AGROTERRORISM Poster

Food Terrorism: Are tainted foods in the USA more of a threat than terrorism? Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned recently, and part of his outgoing statement included a warning to Americans that terrorists would strike the food supply. His words were "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply; because it is so easy to do." However, disease-promoting ingredients in everyday foods and groceries are far more dangerous than terrorists. Bill Maher -> "How could the terrorists make our food supply any more toxic than it allready is?"

Center for Food Safety (CFS) -> Sewage sludge used as fertilizer to grow food - “Sewage sludge includes anything that is flushed, poured, or dumped into our nation's wastewater system--a vast, toxic mix of wastes collected from countless sources, from homes to chemical industries to hospitals. The sludge being spread on our crop fields is a dangerous stew of heavy metals, industrial compounds, viruses, bacteria, drug residues, and radioactive material.”

Ignacio Chapela -> "As we move on into this so-called biotech revolution and we start producing more and more transgenic manipulations, we'll start seeing pieces of DNA interacting with each other in ways that are totally unpredictable... I think this is probably the largest biological experiment humanity has ever entered into."

Don Westfall, VP of Promar International, Washington, consultant to Kellogs, Unilever, Aventis, etc. -> "The hope of the industry (ABCs - AgBioTech Corps) is that over time the market is so flooded (with GM organisms) that there¹s nothing you can do about it. You just sort of surrender!"

A Public Relations firm quoted in NGIN -> "Health issues are the killing fields for the biotech industry." Lawrence Summers, Former Chief Economist of The World Bank, Current President of Harvard - Internal Memo -> "Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the less developed countries? The economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable. Under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted."

Dr Suzanne Wuerthele, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxicologist -> "This technology is being promoted, in the face of concerns by respectable scientists and in the face of data to the contrary, by the very agencies which are supposed to be protecting human health and the environment. The bottom line in my view is that we are confronted with the most powerful technology the world has ever known, and it is being rapidly deployed with almost no thought whatsoever to its consequences."

Dr Mae Wan-Ho, geneticist in the UK Open University Department of Biology -> "Genetic engineering bypasses conventional breeding by using artificially constructed parasitic genetic elements, including viruses, as vectors to carry and smuggle genes into cells. Once inside cells, these vectors slot themselves into the host genome. The insertion of foreign genes into the host genome has long been known to have many harmful and fatal effects including cancer of the organism."

US Secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman, under the Clinton Administration, post-departure -> "What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good because it was going to solve the problems of the human race and feed the hungry and clothe the naked. And there was a lot of money that had been invested in this, and if you're against it, you're Luddites, you're stupid. There was rhetoric like that even here in this department. You felt like you were almost an alien, disloyal, by trying to present an open-minded view on some of the issues being raised. So I pretty much spouted the rhetoric that everybody else around here spouted; it was written into my speeches."

Perchlorate Found In Breast Milk Across US -> "A chemical associated with rocket fuel has turned up in most samples of breast milk and store-bought cow's milk from 23 US states, a new study reveals. The chemical may disrupt metabolism in adults and lead to mental retardation in children." - NewScientist - February 23, 2005

Cancer-Risk Dye Taints Foods Worldwide -> An industrial red dye (implicated in causing cancers in rats) has entered the human food chain in at least 15 different countries. - NewScientist - February 24, 2005...

FutureHi -> "But suppose if, instead of waiting for the collapse of the market economy and the crumbling of the power elite, we brought about that collapse, guerrilla-style, by making information free, by making local communities energy self-sufficient, and by taking the lead in biotech away from government and corporatists (the power elite) by working collaboratively, using the Power of Many, Open Source, unconstrained by corporate allegiance, patents and 'shareholder expectations'?"