FDA
Okays GMO Carrot For Rare Gaucher Disease By Rady Ananda Food Freedom News 5-22-12 |
The US Food & Drug
Admin. just approved a drug made from genetically modified carrots to
treat Gaucher, a rare disease found mostly among Ashkenazi Jews.
Out of a global population of 6.8 billion, an estimated range of 60-100,000
people carry the recessive gene for it, though not all are symptomatic.
The incidence of Gaucher is so rare, in fact, that
to approve a GMO carrot for this purpose makes no sense, raising the
specter of some unstated purpose.
As expected when humans ingest active foreign DNA,
one of the side effects of the FDA-approved drug, Elelyso®, is anaphylactic
shock, among other allergic reactions.
Gaucher develops in offspring of parents who both
carry and pass on a recessive gene that prevents development of an enzyme
that allows "harmful substances to build up in the liver, spleen, bones,
and bone marrow," explains the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia. "The substances prevent
cells and organs from working properly."
The recessive gene only appears in 6-10 percent of Ashkenazi Jews, who number just over 10 million
today.
Several rare genetic diseases are linked to Ashkenazi
Jews, who account for 80 percent of all Jews, reports the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, "including Tay-Sachs, Gaucher disease, Bloom syndrome,
Idiopathic torsion dystonia, Familial dysautonomia, Factor XI deficiency,
and more. For many of these disorders in which a causative gene
has been identified, a specific mutation was found to be the cause of
most cases of the disease in Ashkenazi Jews."
Dr. Mercola reacted with shock to the news, writing, "I don't even want to think about the potential ramifications
of this decision. Many may not know this, but Monsanto, well-known
as the leader in biotechnology and genetically engineered foods, is
also invested in the medical industry."
Approval of the drug was granted to Pfizer, the criminal
pharmaceutical firm convicted in 2009 of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid
recipients by selling them unneeded drugs for purposes not approved
for Bextra.
Pfizer, along with its subsidiaries, Pharmacia &
Upjohn Company, paid the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history,
to the tune of $2.3 billion. The Dept. of Justice [sic] allowed
Pfizer to change its name to skirt federal laws requiring automatic exclusion from Medicare
and Medicaid contracts as a result of the felony fraud convictions.
No one went to jail and Pfizer paid a tiny portion of its profits from
illegally dealing Bextra from 2001 thru 2005.
Monsanto, Pharmacia, Upjohn and Pfizer were all closely involved during that time.
In a recent study, Chinese researchers found small
pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who
eat rice. They showed that this genetic material will bind to
proteins in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol
from the blood. The discovery, writes The Atlantic, "threatens to blast a major hole in Monsanto's
claim that 'substantial equivalence' means no safety testing is needed.
But researchers found that DNA can code for microRNA, which can, in
fact, be hazardous."
Last year, biotech engineers began modifying rice with a human blood protein called human serum
albumin (HAS).
The biotech industry asserts that the active DNA inserted
into food and feed is destroyed in the gut of those who ingest GMO foods.
However, another study showed that these toxins are found in the bloodstreams
of 93% of pregnant women and their unborn babies. The wide-ranging
harmful effects include sterility, lowered organ function,
smaller brains, and may be linked to obesity, Type II diabetes, sterility,
birth defects and spontaneous abortions.
That hazard is why the US government, the regulatory
arm of the biotech industry, refuses to allow genetically modified foods
to be labeled. Once GMO food is labeled, scientists can track
the hazards caused by ingesting such food, which is precisely what Monsanto
and the US government want to hide.
If you'd like to support the US campaign to label GMO foods, Dr. Mercola will
match all donations made by May 26.
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