I do not routinely post ENTIRE entries like the one below, posted by Scaredhuman at the Daily Kos, but this one has awesome links and connects the dots with glaring accuracy. I would recommend you take the time to follow the links and see for yourself how the corporation Monsanto is working the system....the foxes are guarding the hen house...in this case it is about the destruction of basic living....http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/2/205840/8082/911/561508
The Nuremberg Code meets USDA hearings. You coming? by Scaredhuman // Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 06:00:45 PM PDT
There are USDA "listening sessions" on the Child Nutrition Act this summer. Sound boring? It's about as basic to your freedom as things get.
The USDA, through the Child Nutrition Act has been giving American children rBGH-milk. That is, milk from cows injected with genetically engineer hormones. rBGH is the first genetically engineered product ever approved by the FDA. It is a Monsanto product and was approved while Monsanto ran the FDA and while scientists there tried to tell Congress that Monsanto was fiddling the numbers, and they were fired.
Genetic engineering is neither a minor alteration of DNA or adequately tested. http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/gedanger.htm
- Scaredhuman's diary :: ::
"Genetic engineering is like performing heart surgery with a shovel. Scientists do not yet understand living systems completely enough to perform DNA surgery without creating mutations which could be harmful to the environment and our health. They are experimenting with very delicate, yet powerful forces of nature, without full knowledge of the repercussions." (Washington Times 1997, The Village Voice 1998) http://www.safe-food.org/-issue/dangers.html
A new biologic technology is being forced on our population. The imposition of agents with powerful potential medical consequences violate the Nuremberg Code.
- The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.
... (Including 9 more requirements.)
Reprinted from Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Vol. 2, pp. 181-182.. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949.
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html
Imposing rBGH - and any other genetically engineered item, including all rBGH-milk products as well as all corn and soy products - through the Child Nutrition Act removes even parental involvement and adult consent.
As much as we have reason to resist toxics, we have reason to be careful of biotechnology. http://environmentalcommons.org/cetos/articles/whygenes.html
And yet our children have been experimented on since the 1990s, and by Monsanto, the same corporation which has brought one of the most dangerous toxins ever into the world - PCBs - without honesty about how cancer-causing. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14896857bNt9dpJt features/2008/05/monsanto200805 It has also provide pesticides - organophosphates - extreme in their toxity, and long-lasting.
The combination of Monsanto and the USDA is particularly worrisome in connection with what we are being subjected to.
In 2008 alone, these things have occurred:
The USDA suspended pesticide data reporting.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12480.cfm
http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/06/23/usda-suspends-pesticide-reporting-to-benefit-monsanto/
The USDA approved or deregulated a new Monsanto variety that produces two independent proteins lethal to insects and reduces the refuge area that farmers have been required to provide.
http://blog.cornandsoybeandigest.com/briefingroom/2008/07/25/monsanto’s-new-plant-protection-technology-clears-usda-approval/
The USDA approved Monsanto's genetically engineered sugar beets and is now being sued.
http://blog.pennlive.com/naturalliving/2008/01/monsanto.html
"It turns out that the damage done to DNA due to the process of creating a genetically modified organism is far more extensive than previously thought.[1] GM crops routinely create unintended proteins, alter existing protein levels or even change the components and shape of the protein that is created by the inserted gene. Kirk’s concerns about a GM crop producing a harmful misfolded protein remain well-founded, and have been echoed by scientists as one of the many possible dangers that are not being evaluated by the biotech industry’s superficial safety assessments." http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SMI20061119&articleId=3912
The Monsanto connection to the USDA is known. Monsanto is going state to state to block labeling of milk and other genetically engineered food and cloned animals. The USDA has done nothing to stop it despite the increased risk rBGH poses for breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer, but has been more than willing to ban real milk, associated with no cancers and drunk by human beings for millennia.
Last year the USDA okayed a human/rice hybrid. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/rice_humans/
"The first ever plant/human hybrid is to be approved for commercial scale cultivation. According to reports, the US authorities have given preliminary approval for the crop to be grown on a 3,000 acre plot in Kansas.
"The plant in question is rice, but it has been spliced with human DNA that will make it grow a protein found in both human breast milk and saliva. Ventria Bioscience, the California-based firm behind the crop, says the protein can be used to treat children with diarrhoea.
"The decision by the US Department of Agriculture has provoked an outcry from anti-GM campaigners because of concerns over contamination of the food chain, possible allergic reactions to the proteins, and a lack of knowledge on the impact such large scale cultivation might have."
So, when you hear that the USDA is providing "listening sessions" on the Child Nutrition Act and WIC, think whether any parent or any child in this country has given consent to be in a scientific experiment on genetically engineering food. Think, too, whether the genetically engineered corn has not already had an impact on this country into terms of a rise in type 2 diabetes in all of us, including the highly unusual fact of type 2 diabetes in children. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_776.cfm
The experiment seems to have failed, or succeeded if diabetes is worth money. The greater the fear of diabetes, the more likely people are to eat sugar-free food which contains aspartame and Equal and other artificial sweeteners now implicated in causing and worsening diabetes. And yet people continue buying the fake sweeteners, thinking they are protecting themselves. It's a strange feedback system of fearing a disease and taking something to avoid it yet triggering it and then increasing demand for the very thing that increases damage during the disease.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3329.cfm
http://www.heall.com/body/askthedoctor/nutrition/artificialsweeteners.html
http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=104393
We need to stop blaming families and children for weight gain (aspartame is associated with weight gain http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html) and weight gain for diabetes, but, instead, make sure our families have access to real food.
Beginning in our schools make sense.
Call the appropriate number below for information, and then bring as many organization - parents, food, health, anti-Monsanto, organic, farming, children, cancer prevention, human rights, religious, etc - and as many neighbors, friends and family as possible to these hearings, to demand one simple thing - that there be informed consent offered before the USDA can force any more genetically engineered food on our children in a Monsanto biologic experiment on this culture that already looks to have gone haywire.
Demand LABELED normal food for our children and you will simultaneously be directing our tax dollars to our real farmers who are the ones raising organic food and grass-fed cattle, and not to the Big Ag corporations which have brought you UNLABELED genetically engineered food and hormones, as well as pesticides, steroids and antibiotics in the food.
Make this a priority. It's democracy, at the level of life itself.
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