FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY

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FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY

 

 

 

By Byron J. Richards, CCN

 

August 24, 2006

 

NewsWithViews.com

 

On Friday, August 18, 2006, the FDA approved a viral cocktail to be

sprayed on foods we eat. This is the first time viruses have been

approved for use as food additives. The FDA wants you to believe it

will be safe to consume these viruses every day for the rest of your

life with no adverse health effects. This is a monumental announcement

by the FDA, indicating they are throwing all caution to the wind

regarding the safety of our food supply.

 

Are you willing to stand in line for a virus-laden sandwich? How do

you like the idea of buying virus-infested food for your family? The

first virally contaminated foods entering our food supply with the

blessings of the FDA will be luncheon meat and poultry. Live viruses

will be sprayed on foods such as cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced

turkey, and chicken.

 

At issue is the very real problem of a poor quality FDA-approved food

supply that is already full of diseased and sickly animals, many of

them imported from other countries. The use of antibiotics during

growth and radiation during food processing is required by the

fast-food animal farms owned by multi-national companies to cover up

the horrendous health of the animals they wish to feed to Americans.

Animals in poor health are a friendly place for bacteria to grow and

prosper, especially after such meat goes to market. Rather than

address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to add another

adulteration into our food supply.

 

The stated goal of the new FDA-approved viruses is to kill a rare

bacterium known as Listeria monocytogenes. This bacterium is killed by

cooking; however, it poses a problem in meats that are cooked during

processing and not cooked again prior to consumption, so it can

readily infect foods such as deli meats.

 

Yes, the FDA plans to use one infectious organism to fight another.

The carnage of battle will end up in your digestive tract along with

the victorious live viruses, which the FDA assures us will not attack

human cells. However, they cannot possibly be certain the viruses will

not attack the friendly bacteria that make up the lining of your

digestive tract. The FDA approval was based on scant human testing,

mostly from unrelated medical experiments. Such safety data is

woefully inadequate to determine safe ingestion of a specific product

by humans over the course of a lifetime.

 

Turning Loose the Bacteria-Killing Viruses

 

The company that produces these biotech viruses is Baltimore-based

Intralytix, Inc. The viruses are known as bacteriophages, viruses that

kill bacteria, or phages for short. Phages have been around a long

time, living as parasites inside many bacteria.

 

Intralytix uses biotechnology to grow viral phages in a culture with

Listeria, in theory teaching the viruses to recognize the bacteria.

The FDA-approved cocktail contains six different viruses intended to

attack one strain of bacteria.

 

This concoction is then sprayed on food. If Listeria is present in the

food, the bacteria will ingest the viruses. This results in massive

viral replication inside the bacteria, until such point as the

bacteria simply bursts. This battle results in significant production

of bacterial poisons called " endotoxins " , as the bacteria tries to

defend itself. When the bacteria burst, these endotoxins are released.

These, along with the victorious live viruses, will now be on the food

that will be eaten.

 

The FDA and Intralytix would like us to believe that these viruses

will only attack the specified bacteria they are intended to kill and

will be harmless to humans. I'm sorry to burst their bubble, but they

can't possibly guarantee such safety. It is true that the viruses, at

least at this time, cannot recognize human cells. However, the virus

can potentially recognize normal bacterial cells in the human

digestive tract and may be able to adapt to infect one or more of

these friendly bacteria.

 

The FDA Certainly Knows There Are Risks

 

The FDA had some concerns about the amount of bacterial endotoxin in

the Intralytix product before it is sprayed; however, FDA tests

apparently showed that the product was adequately purified and so they

declared it safe if used as approved. Will the FDA diligently monitor

the quality of this product once it is on the market, or will it go

the path of many FDA-approved drugs that the agency can't keep track of?

 

There is certainly a risk that humans will be exposed to excessive

amounts of endotoxin. This could come from the manufacturing of the

viral cocktail, the interaction of the viruses with bacteria after

being sprayed on food, and/or the interaction of the viruses with

bacteria in the digestive tract.

 

The human immune system is highly reactive and sensitive to bacterial

endotoxins. They provoke allergy, asthma, autoimmune problems, and

elevate cholesterol. They also interfere with the healthy function of

cells lining the digestive tract. Researchers have demonstrated that

the presence of bacterial endotoxins can start cancer in the colon.

 

Additionally, the human immune system reacts directly to viral phages.

Thus, a person who eats a lot of processed deli meat is certain to

evoke an immune reaction to the viruses. What will this reaction be?

Allergy? Asthma? Autoimmunity? Cancer? How can the FDA approve a food

additive that it knows can induce a variety of human immune responses?

Phages are so good at disrupting normal immunity that they are being

considered for use as part of organ transplant medicine.

 

The ingestion of significant amounts of viral phages into the human

digestive tract is a wild card full of unknown outcomes. For example,

it is certainly possible that these phages, which constantly mutate in

order to survive, are likely to find a way to infect bacteria they

were not intended to infect. Since phages are parasites, they could

hijack the friendly bacteria of the digestive tract and turn them into

viral machines, constantly generating viral particles that are likely

to confuse the human immune system, if not directly infect the body.

We know from history that these viral phages can turn innocuous

bacteria into a killer, which is how cholera occurs.

 

Furthermore, the Listeria bacteria are not going to take the issue

lying down. They will develop resistance to the viruses over time, as

we have seen with the overuse of antibiotics. Going down this path we

are likely to have hundreds of viral food additives in the food we

eat, all designed to combat some possible infection coming from poor

quality food. Sooner or later we will inadvertently create deadly new

super-strains of bacteria and/or parasitically infect the human

digestive tract with an untreatable infection.

 

There is also the very real possibility of unintended viral

recombination. What happens when a person with viral stomach flu eats

food containing a dose of this viral food additive? It is certainly

possible for the genetic material of the flu virus to interact with

the genetic material of the viral phages, provoking an undesirable new

viral infection.

 

Let's not forget that the FDA won't tell us which foods in the food

supply contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Seventy percent

of the packaged food on grocery shelves already contains GMO

adulterated food. These foods have viral promoter genes woven into the

DNA of every cell, a technique used to implant a pesticide toxin into

every cell of this fake food (see Fight for Your Health, chapter 15).

What happens when the viral phages interact with the viral promoter

genes in GMO food? What new virus will be encouraged to form?

 

Keep in mind that the FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food

supply to protect a small minority, only about 2500 people, who are

made seriously ill by this infection each year. The ill are mostly

pregnant women, elderly with compromised immunity, and small children.

It would be a lot more to the point if the FDA would simply warn such

people that eating these foods, due to their poor quality of

production, may be dangerous. What the FDA should really do is improve

the quality of our food supply, the true source of the problem. Why

expose millions of Americans to an unproven ingestion of live viruses

for the benefit of so few?

 

The FDA has failed miserably for the past century to protect the

public from the adulteration of our food supply by vested interests.

This is just one more insult added to a long list of injuries.

 

The Tip of an Iceberg

 

Intralytix has an agenda for the American food supply, as well as for

healthcare in general. This recent FDA ruling allows Intralytix and

other similar biotech companies to get their foot in a door that

should be slammed shut and bolted closed.

 

The company is also seeking FDA approval for viral sprays to treat

foods that could be contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella, which

means that similar " trained " viruses could end up in a majority of the

protein foods in our food supply.

 

Intralytix sees financial opportunity. They have already licensed

their now FDA-approved viral spray to an undisclosed multi-national

company for use around the world. When the CEO of Intralytix, John

Vazzara, was recently asked about this partner company, he refused to

disclose their name. The grand profit-driven biotech experiment on the

health and well being of all Americans is now in full swing.

 

John Vazzara also owns stock in, as well as provided seed money to

start, SteelCloud Inc. (formerly Dunn Computer Corporation).

SteelCloud is a defense contractor with lucrative deals with the

Department of Defense, recently landing a 3.4 million dollar contract

with the Department of Homeland Security.

 

Congress should investigate the financial ties and backroom dealings

that would allow this bizarre food additive approval by the FDA.

 

Of course, we will need new wonder drugs to combat the new bio-tech

produced infections. Americans will stay sick and the sickness-driven

bio-tech industry will flourish. The bio-tech industry will make

people sick on the front end and treat them on the back end. It's a

win-win situation for profit on illness.

 

The FDA is Rapidly Becoming a Public Enemy

 

Experimenting with viruses being added to the food supply is

incredibly dangerous and reckless. It is completely impossible for the

FDA to guarantee safety in the near term or the long term. Thus, the

FDA has made the bureaucratic decision that relative safety is

acceptable to them. What right does the FDA have to tamper with the

food supply in this manner?

 

It is quite clear that the Bush agenda has been to promote American

biotech companies as the new future for American prosperity.

Administrative opinions have trumped science in virtually every

situation wherein safety conflicts with profit. The FDA acts to foster

profits for biotech companies and the growth of the biotech industry.

This is a betrayal of the public trust.

 

The leaders of the FDA are personally responsible and need to be held

accountable. This means Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., temporary head of

the FDA and his chief science officer, Scott Gottlieb, M.D. These men

are not only obsessed with approving risky drugs for the benefits of

Big Pharma, it is now clear that they are willing to allow obvious

adulteration of the food supply. They seek to control what we eat, and

they are tampering with survival of the human race.

 

The FDA does not truly know how safe viral phages are to consume on a

regular basis. They have no idea of the cumulative effect over the

course of a lifetime, especially as more of these viral cocktails are

added to the food supply. They have no way to measure how this new

type of adulteration in the food supply will interact with the poor

digestive/immune health of half the American population, in

combination with all the other serious adulterations already approved

by the FDA. The FDA lacks due diligence in honoring its mandate to

protect the American public.

 

Boycott Viral Tainted Foods, Support Your Sustainable Farmers

 

The only hope Americans have is to resurrect the quality of our food

supply. Doing so is against the odds, as there are billions of dollars

of profit-mongering taking our food supply in the wrong direction. One

day Americans will realize that food security is as important to

national security as any other topic. It is now crystal clear that we

cannot count on the FDA to do the job that Harvey Wiley, M.D.,

envisioned one-hundred years ago.

 

Consumers standing in line to buy a luncheon meat sandwich will have

no idea if they are ingesting live viruses as part of their meal.

While the FDA will require the ingredient to be listed on packages as

" bacteriophage preparation, " most consumers will have no idea that

means they are ingesting live viruses. Foods bought at deli counters

or prepared in restaurants will not need to warn consumers.

 

How can any responsible parent feed virus-tainted food to their

children? The FDA should be forced to revoke this approval. Every

American has an obligation to support food security for our nation.

Congress must correct the leadership at the FDA and the FDA itself.

Americans must quit buying poor quality toxic food. Your greatest

ability to change this problem is based entirely on what you purchase.

 

Get connected to the sustainable family farms in your community. Buy

meat that is range raised without antibiotics and synthetic growth

hormones. Demand that the food you are eating is labeled with a

country of origin. Buy American; buy locally-produced food whenever

possible. Support those who truly believe in being the stewards of our

land and food for our people and for future generations. These good

people are being squashed out of existence by multi-national

agribusiness, companies that could truly care less about the quality

of our food supply or the security and health of Americans. How you

spend your money is your most powerful vote. Vote for those who care.

 

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