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On the basis of my and other interviews, during which WTVT and other Florida stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch's Fox network, Akre and Wilson developed a four-part series which was heavily promoted and set to air on February 24, 1997."- Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "The sole benefit of rBGH is to enrich the coffers of monsanto who makes the bio-tech drug, and the corporate farms that use it. While I no longer speak on behalf of Ben & Jerry's, I can tell you this. Because of the harm to cows and family farms, Ben & Jerry's has taken a strong stand against the use of rBGH. The family farmers of the St. Albans Cooperative, from whom Ben & Jerry's continues to get its milk and cream, have pledged not to use rBGH on their cows. The company gives the highest priority to educating its customers on rBGH issues, and informing them that its suppliers don't use it." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) |
 "Knowles of monsanto Company for that pioneering work.
Isomers could now be patented as a new chemical entity and submitted for approval as a different drug. According to Goozner in The $800 Million Pill:
Recognizing the inadequacy of their solution, Astra scientists launched a desperate search for some way to differentiate Nexium and Prilosec. They authorized four wildly expensive studies comparing the two drugs against erosive esophagitis ... It wasn't a foolproof strategy, however, since a worse outcome would have to be reported on the label ..."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
 "Fox Television news killed the story after the station received aggressive threat letters from monsanto attorneys. When the reporters were then fired, they pointed out that monsanto was a client of a major advertising company owned by Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, whose stations advertise monsanto products nationally.25
Whatever the obstacles may be, alternative cancer treatments are here to stay, and leading mainstream medical institutions are beginning to acknowledge them through research."- Kenny Ausubel, When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies (Get the book.) |
 "The tests revealed that Charlotte's body contained dioxin, PCBs, mercury, lead, cosmetic chemicals, lawn chemicals — 85 toxins in all — manufactured by companies such as Dow, Shell, Union Carbide, Exxon and monsanto.
"I felt violated," Charlotte reported. She was especially upset about the pesticides. "I never used them in my house. They'd never been on my lawn. I bought organic whenever I could." Nevertheless, her body carried several variations of organophosphates and organochlorines that were designed to attack the nervous systems of insects. "- Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) |
 "It was developed by monsanto and used extensively in pet foods, however, due to protests from many pet owners, ethoxyquin is not as prevalent as it once was. Yet, it is still approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine, as a preservative in pet food.
The Animal Protection Institute (API), stated in a 1996 report: "Ethoxyquin has been associated with immune deficiency syndrome, leukemia, blindness, skin, stomach, spleen and liver cancer in companion animals."5 Many pet food companies state that they do not add this substance to their foods."- Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) |
 "This is the story where two journalists put together a report exposing the growth hormone that monsanto manufactures and how it was being injected into dairy cows, potentially causing all types of illness and disease and tainting the milk with deadly poisons causing humans to become sick and diseased. This true story was squashed by Fox. Why? To protect the profits of monsanto. To read more about this incredible story go to www.foxbghsuit.com."- Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) |
 "He then took a position with the chief public relations firm for both monsanto and G.D. Searle! Since that time he has never publicly spoken about aspartame. This is the outrage. This was obviously a payoff. We need to open our eyes to how the revolving door works in Washington.
Now to give you a little more information based on the history from Rich Murray of aspartame:
December 1965. A chemist accidentally discovers aspartame, a substance that is 180 times sweeter than sugar yet seemingly has no calories.
1967. G.D."- Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Fraudulent claims by monsanto since 1985 that genetically engineered (rBGH) milk is indistinguishable from natural milk. These claims persist despite contrary evidence. Monsanto's reckless marketing in 1976 of plastic Coke bottles made from acrylonitrile, a chemical closely related to VC, prior to its testing for carcinogenicity and migration into the Coke. The bottles were subsequently banned after acrylonitrile was found to be a potent carcinogen contaminating the Coke.
- Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.) |
| "Aspartame, originally marketed by the monsanto Chemical Co., is commonly sold by the brand names Equal* or Nutrasweet®.44 Aspartame is yet another dangerous chemical food additive and is contained in at least 5,000 products around the world. Common products include "diet" carbonated and non-carbonated drinks, yogurt, pudding, tabletop sweeteners (for restaurants), chewing gum, frozen confections, and even vitamins and cough drops.
DEFINITION
NutraSweet® was first produced by G. D. Searle Company. The Searle Company was due to be prosecuted by the U. S." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) |
 "Anaphylaxis is a serious, life threatening reaction where one is not able to breathe. monsanto was ordered to remove the gene to avoid further complications of that nature.
The process of genetic engineering of food often involves the use of a live virus, small enough to enter cell nuclei and, thereby, infect other genetic material. Cancer in chickens often results from infection with the Rous Sarcoma virus. The chicken cancer virus is used as a carrier to implant the growth hormone gene into farmed fish so they will grow faster."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
| "In 1985 monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, which by the way is the active ingredient under the brand name NutraSweet. Previously, in 1980, the FDA Board of Inquiry comprised of three independent scientists confirmed that aspartame "might induce brain tumors." The FDA actually banned aspartame based on this finding only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (yes, this is the same Donald Rumsfeld who is currently the secretary of defense) come to aspartame's aid. Mr." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
| "In January 2005, monsanto announced it will buy the commercial fruit and vegetable seed company Seminis. The deal is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Once the majority of the world is using gene-manipulated seeds to grow their crops, the man-made Frankenstein foods will take their toll on human life. The aim of the wealthiest and most influential group of people in the world is to drastically reduce the size of the world's population. Why? Because a smaller population and the world's natural resources would be a lot easier to control than 8 billion people." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "The deal gave him Celebrex, a pain and arthritis drug for which monsanto had signed a co-promotion deal with Pfizer, which meant that both companies would jointly sell this new drug.
The deal may also have sealed Pharmacia's fate, since Pfizer has a penchant for devouring companies when the products they co-promote start selling too well. This was a major factor in Pfizer's take-over of Warner-Lambert, which gave them Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering agent that eventually created sales of $ 11 billion per year.
As I listened to Fred's voicemail, his stern message startled me."- Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) |
 "Shortly afterward, another troop of voluntary harvesters broke into a monsanto factory in southwest France, where they sought out GMO samples to "render them unusable." Dozens of attacks on GMO test plots marked the harvest season of 2006.2 And though the French and European public generally is divided on those aggressive tactics, they are not divided on the targets of the farmers' ire: two-thirds to three-quarters of European consumers have consistently shown in public opinion polls an unwillingness to purchase any food products made with genetically engineered ingredients."- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "In June of 2005 it required European court action to force some of their secret and adverse laboratory findings into public view. monsanto did not want to disclose that one of their widely used Bt-toxin corn organisms (GMO maize, called MON863) produced disturbing results in animal testing. Their internal testing showed that male rats had elevated white blood counts and kidney damage. Female rats had immature red blood cells and elevated blood sugar. Bt-toxin obviously interacts with the mammalian system; it is far from inert."- Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "Much of the controversy over FDA approval of rbST involved questions of safety. monsanto said rbST was demonstrably safe for human health because the natural cow hormone caused no harm to human health and rbST and the natural cow hormone bST were indistinguishable. In this instance, that similarity is reassuring. Both bST and rbST are specific to cows. They cannot harm you. They differ in structure from your own growth hormones, are not active in your body, and will not make you grow."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
| "GMO articles from every year, including monsanto cover-up and Dr. Pusztai statements: www.saynotogmos.org
Chapter 16
1. Information on the cover-up of bone cancer from fluoride: http://www.ewg.org/is-sues/fiuoride/20050627/index.php
2. April 2006, Harvard study is published showing five times increased risk for boys of a form of bone cancer from fluoride: http://www.ewg.org/issues/fluoride/20060405/ index.php
3. Fluoride Report. National Academy of Sciences, March 2006. Summary: http://dels. nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/fiuoride_brief_final.pdf
4." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "After reviewing numerous company documents, many marked "Confidential: read and destroy," on January 1, 2002, the Washington Post exposed that: In 1966, monsanto managers discovered that fish submerged in that creek [Anniston Creek] turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. In 1969, they found fish in another creek with 7,500 times the legal PCB levels. They decided "there is little object in going to expensive extremes in limiting discharges." In 1975, a company study found that PCBs caused tumors in rats." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "These included Sterling Products Company, Schering, monsanto, Dow and Hoffman-LaRoche. American IG then quickly changed its name to General Aniline and Film Corporation, thus protecting its now global pharmaceutical interests.
Following the war, during which, some say, Rockefeller managed to gain protection from bombing for all the IG Farben capital and plant, IG Farben remnants, despite having been involved in aiding Nazi genocide,
2 Bealle M. A. House of Rockefeller: How a shoestring was run into 200 million dollars in two generations. Washington, DC: All America House; 1959.
3 Morris A."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
| "They had traveled a long way from Monsanto's laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, where genes extracted from a bacterium were inserted into the corn's DNA to make a poison to kill one of the crop's most noxious pests, the corn borer.
The farmers marched onto the field and set to work: by three in the morning, they had torn more than two hundred plants from the earth. Cobs were scattered like trash along the side of the road, putting an ignoble end to one more season's experiment." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "A critical turning point came in 1974 when Harvard Medical School entered a 12-year agreement with monsanto, a large chemical company with pharmaceutical products, which pledged $23 million in funding for construction of facilities to supply biological materials in return for an exclusive license for all inventions and discoveries made in connection with the project agreement. Historian Kenneth Ludmerer recently said: "The Monsanto-Harvard Medical School agreement was critical, in my view, in cultivating a new view that it was OK for medical schools to establish relationships with industry."- Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.) "Now in the 1970s, with the new monsanto agreement, HMS is allying itself with industry. And as Harvard does, most other U.S. medical schools do or try to do."9 As it turned out, the Harvard-Monsanto agreement was a harbinger of remarkable changes to come. Before 1980, only a small number of discoveries were converted into patents by universities; the Bayh-Dole Act changed this rate dramatically." - Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "The FDA's judgment favors profit for monsanto, at the expense of public health.
Viral and Bacterial Manipulation
Genetically modified organisms are produced using a technique known as gene splicing, wherein a small fragment of DNA from nonfood life is inserted into the DNA of food. Through this process of recombination a transgenic organism is created, blending the life of one species into another species.
Recombination of DNA occurs in nature. Bacteria and viruses survive because they have an ability to recombine their DNA to overcome the defense systems of humans and plants." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) |
 "They did this largely by limiting the farmers' seed choices and with saturation advertising
A two-page ad from monsanto for Bollgard combined with Roundup Ready cotton. From Cotton Grower, 2004. "Making higher yields a reality." promises. The corporations were less successful, however, at cajoling international consumers in the marketplace. By 1997 it had become clear that people around the world were not convinced about the eco-friendliness and the relative harmlessness of genetically modified crops and that biotech crops had real trouble brewing in the marketplace."- Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "In the summer of 2005, monsanto filed several patents on the pig—specifically, its gene sequence. It's sheer madness.
A significant symptom of an upside-down world is when millions of people are overfed and simultaneously malnourished. Instead of nutritious food
provided by the bounty of the earth, we consume high-calorie food invented in laboratories. But our relationship to food is in the process of a huge flip.
The Most Natural Thing in the World
Mary makes herself a hot cup of green tea every morning."- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Genetic engineering could take over, as monsanto is hoping. Or organic food and agriculture could prevail and become the standard. We could see a pound of meat continue to sell for only a few dollars, despite requiring astronomical quantities of water, energy, grain, and land for its production. Or we could stop subsidizing polluting industries and begin instituting environmental taxes so that the true ecological costs of production come to be incorporated into the price of all the things we buy and sell." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
| "Milk from treated cows, therefore, contains both the natural and the recombinant forms of bST, but these are very much alike in chemical structure. monsanto lobbyists argued that because the FDA could not tell the
two forms of bST apart, milks from treated and untreated cows were identical. Therefore, putting a label on rbST milk would suggest that it was different (when a difference could not be detected), and that the untreated milk was better (when they are indistinguishable). If so, labeling would mislead the public into thinking there was a difference. The FDA agreed." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "MMjwMWMWMiMM| These might not generate The monsanto company invoked quite so much controversy if it were science to argue that labeling would not for the labeling problem. For rea-mislead the public into thinking there sons of science and politics, milk from might be something different about rbST cows treated with rbST (shorthand: milk. Labels might make people rbST milk) is not labeled as such, so suspect—horrors—that untreated milk you have no way of knowing whether might be better. the milk for sale in your local super- ^^^^MMMBBMBBBI^^^^M market came from treated cows. Assume it does." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, ConAgra, monsanto, and the National Agricultural Chemicals Association. No wonder these groups fund the institute's work. Mr. Avery argues that organic methods are so unreliable that they reduce productivity, cause higher prices, and, therefore, threaten the food security of the world's most vulnerable populations. Organic farming, he says, is an environmental disaster, an imminent danger to wildlife, and a hazard to the health of its own consumers. Strong words, indeed. Consider first what is at stake." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
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