Summary: Mad Cow may not be a "disease" after all. I believe it's caused by insecticides/ and toxic animal feeds. This would explain the inadequate measures by the US government for detecting and preventing the spread of it. The poisons could be attaching to nerve tissues and spread by ingestion (like when cows were fed "infected" sheep brains)
Canola is a name that recently appeared in the marketplace and is apparently derived from Canadian-oil. Canola oil is actually produced from the rape seed plant. Rape (Brassica napus), a member of the mustard family, is listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as a poisonous plant with toxic effects which include ìpulmonary emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, constipation, irritability and blindness in cattle.
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Most people remember the mad cow disease epidemic and that cows, pigs and sheep went blind, behaved insanely, attacked other animals and people and had to be destroyed.
Reports at the time blamed the erratic behavior of livestock on a viral disease called scrapie (in sheep and pigs) and mad cow disease in cattle. However, when rape oil was removed from animal feed, 'scrapie' disappeared, Thomas explained.
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The toxic properties of the rape plant are cyanide-containing compounds called ìisothiocyanates. Thomas explains that cyanide inhibits the production of ATP in our bodies. ATP is the energy molecule that powers the body and keeps us healthy and young.
According to Thomas, ...glaucoma is the result of insufficient blood flow due to agglutination (clumping together) of the red blood cells and waste buildup on the cells and intercellular fluids. Thomas believes that ingestion of rape over time may cause glaucoma.
Thomas also believes that ingestion of rape over several years causes other vision irregularities such as retinitis.
Thomas explains how the clumped red blood cells cannot squeeze throughî the tiny capillaries in the posterior of the eye and, therefore, cannot deliver oxygen to the mitochondria (the rod-shaped bodies in a cell that facilitate the metabolism of fats, sugars and proteins).
Rape oil, as metabolized in the body, produces the latex-like substance that causes the agglutination of red blood cells, explained Thomas.
In this respect, glaucoma has much in common with hair loss, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and hearing problems.
Rape and the central nervous system
Rape is an acetlycholinesterase inhibitor. Acetylcholine is critical to the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles. When the normal function of aceytlcholinesterase is compromised, nerve fibers are not able to send the signals properly and muscles will not respond as expected.
In the last 20 years we have seen a dramatic increase in muscular disorders such as multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. Soy and (rape) oils are players in the outbreak of these disease conditions. So are the organophosphates--insecticides such as malthion-- used in food production in the name of efficiency, commented Thomas.
There are many people throughout the country who are convinced that rape oil is poisonous to the human body and that the body digests rape in such a fashion that congests the blood and restricts the flow of lymph fluid which can cause a myriad of physical and psychological disorders. Moreover, using processed foods containing canola oil, soy oil and chemical additives confuses the body and weakens the immune system, continued Thomas.
Mad Cow disease has turned Britain on its head. Even as the number of infected cattle in the United Kingdom has been reduced-over 180,000 cases have been confirmed, nearly four million cows have been destroyed-the likelihood of widespread human infection has increased. The disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, literally destroys the brain, filling its tissue with spongy holes. The growing number of British victims of "new variant" CJD, mostly young people in their prime who contracted the brain sickness from tainted meat, is a grim precursor to an uncertain future. Consumption of British beef has plummeted; financial losses have been catastrophic. An exhaustive report, released by the official UK BSE Inquiry last summer, traced the history of the continuing epidemic and confirmed the negligence of the authorities.
Mad Cows have now been found in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Luxembourg, Brazil and Canada. The US Department of Agriculture maintains that no Mad Cows exist here, and has tested nearly 12,000 bovine brains in the last decade-of 1.25 billion cattle raised in that period-and found not a single case of the British variant of Mad Cow disease. It is primarily this data upon which the agency bases their denials.
But what strains of the disease is the USDA looking for? Would the USDA actually alert the world if they found BSE in their laboratory, therefore precipitating the kind of panic seen in the UK and Europe?
The stakes are extremely high. One infected animal, whose remains are "rendered," powdered and mixed into feed, can infect thousands of other animals, and the thousands of people who eat them.
Leading food-safety advocates question the agency's small test sample, methodology and motives. They point out that USDA scientists are not likely to find the British variant of Mad Cow because, in fact, US cattle are likely infected with an entirely different strain-or strains-of BSE. Similar Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), or "prion diseases," such as scrapie (with 20 strains, and found in 45 US states) and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), have been found in populations of American sheep, goats, deer, elk, mink, and squirrels. The deadly infection is acquired through contaminated feed and maternal transmission, and probably from contaminated areas and through close proximity of animals to one another.
Can Mad Cow/CWD Prions Get Into The Water? - Yes
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
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In addition, prions are hard to destroy, resistant to extreme heat - up to 1,100 degrees - sunlight and many disinfectants. Agencies responsible for containing the spread of CWD have often incinerated deer and elk carcasses at very high temperature to ensure destruction of the prion.
There are no known cases of a human developing CWD. Nevertheless, scientists urge people to avoid eating meat from infected animals. A related ailment, mad cow disease, which strikes cattle, has made the leap into humans, killing more than 120 people overseas.
Infected cow bones may be used to make charcoal for water filters.
What's missing so far: An article I've read about how the cows in the US weren't incinerated to a high enough temperature. The dust from these cows is still contaminated with the prions that are alleged to be the cause.
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The Russian scientist planned a simple experiment to see if eating genetically modified (GM) soy might influence offspring. What she got, however, was an astounding result that may threaten a multi-billion dollar industry.
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The soy she was testing was Monsanto's Roundup Ready variety. Its DNA has bacterial genes added that allow the soy plant to survive applications of Monsanto's "Roundup" brand herbicide. About 85% of the soy gown in the US is Roundup Ready. Since soy derivatives, including oil, flour and lecithin, are found in the majority of processed foods sold in the US, many Americans eat ingredients derived from Roundup Ready soy everyday.
People allergic to soy protein face constant danger. Hidden soy exists in thousands of everyday foods, cosmetics and industrial products such as inks, cardboards, paints, cars and mattresses.
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THE RISE IN SOY ALLERGIES
Soy is one of the top allergens—substances that cause allergic reactions. In the 1980s, Stuart Berger, MD, labelled soy one of the seven top allergens—one of the "sinister seven". At the time, most experts listed soy around tenth or eleventh—bad enough, but way behind peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, shellfish, fin fish and wheat. Today, soy is widely accepted as one of the "big eight" that cause immediate hypersensitivity reactions.1–4
Allergies are abnormal inflammatory responses of the immune system to dust, pollen, a food or some other substance. Those that involve an antibody called immunoglobulin E (IgE) occur immediately or within an hour. Reactions may include coughing, sneezing, runny nose, hives, diarrhoea, facial swelling, shortness of breath, a swollen tongue, difficulty swallowing, lowered blood pressure, excessive perspiration, fainting, anaphylactic shock or even death.4–9
Delayed allergic responses to soy are less dramatic, but are even more common. These are caused by antibodies known as immunoglobulins A, G or M (IgA, IgG or IgM) and occur anywhere from two hours to days after the food is eaten. These have been linked to sleep disturbances, bedwetting, sinus and ear infections, crankiness, joint pain, chronic fatigue, gastrointestinal woes and other mysterious symptoms.4–9
Food "intolerances", "sensitivities" and "idiosyncrasies" to soy are commonly called "food allergies", but differ from true allergies in that they are not caused by immune system reactions but by little-understood or unknown metabolic mechanisms.7–9 Strictly speaking, gas and bloating—common reactions to soy and other beans—are not true allergic responses. However, they may serve as warnings of the possibility of a larger clinical picture involving allergen-related gastrointestinal damage.
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Scientists are not completely certain which components of soy cause allergic reactions. They have found at least 16 allergenic proteins, and some researchers pinpoint as many as 25 to 30. Laboratories report immune system responses to multiple fractions of the soy protein, with no particular fraction being the most consistently antigenic, i.e., capable of causing the production of an antibody.33–36
Soy allergy can affect all common allergy target organs such as the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract and the skin and can also cause systemic anaphylaxis.
Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:13 pm
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Summary Transmissible spongioform enchephalopathies (TSE’s), include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also
called BSE or “mad cow disease”), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. They remain a
mystery, their cause hotly debated. But between 1994 and 1996, 12 people in England came down with CJD, the human
form of mad cow, and all had eaten beef from suspect cows. Current mad cow diagnosis lies solely in the detection of
late appearing “prions”, an acronym for hypothesized, gene-less, misfolded proteins, somehow claimed to cause the
disease. Yet laboratory preparations of prions contain other things, which could include unidentified bacteria or
viruses. Furthermore, the rigors of prion purification alone, might, in and of themselves, have killed the causative virus
or bacteria. Therefore, even if samples appear to infect animals, it is impossible to prove that prions are causative.
Manuelidis found viral-like particles, which even when separated from prions, were responsible for spongiform STE’s.
Subsequently, Lasmezas’s study showed that 55% of mice injected with cattle BSE, and who came down with disease,
had no detectable prions. Still, incredibly, prions, are held as existing TSE dogma and Heino Dringer, who did pioneer
work on their nature, candidly predicts “it will turn out that the prion concept is wrong.” Many animals that die of
spongiform TSE’s never show evidence of misfolded proteins, and Dr. Frank Bastian, of Tulane, an authority, thinks the
disorder is caused by the bacterial DNA he found in this group of diseases. Recently, Roels and Walravens isolated
Mycobacterium bovis it from the brain of a cow with the clinical and histopathological signs of mad cow. Moreover,
epidemiologic maps of the origins and peak incidence of BSE in the UK, suggestively match those of England’s areas of
highest bovine tuberculosis, the Southwest, where Britain’s mad cow epidemic began. The neurotaxic potential for cow
tuberculosis was shown in pre-1960 England, where one quarter of all tuberculous meningitis victims suffered from
Mycobacterium bovis infection. And Harley’s study showed pathology identical to “mad cow” from systemic M. bovis in
cattle, causing a tuberculous spongiform encephalitis. In addition to M. bovis, Mycobacterium avium subspecies
paratuberculosis (fowl tuberculosis) causes Johne’s disease, a problem known and neglected in cattle and sheep for
almost a century, and rapidly emerging as the disease of the new millennium. Not only has M. paratuberculosis been
found in human Crohn’s disease, but both Crohn’s and Johne’s both cross-react with the antigens of cattle
paratuberculosis. Furthermore, central neurologic manifestations of Crohn’s disease are not unknown. There is no
known disease which better fits into what is occurring in Mad Cow and the spongiform enchephalopathies than bovine
tuberculosis and its blood–brain barrier penetrating, virus-like, cell-wall-deficient forms. It is for these reasons that
future research needs to be aimed in this direction.
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Mark Purdey's Organophosphate Model of Mad Cow Disease
In 2002-03, CWD was a hot news topic. Deer and elk in the area of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, were eradicated in a brutal and controversial government-sponsored shooting spree. The mass kill-off was allegedly designed to stop the spread of CWD to other herds, but was widely attacked as a public relations ploy, useful for little else than trying to convince hunters in Wisconsin that the wild meat supply was safe and covering up the true causes of the disease.
The infectious "prion" model of these diseases claims that prions found in diseased animals are then transmitted to other animals through rendered animal products in their feed. The prions in animal feed then go on to infect many animals who consume that feed. At least that's the official line in the U.S. and Great Britain. However, at the height of the Mad Cow epidemic in England, an organic farmer's personal observations led him to a different conclusion.
Mark Purdey and the Organophosphate model of Mad Cow Disease
Somerset farmer Mark Purdey observed that the UK's Mad Cow outbreak immediately followed the government's attempt to eradicate the parasite warble fly from cattle. Most farmers were required to treat their cows' spines and skulls with Phosmet, an organophosphate pesticide. Because Purdey was an organic farmer, he obtained special permission to avoid treating his cattle. He then observed that his neighbors' treated herds went on to contract Mad Cow Disease (BSE), whereas Purdey's untreated herds did not. Purdey also had purchased a non-organic herd which had been treated with Phosmet before he acquired it. That particular herd also went on to develop Mad Cow Disease.
However, all soy including organically grown soy contains things you do not want to eat:
1. Enzyme inhibitors
2. Haemagglutinin
3. Phytic acid
4. Goitrogens (causing goiter and hypothyroidism) and assorted other chemicals (A consequence of hypothyroidism is weight gain. - editor's note)
High levels of phytoestrogens and zinc-blocking phytic acid, plus additional neurotoxic compounds such as dieldrin, aluminum, fluoride and cadmium combine in soy to yield a veritable witchesâ brew that can have adverse effects on the brain during development and throughout life.
Unfortunately, many American are now consuming soy foods in high amounts as infant formula, soy milk and tofu-based products, usually as a substitute for nourishing animal foods. In Asia, soy is consumed in small amounts as a fermented condiment and not as a substitute for animal foods.
Asians recognize the need for âbrain foodsâ like eggs and fish and realize that large amounts of soy can cause thyroid problems and inhibit growth. They know that for optimum mental function, soy foods are not a good idea.
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Sheep study calls for closer look at prion hypothesis
Prions may not cause mad cow disease or scrapie, controversial report claims.
Michael Hopkin
The infectious agent behind diseases such as mad cow, scrapie and variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease may not necessarily be rogue prion proteins, say British researchers—a suggestion that flies in the face of current dogma about how these diseases are spread.
Although deformed prions are a characteristic of these diseases, they may not be the initial infectious agent, says lead researcher Martin Jeffrey of the Veterinary Laboratories Agency–Lasswade near Edinburgh. The researchers are basing their theory on how these proteins are absorbed in the sheep gut.
Experts contacted by Nature Medicine declined to comment on the controversial paper.
The scientists inoculated sheep intestines with brain extracts containing the abnormal form of the prion protein (PrP), the hallmark of the killer neurodegenerative disease. But when they later examined the infected sheep, the rogue protein had congregated at entirely different sites (J. Pathol. 209, 4–14; 2006).
"Despite the fact that the Nobel Prize was awarded for the prion hypothesis, there remains the possibility that it's not the correct explanation," says Jeffrey. "There needs to be a more assiduous investigation of the causes of this group of diseases."
The study also suggests that the mechanism of resistance against these diseases does not operate at the level of gut absorption, as some researchers had said. The 50 sheep studied displayed different levels of resistance to scrapie, but all absorbed the prions equally readily.
Although the study suggests that prion proteins can be absorbed by the gut, this seems to happen only rarely, at least in sheep. If the same is true of humans, then scientists may need to rethink exactly how the consumption of tainted meat leads to disease.
Jeffrey's team predigested a mixture of abnormal PrP and typical sheep stomach contents. But when they then injected this into the gut, almost no rogue protein was absorbed, and subsequent testing found that the mixture contained almost no abnormal PrP. Jeffrey says that sheep in the field are probably exposed to very little prion protein in their gut, because their stomachs would dispose of even the miniscule amounts ingested.
Another possibility is that absorption occurs higher in the gut, before proteins are digested—perhaps in the mouth, suggests Nicole Sales, who studies prion disease at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida.
If prions are not the infectious agent, the real culprit remains a mystery. "This experiment doesn't detect the infectious agent," says Jeffrey, but suggests that a fragment of the prion protein, perhaps too small to detect using standard detection methods, may be the guilty party.
The new discovery does not rule out the possibility that prion proteins, if absorbed in sufficient amounts, can also cause disease, Jeffrey says. But he contends that these proteins are not the whole story. "It's opening up a doorway into another biological paradigm," he says.
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Myth: Use of soy as a food dates back many thousands of years.
Truth: Soy was first used as a food during the late Chou dynasty (1134-246 BC), only after the Chinese learned to ferment soy beans to make foods like tempeh, natto and tamari.
Myth: Asians consume large amounts of soy foods.
Truth: Average consumption of soy foods in Japan and China is 10 grams (about 2 teaspoons) per day. Asians consume soy foods in small amounts as a condiment, and not as a replacement for animal foods.
Myth: Modern soy foods confer the same health benefits as traditionally fermented soy foods.
Truth: Most modern soy foods are not fermented to neutralize toxins in soybeans, and are processed in a way that denatures proteins and increases levels of carcinogens.
Myth: Soy foods provide complete protein.
Truth: Like all legumes, soy beans are deficient in sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cystine. In addition, modern processing denatures fragile lysine.
Myth: Fermented soy foods can provide vitamin B12 in vegetarian diets.
Truth: The compound that resembles vitamin B12 in soy cannot be used by the human body; in fact, soy foods cause the body to require more B12
Myth: Soy formula is safe for infants.
Truth: Soy foods contain trypsin inhibitors that inhibit protein digestion and affect pancreatic function. In test animals, diets high in trypsin inhibitors led to stunted growth and pancreatic disorders. Soy foods increase the body’s requirement for vitamin D, needed for strong bones and normal growth. Phytic acid in soy foods results in reduced bioavailabilty of iron and zinc which are required for the health and development of the brain and nervous system. Soy also lacks cholesterol, likewise essential for the development of the brain and nervous system. Megadoses of phytoestrogens in soy formula have been implicated in the current trend toward increasingly premature sexual development in girls and delayed or retarded sexual development in boys.
Myth: Soy foods can prevent osteoporosis.
Truth: Soy foods can cause deficiencies in calcium and vitamin D, both needed for healthy bones. Calcium from bone broths and vitamin D from seafood, lard and organ meats prevent osteoporosis in Asian countries—not soy foods.
Myth: Modern soy foods protect against many types of cancer.
Truth: A British government report concluded that there is little evidence that soy foods protect against breast cancer or any other forms of cancer. In fact, soy foods may result in an increased risk of cancer.
Myth: Soy foods protect against heart disease.
Truth: In some people, consumption of soy foods will lower cholesterol, but there is no evidence that lowering cholesterol improves one’s risk of having heart disease.
Myth: Soy estrogens (isoflavones) are good for you.
Truth: Soy isoflavones are phyto-endocrine disrupters. At dietary levels, they can prevent ovulation and stimulate the growth of cancer cells. Eating as little as 30 grams (about 4 tablespoons) of soy per day can result in hypothyroidism with symptoms of lethargy, constipation, weight gain and fatigue.
Myth: Soy foods are safe and beneficial for women to use in their postmenopausal years.
Truth: Soy foods can stimulate the growth of estrogen-dependent tumors and cause thyroid problems. Low thyroid function is associated with difficulties in menopause.
Myth: Phytoestrogens in soy foods can enhance mental ability.
Truth: A recent study found that women with the highest levels of estrogen in their blood had the lowest levels of cognitive function; In Japanese Americans tofu consumption in mid-life is associated with the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease in later life.
Myth: Soy isoflavones and soy protein isolate have GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status.
Truth: Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) recently withdrew its application to the FDA for GRAS status for soy isoflavones following an outpouring of protest from the scientific community. The FDA never approved GRAS status for soy protein isolate because of concern regarding the presence of toxins and carcinogens in processed soy.
Myth: Soy foods are good for your sex life.
Truth: Numerous animal studies show that soy foods cause infertility in animals. Soy consumption enhances hair growth in middle-aged men, indicating lowered testosterone levels. Japanese housewives feed tofu to their husbands frequently when they want to reduce his virility.
Myth: Soy beans are good for the environment
Truth: Most soy beans grown in the US are genetically engineered to allow farmers to use large amounts of herbicides.
Myth: Soy beans are good for the environment.
Truth: Most soy beans grown in the US are genetically engineered to allow farmers to use large amounts of herbicides.
Myth: Soy beans are good for developing nations.
Truth: In third world countries, soybeans replace traditional crops and transfer the value-added of processing from the local population to multinational corporations.
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Posted: December 12, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.
Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's organic. I state my bias here just so you'll know I'm not anti-health food.
The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
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I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you're also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.
Estrogens are female hormones. If you're a woman, you're flooding your system with a substance it can't handle in surplus. If you're a man, you're suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your "female side," physically and mentally.
In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.
If you're a grownup, you're already developed, and you're able to fight off some of the damaging effects of soy. Babies aren't so fortunate. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you're giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day. A baby's endocrine system just can't cope with that kind of massive assault, so some damage is inevitable. At the extreme, the damage can be fatal.
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them.
Doctors used to hope soy would reduce hot flashes, prevent cancer and heart disease, and save millions in the Third World from starvation. That was before they knew much about long-term soy use. Now we know it's a classic example of a cure that's worse than the disease. For example, if your baby gets colic from cow's milk, do you switch him to soy milk? Don't even think about it. His phytoestrogen level will jump to 20 times normal. If he is a she, brace yourself for watching her reach menarche as young as seven, robbing her of years of childhood. If he is a boy, it's far worse: He may not reach puberty till much later than normal.
Research in 2000 showed that a soy-based diet at any age can lead to a weak thyroid, which commonly produces heart problems and excess fat. Could this explain the dramatic increase in obesity today?
Recent research on rats shows testicular atrophy, infertility and uterus hypertrophy (enlargement). This helps explain the infertility epidemic and the sudden growth in fertility clinics. But alas, by the time a soy-damaged infant has grown to adulthood and wants to marry, it's too late to get fixed by a fertility clinic.
Worse, there's now scientific evidence that estrogen ingredients in soy products may be boosting the rapidly rising incidence of leukemia in children. In the latest year we have numbers for, new cases in the U.S. jumped 27 percent. In one year!
There's also a serious connection between soy and cancer in adults – especially breast cancer. That's why the governments of Israel, the UK, France and New Zealand are already cracking down hard on soy.
In sad contrast, 60 percent of the refined foods in U.S. supermarkets now contain soy. Worse, soy use may double in the next few years because (last I heard) the out-of-touch medicrats in the FDA hierarchy are considering allowing manufacturers of cereal, energy bars, fake milk, fake yogurt, etc., to claim that "soy prevents cancer." It doesn't.
P.S.: Soy sauce is fine. Unlike soy milk, it's perfectly safe because it's fermented, which changes its molecular structure. Miso, natto and tempeh are also OK, but avoid tofu.
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The Truth About Unfermented Soy and Its Harmful Effects
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Phytic acid's structure gives it the ability to bind minerals, proteins and starch, and results in lower absorption of these substances. Hence, phytic acid, in large amounts, can block the uptake of essential minerals, like calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, and especially zinc in the intestinal tract. Soy also inhibits the uptake of one of the most important minerals needed for growth and metabolism, iodine, which is used by the thyroid gland in the production of thyroid hormones.
However, for non-vegetarian men, phytic acid may prove to be quite helpful, due to its binding/chelating ability with minerals.
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Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow
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By Sam Hananel, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.
The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas customers in Japan and elsewhere.
Less than 1% of slaughtered cows are tested for the disease under Agriculture Department guidelines. The agency argues that widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers.
"They want to create false assurances," Justice Department attorney Eric Flesig-Greene told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
I would like to disagree with something that was said above. The mass hunt in Montana was highly publicized and was in part done to curb the spread of this prion disease yes, but I believe it goes much further than that. I believe that there are several goals in mind here. One is to call into question the safety of wild game. Game which is not purchased and therefore is not controlled by large corporations. Game which has been feeding our citizens 'safely' for thousands of years. Lets employ logic here. The more people they can scare off wild game means more corporate customers. They do not like to lose market share. The more money to be made and control to be had over our food supply the better. Eventually you will be at the mercy of food companies just like we're at the mercy of oil companies for our travel. Once they own the food supply they will manipulate food prices as they do with oil and you will be forever impoverished by them. Effectively a return to servitude.
The whole tone of this thread is about how our corporate-controlled food is killing us from our beans to our meat! The real goal is to patent 'cures' for these disorders. Patents mean billions of dollars, especially those patents which portend to 'protect' our precious food supply. So they promote a disease like CWD by innoculation then scare people away from wild game and develop a patented 'cure' worth billions forcing you to their game. They become the rich heroes for curing what's been purposefully spread and you become dependent on them for your food. No more free food hunted or garden grown. All wiped out by modern 'science'. Think it's scary? Wait and see... It's coming...like colony collapse disorder they will say it's accidental. Don't believe it.
It is no accident that the government is allowing unfettered genetic modification of our food supply by corporate sponsored scientists and universities. Completely zero oversight. Corrupt scientists are purposely and irreversibly wrecking what mother nature gave us because it is freely grown and distributed and not able to be packaged and sold to you. It's the same reason the electric car and solar panels are stifled in favor of imported oil, mined coal, toxic nuclear plants and gasoline. It's the same reason natural herbs and remedies which have worked for thousands of years have been replaced with costly drugs and toxic side-effects requiring even more drugs to treat.
America better wake up. While we focus on flashy gov't bailout stories, our bumbling idiot president stuttering his last goodbye billion-dollar corporations such as Monsanto are behind the scenes plotting to make themselves a NECESSARY and COSTLY part of our food supply just as others did with our fuel supply. Is anyone seeing a pattern here? They are planning to do to food in the what they've already done with fuel. Ask yourself this: How free are you when gasoline is $5 per gallon? More free than when it was $2 per gallon? Maybe. What about $10 per gallon? Cost controls behavior....even in a free society...see? Control the food and fuel and you own the people.
I believe Laissez-fair approach to regulatory oversight is killing our financial, employment, communication/media, transportation, education and pharmaceutical industries and even our precious food supply industry. Nothing is sacred in this new-age American Corporatocracy! Agencies are complicit. Thank God Bush is going now. I don't blame him for he was too dumb to notice or care; the corporate puppet-masters hand up his a@@. What's scary is that we can choose to reject drugs, mass-media and fuel to a degree, but we cannot reject food and water.
Hopefully Barack Obama will have the courage to stand up to these huge megalithic corporations and their highly paid lobbyists before they destroy our society. I hope and pray but I'm doubtful even he can stop it without the public demanding change en masse. We need some sense restored back into our regulatory agencies before it's too late. Think about this as you watch that cutsie news anchor flirting with the camera every night as she delivers the 'news'. She's entertaining you...soothing you.... massaging your senses.... rebel against it... fight it... question it....laugh at it... Think about what's happening to you as these puppet masters gravely explain the latest bulletin about investment fraud followed by which light bulb is most green and ask where's the real news? Why are we focusing on the trivial and ignoring the real threats to our freedom? It's time for a renaissance in America. An awakening! The masses need to stand up before it's too late. Warning bells are going off all around us.
Our health truly is our greatest wealth and they are plotting to own and control it using our food supply! Solutions include growing your own food using non-GM seeds. Stockpile original seedstock and talk to your neighbors about this issue. Grow extra food and give it away. Encourage your neighbors to garden. It's fun, good for marriage/family development and can be very relaxing. I only have a 10'X10' garden in which I grow about a ton of food per season. I give most of it away and freeze the rest. It doesn't require a lot of ground. Your yard can produce tons of food!
Every time I give away home-grown food it's less money 'pound-for-pound' for these manipulators. When shopping look for certified organic and reject all GM food. Insist on non-fluoridated water. Reject plastic soda bottles and tainted food products. If you don't buy it then they can't sell it. Don't be sheep following the corporate herder into your own enslavement. Educate yourself and read into everything you learn. It's the only way we'll beat them. Read Canadian and European studies to back up American studies. Their governments seem to be more responsible to the public.
Another thing you can do is write letters. I wrote a letter to my local grocer insisting that they carry fluoride-free toothpaste or I would quit shopping there. I didn't think they would care, but surprisingly I got a very pleasant letter back agreeing to stock this product. Apparently the $150 dollars per week I spend there is important to them. Now I don't have to buy the mass-produced brand with fluoride. If others followed suit eventually they would stop poisoning our toothpaste. These are only small examples, but if enough people woke up to what's going on we could impose massive positive changes in our society. They are only winning because the collective masses are asleep...
