FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR
FOOD SUPPLY
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
August 24, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
On Friday, August 18,
2006, the FDA
approved a viral cocktail to be sprayed on foods we eat. This is the
first time viruses have been approved for use as food additives. The FDA
wants you to believe it will be safe to consume these viruses every day
for the rest of your life with no adverse health effects. This is a
monumental announcement by the FDA, indicating they are throwing all
caution to the wind regarding the safety of our food supply.
Are you willing to
stand in line for a virus-laden sandwich? How do you like the idea of
buying virus-infested food for your family? The first virally contaminated
foods entering our food supply with the blessings of the FDA
will be luncheon meat and poultry. Live viruses will be sprayed on
foods such as cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and chicken.
At issue is the very
real problem of a poor quality FDA-approved food supply that is already
full of diseased and sickly animals, many of them imported from other
countries. The use of antibiotics during growth and radiation during food
processing is required by the fast-food animal farms owned by
multi-national companies to cover up the horrendous health of the animals
they wish to feed to Americans. Animals in poor health are a friendly
place for bacteria to grow and prosper, especially after such meat goes to
market. Rather than address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to
add another adulteration into our food supply.
The stated goal of the
new FDA-approved viruses is to kill a rare bacterium known as Listeria
monocytogenes. This bacterium is killed by cooking; however, it poses
a problem in meats that are cooked during processing and not cooked again
prior to consumption, so it can readily infect foods such as deli meats.
Yes, the FDA plans to
use one infectious organism to fight another. The carnage of battle will
end up in your digestive tract along with the victorious live viruses,
which the FDA assures us will not attack human cells. However, they cannot
possibly be certain the viruses will not attack the friendly bacteria that
make up the lining of your digestive tract. The FDA approval
was based on scant human testing, mostly from unrelated medical
experiments. Such safety data is woefully inadequate to determine safe
ingestion of a specific product by humans over the course of a lifetime.
Turning Loose the
Bacteria-Killing Viruses
The company that
produces these biotech viruses is Baltimore-based Intralytix,
Inc. The viruses are known as bacteriophages, viruses that kill
bacteria, or phages for short. Phages have been around a long time, living
as parasites inside many bacteria.
Intralytix uses
biotechnology to grow viral phages in a culture with Listeria, in
theory teaching the viruses to recognize the bacteria. The FDA-approved
cocktail contains six different viruses intended to attack one strain of
bacteria.
This concoction is
then sprayed on food. If Listeria is present in the food, the
bacteria will ingest the viruses. This results in massive viral
replication inside the bacteria, until such point as the bacteria simply
bursts. This battle results in significant production of bacterial poisons
called “endotoxins”, as the bacteria tries to defend itself. When the
bacteria burst, these endotoxins are released. These, along with the
victorious live viruses, will now be on the food that will be eaten.
The FDA and Intralytix
would like us to believe that these viruses will only attack the specified
bacteria they are intended to kill and will be harmless to humans. I’m
sorry to burst their bubble, but they can’t possibly guarantee such
safety. It is true that the viruses, at least at this time, cannot
recognize human cells. However, the virus can potentially recognize normal
bacterial cells in the human digestive tract and may be able to adapt to
infect one or more of these friendly bacteria.
The FDA Certainly
Knows There Are Risks
The FDA had some
concerns about the amount of bacterial endotoxin in the Intralytix product
before it is sprayed; however, FDA tests apparently showed that the
product was adequately purified and so they declared it safe if used as
approved. Will the FDA diligently monitor the quality of this product once
it is on the market, or will it go the path of many FDA-approved drugs
that the agency can’t keep track of?
There is certainly a
risk that humans will be exposed to excessive amounts of endotoxin. This
could come from the manufacturing of the viral cocktail, the interaction
of the viruses with bacteria after being sprayed on food, and/or the
interaction of the viruses with bacteria in the digestive tract.
Additionally, the
human immune system reacts directly to viral phages. Thus, a person who
eats a lot of processed deli meat is certain to evoke an immune reaction
to the viruses. What will this reaction be? Allergy? Asthma? Autoimmunity?
Cancer? How can the FDA approve a food additive that it knows can induce a
variety of human immune responses? Phages are so good at disrupting normal
immunity that they are being considered for use as part of organ
transplant medicine.
The ingestion of
significant amounts of viral phages into the human digestive tract is a
wild card full of unknown outcomes. For example, it is certainly possible
that these phages, which constantly mutate in order to survive, are likely
to find a way to infect bacteria they were not intended to infect. Since
phages are parasites, they could hijack the friendly bacteria of the
digestive tract and turn them into viral machines, constantly generating
viral particles that are likely to confuse the human immune system, if not
directly infect the body. We know from history that these viral phages can
turn innocuous bacteria into a killer, which is how cholera occurs.
Furthermore, the Listeria
bacteria are not going to take the issue lying down. They will develop
resistance to the viruses over time, as we have seen with the overuse of
antibiotics. Going down this path we are likely to have hundreds of viral
food additives in the food we eat, all designed to combat some possible
infection coming from poor quality food. Sooner or later we will
inadvertently create deadly new super-strains of bacteria and/or
parasitically infect the human digestive tract with an untreatable
infection.
There is also the very
real possibility of unintended viral recombination. What happens when a
person with viral stomach flu eats food containing a dose of this viral
food additive? It is certainly possible for the genetic material of the
flu virus to interact with the genetic material of the viral phages,
provoking an undesirable new viral infection.
Let’s not forget
that the FDA won’t tell us which foods in the food supply contain
genetically modified organisms (GMO). Seventy percent of the packaged food
on grocery shelves already contains GMO adulterated food. These foods have
viral promoter genes woven into the DNA of every cell, a technique used to
implant a pesticide toxin into every cell of this fake food (see Fight
for Your Health, chapter 15). What happens when the viral phages
interact with the viral promoter genes in GMO food? What new virus will be
encouraged to form?
Keep in mind that the
FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food supply to protect a small
minority, only about 2500 people, who are made seriously ill by this
infection each year. The ill are mostly pregnant women, elderly with
compromised immunity, and small children. It would be a lot more to the
point if the FDA would simply warn such people that eating these foods,
due to their poor quality of production, may be dangerous. What the FDA
should really do is improve the quality of our food supply, the true
source of the problem. Why expose millions of Americans to an unproven
ingestion of live viruses for the benefit of so few?
The FDA has failed
miserably for the past century to protect the public from the adulteration
of our food supply by vested interests. This is just one more insult added
to a long list of injuries.
The Tip of an
Iceberg
Intralytix has an
agenda for the American food supply, as well as for healthcare in general.
This recent FDA ruling allows Intralytix and other similar biotech
companies to get their foot in a door that should be slammed shut and
bolted closed.
The company is also
seeking FDA approval for viral sprays to treat foods that could be
contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella, which means that similar
“trained” viruses could end up in a majority of the protein foods in
our food supply.
Intralytix sees
financial opportunity. They have already licensed their now FDA-approved
viral spray to an undisclosed multi-national company for use around the
world. When the CEO of Intralytix, John Vazzara, was recently asked about
this partner company, he
refused to disclose their name. The grand profit-driven biotech
experiment on the health and well being of all Americans is now in full
swing.
Congress should
investigate the financial ties and backroom dealings that would allow this
bizarre food additive approval by the FDA.
Of course, we will
need new wonder drugs to combat the new bio-tech produced infections.
Americans will stay sick and the sickness-driven bio-tech industry will
flourish. The bio-tech industry will make people sick on the front end and
treat them on the back end. It’s a win-win situation for profit on
illness.
The FDA is Rapidly
Becoming a Public Enemy
Experimenting with
viruses being added to the food supply is incredibly dangerous and
reckless. It is completely impossible for the FDA to guarantee safety in
the near term or the long term. Thus, the FDA has made the bureaucratic
decision that relative safety is acceptable to them. What right does the
FDA have to tamper with the food supply in this manner?
It is quite clear that
the Bush agenda has been to promote American biotech companies as the new
future for American prosperity. Administrative opinions have trumped
science in virtually every situation wherein safety conflicts with profit.
The FDA acts to foster profits for biotech companies and the growth of the
biotech industry. This is a betrayal of the public trust.
The leaders of the FDA
are personally responsible and need to be held accountable. This means
Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., temporary head of the FDA and his chief
science officer, Scott Gottlieb, M.D. These men are not only obsessed
with approving risky drugs for the benefits of Big Pharma, it is now
clear that they are willing to allow obvious adulteration of the food
supply. They seek to control what we eat, and they are tampering with
survival of the human race.
The FDA does not truly
know how safe viral phages are to consume on a regular basis. They have no
idea of the cumulative effect over the course of a lifetime, especially as
more of these viral cocktails are added to the food supply. They have no
way to measure how this new type of adulteration in the food supply will
interact with the poor digestive/immune health of half the American
population, in combination with all the other serious adulterations
already approved by the FDA. The FDA lacks due diligence in honoring its
mandate to protect the American public.
Boycott Viral
Tainted Foods, Support Your Sustainable Farmers
The only hope
Americans have is to resurrect the quality of our food supply. Doing so is
against the odds, as there are billions of dollars of profit-mongering
taking our food supply in the wrong direction. One day Americans will
realize that food security is as important to national security as any
other topic. It is now crystal clear that we cannot count on the FDA to do
the job that Harvey Wiley, M.D., envisioned
one-hundred years ago.
Consumers standing in
line to buy a luncheon meat sandwich will have no idea if they are
ingesting live viruses as part of their meal. While the FDA will require
the ingredient to be listed on packages as “bacteriophage
preparation,” most consumers will have no idea that means they are
ingesting live viruses. Foods bought at deli counters or prepared in
restaurants will not need to warn consumers.
How can any
responsible parent feed virus-tainted food to their children? The FDA
should be forced to revoke this approval. Every American has an obligation
to support food security for our nation. Congress must correct the
leadership at the FDA and the FDA itself. Americans must quit buying poor
quality toxic food. Your greatest ability to change this problem is based
entirely on what you purchase.
Get connected to the
sustainable family farms in your community. Buy meat that is range raised
without antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones. Demand that the food
you are eating is labeled with a country of origin. Buy American; buy
locally-produced food whenever possible. Support those who truly believe
in being the stewards of our land and food for our people and for future
generations. These good people are being squashed out of existence by
multi-national agribusiness, companies that could truly care less about
the quality of our food supply or the security and health of Americans.
How you spend your money is your most powerful vote. Vote for those who
care.
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Byron J. Richards,
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Wellness Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN (since 1985), he has
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