Los 12 Productos más terribles de Monsanto 1. Sacarina. John Francisco Queeny fundó “Monsanto Chemical Works”, con el objetivo de producir sacarina para Coca-Cola. Estudios realizados durante la década de 1970 mostraron que este químico produce cáncer en ratas y otros mamíferos de prueba. Sin embargo, tras descubrir que causa el mismo efecto en humanos, Monsanto sobornó a médicos e instituciones para seguir comercializandola. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Al igual que durante los primeros días de los PCB, el DDT, o el Agente Naranja, Monsanto ha engañado y sobornado con éxito a los organismos públicos y reguladores generales implantando la creencia de que el RoundUp y los cultivos modificados genéticamente son beneficiosos y “seguros”. Sin embargo Monsanto tuvo que ordenar a Obama que firmara una Ley en salvaguarda de la corporación para defenderse de las denuncias y demandas producto de 100 años de nuevos estudios que demuestran los efectos negativos e impactos ambientales de los OGM. 13. BWN Argentina
Whitehead and Whitehead Consultants Whitehead & Whitehead Consultants Cures On the Cob The scraggly cornstalks sprouting from pots in Andy Hiatt's laboratory don't look particularly unusual. But woven into their DNA is a tiny strip of mankind: a human gene that codes for an antibody to a sexually transmitted disease — genital herpes — that afflicts some 60 million Americans. When the corn plants mature and produce kernels, Hiatt's company, Epicyte Pharmaceutical of San Diego, hopes to turn them into a topical gel for herpes. And that's just for starters. Critics — and there are many — have another name for it. But the proposed rules are not satisfying the critics or slowing the biopharmers. What's driving this effort to morph fields into drug factories? Achieving the same results through biopharming — splicing antibodies into the genetic fabric of plants, growing them in fields and extracting and purifying them — could cut costs by half. So far, more than two-thirds of plant-based medicines are being tested in corn — a plant whose genetics is well understood.
Anvisa tem recomendação do Ministério Público Federal para retirar agrotóxicos de circulação no Brasil | Saúde Plena Ainda permanece nas mãos da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa) o parecer final sobre uma polêmica que está à mesa dos brasileiros há mais de 10 anos e é vista por uns como um veneno para a saúde. Usado na agricultura mundial, em produtos como soja, trigo, arroz, milho, uva, banana, cacau, café, entre outros, o glifosato, o herbicida mais consumido no mundo, está na mira de uma discussão e prestes a ser proibido no país depois de relatório da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) apontar que o produto pode causar câncer. O alerta veio em março e, um mês depois, o Ministério Público Federal (MPF) cobrou do governo um posicionamento, como já havia pedido em 2008. Até o momento, o produto continua em circulação, e médicos, preocupados com o risco à saúde da população brasileira, pedem sua proibição no mercado. OMS diz que glifosato causa câncer A polêmica ganha força diante dos números.
GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed | Environment Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation. The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm. By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives. 'We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies,' said Epicyte president Mitch Hein. 'We have also created corn plants that make antibodies against the herpes virus, so we should be able to make a plant-based jelly that not only prevents pregnancy but also blocks the spread of sexual disease.' Contraceptive corn is based on research on the rare condition, immune infertility, in which a woman makes antibodies that attack sperm.
How Monsanto is Destroying the Brains and Health of Everyone. | Kinsei By: Dr. Matthew Buckley, PSc.D. Interested in slowing your aging process? Take note! One of my most recent blog entries(1) summarized roughly 10 years of research related to the consequences of inflammatory processes in the periphery of the body, such as the gut, and how this was driving brain degenerative inflammatory processes within the brain. One of the key findings from that research was how pathogenic bacterial waste products known as “lipopolysaccharides” , (LPS) would trigger an immune response, and this immune response would then trigger the brains immune cells, the microglia, to become overly active and degrade brain cells. In short, the process can work like this (note there are other ways to trigger this): 1) Pathogenic bacteria overg row in intestines and create waste products (LPS) which activate the immune system to respond and produce a chemical called “Interleukin 1b”. So how does Monsanto contribute to this? Monsanto is a chief producer of genetically modified products.
10 Reasons Why we Don’t Need GM Foods Genetically modified (GM) foods are often promoted as a way to feed the world. But this is little short of a confidence trick. Far from needing more GM foods, there are urgent reasons why we need to ban them altogether. 1. GM foods won’t solve the food crisis A 2008 World Bank report concluded that increased biofuel production is the major cause of the increase in food prices. “The climate crisis was used to boost biofuels, helping to create the food crisis; and now the food crisis is being used to revive the fortunes of the GM industry.” — Daniel Howden, Africa correspondent, The Independent (UK) “The cynic in me thinks that they’re just using the current food crisis and the fuel crisis as a springboard to push GM crops back on to the public agenda. 2. Despite the promises, GM has not increased the yield potential of any commercialised crops. “Let’s be clear. 3. “The promise was that you could use less chemicals and produce a greater yield. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. References 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Monsanto: 25 doenças que podem ser causadas pelo agrotóxico glifosato Alexis Baden-Mayer - Sin Permiso Cientistas descobriram que pessoas doentes tinham maiores níveis de glifosato em seu corpo do que as pessoas sadias. Conheça os resultados destas pesquisas A Monsanto investiu no herbicida glifosato e o levou ao mercado com o nome comercial de Roundup em 1974, após a proibição do DDT. Mas foi no final dos anos 1990 que o uso do Roundup se massificou graças a uma engenhosa estratégia de marketing da Monsanto. A estratégia? Sementes geneticamente modificadas para cultivos alimentares que podiam tolerar altas doses de Roundup. Ansiosa por vender seu emblemático herbicida, a Monsanto também incentivou os agricultores a usar o Roundup como agente dessecante, para secar seus cultivos e assim fazer a colheita mais rapidamente. Nos quase 20 anos de intensa exposição, os cientistas documentaram as consequências para a saúde do Roundup e do glifosato na nossa comida, na água que bebemos, no ar que respiramos e nos lugares em que nossas crianças brincam.
Heart disease: there is a cure It was proven decades ago that heart disease could be reversed with a plant-based diet. And yet hundreds of thousands of Americans continue to needlessly die. Why the disconnect? That’s the subject of this morning’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day The Tomato Effect. On Tuesday, in Resuscitating Medicare, I celebrated the news that Medicare was finally reimbursing plant-based diet programs for heart disease reversal, and shared a personal story of how my grandmother’s miraculous recovery from terminal heart disease inspired my own career in lifestyle medicine. On Wednesday, in Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped, I featured Dr. In The Tomato Effect I feature Dr. Financial interests and influence help explain institutional biases in government and among, say, cardiothoracic surgeons and interventional cardiologists, but why does the medical profession in general appear so resistant to embracing plant-based diets, the proven cure? Dr. “The time is long overdue for legendary work.