Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
Concerned Citizens Information Network
www.ccin.info  (environmental website)
www.MyronStagman.com
email:  artemesium@gmail.com


GMO
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:
(3)  Aspartame artificial sweetener


I. 
The Face of Frankenstein's Monster

Genetic
Engineering Biotechnology (GE, GM, GMOs) evades Evolution's safeguards
by injecting genes of one species into a totally unrelated species,
something impossible in Nature.

GM evades Evolution's safeguards, and may therefore give rise to PATHOGENS that can
-- and HAVE, many times --  caused crippling and deadly
DISEASE EPIDEMICS -- documented but unpublicised.

Genetic Engineering is also ideal for developing horrific biological
and other military weapons --- sufficient cause to OUTLAW GM.

The Greatest Racket in History (Listen to this !): ---

GM contamination is virulent, spread by wind, bird, insect, animals and
travelling  human beings.  Co-Existence with GM is
completely impossible, only fools or liars would say differently.

GM
has contaminated  crops in areas of North America which dwarf
the UK
and even Western Europe.   Planetary contamination is
inevitable, if We
don't stop it.

The Biotechnology corporations know oh-so-well how contamination
spreads and spreads and spreads.

Now
get this:   Through their political influence, these
Corporations have
been able to acquire the obscene, sacrilegious, and indeed revolutionary 
PATENTS on LIFE-FORMS.

Before
these revolutionary Patents on Life,  a farmer could have sued
--
successfully without any doubt -- the Biotechnology corporation for
having contaminated, poisoned his crops.

However, given these Patents on Life (here, on the seeds), the
Corporation can -- and DOES, successfully -- sue the
victimised farmer for (Hold your nose) "infringement of patent".

[Our tainted, corrupted
political systems allow this monstrosity.]

Thus the formula the reader might keep in mind:
GM Contamination + Patents on Life-Forms  equals Corporate
Ownership Rights in the crops of victimised farmers.

This formula spells the
serfdom and ruin of all small family farmers on this planet. 
(They are the majority of the population in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America).

The
Chemical-Drug-Biotechnology syndicate and its Enforcers (corrupted
governments in the West and Third World, corporation-dominated
organisations like the WTO, World Bank, IMF) have started a WORLDWIDE
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION.

They want to destroy small family farming, and have only gigantic
Corporate GM Plantations with farmers working as serfs.
 
[This
process is underway, especially in South America where the U.S.
Military has begun to intervene on behalf of GM Plantations to crush
farmer opposition.]

Already, according to the Research Foundation for Science, Technology
and Ecology (RFSTE) in New Delhi,  40,000
farmers in India have committed suicide
primarily as a result of the Corporate Enforcers' so-called "free
trade" policies --- dumping heavily-subsidised Western farm produce
onto glutted Indian markets, pushing GM crops, insisting that Patents
on Life-Forms be accepted so farmers must sign contracts with GM
Corporations and can no longer save seeds, etc.

The Greatest
Racket in History --- GM Contamination + Patents on Life-Forms equals
Corporate Proprietary Rights in the crops of victimised farmers, and
spells the serdom and ruin of small family farmers everywhere on this
planet.

We
MUST OUTLAW GM and PATENTS on LIFE-FORMS -- or else !! 

(e.g. No more organic, healthy food --- you and your children will only
be able to eat unsafe GM) 

See the Action Plan in Part III designed to OUTLAW GM and PATENTS on
LIFE-FORMS. 
But beforehand, read the next in our series of GMO Disease
Epidemics. 

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II.  
GMO Disease Epidemics: 
ASPARTAME artificial
sweetener

This artificial sweetener bears no resemblance to 'saccharin' and
'sucaryl'. A well-known
carcinogenic neurotoxin,
Aspartame has been linked to cancer, paralysis, blindness, diabetes,
cardiac arrest, not to mention death.

In the United States, where the New Mexico legislature is currently
discussing a proposal to ban Aspartame, the
neurotoxin is found in 6,000 products consumed by 70% of Americans.

A bill to ban aspartame is currently in the British Parliament also,
sponsored by Roger Williams MP.

In this sordid age of the crudest Money Politics, to have a legislature
go so far as to consider banning a tremendous moneymaker, well, that
product must be a science fiction-like horror.  And Aspartame
evidently
IS. 

The first paragraph may have given a somewhat jolting introduction to
the subject.
Let's elaborate a bit.

U.S.
Government FDA (Food and Drug Administration) scientists stood
steadfast over the years against approving Aspartame for the
market. 
It was only the roughest political pull and Money Politics that got
this Monsanto product  through.
(See, for example, Jeffrey M. Smith's Seeds of Deception: Exposing
Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of Genetically Engineered
Foods You are Eating)

The following is the virtual list released by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services back in 1994 of over 92 disease symptoms
associated with Aspartame consumption (and it's still on
the market in 2006 !!).  

Note: 
the reader might be on the lookout for things like "seizures" and
"death" -- they can  get lost in such a list as we now put
forward.
Here we go, in alphabetical order:

abdominal
pain,  anxiety attacks,  arthritis, 
asthma,  bloating (edema, fluid
retention),  blood sugar control problems (hypoglycemia or
hyperglycemia),  brain cancer (pre-approval study in
animals), 
breathing diifficulties,  burning eyes or throat, 
burning urination
(that might well piss anybody off),  chest pains, 
chronic cough, 
Chronic Fatigue,  confusion and inability to think
straight,   death,  
depression,  diarrhea, dizziness,  excessive thirst
or hunger, 
fatigue,  feelings of unreality,  flushing of
face,  hair loss
(thinning of hair or baldness), 
headaches,   hearing loss
..............

(Let's take a breather.  Imagine what a list like this could
do for a hypochondriac !   OK,  we continue.)

heart
palpitations,   high blood pressure, hives, 
impotency and sexual
problems,  inability to concentrate,  
infection susceptibility, 
insomnia,  itching,  joint pains, 
laryngitis,  memory loss,  menstrual
problems or changes,  muscle spasms,  nausea or
vomiting,  numbness or
tingling of extremities,  panic attacks,  rapid
heartbeat,  rashes, 
seizures and convulsions,  slurring of
speech,   swallowing pain, 
tremors,  tinnitis (ringing in the ears),  vision
loss, and weight gain.

Yes,
Aspartame is still
on the market !!

That
list was published in February, 1994.  Since then, much more
evidence
has arrived damning Aspartame.  Most recently, a study
accepted for
publication by the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health
Perspectives (EHP) of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
(published November 2005),  states that Aspartame is a
"multipotential
carcinogenic [i.e. can cause Cancer] compound".

SO, this
"multipotential carcinogenic compound" is found in more than 6,000
products, and CANCER is a world-class killer.  Can anyone see
a
connection?

Note that this disease-fomenting artificial
sweetener infests carbonated and powdered soft drinks, hot chocolate,
chewing gum, CANDY, DESSERTS, yogurt and tabletop sweeteners as well as
some pharmaceutical products like vitamins and sugar-free cough
drops. 


More than 200 million
people worldwide consume it.  Any wonder that
Disease, Hospitalisation and Cancer are growth industies when stuff
like this pervades our supermarkets?

 
Question:  Why can Aspartame do what
no other artificial sweetener could conceivably dream of doing in a
million years? 

Answer: 
Because it is GENETICALLY
ENGINEERED.

Comment:  
Although genetically engineered,  Aspartame still seems to
accomplish
horrors above-and-beyond the call of normal duty for
GMOs.   Why?

Of course, people consume a lot of it over time, and are subject to the
cumulative effect
(as with synthetic chemicals and radiation). 
The so-called "daily allowable intake" was always a pseudo-scientific
lie, corporate propaganda blathered by a bought political system and
pay-for-hire 'scientists'.

Additionally, I would say that one basic reason is Aspartame's
appearing primarily in processed
foods.  PROCESSED
foods. 

You see, the genetic engineering process is always liable to fabricate disease-inducing PATHOGENS. 
And, independent of the Aspartame, all (non-organic) processed
foods (I can no longer find an exception) contain at least one GMO, and
often more than one.

Then  genetically-engineered Aspartame enters what is already
a potentially bad compound, and you can get the dreaded "cocktail"
effect of poison interacting with other poisons. 


Be that as it may,  one conclusion ought to be obvious enough
concerning Aspartame and all genetically-engineered things--- We ban Them, or They ban Us !


Note: 
By the way, people report that after they spotted the problem, and
eliminated this GM artificial sweetener from their diet,  they
de-toxified and indeed got better.   Victims of
genetically-engineered
insulin reported the same.


[A few source references:  Dr. John B. Fagan's genetic
identification of Aspartame;
Seeds of Deception: 
Exposing Industry and
Government Lies About the Genetically Engineered Foods You are Eating,
by Jeffrey M. Smith, 2003;
 "Aspartame -- the BAD news !" by Mark Gold, www.dorway.com;
 
[AND signal
mention must be made of the tireless and courageous efforts of Dr.
Betty Martini via lecturing and writing and lobbying.  This
campaigning
doctor is not an MD, and definitely not one of the legion of medical
doctors who habitually ignore public health while busy counting their
money.

Yet I must add that she has been silent about or
downplayed the fact that Aspartame is genetically engineered, in my
view badly damaging her own cause, and certainly failing to assist
anti-GMO campaigning.

Speculation:  She has been the victim
of what appears to be a combined Monsanto-Government cabal against her,
and soft-pedaling the GMO connection may have been the price she paid
to lead a hectic yet still liveable existence. 
On the other hand, perhaps she simply feels that stressing the GMO
connection is not good strategy. 
She refuses to answer me, so I kinda feel the former explanation rings
true.]


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III.  Conclusion
and What To Do

Human beings and Nature, as we have known them, cannot
survive in a GMO-Frankenstein world.  

The nightmare technology of Genetic Engineering Biotechnology, and its
incestuous Patents on Life-Forms, must be OUTLAWED.


How To Do It?

There is only one way to overcome this extremely powerful, 
ruthless Corporation-Government-corporate Mass Media axis.

It
is to conduct grassroots Public Education Campaigns to educate and
politically activate the General Public, university / college students
in particular.

The General
Public
!!   Stop forever talking to the Converted. 
To get around the
corporate media's suppression and distortion of truth,  one
must talk
to people and go
door-to-door with leaflets and vocal messages. 
And major efforts must be made to inform and activate university students.

Important Hints: 

(1)   Concentrate on  university students. 


 And  senior
citizens.
   
I
speak to you now, elder citizens like
myself.    Put moral purpose into
your lives and help rescue this planet and your grandchildren.

(2)   AVOID
NGOs and all established organisations, especially large ones. 
They are not what they seem.

Their hierarchies and decision-making are corporation-influenced if not
outright purchased.

Never ever join
them.  Never ever give them Money.  


  [see George Monbiot's very important article in The Guardian,  4
September 2001, "Sleeping
with the Enemy:  Consumer and Environmental Groups are Getting
into Bed with Big Corporations]

[Note: In
developing countries there are some exceptions, but very very very few
in the West. If by a miracle one of them ever conducts a genuine and
sensible public education campaign, then you can help out. 
But NEVER
join or give money to them.]

The environmental field especially is riddled with wealthy, prestigious, deceptive
organisations adept at dilutng and derailing environmental
causes,  GM in particular. 

[I am thinking at this moment of one such organisation I have observed
over a long period of time, in my view a very slick and dangerous FOE
of environmentalism, originally created by polluting Corporations to
deal with the growing environmental movement.
Don't go anywhere
near this one.]

When they talk about being 'practical' and seeking 'Coexistence'
with GM,  let a red
flag go up.

Nothing short of OUTLAWING GENETIC ENGINEERING and PATENTS ON
LIFE-FORMS will save us and our planet.

Do your educational work
as individuals or in small groups of people you know.

In a little of your
SPARETIME (perhaps 3 or 4 hours a week, but regularly, as part of an
ethical life-style):

Educate and activate
the Public by writing and telephoning and just talking to your family
members, friends and acquantances; 

Write letters and make telephone calls to local, regional and national
media; 

Write, call and especially visit your legislative representatives and
other government personnel,  and

Take appropriate Direct
Action.


Good Luck to You.

P.S. 
For a detailed Action Plan on conducting education/activation campaigns
(e.g. composing A4 leaflets for distribution, lobbying your legislative
representative) see "Creating a Grassroots Democracy While Outlawing
Genetic Engineering"currently on the Indymedia Biotech
website.  Or
email me and request it.
 
For extensive information on
the casualties and unprecedented dangers of Genetic Engineering, see
"Genetic Engineering Fact-Sheet" on the website of the Concerned
Citizens Information Network,  www.ccin.info