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Created by James Lucas on August 31, 2006, 5:53 am

On Friday, August 18, 2006, the FDA has approved a virus ****tail to be sprayed on the foods that we eat. Thats right, a living virus. This is the first time in History that viruses will be used as a food additive. The FDA wants people to believe that these viruses, consumed over a lifetime, will have no adverse effect on health.

For those of you that believe this is no big deal, imagine standing in line for a virus-laden sandwich. Do you like the idea of buying a virus infested turkey for thanksgiving dinner. Your local mini-mart will now be selling virus filled lunchmeat (yum!!!). Live viruses will be sprayed on foods such as cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and chicken.

The real problem is the poor quality FDA-approved food supply that is already full of diseased and sickly animals, many which are imported from other countries. Unhealthy animals are a great place for bacteria to grow and prosper, especially after this meat makes it to the market. Rather than address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to add another adulteration into our food supply.

The stated goal of the FDA-approved viruses is to kill a rare bacterium known as Listeria monocytogenes. This bacterium is killed by cooking; however, it poses a problem in meats that are cooked during processing and not cooked again prior to consumption, so it can redily infect foods such as deli meat.

Basically, the FDA plans to use one infectious organism to fight another. The carnage of battle will end up in your digestive tract along with the victorious live viruses, which the FDA assures us will not attack human cells. However, they cannot possibly be certain the viruses will not attack the friendly bacteria that make up the lining of your digestive tract. The FDA approval was based on scant human testing, mostly from unrelated medical experiments. Such safety data is woefully inadequate to determine safe ingestion of a specific product by humans over the course of a lifetime.

THE FDA CERTAINLY KNOWS THERE ARE RISKS!!!

The FDA had some concerns about the amount of bacterial endotoxin in the Intralytix product before it is sprayed; however, FDA tests apparently showed that the product was adequately purified and so they declared it safe if used as approved. Will the FDA diligently monitor the quality of this product once it is on the market, or will it go the path of many FDA-approved drugs that the agency can't keep track of?

There is certainly a risk that humans will be exposed to excessive amounts of endotoxin. This could come from the manufacturing of the viral ****tail, the interaction of the viruses with bacteria after being sprayed on food, and/or the interaction of the viruses with bacteria in the digestive tract.

The human immune system is highly reactive and sensitive to bacterial endotoxins. They provoke allergy, asthma, autoimmune problems, and elevate cholesterol. They also interfere with the healthy function of cells lining the digestive tract. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of bacterial endotoxins can start cancer in the colon.

Additionally, the human immune system reacts directly to viral phages. Thus, a person who eats a lot of processed deli meat is certain to evoke an immune reaction to the viruses. What will this reaction be? Allergy? Asthma? Autoimmunity? Cancer? How can the FDA approve a food additive that it knows can induce a variety of human immune responses?

The ingestion of significant amounts of viral phages into the human digestive tract is a wild card full of unknown outcomes. For example, it is certainly possible that these phages, which constantly mutate in order to survive, are likely to find a way to infect bacteria they were not intended to infect. Since phages are parasites, they could hijack the friendly bacteria of the digestive tract and turn them into viral machines, constantly generating viral particles that are likely to confuse the human immune system, if not directly infect the body. We know from history that these viral phages can turn innocuous bacteria into a killer, which is how cholera occurs.

Furthermore, the Listeria bacteria are not going to take the issue lying down. They will develop resistance to the viruses over time, as we have seen with the overuse of antibiotics. Going down this path we are likely to have hundreds of viral food additives in the food we eat, all designed to combat some possible infection coming from poor quality food. Sooner or later we will inadvertently create deadly new super-strains of bacteria and/or parasitically infect the human digestive tract with an untreatable infection.

Keep in mind that the FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food supply to protect a small minority, only about 2500 people, who are made seriously ill by this infection each year. The ill are mostly pregnant women, elderly with compromised immunity, and small children. It would be a lot more to the point if the FDA would simply warn such people that eating these foods, due to their poor quality of production, may be dangerous. What the FDA should really do is improve the quality of our food supply, the true source of the problem. Why expose millions of Americans to an unproven ingestion of live viruses for the benefit of so few?

The FDA has failed miserably for the past century to protect the public from the adulteration of our food supply by vested interests. This is just one more insult added to a long list of injuries.

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I know this is a lot of reading, so lets recap.
-The FDA has approved a virus ****tail to be sprayed on the foods that we eat. The FDA wants people to believe that these viruses, consumed over a lifetime, will have no adverse effect on health.
-The source of the problem is the poor quality FDA-approved food supply full of diseased and sickly animals. Rather than address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to add another adulteration into our food supply.
-The FDA knows there are risks.
-The FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food supply to protect a small minority, only about 2500 people, who are made seriously ill by this infection each year. They should just warn the people who are most at risk, rather than risk infecting the whole population.

This petition was created so that the consumers can decide whats best. If you believe that the FDA should not use these viruses in our food supply, please sign this. If there are enough signatures, I will forward this petition to the FDA.

Petition Created by James Lucas.

Original Article by Byron J. Richards, CCN "FDA Approves Spraying Of Viruses On Our Food Supply"
      


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57 5 Aug 2007 - 5:41    walter haettig : this is just so very wrong that we are being used as guinea pigs.shame on the FDA.stop messing with mother nature.
56 4 Apr 2007 - 13:54    John : mmmmmmmm................. ..........viruses.... *drools* itll make us evolve into some sort of immune to ANY VIRUS SUPERHUMAN!!!!
55 1 Mar 2007 - 20:15    juli thompson : this is really gross
54 6 Feb 2007 - 7:39    Robyn Richardson : It's hard to keep up with all the different ways they are trying to poison us!
53 18 Jan 2007 - 19:03    Tracy Wahl :
52 16 Jan 2007 - 0:13    Michael Ford : Please do not allow Listeria monocytogenes or viruses to be put in our food!
51 10 Jan 2007 - 3:33    Melanie Labardini :
50 10 Jan 2007 - 0:46    Christine Zubizarreta : Stop messing with our food, and doing this behind our backs!
49 28 Dec 2006 - 9:35    Lacey Price :
48 13 Dec 2006 - 8:09    Aline : I am looking forward to talk about it during my oral presentation about listeriosis in my food safety class.
47 12 Dec 2006 - 8:49    Rosa De La Cruz : I think that we have to let everyone you know about this. This is a big deal and that we all have to work together to stop this...TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
46 7 Dec 2006 - 14:59    Erika : This is just sick. If we really want to fix things, inform the public about listeria and how to avoid it (cooking meats before consuming them, especially the deli meats).
45 6 Dec 2006 - 23:12    Melissa White :
44 4 Dec 2006 - 20:07    Chris Shabaugh :
43 2 Dec 2006 - 21:04    Michael Irish :
42 30 Nov 2006 - 23:28    Kathy Neely : I believe the FDA should not use the viruses
41 30 Nov 2006 - 2:42    Nancy Charlow :
40 17 Nov 2006 - 5:15    Jean Warrington, D.C. :
39 16 Nov 2006 - 4:36    Dr. Sara Downey : The apalling idea of spraying our food supplies with the very infectious microorganisms which cause disease...shame on you! The Europeans are correct in banning American food products from their food resources!
38 15 Nov 2006 - 23:49    jan findlater : Please do not spray any additives to our foods. We are already at risk because of your bad decision to allow genetically atlered foods.
37 15 Nov 2006 - 21:38    Isabel P. Kelneyi :
36 15 Nov 2006 - 21:34    Gregory Thoennes : The FDA is an atrocity. After years of deception, I wholeheartedly mistrust anything that says "FDA Approved" on it.
35 15 Nov 2006 - 19:50    Lana Kelly :
34 15 Nov 2006 - 19:15    Claudia Trapp : I already have some autoimmune antibodies which have the potential to affect my health. I don't need any GMO or viruses added to assault my immune system and cause havoc.
33 15 Nov 2006 - 19:10    Susan Kelenyi :
32 14 Nov 2006 - 0:34    howard blum :
31 13 Nov 2006 - 18:48    Edgar Guarino :
30 13 Nov 2006 - 2:34    Dr Brigitte Pelletier, D.C. :
29 12 Nov 2006 - 7:48    Dr. Gretchen Reschke, DC :
28 12 Nov 2006 - 6:05    Darren Hart :
27 11 Nov 2006 - 11:18    Michael : STOP SCREWING WITH MOTHER NATURE!
26 11 Nov 2006 - 5:51    Dr Treva Rademaker :
25 11 Nov 2006 - 2:23    Dr. Jason I. Pape :
24 11 Nov 2006 - 1:11    Karen Blum :
23 11 Nov 2006 - 1:10    Dr. Fred Blum : This "experiment" will eventually show itself to be a mistake of epic proportions. Please, learn from history. Asking every person in a population to ingest these organisms in order to possibly protect a small percentage is highly innappropriate.
22 11 Nov 2006 - 0:42    CATHERINE LEWIS : I DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF VIRUSES ADDED TO FOOD TO PROTECT A MINORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF OUR MEATS NOT BEING RAISED CORRECTLY OR LABEL THE PRODUCTS IN QUESTIONED FOR THE IMMUNED-DEPRESSED POPULATION. WE ARE HARMING OUR PEOPLE WITH ASPERTAME, GH, ANTIBIOTICS AND GE. DO WE NO LONGER CARE ABOUT OURSELVES OR OTHERS?
21 10 Nov 2006 - 22:20    Patricia Melendez :
20 10 Nov 2006 - 22:09    Kelli Dodge :
19 10 Nov 2006 - 21:20    Dr. Derek Shrout :
18 10 Nov 2006 - 20:51    Jennifer Becker : No more lies FDA!!
17 10 Nov 2006 - 20:46    Gillian Guin :
16 10 Nov 2006 - 20:43    Dr. M SHROUT :
15 10 Nov 2006 - 19:45    Christine Gamache : It's a shame. Once again, the health of millions will be compromised as we will be the guinea pigs of an experimental process. The problem with such a widespread procedure that takes place over many years, is that it makes it excessively difficult to compare exposed individuals to unexposed individuals (how many americans will possibly be unexposed? A handful?), thus making any adverse effect identification virtually impossible. Think about vaccine-injured americans. Do you think, to this day, the public is made fully aware of the risks of vaccination (essentially an experimental and widespread procedure too)? The only benefit to this procedure over time will be the wealth of the not-so-well-intended pharmaceutical industry. Spray-on money-lovers, spray on!
14 10 Nov 2006 - 17:30    Dawn Shreeve :
13 10 Nov 2006 - 11:00    Tina Aitala Engblom : I am strongly against adding viruses to our food supply. We should not be meddling with this at all!
12 10 Nov 2006 - 9:33    Dr. Barnes :
11 10 Nov 2006 - 9:32    Debra Barnes : this is horrible! I wont stand for it!
10 10 Nov 2006 - 8:42    Jean Grondin :
9 10 Nov 2006 - 8:40    Dr. Christine Renaud :
8 10 Nov 2006 - 6:07    Bob Kariatsumari :
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