Is a new Chernobyl waiting within your body?
By Jim Marrs
Date: 12/14/2000
URL: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/200012140001.cfm
A contaminated Chernobyl
Anyone remember Thalidomide? DDT? "Our Friend the Atom" nuclear power?
All these are examples of technology prematurely made public with horrifying
consequences.
Thalidomide was a mild sedative available to women beginning in the late
1950s. When it was discovered that the drug affected embryos in early
pregnancy resulting in numerous birth defects, it was belatedly withdrawn.
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) for years was sold to farmers as a safe
way to rid crops of pests until it was found that accumulated doses of the
chemical had found its way into the food chain causing health problems in
humans. The U.S. Government finally restricted the use of DDT in 1972.
Nuclear power, pressed on the American public following passage of the
Price-Anderson Act which absolved the nuclear industry of any real liability
in the event of a catastrophe, finally fell into disrepute following a series
of nuclear disasters including Love Canal and the Chernobyl plant near Kiev
in Russia.
With the advent of the virtually unsupervised development of new genetically
engineered food products, we may be creating a potential biological Chernobyl
within our bodies.
Genetic engineers used a germ known as a "viral promoter" to trick a cell
into accepting an alien gene into its own DNA. But these invasive agents can
lead to the creation of viral infections immune to antibiotics as well as
new, unknown infectious diseases.
Once again, the American public obviously suffers short-term memory loss
thanks to the distracting corporate news media that is oblivious to the
encroachment of genetically altered substances harmful to our health and even
our future descendants.
One person who is not oblivious is Dr. John Hagelin, the nuclear physicist
who was the Natural Law Party presidential candidate in the recent election.
Hagelin was prepared to also take the Reform Party candidacy and thus produce
a truly significant third-party coalition, but was ousted by Pat Buchanan
after a series of court maneuvers.
On November 28, instead of resting from his campaigning, Hagelin addressed
the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) of the Environmental Protection Agency. The panel met
to consider the effects of StarLink corn, a brand of genetically engineered
corn not yet approved by the EPA.
"I want to address an issue much deeper than whether the CRY9C protein in
StarLink corn is likely to be allergenic," Hagelin told the panel. "I want to
address the assumptions that underlie the entire agricultural bioengineering
enterprise. I am deeply concerned that life scientists are implementing
bioengineering technologies without adequately understanding the lessons we
have learned . . .
"Numerous eminent molecular biologists recognize that DNA is a complex
nonlinear system and that splicing foreign genes into the DNA of a
food-yielding organism can cause unpredictable side effects that could harm
the health of the human consumer.
"Yet, the genetic engineering of our food – and the widespread presence of
genetically altered foods in American supermarkets – is based on the premise
that the effects of gene-splicing are so predictable that all bioengineered
food can be presumed safe unless proven otherwise. This refusal to recognize
the risks of unintended and essentially unpredictable negative side effects
is just plain bad science…
"Moreover, the premise of predictability is not just scientifically unsound;
it is morally irresponsible. The safety of our food is being put at risk in a
cavalier, if not callous fashion, not only in disregard of scientific
knowledge, but in disregard of recent technological history."
Hagelin noted that with the advent of nuclear energy came the sale of radium
tipped wands designed to painlessly remove facial hair only to be quickly
withdrawn once users began suffering skin cancers.
"In the case of genetic engineering, even greater caution is called for,"
warned Hagelin. "A nuclear disaster only lasts 10,000 years, whereas gene
pollution is forever - self-perpetuating and irreversible."
Hagelin clearly pointed the finger at the corporations, who in their pursuit
of profits denigrated any thought of public safety. "The irresponsible
behavior that permitted the marketing of bioengineered foods has not been
limited to the scientific community, but includes the executive branch of the
federal government," he said. "The FDA’s internal records reveal that its own
experts clearly recognized the potential for gene-splicing to induce
production of unpredicted toxins and carcinogens in the resultant food. These
same records reveal that these warnings were covered up by FDA political
appointees operating under a White House directive to promote the biotech
industry."
Taco shells made from StarLink corn
(AP Photo)
It was noted that genetically altered StarLink corn, though not yet approved
by the EPA, was being sold in supermarkets nationwide. "The StarLink fiasco
further demonstrates the shoddiness of the government’s regulation, since the
system failed to keep even an unapproved bioengineered crop out of our food,"
Hagelin charged, adding, "Indeed, the contamination was discovered not by the
government, but by public interest groups . . .
"This incident also demonstrates how difficult it will be to remove a
bioengineered product from our food supply if it is eventually found to be
harmful and, therefore, how important it is to prevent the introduction of
new ones and to phase out those currently in use."
How are such potentially disastrous decisions made within the government that
is supposed to watch out for the public’s best interest?
Dr. Don Lovejoy writing in The Providence Journal, noted how a recombinant
cattle growth hormone (rBGH) was "approved" by the government:
"A Monsanto lawyer drafted a letter to the FDA to get rBGH approved. He then
stepped down from Monsanto and took an appointment as FDA deputy commissioner
for policy. He then opened his own letter and helped draft the FDA’s 1992
policy on genetically engineered food and rBGH. The law that followed, in
true violation of First Amendment rights, states that it is illegal to say
rBGH is in milk and it’s illegal to state that it’s not in milk. The lawyer
returned to corporate life and became Monsanto’s vice president for public
policy."
And who headed the administration which either went along with or initiated
this travesty of public service? Why, the impeached Bill Clinton and "Mr.
Environment" Al Gore, both recipients of "campaign contributions" from home
folks and foreigners alike who paid for a stay in their White House.
While the mass media has our attention focused on the outcome of an election
which is essentially meaningless considering that both candidates are
controlled by the same interests and that a 50-50 split Congress will be
stalemated on any issue, control over the purity of the food we consume has
been passed to the same corporate interests which have proven so shortsighted
in the past.
To learn more about the people who control the corporations which control our
lives, read Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects The Trilateral
Commission, The Freemasons and The Great Pyramid by Jim Marrs, now available
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