Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director at Organic Consumers Association, writes:

“All of this talk in the mainstream media about the Tennessee legislature’s fight against the ‘lettuce vaccine’ is much ado about nothing—but not because vaccines in our food supply isn’t a real threat, as the ‘fact-checkers’ would have you believe.

Edible vaccines might not be approved for the produce aisle yet, but we’ve known that pharmaceuticals and vaccines are grown in food crops—and are contaminating the U.S. food supply—since 2002 when news broke of the ProdiGene scandal. (More on that below.)

Congress made adding drugs to food illegal in 2007. In Section 912 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, “Prohibition against food to which drugs or biological products have been added,” Congress forbade adding pharmaceuticals, including vaccines, to food unless the FDA “has issued a regulation, after notice and comment, approving the use of such drug or such biological product in the food.” The FDA never created a process for this, so no pharmaceutical food has ever been commercialized, but many have been tested.

Pharmaceuticals and vaccines might not be added to food legally, but they are contaminating food illegally.

Even though Congress made adding drugs to food illegal, it continues fund research that could contaminate the food supply. On November 14, 2023, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), got the House to vote “unanimously to stop funding transgenic edible plant vaccines [see below], but that prohibition was left out of the new omnibus. So your taxpayer dollars will be funding edible plant vaccines, if the enormous spending bill passes this week,” he tweeted on March 4, 2024.

What we need from our state legislators are bills to ban open-air field trials of pharma crops. Unfortunately, this Tennessee bill, HB1894, does nothing about this.

Here’s the full text.

The truth is that, because of field-tests of genetically engineered crops, including pharma crops, vaccines are contaminating our food supply—and have been since 1992.

This first made the news when the ProdiGene scandal (that Congressman Massie referenced above) broke in 2002. A corn crop genetically engineered by ProdiGene to produce a vaccine for pigs contaminated 500,000 bushels of Nebraska soybeans worth $2.7 million. The year after the GMO pig vaccine corn was grown, the same land was used to grow soybeans for human consumption. The soybeans were harvested and sent to the grain elevator before it was discovered that the GMO pig vaccine corn had grown like a weed amongst the soybeans and contaminated the whole lot. The same season, a similar thing happened in Iowa, where 155 acres of corn growing next to a plot of ProdiGene’s GMO pig vaccine corn was contaminated by windblown pollen.”

Alexis does a deep dive into the ProdiGene contamination incidents that were said to involve a vaccine for a bacteria-induced diarrhea that infects pigs, but the company was also engineering corn to produce an HIV vaccine and a blood-clotting agent.

Read about it here: Tennessee’s “Lettuce Vaccine” Bill: What You Need to Know About HB1894

In another example of your tax dollars at work, we investigated “lettuce vaccines” and pharma crops this week and learned that most of the research is funded by the government.

Back in 1998, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci celebrated the first edible vaccine trial that tested “potato genetically engineered to produce part of the toxin secreted by the Escherichia coli bacterium, which causes diarrhea.”

“Edible vaccines offer exciting possibilities for significantly reducing the burden of diseases like hepatitis and diarrhea, particularly in the developing world where storing and administering vaccines are often major problems,” he said.

It wasn’t long before Fauci’s edible vaccines were caught contaminating the food supply.

In 2002, news broke that a vaccine to treat diarrhea in pigs had contaminated 500,000 bushels of Nebraska soybeans and 155 acres of Iowa corn, costing farmers in the two states nearly $3 million.

In 2007, Congress made adding pharmaceuticals and vaccines to food illegal, but growing pharmaceuticals and vaccines in crops is still allowed and Congress continues to appropriate our tax dollars to fund the research!

In 2023, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), got the House to vote unanimously to stop funding transgenic edible plant vaccines. “But that prohibition was left out of the new omnibus,” he tweeted on March 4, 2024. “So your taxpayer dollars will be funding edible plant vaccines, if the enormous spending bill passes this week.”

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to stop funding pharma crops!

LEARN MORE: Tennessee’s “Lettuce Vaccine” Bill: What You Need to Know About HB1894

Saul Elbein writes for The Hill:

“Worried about plastic pollution in your tap water? Try boiling in it, a new study suggests.

Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be found in your water, according to findings published Wednesday in Environmental Research Letters.

This means drinking tap water that has been boiled, something commonly done in East Asian kitchens already, may be a safer bet than drinking bottled water. Columbia researchers found last month that bottled water can contain up to a quarter-million fragments of nanoplastics per liter.

The researchers looked at the impacts of boiling on three compounds that have been found in water — polystyrene, polyethylene and polypropylene.

Because these compounds don’t fully break down, they ultimately fragment into nanoplastics the approximate size of a virus — making them the ideal size to wreak havoc with the machinery of human cells, and to cross through key protective filters like the intestinal lining and blood brain barrier.”



Read about how this method requires either hard water — or the addition of calcium carbonate to work

The Rooted in Regeneration Summit, hosted by the Center for Agricultural Resilience at White Oak Pastures in Blufton, GA, March 14-16, is a groundbreaking event bringing together leading minds in the field of regenerative agriculture. This summit aims to foster discussions, share knowledge, and promote practices that enhance environmental sustainability, humane animal husbandry, and community empowerment. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from distinguished speakers, participate in hands-on demonstrations, and engage in meaningful conversations about creating a more sustainable and regenerative future.

Keynote speakers include Organic Consumers Association’s political director Alexis Baden-Mayer, as well as Will Harris, Tre’ Cates, Melissa K. Norris, Yadi Wang, Ryan Slabaugh, Julia Johnson, Amy Milliron, Blake Alexandre and Trenton Tye.

Register Here

Holly Tiret writes for the Michigan State University Extension:

“Michigan State University Extension acknowledges that even simple physical activity like walking can help keep you healthy. Studies show that participating in regular physical activity reduces blood pressure, blood sugar levels and helps with maintaining a healthy weight. In addition, interacting with nature on a daily basis has been shown improve mental health by reducing levels of stress, anxiety and even improving symptoms of depression.

Green exercise, which is considered as any physical activity that takes place outside, has been shown to improve both physical and mental health. Activities can be:

• Intentional, such as visiting a neighborhood garden or riding bike.
• Incidental, such as interacting with people while walking to the grocery store or walking in the park.
• Indirect, like looking at trees through a window or viewing pictures of nature scenes while moving.

Green exercise can include a variety of activities such as gardening, cycling, walking, flying kites, walking a pet, hiking local trails or participating in a neighborhood project like planting flowers.

In one study, children experienced outdoor teaching over regular intervals of one school day per week in the forest. Their outdoor learning program included chances to be physically active during free choice activities and through adult-guided planned activities. Compared to children in a regular school setting, children who were in the outdoor learning program showed higher levels of activity along with a decline in their cortisol response. Cortisol is a hormone released in the body in response to stress, which triggers the flight or fight response as part of our human survival mechanism. It is higher in the morning and lowest at night. When cortisol levels are lower, we are calmer. This reduction in cortisol levels is shown to have a positive response in stress reduction resulting in better mental health.”

Read more about how green exercise, improves both self-esteem and mood

Analysis by Ashley Armstrong:

“Story at-a-glance

* Traditionally, cheese was made with just four ingredients: milk, salt, starter culture and animal rennet

* Rennet is used as a clotting agent to curdle the milk into cheese, separating the liquid parts of milk from the solids. It’s an essential part of the cheese making process

* Today, there are four types of rennet used in the cheese making industry: animal rennet, vegetable rennet, microbial rennet, and a genetically modified version called FPC (fermentation-produced chymosin), made by Pfizer

* Bioengineered chymosin (FPC) was granted Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status, which exempted Pfizer from the pre-approval requirements that apply to other new food additives. This despite the fact that studies have detailed concerns about safety

* An estimated 90% of North American cheese is made with FPC rennet, and ingredient labels do not distinguish between bioengineered rennet and the original animal-based type so consumers have no way of knowing what they’re eating”

Read how over 90% of the cheese sold in the U.S. uses a genetically modified version made by Pfizer

Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director at Organic Consumers Association, writes:

“If you’ve seen my timeline of the plot to replace real farms with synthetic Frankenfood, you know that the first synthetic food was coal ‘butter’ invented in 1937 and used by the Nazi’s to feed their U-boat crews.

The illustration on this slide is from a 1935 photo collage by John Heartfield, an anti-fascist German artist. It’s called ‘Hurrah, There’s No Butter Left!’ and satirizes the words of Hermann Goering who said, ‘Iron has always made an empire strong. Butter and lard have only made the people fat.’

I first heard about the Nazi’s coal ‘butter’ reading the article, ‘Ultra-Processed Food: how it’s making you sick and unhappy‘ by Andrea Hill where she wrote:

Ultra-processed food doesn’t start with food and add something to it, it starts with chemicals. I really grasped this when I read the example of ‘butter’ made for the Nazi regime in the 1938. Two scientists at the Kaiswer Willhelm Institute found a way to create fuel from coal. It left a waste product: paraffin. A man called Arthur Imhausen was working on turning that waste paraffin into soap, when he realised that chemically soap is a lot like fat. By adding glycerine the scientists could produce an edible fat instead of soap. The trouble was this fat was white, tasteless and waxy, so nobody in their right minds would have eaten it. A easy problem to fix if you’re a chemist: they added diacetyl to create a buttery taste, salt and beta-carotene for colour and created the first ever totally synthetic food. Now lots of right minded people eat all sorts of ‘butter products’ happy that those industrially manipulated chemicals make it magically spread straight from the fridge. Top tip: do what your grandmother did, buy real butter and keep it in a butter dish in the cupboard.

Nazi coal ‘butter’?! I suspected there was a connection to I.G. Farben, the conglomerate that Bayer, which merged with Monsanto in 2018, was part of during World War II, and indeed there was.

Read more about coal butter and how Germans fighting in the American campaign and on U-boats almost exclusively ate this fat.

In a world where corporations hold all the financial power and political sway, who looks out for the people?

We do. All of us do. All of us must.

The work we are doing, together, is moving the needle toward fewer chemicals in our food. More real organic food and greater transparency in our food system.

A more just and regenerative food and farming system.

Sometimes the progress feels frustratingly slow. But the alternative—giving up—isn’t an option.

Due to a loss of funding, more than ever,  we depend on you to help us unrig the system.

Please consider making a donation to the OCA today.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Regeneration International, our international sister organization

Katie Adams writes for MedCity News:

“Pilnick’s comments were made on a February 21 appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. He and host Carl Quintanilla were having a discussion about high grocery prices.

‘The cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers are under pressure,’ Pilnick declared on air. ‘So we’re advertising about cereal for dinner. If you think about the cost of cereal for a family versus what they might otherwise do, that’s going to be much more affordable.”

Quintanilla responded by asking Pilnick if the idea of cereal for dinner has potential to land the wrong way with consumers.

Pilnick said that the message was ‘landing really well,’ adding that more than a quarter of Kellogg’s cereal consumption occurs outside of breakfast.

His remarks come as the food as medicine movement gains steam in the healthcare world.

The movement centers on the idea that one’s diet can be a major force in preventing and treating various health conditions. It emphasizes the importance of consuming nutritious foods tailored to individual needs to promote better disease management and overall wellbeing.

In the past couple years, more and more healthcare providers have been partnering with food-as-medicine startups so their patients can benefit from healthy eating programs. These programs usually are designed to educate people about how they can prepare nutritious, low-cost meals that easily fit into their daily lives. They also often seek to help individuals unlearn the instinct to turn to highly processed, low-nutrition foods when short on time or cash.“

Read about why these remarks underscore the dire need to increase public education about affordable, healthy meal planning

Want Better Food? Demand a Better Farm Bill!

Mamavation writes:

“Does your favorite deodorant contain indications of PFAS “forever chemicals?” PFAS “forever chemicals” are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances used as stain-resistant, water-resistant, & oil-resistant chemicals in commerce. These chemicals are very useful, but also incredibly persistent and toxic. Mamavation was asked if any deodorants contained indications of PFAS and we were not sure unless they were tested. So we sent several off to an EPA-certified laboratory to find out. You’ve trusted Mamavation to bring you topics like safest period underwear without PFAS “forever chemicals,” safest green beauty makeup sans PFAS, or safest laundry detergent sheets without PFAS “forever chemicals,” now join us for our latest consumer study on indications of PFAS “forever chemicals” in some popular deodorants.


Mamavation’s EPA-certified laboratory found indications of PFAS “forever chemicals” after analyzing 15 popular deodorants. PFAS is found in many other areas of our homes with some examples being cookware, makeup, drinking water, contact lenses & dental floss. These chemicals are linked to serious health effects, which we will discuss later. Because PFAS are so toxic, Mamavation has commissioned our own scientific studies on indications of PFAS in products to make recommendations for deodorants using PFAS-free materials.”

Read Mamavation’s articles on these products to find which brands are organic-fluorine-free.


Condoms & Lubricants Tested For Indications of PFAS “Forever Chemicals” — Guide

Tell Your State Legislators to Ban Toxic PFAS

The Conversation reports:

“Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro are weight loss and diabetes drugs that have made quite a splash in health news. They target regulatory pathways involved in both obesity and diabetes and are widely considered breakthroughs for weight loss and blood sugar control.

But do these drugs point toward a root cause of metabolic disease? What inspired their development in the first place?

It turns out your body produces natural versions of these drugs – also known as incretin hormones – in your gut. It may not be surprising that nutrients in food help regulate these hormones. But it may intrigue you to know that the trillions of microbes in your gut are key for orchestrating this process.

I am a gastroenterologist at the University of Washington who studies how food and your gut microbiome affect health and disease. Here’s an inside-out perspective on the role natural gut hormones and healthy food play in metabolism and weight loss.

A broken gut

Specialized bacteria in your lower gut take the components of food you can’t digest like fiber and polyphenols – the elements of plants that are removed in many processed foods – and transforms them into molecules that stimulate hormones to control your appetite and metabolism. These include GLP-1, a natural version of Wegovy and Ozempic.

GLP-1 and other hormones like PYY help regulate blood sugar through the pancreas. They also tell your brain that you’ve had enough to eat and your stomach and intestines to slow the movement of food along the digestive tract to allow for digestion. This system even has a name: the colonic brake.”

Read about why weight loss pills aren’t a replacement for a healthy diet and lifestyle.

National Audubon Society reports:

“Every year, billions of birds migrate north in the spring and south in the fall, the majority of them flying at night, navigating with the night sky. However, as they pass over big cities on their way, they can become disoriented by bright artificial lights and skyglow, often causing them to collide with buildings or windows.

While lights can throw birds off their migration paths, bird fatalities are more directly caused by the amount of energy the birds waste flying around and calling out in confusion. The exhaustion can then leave them vulnerable to other urban threats.

Dozens of species are affected, including priority species—those we have identified as most in need of and most likely to benefit from our help— such as the Allen’s Hummingbird, Wood Thrush, and Golden-winged Warbler. Just one building can cause major problems for birds in the area; within one week in 2017, nearly 400 passerines (warblers, grosbeaks, etc.) were caught in the floodlights of a 32-story Texas skyscraper and killed via window collisions.

Turning off bright lights helps birds move on within minutes, as discovered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and New York City Audubon during the annual 9/11 memorial in New York City. Hundreds of birds are caught in the memorial’s beams every year but turning them off for just 20 to 30 minutes at a time greatly reduces the density of birds in the area. Taking more steps to decrease the amount of light our buildings emit minimizes unnecessary bird deaths saves money by reducing energy consumption, and supports your sustainability goals.”

Audubon’s Lights Out program is a national effort to reduce this problem

First it was COVIDorigins.org and their weekly “Fire Fauci” protest at the National Institutes of Health, which evolved into “Indict Fauci” after he retired from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Now, it’s StopGainOfFunction.org taking on Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This Saturday, March 9th 2024, StopGainOfFunction.org will be gathering at 12 noon at Peace & Justice Plaza in front of the courthouse at 179 E. Franklin St. The march will head from there to the Gillings School of Public Health where Ralph Baric’s BSL3 lab is located.

Baric’s lab was the focal point of the gain-of-function research that was the origin of COVID-19.

Baric was Fauci’s favorite gain-of-function scientist. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received more than $200,000,000 in NIH grant money, including for Baric’s incredibly dangerous and deadly—and most likely illegal—research.

Scientists who Baric trained have now created a coronavirus that has 100% lethality in humanized mice. This kind of insanely dangerous and deadly research is still going on, not just in Wuhan, but at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and other universities all across America.

Worldwide, untold millions have already died. We must STOP these criminal scientists and all who aided them must be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

Join StopGainOfFunction.org to start an unstoppable movement to end all Gain of Function Research Development & Funding. If we all don’t take to the streets, these pathological criminals will continue to operate in secrecy and the next accidental or intentional release will be far worse than Covid 19.

Join StopGainOfFunction.org

Learn more: Gain-of-Function Hall of Shame: Ralph Baric

Take action: Tell Congress to Stop Funding Gain-of-Function Research

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