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"In the absence of trust, we are most frightened by food hazards that we cannot control: genetically modified foods, mad cow disease, and food bioterrorism, for example. If food safety is a matter of politics, what kinds of political actions are necessary to ensure safe food and restore trust in our food supply? Table 15 summarizes a few actions that we might demand of the food TABLE 1 5. Suggestions for political actions to ensure safe food and improve trust in the food supply The Food Industry Accept responsibility for producing safe food." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"We would call it an "extreme act of bioterrorism." The public outcry would be immense and our government would act accordingly. And yet, those are the very organisms that we inject through vaccines into our babies and our small children, with immature, underdeveloped immune systems. Many are given all at the same time. But instead of bioterrorism, we call it "protection." Reflect a moment on that irony." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Dealing with anthrax attacks, however, is no simple matter. As a preventive measure, officials treated 32,000 people who might have been exposed to anthrax with the protective antibiotic ciprofloxacin (cipro). Cipro is the most effective antibiotic against anthrax, largely because weapons programs deliberately created strains of the bacteria resistant to more common antibiotics such as penicillin. The drug produces unpleasant side effects—itching, swelling, and breathing problems—in nearly 20% of its takers." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"FUTURE: Under a crazy government (influenced by Big Pharma), it could very well be that, under a bioterrorism attack, the entire population is forced to receive vaccinations and suffer horrible side effects. FUTURE: How would the pharmaceutical industry sell those mass-vaccinations? 144 Informed consent advocate says government and industry should release flu vaccine effectiveness data, http://www.vaccineinfo.net/immunization/vaccine/ influenza/fluvaccinefacts.shtml: "The flu vaccine only protects against the three specific viral strains which are included in any given year's flu vaccine." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Whether this chart demonstrates the need for coordination—or its impossibility—is a matter of interpretation, but one aspect is striking: the minimal role allotted to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Although the DHHS secretary announced that his agency "was more fearful about the safety of the American food supply than anything else," one critical piece of his domain is noticeably missing: the FDA—the agency responsible for the safety of 75% of foods, domestic and imported." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "The long-dreaded concern that chemical and biological weapons might reach terrorist hands is now a reality."28 The United States worked on inhalation anthrax during the Cold War, and although it and numerous other countries signed a treaty in 1993 against this use, at least 10 countries are thought to be working on such projects. Ironically, because the spores mailed in 2001 were weapons-grade, some experts suspected that they could only have come from an American military insider eager to demonstrate national needs for more research on biological weapons.29 If so, the effort succeeded." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"But instead of bioterrorism, we call it "protection." Reflect a moment on that irony. Vaccine injuries are reported to be "rare," but only because very few reactions are "accepted" by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as being caused by vaccines. I have frequently said that when a vaccine is given, and a bad reaction occurs, "ANYTHING BUT" the vaccine is "blamed" for the reaction." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The authors continued: "the possibility for genetic engineering and aerosol transmission [of influenza] suggests an enormous potential for bioterrorism" The possible hostile abuse of influenza virus is seen as a very real threat by public health officials in the USA. $15 million was granted by the US National Institutes of Health to Stanford University to study how to guard against the flu virus "if it were to be unleashed as an agent of bioterrorism". Stanford University News Release 17 September 2003, (See: http://mednews.stanford.edu/ newsreleases html/2003/septrelease/bioterror%20flu." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Its purpose is to develop countermeasures against an act of bioterrorism or natural disease outbreaks such as a flu pandemic. But opponents call it the creation of a medical Gestapo. Any adverse consequences caused by drugs or vaccines used to prevent or treat pandemic flu would be exempt from legal recourse or compensation. Experimental drugs could be released before being fully tested and orphan drugs, medications intended for an entirely different condition, could be used even if considered dangerous. Let's keep things in perspective." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Ricin is a bioterrorism agent that is very potent," he says. "This is something that is a risk to the general public and to the military." What Is Ricin? Ricin is a lethal poison that is considered a potential bioterror threat. It is made from castor bean extract, a byproduct of castor oil production, and can come in the form of a powder, mist or pellet or be dissolved in water or weak acid. Depending on how the ricin is given, victims develop fever, nausea and abdominal pain or lung damage, and die within a few days of exposure." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and bioterrorism. University of California Press, 2003. -. "What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating. North Point Press, 2006. Neville, Kerry. "Portion Distortion." Daily Press, http://www.dailypress.com/features/health/ dp-39328sy0janl4,l,1570536.story ?coll=dp-features-healthylife-mix. New Rules Project. "Curbing the Commercialization of Public Space." http://www.ilsr.org/ newrules/info/publicspace.html. Nielsen, Samara J., and B. M. Popkin. "Patterns and trends in portion sizes, 1977-1998." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"US National Institutes of Health to Stanford University to study how to guard against the flu virus "if it were to be unleashed as an agent of bioterrorism". Stanford University News Release 17 September 2003, (See: http://mednews.stanford.edu/ newsreleases html/2003/septrelease/bioterror%20flu.htm) 6 The resurrection of 1918 influenza has plunged the world closer to a flu pandemic and to a biodefense race scarcely separable from an offensive one, according to the Sunshine Project, a biological weapons watchdog. " - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Ricin is a bioterrorism agent that is very potent. This is something that is a risk to the general public. Christopher P. Holstege, MD Ricin is a lethal poison made from the remains of processing castor beans. With more than 50,000 tons of castor bean extract available globally, public health officials warn that ricin could easily be obtained and used by terrorists. THE NEW RESEARCH In the pilot study, 15 participants were divided into three groups of five. Each group received a different dose of the vaccine, called RiVax, in a series of three injections." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the need to register each shipment due to the new bioterrorism regulations. The letter recommended using a company that could file the forms for a mere four hundred dollars per shipment. I took a closer look at the letter. It was not from the U.S. government but from a company called FDA, and it was clearly designed to confuse the farmers and get them to pay an outrageous fee for a simple one-page notice. I told Esperanza that any importer could file it for her, and that Royal and I would take care of it." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"I wrote about the health consequences of the business of food —unintended as those consequences may be —in two books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and bioterrorism. Since writing them, I have spent much of my professional and social life talking to students, health professionals, academics, government officials, journalists, community organizers, farmers, school officials, and business leaders —as well as friends and colleagues —about the social and political aspects of food and nutrition." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases cited these areas as their top 10 concerns: Antimicrobial Resistance; Bioterrorism; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Gastrointestinal, Diarrheal and Food-borne Diseases; Hepatitis; HIV and AIDS; Hospital Acquired and Opportunistic Infections; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Tuberculosis, Vaccine Preventable Diseases (including flu). New diseases with potential to become pandemic: SARs, Avian flu, and a variety of microbes under observation. The Institute of Medicine maintains 20% of children in America will be obese by 2010." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"The extreme toxicity of botulinum toxins and the ease of production, transport, and delivery make this an agent of extreme bioterrorism concern. 67 Overview of Botulism: www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bfcT)otulism/biofacts/ botulismfactsheet.html 68 Keen, H., et al, Diabetes Care, 1993; 16: 8-15. 69 Jamal, G., Diabetic Medicine, 1994; 11(2): 145-49. / / lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Magnesium and Strokes Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and the most common cause of adult disability." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Menacing as bioterrorism is, the danger from naturally evolving diseases is far greater. While we watch out our front door for terrorist germs, killer microbes such as the SARS virus are sneaking through our back door. The sheer number of pathogens is rising, and their diversity, reproductive vigor, and ability to mutate are daunting. How could a young American woman die today the way Jeannie Brown did? You'd think that if a thirty-two-year-old with a bacterial infection got to a hospital, with all its drugs and high-tech machines, doctors could save her." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"The New Twist to Wake Us Up: Bioterrorism Now we have a new twist with a public health dimension which further brings into question the validity of the old mantra about "personal responsibility": bioterrorism. Should Americans be expected to fend for themselves when they come down with—or think they may have—anthrax, enteric diseases from a poisoned water supply, neurological damage from poison gas, or even worse, smallpox? Will each person so affected be expected to show her/his health insurance card at the front desk and/or be expected to foot the bill, no matter what? " - Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H., Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System (Get the book.)

"If all that weren't enough, the October 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States instantly turned what had long been viewed as the possibility of bioterrorism into a reality. The scare revealed how vulnerable we are to a terrorist group that gets its hands on anthrax or, even worse, smallpox, which is highly contagious and kills one-third of its victims. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) keep their eyes on a half-dozen other pathogens that can kill with abandon." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"In the 2002 version, which was tacked on to a bioterrorism bill that swept through Congress without a murmur, the fees were increased to about $576,000 per new drug application. User fees altogether now account for about $260 million a year. Although a small fraction of that can be used for some limited safety monitoring, the lion's share is still earmarked to speed drug approvals. Since the act was passed, about a thousand new FDA employees have been added to handle new drug applications, and another five hundred are called for in the 2002 renewal." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"That concept applies as urgently to protecting ourselves from bioterrorism too. And yet, the Council on Foreign Relations noted that the United States is not spending enough to prepare first responders such as emergency medical teams, firefighters, and police to handle bioterror attacks. It also found that 75 percent of state disease labs are already overwhelmed under normal conditions, and therefore would not have the capacity to act quickly in a crisis." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Public health was a late entrant into the bioterrorism field, she said, and significant dangers lurked in the developing antiterrorist infrastructure. Beyond the already voiced civil liberties issues Hamburg worried that "the danger is we don't want public health identified with the CIA and FBI activities. Particularly in terms of global infectious disease surveillance. We in public health need to have public trust and confidence." Already local public health departments were having a hard time striking that balance in responding to fake bioterrorism events." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"The striking advances being made in genetic research are surely among our most promising tools against bioterrorism. But the same techniques could also be used against us. Microbiologists could, for example, insert genes into pathogens so the organisms would be unfazed by our drugs, or genetically engineer whole new agents that would be even worse than those that already exist." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Therefore, the first and most fundamental strategy for dealing with bioterrorism was to develop effective means for combating all infectious diseases.... improving the public health infrastructure and biomedical research capacity." Long, long before it became chic in America to point out the possibility of a bioattack on U.S. citizens, a religious cult did, indeed, wage bioterrorism. And, underscoring Osterholm's point, it was local public health that recognized what had happened and responded. It took place on September 17, 1984, in a remote corner of northern Oregon." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "Some public health advocates gleefully confided that concern about bioterrorism might be the political trigger that restored funding for their collapsing infrastructures. But the wiser among them recognized that dollars earmarked for bioterrorism issues would never be applicable to such essential programs as syphilis monitoring, well baby programs, HIV counseling, immigrant TB screening, or cardiovascular disease surveillance. Osterholm knew that he had instigated the public airing of previously secret biological weapons fears." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "But the fear of bioterrorism threatened to destroy that vital social contract, as it was not one shared by law enforcement or defense. The closer public health drew to the other two, the greater the danger that it would lose all trust and credibility in the eyes of the public it served.131 Some public health advocates were frankly convinced that no marriage between their profession and law enforcement could ever work, and denounced all efforts to heighten bioterrorism concerns." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"BOVINE bioterrorism AND THE PERFECT PATHOGEN MAD COW DISEASE IS SWEEPING THE WORLD-INCLUDING THE US In the wake of terrorist attacks on America, public health threats from within have been increasingly ignored. A new awareness of bioterrorism has been sparked by the discovery of anthrax spores sent around the country. Yet right under the nose of America, a fatal, untreatable, and deeply hidden biological threat appears to be spreading virtually unchecked in the US. Harder to detect than anthrax and far more stealthy, the perfect pathogen was not engineered or spread by a terrorist group." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and bioterrorism, University of California Press, 2004 Garth Nicholson, Gulf War Illnesses: Role of Chemical, Radiological and Biological Exposures, War and Health, Helsinki, 1998 Testimony of Dr. G. Nicholson to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, United States House of Representatives June 26,1997 G. Nicholson, Report on Kuwait, Health Freedom News 1998. Best source for all the research: The Institute for Molecular Medicine, 15162 triton Lane, Huntington, CA, 92649-1041, USA, Tel: 714-903-2900 S." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Ultimately, however, federal officials discounted the bioterrorism theory. West Nile virus, they concluded, not only doesn't wipe out enough people to be a credible weapon, it depends on the tenuous life cycle of mosquitoes to spread: not a reliable way to sow panic. When scientists later mapped the genetic sequence of the virus, they saw that, far from being a devilish recombinant, it could only have descended by natural mutation from the Israeli 1998 strain. But some researchers aren't willing to completely close the door on the bioterrorism hypothesis." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

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