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


GMO
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:

(13) 
Toxic Oil Syndrome (very
probably)



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
the
Biotechnology corporation -- successfully without any doubt
--  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

Toxic Oil Syndrome

  Apparently
the first GMO disease epidemic took place in Spain in
1981.   20,000
persons were affected, and over 300 died shortly after the onset of the
epidemic.  How many have died since then as a proximate result
of Toxic
Oil Syndrome (TOS), I do not know.

As
always,  scientists and the corporate media have turned a
blind eye to
evidence that TOS was GMO-induced.  Back in 1981, an early
year for GM,
it may have been forgivable.  But certainly not after 1989
when the
GM-Tryptophan epidemic hit the USA and other countries. 

Some
scientific literature on Toxic Oil Syndrome even mentions the
GM-Tryptophan-caused Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome (EMS), due to the
similarity in key medical symptoms, but in no case do scientists
breathe into the public air the dreaded term "Genetic Engineering".

What reasons underpin a "very
probable" status for Toxic Oil Syndrome as a genetically-engineered
disease epidemic?

1.  Rapeseed
Oil
---  The source of the epidemic was traced to the consumption
of
rapeseed oil (oilseed rape, canola).  Today, rapeseed oil is
one of the
big 4 GM crops -- together with maize (corn), soya, and cotton.

Rapeseed oil was first genetically engineered in 1974, seven years
prior to the TOS outbreak in 1981.

2. 
Medical symptoms -- Toxic Oil Syndrome, like
GM-Tryptophan's EMS, featured a
range of chronic symptoms following the acute stage.

TOS
was characterised by multiple-organ diseases, like EMS. (Genetic
Engineering has the capacity to do this, apparently by attacking
forcefully the central nervous system).
 
CHRONIC MYALGIA
(myalgia: muscle pain) was characteristic of TOS, as of course was the
case with Eosinophilia MYALGIA Syndrome.  And other symptoms
of TOS
remind of EMS.

3.  Like Eosinophilia
Myalgia Syndrome,  Toxic Oil Syndrome is new to science, a
previously unrecorded condition.

4.  Experimental
studies have failed to reproduce symptoms of human TOS.  (Try
gene-splicing, fellas, and you may get closer.)

5.  The
first cases of Toxic Oil Syndrome occurred in Madrid near the Torrejon U.S. Military base.

Comment:
   A genetically modified
organism
 may
have come out of that U.S. military base, accidentally or purposely as
an experiment.  The U.S. government has been secretly
conducting a
variety of illegal experiments on civilian populations for 50
years. 

6. 
This is quite important --- Great secrecy surrounded the official
investigations into Toxic Oil Syndrome, fueling Spanish suspicions of a
conspiracy and cover-up.

Of considerable
significance, independent investigators were met with Government
repression. 

There
was a definite cover-up, and, to my mind, ONLY  a Genetic
Engineering
involvement in TOS could  have caused  such secrecy
and repression of
what appeared offhand to be a simple case of 
food-poisoning. 

Notice
how governments, especially those of the U.S.and UK, have a horror of
independent and honest public inquiries into disasters.  Guess
why.

The
Spanish Government's official explanation of "impure" (for industrial
use did they say?) rapeseed oil accidentally getting onto the market,
was of course the usual whitewash.


["The
Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome 20 Years After its Onset: A
Multidisciplinary Review of Scientific Knowledge", Emilio Gelpi et
al, 
Environmental Health Perspectivies, vol. 110, no. 5, May
2002;  re
origin of GM rapeseed oil,  "Canola---Canola's Oil Spill Onto
the
American Market", Janet Allen, www.rense.com/politics6/canola.htm]

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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