FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY

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reposting from Steve Z of MCS-Canada

 

Old news but....................

Steve Z, forwarded

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On Friday, August 18, 2006, the _FDA approved a viral cocktail_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/us/19viruses.html?_r=2 & oref=slogin & oref=slogi\

n) to be

sprayed on foods we eat.

 

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.

 

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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_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/us/19viruses.html?_r=2 & oref=slogin & oref=slogi\

n) 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. Not surprisingly, the FDA doesn't want you to know which foods are

adulterated in this manner, for fear you may not buy them; thus, no labeling

will be required. 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. And they want you to

believe this is completely safe while refusing to require the additive viruses

to be listed on the food label so that you would have a choice.

Turning Loose the Bacteria-Killing Viruses

The company that produces these biotech viruses is Baltimore-based

_Intralytix, Inc_ (http://www.intralytix.com/) . 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 _

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=Abstr\

actPlus & list_uids=15057745 & query_hl=1 & itool=pubmed_docsum) .

Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of _bacterial endotoxins can

start cancer in the colon_

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=Abstr\

actPlus & list_uids=12384057 & query_hl=1 & itool=pubmed_D

ocSum) .

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 _

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=Abstr\

actPlus & list_uids=16504739 & query_hl=6 & itool=pubmed_docsum) .

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_ (http://www.newswithviews.com/HNB/Hot_New_Books32.htm) , 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.

 

Regards,

 

Dannemann

former director, National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW)

_www.ProgressiveConvergence.com _ (http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/)

917 804-0786