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FDA Approves Spraying

Of Viruses On

Our Food Supply

By Byron J. s, CCN

8-28-6

On Friday, August 18, 2006, the FDA approved a viral cocktail to be sprayed on

foods we eat. This is the first time viruses have been approved for use as food

additives. The FDA wants you to believe it will be safe to consume these viruses

every day for the rest of your life with no adverse health effects. This is a

monumental announcement by the FDA, indicating they are throwing all caution to

the wind regarding the safety of our food supply.

Are you willing to stand in line for a virus-laden sandwich? How do you like the

idea of buying virus-infested food for your family? The first virally

contaminated foods entering our food supply with the blessings of the FDA will

be luncheon meat and poultry. Live viruses will be sprayed on foods such as cold

cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and chicken.

At issue is the very real problem of a poor quality FDA-approved food supply

that is already full of diseased and sickly animals, many of them imported from

other countries. The use of antibiotics during growth and radiation during food

processing is required by the fast-food animal farms owned by multi-national

companies to cover up the horrendous health of the animals they wish to feed to

Americans. Animals in poor health are a friendly place for bacteria to grow and

prosper, especially after such meat goes to 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 new 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 readily infect foods such as deli meats.

Yes, 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.

Turning Loose the Bacteria-Killing Viruses

The company that produces these biotech viruses is Baltimore-based Intralytix,

Inc. The viruses are known as bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, or

phages for short. Phages have been around a long time, living as parasites

inside many bacteria.

Intralytix uses biotechnology to grow viral phages in a culture with Listeria,

in theory teaching the viruses to recognize the bacteria. The FDA-approved

cocktail contains six different viruses intended to attack one strain of

bacteria.

This concoction is then sprayed on food. If Listeria is present in the food, the

bacteria will ingest the viruses. This results in massive viral replication

inside the bacteria, until such point as the bacteria simply bursts. This battle

results in significant production of bacterial poisons called " endotoxins " , as

the bacteria tries to defend itself. When the bacteria burst, these endotoxins

are released. These, along with the victorious live viruses, will now be on the

food that will be eaten.

The FDA and Intralytix would like us to believe that these viruses will only

attack the specified bacteria they are intended to kill and will be harmless to

humans. I'm sorry to burst their bubble, but they can't possibly guarantee such

safety. It is true that the viruses, at least at this time, cannot recognize

human cells. However, the virus can potentially recognize normal bacterial cells

in the human digestive tract and may be able to adapt to infect one or more of

these friendly bacteria.

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 cocktail, 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? Phages are so good at disrupting

normal immunity that they are being considered for use as part of organ

transplant medicine.

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.

There is also the very real possibility of unintended viral recombination. What

happens when a person with viral stomach flu eats food containing a dose of this

viral food additive? It is certainly possible for the genetic material of the

flu virus to interact with the genetic material of the viral phages, provoking

an undesirable new viral infection.

Let's not forget that the FDA won't tell us which foods in the food supply

contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Seventy percent of the packaged

food on grocery shelves already contains GMO adulterated food. These foods have

viral promoter genes woven into the DNA of every cell, a technique used to

implant a pesticide toxin into every cell of this fake food (see Fight for Your

Health, chapter 15). What happens when the viral phages interact with the viral

promoter genes in GMO food? What new virus will be encouraged to form?

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.

The Tip of an Iceberg

Intralytix has an agenda for the American food supply, as well as for healthcare

in general. This recent FDA ruling allows Intralytix and other similar biotech

companies to get their foot in a door that should be slammed shut and bolted

closed.

The company is also seeking FDA approval for viral sprays to treat foods that

could be contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella, which means that similar

" trained " viruses could end up in a majority of the protein foods in our food

supply.

Intralytix sees financial opportunity. They have already licensed their now

FDA-approved viral spray to an undisclosed multi-national company for use around

the world. When the CEO of Intralytix, Vazzara, was recently asked about

this partner company, he refused to disclose their name. The grand profit-driven

biotech experiment on the health and well being of all Americans is now in full

swing.

Vazzara also owns stock in, as well as provided seed money to start,

SteelCloud Inc. (formerly Dunn Computer Corporation) . SteelCloud is a defense

contractor with lucrative deals with the Department of Defense, recently landing

a 3.4 million dollar contract with the Department of Homeland Security.

Congress should investigate the financial ties and backroom dealings that would

allow this bizarre food additive approval by the FDA.

Of course, we will need new wonder drugs to combat the new bio-tech produced

infections. Americans will stay sick and the sickness-driven bio-tech industry

will flourish. The bio-tech industry will make people sick on the front end and

treat them on the back end. It's a win-win situation for profit on illness.

The FDA is Rapidly Becoming a Public Enemy

Experimenting with viruses being added to the food supply is incredibly

dangerous and reckless. It is completely impossible for the FDA to guarantee

safety in the near term or the long term. Thus, the FDA has made the

bureaucratic decision that relative safety is acceptable to them. What right

does the FDA have to tamper with the food supply in this manner?

It is quite clear that the Bush agenda has been to promote American biotech

companies as the new future for American prosperity. Administrative opinions

have trumped science in virtually every situation wherein safety conflicts with

profit. The FDA acts to foster profits for biotech companies and the growth of

the biotech industry. This is a betrayal of the public trust.

The leaders of the FDA are personally responsible and need to be held

accountable. This means von Eschenbach, M.D., temporary head of the FDA

and his chief science officer, Gottlieb, M.D. These men are not only

obsessed with approving risky drugs for the benefits of Big Pharma, it is now

clear that they are willing to allow obvious adulteration of the food supply.

They seek to control what we eat, and they are tampering with survival of the

human race.

The FDA does not truly know how safe viral phages are to consume on a regular

basis. They have no idea of the cumulative effect over the course of a lifetime,

especially as more of these viral cocktails are added to the food supply. They

have no way to measure how this new type of adulteration in the food supply will

interact with the poor digestive/immune health of half the American population,

in combination with all the other serious adulterations already approved by the

FDA. The FDA lacks due diligence in honoring its mandate to protect the American

public.

Boycott Viral Tainted Foods, Support Your Sustainable Farmers

The only hope Americans have is to resurrect the quality of our food supply.

Doing so is against the odds, as there are billions of dollars of

profit-mongering taking our food supply in the wrong direction. One day

Americans will realize that food security is as important to national security

as any other topic. It is now crystal clear that we cannot count on the FDA to

do the job that Harvey Wiley, M.D., envisioned one-hundred years ago.

Consumers standing in line to buy a luncheon meat sandwich will have no idea if

they are ingesting live viruses as part of their meal. While the FDA will

require the ingredient to be listed on packages as " bacteriophage preparation, "

most consumers will have no idea that means they are ingesting live viruses.

Foods bought at deli counters or prepared in restaurants will not need to warn

consumers.

How can any responsible parent feed virus-tainted food to their children? The

FDA should be forced to revoke this approval. Every American has an obligation

to support food security for our nation. Congress must correct the leadership at

the FDA and the FDA itself. Americans must quit buying poor quality toxic food.

Your greatest ability to change this problem is based entirely on what you

purchase.

Get connected to the sustainable family farms in your community. Buy meat that

is range raised without antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones. Demand that

the food you are eating is labeled with a country of origin. Buy American; buy

locally-produced food whenever possible. Support those who truly believe in

being the stewards of our land and food for our people and for future

generations. These good people are being squashed out of existence by

multi-national agribusiness, companies that could truly care less about the

quality of our food supply or the security and health of Americans. How you

spend your money is your most powerful vote. Vote for those who care.

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