Category Archives: genetically modified

The right to raw milk

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…is also a right to decide what goes into our bodies.  Apparently, Americans aren’t the only ones battling the bureaucrats who won’t allow us to know what food contains GMO’s…but tell us that good, natural raw milk with natural enzymes and natural Vitamin A and D (not synthetic, which is questionable)  that help us digest that milk…is bad for us.  Riiiight.  Somebody please explain this backward thinking…’cause I don’t get it…

More here.

Additionally, the right to decide what goes into our bodies has a far-reaching aspect–the right not to be vaccinated.  It never ceases to amaze me that abortion advocates will call you a nutjob for being anti-vaccine while saying that you have a right to choose to have an abortion…but not have a right to refuse vaccination.  Unreal.

 

Grain Brain

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A discussion was started on the mercury support group about a member getting her mother to move in with her and get the horrible amalgams out of her mouth so she could detox.

I was happy for her and her mother.  I related to her that my mother suffered from Alzheimer’ s that I am almost positive she was a Celiac and mercury toxic. But unfortunately, my own self diagnosis came too late to help her. I tried to convince my siblings that she was Celiac. This was about six months before she passed. They were saying she was too far gone at that point, and I am still questioning that–hell it was worth a try.

The nurse at her doctor’s office practically laughed at me when I called to request the doctor investigate a possible Celiac diagnosis. I tried to explain to the nurse about the neurological connection to Celiac and mercury poisoning… she politely listened, but I could tell she thought I was a nut.

My mother continued to eat breads, cakes, and cookies.  My siblings were of the opinion that it was the one pleasure she had left in life…but my thinking was that pleasure was surely causing her illness.

Another member brought up the book, Grain Brain by neurologist David Perlmutter.  I haven’t read the book yet, but I did catch him on PBS yesterday.

What he said stunned me–that a *cough* scientific “fact” has been disproven:   That your brain does not regenerate brain cells.  It does.

Stunning–we have been taught that our brains cannot regenerate, but Dr. Perlmutter states that aerobic exercise turns on the genes responsible for brain cell regeneration.  He stated that DHA (fish oil) also does the same thing.    I had experienced this myself, prior to mercury poisoning–I noticed about six months after beginning aerobic exercise how much better I felt and how much better my brain functioned.  I started after the birth of my first child, and it was the only exercise that I enjoyed  (I always disliked sit ups, push ups, etc. …b-o-r-i-n-g.  And I disliked the competitive nature of gym class.  We had a teacher once that punished the side that lost–since one side always had to lose, it was a ridiculous punitive action that made me hate gym class.)

Anyway, Dr. Perlmutter was basically stating everything I had learned from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride on the GAPS diet…grains are bad for you. Period.  I think Perlmutter goes into more detail about specific amounts of carbs to have…I’m just not comfortable with the mindset that one-size-fits-all.  I think we are too individualistic and medicine still does not recognize that.  They like to have us pigeonholed into neat little scientific packages when it has been shown, over and over again, that our bodies are unique and respond differently….as in the case of mercury poisoning…there are few symptoms that are alike for merc poisoning.  That is why it is so difficult for them to diagnose–they can’t seem to wrap their brains around many different symptoms–some physical, some neurological–coming from toxin exposure.

 

Occupy Monsanto protests

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Occupy Monsanto is organizing  a protest on January 28th in Missouri — at their annual shareholders meeting:

NEWS ADVISORY
January 15, 2014

CONTACT: Mark Bohnert – 314-265-5140, markbstl@gmail.com
Lacy MacAuley – 202-445-4692, lacymacauley@gmail.com
Adam Eidinger – 202-744-2671, GCU@Occupy-Monsanto.com

Protests Over GMO Food Labeling Come to Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting January 28

Monsanto Shareholders to Vote on GMO Food Labeling for the First Time
Activist Efforts Force Meeting to Be Broadcast LIVE Via Internet

CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI – Every January the shareholders of Monsanto Company come from all over the world to Creve Coeur, Missouri, in order to attend the company’s annual shareholder meeting. For the first time a shareholder has introduced a “GMO Food Labeling” resolution that will be voted on at the meeting. Unlike previous years the annual shareholder meeting will not be conducted completely behind closed doors, instead members of the media and public will be able to listen online. Activists have repeatedly asked for the video of the shareholder meeting to be streamed online but Monsanto has only met activists half way and will stream only the audio of the meeting. Outside of the shareholder meeting safe food activists will gather along Olive Blvd to urge shareholders to support the shareholder resolution.

WHO: Adam Eidinger, Monsanto Activist Shareholder, GMO Free Midwest Coalition, “Are We Eating Fishy Food?” GMO Art Cars, and Concerned Citizens

WHAT: Protest at Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting to Support Vote on “GMO Food Labeling”

WHEN: Noon to 3pm, January 28, 2014

WHERE: Olive Blvd at Monsanto’s East Campus Entrance, Creve Coeur, MO

If the shareholder resolution passes, Monsanto will be required to work with the Food and Drug Administration to label genetically engineered foods nationally. Monsanto’s executives oppose the resolution, but shareholders, many of whom are represented by faceless mutual funds, will have the final say on the chemical giant’s GMO labeling position.

You can read the text of the “GMO Food Labeling” shareholder resolution:
http://occupy-monsanto.com/new-monsanto-shareholder-resolution-supports-gmo-labeling/

Another shareholder resolution to be voted on at the company’s annual meeting is sponsored by activist investor John Harrington and deals with Monsanto’s potential liability to organic farmers. The protests at Monsanto will be the first since last October when more than 500 activists descended on the company’s headquarters for the March Against Monsanto.

For more information: www.occupy-monsanto.com

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Geoengineering: Insane and Delusional

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A report here on Al Gore speaking out on geoengineering.  I totally agree.  The Earth is a magnificent living, breathing, organism that can take care of herself quite well, thank you, without any *help* from us.

What we need to do is put on our big adult pants and scale down the polluting.  It means stop giving industry the right to pollute what belongs to all of us.  Well, that’s not accurate, either, because it doesn’t really *belong* to us, but rather, we are borrowing it while we are here.

It’s not ours to do with as we please, but a gift to be cherished and given back….what  a wonderful humble idea…

…meanwhile, that 15 MILLION pounds of toxins into Indiana waterways keeps flashing in my head….

Ohio River and the West Virginia spill

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So…the spill in West Virginia in the Elk River has gone into the Ohio River and is headed our way…so I went looking to see how the authorities are dealing with it…

I found that the Cincinnati folk are right on this–

When I looked for Indiana authorities’ action on it…nothing.  No surprise there.  The Indiana Dept. of Environmental (MIS-) Management allows businesses three years between inspections.  West Virginia could happen here. (and probably already has, but without nary a peep from anyone who knows about it.)

But I did find this disturbing report.  Indiana is guilty of dumping 15 MILLION pounds of toxins into the waterways.  Good Grief!

Here’s yet another disturbing report of BP once again poisoning a body of water from the Whiting, Indiana, refinery…you know, the petcoke we’ve talked about.  This time,  it’s our wonderful Lake Michigan they’re dumping mercury into….where is the media coverage here?  *crickets*

If you don’t think two pounds of mercury sounds like a lot, keep in mind it only take a thermometer of mercury to poison a 20-acre lake.

(Of course, I take exception to this article ignoring amalgams as sources of mercury along with vaccines.  And ignoring GMO’s as impacts on the gut, allowing heavy metal poisoning.)

…and it’s not just the water they’re poisoning…

More bad news for orcas

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This is a disturbing report on our stupidity and carelessness and its impacting ecology, and specifically the orcas.

Here’s a Puget Sound indigenous group trying to help the orcas.

Of course, thinking of the west coast, my mind wandered towards the impact of Fukushima.  A member of the mercury support group has stated that she felt much worse after moving to the west coast.  She left after a year.

From the article:

Barrett-Lennard says the southern resident orca pod, which is found in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, has lost seven matriarchs over the past two years, and he’s noticed a lack of vocalizations from the normally chatty mammals.

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More here.  This is even more sobering in detail.  There is an animated video of the radiation trail towards the United States and Canada.  Be sure to click on the Laura James video –a picture says a thousand words.  It made me nauseous looking at all the dead and dying sea stars.

They also make note that it is happening in Maine and New Jersey, so they question the Fukushima connection…but perhaps the radiation didn’t stop at the West Coast, but has traveled inland, as they say?

They also make note that the moose population is dying off–so much so that Wisconsin called off its moose hunt this past year.  The deer population, as I’ve blogged about, is suffering and dying, too.  And nobody questions GMO’s and their possible impact on these animals.

 

Agent Orange Corn

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Dow and Monsanto seem to be in a race to see who can be the most sociopathic.  Because only a sociopath can bioengineer corn so that they can poison the earth more, no matter at the cost to the ecology, humans, and animals.

The Center for Food Safety has a petition up to somehow get the spineless FDA to stop this depraved idea.  Please sign it–you never know, they just might feel the pressure for once.

Dealing with Celiac haters

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They have a good discussion going on at celiac.com on the “haters” who treat people with Celiac as whiners who should just eat whatever is put in front of them….never mind that it is poison to their bodies.

The comments are spot on–not exaggerating in the least about how hateful people are towards Celiacs–as if we asked to get this disease…

…note the comment that a doctor, a doctor, scoffed at gluten free diet as a hoax.  And a nurse did it, too.  No wonder I never got diagnosed by a *cough* medical professional.

On those rare occasions when I get to go out to eat, it is the rare restaurant (in my area) that has a gluten free menu or will make accommodations (gluten free bread, for instance).

I have been met with hostility from servers who couldn’t be bothered to find out if a menu item had gluten in it.  Not even when I asked each time she returned to the table.  I finally just had to pick off the ala carte menu and order mash potatoes (even though potatoes were not supposed to be part of my diet until I healed my gut with GAPS).

It happened the other night when I was in a diner and when I asked the owner about gluten free, she actually told me that another customer had asked about it, and requested the ingredient list for hamburger buns.  The customer actually fed the hamburger buns to her child!!  So…the restaurant owner, who obviously doesn’t know and doesn’t care about poisoning her customers, took it that the buns were safe for Celiacs.  She asked me what gluten was, and I had to explain it was wheat, rye, barley, and oats.  She suggested an entree of chicken.  There were two reasons I would not order it:  1.  Since she didn’t know and didn’t really want to be bothered with finding out about gluten, I wasn’t about to order anything more complicated than a burger without the bun.  2.  I eat chicken nearly every day….going out to eat is supposed to be something special–so yeah, I’m not going to eat more chicken.  Blech.

Another comment on the site spoke about:

As for the hostility of others, I sometimes wonder if it is because they know they need to change their diet but don’t want to, so they become resentful of those of us who do.

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I’ve wondered this, myself.  Once I started the GAPS diet, it still took me awhile to get it in my head that I was indeed a Celiac.  You might recall that I cheated for awhile with a snack that had wheat in it–a powerful draw to continue with something destructive.  And it’s still hard at times–favorite foods with gluten in them still make my mouth water.  But after a few times of cheating and becoming ill from it…yeah, you’re pretty much cured of cheating.  Nothing tastes so good that throwing it all up later  (or worse) makes it worth it.    Sticking to my diet is tough, so it is puzzling why others would be resentful…

Label the FDA

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Occupy Monsanto has this up on the ongoing efforts to get GMO food labeled.  A shareholder has proposed labeling, but the board has rejected that.  (no surprise there)

They are having an event this week to bring attention to the FDA ignoring the public’s wishes for labeling.