In fact the overwhelming consensus of the FDA’s own scientists, were that genetically engineered foods were unsafe and could lead to allergies, toxins, new diseases and nutritional problems. The person in charge of policy who overruled and ignored the scientists had been recruited to the FDA from Monsanto’s law firm and later became Monsanto’s vice president.

I’m not against genetic engineering per say. Genetic engineering can be applied to human gene therapy. It can be creating medicines in the laboratory under very carefully watched conditions. But we should not feed the products of infant science to millions of people or release into the environment where it can never be recalled. We don’t understand the language of the DNA. Yes, I am for DNA research. Genetic engineer in laboratories in carefully controlled condition, but not in my intestines, not in my environment.

Soy allergies skyrocketed in the UK soon after GM soy was introduced into the country.

This is one of the most technologies ever introduced on Earth and it is being deployed in our food supply.

These oligarchies, the multinationals, are owned by very few people and groups. They have the kind of power today that no emperor, king or pope ever had in history. Monsanto is one of those global corporations. Very efficient, by the way, and incredibly dynamic and vital. They’re just the latest type of feudal lord.

It’s a very broad patent. It would grant, if it’s accepted worldwide, would grant Monsanto control of a significant percentage of all the pigs in the world. And here’s what’s so critical. The patent isn’t just for the pigs. It’s for the pigs offspring. So mother nature works for Monsanto’s profit. Every time pigs naturally reproduce, that is a violation of the patent that you have to pay Monsanto for.

I think there’s only one reason. It’s to make the farmers dependent on this company. It’s like what has already happened with grain or corn. People have to buy seeds exclusively from Monsanto as well as sprays, fertilizers and so on, and end up totally dependent on the company. If every time a sow or piglet leaves the pen Monsanto can charge a fee. It’s a never-ending source of income.

In some American states, farmers who feed their pigs exclusively with genetically modified corn, or soy, have noticed a mysterious drop in their stocks fertility.

When you insert a gene the DNA can rearrange, can delete genes, turn them on permanently, turn them off. It can create mutations up and down the genome. And these can create unpredicted allergies, or toxins, or new diseases, or nutritional problems.

Enjoying an inside route to the corridors of power, Monsanto was able again and again to place employees in influential positions. Through Washington’s revolving door, corporate players continually traded posts at the licensing authorities, later returning to high paid board positions at the company. In the early 1990s, a blatant scandal played out behind the scenes at the nation’s capitol. It was about nothing less than the fundamental decision on whether genetically modified organisms should be allowed to enter the food supply at all. Several FDA inspectors expressed great concern after studying the test results. The government held back the papers in which they explained their reservations, however, as described by a critical FDA expert.

He says there’s medical proof that THC kills cancer cells. Rick Dwyer says Simpson’s hemp oil killed his father’s cancer and other diseases. It took the fluid off his lungs. It repaired the prostate. It did so many things for him, he doesn’t even take his insulin now for his diabetes because it controls his diabetes.

Hemp has been used in medicine for nearly 5,000 years!

Cannabis and hemp traditionally have been used to treat alcoholics, recovering drug addicts, and it hasn’t changed over the years. They’re still using it today in some cases, but most medical facilities don’t recognize it. I believe they don’t recognize the product because of the disinformation that’s been handed over the years. It’s touted as an illicit drug rather than a medicine. In the research that we have, the most amazing part of the product is the medicinal value to it.

When we began, Rick asked me to find out if there was any detrimental effects to hemp oil. As we searched we couldn’t find any. And the research kept coming back with all the good aspects of the medicine. That is we kept looking and we ran into Dr. Guzm n’s in Spain who has done research since 1999 into the hemp oils. The International Cannabinoid Research Society has been researching it for seventeen years. They have research papers from various researchers and research organizations including Health Canada. And with our research we haven’t been able to find anything detrimental. Everything is beneficial from the oil.

The chemo and the radiation just kills everything inside of you. It doesn’t give you a chance to live. And then when I look at my hemp oil that’s why I am sitting here today telling you that hemp oil does work.

The more money you spend on cancer, the more cancer you get. And the reason why, is there has been virtually no movement in the field of prevention. …You wait til’ they get the cancer and then you try and treat it. As such the more drugs are bought the higher the profit. Now the more disease there is the greater the profit.

On January ’07 my father came to stay with my wife and I because his cancer had become unmanageable. He could not stay alone anymore. At this point the man had fluid in both lungs, couldn’t even hardly walk around, his breathing had gone down to 70% and he was on his last legs. We started him on the treatment, and inside of three months the cancer was completely gone and between that he got nothing but better.

We all have PCBs in our bodies. The polar bears and the penguins have PCBs… And, what has happened is in the past there were a few sites where PCBs were released, but over time they’ve gone into the air, they’ve gone into the water; they’ve transported so the whole world is now contaminated with PCBs. The issue is that many diseases are caused by PCB exposure. The one everyone knows about is cancer.

The big surprise was that Roundup has an effect on cell division. We saw very quickly that roundup affected a key process in cell division. Not the cell division mechanisms themselves, but those which control cell division. You have to understand how cells become cancerous. In the beginning all cells are benign. And then at a certain point modifications take place in the cells that make them unstable from a genetic point of view. This is the first malfunction we observed with Roundup. It is for that reason that we consider that Roundup provokes the first stages that lead to cancer. We’re careful not to say it provokes cancer, because we won’t see that cancers develop for 30 or 40 years.
It was immediately clear how important these findings were for product users especially since the tested doses were well below those which people normally use, and we said to ourselves ‘gosh we really have to let the public know about the dangers as quickly as we can. And I thought the best way to do that was to talk to my administration, but there I was shocked… very shocked, because I was told, ordered rather, not to communicate our findings due to the GMO question lurking in the background.

It seems Monsanto’s new wonder has what it takes to entice farmers, but how does it work? How can the soybean plant survive being sprayed with Roundup?

This is a soybean cell. The core of the cell contains its DNA in which the beans genetic structure is encoded. In order to create its GMOs, Monsanto breaks the species barrier using a Roundup resistant gene harvested from a bacterium. This gene is placed on microscopic particles of gold, which are fired into the soybean cells with a gene gun. The gene penetrates the DNA and creates a protein making the plant resistant to Roundup. When the herbicide is sprayed on the crop it kills all the weeds leaving the soybean plants intact. One must admit that the process is an incredible technological feat, but these soybeans engineered to withstand such a powerful herbicide are destined for our dinner plates.

Exceptional news footage actually shows George Bush Sr. visiting Monsanto’s research facility nine years before Roundup ready soybeans first sold. When George Bush Sr. toured the company’s headquarters, he was Ronald Reagan’s Vice President, and deregulation was this public administration’s watch word. The intention was to boost industry by eliminating what White House hardliners called bureaucratic hurdles, like health and environmental safety testing, which were Monsanto’s key problems. In 1988 when George Bush Sr. was elected President of the United States, Dan Quayle became the new Vice President. Four years later, he announced the American policy concerning GMOs, drafted just as Monsanto had wanted.

“We are taking this step as part of the President’s regulatory relief initiative now in its second phase. The United States is already the world leader in biotechnology, and we want to keep it that way. In 1991 alone it was a $4 billion industry. It should reach at least $50 billion by the year 2000. As long as we resist the spread of unnecessary regulation.” -Dan Quayle

He (Michael Taylor) moved over to the FDA of July, 1991. Up until that time he was at a law firm called King & Spalding. His personal clients included, not only Monsanto, but the International Food and Biotechnology Council. And he had drafted for them a proposal for how they would like to see genetically engineered foods regulated. And if you look at the proposal that was written for IFBC that was Michael Taylor’s with the final one that was published, it looks very similar.

It’s a transgenic hormone that’s injected into cows increasing dairy production by 20%. It would be an understatement to say that it had critics. Called rBGH for recombinant bovine growth hormone, Monsanto began selling it to dairy farmers in 1994 under the brand name Polilac. In 1985, Monsanto submitted Posilac to the FDA for market approval. The experts at the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine reviewed the studies that the company had carried out on experimental herds. At the FDA, the veterinarian in charge of reviewing the data was Richard Burroughs. In an interview he stated that agency officials had suppressed and manipulated data.

After ten years on the market, Roundup ready soybeans account for 90% of all the soybeans grown in the U.S. In fact 70% of the food in American stores contains bioengineered elements. Unlike Europe, consumers cannot make an informed decision because GM labeling is forbidden. A direct consequence of the principle of substantial equivalence.

To preserve its corn’s diversity, Mexico has banned genetically modified crops. However due to the NAFTA free trade agreement it signed with the United States and Canada, Mexico cannot stop the massive importation of American corn, 40% of which is genetically modified. This industrial corn, as it’s called in Mexico, is highly subsidized by the U.S. government. So on local markets it costs have as much as traditional Mexican corn.