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on white flour has done great harm to health in many cases.” ROUND-UP HAVOC?
In anticipation of the USDA food pyramid, the millers of the Don Huber, a noted plant scientist from Purdue University,
northwest advocated nine slices of white bread per day— is putting himself in the line of fire by warning about newly
consumed as toast, in sandwiches, and in sugary desserts discovered dangers of the herbicide glyphosate. Marketed as
such as chocolate bread pudding and chocolate soufflé—and Roundup, the herbicide was applied to the tune of 185 million
to teach infants early to eat bread and cereals. Pasteurized pounds in 2007, mostly to genetically engineered Roundup-
milk and white bread indeed go hand in hand as the wedge resistant corn and soy beans. According to Huber, the problem
that forced processed food on western peoples. with glyphosate is that it weakens the plant’s defenses, making
it more susceptible to pathogens, particularly to an extremely
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS tiny pathogen that Huber’s team has discovered. This pathogen
A report from Tambul, Sudan describes not bread and cereal causes infertility and spontaneous abortion in animals that
as the breakfast of champions, but raw camel liver. "If I eat eat Roundup Ready crops. In January, Huber sent a letter to
liver, I can stay out in the sun for a long time without feeling USDA, urging them to delay approval of Roundup Ready al-
tired," says Mubarak Mohammed Ahmed. "It gives me a lot falfa until studies could be carried out on this vital perennial
of energy and it improves my mood." The villagers believe crop. But USDA approved Roundup Ready alfalfa anyway,
that the liver provides the most benefit when eaten unwashed. paving the way for a massive crisis in animal agriculture. No
"It's very tasty — it's my favorite dish," says Abdullah Abdul farmer can stay in business with the high rates of infertility
Mahmoud. "I've been eating raw liver since I was born, just and spontaneous abortion that the new organism seems to be
like my father and my grandfather before me," says Abdul causing in cattle, pigs and poultry.
Azim Ali. True to form, health officials have focused on raw
liver as a health problem, blaming cases of plague in a remote MORE OMINOUS
Saudi village from villagers eating infected raw camel liver. Even more ominous is a new study showing that pesticides
Mahmoud disagrees: "I've never fallen sick from eating this," implanted into genetically engineered food crops are reaching
he said. "The liver is so healthy it's like taking medicine" the bloodstreams of pregnant women and their unborn babies.
(www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/20).
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