{"id":5851,"date":"2024-03-10T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2024-08-04T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:58:16","slug":"subsidizing-pharma-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"Subsidizing Pharma in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taxpayers Could End Up Funding Research on Edible mRNA Vaccines Under $460 Billion Spending Bill<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The omnibus spending bill passed Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives allows funding of transgenic edible vaccine research, even though the House previously voted unanimously not to allow the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zero-accountability.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5858\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zero-accountability.jpg 818w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zero-accountability-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zero-accountability-768x901.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/suzanne-burdick-ph-d\/\">Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/omnibus-bill-transgenic-edible-mrna-vaccines-food\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240307\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/omnibus-bill-transgenic-edible-mrna-vaccines-food\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240307\">Link copied<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxpayers-edible-mrna-vaccines-bill-feature-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"vaccine syringe and bottle with mrna strand and money\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/sign-up\/?utm_source=top_of_article&amp;utm_medium=the_defender&amp;utm_campaign=sign_ups\">Subscribe to The Defender&#8217;s Top News of the Day<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>It&#8217;s free.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. government could fund research on transgenic edible vaccines \u2014 vaccines grown in genetically engineered plants meant for consumption by humans or animals \u2014 under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/government-shutdown-funding-deadline-congress-2533c1a6b6eb25cc63e78f089e27d3a0\">$460 billion omnibus spending<\/a>&nbsp;bill passed Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill allows for funding of transgenic edible vaccines, even though the House previously voted unanimously not to allow the funding, according to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who led the effort to prohibit the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Wednesday\u2019s vote,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1764697129862217773\">Massie posted on the X platform<\/a>, formerly known as Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe House voted unanimously to stop funding transgenic edible plant vaccines, but that prohibition was left out of the new omnibus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo your taxpayer dollars will be funding edible plant vaccines, if the enormous spending bill passes this week. Not good!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House in September 2023 passed an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/massie.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/massie_edible_vaccines_funding_prohibition_amdt.pdf\">amendment<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 introduced by Massie \u2014 to the agricultural appropriations bill<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/4368\">&nbsp;H.R.4368<\/a>&nbsp;that barred the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/usda-policy-gmo-vaccines-organic-livestock\/\">U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/a>&nbsp;(USDA) and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/fda-informed-consent-not-required-minimal-risk-studies\/\">U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a>&nbsp;(FDA) from funding the vaccines for fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Wednesday\u2019s vote, Massie told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/\">The Defender<\/a>&nbsp;why he thought the amendment was left out. \u201cThe omnibus we are voting on this week has over 600&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/budget-basics\/what-are-earmarks-and-what-purpose-do-they-serve-in-the-federal-budget\">earmarks<\/a>&nbsp;[funding for specific projects] in it. It\u2019s possible leadership omitted my popular amendment because it would have ended pet projects in some members\u2019 districts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vaccine-laced corn contaminated 500,000 bushels of soybeans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously reported by The Defender,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/thomas-massie-fda-usda-transgenic-edible-vaccines\/\">Massie introduced the amendment<\/a>&nbsp;on Sept. 27, 2023, after learning about a U.S. government-funded project in California that involved growing lettuce and trying to get the lettuce to produce&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/mrna-vaccines-nonsense-proteins-immune-response-pfizer\/\">mRNA vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;that were intended to be consumed by humans who ate the lettuces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Science Foundation gave half a million dollars to the research venture, Massie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massie said he was concerned \u201cthat plants cross-pollinate and pollen from these modified plants, food-producing plants, could carry in the wind to other fields and contaminate them. And we could really contaminate a lot of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/big-food\/\">food supply<\/a>&nbsp;with unknown doses of vaccines that would deliver unknown dosages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Massie introduced his amendment on the House floor, he told Congress members that roughly 20 years ago, researchers tried to use corn to grow a vaccine to prevent diarrhea in pigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The field the next year was used to grow soybeans \u2014 but the corn sprouted again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Massie, \u201cThere were some leftover kernels \u2026 and the corn was mixed with the soybeans, and it contaminated 500 bushels of soybeans that were then mixed with 500,000 bushels. And so, they had to destroy all of those soybeans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times reported in December 2002 that ProdiGene, the biotechnology company that developed the corn crop, agreed to pay the U.S. government a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/12\/07\/us\/spread-of-gene-altered-pharmaceutical-corn-spurs-3-million-fine.html\">$3 million fine<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cto settle charges that it did not take proper steps to prevent corn that was genetically engineered to produce<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/big-pharma\/\">&nbsp;pharmaceuticals<\/a>&nbsp;from entering the food supply.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massie asked, \u201cDo we want humans eating vaccines that were grown in corn meant to stop pigs from getting diarrhea? I don\u2019t think we want that to happen, yet that almost happened and it could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\">\u201cThe Wuhan Cover-Up\u201d by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\">ORDER NOW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is \u2018irresponsible in the extreme\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRep. Massie is right to be concerned,\u201d Claire Robinson, managing editor of<a href=\"https:\/\/gmwatch.org\/\">&nbsp;GMWatch<\/a>, previously told The Defender. \u201cGenetically engineering a potent immunogen into food plants is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/thomas-massie-fda-usda-transgenic-edible-vaccines\/\">irresponsible in the extreme<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the usual risks of GM [genetically modified] plants \u2014 the DNA-damaging effects of the GM transformation process leads to changes in gene expression and biochemistry of the plant, which can include the production of toxins or allergens \u2014 apply to these vaccine-producing plants, with additional risks on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the case of vaccine-producing plants, you are intentionally engineering a plant to elicit an immune reaction. This increases the level of risk exponentially.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Either they don\u2019t work, or they are not safe, or both\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a 2013 scientific paper,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7120501\/\">&nbsp;transgenic edible vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;\u201care prepared by introducing selected desired genes into plants and inducing these genetically modified plants to manufacture the encoded proteins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such vaccines offer \u201cseveral potential advantages\u201d to conventional vaccine production techniques according to the paper, including a potentially lower cost of production that would be suitable for developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Efforts to develop transgenic edible vaccines are not new \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/24102877\">&nbsp;scientific literature<\/a>&nbsp;on the topic dates back to at least 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is new with some current attempts to develop transgenic edible vaccines is that they would be geared to deliver mRNA vaccines orally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are all genetically modified crops,\u201d Massie said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been injected with mRNA or spliced with DNA, with the intent of creating copies of that RNA or DNA. The plants are pretty effective at that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This approach is not new, Robinson said. \u201cScientists have been trying to produce<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7120417\/\">&nbsp;edible vaccines in plants<\/a>&nbsp;for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, she added, \u201cThus far, not one plant-produced vaccine has been approved anywhere, as far as I know. What does that tell us? Either they don\u2019t work, or they are not safe, or both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/10\/buddhist-monks-with-superpowers\/\">Buddhist Monks with Superpowers?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/07\/18\/adam-anunnaki\/\">Adam &amp; Anunnaki.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/08\/04\/attempts-to-restore-our-erased-memories-from-our-human-past\/\">Attempts to restore our erased memories from our human past<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ty963sLffhE\">To remember our human history\/creation of the universe.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/07\/08\/a-new-financial-system-just-to-steal-your-assets-nearing-completion\/\">A New Financial System Just To Steal Your Assets nearing completion?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/07\/08\/the-real-motives-behind-the-increase-in-totalitarian-control-and-introduction-of-new-laws\/\">The real motives behind the increase in totalitarian control and introduction of new laws?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/07\/04\/our-cristal-mind-and-changing-functions-due-to-our-changing-environment\/\">Our Cristal mind and changing functions due to our changing environment.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/07\/03\/5000-patents-blocked-because-of-the-so-called-national-security-only-to-partly-resurfaces-now\/\">5000 patents blocked because of the so-called national security only to partly resurfaces now.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/06\/29\/planet-earth-is-on-the-move-humanity-affected\/\">Planet earth is on the move &amp; humanity affected.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/06\/13\/a-message-of-extreme-importance-today-the-most-crucial-period-of-your-planets-entrance-into-the-space-of-5d-has-started\/\">Urgent: A message of extreme importance today the most crucial period of your planet\u2019s entrance into the space of 5D has started<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2023\/08\/29\/super-connectivity-at-room-temperature-and-missing-key-to-understand-free-electric-energy\/\">Super connectivity at room temperature and missing key to understand free electric energy.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/10\/sound-vibrational-medicine-tesla\/\">Sound &amp; Vibrational Medicine &amp; Tesla.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2023\/04\/08\/why-this-industry-should-be-in-public-hands\/\">Why this industry should be in public hands.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2023\/01\/28\/the-tesla-world\/\">The Tesla World?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/01\/use-of-frequencies-and-effects-on-our-bio-energy-field-that-surrounds-our-body\/\">Use of frequencies and effects on our bio energy field that surrounds our body.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2022\/08\/02\/owners-of-the-empire\/\">Owners of the empire<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2022\/07\/05\/the-title-of-this-paper-is-clear-the-traces-of-co2-in-the-atmosphere-are-not-causing-climate-change-and-hardly-any-change-of-the-surface-temperature\/\">Finite Element Model for Atmospheric IR-Absorption Joseph Reynen. 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