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GMO Disease Epidemics: (12) Mystery Diseases: Nature

Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD | 16.08.2006 15:40 | Bio-technology | Health | World

Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 12th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with so-called "mystery" diseases afflicting Nature during this terrible -- and worsening -- GMO era.



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


GMO
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:

(12) 
Mystery Diseases:  Nature



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.  Genetically-Engineered
"Mystery"
Diseases:  Nature

[Note:  This article only begins like
the earlier "Mystery Disease epidemics -- Human Health".]


At least 50 new viruses attacking human health 
emerged between 1988 and 1996.
       [Institute
for Science in Society]

Laboratory
tests show that the genetic engineering process can produce novel
viruses.

- - - - - - - - - -

The Philippines.  
"Scientists Suspect
Health Threat from GM Corn" (The Guardian, 28
February 2004)
 
 "Scientists 
investigating a spate of illnesses among people living close to GM
fields in the Philippines believe that the crop may have triggered
fevers, respiratory illnesses and skin reactions."

[Continuing to quote from the above article on the Philippines]
:
"His team [that of Terjee Traavik, scientific director of the Norwegian
Institute of Gene Ecology} also said it had found genetically
engineered viruses used in the GM process recombined with natural
viruses to create new hybrid viruses with
unpredictable characteristics..  It confirmed
this could suggest that they could
cause new diseases."


"Could cause new diseases"
such as   
California's Poison Oak
Death?  The mysterious disease that
caused 95% of Florida's
elkhorn coral
to die in a short period of time? The 50 new viruses that emerged
between 1988 and 1996?  The new viruses which have emerged
since 1996?

- - - - - - -

 
Threats
to Nature, our Natural Environment
 
"At
current rates of conservation and deforestation and other forms of
environmental destruction, at least one-fifth of species of plants and
animals would be gone or committed to early extinction by 2030, and
one-half by the end of the century."  --  The Future
of Life, Edward O. Wilson, 2002. 
Professor Wilson, of Harvard University, may be the foremost
authority on endangered ecosystems.

Please keep this quotation in mind when reading the following:

- - - - - - - - - -

Mass Deaths of Monarch
Butterflies

 "An example of what can happen when genetically
modified crops are introduced was reported in May [1999] in the United
States. 
Pollen from corn into which a toxin called Bt had been genetically
engineered, killed nearly half the monarch butterfly caterpillars
[that] fed on it in a test at Cornell University."
       [International Herald Tribune,
5 August 1999, "Genetically Modified Food Alarmingly Out of Control"]

- - - - - - - - -

Genetically-engineered Bt
cotton killed 30% of the bees in the fields
when field-tested in
Thailand.     
     [Institute for Science in
Society, London]

-- - - - - - - - - -

Poison
Oak Death
--- a mysterious environmental plague
 
   Excerpts from a New
York Times editorial of October 5, 2002, entitled "The
Dying Oaks of California":   
"The forests and woodlands of America conceal a landscape of loss. . .
.the most volatile and in some ways the most frightening scourge of
trees at the moment is Sudden Oak Death, which has killed tens of
thousands of oaks in coastal California in just a few years. . . .
Sudden Oak Death first appeared in California in the mid-1990's.
. . . The potential economic damage is enormous. . . . Even now,
California is facing significant agricultural quarantine.. . .
.   No one yet knows where Phytophthora
ramorum came from or how this cycle of tree
sickness began.. . . . Phytophthora ramorum
itself is new to science."
 
The words I have emphasized above could also be said about
GM-Tryptophan-caused Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome (EMS). 

The 
obvious question we ought to be asking:  Is Phytophthora
ramorum and
Sudden Oak Death related to a GMO, perhaps causing a
mutation?  (There
has been much experimentation with genetically-engineered
trees in the United States, California in particular. That
may well be your answer.)

Poison Oak Death has
now reached northward into Oregon.

- - - - - - - - - -

 
International Herald Tribune, 26
December 1996.  "Disease Attacks Florida
Keys".  Over 95% of the Elkhorn coral
have died in a short period of time from a mysterious disease.

- - - - - - - - - -

Comment: 
If one evades Evolution's safeguards, the emergence of 'unexpected'
pathogens is precisely what Nature tells us is bound to happen. 


This is occurring again and again and again, and will continue until we
OUTLAW this nightmare
technology.

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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

Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD
- e-mail: artemesium@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.ccin.info