Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 It inflicts a dark cloud of misery on people of all ages, sexes, and walks of life," Ross says, noting that America's rate of depression has climbed as tryptophan, serotonin's building block, has been diminishing from our food supply over the last century.
Although scientists believe that some people have lower levels of serotonin than others simply because of genetics, serotonin levels can actually be diminished if you drink too much caffeinated soda, diet pop, or coffee, if you don't get enough protein or healthy fats, and as a result of stress or lack of exercise. |
Mike Adams
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 Allowed the continued legal use of harmful, cancer-causing food additives in the national food supply such as sodium nitrite (which causes cancer and yet is intentionally added to nearly all processed meats).
Refused to ban a poisonous artificial fat from the food supply (hydrogenated oils) for decades, even though the World Health Organization urged member nations to outlaw the substance in 1978. Hydrogenated oils continue to harm infants, children, and adults today. |
| Knowingly approved harmful food additives for widespread use in the food supply (such as aspartame, which has a rather dubious history and has been proven toxic in several studies), even when its own safety experts recommended denying approval.
Allowed the continued legal use of harmful, cancer-causing food additives in the national food supply such as sodium nitrite (which causes cancer and yet is intentionally added to nearly all processed meats). |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Many of us are further comforted by government and food-industry pronouncements that our food supply is carefully checked by both federal and state agencies for dangerous pesticide residues. A review of this process has shown that only 1 percent of the food supply is even examined, and then not for all pesticides. Surprisingly, the FDA does not prevent food processors from marketing foods that contain illegal residues.
Pesticide poisoning is not at all uncommon. One particularly alarming incident occurred in 1985, following the use of a systemic pesticide, called aldicarb, on watermelons. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Not wanting to make a similar mistake, Monsanto applied for approval of the high lysine corn as a human food, so that its inevitable contamination into the food supply will not be grounds for recalls or trade disruptions.
Increasing the amount of a single amino acid may alter growth and metabolism in unpredicted ways. In a chicken feeding study, the addition of lysine resulted "in a growth rate defect and a reduction in breast muscle creatine."74'75 High amounts of lysine in the diet of rabbits increased serum cholesterol and phospholipids in the liver. |
| His colleagues assumed that the protein was safe, so they put it into the food supply without testing their assumptions. Similarly, scientists and regulators assumed that genes act as isolated units, produce only one protein, and are destroyed during digestion. They assumed that GM protein will act the same as before in new organisms, that J5/-toxin is harmless, and that disruption of the host DNA poses no concern. These and many other assumptions used as the basis of safety claims have been proven wrong. |
| So, even if a GM food is found to cause harm, it may take many years of effort to remove it from the food supply."
"In short, with the level of current safety testing, if GM foods do cause human health problems, it will be very difficult to determine this, even though there may be many cases, and finding the cause and doing something about it may take decades. |
| GM soy was introduced into the US food supply in late 1996.
It is not confirmed that the GM soy caused the rise in UK soy allergies. The suspicious timing of the increase, combined with the multiple ways that GM soy might increase allergen production, however, demands further study. In the meantime, many people are not waiting to take steps to protect themselves.
Physician John Boyles, an allergy specialist from Ohio, says, "I used to test for soy allergies all the time, but now that soy is genetically engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it—unless it says organic. |
| As it is such a comprehensive cell poison, it is of concern that it is being placed in plants that enter the human and animal food supply. ... There is no guarantee that it will remain unexpressed in these plants or during digestion by animals or humans."70
Barnase may damage human health
Because barnase is known to cause kidney damage in rats, degrade RNA, and be toxic to human cells, its presence in food may lead to a wide range of potential problems. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Some 3,000 chemicals are added to the food supply, and as many as 10,000 chemicals in the form of solvents, emulsifiers, and preservatives are used in food processing and storage. Many of these toxins can remain in the body for years.4
To make matters worse, there's no way food and product labels can list every possible contaminant. When you consume many foods—especially seafood, meat, poultry, and dairy products—you're ingesting all the chemicals and pesticides that have accumulated as contaminants in the food chain. |
Mark Lynas
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 However, when compared to Africa and Asia - which lose a third of their food supply in the study mentioned above - the higher latitudes would escape relatively lightly. But summer heatwaves in the boreal forest region of Canada would also add to the risk of wildfire outbreaks: one study of fire risk in a tripled-COz climate projects a doubling of the area burned, with 3.8 million hectares reduced to smoke and ashes, each year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When they have a downer cow, they put it into the grinder, the same as any other downer cow, and then they tell us, "This cow didn't make it into the food supply. Don't worry. You're safe, and your pets are safe. None of this is in the food supply! Don't worry about it!"
The other relevant fact here is that cows are moved across the country. A cow could be born in one state, fed in another state, weighed in another state and then slaughtered somewhere else. All they know is that this cow, at some point in its life, was a Texas cow. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The new rule is another case of the public being deprived the opportunity to intelligently choose their food supply," said Jimbo Someck, who owns and operates four of the country’s leading independent natural food stores, in the San Diego area.
The new regulation to sterilize almonds coincides with the recent announcement by the Food and Drug Administration that it intends to relax its labeling requirements for irradiated food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is a fascinating sign of the times when the authorities in charge of the food supply seem dead set on making foods as nutritionally worthless as possible.
Online resources for taking action
Organic Pastures www.OrganicPastures.com
160 acres of almonds, they can sell you raw almonds directly (and they're also into raw milk).
Good folks. Highly recommended. May be one of the few remaining sources of truly raw almonds in California.
Living Nuts www.LivingNutz.com
They have great information about raw almonds, plus an online petition. Sign their petition! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The new rules requiring all California almonds to be pasteurized would also place a heavy financial burden on small growers and family farms, ultimately putting many of them out of business, further concentrating control of the food supply in the hands of a few powerful corporations.
The Cornucopia Institute is concerned about the general trend towards the secretive processing of foods with chemicals or radiation, without honest labeling. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On top of this, our hospitals are actually breeding antibiotic-resistant superbugs through the rampant abuse of antibiotics, and our food supply has very little safety oversight (as we've seen with deadly bacterial contaminations of peanut butter, spinach, onions and other food items over the past two years). There's also mad cow disease, which can easily pass to humans through beef products, and which cannot be killed by cooking the meat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's at risk: the future of human life on planet Earth
In this cartoon, the farmer character is fretting over something the entire human race is going to suddenly realize one day: Playing God with seeds and the food supply for the purpose of extracting maximum corporate profits is to plae the very future of humankind at extreme risk. Suppose the terminator gene crops somehow cross-pollinate staple food crops that now feed the world... what happens then? Imagine all the wheat grown in the United States suddenly self-destructing after a single growing season. |
| Yet food companies have removed it from the food supply and promoted "seedless grapes" as a benefit to consumers! (Of course, grape skins also contain powerful medicine called resveratrol, but grape seeds contain different medicines called proanthocyanidins and PCOs, which you can read about at the Physician's Desk Reference). |
| If you buy seedless watermelons, or seedless grapes, or GM soy products, you're already supporting the corporations that are altering the food supply. Seedless grapes are not natural, and they remove the very part of the grape that contains powerful cardiovascular medicine. Have you ever heard of the nutritional supplement called grape seed extract? Guess where it comes from? ... Grape seeds, of course. It's some of the best cardiovascular medicine known to modern science, far more potent than any prescription drug, yet with zero negative side effects. |
| REPPED: Corporations like Monsanto are playing God with the food supply. Did you ever wonder what happens when all the genetically modified, pesticide-compatible, gene-terminated, laboratory-concocted Frankenfoods end up genetically contaminating the natural crops we depend on for a sustainable food future? In a new CounterThink cartoon published today, I explore this important concept by showing the plight of a farmer fretting over an empty bag of seedless watermelon seeds.
You may find this surprising to learn, but U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why should this ingredient continue to be allowed in the food supply? In an honest system of food safety regulation, wouldn't you think that cancer-causing chemicals would be banned? If our national leaders really want health care reform, they should outlaw known cancer-causing chemicals like sodium nitrite, sodium benzoate, artificial food colors, aspartame, monosodium glutamate and others.
After all, we're talking about health care costs here, right? |
David R. Montgomery
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 Arrival of Western missionaries upset the balance between Tikopia's human population and its food supply. In just two decades the island's population shot up by 40 percent after missionaries ourlawed traditional population controls. When cyclones wiped out half the island's crops in two successive years, only a massive relief effort prevented famine. Afterward, the islanders restored the policy of zero population growth, this time based on the more Western practice of sending settlers off to colonize other islands. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The USDA only bans cow brains being used in the human food supply when they come from cows over the age of 30 months. Cow brains are listed right on the label for some headcheese products, but there is no law requiring them to be listed when used to make ingredients like beef broth or beef flavoring (yum!). Got the picture? Water runoff from boiled beef brains, plus MSG. That's beef broth, folks.
Most cow brains actually end up in pet food. That may be one reason why Fido seems smarter (and healthier) than the average U.S. beef eater. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| A Century of Change in America's Eating Patterns: Major Trends in U.S. food supply, 1909-99." http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/foodreview/ jan2000/frjan2000b.pdf.
-. "Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook—Summary," May 20, 2004, ERS-SSS-240. Approved by the World Agricultural Outlook Board, http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/erssor/specialty/ sss-bb/2004/sss240s.txt.
United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. "Briefing Room—Sugar and Sweeteners." http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Sugar/.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And we need to be honest and say, look, these are the foods that are causing disease in this country, and that if we are going to be a disease-free nation, we've got to stop trying to find new synthetic chemicals to mask symptoms of disease, and stop poisoning ourselves with the food supply. We've got to ban toxic ingredients like hydrogenated oils. They should have no place whatsoever in the food supply. We've got to outlaw things like homogenized milk fats, because of the way they promote atherosclerosis and cardiovascular heart disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And this isn't even to mention the food supply yet, because the food supply in the average American household contains yet more toxic chemicals. But of course, that's for another article altogether.
So what do you do about all of this? Some people say to me "Mike, you sure are paranoid about all these products." Not really, only the ones that cause cancer and other chronic diseases. I'm fine with all the other products. The thing is, you can't find those healthy products at your regular convenience store or grocery store. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 His words were "I can't believe terrorists haven't attacked the food supply yet."
But who needs terrorists when we've already got a food supply that is accelerating the deaths of literally millions of Americans each year? The toxic additives and ingredients found in our foods are directly causing chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. They're even causing mental disorders (ADHD, depression) while creating unstable mental conditions that lead to violent, aggressive behavior, especially in young males. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The book revealed that the powerful pesticide DDT was not just killing insects, but irrevocably harming birds and wildlife and contaminating the entire world food supply. The chemical industry viciously attacked Carson, but her book held up to scientific scrutiny and led to the eventual ban of DDT in the US. A decade later, the human consequences of the chemical problem were broadcast to the world from the town of Love Canal, New York.
Lois Gibbs was living the typical American dream, except that her kids were sick. |
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