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Bayer unleashes the hounds: Select farmers complete 'ag-vocacy' training to pacify the public about gene editing

Brandon Turbeville
Natural Blaze
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:46 UTC
bayer crop science
Set to become the world's largest seed technology company, if it is successful in acquiring Monsanto - Bayer's Adrian Percy, a global head of Research and Development with Bayer, has publicly bemoaned the fact that consumers in Europe are staunchly resisting genetic engineering and even stated that he believes that the battle over GMOs in Europe is over.

"To be honest," he said. "I think that battle is probably lost."

Percy says that countries like France and Germany are simply not going to budge when it comes to GMOs and that there is no point in fighting it. But that doesn't mean that Percy, Monsanto or Bayer are actually giving up. In fact, they're simply gearing up for a new fight, this time, with more "educated" "scientists," "farmers" and "consumers."

The company is planning to push for a new form of genetic engineering known as gene editing. And this time, the corporation wants consumers pacified before the fight even starts.
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UK Mother secretly gave her dying son cannabis oil against medical advice, he made a miracle recovery

Kyle O'Sullivan
The Mirror
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:43 UTC
callie blackwell
Callie Blackwell has bravely spoken about giving her dying son Deryn cannabis to ease his cancer symptoms which led to his miracle recovery.

The 17-year-old made an amazing fight back to full health after a relentless four year battle with a one in seven billion form of cancer called Langerhans cell sarcoma.

Deryn's desperate mother Callie created a cannabis tincture to help her son, who was given three days to live and had planned his funeral after three unsuccessful bone marrow transplants.

She admitted she had "nothing to lose" as her son was "dying anyway", and now hopes to stimulate debate and medical research into the treatment, which hasn't been licensed for children in the UK.

Comment: For more information read the articles below:

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The brain-shrinking effects of a junk food diet

Amanda Froelich
True Activist
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:56 UTC
twinkie brain
Nearly everyone is guilty of indulging in junk food now and again, but research has found that those who frequently snack sugary drinks, high-sodium snacks, and processed meat are likely to shrink a portion of their brains in the long-term.

The study, published in BMC Medicine, compared MRI scans of approximately 250 people who were in their early 60's during the year of 2001. Two dietary questionnaires informed the researchers whether or not participants in the group ate a "Western" diet (high in processed foods, fats, salt, and sugar) or a "prudent" diet (largely composed of fruits, vegetables, and fish), reports Vice.

Researchers from Deakin University and the Australian National University discovered that those who subscribed to the healthier "prudent" diet had larger hippocampi - the portion of the brain responsible for memory, learning and mental health - than those who indulge in Western diets.

In essence, a low-quality diet consisting of sugar, refined foods may be to blame for those 'senile moments' more and more people are experiencing, despite perhaps being young in age.
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Surprise! USDA drops plan to test for Monsanto weed killer in food

Carey Gillam
EcoWatch
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:38 UTC
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© Cornucopia Institute
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has quietly dropped a plan to start testing food for residues of glyphosate, the world's most widely used weed killer and key ingredient in Monsanto's branded Roundup herbicides.

The agency spent the last year coordinating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in preparation to start testing samples of corn syrup for glyphosate residues on April 1, according to internal agency documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Documents show that at least since January 2016 into January of this year, the glyphosate testing plan was moving forward. But when asked about the plan this week, a USDA spokesman said no glyphosate residue testing would be done at all by USDA this year.

The USDA's plan called for the collection and testing of 315 samples of corn syrup from around the U.S. from April through August, according to the documents. Researchers were also supposed to test for the AMPA metabolite, the documents state. AMPA (aminomethylphosphonic acid) is created as glyphosate breaks down. Measuring residues that include those from AMPA is important because AMPA is not a benign byproduct but carries its own set of safety concerns, scientists believe.

Comment: Not really surprising when you consider the fact that Anti-Monsanto science is being censored by the USDA:
Last weekend's Washington Post featured a front-page article about the mounting allegations of scientific censorship at the USDA, often to appease politically powerful agricultural companies like Monsanto.

You heard that right: when independent, government scientists produce research that threatens corporate agribusinesses, the USDA—according to at least 10 government scientists—censors the results, waters down the findings and punishes the researchers.
USDA tests for over 400 pesticides - but not glyphosate
Consumers groups have been calling on the US government to test foods for glyphosate residues on behalf of the public, to try to determine what levels may be found and if those levels are dangerous. But so far those requests have fallen on deaf ears.

It would seem that would be an easy request to meet. After all, since 1991, the US Department of Agriculture has conducted a 'Pesticide Data Program' (PDP) that annually collects pesticide residue data for hundreds of pesticides.

The testing looks for residues on a range of food products, including infant formula and other baby foods, and also looks for residues in drinking water. The purpose of the program is to "assure consumers that the food they feed their families is safe", according to the USDA.

But while the USDA looks for residues of other herbicides, as well as fungicides and insecticides, the agency routinely does not test for glyphosate. It did one 'special project' in 2011, testing 300 soybean samples for glyphosate, and found that 271 of the samples had residues. The agency said all fell within the range deemed safe by the EPA, and has since said that testing for glyphosate is "not a high priority."

In the latest annual PDP report - issued yesterday, 11th January - once again, glyphosate data is absent. Testing was done to look for residues of more than 400 different herbicides, insecticides and other pesticides on food products. But no tests reported for glyphosate.

The USDA says it is too expensive to test for glyphosate residues; much costlier than tests for the other 400+ pesticides that are part of the analysis, the agency says. The agency also echoes the position held by Monsanto that glyphosate is safe enough that trace amounts in food are nothing to worry about.


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New U.S. law HR 34 could eliminate informed consent for human experimentation with vaccines and meds (VIDEO)

Melissa Dykes
Activist Post
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
informed consent
The "21st Century Cures Act" - HR 34 - became law in December, 2016 and most people have no idea what it contains. Essentially, it redefines what is meant by informed consent. Or, put another way, it expands the ability for Big Pharma to experiment on the population under the assumption that the dangers of vaccines and pharmaceuticals are too minimal for serious consideration. Melissa and Aaron Dykes dig into the language and implications of HR 34.

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"Treat" cholesterol, exorcise the bogeyman

Dr. William Davis
wheatbellyblog.com
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:10 UTC
cholesterol
Cholesterol panels are a source of constant confusion for many people. And most doctors are no help, having been brainwashed by marketing from the drug industry, who pass off clinical trials as "science," studies bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical industry to drive statin drug sales, with exaggerated results reported via absurd statistical manipulations (e.g., reporting "relative risk" rather than absolute risk, a misleading way to play games with numbers, a topic to discuss in future).

cholesterol panel
Sandy shared her lipid panel 2 1/2 years into her Wheat Belly experience:
"Got some blood work done, including cholesterol. I'm confused. Not sure after 2.5 years of this WOE if I've improved or not. Seems some has improved, but total cholesterol went up. Can someone tell me if these results are good? I don't fully understand the numbers. Thanks for any help!"
Of course, the rise in cholesterol prompted a discussion at the doctor's office about whether the high cholesterol should be "treated" with a statin drug. Let's therefore take apart what has happened to Sandy's cholesterol panel and show why any discussion about statin drugs is unnecessary and ridiculous.

Let's take each parameter, one by one:
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Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history and it started with butter

Libby Copeland
The Washington Post
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:58 UTC
butter
© Deb Lindsey /For The Washington Post
Finlandia imported butter is sold at Walmart and other stores.
Have you ever eaten butter by the spoon? Butter without toast to prop it up or eggs to fry in it — butter for its own tangy, full-flavored, exquisite sake?

Elaine Khosrova does this, not infrequently. She warms a variety of types to room temperature, gets a glass of water to clear her palate between rounds and pries delicately at her subjects with scientific curiosity, observing how the different textures yield to her knife. Seven types of butter are in front of her today, made from cow, sheep and goat cream, ranging from a sunny gold to a soft, bridal white.

"You see how totally cohesive this is?" she says, prying at the first and mildest sample, a sweet cow butter made in New Zealand by a brand called Anchor. She slides a slab of the thick, pale yellow Anchor onto her spoon.

Comment: All hail grass-fed butter

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2 + 2 = 4

Stress deprivation and Caesarean birth

Dr Michel Odent
The Hippocratic Post
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:33 UTC
Is birth by pre-labour Caesarean an extreme example of stress deprivation?

sensory deprivation
In the framework of our cultural conditioning, "stress' has a negative connotation: we must avoid stressful situations. Meanwhile, in the current scientific context, it appears that stress hormones have multiple roles to play and the concept of "stress deprivation" has recently emerged in scholarly articles.

It has been understood for a long time that pre-labour Caesarean is a risk factor for respiratory difficulties in the neonatal period, and that the risks are dependent on the gestational age: differences in the quality of the respiratory functions are detectable when comparing pre-labor births at 38 and 39 weeks.1

Comment:

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Syringe

Watch out! Zika vaccine developed to alter DNA

Jon Rappoport
Natural Blaze
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:41 UTC
vaccine court
First, I'll lay out a little background—

In many previous articles, I've established there is no convincing evidence the Zika virus causes the birth defect called microcephaly. (Zika archive here)

Basically, Brazilian researchers, in the heart of the purported "microcephaly epidemic," decided to stop their own investigation and simply assert Zika was the culprit. At that point, they claimed that, out of 854 cases of microcephaly, only 97 showed "some relationship" to Zika.

You need to understand that these figures actually show evidence AGAINST Zika. When researchers are trying to find the cause of a condition, they should be able to establish, as a first step, that the cause is present in all cases (or certainly an overwhelming percentage).

This never happened. The correlation between the presence of Zika and microcephaly was very, very weak.
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5G technology and the coming health crisis

Paul A. Philips
Natural Blaze
Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:26 UTC
5G technology
5G technology involves the nationwide rollout of thousands of antennas to be used in conjunction with the various supporting appliances and applications in the wireless mobile network. There are, however, serious growing health, safety and environmental concerns over this developing technology.

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has given the okay for the telecommunication industry to operate the 5G (fifth generation) technology using new spectral frontiers, making the USA the first country in the world to do so: However, operation on this new higher frequency electromagnetic spectrum range has never been evaluated for how it will impact humans or animals and the environment.

Quite an appalling circumstance when considering the current wireless technology with its electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is known to disrupt biological integrity and cause ill health. People's exposures to EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies) have been known to result in, for examples, neurological effects, brain tumours, learning difficulties, nervous, hormonal and behavioural problems... It has been said that the same will happen with 5G technology. What about children? They are more susceptible than adults because their smaller bodies take in higher EMF radiation. Thus, if allowed, 5G will be another addition to the list of silent killers associated with deceptively harmful technology.
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