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


GMO
DISEASE EPIDEMICS:

(11) 
Mystery Diseases:  Human Health



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
"Mystery" Diseases:  Human Health


At
least 50 new viruses attacking human health 
emerged between 1988 and 1996.
 
[Institute for Science in Society]

Laboratory tests show
that the genetic engineering process can produce novel viruses.

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The
Philippines.   "Scientists
Suspect Health Threat from GM Corn" (The Guardian, 28
February 2004)
 
 "Scientists 
investigating a spate of illnesses among people living close to GM
fields in the Philippines believe that the crop may have triggered
fevers, respiratory illnesses and skin reactions."
  [Continuing to quote from the above article on the
Philippines]
"His team [that of Terjee Traavik, scientific director of the Norwegian
Institute of Gene Ecology} also said it had found genetically
engineered viruses used in the GM process recombined with natural
viruses to create new hybrid viruses with
unpredictable characteristics..  It confirmed
this could suggest that they could
cause new diseases."


"Could
cause new diseases"
such as Bird
Flu? SARS?   California's Poison Oak Death? 
The
mysterious disease that caused 95% of Florida's elkhorn coral to die in
a short period of time? The
50 new viruses that emerged between 1988 and 1996?  The new
viruses which have emerged since 1996?

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E.
coli 0157:H7 is one such mystery disease
which has
been scientifically analysed. 
(Scientists
generally avoid doing such analyses for fear they will find GMOs and
cause trouble for themselves from corporations and corporation-biased
governments.)

Genetic engineering
appears to be the cause of a pathogen
which is responsible annually in the USA for some 75,000 cases of
infection. 

[Institute of Science in Society, London]


SARS 
--- Scientific analysis finds the SARS virus to be derived very
probably from Genetic Engineering.  SARS is a new coronavirus
unrelated
to any previously known.
  
[Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins, Institute for Science in Society]


BIRD FLU --- Like SARS, Bird Flu can jump
species.  This is clue enough to suggest that it too derives
from the GM process because
jumping species barriers is what Genetic Engineering is designed to do.

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Comment: 
If one evades Evolution's safeguards, the emergence of 'unexpected'
pathogens is precisely what Nature tells us is bound to happen. 


This is occurring again and again and again, and will continue until we
OUTLAW this nightmare
technology.

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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