9/12/03 Akron, OH - Monsanto Co. has reported that sales of its glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup have soared since the company began marketing its controversial "Roundup ready" seed in 1996. Crops grown from the genetically modified seed are resistant to Roundup, allowing farmers to use more of the chemical without fear of crop damage.
But many who have experienced prolonged exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides, including farm workers and neighbors of commercial growing fields, have long complained of a number of adverse health effects, prompting industry researchers to seek a safer alternative.
Today, Ovext Industries, a leading pharmaceutical developer, announced what may well be a far-reaching solution. In a press conference at the company's headquarters in Akron, Ohio, the company's CEO and president Randall Maulsby told reporters that Ovext had applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of Vexium, an over-the-counter oral drug which, when administered to pregnant women in the third trimester, imparts glyphosate immunity to the fetus, making it virtually Roundup ready.
"This is a milestone for Ovext Industries' developing franchise in pre-natal care," said Maulsby. "This development is further substantiated through our collaboration with Nestle, which will provide us an unlimited ability to distribute Vexium worldwide should the need arise in the future." Nestle is the world's largest food producer, with satellite operations throughout the civilized world and also France.
While special interest groups worry that the creation of a Roundup ready generation could have potentially harmful and irreversible genetic repercussions in the future, food manufacturers have hailed the drug as a much-needed solution to a generally unknown but serious health risk. Symptoms of overexposure to Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides include gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting, nausea), skin problems (blisters, pustules), eye problems (burning, conjunctival infection, pruritus), respiratory diseases, fever and non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of cancer. But preliminary studies conducted by Ovext in late 2002 show that children whose mothers took Vexium during pregnancy could consume unlimited amounts of Roundup in liquid form without significant contraindications. Side effects were rare and included gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting, nausea), skin problems (blisters, pustules), eye problems (burning, conjunctival infection, pruritus), respiratory diseases, fever and non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of cancer. The company also warns that pregnant women and people with white blood cells should consult a doctor before taking Vexium.
Ovext Natoscience, Inc., a subsidiary of Ovext Industries, and Monsanto will co-promote Vexium in the United States once approved by the FDA as part of a long-term strategic alliance between the two companies. Along with its neo-natal products, Ovext also currently markets a line of aftermarket fuel additives in the U.S. and Canada.
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SO LEMME GET THIS STRAIGHT:
What they're trying to tell us is: that first they have poisoned our crops, the food we eat on a daily basis, our soil that food grows in and that we walk on, and our water supply (drainge from the soil into the water, which goes to our drinking water filtration symstem....)
and then,
once we're sick from them poisoning us,
they will come out with a wonder drug that will geneticly alter us and possibly make us sick...all at a cost, of course. Which willup our taxes, if we have medicare or medicaid, cuz we're already on disability from them poisoning us in the first place.
WOULDN'T IT BE EASIER, AND HEALTHIER, JUST TO QUIT POISONING US AND GO ORGANIC???!!!
FRITO LAY puts poisonous dyes in their Doritos; MonoSodium Glutamate, which can cause seizures and make you feel 'doped up'; corn syrup solids, which can actually make you sick....General Foods uses all kinds of chemicals in it's cereals that are consumed by children and adults...and when enough is in our systems over a time, can actually make us 'crazy' (cause ADD, hyperactivity, etc.) and/or just plain SICK.
R.J. Reynolds pays the politicians BIG money to keep their tobacco plants growing...and then come out with new 'flavours', like they're making LifeSavers Candy instead of tossing in unknown toxi chemicals to get and keep children and adults hooked on a drug that is reknown to be worse than heroin. It is reported that it is chemically EASIER to get over an addiction to heroin than to get over an addiction to cigarrettes. And yet the tobacco companys are still at it, and still subliminally dealing to the kids, to get and keep them hooked, all while paying off the politicians to turn a blind eye, as they contribute to their 'Say No to Drugs' campaign. The sick twisted irony!
Meanwhile: the food we eat is being poisoned. But they'll come out with a new man-made drug to get us hooked on, so we don't die from their poison...
Sure, Organic is not cheap...but neither is chemical poisoning, and the medical costs and unemployment incurred because of it.
No wonder the world is insane.
It reminds me of the time I accidentally put dog flea powder on my cat, and she licked it off and lost her mind. She was never ever the same after that. It just made her...crazy. Wacked out like a mad hatter licking mercury. Well, that's what the big-wig corporations who grease the palms of the politicians are doing to US.
Isn't it about time we said, "Quit."
Boycott Nestle. Boycott Frite Lay. Boycott General Mills and any other corporation who puts poison and addictive ingredients in the food we eat, but they don't label it as such. (Warning! The Surgeon General states that eating these artificially-flavoured, dye-added, M.S.G. laden Guacamole-tasting corn chips contain chemicals that can make you sick, get you hooked, cause illness or even death if consumed in mass amounts or over a period of time!)
Write your government official. Write the Ag. Board. Write the President. Write, write, write, complain complain complain:
"QUIT POISONING US!!! GO ORGANIC!!!"
~ EmerEmer74@yahoo.com
Posted by: EMER | October 05, 2004 at 12:11 AM