In an April 17, 2023, opinion piece in STAT News,1
Dr. Peter Lurie and Beth Ellikidis argue for the genetic engineering of
food, claiming “newer technologies can make highly targeted changes at
the base-pair level — one specific rung on the DNA ladder — enhancing
precision and reducing the likelihood of ‘off-target effects’ in which
the base pairs are unintentionally added to or deleted from the genome.”
While targeted genetic engineering is indeed possible, and modern
technology lowers the likelihood of unintentional additions or
deletions, this precision does not guarantee there won’t be adverse
effects. One of the reasons for this is because many genes are
multifunctional and can have multiple downstream effects.2,3
By altering a single gene, you can inadvertently affect the
expression of hundreds of others. What’s more, the multifunctionality of
genes is rarely intuitive. So, while it may seem convenient to
genetically engineer cows without horns to prevent injury to other cows
and farmhands, as suggested by Lurie and Ellikidis, there’s no telling
what that tweak might do to internal organs or biological pathways.
In turn, there’s no guarantee that cascading effects will not alter
the nutrition of the meat or dairy that comes from that cow. Maybe it’ll
be fine, maybe it won’t. The problem is that, oftentimes with
genetically engineered foods, safety testing is minimal or absent.
Who Do Lurie and Ellikidis Answer To?
When assessing the trustworthiness of people, it can be worthwhile to
look at their funding and various partnerships. In the case of Lurie
and Ellikidis, both are in league with Bill Gates and other Great
Resetters that are pushing to replace all natural foods with patentable,
genetically modified foods.
Lurie — a former FDA associate commissioner — is the president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
In the summer of 2020, Lurie launched a comprehensive campaign to put
Mercola.com out of business by sending the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and the Federal Trade Commission after us based on bogus
charges.
CSPI is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Family
Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other billionaire-owned foundations.
It’s also partnered with the Cornell Alliance for Science, a “global
communications initiative” whose primary funding comes from the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation. Greg Jaffe, who heads up CSPI’s
Biotechnology Project, is also the associate director of legal affairs
at Alliance for Science.
Considering those ties, the CSPI’s long history of promoting industry
science and propaganda is not surprising in the least. They supported
artificial sweeteners, trans fats, GMOs, fake meat and the low-fat myth.
They’ve also actively undermined transparency in labeling efforts.
Ellikidis, meanwhile, is the vice president of agriculture and
environment at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). She’s
leading the “policy and market access strategies for BIO’s Agriculture
and Environment section, which includes member companies developing and
producing breakthrough technologies in food and agriculture.”4
BIO, the world’s largest GMO trade organization,5,6
represents more than 1,000 pesticide, pharmaceutical and biotech
companies in more than 30 countries, as well as industry groups,
academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and other related
organizations.
According to BIO, genetic engineering is the solution to heal, fuel
and feed the world, and to that end, it has lobbying committees
dedicated to influencing 15 different policy areas, including food,
agriculture, health care policy, technology transfer and finance.
According to Open Secrets,7
BIO spent $13,250,000 on “pharmaceutical and health products” lobbying
in 2022. For reference, only Pfizer and the lobbying group
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America spent more.8
How Gates Sets Himself Up for Success
In 2004, BIO launched BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH),9
a nonprofit organization that “strategically develops and manages
programs across the for-profit and non-profit sectors to accelerate
research and development (R&D) for poverty-related diseases.”
BVGH was launched with a $1 million start-up grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.10 In 2005, the BVGH received another $5.4 million to expand the biotech industry’s role in the fight against neglected diseases.11 The Rockefeller Foundation is also funding the group.
Fast-forward to 2018, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
spun off a nonprofit subsidiary to the foundation called the Bill &
Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI).12
Gates MRI, funded with a $273 million, four-year grant from the Gates
Foundation, is focused on developing biotechnologies to address health
problems in poor countries.13
It’s a convenient setup to say the least. On the one hand, Gates is
funding the R&D of biotech products through Gates MRI, and on the
other, he’s funding the acceleration, coordination and management of
private-public biotech programs through BVGH.
One key area where the BVGH is being inserted to manage
private-public programs is the “Cancer Moonshot” program, launched in
2016 by then-Vice President Joe Biden. Biden “reignited” and highlighted
the program in 2022.14 As reported in a White House fact sheet:15
“Working with African Access Initiative (AAI)
partners, BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) will implement cancer
research projects that are determined and led by African oncologists and
conducted in collaboration with U.S. cancer experts.
Through its African Consortium for Cancer Clinical Trials (AC3T)
program, BVGH will facilitate five research projects, build capacity to
conduct rigorous clinical research at 50 African sites, promote African
primary investigator’s research interests on the AC3T platform, and coordinate the implementation of observational clinical studies.
In addition to building AC3T sites’
research capacity, BVGH will map the regulatory pathway in five AAI
countries. All clinical studies involving cancer drugs will include
development of market access pathways by BVGH.”
Gates MRI, in turn, intends to “apply new understanding of the human
immune system learned from cancer research to prevent infectious
disease.”16 Conveniently, he’s got the inside track to all of that through the BVGH.
Biowarfare Partners
As it so happens, BIO is also partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD),17
and the DOD specifically funds and provides technology transfers for
the diseases that Gates MRI and BVGH are focused on: malaria,
tuberculosis and Ebola.18,19,20,21
Not surprisingly, the DOD is also seeking to develop and adopt more
mRNA-based therapeutics against other emerging biological threats22 — products that can be manufactured and deployed quickly.
One of the obvious hazards of public-private partnerships becoming
more and more intertwined, as we see now, is that the government becomes
less and less inclined to ensure the safety of these co-developed,
co-owned products.
In a June 2022 BIO webinar, Ian Watson, deputy assistant secretary of
defense for chemical and biological defense, specified that the agency
will “safeguard” its industrial partners from various threats, including
“foreign economic aggression and inherent marketplace vulnerability
that are specific to biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals.”23
Does “market vulnerability” also include legal action by people
injured by biopharmaceuticals that have been brought to market at warp
speed? Judging by what we’ve seen during the COVID pandemic, it sure
seems the U.S. government is doing everything it can to hide and
suppress evidence of harm, so why would we expect any different in the
future?
Are Foods Being Turned Into Bioweapons?
Getting back to the issue of food, just as medicine is being hijacked
by the biotech industry, so is our food supply. Indeed, President Biden
recently signed an executive order that makes biotechnology a key focus
of every federal agency, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture.24
The transhumanist agenda is clear for everyone to see, and it’s being
pushed on us from every angle, through food, medicine and national
security. It recently came to light that the swine industry in the U.S.
and Canada has been using customizable mRNA “vaccines” on herds since
2018,25
and to this day, there’s no research to prove the meat is safe for
consumption in the long term and won’t affect the genetics of those who
eat it.
Based on our experiences with the mRNA COVID shots, which more and
more experts are starting to refer to as bioweapons, it’s not farfetched
to wonder whether the use of mRNA in livestock might be a form of
biowarfare against the public as well, this time through the food
supply.
As reported by Dr. Peter McCullough,26 Chinese researchers have demonstrated that food can indeed be turned into a vaccine (or a bioweapon, depending on the antigen):27
“The nation’s food supply can be manipulated by
public health agencies to influence population outcomes ... Now an oral
route of administration is being considered specifically for COVID-19
vaccination using mRNA in cow’s milk.
Zhang and colleagues have demonstrated that a
shortened mRNA code of 675 base pairs could be loaded into phospholipid
packets called exosomes derived from milk and then using that same milk,
be fed to mice.
The mice gastrointestinal tract absorbed the exosomes
and the mRNA must have made it into the blood stream and lymphatic
tissue because antibodies were produced in fed mice against SARS-CoV-2
Spike protein (receptor binding domain) ...
[G]iven the damage mRNA vaccines have generated in
terms of injuries, disabilities, and deaths, these data raise
considerable ethical issues. The COVID States project has shown that 25%
of Americans were successful in remaining unvaccinated. This group
would have strong objections to mRNA in the food supply, particularly if
it was done surreptitiously or with minimal labelling/warnings ...
These observations lead me to conclude that mRNA
technology has just entered a whole new, much darker phase of
development. Expect more research on and resistance to mRNA in our food
supply. The Chinese have just taken the first of what will probably be
many more dangerous steps for the world.”
Say No to mRNA in Your Food
Moving forward, it’s going to be extremely important to stay on top
of what’s happening to our food supply. Many of us were surprised to
realize mRNA shots have been used in swine for several years already.
Soon, cattle may get these customizable mRNA shots as well, which could
affect both beef and dairy products.
For now, I strongly recommend avoiding pork products. In addition to
the uncertainty surrounding these untested mRNA “vaccines,” pork is also
very high in linoleic acid, a harmful omega-6 fat that drives chronic disease.
Hopefully, cattle ranchers will realize the danger this mRNA platform
poses to their bottom-line and reject it. If they don’t, finding beef
and dairy that has not been “gene therapied” could become quite the
challenge.
Ultimately, if we want to be free, and if we want food safety and
food security, we must focus our efforts on building a decentralized
system that connects communities with farmers who grow real food in
sustainable ways and distribute that food locally.
Legislative efforts are also needed. Bills that would be helpful in steering us in the right direction include the following:
• The Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act28 —
This bill was introduced in 2017 and hasn’t moved since its
introduction in the House. The PRIME Act would allow farmers to sell
meat processed at smaller slaughtering facilities and allow states to
set their own meat processing standards.
Because small slaughterhouses do not have an inspector on staff — a
requirement that only large facilities can easily fulfill — they're
banned from selling their meat. The PRIME Act would lift this regulation
without sacrificing safety, as random USDA inspections could still
occur.
• The Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 202129 — This bill was introduced at the end of July 2021 as an amendment to the 2018 Farm bill.
• Missouri House Bill 1169,30
which would require labeling of products, including food, that might
“impact, alter or introduce genetic material or a genetic change” into
the consumer.