Posted on June 19, 2009 by by jr

An interesting article I came across via a reference in a podcast I was listening to earlier today: 

June 17, 2009

Russian Scientists Warn Of Genetically Modified Fast Food Link To Pandemic Flu

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

Scientists from Russia’s Ministry of Health are warning in a secret report to Prime Minister Putin that they have discovered a ‘critical link’ between the H1N1 influenza (Swine Flu) virus and genetically modified amylopectin potatoes that are consumed in massive quantities nearly exclusively by Westerners and sold in fast food restaurants as French Fries.

According to these reports, the protease enzyme genetically modified in the potatoes being sold through Western fast food restaurants as French Fries to protect against Potato virus X causes an “explosive” replication of the H1N1 influenza virus by increasing the acidic conditions of the endosome and causing the hemagglutinin protein to rapidly fuse the viral envelope with the vacuole’s membrane, then causing the M2 ion channel to allow protons to move through the viral envelope and acidify the core of the virus, which causes the core to dissemble and release the H1N1’s RNA and core proteins into the hosts cells.

Evidence confirming these dire findings by top Russian scientists is also supported by the World Health Organization who in their reporting on the current Influenza Pandemic, clearly shows that the H1N1 virus is nearly totally confined to those Western Nations allowing their citizens to consume these genetically modified potatoes, and which include: The United States with over 17,000 cases being reported with 45 deaths; Canada with 2,978 cases; the United Kingdom with 1,226 cases; and Australia with 1,823 cases.

Important to also note about the World Health Organization’s statistics on the spread of the H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus is that the South American Nation of Chile is the only country in the World outside of The United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia to allow the planting of these genetically modified potatoes due to their Free Trade Pact with the US and who are reporting 1,694 cases of this disease.

Also important to note are that most of the World’s largest Nations do not allow the planting of these genetically modified potatoes and therefore are reporting very limited outbreaks of the H1N1 Pandemic influenza, including Russia with 3 cases, China, the World’s most populated country, with 318 cases, and India, the World’s second largest country, with 16.

These reports further state that with the linkage between the H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus and fast food French Fries made from genetically modified potatoes the most venerable people to being infected are the youngest who, by far, are the largest consumers of these types of cheap Western foods, and which was recently confirmed by the Washington Post News Service that reported:

“Of the 5,000 confirmed and more than 100,000 probable cases of swine flu, the average age of infected people is 15; two thirds are younger than 18.”

These reports further warn that though the genetic history of this insidious man-made influenza seems to initially offer some protection for those Nations not consuming these genetically modified potatoes, to believe so would be a “grave mistake” as new evidence is emerging that this H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus is rapidly mutating, and as we can read from these two reports:

“The new strain of influenza appears to have mutated to become more infectious for humans, the online edition of science magazine Nature reported Monday, referencing research by a team including Prof. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of Tokyo University’s Institute of Medical Science.

The surface of influenza virus particles are covered with thorn-shaped proteins called hemagglutinin (HA), which allows the virus to stick to human cells.

After analyzing multiple samples of the new flu virus, the team ascertained that in some cases the HA of the new H1N1 strain have mutated, allowing the strain to stick to human cells more easily.

According to Kawaoka, the same mutations have been found in HA of the H5N1 strain of influenza, the highly virulent bird flu, which kills about 60 percent of those it infects. Kawaoka said the virus is still in the process of mutating into a form even more infectious to humans.”

-and-

“Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute said Tuesday. The variant has been called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1 by the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute, which compared it with samples of the A(H1N1) swine flu from California.”

More ominously to be examined in these reports is the response of the United States to this Pandemic which, to date, is the World’s largest infected Nation (reporting 7 more H1N1 flu deaths today) and which has already declared a Public Health Emergency and, just yesterday, passed a bill in its Congress allocating $7.7 Billion to prepare themselves for this catastrophic disease that, in essence, they created themselves.

Sadly, it remains a fact that the American people are not allowed to know how their giant fast food and genetically modified food industries, with the consent of their government, is destroying the lives of their children, and with the US fast food industry paying over $10 billion in advertising and millions more as lobbying payoffs to government officials, there remains no evidence of this changing any time in the foreseeable future.

Even worse, with the current Global economic crisis destroying their way of life, and with the American people having lost over $1.3 Trillion of their wealth in the last four months alone, the sheep-like masses of these Westerners are continuing to flock to these fast food restaurants in search of cheap food, never for once recognizing their similarity to cattle and sheep who are, likewise, always fattened up before being slaughtered.

But, as one wise Russian sage once pointed out, what else should these Westerns expect from their most honored doctors and scientists who use as their symbol the ancient twin-headed snake Caduceus staff belonging to the Mesopotamian deity of the underworld, and “messenger” of the “Earth Mother”, Ningishzida, and whose name in Sumerian means “lord of the good tree”.

Source: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1242.htm

I’m not easily convinced on the source of articles such as the one above. The primary problem here is there is no direct reference or citation to the so called “secret report” (not that I’d be able to read Russian anyway… but that’s beside the point).

The author of the original article appears to be a conspiracy theorist or perhaps just a crackpot, but they have gone to extraordinary effort in presenting their case in a manner which could potentially present a credible hypothesis,

This got me thinking, do the major Australian fast food vendors actually declare whether or not they are using GMO or non-GMO potatoes for their french fries.

I decided to check out their respective websites and see what I could determine:

• McDonalds: http://mcdonalds.com.au/HTML/ourFood/mainMenu.asp
• Hungry Jacks: http://hungryjacks.com.au/menu_category_sides
• KFC: http://kfc.com.au/Default.asp?page=/nutrition+information & http://kfc.com.au/Default.asp?page=/allergen+information
• Red Rooster: http://redrooster.com.au/products_sides_nut_chips.htm

Conclusion: none of these vendors indicated whether or not GMO product was used for their french fries.

I wish that we had stronger food labeling laws in this country that forced vendors to properly disclose whether or not they are selling, using or incorporating GM foods.

I’m not totally opposed to the concept of some GM foods (I still get freaked out about the GM concept of moving genes from one species to another in foods), but I’d prefer to have the ability to make an informed choice on whether I wish to consume such goods.

The whole GM labeling fiasco is as bad as the other Australian food labeling loop-hole that allows manufacturers to get away with the meaningless statements on their packaging that say: “made from local and imported ingredients” without actually declaring what components are Australian and what is actually imported. It makes it really hard to support local producers when the majority of ingredients used may be from overseas.

Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, regarding the link between GM French Fries and the spread of H1N1 in the Western World; without having the personal biological science expertise to determine whether the article is just another beat up or whether there may be some real substance and truth behind it… I guess it really does add new meaning to good old expression “food for thought…“

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