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Robert Cohen's Victory - Death Of Bovine Growth Hormone! By
Robert Cohen [email hidden] Not Milk.com 5-22-4
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... I
love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather st-
rength from distress and grow brave by reflection."
- Thomas Paine
I admit to murdering the [censored]. I plunged a knife deep
into the belly of the beast. Get the handcuffs and leg
restraints. I am a dangerous criminal. Lead me off to jail.
Monsanto will neither press charges nor credit me with the
kill. Why give their least favorite person credit where
credit is due?
FDA will not admit it either. After all, they still work for
Monsanto. So too, for that matter does the George Bush
administration. See:
You will soon be reading a remarkable headline. The
genetically engineered bovine growth hormone is dead.
Posilac, aka rbGH, rbST, cow-fuel, milk-poison, will soon
cease to exist.
What did this cost me? Ten years of my life, and it was
worth it. The ten potentially highest earning years of one
man's life, from ages 42-52, all sacrificed for a
principle. Like a pit bull, I grabbed onto Monsanto's leg
and would not leg go.
A tough decision awaits executives at the upper echelons
of Monsanto. A decision is being debated in corporate
corridors. They cannot afford to take Posilac off of the
market, for that would be the end of their genetic
engineering technology. On the other hand, they cannot
afford to keep Posilac on the market, for the entire dairy
industry has woken up to this fact of economic reality:
the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone was bad
for business.
Surplus milk resulting from this hormone kept milk
prices low.
Adverse publicity from the bovine growth hormone caused
people to question all milk consumption.
Adverse publicity from the bovine growth horomone caused
people to explore milk alternatives, like soymilk.
Adverse publicity from the bovine growth hormone created the
"Notmilkman," the dairy industry's worst nightmare.
Before his death, my webmaster, Dave Rietz, often used a
favorite expression. "Every avalanche begins with a
snowflake." At first, Dave and I each represented one
snowflake. Then we grew into two large snowballs. We rolled
down a hill, all the while gaining momentum and mass. Some
avalanche! Dave will enjoy today's column.
Four months ago (Sunday, December 21, 2003), I filed a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA).
One day earlier, I had received a copy of a letter
alerting dairy farmers that Monsanto's genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone (rbST) would be in short
supply. Monsanto wrote:
"Supplies of Posilac bovine somatotropin (rbST) are
temporarily limited while necessary corrections and
improvements in manufacturing are made by Monsanto's
supplier."
I smelled something rotten in Monsanto-land.
That next day, I called many people at FDA, attempting to
get the facts. Nobody was talking. In 1999, I had filed a
citizen's petition with FDA to take Posilac off the market.
I submitted evidence of how Monsanto defrauded FDA. It took
FDA five years to act. They closed Monsanto's Posilac
factory a few months ago. Monsanto lied to dairy farmers,
calling it a "temporary production problem."
Monsanto had created a potential catastrophe for humankind.
I give FDA credit for finally acting.
I discovered that Monsanto had made a gene transcription
error during the development of their new genetic
technology. Proteins are made up of amino acids. Each time
that Monsanto attempted to re-create their new hormone, one
amino acid, lysine, was incorrectly transcribed as a "freak"
amino acid, epsilon-N-acetyllysine.
For nearly five years, FDA ignored my request.
Then, things became interesting. Monsanto mailed a letter to
Posilac-using dairy farmers on December 19, 2003. Monsanto
shocked farmers by alerting them that Posilac would be in
limited supply until:
"Conditions and improvements in manufacturing are made..."
Monsanto accepted no new customers, and anticipated their
"shortfall" to last for "several months."
Monsanto attempted to fix the errors. They have not been
successful. FDA now knows of those mistakes because my
whistleblowing broke windows.
What became the snowflake to make the snowball to begin the
avalanche?
On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, I received the damning
evidence that confirmed Monsanto's crime against humankind.
Thirty hours of non-stop research and confirmation later
supported the magnitude of Monsanto's crime.
In a column written before last Christmas, I predicted:
"Mark down this date, 12/19/03. This may very well be the
defining moment that ends the use of genetically engineered
foods in America's food."
On January 30, 2004, I received a warning that represented a
threat to my well being. I wrote a column the next day,
responding to that threat:
"I have been threatened, and my enemies can go to hell. They
will read this, and know that there will be many witnesses
to any future coincidences. You, my readers, are an
insurance policy that may or may not have matured to its
full term...I will not turn my back on the children. So, I
continue my course. Full speed ahead."
Four days after writing and posting that column, I received
an envelope from FDA confirming my worst fears. My FOIA
request. Truth, at last. The entire request cost me $18.30.
This revelation shall cost Monsanto and its stockholders
considerably more.
The most damning evidence was found in observation number 1,
filed by an FDA investigator after inspecting Monsanto's
rebombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST or Posilac) production
facility at Biochemisetrasse 10, Kundl, Austria.
OBSERVATION 1
"There is a failure to thoroughly review the failure of a
batch or any of its components to meet any of its
specifications whether or not the batch has been thoroughly
distributed."
"Specifically, the corrective actions implemented after the
investigation of nine sterility failures reported since 2001
(3 for 2001, 3 for 2002, and 3 for 2003) for Posilac
injection or for the lyophilized active ingredient
(Sometribove zinc) have not been effective in preventing
reoccurrence. In five instances (2 for 2001, 1 for 2002, and
2 for 2003) the organism was identified as Propionibacterium
acnes; Staphylococcus species have been identified in three
instances and in one instance (in 2002) Bacillus pumilus was
found. Propionibacterium was found in environmental samples
of the manufacturing areas. Batches manufactured around the
same period of time and under the same conditions of the
affected lots have been released to the market."
OBSERVATION 2
"Equipment for adequate control over micro-organisms is not
provided when appropriate for the manufacture, processing,
packing or holding of a drug product."
As Jeff Goldbloom said to Geena Davis in the classic horror
film, The Fly (1986): "Be scared, be very scared." The first
attempt to produce a new food by pretending to understand
God's genetic code resulted in a new kind of milk,
supersaturated with powerful growth hormones. FDA lied to
America, claiming that milk had not changed. That was the
beginning.
With this last FOIA request, we learned the answer to the
query, "What hath God wrought?" Humankind will now be
asking, "What hath man wrought?"
It has been well reported that a new emerging species of
bacteria has developed, immune to antibiotic treatment.
Staphylococcus aureus plagues many American hospitals in
this new outbreak. Could the etiology of the mother of all
deadly staph infections be traced to a new genetically
engineered version of staph, a superbug inadvertently
produced by Monsanto and then introduced into the food
supply? In 1989, such staphyloccus infections were unknown
to hospitals. By 2002, nearly two-thirds of all hospital
infections could be attributed to antibiotic-resistant
staphlococcus infections.
A second bacterium on FDA's (once) secret report reveals
that Posilac samples were found to contain bacillus pumilus.
This bacterium degrades cellulose. What would be the result
of genetically engineering something that breaks down the
heartiest of plant cells with a cow hormone? As my dear
departed Grandma Ruth used to say, "God only knows."
A third bacterium found was identified as propionibacterium
acnes (P-acnes). What the heck is P-acnes? An Internet
search revealed:
"P. acnes is the causative agent of acne vulgaris
(pimples)... Other infections for which P. acnes has been
implicated include corneal ulcers, heart valves and
prosthetic devices, and central nervous system shunts. A
rare heart disease known as Propionibacterium acnes
endocarditis has been discovered in a prosthetic valve
infected with
P. acnes. The valve was also complicated by multiple mycotic
aneurysms."
The world works in funny ways, but there is always
balance. Monsanto's hormone will soon be off the market.
FDA will allow Monsanto to withdraw their drug with
corporate dignity. Posilac will soon take its own life and
cease to exist.
Farmers will produce less milk. The price of milk and dairy
commodities will soar, as they have been doing since the
first Posilac shortage began. Cows will be less stressed as
their udders shrink because they are no longer injected with
high octane hormone fuel. The pus cell rates will
mysteriously decrease. Farmers will be given credit for
producing safer and cleaner milk.
And I? I'll be pointing my finger (guess which one) at the
dairy industry, shouting: "It's hormones, stupid!"
All milk naturally contains powerful growth hormones. Even
the healthiest organic milk from the healthiest cow. Thank
you, Monsanto, for teaching me the basics.
Ellen White warned about the evils of Monsanto, long before
the company existed:
"So long as we are in the world, we shall meet with
adverse influences. Day by day and year by year we shall
conquer self, and grow into a noble heroism. (Ministry of
Healing, p. 487)
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