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"Because these associations are dependent on the money they receive from monsanto, they have made a deal with monsanto to not criticize aspartame to the food industry and, more shockingly, they are actually required to endorse Monsanto's products! Can you see why you can never believe anything you hear from any of these "associations"? Every single association, from the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetic Association, and on and on and on all receive money from special interest groups." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"It was supposed to be identical to the actual growth hormone found in cows, and in fact, as part of their 55,000 page application to the FDA, monsanto submitted a chart identifying the 191 amino acids contained in BST showing that they absolutely matched the amino acid chain found in natural growth hormone. Unfortunately, it seems, the application is inaccurate. The problem occurs at amino acid #144, which was supposed to be lysine in both the natural growth hormone and in Monsanto's BST. As it turns out, it isn't." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Although the chemically detectable difference between true BGH and Monsanto's BST creation may be slight, the effects of the two hormones on the human body may be quite different indeed. 'If you do drink milk, it is essential that you take a folic acid supplement to neutralize the xanthine oxidase found in milk. Xanthine oxidase, which attacks the arteries, is a major factor in heart disease. Interestingly enough, this problem seems only to occur with homogenized milk. When nonhomogenized milk is consumed, the body excretes the xanthine oxidase." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "The FDA gave its approval for the sale of Monsanto's BST product back in 1993, but in Canada and the European Union, BST remains unapproved because of strong circumstantial evidence that it may promote cancer in cows and humans. Understand, this change in one amino acid is not insignificant. The replacement of one amino acid can change the configuration of a protein significantly; and configuration determines the properties and effects of a protein." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Ah, but then you probably think that once this problem came to light, totally nullifying the monsanto application, that BST was recalled. Nope, not in the United States!' And then there's the fact that the body digests milk (any milk) differently once gastric juices begin to flow (at around 18?0 months old). Before gastric juices flow, milk is alkaline and non-mucous forming in the body; but once gastric juices enter the picture, they turn the milk acid, forming mucous, causing sinus problems, allergies, colds, etc. That's why every animal except man weans its young off milk!" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Then he was hired as a legal advisor for the FDA's Bureau of Medical Devices and Bureau of Foods, then back to monsanto, and finally as executive assistant to the commissioner of the FDA. Linda Fisher was assistant administrator of the EPA's Office of Pollution, Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances for ten years. She knew the laws inside and out, so she was hired by monsanto as the deputy administrator for their Washington lobbying office. She went on to serve on the USDA's advisory committee on biotech foods." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"The agricultural products manufacturer monsanto is doing exactly that. 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?" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"William Heffernan's Consolidation in the Food and Agricultural System reports that about a dozen agribusiness middlemen who package, process and deliver our food (like Cargill, monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland) make most of the profit whenever consumers buy something produced by farmers. U.S. farmers commit suicide at four times the national average." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"By the end of 1999 the greens were declared the winners of the first round against monsanto. The company's fall was hard—from market leader to stock price slump amid rumors that the corporation was going to divest some of its holdings. The cranky minority, as Shapiro had once seen the protesters, had turned out to be much more powerful than he had imagined. Billions of dollars later, Shapiro's idea of the life science company with agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and nutrition all under one roof was coming unstuck. Leaders in agbiotech were merging and consolidating." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"Friedman resigned the next year to become a senior vice president at Searle, a subsidiary of monsanto, which had just introduced a new pain pill called Celebrex. The pain reliever quickly became one of the most heavily advertised drugs in America and a blockbuster seller that dazzled Wall Street investors and made the company's executives wealthy. The industry's new television advertisements transported consumers to a Kool-Aid-colored fantasyland where ruddy actors played the roles of the afflicted who had found relief and enough energy to celebrate by taking a daily pill." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Instead of taking seed from a harvest and planting it again next season, farmers would now plant a classic American product—a seed that could be used only once and then thrown away. monsanto was trying to buy the cotton seed business of Delta and Pine Land, and all its inventions. The international antibiotech group Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAF I) brilliantly dubbed the new technique "the Terminator" after the robotic killer played by Arnold Schwarzenegger." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.) "The supposed saving of $ 1 billion represented the estimated extra cost to GM farmers of using alternative weed killers to Monsanto's Roundup. But, he argued, farmers who don't use Roundup find other, cheaper ways of controlling weeds, including tilling their fields. According to Benbrook, Roundup users probably only break even on GM soybeans.10 The Bt corn figures were right, but one variety's gain represented less than 1 percent of the 250 million tons of corn grown each year. Overall, it would appear the gains have been marginal." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"A couple of years later, Fred had moved Pharmacia's headquarters from London to New Jersey, and consummated a dramatic, $37 billion merger with monsanto.2 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." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"She knew the laws inside and out, so she was hired by monsanto as the deputy administrator for their Washington lobbying office. She went on to serve on the USDA's advisory committee on biotech foods. Then it was back to monsanto, where she was vice president of government and public affairs. And in 2001 Bush nominated her and she was approved for the second-ranking position at the EPA. As noted in Philip Mattera's report "How Agribusiness Has Hijacked Regulatory Policy at the U.S." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Mass sprayings of Round Up?Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide—have endangered human health and wiped out myriad flora and fauna. (It is a weapon of choice in the war on drugs, and is used in aerial sprayings to eradicate poppy plantations in Afghanistan and coca crops in Central America). It is categorized with "noncarcinogenicity for humans" in the United States, despite studies linking it to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, genetic damage and reproductive problems. In 2007, a Los Angeles jury awarded 3." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"This situation was exacerbated when Monsanto's artificial growth hormone began to be fed to dairy cattle to boost milk production. Their milk began to routinely exceed FDA guidelines for pus cell content. Rather than ban the growth hormone, the FDA simply increased the allowable pus cell content to match what the dairy industry was producing. Dr. Cousens cites studies that show a correlation between an increased incidence of leukemia in cows and in children who drank these cows' milk." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Companies like monsanto have developed GMOs so that they could patent seeds, as selling unpatentable seeds has not been particularly profitable. Also, since GMO plants do not reproduce once the "suicide" gene has been inserted into their DNA, farmers must purchase new seeds every year, resulting in a potential food monopoly akin to the oil and banking cartels. This practice institutes a sneaky form of monopoly that will only get worse and worse until a small elite cartel controls our entire food supply." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "For example, monsanto, a leading company of pesticides and genetically modified seeds, was owned by the Pharmacia Corporation, which sells prescription drugs. Merck is a pharmaceutical company that also produces chemicals and precursors for pesticides and other neurotoxins. Remember that these pesticides, herbicides and fungicides kill farm workers, who experience high cancer rates. Why would you want to support such an industry?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The method of gene manipulation may even lead to more serious consequences than "just" a painful joint disorder. When monsanto inserted the Brazil nut gene into soy, people allergic to Brazil nuts suffered anaphylaxis from ingesting a soy product. 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." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"By the fall of 1999, GM foods had overtaken "mad cow" disease as the British public's biggest food safety concern, with a fifth of the people polled saying they would never knowingly eat or feed their family anything containing gene-altered food. Monsanto's strategy had hopelessly backfired. Eighty-five percent of Britons surveyed thought they were being denied access to all the facts. At the same time, sales of organic foods were booming. With a twentyfold increase in sales in three years, organic products now made up 3 to 4 percent of all food sold in supermarkets." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"From every vantage point save that of monsanto, the genetically-engineered growth hormone rBGH is a bad and dangerous idea, a conclusion we reached as early as 1993 when the FDA approved it. In our view, rBGH is a bio-technological solution to a problem that does not exist. rBGH is not needed to increase America's supply of dairy products. Over supply by factory farms is a problem, not an answer. • rBGH is not needed to improve the health of dairy cows. The manufacturer's own label warns that the growth hormone can trigger a wide range of harmful effects." - 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.)

"More than twenty years later, with Deceit and Denial, their detailed historv of the rank and sordid history of vinyl chloride, Markovitz and Rosner got the attention of twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the world—including Dow, monsanto, B.F. Goodrich and Union Carbide. The chapter of their book that especially rattled these companies was called "Evidence of an Illegal Conspiracy by Industry." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Then it was back to monsanto, where she was vice president of government and public affairs. And in 2001 Bush nominated her and she was approved for the second-ranking position at the EPA. As noted in Philip Mattera's report "How Agribusiness Has Hijacked Regulatory Policy at the U.S. Department of Agriculture": In its early days, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was dubbed the "People's Department" by President Lincoln, in recognition of its role in helping the large portion of the population that worked the land." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "Former director of Calgene (part of monsanto, which is now part of Pharmacia). Calgene promoted the Flavr Savr tomato—the first genetically engineered food. Charles Lambert spent fifteen years working for the National Cattleman's Beef Association and in 2002 became the USDA undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs. Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations Mary Waters was formerly a senior director and legislative counsel for ConAgra Foods, and the list goes on." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"As we are walking through the coffee forest, down to the clogged stream that is the main water source for Negele, multinational corporations such as monsanto and Nike are scrambling to be the first to ink their commitment to the newly identified Millennium Development Goals. There is a festive, self-congratulatory air in the swank convention center where the WSSD is being held. Outside, cordons of riot police hold back demonstrators and keep away grassroots groups trying to be heard." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Irina Ermakova added flour from a GM soya bean - produced by monsanto to be resistant to its pesticide, Roundup - to the food of female rats, starting two weeks before they conceived, continuing through pregnancy, birth and nursing. Others were given non-GM soya and a third group was given no soya at all. She found that 36% of the young of the rats fed the modified soya were severely underweight, compared to 6 per cent of the offspring of the other groups. More alarmingly, a staggering 55." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"For years, Doll, in addition to his work for the asbestos industry, was paid to advise monsanto and Dow Chemical. Adami and Trichopoulos were well compensated for their efforts on behalf of the pesticide and solvents industries.35 Were these eminent epidemiologists just calling it like they sawr it? Did industries engage them only because they happened to agree with the judgment that particular exposures to a given product, whether asbestos or pesticides or chemicals, had not been proved to cause human harm?" - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "But for Kehoe the labs were an industrial outpost, conducting studies of rodents and "human organisms" under contracts signed with monsanto, DuPont, General Motors, Stauffer Chemical Company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Steel, Mobil Oil, the Ethyl Corporation and others. Each contract stipulated that "the investigative work shall be planned and carried out by the University, and the University shall have the right to disseminate for the public good, any information obtained." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "In this merger, Searle's aspartame business became a separate monsanto subsidiary, the NutraSweet Company.)40 The U.S. military was not sanguine about aspartame's safety. Both the U.S. Air Force magazine Flying Safety and the U.S. Navy magazine Navy Physiology warned that aspartame can cause serious brain problems in pilots.41 Around 1995 the FDA stopped gathering adverse reaction reports. If you don't want to know, don't ask. By 1996, aspartame was approved for all uses. What about all those studies finding aspartame safe? In 1996 Ralph G." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

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