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"The Politics of Transgenic Tomatoes, Labeled To biotechnology companies looking for commercially viable projects, tomatoes are a good investment. Americans expect tomatoes to be readily available, regardless of season. In the early 1990s, American farmers were producing more than 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) per capita of fresh tomatoes and another 75 pounds (34 kilograms) for processing; the market for fresh tomatoes was worth $3-5 billion annually, and that for processed tomatoes even more." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Scientists at Israeli biotechnology Research, a private company that investigates natural non-toxic ingredients for cosmetics, released experimental results in 2007 showing how the carotenoids phytoene and phytofluene provide double protection against UV radiation by limiting free radical damage and absorbing the more damaging rays. Carotenoids are a class of 600 or so natural fat-soluble pigments found primarily in plants. The most publicized is carotene, from carrots. Risks of melanoma can be reduced, to a limited degree, by the addition of vitamin E to sunscreens." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Concomitantly, the event feels so corporate. biotechnology companies hand out pamphlets explaining how their products will help maximize agricultural returns. The event's logo is a chemistry beaker sprouting a little green leaf The theme is better living through agroscience. Looking at some photos of the Penan, I see them eating other fruits that aren't even in the guidebook Voon gave me. It's saddening to think that, as the forest recedes, riches are being lost forever; yet, as I've learned on this trip, massive abundance still surrounds us." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"As Peter and Harry worked to bring their biotechnology to life, and to market, they realized that education was going to be a big part of helping people understand their approach to health care. NES is based on a set of principles and concepts that is quite foreign to allopathic medicine. Because Peter was dealing with energetic structures, albeit quantum ones, and not the specific parts of the physical body per se, the clinical emphasis of the NES health care system is focused at the energetic systems level, not the physical symptoms level." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"A colorful model for genetics, biochemistry, cell biology and biotechnology, Plant Physiol 126: 485-492. Wollenweber, E., and Schneider, H., 2000, Lipophilic exudates of Pteridaceae—chemistry and chemotaxonomy, Bioch Syst Ecol 28: 751-777. Wray, G.A., Hahn, M. W., Abouheif, E., Balhoff, J. P., Pizer, M., Rockman, M. V., and Romano, L. A., 2003, The evolution of transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes, Mol Biol Evol 20: 1377- 1419. Yang, J., Gu, H., and Yang, Z." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Instead, we are pinning our hopes on the methods of industrial farming and the promise of biotechnology. Even if we produce plenty of food, the political obstacles to its distribution may be severe. The twenty-first century may confront the paradox of having both more food and more food crises. One item that is no longer a scarce commodity is information. In an era when the World Wide Web and satellites bring ENSO forecasts to households in the remotest African savanna, information is not the sole province of the powerful and wealthy." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"NES-Professional System: The biotechnology created by Harry Massey and Peter Fraser and used by NES practitioners to detect distortions in the body-field to determine both their severity and their priority for correction. Nutri-Energetics Systems (NES): The system of health care developed by Peter Fraser and Harry Massey, which integrates physics and biology to reveal a revolutionary understanding of how the body works. According to the NES model, everything in the physical body has an energetic and informational counterpart in the body-field." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Resty lane, or Per lane, is an anti- wrinkling agent manufactured by Q-Med, a Swedish biotechnology company (9). It is based on the natural biodegradable ingredient hyaluronic acid, the effectiveness of which is well-documented (10). In fact, restylane has been shown to be more effective than collagen in double blind clinical trials six months after injection by dermatologists in the naso-labial folds, wrinkles that run from the bridge of the nose to the corners of the mouth (). It's also cheaper than collagen." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"So the NES-Professional System, the biotechnology that puts Peter's theory into clinical practice, is not designed to be diagnostic or to treat or even to prevent disease in the allopathic sense. Unlike allopathic doctors, NES health care professionals do not need to determine exactly what has gone wrong in the body ot even what specific organ or part of an organ is malfunctioning. Instead, the NES scan reveals where the body-field is losing power (Energetic Drivers) and where information is being degraded or misdirected (Energetic Integrators)." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Above all, "this agency must be completely independent of influence from the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology firms, and medical device manufacturers."52 If the connections between the companies and their regulators are suspicious, so are the ties between the industry and physicians. The pharmaceutical industry employs about 88,000 sales representatives, which comes to about one for every five physicians. It is their job to "educate" physicians on the purported benefits of particular drugs. To put it bluntly, these company employees bribe physicians with gifts large and small." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Professor Argos is an advisor to a small Australian biotechnology company, Healthtec, which is currendy concluding phase II trials of indolebant, a cannabinoid CB i receptor antagonist . . . the preliminary results from the company's Phase II trials are promising, according to Professor Argos: "Indolebant is effective and well tolerated. One young man who could not leave his sofa is now working as a financial investment adviser in Sydney. . ." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Genetic systems for condensed tannin biotechnology, in: Plant Polyphenols 2: Chemistry and Biology, G. G. Gross, R. W. Hemingway, and T. Yoshida (Eds), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 315-341. Hara-Nishimura, I., Matsushima, R., Shimada, T., and Nishimura, M, 2004, Diversity and formation of endoplasmic reticulum-derived compartments in plants. Are these compartments specific to plant cells? Plant Physiol 136: 3435-3439. Harbome, J. B., and Williams, C. A., 2000, Advances in flavonoid research since 1992, Phytochem 55: 481-504. Hopp, W., and Seitz, H. U." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "WINKEL Department of Biological Sciences and Fralin Center for biotechnology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0346 USA L INTRODUCTION Flavonoids have long sparked the interest of scientists and nonscientists alike, largely because these metabolites account for much of the red, blue, and purple pigmentation found in plants and increasingly for their association with the health benefits of wine, chocolate, and generally with diets rich in fruits and vegetables. The flavonoid pathway, illustrated in Figure 3." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Department of Biology and biotechnology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA. singhvk@cc.usu.edu. Journal of Biomedical Science. 2002 Jul-Aug;9(4):3 59-64. Autoimmunity to the central nervous system (CNS), especially to myelin basic protein (MBP), may play a causal role in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Because many autistic children harbor elevated levels of measles antibodies, we conducted a serological study of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and MBP autoantibodies." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Flavonoid biosynthesis: a colorful model for genetics, biochemistry, cell biology and biotechnology, Plant Physiol 126: 485-493. Winkel-Shirley, B., 2001b, It takes a garden. How work on diverse plant species has contributed to an understanding of flavonoid metabolism, Plant Physiol 127: 1399-1404. Xie, D. Y., Sharma, S. B., Paiva, N. L., Ferreira, D., and Dixon, R. A., 2003, Role of anthocyanidin reductase, encoded by BANYULS in plant flavonoid biosynthesis, Science 299: 396-369. Xie, D. Y., Sharma, S. B., and Dixon, R. A." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Relman twenty years ago (Relman 1984) when, as editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, he became aware that authors of an article on the effectiveness of tpa (the thrombolytic biotechnology product that did far more for Genentech's stock than for patients with myocardial infarctions) were also monitoring the trial and held stock in Genentech. However, declaration was hardly a solution, as it assumed that authors could identify conflicts and that readers could interpret them. There is nothing straightforward about this." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "Financial arrangements between basic and clinical investigators in academic health centers and private-sector pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are now commonplace. In 2000, one-fourth of the authors of papers presenting original, quantitative studies had specific industry affiliations, and approximately two-thirds of academic institutions hold equity in start-up companies that sponsor research performed at the same institution (Bekelman et al. 2003). The money involved is substantial." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Throw in movie star Rita Hay-worth and former President Ronald Reagan—both affected by Alzheimer's disease—stir in Nobel Prize-seeking hubris, the heavy hand of the pharmaceutical industry, a dash of hype about biotechnology, and a dollop of Washington politics, and we have developed an all-too-tragic and reduc-tionistic narrative that dominates our hearts and minds. It is a story that medical professionals—myself included—have been telling to a terrified public for decades. There are certain fundamental flaws in this story." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"An organization that has worked diligently to increase awareness about the dangers of pesticides (as well as the hazards of food irradiation and biotechnology) is Food and Water, Inc., at 1-800-EAT-SAFE. TIP Olive oil and/or coconut oil is suggested for use with cooking. Olive oil is also useful as (or in) a salad dressing. Unrefined extra virgin olive oil is the best choice. Flax oil is also good in a salad dressing, but don't cook with it because it is very heat-sensitive. Go Wild When choosing fresh fish, opt for wild-caught rather than farm-raised." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Harry had thought a lot about how these ideas could be refined to construct a better biotechnology. Many biotechnologies try to determine the one correct answer to a question. They might determine, for instance, that an organ or organism had a specific vibration or frequency. They test the body for this signature message, and if they do not find it or find a distorted message, then they try to give the body the corrective vibration or frequency. Depending on the machine, the corrective message might be sent via an auditory tone, electrical pulse, or colored light." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The Center for Public Integrity finds that "more than 90 percent of the total" spent on lobbying by pharmaceutical interests in 2007 came from "40 companies and three trade groups: the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the biotechnology Industry Organization, and the Advanced Medical Technology Association." The industry's success rate in blocking legislation against its interests and in securing passage of legislation in its favor is unparalleled." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"This means that they may not be eating enough healthy omega 3 fats, which, in turn, 330 Nicolai Worm, Daily Meat, (Hamburg: Hamburg Press, 2002) 331 By "organic," we mean food and meat produced without antibiotics, hormones, chemical fertilizers and other such biotechnology. Such food must not be treated with sewage sludge or exposed to irradiation or mingled with genetically modified organisms. means that they are not sufficiently able to produce hormones and this can cause a disastrous chain reaction. The integrity of the cellular membranes is compromised, leading to deterioration." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Department of Biology and biotechnology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA. Pediatric Neurology. 2003 Apr;28(4):292-4. Virus-induced autoimmunity may play a causal role in autism. To examine the etiologic link of viruses in this brain disorder, we conducted a serologic study of measles virus, mumps virus, and rubella virus. Viral antibodies were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the serum of autistic children, normal children, and siblings of autistic children." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"On the international level, the government could sign and actively support treaties that promote food safety, environmental protection, and the right to food, as well as agreements to stop producing biological weapons, genetically modified or otherwise. If we are going to protect our country against bioterrorism, our government must become more actively involved in international policies to promote health and food security as human rights for everyone, everywhere. What can we, as individuals, do to promote such actions?" - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Great Britain or Europe. As might be expected from a review of provisional results, the audit committee decided that the data did not support Dr. Pusztai's conclusions. Dr. Pusztai again reviewed his own data and said that they did. Furthermore, he conducted his own peer review; he sent copies of his research reports and the television transcript to scientists who requested these documents, and asked them to evaluate the materials. In February i999> more than 20 scientists from at least 13 countries called a press conference to announce that the findings were just as Dr. Pusztai had claimed." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, the biotechnology industry is leaping to create profitable widgets to put at the end of the catheters that do violence to putatively offending, occluding plaques. First, special catheters were invented with balloon tips so that the tip can be inserted into the narrows of the vessel and inflated, thereby literally breaking asunder the plaque (so-called angioplasty). Not surprisingly, many a vessel so pummeled would reocclude, usually starting with a blood clot. Also not surprisingly, the outcome for the patient was little different if the pummeled vessel remained patent or not." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "To abandon the theory would shut down interventional cardiology, nearly all of cardiovascular surgery, and many surgical supply houses and biotechnology firms. It would dramatically downsize most hospitals in the United States and free up over $100 billion annually. And that's just the direct costs: the price of evaluations leading to cardiac catheterization and the process of surgery with all the costs of hospitalization, surgeons, anesthetists, drugs, and intensive-care units. There are "indirect" costs that relate to income substitution and lost productivity." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"One investment analyst summarized the FDA's announcement as an "assurance that after all a company's planning for a picnic, the government won't rain on it."41 Consumer groups, however, criticized the policy as inadequate to protect public safety and threatened mail campaigns and legal challenges. A 1999 lawsuit, for example, obtained 44,000 pages of documents related to the FDA policy. The documents revealed that some FDA scientists had been concerned about the lack of data on safety risks and thought the policy too favorable to the industry." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National Center for biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim. Accessed July 25, 2007. 57. Wolf, B. Biotinidase deficiency. (2007). GeneReviews, www.geneclinics.org. Accessed July 29, 2007. 58. Picker, J. D., and Levy, H. L. (2007). Homocystinuria caused by cystathionine ^-synthase deficiency. GeneReviews, www.geneclinics.org. Accessed July 29, 2007. 59. Bosch, A. M. (2006). Classical galactosemia revisited. J. Inherit. Metab. Dis. 29, 516-525." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "McKu-sick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National Center for biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), www.ncbi.nlm.hih.gov/omim. 51. Bray, G. A. (1989). Classification and evaluation of the overweight patient. In "Handbook of Obesity" (G. A. Bray, C. Bouchard, and W.P.T. James, Ed.), pp. 831-854. Marcel Dekker, New York. 52. Couper, R. (1999). Prader-Willi syndrome. /. Paediatr. Child Health 35, 331-334. 53. Khan, N. L., and Wood, N. W. (1999)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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