[Ban-GEF] Spilling the Beans newsletter - Please Obama say it's not so (Michael Taylor, Monsanto Attorney, appointed to FDA)

[Guest guest]

Dear Lists,

 

In case any of you haven't heard, Obama has

appointed Michael Taylor, a Monsanto attorney to

the FDA. The FDA gets over half their funds from

the industry they are suppose to

regulate. Today, the FDA is truly Monsanto's

Washington Branch office. With such a conflict of interest he should resign.

 

Adrienne Samuels, wife of Jack Samuels, who has

the excellent web site on MSG,

www.truthandlabeling.org gave us this suggestion:

 

Betty,

 

I have another idea. Can you get 50-60 people to

e-mail Obama at the White House?

<http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/?ec=7>http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/?ec=7

 

Each just has to give their first and last names,

their e-mail address, then in the pick a subject

box choose " I HAVE A POLICY COMMENT, " then choose

the subject: HEALTH CARE, and write a short

message like " Michael Taylor was a big

mistake. " or " I thought you were looking for

change. Michael Taylor is not change. He is more about poisoning America. "

 

Adrienne

_________end

of Adrienne's note

 

Now read on about Michael Taylor and remember

this is the Monsanto attorney who wrote the De

Minimis interpretation of the Delaney

Clause: Legal and Policy Rationale. In other

words he wrote to minimize this safeguard to

human health which forbids adding anything to

food that you know causes cancer. You may

remember that Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA toxicologist, told Congress:

 

 

at least one of Searle's studies " has

established beyond ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that

aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in

experimental animals and that this predisposition

of it is of extremely high significance. ... In

view of these indications that the cancer causing

potential of aspartame is a matter that had been

established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, one

can ask: What is the reason for the apparent

refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food

additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act? "

 

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow

any residues of cancer causing chemicals in

foods. In his concluding testimony Gross asked,

" Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame

how would the FDA justify its position that it

views a certain amount of aspartame as

constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe'

level of it? Is that position in effect not

equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food

additive and thus a violation of that law? And if

the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is

left to protect the health of the public? "

Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985).

 

You will be happy to know that the Delaney Clause

still lives: http://www.wnho.net/delaney_lives.htm

No thanks, however, to Michael Taylor. When

Michael Taylor goes to the FDA you can be sure

its to write reports that aim at giving industry

less regulation. It is a conflict of

interest. Also Ajinomoto is trying to get the

FDA to approve a new aspartame sweetener and as

long as Michael Taylor is at the FDA he can use

his power to get yet another aspartame poison on

the market. FDA is already seeking comments on the new aspartame sweetener:

 

 

Click on the link below to read the article:

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Legislation/FDA-seeks-comments-on-Ajinomoto-s-A\

dvantame-sweetener

 

Also, remember that aspartame is so poisonous

that it causes polychemical sensitivity

syndrome. Because of damage to the mitochondria

or life of the cell, aspartame also interacts

with drugs and vaccines. Aspartame victims are

so chemically hypersensitive that a great

majority report they cannot use genetically

engineered foods and they immediately have a reaction.

 

If you write the FDA it needs to go by snail mail

to be accepted but then can be sent to me in copy

form by email for record purposes.

 

Dr. Margaret Hamburg

FDA Commissioner

5600 Fishers Lane

Rockville, Maryland 20857

 

Now read Jeffrey Smith's excellent article about the issue below.

 

All my best,

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

 

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>You’re Appointing WHO? Please Obama, say it’s not so!

>

>The person who may be responsible for more

>food-related illness and death than anyone in

>history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

>

>Here’s the back story.

>

>When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on

>what was to become the most radical and

>potentially dangerous change in our food

>supply­the introduction of genetically modified

>(GM)

>foods­<http://biointegrity.org/list.html>secret

>documents now reveal that the experts were VERY

>concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new

>diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and

>hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that

>the technology carried “Serious health hazards,”

>and required careful, long-term research,

>including human studies, before any genetically

>modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

>

>But the biotech industry had rigged the game so

>that neither science nor scientists would stand

>in their way. They had placed their own man in

>charge of FDA policy and he wasn’t going to be

>swayed by feeble arguments related to food

>safety. No, he was going to do what corporations

>had done for decades to get past these types of

>pesky concerns. He was going to lie.

>

>Dangerous Food Safety Lies

>

>When the FDA was constructing their GMO policy

>in 1991-2, their scientists were clear that

>gene-sliced foods were significantly different

>and could lead to

>“<http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/01/view2.html>different

>risks” than conventional foods. But

><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/obamas-team-includes-dang_b_147188\

..html>official

>policy declared the opposite, claiming that the

>FDA knew nothing of significant differences, and

>declared GMOs substantially equivalent.

>

>This fiction became the rationale for allowing

>GM foods on the market without any required

>safety studies whatsoever! The determination of

>whether GM foods were safe to eat was placed

>entirely in the hands of the companies that made

>them­companies like Monsanto, which told us that

>the PCBs, DDT, and Agent Orange were safe.

>

>GMOs were rushed onto our plates in 1996. Over

>the next nine years,

><http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5050S920090106?sp=true%20wa\

s%207%25>multiple

>chronic illnesses in the US nearly doubled­from

>7% to 13%.

><http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/ed584ff1c2e1162a852575fc00536790?Op\

enDocument>Allergy-related

>emergency room visits doubled between 1997 and

>2002 while food allergies, especially among

>children, skyrocketed. We also witnessed a

>dramatic rise in asthma, autism, obesity,

>diabetes, digestive disorders, and certain cancers.

>

>In January of this year, Dr. P. M. Bhargava, one

>of the world’s top biologists, told me that

>after reviewing 600 scientific journals, he

>concluded that the GM foods in the US are

>largely responsible for the increase in many serious diseases.

>

>In May, the

><http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html>American

>Academy of Environmental Medicine concluded that

>animal studies have demonstrated a

><http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=2989>causal

>relationship between GM foods and infertility,

>accelerated aging, dysfunctional insulin

>regulation, changes in major organs and the

>gastrointestinal system, and immune problems

>such as asthma, allergies, and inflammation

>

>In July, a

><http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0438.htm>report by

>eight international experts determined that the

>flimsy and superficial evaluations of GMOs by

>both regulators and GM companies

>“<http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11303-re-study-criticises-\

testing-on-gmos>systematically

>overlook the side effects” and significantly

>underestimate “the initial signs of diseases

>like cancer and diseases of the hormonal,

>immune, nervous and reproductive systems, among others.”

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>The Fox Guarding the Chickens

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>If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive

>sickness and death, then the individual who

>oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their

>introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in

>human history. That person is Michael Taylor. He

>had been Monsanto’s attorney before becoming

>policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became

>Monsanto’s Vice President and chief lobbyist.

>

>This month Michael Taylor became the senior

>advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is

>now America’s food safety czar. What have we done?

>

>The Milk Man Cometh

>

>While Taylor was at the FDA in the early 90’s,

>he also oversaw the policy regarding Monsanto’s

>genetically engineered

><http://yourmilkondrugs.com/>bovine growth

>hormone (rbGH/rbST)­injected into cows to increase milk supply.

>

>The milk from injected cows has more pus, more

>antibiotics, more bovine growth hormone, and

>most importantly, more insulin-like growth

>factor 1 (IGF-1). IGF-1 is a huge risk factor

>for common cancers and its high levels in this

>drugged milk is why so many

><http://action.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Oregon_rBGHFactSheetsandDownloa\

ds>medical

>organizations and

><http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v & q=cache:063SblHxCSUJ:www.themilkweed.com/Feat\

ure_06_July.pdf+healthcare+without+harm+rbgh & hl=en & gl=us>hospitals

>have taken stands against rbGH. A former

>Monsanto scientist told me that when three of

>his Monsanto colleagues evaluated rbGH safety

>and discovered the elevated IGF-1 levels, even

>they refused to drink any more milk­unless it

>was organic and therefore untreated.

>

>Government scientists from Canada

><http://www.nfu.ca/gapsreport.html>evaluated the

>FDA’s approval of rbGH and concluded that it was

>a dangerous facade. The drug was banned in

>Canada, as well as Europe, Japan, Australia and

>New Zealand. But it was approved in the US while

>Michael Taylor was in charge. His drugged milk

>might have caused a significant rise in US

>cancer rates. Additional

><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/health/30twin.html>published

>evidence also implicates rbGH in the high rate of fraternal twins in the US.

>

>Taylor also determined that milk from injected

>cows did not require any special labeling. And

>as a gift to his future employer Monsanto, he

>wrote a white paper suggesting that if companies

>ever had the audacity to label their products as

>not using rbGH, they should also include a

>disclaimer stating that according to the FDA,

>there is no difference between milk from treated and untreated cows.

>

>Taylor’s disclaimer was also a lie. Monsanto’s

>own studies and FDA scientists officially

>acknowledged differences in the drugged milk. No

>matter. Monsanto used Taylor’s white paper as

>the basis to successfully sue dairies that

>labeled their products as rbGH-free.

>

>Will Monsanto’s Wolff Also Guard the Chickens?

>

>As consumers learned that rbGH was dangerous,

>they refused to buy the milk. To keep their

>customers, a tidal wave of companies has

>publicly committed to not use the drug and to

>label their products as such. Monsanto tried

>unsuccessfully to convince the FDA and FTC to

>make it illegal for dairies to make rbGH-free

>claims, so they went to their special friend in

>Pennsylvania­Dennis Wolff. As state Secretary of

>Agriculture, Wolff unilaterally declared that

>labeling products rbGH-free was illegal, and

>that all such labels must be removed from

>shelves statewide. This would, of course,

>eliminate the label from all national brands, as

>they couldn’t afford to create separate packaging for just one state.

>

>Fortunately, consumer demand forced

>Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell to step in

>and stop Wolff’s madness. But Rendell allowed

>Wolff to take a compromised position that now

>requires rbGH-free claims to also be accompanied

>by Taylor’s FDA disclaimer on the package.

>

>President Obama is considering Dennis Wolff for

>the top food safety post at the USDA. Yikes!

>

><http://www.grist.org/article/usda-may-get-dennis-wolff-for-food-safety-post-be\

cause-ed-rendell-doesnt-wa/>Rumor

>has it that the reason why Pennsylvania’s

>governor is supporting Wolff’s appointment is to

>get him out of the state­after he “screwed up so

>badly” with the rbGH decision. Oh great, governor. Thanks.

>

>Ohio Governor Gets Taylor-itus

>

>Ohio not only followed Pennsylvania’s lead by

>requiring Taylor’s FDA disclaimer on packaging,

>they went a step further. They declared that

>dairies must place that disclaimer on the same

>panel where rbGH-free claims are made, and even

>dictated the font size. This would force

>national brands to re-design their labels and

>may ultimately dissuade them from making

>rbGH-free claims at all. The Organic Trade

>Association and the International Dairy Foods

>Association filed a lawsuit against Ohio.

>Although they lost the first court battle, upon

>appeal, the judge ordered a mediation session

>that takes place today (July 23, 2009).

>Thousands of Ohio citizens have flooded Governor

>Strickland’s office with urgent requests to

>withdraw the states anti-consumer labeling requirements.

>

>Perhaps the governor has an ulterior motive for

>pushing his new rules. If he goes ahead with his

>labeling plans, he might end up with a top

>appointment in the Obama administration.

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>To hear what America is saying about GMOs and to

>add your voice, go to our

><http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?gid=121443803326>new Facebook group.

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