Virus sandwich, anyone? I just lost my appetite!
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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 im****ted 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 certain to
evoke an immune reaction to the viruses. What will this reaction be?
Allergy? Asthma? Autoimmunity? Cancer? How can the FDA approve a food
additive that it knows can induce a variety of human immune responses?
Phages are so good at disrupting normal immunity that they are being
considered for use as part of organ transplant medicine.
The ingestion of significant amounts of viral phages into the human
digestive tract is a wild card full of unknown outcomes. For example,
it is certainly possible that these phages, which constantly mutate in
order to survive, are likely to find a way to infect bacteria they were
not intended to infect. Since phages are parasites, they could hijack
the friendly bacteria of the digestive tract and turn them into viral
machines, constantly generating viral particles that are likely to
confuse the human immune system, if not directly infect the body. We
know from history that these viral phages can turn innocuous bacteria
into a killer, which is how cholera occurs.
Furthermore, the Listeria bacteria are not going to take the issue
lying down. They will develop resistance to the viruses over time, as
we have seen with the overuse of antibiotics. Going down this path we
are likely to have hundreds of viral food additives in the food we eat,
all designed to combat some possible infection coming from poor quality
food. Sooner or later we will inadvertently create deadly new
super-strains of bacteria and/or parasitically infect the human
digestive tract with an untreatable infection.
There is also the very real possibility of unintended viral
recombination. What happens when a person with viral stomach flu eats
food containing a dose of this viral food additive? It is certainly
possible for the genetic material of the flu virus to interact with the
genetic material of the viral phages, provoking an undesirable new
viral infection.
Let's not forget that the FDA won't tell us which foods in the food
supply contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Seventy percent of
the packaged food on grocery shelves already contains GMO adulterated
food. These foods have viral promoter genes woven into the DNA of every
cell, a technique used to implant a pesticide toxin into every cell of
this fake food (see Fight for Your Health, chapter 15). What happens
when the viral phages interact with the viral promoter genes in GMO
food? What new virus will be encouraged to form?
Keep in mind that the FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food
supply to protect a small minority, only about 2500 people, who are
made seriously ill by this infection each year. The ill are mostly
pregnant women, elderly with compromised immunity, and small children.
It would be a lot more to the point if the FDA would simply warn such
people that eating these foods, due to their poor quality of
production, may be dangerous. What the FDA should really do is improve
the quality of our food supply, the true source of the problem. Why
expose millions of Americans to an unproven ingestion of live viruses
for the benefit of so few?
The FDA has failed miserably for the past century to protect the public
from the adulteration of our food supply by vested interests. This is
just one more insult added to a long list of injuries.
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" viruses could end up in a majority of the
protein foods in our food supply.
Intralytix sees financial op****tunity. 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 reckless. 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., tem****ary 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 ***ulative 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 combination
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, Sup****t 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 im****tant 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 foods 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 sup****t food security for our
nation. Congress must correct the leader****p 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. Buy
meat that is range raised without antibiotics and synthetic growth
hormones. Demand that the food you are eating is labeled with a country
of origin. Buy American; buy locally-produced food whenever possible.
Sup****t 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 of Americans. How you spend your
money is your most powerful vote. Vote for those who care.
=A9 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 suc***b 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
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he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade nutritional
formulas. www.wellnessresources.com
Charter Member of the International and American Associations of
Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) (since 1991) Richards has presented
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who want to take charge of their health!
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