Not long now

Since 2003, highly resistant cases of TB have been documented in Italy and Iran, mostly limited to impoverished areas and it has not spread widely.

The airborne disease is mainly transmitted through close personal contact and is not nearly as contagious as the flu.

The Indian hospital that saw the initial cases tested a dozen medicines and none of them worked, it was, a pretty comprehensive assessment.
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 A TB expert at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said they do appear to be totally resistant to available drugs.

Ordinary TB is easily cured by taking antibiotics for six to nine months. 
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However, if that treatment is interrupted or the dose is cut down, the stubborn bacteria battle back and mutate into a tougher strain that can no longer be killed by standard drugs. 
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The disease becomes harder and more expensive to treat.

In India, doctors in Mumbai have reported a total of 12 patients, all poor slum dwellers, who failed initial treatment and also did not respond to the medicines tried next over an average of two to three years. 
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Three have died. 
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None of the others have been successfully treated.

The doctors detailed the first four cases in a letter to a US medical journal last month, blaming private doctors for prescribing inappropriate drug plans that sparked greater resistance in three of those four patients.

"These three patients had received erratic, unsupervised second-line drugs, added individually and often in incorrect doses, from multiple private practitioners," wrote the doctors from P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

There is also a debate within the public health community about whether to even label the infections "total drug resistant". 
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The World Health Organisation has yet to accept the term.

However, Dr Paul Nunn, a coordinator at the WHO's Stop TB Department in Geneva, said there is ample proof that these virtually untreatable cases do exist.

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Articles such as the above have been appearing spasmodically for some time now in the World's press

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It appears that no one wants to take the issue mainstream for fear of panic.

Or alternatively because it gives the lie to the illusion of all powerful western drug companies ability to combat disease in any form.
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The truth will out over time and unfortunately most likely in a manner that harms innocent people.
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Has it ever been thus 

Liquid ventilation

Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. 
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We have taught ourselves to fly like birds, climb like monkeys and burrow like moles. 
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But the one animal that has always proven beyond our reach is the fish.

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The invention of scuba diving has allowed us to breathe underwater but only at very shallow depths.

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Thanks to our inability to conquer the bends, diving below 70m still remains astonishingly dangerous to anyone but a handful of experts.
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Ultra-deep diving is so lethal that more people have walked on the moon than descended below 240m using scuba gear.
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Now an inventor in the United States believes he has solved the riddle of how to get humans down to serious depths – by getting us to breathe liquid like fish.
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Arnold Lande, a retired American heart and lung surgeon, has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe “liquid air”, a special solution that has been highly enriched with oxygen molecules.
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The idea immediately conjures up the terrifying spectre of drowning but our lungs are more than capable of taking oxygen from a solution.
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“The first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex,” explains Lande, a 79-year-old inventor from St Louis, Missouri. “But once that oxygenated liquid is inside your lungs it would feel just like breathing air.”
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Lande envisages a scuba suit that would allow divers to inhale highly-oxygenated perfluorocarbons (PFCs) – a type of liquid that can dissolve enormous quantities of gas. 
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The liquid would be contained in an enclosed helmet that would replace all the air in the lungs, nose and ear cavities.
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The CO2 that would normally exit our body when we breathe out would be “scrubbed” from our blood by attaching a mechanical gill to the femoral vein in the leg.
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By using oxygen suspended in liquid, divers would no longer have to worry about decompression sickness - the often fatal condition known as “the bends” which occurs when nitrogen dissolved in the blood under the immense pressures of deep water bubbles out as we rise. 
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It could potentially allow them to descend to far greater depths than is currently possible.
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Liquid ventilation might sound like science fiction – it played a major role in James Cameron’s 1989 sci-fi film The Abyss – but it is already used by a handful of cutting-edge American hospitals for highly premature babies.
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Children born before 28 weeks have huge difficulties breathing, often because their lungs are not developed enough to comfortably adjust from the liquid environment of the womb to inhaling gaseous air. Immature alveoli, the final branchings inside the lung that feed oxygen into the blood, lack vital surfactants which stop the tiny cavities sticking together when we breathe out.
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In response doctors have begun experimenting with highly-oxygenated PFCs with remarkable success.

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Professor Thomas Shaffer, a paediatrics specialist from Delaware, has experimented with liquid breathing since the late 1970s. 
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He spent much of his early career testing various animals in oxygenated PFCs.
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Place a mouse in oxygenated liquid and instinct immediately kicks in as the animal flounders wildly. 
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Everything the mouse has ever learned screams at it to avoid inhaling a solution it thinks will kill it.
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Yet when we drown there comes a moment when the instinct not to breathe liquid is overridden by a stronger instinct to take in one last breath. 
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It is a desperate final attempt to get oxygen into the blood. 
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If the liquid we are in contains oxygen molecules that happily cross from the solution into our blood stream, life will return. 
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After all, it is not water that kills us when we drown. 
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It’s our inability to take oxygen from the water that condemns us.
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By the mid-1990s, Shaffer and a handful of doctors had begun using liquid ventilation techniques on premature babies and were stunned by the results.
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“A lot of the children I see have less than a 5% survival rate,” he explains. 
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“But when we get them on to liquid breathing we see close to 60% going on to lead fully healthy lives.”
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The technique remains rare, however, because of a chronic lack of investment.

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“Liquid ventilation is not used widely because there is very little funding from the drug companies,” he says. 
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“Unfortunately premature babies don’t have a voice. 
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They don’t bring in money, so no-one really wants to invest. 
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But it does work. 
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Physiologically, liquid ventilation is very do-able.”
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The recent oil spill in the Gulf may change that lack of interest. 
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Although drug companies are reluctant to fully explore liquid breathing, the Deep Water Horizon disaster has reignited the debate over how to get divers safely down to extreme depths.
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Currently the only way divers can work for long spells in the deep is either from the safety of robotic vessels and submarines; or by using saturation diving, an incredibly complicated technique where divers have to be brought up to the surface in a pressurised container over a matter of weeks.
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With saturation diving, the deepest anyone has gone is 701m. 
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Using scuba equipment the record is 318m, set by the South African diver Nuno Gomes in June 2005. 
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It took him 14 minutes to descend and 12 hours to come back up to the surface.
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The reason for these slow ascents is our reliance on compressed gasses to breathe in water.
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Under the incredible pressure exerted by billions of tonnes of ocean, gasses like nitrogen and helium dissolve into our bloodstream, much like CO2 is dissolved in a soda bottle.
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Ascending towards the surface is like opening that soda bottle - the gas comes out of solution and into our bodies. 
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If we don’t give our bodies enough time to expel those gasses by ascending slowly, we die.

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“The beauty of doing it all from a liquid is that you don’t have to use these highly compressed gasses in the lungs that are going to dissolve into the blood,” says Dr Lande, who recently presented a paper on his patent to the first International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics in Venice. 
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“You have a liquid that you can infuse just as much oxygen as you need.”

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Shaffer has previously experimented with animals and PFCs at depth and found the technique to work. 
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“I have personally put mammals down to a simulated depth of 1000 feet and then decompressed them in half a second and they have no decompression sickness,” he says.

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The US Navy Seals also reportedly experimented with liquid ventilation in the early 1980s according to Shaffer who says he met a former Seal turned doctor that was on the team.

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“This paediatrician never really revealed why they were doing it,” he explains. 
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“Other than going very deep I don’t know what the point was. 
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But they tried it. 
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The Navy pushed them to the point where they did it several times a week.”

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Being so much more viscous than air, liquid is difficult to breathe. 
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Some of the Seals reportedly developed stress fractures on the ribs cause by the sheer force of trying to get a liquid in and out of the lungs.

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But Lande envisages using a cuirass, a ventilation device named after a piece of medieval armour, which compresses the diaphragm and makes it easier to breathe liquid.

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Now all he needs now are developers and a fresh set of human guinea pigs willing to test his ideas.

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“I’m sure someone out there would be willing,” he says. 
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“We’ve climbed the highest mountains, sent people into space. It’s time to find ways of exploring the deep oceans.

Monsanto continued

Fake safety assessment
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Monsanto participates in a voluntary consultation process with the FDA that is derided by critics as a meaningless exercise. 
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Monsanto submits whatever information it chooses, and the FDA does not conduct or commission any studies of its own. 
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Former EPA scientist Doug Gurian-Sherman, who analyzed FDA review records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, says the FDA consultation process "misses obvious errors in company-submitted data summaries, provides insufficient testing guidance, and does not require sufficiently detailed data to enable the FDA to assure that GE crops are safe to eat.
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But that is not the point of the exercise. 
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The FDA doesn't actually approve the crops or declare them safe. 
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That is Monsanto's job! 
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At the end of the consultation, the FDA issues a letter stating:
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Based on the safety and nutritional assessment you have conducted, it is our understanding that Monsanto has concluded that corn products derived from this new variety are not materially different in composition, safety, and other relevant parameters from corn currently on the market, and that the genetically modified corn does not raise issues that would require premarket review or approval by FDA. . . . 
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As you are aware, it is Monsanto's responsibility to ensure that foods marketed by the firm are safe, wholesome and in compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
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The National Academy of Sciences and even the pro-GM Royal Society of London describe the US system as inadequate and flawed. 
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The editor of the prestigious journal Lancet said, It is astounding that the US Food and Drug Administration has not changed their stance on genetically modified food adopted in 1992. . . . 
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Governments should never have allowed these products into the food chain without insisting on rigorous testing for effects on health.
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One obvious reason for the inflexibility of the FDA is that they are officially charged with both regulating biotech products and promoting them -- a clear conflict. 
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That is also why the FDA does not require mandatory labeling of GM foods. 
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They ignore the desires of 90 percent of American citizens in order to support the economic interests of Monsanto and the four other GM food companies.
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Monsanto's studies are secret, inadequate, and flawed
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The unpublished industry studies submitted to regulators are typically kept secret based on the claim that it is "confidential business information."
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The Royal Society of Canada is one of many organizations that condemn this practice.
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Their Expert Panel called for "completely transparent" submissions, "open to full review by scientific peers"
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They wrote, "Peer review and independent corroboration of research findings are axioms of the scientific method, and part of the very meaning of the objectivity and neutrality of science"
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Whenever Monsanto's private submissions are made public through lawsuits or Freedom of Information Act Requests, it becomes clear why they benefit from secrecy. 
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The quality of their research is often miserable, and would never stand up to peer-review. 
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In December 2009, for example, a team of independent researchers published a study analysing the raw data from three Monsanto rat studies. 
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When they used proper statistical methods, they found that the three varieties of GM corn caused toxicity in the liver and kidneys, as well as significant changes in other organs.
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Monsanto's studies, of course, had claimed that the research showed no problems. 
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The regulators had believed Monsanto, and the corn is already in our food supply
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Monsanto rigs research to miss dangers
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Monsanto has plenty of experience cooking the books of their research and hiding the hazards. 
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They manufactured the infamous Agent Orange, for example, the cancer and birth-defect causing defoliant sprayed over Vietnam. 
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It contaminated more than three million civilians and servicemen. 
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But according to William Sanjour, who led the Toxic Waste Division of the Environmental Protection Agency, "thousands of veterans were disallowed benefits " because Monsanto studies showed that dioxin [the main ingredient in Agent Orange] was not a human carcinogen. 
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But his EPA colleague discovered that Monsanto had allegedly falsified the data in their studies. Sanjour says, "If they were done correctly, [the studies] would have reached just the opposite result."
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Here are examples of tinkering with the truth about Monsanto's GM products:
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When dairy farmers inject cows with genetically modified bovine growth hormone (rbGH), more bovine growth hormone ends up in the milk. 
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To allay fears, the FDA claimed that pasteurization destroys 90 percent of the hormone. 
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In reality, the researchers of this drug (then owned by Monsanto) pasteurized the milk 120 times longer than normal. 
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But they only destroyed 19 percent. 
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So they spiked the milk with a huge amount of extra growth hormone and then repeated the long pasteurization. 
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Only under these artificial conditions were they able to destroy 90 percent.
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To demonstrate that rbGH injections didn't interfere with cows' fertility, Monsanto appears to have secretly added cows to their study that were pregnant before injection.
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FDA Veterinarian Richard Burroughs said that Monsanto researchers dropped sick cows from studies, to make the drug appear safer.
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Richard Burroughs ordered more tests on rbGH than the industry wanted and was told by superiors he was slowing down the approval. 
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He was fired and his tests canceled. 
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The remaining whistle-blowers in the FDA had to write an anonymous letter to Congress, complaining of fraud and conflict of interest in the agency. 
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They complained of one FDA scientist who arbitrarily increased the allowable levels of antibiotics in milk 100-fold, in order to facilitate the approval of rbGH. 
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She had just become the head of an FDA department that was evaluating the research that she had recently done while an employee of Monsanto.
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Another former Monsanto scientist said that after company scientists conducted safety studies on bovine growth hormone, all three refused to drink any more milk, unless it was organic and therefore not treated with the drug. 
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They feared the substantial increase of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in the drugged milk. IGF-1 is a significant risk factor for cancer.
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When independent researchers published a study in July 1999 showing that Monsanto's GM soy contains 12-14 percent less cancer-fighting phytoestrogens. 
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Monsanto responded with its own study, concluding that soy's phytoestrogen levels vary too much to even carry out a statistical analysis. 
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Researchers failed to disclose, however, that they had instructed the laboratory to use an obsolete method of detection -- one that had been prone to highly variable results.
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To prove that GM protein breaks down quickly during simulated digestion, Monsanto uses thousands of times the amount of digestive enzymes and a much stronger acid than what the World Health Organization recommends.
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Monsanto told government regulators that the GM protein produced in their high-lysine GM corn was safe for humans, because it is also found in soil.
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They claimed that since people consume small residues of soil on fruits and vegetables, the protein has a safe history as part of the human diet.
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The actual amount of the GM corn protein an average US citizen would consume, however, if all their corn were Monsanto's variety, would be "about 30 billion to four trillion times" the amount normally consumed in soil residues. 
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For equivalent exposure, people would have to eat as much as 22,000 pounds of soil every second of every day.
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Monsanto's high-lysine corn also had unusual levels of several nutritional components, such as protein and fibre. 
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Instead of comparing it to normal corn, which would have revealed this significant disparity, Monsanto compared their GM corn to obscure corn varieties that were also far outside the normal range on precisely these values. 
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On this basis, Monsanto could claim that there were no statistically significant differences in their GM corn content.
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Methods used by Monsanto to hide problems are varied and plentiful. For example, researchers:
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Use animals with varied starting weights, to hinder the detection of food-related changes;
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Keep feeding studies short, to miss long-term impacts;
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Test Roundup Ready soybeans that have never been sprayed with Roundup -- as they always are in real world conditions;
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Avoid feeding animals the GM crop, but instead give them a single dose of GM protein produced from GM bacteria.
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Use too few subjects to obtain statistical significance;
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Use poor or inappropriate statistical methods, or fail to even mention statistical methods, or include essential data; and
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Employ insensitive detection techniques -- doomed to fail.
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Monsanto's 1996Journal of Nutrition study, which was their cornerstone article for "proving" that GM soy was safe, provides plenty of examples of masterfully rigged methods.
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Researchers tested GM soy on mature animals, not the more sensitive young ones. 
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GMO safety expert Arpad Pusztai says the older animals "would have to be emaciated or poisoned to show anything."
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Organs were never weighed.
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The GM soy was diluted up to 12 times which, according to an expert review, "would probably ensure that any possible undesirable GM effects did not occur."
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The amount of protein in the feed was "artificially too high," which would mask negative impacts of the soy.
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Samples were pooled from different locations and conditions, making it nearly impossible for compositional differences to be statistically significant.
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Data from the only side-by-side comparison was removed from the study and never published. 
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When it was later recovered, it revealed that Monsanto's GM soy had significantly lower levels of important constituents (e.g. protein, a fatty acid, and phenylalanine, an essential amino acid) and that toasted GM soy meal had nearly twice the amount of a lectin -- which interferes with the body's ability to assimilate nutrients. 
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Moreover, the amount of trypsin inhibitor, a known soy allergen, was as much as seven times higher in cooked GM soy compared to a cooked non-GM control. 
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Monsanto named their study, "The composition of glyphosate-tolerant soybean seeds is equivalent to that of conventional soybeans."
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A paper published in Nutrition and Health analysed all peer-reviewed feeding studies on GM foods as of 2003.
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It came as no surprise that Monsanto's Journal of Nutrition study, along with the other four peer-reviewed animal feeding studies that were "performed more or less in collaboration with private companies," reported no negative effects of the GM diet. 
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On the other hand," they wrote, "adverse effects were reported (but not explained) in [the five] independent studies." 
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They added, "It is remarkable that these effects have all been observed after feeding for only 10 to 14 days.
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A former Monsanto scientist recalls how colleagues were trying to rewrite a GM animal feeding study, to hide the ill-effects. 
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But sometimes when study results are unmistakably damaging, Monsanto just plain lies.
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Monsanto's study on Roundup, for example, showed that 28 days after application, only 2 percent of their herbicide had broken down. 
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They nonetheless advertised the weed killer as "biodegradable," "leaves the soil clean," and "respects the environment" 
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These statements were declared false and illegal by judges in both the US and France. 
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The company was forced to remove "biodegradable" from the label and pay a fine.
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Monsanto affects us all

.Continuing our story about Monsanto

Doctors orders: no genetically modified food

A great tragedy may be the harm from the dangerous GM foods produced by Monsanto. 
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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has called on all physicians to 
prescribe diets without GM foods to all patients. 
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They called for a moratorium on GMOs, long-term independent studies, and labeling. 
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They stated, "Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food," including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system. 
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There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. 
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There is causation
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Former AAEM President Dr. Jennifer Armstrong says, Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions. 
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Renowned biologist Pushpa M. Bhargava believes that GMOs are a major contributor to the deteriorating health in America.
Pregnant women and babies are at great risk
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GM foods are particularly dangerous for pregnant mothers and children. 
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After GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died -- compared to 10 percent deaths among controls fed natural soy. 
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GM-fed babies were smaller, and possibly infertile.
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Testicles of rats fed GM soy changed from the normal pink to dark blue.
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Mice fed GM soy had altered young sperm.
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Embryos of GM soy-fed parent mice had changed DNA.
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And mice fed GM corn had fewer, and smaller, babies.
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In Haryana, India, most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had reproductive complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, and infertility; many calves died. 
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About two dozen US farmers said thousands of pigs became sterile from certain GM corn varieties. 
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Some had false pregnancies; others gave births to bags of water. 
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Cows and bulls also became infertile.
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In the US, incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.
now to food that produces poison
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Monsanto's GM corn and cotton are engineered to produce a built-in pesticide called Bt-toxin -- produced from soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis.
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When bugs bite the plant, poison splits open their stomach and kills them. 
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Organic farmers and others use natural Bt bacteria spray for insect control, so Monsanto claims that Bt-toxin must be safe.
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The Bt-toxin produced in GM plants, however, is thousands of times more concentrated than natural Bt spray, is designed to be more toxic, has properties of an allergen, and cannot be washed off the plant.
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Moreover, studies confirm that even the less toxic natural spray can be harmful. 
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When dispersed by plane to kill gypsy moths in Washington and Vancouver, about 500 people reported allergy or flu-like symptoms.
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The same symptoms are now reported by farm workers from handling Bt cotton throughout India.
GMOs provoke immune reactions.
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GMO safety expert Arpad Pusztai says changes in immune status are "a consistent feature of all the animal studies."
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From Monsanto's own research to government funded trials, rodents fed Bt corn had significant immune reactions.
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Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50 percent. 
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Ohio allergist Dr. John Boyles says I used to test for soy allergies all the time, but now that soy is genetically engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it.
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GM soy and corn contain new proteins with allergenic properties, and GM soy has up to seven times more of a known soy allergen. 
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Perhaps the US epidemic of food llergies and asthma is a casualty of genetic manipulation.
Animals dying in large numbers
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In India, animals graze on cotton plants after harvest. 
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But when shepherds let sheep graze on Bt cotton plants, thousands died.
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Investigators said preliminary evidence evidence "strongly suggests that the sheep mortality was due to a toxin. . . . most probably Bt-toxin." 
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In one small study, all sheep fed Bt cotton plants died; those fed natural plants remained healthy.
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In an Andhra Pradesh village, buffalo grazed on cotton plants for eight years without incident. 
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On Jan. 3, 2008, 13 buffalo grazed on Bt cotton plants for the first time.
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All died within three days.
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Monsanto's Bt corn is also implicated in the deaths of horses, water buffaloes, and chickens in the Philippines.
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Lab studies of GM crops by other companies also show mortalities. 
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Twice the number of chickens fed Liberty Link corn died; seven of 40 rats fed a GM tomato died within two weeks. 
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And a farmer in Germany says his cows died after exclusively eating Syngenta's GM corn.
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Think about this GMOs remain inside of us.
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The only published human feeding study revealed that even after we stop eating GMOs, harmful GM proteins may be produced continuously inside of us; genes inserted into Monsanto's GM soy transfer into bacteria inside our intestinesand continue to function.
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If Bt genes also transfer, eating corn chips might transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories.
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And there are more hidden dangers
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Biologist David Schubert of the Salk Institute says, If there are problems [with GMOs], we will probably never know because the cause will not be traceable and many diseases take a very long time to develop.
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In the nine years after GM crops were introduced in 1996, Americans with three or more chronic diseases jumped from 7 percent to 13 percent. 
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But without any human clinical trials or post marketing surveillance, we may never know if GMOs are a contributor
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Add in un-recallable contamination
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In spite of the enormous health dangers, the environmental impacts may be worse still. 
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That is because we don't have a technology to fully clean up the contaminated gene pool.
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The self-propagating genetic pollution released into the environment from Monsanto's crops can outlast the effects of climate change and nuclear waste.
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Jeffrey M Smith
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Fear of the dark

Is still with us in different forms.
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If we fail to understand something what do we do?
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We try harder to understand.
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But trying harder seldom works.
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Yet that is our typical response to failure.
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Both on the individual and collective level.
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When we fail to fulfil our New Year's resolutions.
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What do we conclude?
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We didn't try hard enough.
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We didn't apply enough willpower.
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Similarly, we act as though more technology.
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More laws.
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More vigilance will succeed where previous technology, laws, and vigilance failed.
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But greater effort from our present state of being only serves to reinforce that state of being.
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Using more force promotes the mentality of using force.
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Methods born of separation exacerbate separation.
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Does anyone today remember that World War One was fervently believed to be the "war to end all wars"?
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Despite that stupendous failure, equivalent logic lives on in the current "war on terror".
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Today this almost pathological fear of what cannot be directly examined and brought under control is evident in:
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External.
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Preferably mechanical
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Electronic, or chemical control.
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And in reality survives as a scientific equivalent of a much older atavism, fear of the dark.
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Letting go of control means, then, that in this new age, the Age of Fire, in which the circle of domesticity defined the human realm as the illuminated, is coming to an end.

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And this is where we are now, entering into the Age of Fire with precious little under control
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Being totally in the dark about the next financial disaster
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In the dark about the next global health disaster
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In the dark about climate change.
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When you think about it we are in the dark about most of the important things that impact our lives.
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Whether we will become once more at home in the dark:
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At home in mystery.
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In uncertainty.
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In unreasonableness.
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Or at least whether we will no longer fear to venture there remains to be seen.

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Most modern humans dislike change
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Most enjoy the illusion of security
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Trouble is the times we are in are unlikely to offer much security.
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They are though offering a lot of change in all areas of our lives.
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And like all fears fear of the dark is best overcome through knowledge.
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Do we have enough knowledge?
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Wisdom even, time will show!
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On an individual level it is up to us how we face the dark.
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How is it with you?