HR 1599/DARK Act Letter To Senator

Dear Senator ..................,

When I became a mother, I did not know that I should have studied medicine in college, but that is what it takes for me, and thousands of other mothers. My children, like so many others, suffer from autoimmune issues that the vast majority of medical professionals are not trained to treat. Today, 54% of American children have a chronic health condition. Children who suffer from allergies, autism, asthma, ADHD and autoimmune issues are now very common in every classroom, and the numbers are climbing. Massive collections of Epi pens fill the cabinets in every school nurse’s office. As parents, we need to be very careful about our children’s diet, and we need to know what ingredients are in everything. Parenting is not the same as it was when I was a child. When I was in school I did not know one child with a food allergy that could kill them. Now there are at least two children with such allergies in every class.


In fact, GMOs have been linked to allergies in the case of the Starlink corn.

The science is in no way settled on the matter of the safety of these foods. Many high-level scientists with impeccable credentials are NOT convinced that GE foods are safe.

A major concern that I have with GM foods is the level of pesticides used in their farming. Approximately 80% of all GM crops are what are referred to as “Roundup Ready” or glyphosate tolerant. So the foods are sprayed with glyphosate, which would normally kill the plants, but the GE plants are resistant, so they keep growing and they are sprayed sometimes 2-3 times before harvest. The problem with this technology is a growing weed resistance to glyphosate. So farmers are applying it in increasing amounts in a futile attempt to combat the “super weeds”.

Since the glyphosate is continuing to fail, beginning this year, they are ADDING Dicamba or 2,4-D to that mix. We have also found that contrary to industry claims, glyphosate actually bioaccumulates in our systems. In fact, in three different random samplings, two groups of nursing mothers in the U.S. and one group of mothers in Germany, glyphosate was found in their breast milk. In fact, the mother with the highest detectable level in Pennsylvania is living with the heartbreak of an infant with cancer.

These chemicals do not wash off, but rather, they are absorbed into the plant and its food, and it goes into our bodies.

Toxins in our bodies are a great concern on many levels. The addition of glyphosate to our food supply is frightening because the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has stated unequivocally that it causes cancer in mammals and therefore is likely to also cause cancer in humans. Many countries are in fact moving to ban glyphosate, which is a key chemical for GM farming.

Toxins in children’s bodies today are higher than ever.

Monsanto's Gifts to Humanity: Leslie Stoddard of GMO Free Idaho (Part 1)

Leslie Stoddard talks about the unethical practices of Monsanto. Part 1 in a series call "Unethical Agriculture".

Resources
Monsanto hid Decades of Pollution in Anniston, Alabama (Video, 6mins)

U. S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SUPERFUND FACT SHEET
Amended Agreement for Removal Action
ANNISTON PCB SITE 

Toxic Secret, A 60 minutes report on Anniston, Alabama

Today, parts of Anniston are so contaminated that residents have been told not to grow vegetables in the soil, kick up dirt, eat food, chew gum or smoke cigarettes while working in their yards.

"Our children have to play in the streets, on the sidewalks, because they can't play in the grass because it's contaminated," says resident David Baker.

"We have to wear masks if we cut our grass. Where else in the United States of America are people doing that?"

The problem is polychlorinated byphenyls - PCBs - one of the most pervasive and profitable industrial chemicals of 20th Century America.

They were used as insulators in electric transformers, and mixed into everything from paint to newsprint.

They were invented in Anniston in 1929 and manufactured here by Monsanto for almost 40 years - a source of wealth and jobs until the 1970s, when it became clear that PCBs were doing more harm to the environment than good for industry.

Scientist that Discovered GMO Health Hazards Immediately Fired, Team Dismantled | Consciousness TV

Scientist that Discovered GMO Health Hazards Immediately Fired, Team Dismantled | Consciousness TV

Though it barely received any media attention at the time, a renowned British biochemist who back in 1998 exposed the shocking truth about how genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) cause organ damage, reproductive failure, digestive dysfunction, impaired immunity, and cancer, among many other conditions, was immediately fired from his job, and the team of researchers who assisted him dismissed from their post within 24 hours from the time when the findings went public.

Arpad Pusztai, who is considered to be one of the world's most respected and well-learned biochemists, had for three years led a team of researchers from Scotland's prestigious Rowett Research Institute (RRI) in studying the health effects of a novel GM potato with built-in Bt toxin. Much to the surprise of many, the team discovered that, contrary to industry rhetoric, Bt potato was responsible for causing severe health damage in test rats, a fact that was quickly relayed to the media out of concern for  public hearing.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.naturalnews.com

http://www.egyptindependent.com

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers

My Seven Year Itch | Inspired Bites

My Seven Year Itch | Inspired Bites

by Robyn O'Brien  

It is seven years ago today that my life changed over a plate of scrambled eggs.

As my daughter’s face swelled shut, I didn’t want to witness what I saw that morning, to do the work that had to be done, to find the courage that would be needed.

In all candor, seven years ago, as all of this was hitting, there was a deep yearning to somehow go back to the simplicity that we had known before that breakfast.
But that would never happen.

I couldn’t unlearn what I went on to learn or forget what I had seen.

And as I watched her struggle to breathe that morning, my life forever changed.

What I unearthed that day – that the number of children with the peanut allergy had doubled from 1997-2002, that food allergies had become so pervasive in preschool children – was the beginning of a much greater story.

As I learned about food allergies, I learned more than I could have imagined.

Today, too many Americans have allergies or asthma.   Autism now affects 1 in 54 boys in our country, while in other countries, its lack of prevalence means that the numbers aren’t even tabulated.  And while the United States only represents 5% of the world’s population, 90% of the world’s ADHD prescriptions are written for our children. But it’s not just the children who are struggling under these conditions,  41% of us are expected to get cancer in our lifetimes, while 1 in 2 minority children are expected to be insulin dependent by the time they reach adulthood.   The Centers for Disease Control now reports that cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children under the age of 15.

Our children have earned the title “Generation Rx” and “Generation XL” due to their escalating rates of obesity and these other conditions...

GMO’s - President Obama Continues To Allow GMO’s To Poison America Despite Evidence Of Deadly Health Consequences - NewsWire

GMO’s - President Obama Continues To Allow GMO’s To Poison America Despite Evidence Of Deadly Health Consequences - NewsWire

Do you know what is lurking in your food?  Despite the FDA allowing GMO’s in our food supply, most people are unaware of the danger they posses.  GMO’s are banned throughout Europe and Asia and yet with all the evidence from researchers and the health community, President Obama refuses to protect our health.

Barry Ferguson, author of the highly controversial book, “Warning! Your Healthy Diet May Be Killing You” is warning America about eating GMO’s.  He says President Obama knows GMO’s are highly dangerous but so far has refused to ban them even though he promised to ban them while on the campaign trail in 2008.

His book calls out the President as well as the FDA to insure the viability of our food supply.  The FDA has ruled that GMO’s are not a health hazard but this is coming from an agency whose has as its head of Foods Division, Michael  R. Taylor, the Former Vice-President of Monsanto, the world’s largest purveyor of GMO products.

In fact, President Obama has put many former Monsanto and Biotech executives with strong ties to GMO’s in important positions within the government who make decisions everyday regarding our food.  Even Tom Vilsack, the former Governor of Iowa and now the Secretary of agriculture, is a big supporter of both GMO food and Monsanto.

With Obesity, cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes running rampant in our society, GMO’s have been proven in study after study to lead to cancerous growths, miscarriages, infertility and was responsible for causing the Tryptophan-EMS Disaster of 1989 that killed 37 people in the U.S.

Barry says “I’m fed up with all the lies regarding genetically modified food and how it’s causing great harm to our bodies.  Monsanto has used its money and power to influence for too long when it comes to what and how we eat and I’m not going to take it anymore.  Someone has got to stand up for our health!”

He exposes all the lies and deceit that is going on with our food in his book Warning! Your Healthy Diet May Be Killing You and how the president is allowing these food companies to literally poison us.  He has been leading a campaign to help ban these dangerous foods by appearing on radio show all across the United States and informing consumers of their food rights.

“President Obama has a duty to protect our health” says Barry “and he has been very negligent in this area.”
“Losing California’s Prop 37 labeling law was a big blow to our nation’s health but we will continue to fight back anyway we can.  More and more people are joining our cause and many of them are well known names who have seen firsthand what GMO’s can do” states Barry.

GMO Seralini Ten things you need to know about the Séralini study - GMO Seralini

GMO Seralini Ten things you need to know about the Séralini study - GMO Seralini

1. Most criticisms of Séralini’s study wrongly assume it was a badly designed cancer study. It wasn’t. It was a chronic toxicity study – and a well-designed and well-conducted one.
http://gmoseralini.org/criticism-seralinis-study-was-so-badly-designed-that-no-conclusions-can-be-drawn-from-it/

2. Séralini’s study is the only long-term study on the commercialized GM maize NK603 and the pesticide (Roundup) it is designed to be grown with. http://gmoseralini.org/faq-items/why-is-the-study-important/

3. Séralini used the same strain of rat (Sprague-Dawley, SD) that Monsanto used in its 90-day studies on GM foods and its long-term studies on glyphosate, the chemical ingredient of Roundup, conducted for regulatory approval.  http://gmoseralini.org/criticism-seralini-used-a-type-of-rat-naturally-prone-to-tumours/

4. The SD rat is about as prone to tumours as humans are. As with humans, the SD rat’s tendency to cancer increases with age. http://gmoseralini.org/criticism-seralini-used-a-type-of-rat-naturally-prone-to-tumours/