Amazing Disgrace - Monsanto

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Amazing Disgrace - Monsanto

Up To Its Old Dirty Tricks Again

The Ecologist Vol 32 No 4

 

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A dirty tricks campaign leads straight to

the door of a Monsanto PR company, says Jonathan Matthews in the launch

of his new column.

The journal Science reporting recently on

how the Mexican "maize scandal" was driving the battle over GM crops

"to new heights of acrimony and confusion", noted the part played by,

"widely circulating anonymous e-mails" accusing researchers, Ignacio

Chapela and David Quist, of "conflicts of interest and other misdeeds".

 

These accusations surfaced first in late

November on the day of Nature's publication of Chapela and Quist's

findings of GM contamination of maize varieties in Mexico - the global

heartland of maize diversity. Samples of native criollo corn were found

to contain a genetic 'switch' commonly used in GM crops and one sample

was even found to contain a commonly inserted gene that prompts the

plant to produce a poison. The results were particularly surprising as

Mexico banned the growing of GM maize in 1998, and the last known GM

crops were grown almost 60 miles from where the contaminated maize was

found.

For the biotech industry this could not

have come at a worse time. Its efforts to lift the European, Brazilian,

and Mexican moratoria on GM seeds or foods were all coming to a head.

 

Chapela and Quist came under immediate

attack in a furious volley of e-mails published on the AgBioView

listserv. AgBioView correspondents calling themselves 'Mary Murphy' and

'Andura Smetacek' claimed Chapela and Quist's research was a product of

a conspiracy with "fear-mongering activists". The conspirators' aim,

apparently, was to attack "biotechnology, free-trade, intellectual

property rights and other politically motivated agenda items."

These claims prompted a series of further

attacks from others. Prof Anthony Trewavas, for example, denounced

scientists like Chapela who had "political axes to grind". Trewavas

demanded Chapela be fired unless he handed over his maize samples for

checking.

This was not Trewavas's first controversial

intervention in the GM debate in response to material put into

circulation on AgBioView. Last October, for instance, Trewavas was

named in the High Court as the source of an anti-Greenpeace letter at

the centre of a libel case. Trewavas subsequently claimed that the

letter originated on AgBioView.

The last piece in question was posted by

one Andura Smetacek, who regularly posts vitriolic attacks on critics

of the biotech industry. In Smetacek's early posts, interestingly,

repeated reference is made to one particular website, CFFAR.org.

Ostensibly, CFFAR - or the Center for Food and Agricultural Research,

to give it its full title - is "a public policy and research coalition"

concerned with "food and fiber production." But despite links to

CFFAR.org from the websites of US public libraries and university

departments, there appears to be no evidence this organisation really

exists.

To judge by the frequent usage of words

like "violence", "terrorism", and "acts of terror", the real purpose of

the site is to associate biotech industry opponents with terrorism.

This mission is faciliated by fabricated claims. In its

"vandalwatch.org" section, for instance, CFFAR.org accuses Greenpeace

of engaging in multiple attacks on British farms. Greenpeace is accused

of commandeering farmers' tractors and crashing through fences in

pursuit of farmers' families.

The domain registration details for

CFFAR.org show the registrant to be one 'THEODOROV, MANUEL'. Among

early signatories to a pro-agbiotech petition launched by AgBioView

list editor, Prof CS Prakash, the following details can be found: NAME:

emmanuel theodorou. POSITION: director of associations. ORGANIZATION:

bivings woodell, Inc. DEPARTMENT: advocacy and outreach.

What kind of "advocacy and outreach" do

Bivings Woodell, Inc., aka the Bivings Group, do? According to an

article in the Chicago Tribune, "The Bivings Group has developed

'Internet advocacy' campaigns for corporate America since 1996...

Biotechnology giant Monsanto [is] among the Bivings clients who have

discovered how to make the Internet work for them."

As part of its brief, Bivings designs and

runs Monsanto's websites and Theodorou is believed to have been part of

Bivings' Monsanto team. Mary Murphy would also seem to connect to

Bivings. Or so it would seem from the evidence of a fake Associated

Press article on the bulletin board of the foxbghsuit.com website. It

was posted by "Mary Murphy (bw6.bivwood.com)".

Between them Smetacek and Murphy have had

60 or more attacks published, often very prominently, by Prakash on the

AgBioWorld listserv. Prakash presents AgBioWorld as a mainstream

science group reliant on the support of individuals and philanthropic

foundations. However, a website design specialist who took a detailed

look at the AgBioWorld site reported that there appeared to be evidence

that part of its content was held on a Bivings' server. Furthermore,

agbioworld.org, vandalwatch.org and the Bivings'-designed

thebivingsreport.com, all seemed to be the work of the same designer.

 

Perhaps it's time for Prakash to clarify

where AgBioWorld finishes and biotech industry PR begins. Come to that,

the Royal Society might like to tell us why Trewavas, one of its media

advisors, seems so keen to promulgate PR industry smears. And, finally,

Monsanto needs to explain how its much vaunted pledge to abide by

principles of openness, transparency and respect tallies with a dirty

tricks campaign.

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Comment

From Betty Martini

Bettym19

5-15-2

Dear Dr. Tyron and Bonnie,

This article is very timely because it

explains what went on with the post you have and the way Monsanto uses

PR, front groups, etc.

I lectured for the World Environmental

Conference some years ago. I actually wrote the post you have to Dr.

Rivner who headed a list of neurologists after I had returned. The post

was put on web. Then somebody by the name of Nancy Markle published it

under her name, changing the title. Someone in the UK saw it and sent

it to a global networker, Shoshanna Allison. She had just gotten a

divorce because aspartame had shattered their marriage. Her husband

developed lupus from aspartame, ballooned up to 400 lbs and had the

usual mood swings. She didn't want it to happen to anyone else so she

took my post and put it on 450 global networks and it made world news

overnight. It was unbelievable how many calls came in and still come in

about it. People called from countries in languages I couldn't

understand. It didn't take long for anyone to realize I was the author

by simply doing a search on the Internet.

I removed call-waiting from the phone

because I couldn't talk to two people at once, and the phone would ring

every two minutes as soon as you put it down and went on like that for

months. Plus radio stations were calling constantly and you couldn't be

interrupted during a broadcast. We have a Mission Possible list that

has the world experts on aspartame, and it showed the physicians how

epidemic Aspartame Disease really is the world over. We started more

Mission Possible operations from Mission Possible Romania to Mission

Possible Indonesia. Four support groups were set up for the sick and

disabled. Because Monsanto, the FDA and the professional organizations

funded by industry were putting out propaganda that aspartame is an

additive and safe, physicians were unable to diagnose their patients,

and they went from doctor to doctor. Many of them died because nobody

could help them.

Monsanto could not put the fire. A person

on aspartame had put to read the post to see their symptoms and finally

understand why they were so sick. Calls came from victims in tears who

told horror stories. Since aspartame destroys the central nervous

system and mimics MS, many people had been misdiagnosed as having MS.

And many people who read the post in wheelchairs, got off aspartame and

walked away well. Front groups were set up on the Internet to try and

persuade the people it was a myth but it didn't work. Even people who

didn't know I was the author simply decided if they were so sick, it

wouldn't hurt to get off the toxin and see what happened. The blind

began to see again. Mary Reiff who was on Texas TV with me a couple of

years ago had a grand mal seizure while driving and had an accident,

and she was declared eventually legally blind. After getting off

aspartame the seizures stopped and eventually by the time we were on

the Debra Duncan Show her vision had been restored. People who suffered

horrific, agonizing joint pain got off aspartame and could walk again.

And, of course, these people made thousands and thousands of more

copies. The professional organizations funded by NutraSweet (Monsanto)

went to their defense. Still thousands got off NutraSweet and got well

and told others.

Even respectable institutions like Mayo

Clinic put false information on their web site. Giving them the correct

information I couldn't understand why they didn't change it until I

read who funded the misinformation web site - and it was Searle. Searle

was the original manufacturer of aspartame and Monsanto bought them in

l985.

So their are many organizations who pimp

poison for a price. In order to warn the victims off the poison they

have to close the diamond mine, and presented with saving the lives or

continuing to accept bribes they elect to sacrifice the people. Those

responsible to solve the problem ARE the problem.

Finally, knowing the world now knew about

aspartame's toxicity, even in the jungles of Africa, Monsanto sold the

NutraSweet Company dividing it into several pieces, to Ajinomoto, their

Siamese twin, another aspartame manufacturer, Childs in Boston, Michael

Dell of Dell Computers, and an investment firm of Monsanto managers.

But like Mohammed Ali once said: "They can run but they can't hide". We

are now taking case histories for class action on aspartame starting

with brain tumors, seizures, blindness and eye deterioration. I hope in

the end they will take them all.

These monsters knew before aspartame was

ever approved what would happen to the population. If you go to

www.dorway.com you can read the Secret Trade Information which was

voluntarily submitted during Congressional Hearings. You will notice in

the last paragraph they say they have to consider almost complete

conversion to DKP, the brain tumor agent, and if they tell the FDA they

won't approve it. so they knew people would come down with brain tumors

and they didn't care, they wanted it approved. They knew it was an

addicting (methanol classified as a narcotic) neurotoxic drug, and

would be a cash cow.

In l983/84 Searle decided to find out just

how much aspartame could humans tolerate. They sacrificed people in 6

countries to do studies in poor villages. The studies showed in 18

months that aspartame destroyed the brain and the central nervous

system which we already knew from post marketing surveillance reports.

People developed all kinds of brain tumors as well as seizures. The

pregnant woman lost her baby and disappeared according to the study.

Aspartame hardened the synovial fluids which helped us to understand

why aspartame victims suffer such agonizing joint pain often diagnosed

as fibromyalgia, a diagnostic wastebucket. A new study at the

University of Florida shows that eliminating excitotoxins, aspartame

and MSG, eliminates the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome and

fibromyalgia. Some people died in these studies. Searle finding out

that aspartame was a killer did not publish the studies and in l985

sold to Monsanto.

Never does a day pass that I don't get

calls about this post that made world news. It also went to media the

world over and articles were written around the world. Nobody ever

found Nancy Markle although as people got well they wrote songs about

her, and on some web sites you would see notes - "please write home

Nancy Markle". I believe she lives in England because she wrote the

Ecologist using my home address telling them to contact Mission

Possible. I explained to the Ecologist and they did their own

investigation of aspartame and its on www.dorway.com titled Sweet

Talking! When I lectured in England we broadcast for Nancy Markle as I

did radio interviews but to no avail. Shoshanna Allison has now been

dubbed Paula Revere for firing the shot heard around the world.

I wrote the story for the Disinformation

web site, they were going to put it in a book called "They Lied To Us".

However, they put it on their web site instead and we have it on

www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html and its titled Update World Environmental

Conference. I suspect the post has saved the lives of hundreds of

thousands of people, and was the beginning of the end for Monsanto.

Monsanto eventually merged with Pharmacia Upjohn, trying to get rid of

their bad name. It was changed to Pharmacia after we started calling

them PU.

Today, no one can even question the medical

information in the post as its now all been documented in the new

medical text on the global plague of Aspartame Disease by H. J.

Roberts, M.D., Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

www.aspartameispoison.com or www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 814 - 9800

1038 pages, 8 1/2 by 11 on the symptoms and diseases triggered by this

deadly neurotoxin. There is a chapter on Multiple Sclerosis or

Aspartame Disease?, behavioral and psychiatric problems, diabetes,

brain tumors, seizures, infertility, male sexual dysfunction, drug

interaction, birth defects, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrigs, Desert Storm

Syndrome, ADD, autism, and even the implications of marketing a

chemical poison for human consumption including the cover-ups. Every

physician in the world needs a copy, it's the only way he can diagnose

Aspartame Disease. Many victims getting well have said one day

Aspartame Disease may be called Roberts Disease.

Dave Rietz, webmaster of www.dorway.com

likewise is a victim. He went to 21 physicians who could not diagnose

his agonizing joint pain. He eventually built on to his home and put in

a Jacuzzi because it was too painful to walk. Eventually he got on the

Internet and saw the FDA report of 92 symptoms and realized it was

aspartame causing his problems. He got off of it and the joint pain

disappeared. He set up www.dorway.com as a DORway to Discovery, saying

he was paying back to the Internet what the Internet gave back to him -

his life. He still suffers from Prostate cancer. World famous

toxicologist, Dr. George Schwartz wrote a paper on aspartame and

prostate and mammary tumors. In original studies aspartame triggered

brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic

tumors, as well as grand mal seizures.

There are some particularly serious

problems all physicians should know about. Aspartame damages the

cardiac conduction system and can cause sudden death. It also interacts

with cardiac medication and patients can go into complete heart block

or cardiac arrest. It is also a chemical hypersensitization agent and

interacts with vaccines and other toxins and additives. Since vaccines

have been known to trigger autism and aspartame can trigger autism

babies don't have much of a chance, especially if their mothers are not

warned not to use aspartame while pregnant. Read these reports on

www.dorway.com

Aspartame Murders Infants by James Bowen,

M.D. Aspartame and Pregnancy and Small Children by H. J. Roberts, M.D.

Testimony before congress by Louis Elsas, M.D., pediatric professor,

Emory University.

All physicians should also have in their

library, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell

Blaylock, M.D. www.amazon.com It was the famed Dr. John Olney, who

founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity. He did the

studies on aspartic acid in l970 and found out it causes lesions in the

brains of mice. He told Searle but they did not tell the FDA until

after it was approved. Aspartic acid which is 40% of aspartame is an

excitotoxin. Dr. Blaylock explains on the back of the book this is a

product that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death

causing brain damage of varying degrees.

If you want ot read some of the horror

stories you can go to www.holisticmed.com/aspartame , the Aspartame

Toxicity Center. We have four support groups on line and there are now

five Aspartame Detoxification Centers in the United States and one in

Canada.

Bonnie, I need to know which is the correct

email, rosenet.com or net. I'm sending this to both.

Below this note is an excellent article on

Monsanto PR, and you will understand about the front groups on the

Internet and people paid to lie for industry, and those paid to pimp

poison for a price.

You will see my invitation to speak for the

World Environmental Conference and my correspondence with Dr. Gaylord

who gave the keynote address on www.dorway.com

If I can help you further please let me

know. We do have these four support groups on line for victims. In Dr

Roberts medical text there is a chapter on detoxification and how to

treat a patient who has used aspartame. There is also a detox page on

www.dorway.com and Newton Labs has made an antidote to try and pull

some of the formaldehyde out of the body. There is also a page on

pre-embalming in the medical text. The Trocho Study shows that the

formaldehyde converted from the wood alcohol accumulates in the cells

and damages DNA. A new study in Norway shows that aspartame destroys

the brain which, of course, we knew, especially in the areas of

learning. This accounts for the global epidemic of ADD.

Sandra Cabot, M.D., Mission Possible

Australia, has a book on cleansing the liver on www.dorway.com with

recipes that are very helpful. Be sure to read Dr. James Bowen's paper

on how aspartame triggers steato hepatitis, as well as his article on

male sexual dysfunction. This is why so many are on Viagara.

I will send you an email from a former U.S.

Attorney writing these misinformation sites to cease and desist from

putting out lies. This is against the law under Title 18, Section 1001

and the Justice Department has been notified. I doubt Mr. Ashcroft,

Attorney General, will do anything about it as he received a lot money

from Monsanto and is from St. Louis their home town. But they have been

reported just the same. Be sure you read the UPI investigation and you

will understand the fiasco of aspartame approval and how Searle went so

far as to even threatening physicians to prevent studies on aspartame.

And, of course, read on below my signature this excellent article on

how industry misinforms the public.

All my best,

Betty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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