Stephan: The corporate media keeps telling everyone GMOS are just fine. And yet studies like this one keep coming out.
WASHINGTON — A new study published today in the peer-reviewed journal AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES reveals genetic engineering of soy disrupts the plant’s natural ability to control stress, and invalidates the FDA’s current regulatory framework of “substantial equivalence” used for approval of genetically engineered food (GMOs).
The study, led by Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., an MIT-trained systems biologist, utilizes his latest invention, CytoSolve, a 21st century systems biology method to integrate 6,497 in vitro and in vivo laboratory experiments, from 184 scientific institutions, across 23 countries, to discover the accumulation of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and a dramatic depletion of glutathione, an anti-oxidant necessary for cellular detoxification, in GMO soy, indicating that formaldehyde and glutathione are likely critical criteria for distinguishing the GMO from its non-GMO counterpart.
Dr. Ayyadurai stated, “The results demand immediate testing along with rigorous scientific standards to assure such testing is objective and replicable. It’s unbelievable such standards for testing do not already exist. The safety of our food supply demands that science deliver such modern scientific standards for approval of GMOs.”
“The discovery reported by Dr. Ayyadurai reveals a new molecular paradigm associated with genetic engineering that will require research to discover why, and how much […]
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Tina Dupuy, - Alternet (U.S.)
Stephan: To quote this report, America spends more on "defense spending than China, Russia, U.K., France, India and Germany combined. There are only 20
countries on this planet that have a GDP bigger than what we spend on our ubiquitous military. Meaning we spend more on the Pentagon’s budget than 175 nations’ total economic activity," Think about what that is saying. Then place it in this context: In the United States, 17 million children experience food stress -- a euphemism for I don't know where my next meal is coming from or if there will be a next meal -- and 2.5 million of them are homeless. Would you say we have the right social values?
An American solider in combat in Afghanistan
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In all of America’s 239 years of existence, only roughly 20 of them have been without warfare of some kind. (emphasis added) And no, those are not in a row. We’ve had one or two years, here and there, where we haven’t spent our time bombing foreign countries, bayoneting our brothers in hopes of keeping our slaves or invading Canada (that really happened and more than once). We are a warring people. In the 219 years we’ve been raging and waging, we’ve managed to amass the largest military in the history of gatherings where people dressed alike.
(In fairness to us battle-binging Americans, historian Will Durant surmised, in the entire written history of the world, only 29 of them have been without some war somewhere. So we’re still a young country and relatively doing peace longer and more on average than the entire world. USA! USA!)
We throw more cash into defense spending than China, Russia, U.K., France, India and Germany combined. There are only 20 countries on this […]
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OMAR EL AKKAD, - Globe and Mail (Canada)
Stephan: If you read SR regularly you know that I have been predicting this for over a decade. Within the lifetime of most reading this, Southern Florida will begin to be abandoned. Here's why.
Southern Florida, Broward County, flooding
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Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is a strange-looking beast. Its south runway, unveiled last September as part of a $2-billion expansion project, rests like an overpass atop six lanes of highway traffic. Across the road, facing the vast turquoise sweep of the Atlantic Ocean, is Port Everglades – home to some of the largest cruise ships on Earth. Between them, the bustling terminals handle a significant portion of the human cargo that fuels Florida’s $70-billion-a-year tourism machine.
Easily lost in all this bigness is a temporary water feature – a large puddle by the side of the road near the foot of the elevated runway.
“This is just from rain,” says Lee Gottlieb, an environmental activist and 40-year resident of South Florida. “I don’t think it’s rained here in five, six days.”
But the rainwater pools anyway. Virtually all of South Florida is only a few feet above sea level. “They elevated the runway,” Mr. Gottlieb says, “but all the […]
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People living near the fracking sites have a 27 percent higher risk of being hospitalized due to heart and neurological problems compared to the place where fracking is banned.
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A new study found that people living near hydraulic fracking sites are at great risk of for heart problems, neurological disorders and other diseases. The findings provide evidence in how pollutants related to fracking could increase hospitalization rates.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University made a comprehensive analysis of the health effects of fracking to people by looking at the most common reason among 198,000 hospitalizations recorded on three counties in Pennsylvania between 2007 and 2011. The counties with fracking sites are Bradford and Susquehanna while the third country, Wayne, is not a fracking site but was included to serve as a control subject.
The team identified the […]
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, - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/Psych Pedia
Stephan: This study, like the Fracking one will require replication to become definitive. Also like the Fracking study this is an example of how American society, which is to say you and me and everyone else, literally poisons itself to make greater profit for the few. I find this Self-wounding very bizarre, and see it as part of the wealth inequity trend. And I see more and more of it.
Citation: Melissa Wagner-Schuman, Jason R Richardson, Peggy Auinger, Joseph M Braun, Bruce P Lanphear, Jeffery N Epstein, Kimberly Yolton, Tanya E Froehlich. Association of pyrethroid pesticide exposure with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a nationally representative sample of U.S. children. Environmental Health, 2015; 14 (1) DOI:
10.1186/s12940-015-0030-y 
Pyrethroid products
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A new study links a commonly used household pesticide with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and young teens.
The study found an association between pyrethroid pesticide exposure and ADHD, particularly in terms of hyperactivity and impulsivity, rather than inattentiveness. The association was stronger in boys than in girls.
The study, led by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, is published online in the journal Environmental Health.
“Given the growing use of pyrethroid pesticides and the perception that they may represent a safe alternative, our findings may be of considerable public health importance,” says Tanya Froehlich, MD, a developmental pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s and the study’s corresponding author.
Due to concerns about adverse health consequences, the United States Environmental Protection Agency banned the two most commonly used organophosphate (organic compounds containing phosphorus) pesticides from residential use in 2000-2001. The ban led to the increased use of pyrethroid pesticides, which are now the most commonly used pesticides for residential pest control and public health purposes. They also are used increasingly in agriculture.
Pyrethroids have often been considered a safer […]
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WASHINGTON — A new study published today in the peer-reviewed journal AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES reveals genetic engineering of soy disrupts the plant’s natural ability to control stress, and invalidates the FDA’s current regulatory framework of “substantial equivalence” used for approval of genetically engineered food (GMOs).
