Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Media Release: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=4308
Detailed Schedule Below.
2010 Health Freedom USA War Council Schedule
Schedule Subject to Change
Speaker List (in speaking order):
Saturday: Ralph Fucetola JD
Kevin Trudeau
Stephen Lendman
Alexander Benesch
Leonard Coldwell NMD
Hildegarde Staninger, PhD
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III
Hildegarde Staninger, PhD
Fred van Liew
Sunday: Patrick Flannigan PhD
Paul G. King PhD
Sharry Edwards M Ed
Rima E Laibow MD
Hildegarde Staninger, PhD
Detailed Schedulehttp://drrimatruthreports.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=4327
[Virtual Presenters are in Italics]
Saturday, Jan. 2 [Please bring your lunch with you]
10:00 – 10:15 Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD, Welcome and Introductions
Kevin Trudeau, Health, Freedom and Government Suppression
NY Times No. 1 Best Selling Author and Controversial Natural Cures Author. Perhaps no other Advanced Health author has been attacked so viciously – or so often – by the FDA and FTC. Learn what Kevin has to say about the war on health freedom information.
11:15 – 12:15 PM Stephen Lendman Obama’s New World Order Agenda
– 12:30 Morning Speaker’s PanelSteve Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. Raised in a modest middle class family, attended public schools, he received a BA from Harvard University in 1956 and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of PA in 1960 following 2 years of obligatory military service in the US Army. Steve spent the next 6 years as a marketing research analyst for several large US corporations before becoming part of a new small family business in 1967, remaining there until retiring at the end of 1999.
He has since devoted his time and efforts to progressive causes and organizations he supports, all involved in working for a more humane and just world for all people everywhere, but especially for the most needy, disadvantaged and oppressed. His efforts only in the last 6 months have included some writing on the various issues of most concern to him like war and peace; social, economic and political equity for all; and justice for all the oppressed peoples of the world like the long-suffering people of Haiti and the Palestinians.
12:15– 12:30 Break
12:30–1:30 Alexander Benesch (Germany) Illuminati Structure and Function in the Genocidal Program(Brown Bag Lunch)

Host of Germany’s most visited “Truth Out” site, www.infokreig.de, Alex is a passionate student of the Illuminati and other secret societies who understands, and discloses, the full extent of the genocidal agenda, with all of the dots connected.
1:30 – 2:30 Dr Leonard Coldwell Board Certified NMD DNM PHD LCHC CNHP DIP.PHC ( Ret )
THE ONLY ANSWER TO CANCER – Defeating the root cause of all disease
Hear the truth about Cancer: Every cancer is curable! Usually in 2 to 16 weeks. Learn how to uncover and eliminate the root cause of cancer and all terminal disease.
Dr. Coldwell is a world leading expert for cancer cures, depression and anxiety. He has written 14 bestselling books and thousands of publications. He has treated over 35 000 patients, has more than 7 million frequent readers and has spoken to at least 2.3 million Seminar Attendees. Dr. Coldwell has been chosen by Kevin Trudeau to act as his Personal Physician. Dr. Coldwell’s ground breaking books, including “the Only Answer to Cancer” are available frmo www.instinctbasedmedicine.com
Dr Coldwell is featured in 3 movies and hundreds of radio and TV shows around the world. In the opinion of many experts Dr Coldwell is the worlds leading authority for cancer cures ( cure rate based on 2 different independents studies 92.3% ) His Radio show is had the most downloads for alternative health in 2009. Hundred people watch his Videos on Youtube every hour
www.drleonardcoldwell.com
www.instinctbasedmedicine.com
www.theonlyanswertocancer.com
2:30– 3:30 Hildegarde Staninger, PhD Genocide and Beyond Part I: Arial Spraying Timetable: Chicken Little 101

Dr. Hildegarde Staninger, Ph.D., RIET-1 Industrial Toxicologist / IH and Doctor of Integrative Medicine Dr. Hildegarde Staninger is the author of the international environmental bestseller the Comprehensive Handbook of Hazardous Material: Regulations, Monitoring, Handling & Safety, Lewis Publishing/ CRC Press.
She is among the leading international scientists in the field of Industrial Toxicology and has pioneered the use of biological monitoring tests for targeting organ exposure to parent compounds, metabolites and their xenobiotics.Her research has opened the door of proteinomics, enzynomics and genomics through her research recognized by John Hopkins Univeristy/Pandey Lab and Harvard University’s Medical College’s Small Molecule Genome.She is former president of the Florida Chapter of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and founder of the International Academy of Toxicological Risk Assessment (IATRA), which celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2005.
She was the first Registered Industrial Environmental Toxicologist by the National Environmental Professionals organization, a Certified Safety Executive by World Safety Organization and Inspector General for the International Environmental Intelligence Agency (IEIA), a division of World Life Research Institute.Her current academic appointments include Research Coordinator and Assistant Professor for the Research Department at Capital University of Integrative Medicine, Washington, D.C.Her present research activities include the applications of far-infrared and oak wood charcoal vinegar in maintaining cellular integrity and cellular detoxification via lymphatic and molecular endocrine systems.
In addition to her decades of research involving the signature harmonic reflectivity of cellular resonance to increase cellular integrity, she has focused on addressing the appropriate countermeasures for cell dysfunction, injury and death through cellular tera hertz phono photons- “cellular cosmic star bursts.”Dr. Staninger is recipient of two Presidential Awards from Walter Lowry, former President of Martin Marietta Orlando Aerospace, for her work involving “Pregnant Women in the Workplace” and the “Increased Risk of Genetic Mutations in Contaminated Ground Water.”
3:30 – 4:30 Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III A General Looks at Winning the War on Health Freedom

Albert “Bert” N. Stubblebine III, President and Founder of the Natural Solutions Foundation, is a retired Major General in the United States Army. He was the commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984, when he retired from the Army. He is also known for his interest in parapsychology.
Stubblebine graduated from the United States Military Academy and received a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University. He spent 32 years in the Army, rising to the rank of Major General. He is credited with redesigning the US Army intelligence architecture during his command of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984. Other U.S. Army commands that he led included the Electronic Research and Development Command (ERADCOM) and the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). He is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.[4]
4:30-5:30 Hildegarde Staninger Genocide and Beyond, Part II: Visual Confirmation and Interpretation of Chemtrail and Similar Arial Spraying
Photo, Bio, See Genocide and Beyond, Part I, above
Dinner on your own
7:00 – 8:00 Fred van Liew, Health Freedom or Health Fascism: The Choice is Yours

Fred Van Liew is the leading expert in water, air and energy as they relate to your health internally and externally. He has acquired a unique understanding of many natural, non-drug healing methods and maintains continued interaction with the providers of effective health care. This allows him to productively communicate with and support the efforts of these professionals, as well as develop effective solutions to water, air & energy pollution now found in our environments. Solutions that allow for the most optimal health benefits and response. Now known as the “Water Doctor”, Fred has twenty-five years of experience in natural health care.
8:00 – 9:00 Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project Update: Reclaiming the Production of Food – A Global Health Freedom Strategy, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
9:00 – 10:00 Discussion: Responses, Resources, Rights – with all speakers
Sunday Please bring your lunch with you
10:00 – 11:00 Patrick Flannigan PhD What Makes Health, What Makes Freedom?

Dr. Patrick Flanagan possesses a unique ability to reorganize key concepts from a variety of applied sciences to solve intractable problems. He is a futurist with deep encyclopedic knowledge of the applied sciences.
Dr. Flanagan’s solutions are real and scientifically proven to work. At 11 years of age, he designed a missile detection system that was purchased by the Department of Defense. At age 13, he invented a device enabling deaf people to hear and received two patents for it. At 17, he was part of a Pentagon Think Tank and later was a consultant to the CIA, NSA, and NASA. As a physicist and medical doctor, Patrick Flanagan realized that his passion for the applied sciences grew out of a deep love and desire to protect humanity and life itself.
For decades, Dr. Flanagan has openly invited stringent scrutiny of his research and discoveries by the medical and scientific communities. The seeds of this effort are blossoming at an exponential rate as the scientific community is validating and embracing his extraordinary contributions. Academics and researchers at universities from Oxford to Stanford are beginning to study Dr. Flanagan’s breakthrough discoveries and teach them to Scientists of the future.
In the spirit of humanitarianism, openness, and sharing, it is Dr. Flanagan’s profound desire to share his discoveries with the world of science in the hope that they may be used to improve human life. After years of delivering inventions in biochemistry, physics, nanotechnology, and medicine to governments and major corporations, Dr. Flanagan’s life mission to extend human life and improve the quality of that life, is being realized.
A prolific inventor, Dr. Flanagan is credited with over 300 inventions and was named 1997 Scientist of the Year by the International Association for New Science. He also holds a patent pending on his process of manufacturing a delivery system for H- in living systems and industrial processes. Dr. Flanagan holds advanced degrees in nanotechnology, chemistry, bio-sciences and medicine.
11:00 –12:00 Paul G. King PhD – “The Rise of Diseases ‘Caused’ by Sub-acute Mercury Poisoning”
12:00 – 1:00 Sharry Edwards M Ed – Health Care Tyranny: Tragedy and Opportunity (Bag lunch)

Vocal Profiling has the ability to let us know the intentions of our leaders; the motivations of our partners; the foundation of our sense of Self Health and well being. Would those abilities be of value in the struggle to attain dominion over our intrinsic right to personal freedoms?
From birth to death, we use sounds to express our needs and emotions, but there are additional layers of information hidden within the words. In modern times we possess only limited conscious awareness of this information for ourselves or as a means to interpret the intentions of others.
Vocal Profiling software has been developed that can use the components of the voice to create a matrix of information about anyone, from fundamental DNA, to the hidden intentions of those who claim to speak for us.
Imagine a future in which the individual frequency based biomarkers contained within the voice can be used to keep us and our world, healthy and emotionally balanced.
Sharry Edwards has been accused of being too scientific by some, too esoteric by others. In actuality she is a bridge between both fields of inquiry. Sharry is the acknowledged pioneer in the emerging field of Human BioAcoustic Vocal Profiling. She has for many years provided the leading-edge research to show the voice as a holographic representation of the body that can be used to change the face of medicine.
During Sharry’s presentation it is her intention to demonstrate how the present system of health and governmental tyranny is both a tragedy and an opportunity.
1:00 – 2:00 Trustees’ War Strategy Update (Stubblebine, Laibow and Fucetola)

Dr. Laibow will lead a Panel Discussion with her co-trustees of Natural Solutions Foundation. Rima E. Laibow, M.D. is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1970) who believes passionately in the right of Americans to choose their own health paths. She has practiced drug-free, natural medicine for 35 years by seeking the underlying cause of every illness and ailment and treating that root cause.
She believes in using nutrients and other natural options to find, define and treat the problems which underlie degenerative, chronic diseases and poor aging while supporting the immune and other crucial systems. She has enjoyed remarkable success with a wide assortment of cataclysmic problems.
Because of Dr. Laibow’s awareness of the powerful natural, non-toxic options available to treat the underlying cause of disease she is focused on maintaining these choices for all Americans. Based on her understanding of the impact of poor nutrition and chemical/pesticide toxicity on the declining health of America, Dr. Laibow is determined to help Americans maintain the choices that allow them to protect themselves from disease and toxic harm.
Her Health Freedom Blog is the highest ranking health freedom blog on Google. Her Food Freedom eJournal is the highest ranking food freedom journal on Google.
2:00–2:15 Break
2:15–3:15 Hildegarde Staninger Genocide and Beyond Part III: Food and Environmental Contamination with Self Organizing Crystals and NanoBots
For Photo and Biography, see Genocide and Beyond Part I, above
3:15 -4:00ish – It’s Up to YOU: Health Freedom as Victim or Victor! [Interactive session]
To attend: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=4308
Post Event Meetings:
Monday and Tuesday, January 4, 5, 2010: Opportunities for private meetings with Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees, Dr Laibow, Counsel Fucetola and Gen Stubblebine, including discussions with marketers about Natural Clinical Trials: http://www.NaturalClinicalTrials.com
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General Bert’s Communiqué
Bringing Push Back Home
State by State Victory!
Soldiers fighting on their home territory are filled with vigor and determination which invaders lack. In our struggle for Health Freedom we need to take the push back battle to your state, your job, your home territory.
The next battlefield waiting for a push back victory is where you live. And Natural Solutions Founation is here to help you win that battle.
We are winning the war against our bodies. The forces that believe they can compel us to submit to their idea of medical “care” are retreating.
Twice so far, as we came to the brink of a Federal Law Suit against the vaccine mandates they retreated, claiming illogically that there were insufficient doses of vaccine to carry out their mandate.
Absurd, but telling.
Twice now, once in New York and then in New Jersey, we have seen their tails between the legs of the mandating forces as they take off in disarray. They will regroup, but right now, we hold the high ground. What that means is that we need to take back our health freedom state by state. Every school mandate, every worker’s mandate, every daycare mandate must be pushed back.
And together we can do that. We want you to succeed in Bringing Push Back Home!
We’ll work with you to (1) create a web page, (2) send Action Items that will go to your supporters only and (3) make a free conference bridge line available to you for local conference call participation.
Natural Solutions Foundation will advise you on strategy, legal possibilities, etc., all without charge to your group. Our Organizer’s eBook is being updated to include the latest techniques and tactics.
Why? Because community organization around health freedom issues is near and dear to our heart. We KNOW, we don’t just believe, we KNOW that it is the voice of the People, demanding our rights, that will protect our rights. That is what Dr. Paul G. King’s wonderful essay says and that is what Natural Solutions Foundation says, over and over and over and over.
And you know what? That repetition, the enlarging drum-beat of power, personal power, is turning the tide.
Of course, we have come to the most dangerous part of the game: we are becoming SO powerful that the other side, call them what, or whom you will, could, at a moment’s notice, change the rules of the game and come down on free men and women (and children, remember that part) like a ton of bricks IF they feel both threatened and IF they can get a way with it.
You know they feel threatened: hence the threats to shut down the internet, declare Martial Law, criminalize vaccine refusal, etc. But you also know that our collective power has an immobilizing effect on them: without that immobilizing effect, consider what would already have happened. Why has it not? Why is only the Ukraine under effective Medical Martial Law? Why has the WHO not exercised its treaty-granted powers to take over the governance of every country in the world under the 2005 agreement which went into effect in 2007 now that they have what they have been working toward: a declared “Level Six Pandemic” of their own defining and making?
The answer to all of these questions is the same: because of the People. Because we are alert, active and pushing back with the might of millions – and because evil is always weaker than good, because the entropy of the Universe, its disintegrative force, is balanced by the enthalpy, the constructive force. So knowledge, wisdom, caring accumulates while destruction destroys itself.
Our trick now is to make sure that the integrative forces are equal to, and, indeed, stronger in our time frame, than the disintegrative ones.
That is your job – nourishing the forces of freedom. The Three Vitamin D’s for Activists are –
Vitamin D1: Do – take Action, spread the Action eAlerts as widely as you can. The issues are getting hotter, more dangerous and more absurd with every passing day – people are more and more ready to hear our side now. This is a moment of ripeness for awareness.
Vitamin D2: Disseminate – This is a variant of Vitamin D1: there is no such thing as an overdose of dissemination! It is safe, effective, and stops a multitude of ills in the body politic.
Vitamin D3: Donate – Where do we get the money to assign people to do research? From you. Where do we get the resources to attend meetings you need to know about? From you. Where to we get the ability to create a model for the production of food which has a good chance of giving industrial agriculture the most serious run of its life? From you. And where do we get the resources necessary to tell you and everyone we need to reach about it? From YOU!
Give everyone on your Holiday list Health Freedom’s Own Coffee™, Valley of the Moon Coffee, www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
As our thank you for your support (besides the sheer joy of what we firmly believe will be the finest coffee you have ever sipped and sighed over, we’ll give you an 80% tax deduction for every bag of our GMO-free, pesticide-free, herbicide-free coffee straight from our educational Valley of the Moon™ Coffee Finca.
Not a coffee drinker on your list? Why not give the gift of perfect protection from every tested bacteria, virus and mycoplasma – without any side effects or over dose profile? Stuff those stockings with Silver Biotics, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions .
Looking for a good read? How about a book that can help you reverse the most frightening of diseases, cancer, in weeks.
Dr. Leonard Coldwell’s The Only Answer to Cancer, available from www.Instinctbasedmedicinestore.com, is a magnificent breakthrough that you MUST read either now or later.
Looking for more? Well, there’s plenty to choose from.
Visit www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org and Organics4U.org for outstanding products which you need, the people you care about need and will appreciate and which support YOUR health freedom organization, Natural Solutions Foundation, the Voice of Global Health Freedom™.
Oh, yes, plain vanilla donation now comes in two flavors: Make your recurring donation, large or small, ending in the number 6 and we’ll earmark your donation for our vitally important legal support fund. Not only our Stop the Shot legal case against the FDA, but a host of other cases need attention and support to stop the recurring, and potentially lethal incursion of government agencies into your health, your medicine chest and your life.
You can also make a donation ending in any other number and that donation will be used for everything else we are doing.
Oh, yes, if you are interested in participating, or knowing more about, or visiting, investing in, (with or without IRA/401 funds) or living at the astonishingly beautiful Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org , you are most welcome to contact us at dr.laibow@gmail.com with “VotM” as the subject.
Whew! So much to do, so much that’s true and so much that’s new! Natural Solutions is there for you. Are you there for us, too?
Yours in health and freedom,
Bert Stubblebine
Foundation President
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PUSH BACK Triumph: Biotech Giant Monsanto Forced to Withdraw Application for Approval of Two Types of GMO Corn – Safety Science Simply Not There
Push Back is the only thing that will work to reclaim our rights. Let’s face it: the people involved in taking them away are not going to suddenly see the light and hand them back to us. The production of safe, clean food, to reclaim our Constitutional rights, to reclaim our sovereignty over our own bodies (and those of our children), our rights to privacy and our right to make our own decisions about chipping and poisoned foods and vaccines and all the rest of our fundamental choices and freedoms.
Access to clean, unadulterated food is a basic human right. You know it, I know it and the globalists know it, too. We believe in it, they want to take it away from us. There simply is no better control mechanism than food: who lives and who dies depends on what food they have access to, whether they have access to it and what the condition of the food is. Clear and simple. Starving and weakening people is an ancient method of dominating and eliminating them. Some time ago, the Natural Solutions Foundation, looking, as we always do, for the most profound solution to a problem, realized that farmers were no longer able to grow clean food because of chemical inputs which had replaced ancient knowledge and poisoned the fertility of their land.
It was clear to us that reclaiming the production of food for people, rather than submitting to the distorted, degraded and increasingly industrialized production of food was the next battleground. To fight – and win – that battle, the Natural Solutions Foundation created the International Decade of Nutrition and, as part of it, the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project. Visit us at www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org to learn more, and to find out how you can become a participant in this unique and powerful project, already underway at many levels. Visiting this site you will find out how you can volunteer, visit or participate on a long term basis.
One of our reclaimation projects is the growing of chemical free coffee and then teaching local farmers how to do the same. You can support the Foundation and the Valley of the Moon(TM) by drinking health freedom’s coffee. Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee is FREE! Free of GMOs, Free of Pesticides, Free of Herbicides, Free of any contamination. Wake up to health freedom! Click here, to order your Valley of the Moon(TM) Toxin Free Coffee! Oh, and 80% of your purchase is tax deductible! Isn’t this the perfect gift for you, your gift list and your corporate gift list, too?
We looked world-wide for the best possible location for our Eco Demonstration project and, after a 3.5 year search, chose the Highlands of Panama for a large number of reasons. One of them is that Panamanian law prohibits GMOs since their safety has, as the event described below shows, not been proven. Under the Precautionary Principle, which is a part of Napoleonic Code legal systems, but which is absent from Common Law legal systems like the US’s, since their safety has not been demonstrated, they may not be used.
Valley of the Moon(TM) is part of our global Push Back. So is our Food Freedom eJournal, www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org, which will help you to grow your own food in tiny spaces so that you can be part of this food freedom renaissance, too! After all, it’s your food, your freedom, your health and, most importantly of all, your choice!
Push Back is a long, hard slog through the seemingly endless muck and mud of the other side’s amply funded propaganda, smears, attacks and derision.
That’s all part of a day’s work .
And nobody does Push Back like you, the Health Freedom Net Roots! Do you think that Monsanto, the biotech giant which has/owns the ear, the hand and the dinner table of the US as its personal property would have stepped back from its intended dominance of the global food chain without a huge hue and cry from people who know what is right and are not prepared to accept what is wrong as if it were safe, useful, correct or safe.
Is the issue over? Of course not! This is the same corporation which reputedly delivers sacks full of high denomination US currency to officials in countries like Indonesia and Thailand, where it literally bribes its way into tragic ownership of the food supply there (and all exports, as in Thailand, the world’s leading rice exporter). The same corporation for whom the US Department of Justice changed its rules so this blatant bribery and corruption would no longer constitute a criminal offense. The same corporation which has been directly responsible for more than 130,000 Indian farmer suicides after its illegal (ruled illegal by the Indian Supreme Court 3 times!) marketing and crop dissemination activities have deprived them of their livelihoods, their homes, their land and their ability to sustain themselves either in their communities or in the burgeoning hopeless slums. The same corporation which knowingly sells GMO white corn in Africa, where it is a staple of the diet, knowing that the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus used as a promoter in the biotech process, itself, in the absence of any virus, destroyes the immune system so that the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS is, for untold millions of Africans, not the product of sexual behaviors of infection, but of the very food that they are eating, the very food which is literally killing them.
Monsanto and DuPont teamed up, you will recall, not so many years ago, to purchase the patent on a GMO corn that makes spermicide in the body, rendering the animals, including the human animals, which eat it, sterile or, if the animals are females, renders them unable to receive sperm without destroying it with antibodies to the sperm.
So while step forward after step forward of the Biotech industry has been to push us to our knees and our graves, this step was backwards. We must shout, rejoice, and renew our efforts to make sure that all of their steps are back and none of them are forward.
In this directional dance for health and freedom lies our future, our very survival. One voice is lost in the wilderness. Millions of voices create ….PUSHBACK!
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Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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Monsanto Pulls GM Corn Amid Food Safety Concerns
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 12:05 pm
Press Release: Robt Mann
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00548.htm
Monsanto Pulls GM Corn Amid Serious Food Safety Concerns Applicant’s Dossiers Contained Wide-Ranging Fraudulent Research
Press Notice from GM Free Cymru 9 November 2009
For the first time, a GM multinational has pulled two GM corn varieties from the regulatory and assessment process at the eleventh hour (1), after planning for a future income of several billion dollars per year from global sales (2). Monsanto has abandoned its ambitious plans for a so-called “second generation GM crop” rather than accede to a request from European regulators for additional research and safety data (3).
http://search.scoop.co.nz/search?q=related:WO0911/S00548
Under conditions of great secrecy, Monsanto has informed EFSA that it no longer wishes to pursue its application for approval of GM maize LY038 and the stacked variety LY038 x MON810. Both of these varieties were designed to accelerate the growth rate of animals. Two letters were sent to EFSA from the Monsanto subsidiary company Renessen at the end of April this year confirming the withdrawal of its applications originally submitted in 2005 and 2006. The letters cite “decreased commercial value worldwide” and state that the high-lysene varieties “will no longer be a part of the Renessen business strategy in the near future.” (4) There has been no announcement of these decisions on the Monsanto web site, and there are no mentions on EFSA or European Commission web sites either. In other words, there is a conspiracy of silence involving both the applicants and the regulators.
The two letters sent to EFSA in April requested the return of all dossier material (varietal characterization, experimental protocols, and test results) which was submitted with the applications for cultivation, animal feed and human food (4). EFSA acceded to this request, making it impossible for any future independent researchers to analyse the Monsanto / Renessen data. That in itself is profoundly disturbing.
Scientists who have followed these two applications are quite convinced that the “decisions to withdraw” have nothing to do with commercial considerations and everything to do with food safety. In other words, the varieties are too dangerous to be allowed onto the open market — although they would certainly have been approved by EFSA and most other European regulatory authorities had it not been for the diligence of independent scientists in New Zealand who subjected the application dossiers to very close scrutiny (5). In the absence of such scrutiny in the United States, the varieties were approved in 2005 for cultivation, animal feed and human food use on the other side of the Atlantic (6). Consents for food and feed use were also given in Japan, Canada, the Philippines, and South Korea. In 2007 Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) approved LY038 for food and feed use in spite of strenuous objections from the Green Party and scientists at Canterbury University’s Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety (INBI) who warned that the new corn was not safe for humans when cooked (7). They also expressed concerns about unpredictable health effects, increased levels of toxins in high- lysene corn, and possible allergies and links to cancer.
It does not appear that the varieties have been grown or “commercialized” anywhere in the world (8), although test plantings probably occurred in the United States.
“Blatant scientific fraud by the applicants”
While INBI’s detailed and devastating analysis of the applicant’s supporting dossiers was dismissed out of hand by FSANZ, EFSA was forced to take it seriously because of concerns from a large number of European countries including Finland and Malta. The scientific bases of those concerns were highlighted by Jeffrey Smith in his book “Genetic Roulette” and by Prof Jack Heinemann in his book “Hope not Hype” (9). The Monsanto dossiers included rigged research and false assumptions in the reported experiments; a failure to offer any test results based on cooked or processed corn; a failure to test the whole GM plant in feeding trials; confusing and contradictory characterizations of the GM varieties and proteins; a fraudulent mixing of GM strains during trials; a pooling of crop data so as to mask undesirable effects in experiments; feeding trials too short to reveal true physiological changes in animal tissues; and the choice of an irrelevant, unrelated corn variety as the control group for comparison with the GM lines, with the clear intention of hiding potentially serious differences in composition or side effects on animals(10). The Codex guidelines for the testing of GM crops were thus comprehensively broken by Monsanto’s subsidiary Renessen, and were not enforced by the regulators in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (11). All in all, this amounted to blatant scientific fraud by the applicants, and a cynical failure to enforce the rules, and to protect the public, by the regulators.
During the assessments of these two varieties in Europe, many countries used the INBI peer review of the applicant’s dossiers to underpin their concerns, and these widely-expressed concerns forced EFSA to ask the applicants for additional studies and for a clarification of their experimental data (12). EFSA also asked — for the first time — for adherence to the Codex rules relating to GM and comparator studies. In the knowledge that their dossiers were now being subjected to an unprecedented level of scrutiny, Monsanto / Renessen simply decided that they would not cooperate in this process for fear of what might emerge. So they wrote to EFSA in April (4) to indicate that they were abandoning all plans for the cultivation and commercialization of the two GM crops.
“EFSA has been unfit for purpose”
Commenting for GM-Free Cymru, Dr Brian John said: “This is the first time, to our knowledge, that EFSA has sought to enforce the Codex rules relating to the use of isolines in the testing of GM crops, and the first time that it has expressed profound dissatisfaction about the content of an applicant’s dossiers. It is also the first time that a GM multinational has withdrawn a GM product (or two products) at the eleventh hour. It was insane in the first place to seek to pass GM maize crops containing Bt toxins and “growth enhancers” straight into the human food chain (13). In addition, EFSA and the other regulators have been quite irresponsible in the past in assuming that “stacked” events, hybridized from two GM lines, are harmless if the applicant says so, and if the separate lines have been independently approved. That is simply bad science, since it fails to address the likelihood of synergistic effects and even accumulating toxins in the food chain (14).
“Nonetheless, we applaud the fact that EFSA has asked Monsanto some hard questions in this case, having in the past demonstrated, over and again, that its GMO Panel is simply unfit for purpose (15). This represents progress.
“We are quite convinced that Monsanto has been fully aware, from the beginning, that line LY038 and line LY038 x MON810 are both dangerous; and yet they persisted with their applications until the extent of their scientific fraud was exposed to the public. We should not be surprised by this. The corporation pushes dangerous products onto the food market all the time, and does whatever is necessary to hoodwink the regulators into the belief that all is well (16). We are convinced that Mansanto has other in-house studies which show that these varieties are unstable, unpredictable and harmful to health. Will we ever get to see these studies? No way!”