The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-7-12

On this weekend’s edition of The Kevin Trudeau Show, Judge Andrew Napolitano stops by to expose why your freedoms are being forfeited by a government that is more protective of its own power than its constitutional promise to preserve your individual liberties. Click here to purchase his new book, Lies The Government Told You.

PLUS, The Water Doctor, Fred Van Liew, discusses John Stossel’s bunko assertions that plastic bottles don’t cause health problems and that tap water is healthy. Click here to save yourself from the toxins lurking in your water supply!

Food:
Junk Food-Addicted Rats Chose to Starve Rather Than Eat Healthy Food
General Bans Booze & Junk Food
Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Uses Pre-Prepared Meals
Customer Flips Over Filet-O-Fish

Drugs:
Antibiotics Linked to Increased Risk of Birth Defects
Study Urges Vitamin D Supplement for Infants
Cholesterol Drug Use Risky For Healthy People
Vitamin B3 Beats Big Pharma’s Cholesterol Drug

Government:
FDA Suppressed Imaging Safety Concerns
Cuban Leader Endorses Obama Health Care Reform
Expert Claims of Livestock Causing Global Warming False
Record Number of Journalists Murdered Last Year

Health:
Papaya is Effective Against Certain Cancers

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FDA Limits Usage of Antibiotics in Livestock After Activist Outcry

April 16, 2012

Activist Post

By Anthony Gucciardi

“Finally the FDA does something right. But instead of limiting the use of antibiotics, they should be banning it altogether.” –KTRN

After serious health campaigning led to a United States judge ordering the FDA to remove approval for antibiotic use on common animal feed products, the FDA is now limiting the usage of antibiotics among the food supply.

However, the FDA is not completely revoking approval for the antibiotics, only placing an order for farmers to stop using the drugs solely to help animals grow — what’s more, the farmers are given another 3 years before any real legal action goes into effect. The initial proposal was introduced back in 1977, and the FDA has stalled for decades to give a final answer.

That means that antibiotics used to ‘treat’ animal diseases, or even ‘prevent’ future diseases, will be perfectly fine under these guidelines.

The result may have to do with the livestock corporate juggernauts, who refused to admit that the mass drugging of animals with superbug-breeding antibiotics posed any real threat to the public.

Many consumer activists, such as Laura Rogers from the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, fear that these new guidelines are so broad that they mean virtually nothing.

‘If you were to ask me what’s the biggest gap, it’s that they’ve left way too much wiggle room [leeway] when it comes to preventative uses,’ said Rogers. ‘That’s going to have to be shored up [i.e., made more specific] in order for this action to be meaningful.’

Click here for the full report.

Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Started On Animal Farms

March 20, 2012

Natural News

By Ethan A. Huff

“Feeding antibiotics to animals is more dangerous than we ever could have imagined.” –KTRN

The growing emergence and prevalence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs capable of killing humans was not always the gravely serious problem it is today, as some of these deadly strains actually originated as benign pathogens in humans. But the widespread practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock living on factory farms is at least one of the primary triggers that has caused these once-harmless bacterial strains to become vicious killers.

A recent study published in the American Society for Microbiology journal mBio explains how the infamous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) superbug strain CC398, for instance, appears to have actually originated as a type of harmless probiotic in the body known as methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA). According to Lance Price and his colleagues, MSSA morphed into deadly MRSA as a result of migration into livestock being fed excessive amounts of antibiotics.

“Modern food animal production is characterized by densely concentrated animals and routine antibiotic use, which may facilitate the emergence of novel antibiotic-resistant zoonotic pathogens,” write the authors in their paper. “Our findings strongly support the idea that livestock-associated MRSA CC398 originated as MSSA in humans” (http://mbio.asm.org/content/3/1/e00305-11).

Factory farmers commonly feed antibiotics like tetracycline and methicillin to their livestock, poultry, and even fish, in order to make them grow faster. These drugs also help mitigate the filth-induced disease that is part and parcel of the factory food system, which confines animals in unsanitary living conditions and summons them to unnatural diets that cause them to develop frequent infections (http://www.naturalnews.com/028031_antibiotics_infections.html).

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What’s In Your Milk?

July 12, 2011

Daily Mail

By David Derbyshire

A glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, scientists have shown.

Using a highly sensitive test, they found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.

The doses of drugs were far too small to have an effect on anyone drinking them, but the results highlight how man-made chemicals are now found throughout the food chain.

the highest quantities of medicines were found in cow’s milk.

Researchers believe some of the drugs and growth promoters were given to the cattle, or got into milk through cattle feed or contamination on the farm.

The Spanish-Moroccan team analysed 20 samples of cow’s milk bought in Spain and Morocco, along with samples of goat and breast milk.

Their breakdown, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, revealed that cow’s milk contained traces of anti-inflammatory drugs niflumic acid, mefenamic acid and ketoprofen – commonly used as painkillers in animals and people.

Click here to read the full report from DailyMail.co.uk.

 

Stop The Madness!

July 11, 2011

Dr. Mercola

Mercola.com

As of July 1, the recent outbreak of E. coli in Germany, linked to contaminated sprouts, has caused at least 49 deaths and more than 4,100 illnesses in the European Union, and has once again highlighted immense problems with food safety.

The E. coli bacteria strain, O104:H4, found in the sprouts eaten by all of those who became ill was unusually deadly. A Lancet study reasoned this was due to the bacteria’s ability to release Shiga toxin, which can cause hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) leading to kidney failure and death, as well as its ability to stick to intestinal cells. But another factor involved was the fact that the E. coli was resistant to most antibiotics.

This is certainly not a problem unique to Germany. In fact, in the United States the excessive use of antibiotics in food production has lead to the creation of a new generation of hard-to-eradicate human diseases.

Why is the United States a Prime Breeding Ground for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?

The New York Times reported this really shocking statistic, the state of North Carolina uses more antibiotics for livestock production than the entire United States uses for humans.  Chickens, cattle and hogs are fed antibiotics not on a case-specific basis to treat disease, but indiscriminately to make them grow faster — which increases profit margins for livestock producers — and prevent disease from teeming in filthy conditions. Industrial farmers literally add antibiotics to livestock’s food and water, so they are all medicated.

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Click here to read the full report from Dr. Mercola.

 

Toxic Pesticides From GM Food Crops Found In Unborn Babies

May 23rd, 2011

The Telegraph

By: Andy Bloxham

Scientists at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre in Quebec, took dozens of samples from women.

Traces of the toxin were found 93 per cent of the pregnant mothers and in 80 per cent of the umbilical cords.

The research suggested the chemicals were entering the body through eating meat, milk and eggs from farm livestock which have been fed GM corn.

The findings appear to contradict the GM industry’s long-standing claim that any potentially harmful chemicals added to crops would pass safely through the body.

To date, most of the global research which has been used to demonstrate the safety of GM crops has been funded by the industry itself.

It is not known what, if any, harm the chemicals might cause but there has been speculation it could lead to allergies, miscarriage, abnormalities or even cancer.

One of the researchers told the scientific journal Reproductive Toxicology: “This is the first study to highlight the presence of pesticides associated with genetically modified foods in maternal, foetal and nonpregnant women’s blood.”

Pete Riley, the director of GM Freeze, a group opposed to GM farming, described the research as “very significant”.

The Agriculture Biotechnology Council, which speaks for the GM industry, has questioned the reliability and value of the research.

Dr Julian Little, its chairman, said: “Biotech crops are rigorously tested for safety prior to their use and over two trillion meals made with GM ingredients have been safely consumed around the world over the past 15 years without a single substantiated health issue.”

Click here for the full report from The Telegraph

The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-21-11

On this weekend’s edition of The Kevin Trudeau Show, Judge Andrew Napolitano stops by to expose why your freedoms are being forfeited by a government that is more protective of its own power than its constitutional promise to preserve your individual liberties. Click here to purchase his new book, Lies The Government Told You.

PLUS, The Water Doctor, Fred Van Liew, discusses John Stossel’s bunko assertions that plastic bottles don’t cause health problems and that tap water is healthy. Click here to save yourself from the toxins lurking in your water supply!

Food:
Junk Food-Addicted Rats Chose to Starve Rather Than Eat Healthy Food
General Bans Booze & Junk Food
Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Uses Pre-Prepared Meals
Customer Flips Over Filet-O-Fish

Drugs:
Antibiotics Linked to Increased Risk of Birth Defects
Study Urges Vitamin D Supplement for Infants
Cholesterol Drug Use Risky For Healthy People
Vitamin B3 Beats Big Pharma’s Cholesterol Drug

Government:
FDA Suppressed Imaging Safety Concerns
Cuban Leader Endorses Obama Health Care Reform
Expert Claims of Livestock Causing Global Warming False
Record Number of Journalists Murdered Last Year

Health:
Papaya is Effective Against Certain Cancers

Everything Kevin:
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Support Kevin!
Kevin is on YouTube!
Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast
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Using the Backyard Grill This Summer Just Got More Expensive

April 4th, 2011

DailyFinance.com

By: Charles Wallace

Just when it seemed like it couldn’t get much worse on the price front – how can you top $4 a gallon gasoline? – comes news the cherished summer barbecue is about to get more expensive.

Contracts for future deliveries of corn, soybeans and wheat prices surged to the most permitted by the Chicago Board of Trade in a single day. Corn was up 4.5%, soybeans were up 3.25% and wheat was up 5%. So far in the past year, corn prices have risen by 87%, soybeans have jumped 41% and wheat has climbed 54% — thanks in part to bad weather in Russia and Australia, two major wheat producers. The surge in prices on the futures exchanges was in reaction to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that stockpiles of corn measured at the beginning of March had fallen 15% from their levels a year ago.

Higher Grain Prices = Higher Meat Prices

The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer of corn. It seems to be in nearly everything — cereals, sweeteners and ethanol for our cars. Corn, and to a lesser extent soybeans, are also important for feeding livestock. According to the National Corn Growers Association, about 80% of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by “domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, and fish production.” So higher prices for these commodities means that prices for beef, pork and chicken are likely to go up as well down the road.

“It looks like these reports will extend the price rally we’ve seen, not only for food commodities that are directly manufactured from corn, soybeans and wheat but also livestock products that depend on those commodities,” says Darrel L. Good, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois.

“The real test will come this summer, when we have the highest seasonal prices, particularly of pork,” he says. “It looks like those prices could be sharply higher than we have ever experienced before.”

Revising the Grocery Bill Upwards

Compounding these price pressures are not only higher commodity prices, but also surging demand from foreign countries for U.S. beef and pork products. That’s mainly a result of the improving world economy., especially in India and China.

Art Barnaby, an agricultural economist at Kansas State University, says the economic upswing is also producing higher demand for steak at home in the U.S. — as families stop eating mac and cheese and other less expensive foods. Higher demand adds up to higher prices in the long run, he says, even without higher feed prices.

Just how much have beef and pork prices headed higher? Since last summer, beef has risen 27% and pork is up 32%. ‘That’s huge; we’ve never experienced cattle prices at this level,” says Good.

Ephraim Leibtag, an economist at the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, says his department has revised upwards its grocery price forecast for the coming year. It now expects prices to rise 4% in 2011.

“If commodity prices continue to rise or even stay at these high levels,” he says, “there’s an upside risk for future increases later on in the year. It could take several months before the higher commodity prices are reflected in higher meat price.”

Good says the reason that corn inventories are down so dramatically is the 2010 crop was smaller than in previous years — and that we’re consuming corn at a much faster rate than last year.

Overseas Demand Also Surging

It’s worth bearing in mind that it’s not just American consumers who are taking on the chin at the supermarket. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, food prices surged 2.2% in February over January, with the FAO’s cereals index up 3.7% and meat up 2% in a single month.

The agency also warns the rise in oil prices could “further exacerbate an already precarious situation in food markets.”

This is particularly true in developing countries. It was a crisis over food price hikes that touched off a wave of demonstrations in Tunisia earlier this year — which eventually led to popular protests against governments in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen.

Click here for the full report from DailyFinance.com

Antibiotics Make Animals Fat and Sick

January 7th, 2011

Natural News

By: Kim Evans

Most people know that conventionally raised animals are regularly given antibiotics. In fact, according to the FDA, 29 million pounds of antibiotics are fed to livestock each year and for drug companies, this adds billions to the bottom line. Most people assume that antibiotics are given to livestock to kill off the germs and pathogens that come from living in the crowded and unsanitary quarters common on factory farms. What they don’t know: farmers really use antibiotics to make the animals fat.

According to the Des Moines Register, antibiotics are routinely added to the animal’s food to fatten the animals and save on feed costs. This, of course, boosts the farmer’s profits. Antibiotics are well known to kill off healthy gut bacteria, and the absence of the animals’ gut bacteria performs the fattening task by disrupting how foods, particularly fats, are metabolized. It turns out that farmers know if you kill off the gut flora, it’ll lead to fat animals. And it begs the question: what effects are antibiotics having on the humans that continually consume them in animal flesh and also take them as drugs? In a nation that struggles with obesity problems, it’s actually a pretty serious question.

Not only do antibiotics make the animals fat, they also bring disease. Like in humans who kill off their healthy bacteria, the animals are having health problems too. In a University of Iowa study, 70 percent of pigs and 64 percent of workers on several Iowa and Western Illinois farms had a new strain of MSRA. These farms used antibiotics routinely, and on antibiotic-free farms no MRSA was found. This, of course, refutes arguments that antibiotics lead to health because it’s becoming more and more obvious that they actually lead to disease if the healthy bacteria aren’t replenished afterward. We’ve also yet to see a study on what exactly eating MRSA ridden pigs and other animals can do to a person. If nothing else, it’s pretty gross.

In humans, a strain of healthy gut bacteria works with a hormone that regulates fat development and hunger. Antibiotics are wiping out this bacterial strain in humans, and scientists have theorized that the loss of this bacteria might “be contributing to the current epidemics of early-life obesity, type 2 diabetes and related metabolic syndromes.” Antibiotics may be touted as miracle drugs, but when they cause more harm than good in the long run, they’re not much of a miracle. Real miracle antibiotics are more like coconut oil and raw organic garlic, which are both well known to kill the bad bacteria while leaving our healthy bacteria intact. Antibiotics have been added to animal feed since 1946.

Click here for the full report from Natural News

FDA Allows Unsafe Drugs To Be Fed To Livestock

July 9, 2010

NaturalNews

 The FDA continues to allow use of a dangerous livestock drug banned in 160 countries, including across Europe, China and Taiwan, even though the agency itself admits that the chemical is highly toxic to humans.

The drug in question is known as ractopamine, and it increases the body’s synthesis of protein — thereby causing animals to bulk up and yield more meat. Ractopamine is in the family of drugs known as beta-agonists, which contains many asthma drugs.

Yet ractopamine is so dangerous to human health that the FDA requires it to be labeled, “Not for use in humans. Individuals with cardiovascular disease should exercise special caution to avoid exposure. Use protective clothing, impervious gloves, protective eye wear, and a NIOSH-approved dust mask.”

Nevertheless, three different variants of the drug have been approved for use in U.S. livestock immediately prior to slaughter. This is the exact opposite of the rules relating to other livestock drugs, such as antibiotics and hormones, which must be stopped as slaughter nears.

Research has shown that up to 20 percent of ractopamine given to an animal remains active in its meat after slaughter. More than 1,700 people were poisoned after eating ractopamine-fed pigs in 1998, according to the Sichuan Pork Trade Chamber of Commerce.

Also of concern is the implications of “adding these drugs to waterways or well water supplies–via contaminated animal feed and manure runoff — when this class of drugs is so important in treating children with asthma,” said David Wallinga, MD, of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Ractopamine is sold under three brand names, all made by the same company: Paylean, Optaflexx and Tomax. Paylean is fed to pigs for the last 28 days of their lives, Optaflexx to cattle for the last 28 to 42, and Tomax to turkeys for the last 7 to 14. According to manufacturer Elanco Animal Health (a division of Eli Lilly), fully 45 percent of U.S. pigs and 30 percent of non-grass-fed cattle receive some form of ractopamine.

Elanco was also the maker of Stilbosol, also known as diethylstilbestrol or DES, an estrogen drug widely prescribed to pregnant women starting in the 1940s. In 1971, the drug was shown to cause birth defects, but the company did not cease production until 1997.

The company also recently purchased the rights to recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBST), also known as Posiliac, from Monsanto. Noting this connection, “CounterPunch” author Martha Rosenberg draws parallels between the approval processes for rBST and ractopamine.

“Like rBST, ractopamine increases profits despite greater livestock death and disability,” she writes.

“Like rBST, food consumers are metabolic, neurological and carcinogen guinea pigs so that agribusiness can make a profit. And like rBST, ‘Mothers Of Growing Children’ was not marked as a visiting group on the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s public calendar next to the ag lobbyists.”

A full one-third of all Food Safety and Inspection Service meetings in January 2009 took place with Elanco lobbyists.

U.S. farmers have complained that ractopamine induces hyperactivity, muscle damage and even a 10 percent death rate in their pigs and cattle, a concern confirmed by a 2003 study published in the Journal of Animal Science.

The FDA even acknowledged these effects in 2002, when it accused Elanco of concealing data from the agency. It referenced complaints such as, “animals are down and shaking,” and “pig vomiting after eating feed with Paylean.”

“Our representatives requested a complete and accurate list of all your [Good Laboratory Practices] studies involving Paylean … . In response, your firm supplied to our representatives multiple lists which differed in the names of the studies and their status. In addition, your firm could not locate or identify documents pertaining to some of the studies,” the FDA’s Division of Compliance director wrote.

Yet none of this stopped the agency from approving the drug in 2003 for cattle, and then again for turkeys in 2009.

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