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like a wave rising higher and higher until it crests, breaks, and finally peters out at the shoreline. While I go into related issues, keep the pelicans in the back of your mind. Our father was very keen on providing his children with a good education, and when my sister and I were young teenagers he supplemented our publicschool education with literature on philosophy, religion, and nutrition. The nutritional literature concerned the naturopathic approach to being healthy, and one of the fundamental principles in naturopathic medicine, and in its nutritional approach, is that toxins cause disease. Allopathic medicine, in contrast, strongly promotes Louis Pasteur’s research, that is, that bacteria and virus are the origins of disease. The allopathic tradition has dominated American medicine for a long time, yet in recent decades changes have come and a melding of naturopathy and allopathy is gradually occurring. Naturopathy, in the above story about the pelicans, proved its point. DDT is a highly toxic substance, a point which, when considering my experience, I’ll never forget. And I took my father, who was a scientist by profession, seriously. He encouraged my sister and I toward a non-toxic nutritional outlook and lifestyle, and we pursued the subject quite deeply for many years, remaining committed to nature and all that it means as middle-aged adults. More memories: I remember the controversy surrounding toxicity. In those days, the late 1960s and 1970s, naturopathic literature abounded with observations, analysis and warnings about pesticide-laden foods, as well as chemicallyladen foods. The rationale was clear: poison results in disease, reduce your exposure as much as possible, employ as little as possible. In the realm of big business, however, the very powerful and resounding response to the toxin/ disease association was, “Prove it!” And it was difficult to prove, the difficulty something the business world knew. Yet as a young person confronted with what I knew was outright belligerence on the part of the private sector, I resorted to what many people resorted to: my instincts. An intuitive certainty informed me that ongoing exposure to those kinds of poisons would eventually lead to disease of some sort. What a relief it was to learn many years later that orthodox medical science had finally proven it. An article in a well-known, respected, conservative medical journal drew the clear connection between cancer and toxicity. Upon hearing about the report, I remembered the early years. I remembered the belligerence. I remembered the attitudes. All of it I remembered. And now “they,” by virtue of what the medical journal reported, were vanquished. Still, during that time, my mother’s second husband succumbed to multiple sclerosis. Years later, my grandfather shot himself over the deterioration of his nervous system by Parkinson’s disease; he wasn’t a man to burden his family with ill health and he took his life by his own hand. Toxicity from a variety of sources has been implicated in both of these severe anomalies, anomalies which have taken many other lives as well. Why mention all of this? What’s the point? I remember watching, in 2012, in the Julian Library Community Room, Jeffrey Smith’s Genetic Roulette, a stunning movie about the health risks posed by geneticallyengineered foods. Imagine how I felt, then, when during a segment which included corporate advertizing images, an historic cartoon-style ad about DDT was displayed full screen. In the ad, a cartoon woman in 1950s hair and dress was captioned singing out a lyric: “DDT is good for me!” Colorful plants and animals surrounded her, singing out the same line. And when the DDT ad was displayed, what a history awoke within. My pelican friends. My stepfather. My grandfather. And as Genetic Roulette continued, I found the issue of genetically-engineered foods
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solution page 10 and feed more serious than I’d first thought. I also found history repeating itself. The abovementioned pesticide/disease association had, to me, in a manner of speaking, morphed into a g.e. foods/inflammation/ disease association. And what I also found repeating itself was an intuition. When I’d first learned about gene splicing, my instincts raised a loud cry. It was absolutely beyond outrageous to me what the biotech arm of any number of large corporations was doing, with seeds, and with our food supply. That I find history repeating itself is a point I want to stay with. Similar to past experiments, in genetic engineering we’ve a new generation of entrepreneurs and specialists exploiting scientific discovery for practical applications, exploitation as old as Western science itself. As the exploitation increases in sophistication, risk assessments
are required in order to protect the public. In cases where Great Wealth is involved, the risk assessment process concerning any practical application is politicized. Rivalry for dominance in the marketplace transforms what should be a universal health issue into a narrowminded power struggle. And the consequences of that struggle involve victimization on several different levels. One level concerns the findings of dedicated competent scientists, whose research leads them to oppose the entrepreneurial aspirations of the moneyed elite. Those findings, along with their conclusions, are often disregarded and hidden from public view. Other researchers are threatened, fired, and abused over any conclusions which oppose or question Big Biotech’s aims. Others, including the journalists who report their findings,
experience hostile attempts to discredit and silence them. And without their input for an accurate assessment, naturally any policy based on a deficient assessment will be a wrong policy. And it’s true. A significant portion of the truth concerning geneticallymodified foods and feed has been withheld, and is also being ignored, by people who should know better. There has already been one very significant lawsuit which forced undisclosed documentation in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be made available to the public. Please see footnote number one, below, concerning the lawsuit. Switching now to the support one finds FOR geneticallyengineered foods, is an interesting idea I heard a little over a year ago: “Everyone’s been eating G.M. foods for twenty years now and no one has gotten sick from them.” Interesting as well is what happens when a sick individual
removes all the geneticallymodified foods from their diet: the underlying inflammation which contributed to the outbreak of their disease often clears up and their health improves. Please see footnote number two for more on this issue. I’ve placed two contrasting ideas, above, next to each other, so the reader might see something amiss in one of them: the one about no one getting sick from genetically-modified foods. Is the supposed logic in that idea sound? Or is that idea and its apparent simplicity a rhetorical device for winning an argument, and, in addition, for winning elections? There’s a tone of great finality in it, and that, the tone, bothers me. Tissue inflammation, also mentioned above, is an underlying condition at the core of many serious degenerative diseases. While our society has successfully dealt with infectious disease through sanitation, diseases originating from
inflammation and excess have skyrocketed. Arden Anderson, PhD, the author of Real Medicine, Real Health, has said that upon ingestion, the body looks at a genetically-modified food and says, “I don’t recognize that.” Because the fundamental structure of the “food” is unusual, the immune system attacks and inflammation results. Some of the consequences of this physiological drama can be found in The Unhealthy Truth, a book by Robyn O’Brien, an ordinary Texas housewife and mother of four who was driven to understand the issue on account of her childrens’ severe allergic reactions to the foods they were eating. See footnotes two and three, in this article, for more on tissue inflammation. Currently, our society at large is NOT known for its vibrant health. According to medical statisticians and doctors nationwide, we’re getting sicker as time goes on. If continued on page 9