaced in 2007 and infected millions of machines. The malware would redirect computers to hacker-created Websites, where cyber-criminals sold at least $14 million in advertisements. DNS Changer also prevented computers from updating or using anti-virus software, leaving them vulnerable to even more malicious software.
Last November, in one of the biggest cybersecurity takedowns ever, the FBI arrested six Estonian nationals that allegedly ran the click-jacking fraud, and seized the rogue DNS servers where infected users were being redirected. The FBI has put up surrogate servers in place of the malicious ones, but only temporarily.
By Michael Kan, IDG News Apr 23, 2012 6:00 am
China’s Internet firms will need to better screen their websites for unlicensed digital works or be held responsible for infringement, according to a proposed judicial interpretation from the country’s supreme court.
The court on Sunday released the proposed interpretation of China’s Internet infringement laws, taking a stricter stance on how websites can be held liable for promoting unlicensed copyrighted works such as movies, music, and books.
Under the interpretation, companies can be held liable if the unlicensed works are recommended to users in certain ways. This could include the unlicensed work being featured on a company site that ranks content based on popularity, or if an infringing product is promoted through a description and link.
Liability can also be determined if companies knowingly allowed users to upload unlicensed content. A court can look at what measures the company took to stop the infringement, as well as what safeguards are already in place to prevent further unlicensed works from being uploaded.
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by M.D. Creekmore
Can You Survive
No mater how much I bitch and moan, some of you just don’t listen, letting my advice go in one ear out the other. I tell you to get out of the major population areas, but you refuse, thinking you will pack up your bug out bag and head for the hills moments before the first flames light the night and the mushroom cloud hovers overhead.
Even if you are fortunate enough to have a retreat out in the country getting to your safe haven maybe impossible during upheaval. Roads blocked by wrecked and fuelless vehicles will stop most bugouters in their tracks. Maybe you were born lucky and can make it out safely before the balloon bursts, then what?
People in rural areas, will start shooting if threatened by mobs of refugees fleeing the city. Don’t expect to be welcomed with arms outstretched. Most country folks don’t trust outsiders; you will likely be greeted with a load of buckshot and not the cup of fresh coffee and meaningful conversation you hoped for.
After the cities are in ruins, criminal gangs will start to migrate to the country where they will continue their business of stealing and terrorizing in more fruitful territory. If you can stay hidden and survive the first weeks after a collapse you may at some point have the entire city pretty much to yourself. If you can’t or won’t get out NOW at least start making plans to survive where you are.
You should store enough survival food to last at least six months. This means enough food to live on without leaving home. Food stables include, rice, beans, honey, wheat, sugar, tea, coffee, salt, pepper, baking soda, cooking oil etc. Also canned soups, meats, fruits and vegetables should be included for verity. The food storage calculator is an excellent tool for approximating needed qualities of foods and is a great help here.
Sprouting seeds will keep you supplied with fresh greens even in the winter. Sprouts are germinated seeds of vegetables, nuts, grains and legumes. Sprouts are nutritious, inexpensive and high in protein. Sprouts should be included in your survival food plans. All that is needed is a couple of quart mason jars, a squire of nylon window screen, rubber bands and viable seed stock.
If you decide to include whole grains in your diet, you will need a grain grinder. Grinders should be steel-burred, not stone. Some people suggest that steel-burred grinders cause heat that could damage the nutrient content of the grain. Don’t buy it. Hand grinding doesn’t cause enough heat to cause damage. Don’t waist your money on stone grinders or combination steel and stone, get the much cheaper but entirely functional steel-burred grinder.
Next you will need something to cook on. I recommend one of the Coleman multi fuel camp stoves. I have the Peak1 which burns both Coleman fuel and kerosene. These stoves are small, light weight and very energy-efficient.
Remember, when using stoves like these indoors the fumes must be vented to the outside, if not carbon monoxide can build up and kill you.
If you don’t have one already go by your local shopping center and pick up a Stanly Aladdin narrow-mouth thermos bottle
It is best to use a different bottle for cooking then your everyday thermos. Coffee smell for instance, tends to leach into whatever you are cooking, even if the bottle has been cleaned.
Thermos cooking is in no way difficult or complicated, all you need is some simple directions.
Tess Pennington
Ready Nutrition
Surviving the harsh elements of nature is a hard thing to do. Surviving the harsh elements of nature without a good pair of shoes is next to impossible. Waterproof boots will protect your feet from the natural elements (water, heat, cold, snow, etc). Hiking boots are designed to give your feet the necessary support they need to help you move, stay aligned with your body, and protect you from weather elements.
Boots that have flexible soles and deep tread are the best type of shoes to have as far as walking/hiking in nature go. There is much debate on whether to purchase all leather boots that are fairly heavier or light weight hiking boots. Several studies have shown that wearing one extra pound on your feet takes as much energy as carrying five or six pounds in a backpack. Keep in mind of the terrain of the location you will be in to make the right decision of the type of footwear that should be purchased. There are many reviews of hiking boots to determine what is the best choice.
Worn out boots that have not been tended to can do an insurmountable amount of damage on the feet. In James Wesley, Rawles book The Patriot, the character Doug was wandering around in the harsh extremities of nature with worn down boots that were falling apart at the seams. After walking a very long journey, he made it back to his home and dug up a cache that he had buried way before the collapse of the country and found a spare pair of combat boots. In all of the items that were in the cache (coins, batteries, face paint, soap, vitamins, food, etc), he was most thankful for putting in a spare pair of boots.
Points to Find the Best Boots For You:
- Select boots that are designed to provide the support and protection you will need for the most difficult terrain you expect to encounter.
- Choose boots that are designed to support the load you expect to be carrying. The heavier your load, the more support you will need.
- Remember that hiking boots do not have to weigh a great deal.
- Consider the various advantages of fabric-and-leather boots and all-leather boots. Fabric-and-leather boots are lighter and easier to break in, but all-leather boots offer added protection and durability in rigorous terrain, as well as being water resistant and breathable.
- Top-quality hiking boots, are made with a Gore-Tex® lining that keeps water out while allowing perspiration to escape.
Source – www.llbean.com
R.E.I’s website has some further tips to think about when choosing the right pair of boots.
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Here is a convenient way to store water, and to properly disinfect the water, for long term storage. For those that are in to storing food, do not forget the water. Your body needs water before it needs food.
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By Mike Barrett
After losing a 3-day old daughter to kidney failure, a woman named Sofia Gatica from Argentina made a decision to spearhead an anti-Monsanto movement with other mothers of sick children. Monsanto is a biotechnology, agrochemical company which has been polluting the environment and human health with herbicides, pesticides, genetically modified foods, and other substances for decades. Numerous cases have been brought against Monsanto for biological damage and even death — such is the recent case in which farmers say the biotech giant’s creations spawned ‘devastating birth defects‘.
Near where Gatica lives, there are soybean fields covering the land where farmers spray loads of chemicals on the crops. The primary weed killer used on the fields is the one and only Roundup, the most popular herbicide used by farmers which contains the active ingredient glyphosate. Gatica didn’t initially connect the chemical exposure to her baby’s death until she noticed that many of her friends and neighbors were also experiencing health problems.
“I started seeing children with mouth covers, mothers with scarves wrapped around their heads to cover their baldness, due to chemotherapy…There are soybeans to the north, to the south, and to the east, and when they spray, they spray over the people because there’s no distance,” Gatica said to a Grist reporter.
In fact, researchers found that people in her area had three to four agricultural chemicals in their blood, including one chemical, endosulfan, which is banned in over 80 countries. The researchers also found that 33 percent of the residents were struck with cancer. In other previous German findings, Monsanto’s Roundup was present in all urine samples tested at an amount of 5 to 20-fold the established limit for drinking water, showing how prevalent these chemicals really are.
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By Sum of Us Next week, the USDA will decide whether to allow Monsanto and Dow to introduce one half of the chemical mixture Agent Orange into our food supply. Widescale use of Roundup has led to a new generation of resistant weeds, and the next step in the pesticide arms race is 2,4-D — a chemical linked to cancer, Parkinson’s and reproductive problems. Add your name to our letter to the USDA urging them to deny approval for Dow’s 2,4-D-resistant GMO corn. Farmers that sign up to use genetically-engineered 2,4-D-resistant corn will be required to spray down their fields with both 2,4-D and Roundup, double-dosing our food, our soil and our waterways with the toxins. Some experts estimate this will increase the use of 2,4-D 50-fold, even though the EPA says the chemical is already our seventh-largest source of dioxins — nasty, highly toxic chemicals that bioaccumulate as they move up the food chain and cause cancer, developmental damage, and birth defects. Read Full Article Here
Published on Apr 10, 2012 by labelgmos
http://labelgmos.org – the California Committee for the Right to Know wants to let you know about this new ballot initiative in California and what it REALLY means for you and your family.
Our mission is to get this initiative on the CA 2012 ballot to require mandatory labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients. We need 850,000 signatures to put this up for the vote this November. Visit http://labelgmos.org to find a place near you to sign; you have until April 22nd. While this is an initiative for California, EVERYONE EATS!! What happens here impacts the whole country AND we invite other states to join us in a unified STAND for what we want. Polls consistently show that a large margin of the majority of citizens in the US want GMOs labeled (72-96%, depending on the poll). It’s time for this to be law. Please visit http://www.labelgmos.org and get involved in the future of your food. Many thanks to Monica Knight for donating her voice. http://monicaknight.com
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Take instant action at http://www.cban.ca/alfalfaaction1
Thank you for taking action and sharing the video! (and please press the “Like” button above!) Join the campaign to stop GM alfalfa! You can request campaign materials from the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and take action with us. Thank you! This video provides information about how important alfalfa is to food and farming, and the threat that GM alfalfa poses to family farms and organic production. Alfalfa growers do not need or want genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered) alfalfa and have been trying to stop GM alfalfa in Canada for at least five years. The introduction of Monsanto’s GM herbicide tolerant (Roundup Ready) alfalfa would have serious negative impacts on many different types of farmers and farming systems, both conventional and organic. Because alfalfa is a perennial crop pollinated by bees, GM contamination is inevitable. Alfalfa is an important part of many of the foods we eat everyday. GM alfalfa was actually approved in Canada in 2005 but still needs to go through one more step before it can be legally sold as seed in Canada. Join us to stop GM alfalfa! For more information and more action you can take see http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa Credits: A Production of: The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), Smiley Guy Studios and The Big Carrot Producers: Nathan Carey, Patrick Conner, Jonas Diamond, Lucy Sharratt Director: Nathan Carey Script: Ellen Besen, Nathan Carey, Lucy Sharratt Story Editor: Jeremy Diamond Script Advisor: Patrick Conner Visual Design, Animation & Post Production: Nathan Carey Voice of Bee: Maureen Kirkpatrick Voice of Narrator: Patrick Conner Dialogue Coach: Ellen Besen, Patrick Conner Audio Design: Paul O’Brien Music: Sean Donald Editor: Denny Silverthorne The film was produced by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and was sponsored by the following organizations and businesses that provided matching financial support: The Big Carrot Natural Market Toronto; De Dell Seeds Incorporated (the only Non-GMO Seed Corn Company in Canada); Green Being Farm; Nature’s Path Foods; The Organic Council of Ontario; Smiley Guy Studios; Organic Agriculture Protection Fund of the Saskatchewan Organic Directorate.
By Ronnie Cummins, April 15 2012
(NaturalNews) “If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” — Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.” — Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October…
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On the heels of Dole’s announcement that the company is recalling nearly 800 bags of lettuce after Salmonella was detected by state health officials conducting random sampling in New York state, U.S. PIRG (the federation of State Public Interest Research Groups) is chastising a plan to cut the nation’s largest produce testing program.
“The Agriculture Department’s tiny $5 million Microbiological Data Program screens high-risk fresh produce throughout the year for bacteria including Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria,” explained Nasima Hossain, a U.S. PIRG public health advocate in a statement Monday.
The “tiny” program found the Salmonella positive that sparked the current Dole recall.
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2013 budget eliminates MDP, which operates under the Agriculture Marketing Service and conducts around 15,000 random tests for pathogens in fresh fruit and vegetable samples.
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By PF Louis, April 15 2012
(NaturalNews) The drama of FDA tyranny versus raw milk freedom continues from one state or province to another, almost like episodes from a dystopian TV series. First, the Amish farmer Dan Allgyer and his wife Rachel were forced to shut down their Pennsylvania farm after two years of harassment from federal agents for selling raw milk to a food club in the Washington D.C. area. The Allgyers were advised to switch to a cow-sharing system for the raw milk distribution, which they did in order…
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