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Mission
Statement The mission of the Virgins until
Marriage -
Civil Society Organization of the African Union and the
European
Union (acronym: VM) is to promote a universal value of virginity until
marriage with the "VIRGINITY MATTERS!" slogan supported by an effective
reward system action for virginity protection and by protest against
abuse, torture and humiliation of virgins. Virginity as the source of
world’s harmony preserves morals, saves lives, decreases morbidity,
boosts self-esteem, enhances careers, opposes slavery, counteracts
crime, strengthens families, empowers communities, spares funds and
therefore should be protected by all means available and not to a
lesser extent than those pitiful and deadly ideas that violate human
rights of the young ones of both genders and rob them of their
unrenewable assets for profiteering or sheer pervert amusement.
Virginophobia, i. e. the irrational fear of, aversion to, or
discrimination against virginity or virgins should be condemned and
penalized, as well as the damage due to robbery of virginity fully
compensated. ![]() Percent of virgins among American teens: 15-17 years old and 18-19 years old child and adolescent boys and girls Number of never-married males and females 15-19 years of age who have never had sexual intercourse: United States, 1988, 1995, 2002, and 2006-2010 Source of numerical data: Data from the National Survey of Family Growth U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Rationale VM offers normal people (the helpless youth,
worried
parents and frustrated spouses among others) and their leaders a
crucial solution for three menaces threatening both continents that the
Mediterranean Sea touches. These are: demographic collapse, human
rights violation, and disaster profiteering. The epidemiological evidence is clear. AIDS
decimating
Sub-Saharan Africa and chlamydiasis destroying fertility in Europe
result from promiscuous voluntary activeness of one fifth of
adults. Themselves victims of human rights violation ‘the
walking
sources of epidemics’ proliferate their traumas and attack more and
more young people of both genders. They are encouraged and easily
excused by a news and entertainment industry hostile to universal
values and supportive to mass disaster profiteers: pornography and
prostitution business organizers, prophylaxis and treatment suppliers,
and social structure disintegration instigators, agents of influence
among them. Those who lose their virginity early are more
likely to
have multiple sexual partners, fuel epidemics and social pathologies. Those who fight virginity with mockery, ridicule, and scorn are responsible for all the revealed and hidden harm they do. ![]() Virgins are protected under hate crime, hate speech legislation Hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group Seek redress, virgin victims of hate speech! A common sense type preventive measure to physical and moral abuses of individuals that add to mass disasters caused by promiscuity is raising the “herd immunity”, as it is called in epidemiological jargon, by promotion of a universal value of virginity until marriage. The VM mission priorities are endorsed by lessons learnt from African (i. e. South Africa, Uganda, Sierra Leone) and European (OURSELVES FOR OURSELVES Youth Peer Education Movement in Poland), experiences, as well as the SILVER RING THING program, which encourages young adults to remain as a virgin until marriage, until recently funded by the US federal government. Yes, we can! In Africa and Europe now.
dr
Z Halat, medical epidemiology consultant
Project designer, Virgins until Marriage - Civil Society Organization of the African Union and the European Union Chairman, The John Snow International Society for Common Sense in Public Health
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The first new millennium born teens will celebrate their 13th birthday
on January 1st, 2014. There are circa 1,500 days until
January
1st, 2014. Many of the tens of millions of year 2001 born children have
been already irreversibly infected and mutilated, tortured physically
and mentally, robbed of their virginity and converted to sex toys of
perverts. But the vast majority are still waiting, unknowingly, for
their chance to enter adulthood spared from deadly disease
and
crippling disability. Within the 1,500 coming days let us become people
of good will who really try hard to initiate the great shift of
consciousness for the sake of the new millennium generations.
Dear friends, Below, please find public health arguments to convince yourself, your loved ones, others like you, and the rest of the world. Should you find your role in the VIRGINS UNTIL MARRIAGE - CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION project promising/satisfying/profitable enough, please do not hesitate, dear friends, to use social networking tools (Click to join Virgins_until_Marriage). ![]() dr
Z Halat, medical epidemiology consultant, noxologist
Project designer, Virgins until Marriage - Civil Society Organization of the African Union and the European Union Chairman, The John Snow International Society for Common Sense in Public Health ![]()
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喜喜
( 红双喜)
DOUBLE
HAPPINESS If you
have reached this
stage of physical and mental development that allows you to make an
informed choice and if you are in a position to decide for
yourself, you may choose between a short-lasting pleasure
with a
casual lover or
eternal
happiness with a
perfect lover – your spouse. THE
CHOICE IS YOURS
Lin
Di Perfect Ghost 林 笛
完美鬼魂 该
专辑中有两
首歌,Perfect
Ghost(完
美鬼
魂),说的是:上
天给每个人安排了一个完美的恋人,但并不是每个人都能够遇到那个人。当人们爱上了别人,那个原本属于他(她)的完美恋人就变成了鬼魂。有时候,或许还会相
会在梦里,或许在现实中感到若然所失,莫名地惦记某个不知名的灵魂。这是秘密花园的邂逅,不是每一分钟都会发生,不是每一步都能令人察觉,但只要你真诚地
希望,一些美妙的事情就会出现...... The album
has two songs,
Perfect Ghost(完
美鬼魂)that is:
God gives
everyone a perfect lover arranged, but not everyone can face that
person. When people fall in love with someone else, that
originally belonged to him (her) the perfect lover becomes a
ghost. Sometimes, perhaps even meet in a dream, perhaps, in
reality feel if I lost, but somehow misses the soul of an unknown. This
is the secret garden of the encounter, not every minute will occur, not
every step can be very aware of, but as long as you sincerely hope that
some of the wonderful things that will appear ...... Album
track 02: 喜 Happiness
![]() Trinh tiết là chìa khóa hạnh phúc vợ chồng! Virginity is the key to happy couple! Wreath – a primaeval depiction of female
virginity
Wreath is
a
symbolic replica of the thickened, sleeve-like, redundant, fimbriated
hymen and
as such has been used for millennia to symbolize virginity in Slavic
peoples,
including indigenous inhabitants of the territory of Europe's oldest
civilization (5,000 BC), eastward from the later German-Slavic boundary
named
by the Germans in the 9th century AD 'Limes Sorabicus'. |
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Dr Halat’s endless list of reasons to remain a virgin until marriage Reason #
1 A universal value of virginity until marriage is a spiritual obligation of two major world religions which are declared by more than half of citizens of the member countries of the African Union and the European Union (African population: 45.8% Muslims, 15.3% Roman Catholics; non-Eastern European population: 54.8% Roman Catholics, 4.3% Muslims), therefore a fundamental human right, freedom of religion of Muslims, Catholics, and any of affected spiritual minorities living on the territory of the two blocks is undoubtedly violated in all instances of abuse, torture and humiliation of virgins, virginophobia, and robbery of virginity. Universal declarations of human rights provide a range of tools to protect physical, moral and psychological integrity of virgins regardless of religion or beliefs. Human rights law provides the international standards to make judgments about individual responsibility for their violation. more Dehumanization
by coercion and Pavlovian conditioning. ![]() Anak-sex turismo ay isang tunay na mukha ng " liberalismo ". Child-sex tourism is a real face of " liberalism " . Reason #
2
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) mostly go unnoticed until it is
too late and the consequences of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
become incurable. Asking questions “Do you have AIDS, gonorrhea,
chlamydia, syphilis, herpes, trichomonas, candida, hepatitis B,
hepatitis C, CMV infection, genital warts (including these types
that cause cervical cancer), and the like?” makes no sense
since
infected people simply have no idea what they carry and transmit to
others. Only a doctor can diagnose an STI, because the signs and
symptoms of STDs vary and overlap with symptoms of other STDs and all
other diseases. It may create a sense of false security asking “Have
you been tested for HIV/AIDS?” since an infected person can transmit
HIV during the window period, which is the time from getting infected
until a blood test can detect any change. Much more effective would be
avoiding risks of deadly diseases by following, if possible, the strict
rules of The UK National Blood Service which say plainly who can't give
blood. Those who can’t give blood because they are or might be infected
with HIV, hepatitis B, C and/or syphilis etc. can’t be regarded as safe
and might be held liable for passing an STI to a virgin unaware of
risky behaviours of his or her partner. more
A female patient
The differential diagnosis of lower
abdominal and/or genital signs and
symptoms
in a female patient includes first of all: - most common genital problems like menstrual cramps; - most common non-genital problems like low back pain; - sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their sequelae in a patient suspected of being infected as a result of even one only and not recent direct contact sexual exposure. dr Halat, noxologist gastritis - enteritis - irritable bowel - ovarian cysts - ovarian tumours – oophoritis - salpingitis - pelvic inflammatory disease - ectopic pregnancy - appendicitis - cystitis - pubic lice - urethritis - skenitis - vestibulitis - vulvitis - kidney / ureter diseases - low back pain - peritonitis - colitis - midcycle pain – endometriosis – fibroids – endometritis - cervical cancer - cervicitis - menstrual cramps - vaginitis - proctitis - rectal parasites – hemorhoids - bartholinitis - hymenal injury Most
abnormal discharges are caused by STIs
Most ulcers and lesions are caused by STIs ![]() A
prudent virgin is not suspected of being infected
Afro-European
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Prevention Network
Higher levels of family religiosity, including parents’ beliefs, prayer and religious service practices, and the frequency of family participation in religious activities, contribute to decreased sexual initiation among adolescents, older age at coitarche and indirectly to decreased sexual partners. Having a two-parent family and parents who encourage their children to avoid having sex are also associated with a decrease in sexual exposures. Abstinence programs encourage unmarried individuals to abstain from sexual activity as the best and only certain way to protect themselves from exposure to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Abstinence until marriage programs are particularly important for young people, as approximately half of all new infections occur in the 15- to 24-year-old age group. Delaying a first sexual encounter can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of adolescents and on the progress of the epidemic in communities. The younger that people are when having sex for the first time, the more susceptible they become to developing an STD. The risk of acquiring an STD also increases with the number of partners over a lifetime. Immaturity of the cervix of the womb in teenagers and young women means that its protective barrier is weak and only 1 cell thick (30 - 40 cells thick in older women). During sexual intercourse, germs causing STIs get easily inoculated into the immature cervix. This is why non virgin girls under the age of 20 have higher rates of infection of HIV than older women or young men. AIDS (caused by HIV), cervical cancer (caused by high-risk HPVs types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, and 73 ), infertility, ectopic pregnancy and other complications of pelvic inflammatory disease (caused by chlamydial and other STIs) constitute a price of sexual intercourses under the age of 20. Montse Magadan became HIV positive when she lost her virginity, aged 16. Prevention of cervical cancer can be achieved in one of two ways: preventing infection initially or detecting the precursors to cervical cancer and providing treatment. The former method is called primary prevention and can be accomplished by avoiding exposure to the virus through abstinence from sexual activity or through mutual monogamy forever, provided both partners—not just one—are consistently monogamous and were not previously infected. Condoms provide only about 70% protection against HPV when used all of the time. more
![]() Volgarità e oscenità degeneran l'umanità.
Vulgarity and obscenity degenerate humanity. Reason
# 4 There is a large time gap between puberty and maturity. All of us are born as virgins, but normal people do not dispute over virginity of newborns. The same normal people cast doubts on the value of virginity of immature teenagers who have not reached this stage of physical and mental development that allows them to make an informed choice. Immature young people are privileged by laws protecting their undisturbed development and should be aware of their privileges since convicted pedophiles who rape minors and condemned ephebophiles who ruin lives of mid-to-late adolescents are just a tip of the iceberg of those who persuade, induce, entice, or coerce minor children and adolescents to engage in activities which shorten the inborn stage of virginity. Legal protection of virginity is nothing but a minimum national effort granted to virgins to protect their human rights and in fact legitimatises cruel exploitation of those young people who in spite of having reached the age of consent are still far (5 and many more years ahead) from being physically, mentally, and socially ready to take responsibility for their choices. Sound families, communities and nations strive to protect all developmental stages of their teenagers and young adults and support protection of virginity until marriage. These efforts are being undermined by discreditors of virginity who simply surrender to the culture of rape. Here is an example of counterproductive reasoning: “Another harmful cultural belief that makes women vulnerable to contracting HIV is the value placed on virginity. In some cultures, people believe that if a man has sex with a virgin woman, he will be cleansed of his infections. Young, virgin girls and women are at a higher risk of being raped by men influenced by this common misperception. These girls and women are especially vulnerable to HIV because of the distinct injuries that result from forced sexual activity and the likelihood that their perpetrators have had multiple sexual partners.” more
International Convention on the
Rights of the Child
WORLD
DAY
Blessed
Carolina Kozka
(Polish: Karolina Kózkówna) (1898
- 1914)
In
the midst
of the storm of the First World War, when she was only sixteen she
sacrificed her life to God, killed by a Russian soldier as she resisted
his advances. The war broke out in July 1914. In November the Russian
army cleared the Vistula River. On November 10 they captured Tarnow and
on November 17 they captured Zabawa and Wal-Ruda. The situation was
getting dangerous; there were threats of confiscations so people were
trying to hide their properties in the forest. Everyone was telling
about Russian soldiers who were raping young women. Everyone was
terrified.
Reason
# 5 Apart from its holistic, spiritual, and emotional context, for men and women marriage means knowing what to expect, belonging to one's self-formed family, rasing happy children, and being helped in need. The most
important part of a Catholic wedding is the
exchange of vows: VIRGINITY
UNTIL MARRIAGE FRESHNESS SAFETY CAPS
Virginity until marriage
freshness safety caps: open with marriage vow
Reason
# 6 Virgins seem easy prey for mischievous predators who exploit ruthlessly fundamental human needs of love, respect, intimacy and belonging, as well as strong sexual urges in minors, adolescents and not-yet-married adults. A simple trick like hugging, especially for women, releases neurochemicals that can increase trust in the hugger. After a hug lasting 20 seconds, the brain produces oxytocin that turns on the trust response and dulls more critical judgment. Touching on the shoulder, the side of the waist, arms or hands plays a similar role in seduce tactics. Generous compliments, series of jokes, humour, funny stories, suddenly discovered common interests and hobbies, all may lead to infatuation and its grave consequences. Experienced seducers view their victims as nothing but sex toys. They even pretend to be passionately in love with their prey until they get bored and find an easy excuse to cease the relationship. The everlasting love suggestions and promises prove deceitful soon after the virgin gives up his or her unrenewable asset. Virginity robbing from immature virgins and virginity stealing from mature but still naive virgins are common crimes of deception which almost never get punished and redressed. Cunning foxes triumph over their victims with great self-satisfaction and are applauded by other human rights violators. Some serial devirginators use comically ridiculous arguments to manipulate their victims. Probably most stupid is here: “Humans are no better than other animals and hence can’t resist animal instincts". Someone who can't tell the difference between humans and animals is a soul denier and is far more wrong than hymen deniers, since a congenital absence of hymen exceptionally occurs, however is extremely rare as a part of severe genital malformations (ICD-10: Q52.0 Congenital absence of vagina, Q52.7 Congenital absence of vulva). Judging 'better' humans or animals, forgetting elaborated courtship rituals in animals, not realizing differences in brain size and functioning of humans and bonobo chimpanzees, say a lot about those who use such arguments to take the virginity of the human person. Luckily, mature virgins are smarter and know how to dismiss such as nonsense. Smart virgins know the science behind gender dimorphism which is physical and behavioral differences associated with sex. more
Virginity
and
devirginization: first sexual intercourse is the most memorable
milestone of human development from birth to death.
If
you loved me
truly you'd wait until we're married. Reason
# 7 Do people
hate you, humiliate you, ridicule you? That's not important. God loves
you! There are at least two reasons why God loves you so much. First,
it is His nature to love. God is love. Love is the word that best
describes God's nature. Second, you are His creation. God loves you
just as good earthly parents love their offspring. People may not seem
very special to others, but to their mother and father they are always
special. This should help you understand how God could really like you
-- even though you may not like yourself very much. Also, God sees you
as you can be and will become - not just as you are now. God has faith
in you and in His ability to make you someone special. Feeling not good
enough? Don't panic. God doesn't love you because you are a
good
person or do everything right. If you have accepted merciful God
nothing can separate you from His love. Due to God's mercy even your
sins can't separate you from God. We all sin. We all are forgiven if we
confess and repent our sins, and want to do everything in our power to
redress the past. In return, you are obliged to love all the
people and treat other people the way that you would want to
be
treated. God is the All-Peace, the All-Merciful. God loves
you,
but do you love yourself? No one is going to love you if you
don’t love yourself. It is not your fault if you don't love
yourself and you can't love other people, and because of it no one
loves you. Many of us have been taught to hate ourselves, to consider
ourselves less equal and to think our needs are not important—just by
the very act of abuse. The act of neglect, of sexual or physical abuse,
and of ritual abuse all carry the message that we weren't worthy of
loving, compassionate treatment. If we received verbal or emotional
abuse that told us even more overtly that we were worthless, trash, or
to be hated, well, those messages just piled up inside. Abusers often
foster or encourage self-hate messages, because it makes their victims
more compliant and easy to abuse. ...but those messages aren't true.
They are tools used by abusers to break spirits and continue abuse. To
start loving yourself, you need to make a list of your assets. On the
top of the list, put your finest assets, particularly the unrenewable
ones. Is virginity still among them? more
Johnny Clegg & Juluka -
Tatazela 1997
“Women are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don't want to get hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't so good but easy. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top because they value quality.”- Author unknown, but sounds sexist. Why not add: “Men are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The women don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don't want to get hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't so good but easy. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right woman to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top because they value quality.” more
Too much steam?
Too much noise? Too much heat?
fornication impossible - transmutation taught - obscenity faught - - prudence promoted - pornography avoided To turn down the heat turn down the flame!
St.
Valentine Patron Saint of Virgins until Marriage
Valentinus
was a holy priest in Rome, who assisted the martyrs in the persecution
under Emperor Claudius II. Since he was caught marrying Christian
couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under
Emperor Claudius in Rome, when helping them was considered a crime,
Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. Claudius took a liking to this
prisoner - until Valentinus made a strategic error: he tried to convert
the Emperor - whereupon this priest was condemned to death. He was
beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded
outside the Flaminian Gate circa 269. While awaiting his execution,
Valentinus restored the sight of his jailer's blind daughter. On the
eve of his death, he penned a farewell note to the jailer's daughter,
signing it, "From your Valentine."Patron Saint of Young People, Love, Affianced Couples, Happy Marriages
Reason #
9 The
primordial tradition of celebrating women as virgins
has been most impressively restored to humanity in 1984 by His Majesty
Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, the reigning king of the Zulu nation.
The event was started about 200 years ago during the reign of King
Shaka Zulu and was stopped in 1879 when King Cetshwayo was arrested by
British colonialists. As the custodian of Zulu traditions and customs,
King Zwelithini has revived cultural functions such as the Umhlanga,
the colourful and symbolic reed dance ceremony helping the girls to
preserve their virginity until they get married. Once a year, during
the second week of September, tens of thousands of virgins travel to
the Zulu nation's royal residence at KwaNyokeni Palace in Nongoma to
take part in the Royal Reed Dance festival (Umkhosi woMhlanga in the
Zulu language). The girls must pass a virginity test to
attend.
Intense counseling sessions are held on the Friday and Saturday morning
where senior women from the Royal House and the community counsel the
young girls on Zulu traditional values, the do's and don'ts for young
women, and how to deal with rape, which is at epidemic levels in South
Africa. The main attraction of the ceremony is the presentation of the
reeds by maidens to the King. Maidens in traditional regalia take turns
in dancing in a variety of styles in front of the King. This has a
historical and symbolic significance in that it marks the contribution
made by maidens in building the nation. The girls practice this ritual
on their own free will and are proud to do so. Each maiden
carries a reed which has been cut by the riverbed, and it symbolizes
the power that is vested in nature. It is believed that if a young
woman who is not a virgin takes part in the ceremony, her reed breaks,
which embarrasses her in front of the assembled guests and her parents.
If the reeds do break, girls defend themselves by saying that it has
been broken by the wind.
In recognition of their contribution to sustainable human development, the Zulu virgins and their leaders should be praised worldwide. Therefore Virgins until Marriage - Civil Society Organization of the African Union and the European Union declared ALL VIRGINS' DAY which is a feast celebrated in early September in honour of all the virgins, known and unknown. Ngiyabonga! (means Thank you! in isiZulu, the language of the Zulu people). more
Virginity. The essence of adolescence. ALL
VIRGINS' DAY
South Africa 2011: 56,000 reported rape cases
Reason # 10 Virgin is a person who has never had sexual intercourse Sexual intercourse (also called coitus, or copulation) is reproductive act in which the male reproductive organ enters the female reproductive tract. If the reproductive act is complete, sperm cells are passed from the male body into the female, in the process fertilizing the female egg and forming a new organism. Sexual intercourse is sex, but "sex" is not limited to intercourse; not even limited, in fact, to genital activities. In reality, "sex" describes a huge range of activities. This is half of a dialectic: many things can be sex because sex has whatever meaning we experience moment by moment; and sex has an infinite range of meanings because the scope of activities that can properly be called sexual is so vast.” One of the best-known sound bites of Bill Clinton’s presidency was denial: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. Clinton later stated that he believed the agreed-upon definition of sexual relations excluded his receiving oral sex. NB. All penetrative sex (where the penis enters the vagina, mouth, or anus) carries risk of STIs for both, lessened to some extent by condoms. There are no medical signs and symptoms of male or female virginity with one exception, which is presence of the halat hymen at the opening of the vagina. The hymen is a body part, also known as virginal membrane, it is a tight or loose and flexible rim, fringe of tissue around the vaginal opening that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin. While the professionally detected presence of a certain type of intact hymen indicates virginity, the absence of one is definitely not a proof a woman is not a virgin. An innocent, pure, or prudent virgin can be robbed of her virginity and remain innocent, pure, or prudent. However virgins rarely are asexual. Sexually active virgins have nothing to do with innocence, purity, or prudence but still preserve their virginity. Until marriage. If lucky. And wise. more
There are no
medical signs and symptoms of male or female virginity While the
professionally
detected presence of a certain type of intact hymen indicates virginity, Dr Halat’s
arguments against
non-professional virginity testing.
A virgin. Is
his/her V-card
fraudulent or genuine?
Penipuan-bukti selaput dara -
halat selaput dara yang sangat berharga, maka melindunginya sampai menikah
(berkahwin). Reason
# 11 There are many ways to sluttify virgins. A gang rape to make an abducted virgin ready for prostitution is the way generally considered most outrageous. The rape victim's coping mechanisms rarely make the trauma bearable. Even drugs, alcohol and forced sex fail to erase memories of normal life and morals. Logically, virgins coerced into prostitution are prostitutes but not sluts. The other pole of the sluttification process is linked to incest. There are two kinds of incest: direct incest, which is overt sexual activity between family members other than spouses; and indirect incest, the providing of children by their parents to others in order for them to be sexually abused. Parents and guardians who allow their child to be abused by other family members, friends, acquaintances, caretakers or teachers, as well as by entertainment industry products, the schooling system, and public space exhibitions and events, are as much responsible for ruined lives as those who commit direct incest. Thus parents and guardians are guilty of premature and therefore forced sexualization of their young ones, who become addicted to sexual gratification offered and/or witnessed by paedophiliacs. Too early and unnecessarily discovered power of sexual pleasure undermines the age-appropiate education and formation, opens wide the gates to promiscuity, pornography, drugs, alcohol, gambling, shopping and many other deadly addictions. Addicts are easy to manipulate. This is why sluttification from the cradle is so eagerly supported by corrupted elites and tycoons. Along with discovering sexual gratification other rewards in exchange for sexual favours are desired. There are entertainments, gifts, and money. Not knowingly a sluttified virgin turns into an underage prostitute. In such an destructive environment, more sooner than later a virgin loses his or her virginity. A prematurely devirginized child or adolescent becomes a community role model, noxious to human health and well-being, infinitely magnified by mass media scorn for virgins waiting until marriage. These virgins who enjoyed a privilege of having good parents and guardians and were efficiently protected from forced sexualization until maturity, and their virginity hasn't been robbed nor stolen, can finally decide if they want to lose or offer their virginity. more
Guy Fawkes, a recusant Catholic, an instantly recognisable symbol of resistance to an over reaching government
WORLD
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Reason
# 12 The human being can hardly live on without friends. If they are people of goodwill, your friends will offer you moral and psychological support on your way from the family you were born and grown up in to the family you will establish with your future spouse. What if, at the end of the day, your friends you relied on prove malicious or simply stupid? Never forget the famous Latin phrase "Multi multa, nemo omnia novit (many know many things; no one knows everything)" and in case you are forced by your best friends to do something you really hate, just say “no” and consult someone else. Whom? Your priest or imam, your family member, or any other person of strong opinions you can trust with all your secrets and you don’t risk being rejected or exploited. You are not alone! Find information on the internet to see how many people globally share exactly the same challenge you have. They share your challenges and they get contradictory advice. Much of the advice does not fit to your ideals, beliefs and ethics, much is just full of rudeness, contempt, trickery and other forms of dignity violation. Do not take a risk of being trapped by mentally disturbed minds, mentally ill persons, hiding their medical conditions and/or already diagnosed psychotics. Raunchiness: obscenity – vulgarity – promiscuity is a top warning symptom of a possible mental disorder. Finally you would like to discuss your challenges in a supportive group of peers. This is what Virgins until Marriage - Civil Society Organization of the African Union and the European Union is created for. more ![]() Raunchiness: obscenity – vulgarity – promiscuity is a top warning symptom of a possible mental disorder. ![]() United we stand, divided we fall. Unite, virgins until marriage! Reason
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Some controversies will be dealt with here. Dr Halat’s arguments against non-professional virginity testing
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Virgins
until Marriage - Civil Society Organization of the African Union and
the European Union عذراء حتى الزواج -- منظمات المجتمع المدني من الاتحاد
الافريقي والاتحاد الاوروبي Maagde tot het Huwelik - Civil
Society
Organisasie van die Afrika Unie en die Europese Unie Virgjër deri
Martesa - Organizata të Shoqërisë Civile të Bashkimit Afrikan dhe
Bashkimi Evropian Կույսեր մինչեւ Հարսանիք - ին Քաղաքացիական
հասարակության կազմակերպում Աֆրիկյան Միության եւ Եվրոպական Միության
Bakirə qədər nigah - Vətəndaş Cəmiyyəti Təşkilatı Afrika İttifaqı və
Avropa Birliyi Birjin arte Ezkontza - Civil Society de Afrikako
Batasunaren eta Europako Batasunaren Erakundea Нявінніца да шлюбу -
Грамадзянскае грамадства Арганізацыя Афрыканскага саюза і Еўрапейскага
саюза Девственици до брак - Гражданско общество Организация на
Африканския съюз и на Европейския съюз Verges fins el matrimoni -
Organització de la Societat Civil de la Unió Africana i la Unió Europea
Virginitat fins al matrimoni - Organització de la Societat Civil de la
Unió Africana i la Unió Europea 直到婚姻处女 - 民间社会组织,非洲联盟和欧洲联盟 Djevica do
Brak - organizacija civilnog društva od Afričke unije i Europske unije
Panice a panny do manželství - Občanská společnost Organizace Africké
unie a Evropská unie Jomfruer indtil ægteskabet - en Civilsamfundet
Organisationen for Den Afrikanske Union og Den Europæiske Union Maagde
tot het Huwelijk - Civil Society Organisatie van de Afrikaanse Unie en
de Europese Unie Imb enne abielu - kodanikuühiskonna organisatsiooni
Aafrika Liidu ja Euroopa Liit Virgins hanggang Kasal - Civil Society
Organization ng African Union at ng mga European Union Vierges jusqu'au
mariage - Organisation de la société civile de l'Union africaine et
l'Union européenne Virxes ata o matrimonio - Organización da sociedade
civil da Unión Africana e da Unión ვირგო სანამ ქორწილი - სამოქალაქო
საზოგადოების ორგანიზაცია აფრიკის კავშირის და ევროპის კავშირი Europea
Jungfrauen bis Ehe - Zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisation der
Afrikanischen Union und der Europäischen Union Παρθένες μέχρι Γάμος -
Κοινωνία των πολιτών Οργάνωση της Αφρικανικής Ένωσης και της Ευρωπαϊκής
Ένωσης Vyèrj jiskaske Maryaj - Sosyete Sivil Òganizasyon nan Inyon
Afriken ak Inyon Ewopeyen an בתולות עד החתונה - חברה אזרחית ארגון
האיחוד האפריקאי והאיחוד האירופי Bikirori har aure, aikin jam'iyyoyi
ƙungiyar gamayyar afurka da Kungiyar Tarayyar Turai शादी तक कुंवारी -
सिविल सोसायटी अफ्रीकी संघ और यूरोपीय संघ के संगठन Szüzek, amíg Házasság
- Civil Társadalom Szervezete, az Afrikai Unió és az Európai Unió
Meyjar þar Hjónaband - Borgaraleg Samfélag Samtök Afríkuríkja
sambandsins og Evrópusambandið Perawan sampai Pernikahan - Organisasi
Masyarakat Sipil Uni Afrika dan Uni Eropa Maighdeana go dtí Pósadh - le
Sochaí Sibhialta Eagraíocht an Aontas na hAfraice agus an Aontais
Eorpaigh Vergini fino al matrimonio - Organizzazione della società
civile dell'Unione africana e l'Unione Europea
結婚するまで処女-市民社会組織は、アフリカ連合と欧州連 合の 결혼하기 전까지 처녀 - 시민 사회 조직 아프리카 연합과 유럽 연합의
Jaunavas līdz Marriage - pilsoniskās sabiedrības organizācijas no
Āfrikas Savienības un Eiropas Savienība Девици се до брак - граѓанското
општество Организација на Африканската унија и Европската унија
Merginos iki vedybų - pilietinės visuomenės organizacijos ir Afrikos
Sąjunga ir Europos Sąjunga Perawan sampai Pernikahan - Pertubuhan
Masyarakat Sivil Kesatuan Afrika dan Kesatuan Eropah Verġni sakemm
Żwieġ - Soċjetà Ċivili Organizzazzjoni ta 'l-Unjoni Afrikana u l-Unjoni
Ewropea Jomfruer inntil Ekteskap - Civil Society Organization Den
afrikanske union og EU تا زمان ازدواج باکره -- جامعه مدنی ، سازمان
اتحادیه آفریقا واتحادیه اروپا Dziewice aż do małżeństwa - Organizacja
społeczeństwa obywatelskiego Unii Afrykańskiej i Unii Europejskiej
Virgens até o Casamento - Organização da Sociedade Civil da União
Africana e da União Europeia Virgine pînă la căsătorie - Societatea
civilă Organizaţia Uniunii Africane şi a Uniunii Europene Девственницы
до брака - Гражданское общество Организация Африканского союза и
Европейского союза Девице до брака - Цивилно друштво Организација
Афричке уније и Европске уније Panice a panny do manželstva - Občianska
spoločnosť Organizácie Africkej únie a Európska únia Device do poroke -
Civilna družba Organizacije Afriške unije in Evropsko unijo Vírgenes
hasta el matrimonio - Organización de la Sociedad Civil de la Unión
Africana y la Unión Europea Wanawali mpaka Ndoa - Civil Society
Organization wa Umoja wa Afrika na Umoja wa Ulaya Oskulder tills
Äktenskap - Civila samhället organisation av Afrikanska unionen och
Europeiska unionen สาวพรหมจรรย์จนกว่าจะแต่งงาน - โยธา สังคม
องค์กรของสหภาพแอฟริกาและสหภาพยุโรป Evlilik kadar Bakireler - Sivil
Toplum Örgütü Afrika Birliği ve Avrupa Birliği Діви до шлюбу -
Громадянське суспільство Організація Африканського союзу і
Європейського союзу Trinh nữ cho đến Hôn nhân - Xã hội dân sự tổ chức
của Liên minh châu Phi và Liên minh châu Âu Gwyryfon nes priodas -
Cymdeithas Sifil Sefydliad yr Undeb Affricanaidd a'r Undeb Ewropeaidd
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Scientists from six countries join forces with MEPs to call for a Europe wide and worldwide ban on growing GM crops. The event coincides with key scientific publications [1,2] on how national and international regulators have been ignoring damning evidence against the safety of GM food and feed while colluding with industry to manipulate scientific research to promote GM crops. The scientific papers will be presented to the European Parliament together with a comprehensive dossier containing more than 160 fully referenced articles from the Science in Society archives documenting the serious hazards ignored, the scientific fraud, the regulatory sham and violation of farmers' rights [3] Time:
10:00-13:15
Notes: 1. Seralini G-E, Cellier D and de Vendomois JS. New Analysis of a Rat Feeding Study with a Genetically modified maize reveals signs of hepatorenal toxicity. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2007, 52, 596-602. 2. Ho MW, Cummins J and Saunders PT. GM food nightmare unfolding in the regulatory sham. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 2007,published online 7 June 2007, DOI: 10.1080/08910600701 343781 3. GM Science
Exposed: Hazards Ignored,
Fraud, Regulatory Sham, and Violation of Farmers' Rights, Science in
Society Spring 2003-Summer 2007, ISIS CD Book, 2007. For further details please contact: Sam Burcher or
Andy Watton, tel:
44-(0)20-8452-2729, e-mail: sam@I-sis.org.uk , andy@I-sis.org.uk Agenda 10:05 Opening and Chairman's Remarks Mr. Janusz Wojciechowski MEP ,Vice Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 10:10 Special Address Ms. Jill Evans MEP 10:15 Dr. Mae-Wan Ho , Director of ISIS, UK No to GMOs, No to GM Science 10:30 Dr. Irina Ermakova , Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards 10:45 Dr. Christian Velot , University of Caen, France and CriiGen ( Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering, France) WhyCriiGen? 11:00 Dr. Caroline Lucas , Green MEP Why Europe has to be GM Free 11:15 Coffee/Tea break 11:30 Dr. Eva Novotny , Scientists for Global Responsibility, UK Transgene Contamination Is Inevitable 11:45 Prof. Joe Cummins , ISIS, Canada GM Crops and Colony Collapse of Honeybees 12:00 Dr. Zbigniew Halat , Association for Protection of Consumer Health, Poland Resistance to GMOs in Poland, Its Roots and Fruits 12:15 Dr. Pietro Perrino , Institute of Plant Genetics, CNR, Bari, Italy The Genebanks Robbers 12:30 Mr. Jeffrey Smith , IRT, USA Documented Health Risks of GM Food and Feed 12:45 General discussion 13:10 Closing
remarks Prof. Peter
Saunders
Quotes from
Speakers Dr. Joe Cummins, Emeritus Professor of Genetics , University of Western Ontario, Canada: “The collapse of honeybees worldwide is almost certainly a combination of different factors including mobile phone transmitters, new systemic neonicotinoid pesticides used in seed dressings and sprays in both conventional and GM crops, and GM crops containing Bt toxins, a biopesticide. Bt biopesticides reduce the honeybee's immunity to infection by parasitic fungi that are also widely used as biocontrol agents, so it is a case of casualty from friendly fire. The honeybee is a major pollinator of our food crops, and its demise is a dire warning that the extinction of the human species is not far behind” Dr. Irina Ermakova of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “So many things went wrong for rats fed genetically modified soybeans. They became more anxious and aggressive, there was a high mortality of rat pups born to the females in the first generation, disturbances of reproductive function,s and pathological changes in the internal organs of males and females.” Dr. Zbigniew Halat , President of the Association for Protection of Consumers Health: “The problems created by genetic engineering are global, it is the proliferation of a kind of biological weapon of mass destruction worldwide.” Dr. Eva Novotny of SGR: “There can be no co-existence of GM and non-GM crops, as the latest research shows that GM pollen can be transported downwind tens of kilometres. It is clear that we have to make our choice right now.” Mr. Jeffrey Smith worked with more than 30 scientists over the past two years, compiling the health risks of GM foods for his new book, Genetic Roulette : “There is now irrefutable evidence that GM foods are unsafe. Animal trials show damage to virtually every system studied, reports describe thousands of sick, sterile and dead livestock, large numbers of people link toxic or allergic symptoms to GM products, and most of the fundamental assumptions about the technology, used as the basis for safety claims, have been overturned.” Dr. Pietro Perrino , Director of Research, Institute of Plant Genetics, (formerly Institute of Germplasm) Bari, Italy: “We urgently need to protect the gene banks as they may soon be the only source of uncontaminated seed stocks in the world. This may be why the biotech industry and their supporters are so keen to see them destroyed after they've sequenced the genomes and patented the genes.” Dr. Christian Velot of Criigen: “Practically all the studies finding “no effect” of GM food and feed are done by companies seeking market approval or funded by them. This research simply does not stand up to independent scientific scrutiny, and regulators are putting people at serious health risks by accepting such research results.” Dr. Mae-Wan Ho , Director of ISIS: “ GMOs are not only hazardous for health and bad for the environment, they will severely damage our chances of surviving global warming. GM crops need more fossil fuels and water to grow, both of which are fast diminishing. Europe cannot afford to waste any more time and resources on GMOs, we must start investing in sustainable food and energy systems now.” Brief
Biographies Jill Evans MEP , member of the Green/European Free Alliance Group, Vice President of Plaid Cymru and party spokesperson for European and International issues and chair of CND Cymru, member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety with special interest in food safety and GMOs, member of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Authorities, and deputises on the Committee for Regional Development and Committee for Women's Rights and Gender Equality; attended University in Aberystwyth and gained her M.Phil. at the former Polytechnic of Wales; worked for the National Federation of Women's Institutes in Wales for six years before becoming Wales Regional Organiser for CHILD, the National Infertility Support Network; Councillor for seven years on the former Rhondda Borough and Mid Glamorgan County Councils and then Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council; elected Plaid Cymru's Alternate Member of the Committee of the Regions in 1993, served for four years, and was also the party's representative on the European Free Alliance, working with Plaid Cymru's sister parties throughout the continent; Chair of Plaid Cymru 1994-96, and elected first MEP in Plaid Cymru's history together with fellow candidate Eurig Wyn in June 1999. Dr. Zbigniew Halat medical doctor, consultant epidemiologist; CEO of Health Risk Management & Communication; Chairman of The John Snow International Society for Common Sense in Public Health; President of Association for Protection of Consumers Health; Founder of The Dr Halat Water Institute; Former Deputy Minister of Health in first three non-communist governments of post-war Poland; fought epidemic outbreaks of foodborne and waterborn diseases in the 1970s; consultant epidemiologist in Central Province of the Republic of Kenya in the 1980s, witnessed the birth of a new epidemic, HIV/AIDS, which became an important target of his activity under auspices of Polish Red Cross after he returned to Poland; as Deputy Minister of Health, Chief Sanitary Inspector. He introduced to post-communist Poland the latest advances in public health: environmental health, health promotion and peer education; his achievements were described by a prestigious medical journal as follows: “the quixotic and controversial deputy minister of health, government sanitary inspector, and chief environmental health officer, Zbigniew Halat MD is engaged in a personal crusade to shake the health service out of the spiritual atrophy induced by 45 years of communism. Hard working, self reliant, aggressive, and abrasively masculine, this man of Promethean energies put me in mind of a nineteenth century northern mill owner" (Karin Chopin, Letters from Poland, British Medical Journal, 30 May, 6 June, and 13 June 1992). He later developed a new branch of medicine, consumer medicine, focusing on diagnostic, preventive and legal aspects of health risks linked to consumer goods, from tap water to genetically engineered products. Since 1999 Dr. Halat became an icon of anti-GMO movement in Poland; he is editor-in-chief of a health protection movement periodical Health Risks in Poland , columnist of a monthly Consumer's World linked to European and US consumer opinion magazines, and collaborator of influential radio and tv broadcasting stations. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho , B.Sc. Biol (First Class) and Ph.D. Biochemistry. Hong Kong University; co-founder and Director of the Institute of Science in Society, a not-for-profit organisation promoting social responsibility and holistic, ecological approaches in science, Editor and Art Director of the magazine Science in Society ; Science Advisor to the Third World Network and on the Roster of Experts for the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety. She has a long and distinguished career in research and teaching at universities in the United States and the UK in several disciplines; numerous publications including 151 scientific papers and 14 books; best known for pioneering a ‘physics of organisms', and as major critic of neo-Darwinism and genetic engineering. Dr Caroline Lucas (to come) Dr. Eva Novotny, retired astrophysicist, read physics for an A.B. degree from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York and obtained a Ph.D. in astronomy from Columbia University; worked at several universities in Great Britain, lastly at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge; Co-ordinator for GM Issues at Scientists for Global Responsibility for several years and continues occasionally to write for that web site; also an Associate of ISIS. Dr. Pietro Perrino, Research Director of CNR at the Plant Genetic Institute in Bari, Italy, formerly Director of the Germplasm Institute of CNR (Gene Bank) (Bari, Italy, 1983-2002), FAO expert for gene banks in the Midle East (1978), Professor of Systematic Botany and Ecology (1992-1996). He is author of more than 300 scientific papers on safeguarding plant genetic resources. Mr. Jeffrey Smith, executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology; author of Seeds of Deception , the world's best selling book on the health risks of GMOs, credited with motivating changes in legislation and consumer buying habits. His new book Genetic Roulette : The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods , highlights 65 adverse reactions and theoretical dangers of GM foods, shows why government assessments are not competent to identify most of the health dangers, and reveals how industry-funded research is often meticulously designed to avoid finding problems. He has lectured in 25 countries and has been quoted by government leaders and hundreds of media outlets across the globe including, The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC World Service, Nature, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Times, and Time Magazine. In 2007, he united leaders to support The Campaign for Healthier Eating in America , a revolutionary industry and consumer movement to remove GMOs from the natural food industry. Dr. Christian Velot (to come) Dr. Ermakova Irina Vladimirovna , B.Sc. and Ph.D. Biology, Moscow Univeristy, Chief Scientist at The Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology Russian Academy of Science, has 123 publications and participated in numerous international conferences, and has performed joint investigations with scientists in Czechoslovakia, UK, USA and Sweden. Mr Janusz Wojciechowski, MEP,Vice Chairman of Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development; Member of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group at the European Parliament; Master of Law at University of Lódz (1977); Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic (1993-1995; 2001-2004), and President of the Polish Supreme Chamber of Control (1995-2001). |
ISIS Press Release 21/06/07Scientists and MEPs for a GM free EuropeIndependent scientists, MEPs, farmers and citizens united at the European Parliament condemning GMOs; the European Food Safety Authority to be sued Sam Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Scientists from six countries joined forces with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to call for a Europe wide and worldwide ban on growing GM crops at a special briefing in the European Parliament in Brussels on 12 June 2007. The briefing, organized by ISIS, Third World Network and Green Network, and hosted by Janusz Wojciechowski, MEP, the vice-Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development for the European Union, coincided with the publication of key scientific papers, GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham (ISIS scientific publication) [1] and New Analysis of a Rat Feeding Study with a Genetically Modified Maize Reveals Signs of Hepatorenal Toxicity (CRII-GEN) [2] on how national and international regulators have been ignoring damning evidence against the safety of GM food and feed while colluding with industry to manipulate scientific research to promote GM crops. The papers were presented at the briefing together with a comprehensive dossier containing more than 160 fully referenced articles from the Science in Society archives documenting the serious hazards ignored, the scientific fraud, the regulatory sham and violation of farmers' rights [3] ( GM Science: Hazards Ignored, Fraud, Regulatory Sham, and Violation of Farmers' Rights , ISIS CD Book, 2007). All the MEPS who spoke on the panel thanked ISIS for bringing such crucial scientific input into the GM debate, a view overwhelmingly shared by other MEPs and members of the public who attended the briefing. The paradox of the GM debateJanusz Wojciechowski MEP , who chaired the briefing, referred to the paradox of rural development within the GM debate in the European Union (EU). Where conventional and organic crops are concerned, there are political moves to reduce the production of fruit and vegetables crops, but where GM crops are concerned there is pressure to increase production for consumers. He said, “For me, it is obvious that decisions on GMOs must be based on public opinion and I do my best, in that regard as one of the decision makers in the EU, to safeguard the health of citizens above all.” Jill Evans, a Plaid Cymru MEP, and member of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group, picked up on the und ue influence of the pro-GM campaign in the EU: the anti-GM campaign had to work ten times harder to make their voices heard. She said, “ As an MEP my job is to listen to what my constituents in Wales say and represent their views in the EU. And it is clear that there is overwhelming opposition to GMOs in Wales. Our farming industry, food safety and environment are under threat from GM crops, food and feed. We must keep Wales GM-Free and have a European ban on GM crops.” Opposition to GM crops started in Wales in the year 2000 when GM field trials in Pembrokeshire were abandoned due to pressure from 80 organic farmers, which attracted local press, and the interest of members of all political parties. The National Assembly in Wales had also voted against GM crops, but in 2001 the UK Government gave them the green light. It was then that the campaign group GM-Free Cymru was set up, and there have been no more plantings in Wales since. Evans stressed that The National Assembly is proactive in the EU, and has joined GM free networks, but feel that the Welsh decision regarding GM crops, and liability arising from the contamination of native crops, should be taken in Wales by its own advisory committee, and not as is currently done, by DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) in the UK. She said Wales is in favour of asserting its right to GM free zones in accordance with the wishes of the people of Wales, and supported by the scientific evidence presented at the briefing; and vowed to keep the GM-free agenda alive and well in Wales and in Europe. Keep up the fight for a GM free EuropeDr Caroline Lucas, Green MEP for South-East England, endorsed the firm stance of all the speakers on the panel, She said, “There is every reason why we need to keep up the fight to keep Europe GM-free, the tragedy is that it is such a relentless fight, despite not only the rapidly accumulating evidence in our favour and the enormous relevance of the precautionary principle, but also the overwhelming public opposition to GMOs.” Public opinion polls consistently show that 70 percent or more of consumers in Europe do not want to eat GM food, and more than 170 regions and 4500 other zones belong to the GMO Free European Regions set up in Florence in 2005. Despite the national bans on GM in 11 European countries, the largely unaccountable European Commission, which lifted the de facto moratorium in 2003, has authorised at least 18 GM varieties for cultivation in the EU, with 12 more pending approval. The good news is that many national governments are sceptical, for example Bulgaria has adopted the GMO Act that is firmly based on the precautionary principle and Hungary states that the production of GM crops is not in its economic, environmental, health or social interests. Lucas was critical of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), supposed to offer independent and scientific expert evidence on the safety risk of GM products, but has failed in its task ever since it was set up in 2002 . Lucas also criticised EFSA for colluding with biotech companies in giving liberal ‘positive opinions' to their applications for market release, and for its reluctance to commission or conduct independent studies, and acceptance of ‘substantial equivalence' in safety assessments even in cases of hybrids created from two or three GM lines. Finally the ‘commercially confidential' status of dossiers kept away from public scrutiny directly contravenes the provisions of the Aarhus Convention (a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, or UNECE agreement linking the environment with human rights). She referred to the example of MON863 maize that was approved for food and feed solely on the data provided by Monsanto itself. The aggressive campaign waged by the US, Canada and Argentina to force Europe to open its door to GM via the WTO ruling backfired when the WTO upheld Europe's right to protect itself from GMOs, Lucas reminded her audience, and reaffirmed the need for a clear system of liability when contamination occurs based firmly on the ‘polluter pays' principle. GMOs “a crime against humanity”Dr Mae-Wan Ho, director of ISIS , painted the big picture on why the world needs to be GM-Free. Her main message was: “ GMOs are not only hazardous for health and bad for the environment, they will severely damage our chances of surviving global warming. GM crops need more fossil fuel and water to grow, both of which are fast diminishing. Europe cannot afford to waste any more time and resources on GMOs, we must start investing in sustainable food and energy systems now.” After 30 years of GMOs, there has been no yield increase, no reduction in pesticide use , while the continuing forest depletion for GM crops now includes those for producing biofuels. Most of all, 100 000 farmers have killed themselves in India between 1993 and 2003, coinciding with the introduction of GM crops, and a further 16 000 have died every year since then. Members of the audience gasped with approval at her explicit indictment against genetic modification: “GMOs are a crime against humanity.” Nevertheless, she was encouraged by the recent rulings against the legality of GM crops in the United States, and a string of bans imposed in many countries around the world over the past year [4] ( No to GMOs, No to GM Science , SiS 35). GM soybean nightmare for ratsDr. Irina Ermakova of the Russian Acad emy of Sciences s aid she started her experiments some years ago, when she heard many positive reports about GM crops from around the world , but almost none on any negative effects. Not until she came across the Statement by World Scientists on ISIS website ( http://www.i-sis.org.uk/list.php ), which highlighted the dangers. She was shocked to find that GM crops were harmful to butterflies and other pollinating insects, so she decided to do some experiments on mammals to investigate the health effects of GM soybeans. The significant difference between her experiments and those of the biotechnology companies was that she used female rats before, during and after pregnancy over five generations. Ermakova said, “So many things went wrong for rats fed genetically modified soybeans. They became more anxious and aggressive, there was a high mortality of rat pups born to the females in the first generation, disturbances of reproductive functions and pathological changes in the internal organs of males and females.” She showed her audience abundant unsettling photographic evidence of the malformed, stunted, diseased (including some with cancerous lesions) and dead pups, whose mothers had all been fed Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans. The stunned audience was in no doubt that something did go horribly wrong, and that an urgent ban on the sale of the GM soya should be imposed rather than the permissive, turning a blind-eye attitude taking by EFSA and other government regulators. Company research results do not stand up to independent science scrutinyDr Christian Velot, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics at the University of South Paris, France, said: “Practically all the studies finding “no effect” of GM food and feed are done by companies seeking market approval or funded by them. This research simply does not stand up to independent scientific scrutiny, and regulators are putting people at serious health risks by accepting such research results.” That was why he joined other French scientists to establish the Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering (CRII-GEN, France) since June 2005. The CRII-GEN scientists have made it their business to scrutinise research done by companies to obtain market approval of GM food and feed. They found signs of liver and kidney toxicity in rats fed Monsanto's MON 863 GM maize that have been ignored by both the company and the EFSA [2, 5] ( GM Maize MON 863 Toxic , SiS 34) . The CRII-GEN scientists have now analysed yet another feeding study involving Mons anto GM maize, NK603. The company's own results found 60 significant differences between the rats that were fed the GM maize and those fed non-GM maize, in their kidney, brain, heart and liver, as well as body weight [6]. But these differences were ignored and the maize given market approval in the EU in 2004. Velot reasserted the need for science in society to fight against industry that “treats the consumer as the lab rat and the planet as the lab bench.” Taking the EFSA to court over GMOsUrs Hans, an organic farmer from Switzerland and an activist against GM had news for the EFSA. He represents an international coalition of NGOs, farmers associations, lawyers, legal and scientific academics, professors, scientists, journalists, film directors, church groups, etc. from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that intends to mount “comprehensive litigations” against the deployment of GMOs in Europe. Among its targets are the EFSA and other European regulatory bodies, on the grounds that their support of the pro-GM lobby is illegal and a breach of food security. The coalition includes Greenpeace Germany and leading representatives of Greenpeace Europe, senior politicians in Austria, and a high profile German Constitutional Law professor in Munich. The leading German legal think tank, the Tubingen Institute for Nature Protection and Nature Protection Law, has given the coalition an overview of possible legal strategies, and the lawsuits are represented by a leading German law firm in Hamburg specialising in genetic engineering law. So watch this space, and if you would like to get involved, log onto one or the other of Hans' website: www.publiceyeonscience.ch ; www.bauernverstand.ch . Hans trained as an agriculturalist in Canada, and then managed his own farm. It was then that he noticed that the organophosphates recommended by the regional government for the treatment of parasites made his animals ill. During the BSE crises organophosphates were strictly imposed on farmers whether their cows were infected or not. Hans felt he was being forced to use chemical substances to support the economic interests of the regional government. He made a decision to stop using organophosphates and was prosecuted three times for his refusal, but he won every case. Hans sees GM crops forced upon farmers and consumers along the same economic and technological imperative of the intensive chemical agriculture that forced him to use organophosphates. In the end, it's the farmer who pays for this imperative with his health, the health of his animals, spiralling debt for inputs that he cannot afford, and the loss of livelihood. He was inspired to leave his farm to come to the briefing in Brussels to hear sound scientific evidence to support the case against the EFSA, and he was very satisfied with what he has heard. Honeybees harmed by biopesticides in Bt cropsJoe Cummins, Emeritus Professor in Genetics from University of Western Ontario, Canada, a veteran campaigner against corruption in science on behalf of society and the environment, has led the fight against GM science in ISIS ever since ISIS began in 1999. The collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide are almost certainly a combination of different factors, the most important among them are sub-lethal levels of insecticides, in particular, a class of new systemic neonicotinoid pesticides widely used to dress seeds and in sprays on crops, and microwave radiation from wireless telephone transmitters and base stations. There has been a suggestion that single-celled fungi, such as Nosema , could be the main culprit [7] ( Parasitic Fungus and Honeybee Decline , SiS 35) . However, Cummins presented a convincing hypothesis that sub-lethal levels of pesticides, including the Bt biopesticides produced in GM crops covering some 30 percent of the global area, could be acting synergistically with Nosema in murdering bees. Nosema and other parasitic fungi are also widely used as biological control agents against insect pests [8] ( Parasitic Fungi and Pesticides Act Synergistically to Kill Honeybees? SiS 35). Cummins said, “The honeybee is a major pollinator of our food crops, and its demise is a dire warning that the extinction of the human species is not far behind.” What can we do to save the honeybee? Joe concluded with three succinct points for the future survival of humanity: the first one is to eliminate systemic nicotinoid pesticides, the second is to eliminate Bt crops. He raised a hearty laugh with his third, and his favourite, suggestion: replacing all the bureaucrats that turn a blind eye to the plight of nature in favour of the biotech and the agrochemical industry. Hiltrud Breyer, MEP from Strasbourg intervened from the audience and wanted to know what could be done in Europe to save the bees. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho suggested that an emergency motion should be put forward to the European Commission along the lines laid out by Cummins. Genetic engineering is a “global weapon of mass destruction”Dr Zbigniew Halat, President of the Association for Protection of Consumer Health in Poland, a medical doctor, and an ex deputy Health Minister for Poland, said: “I believe that the problems caused by genetic engineering are global. It is the proliferation of a kind of biological weapon of mass destruction.” Halat criticized the threshold for contamination of native crops by GM crops of 0.9 percent, or even 0.1 percent as nonsense. He cautioned that even a tiny molecule could cause an anaphylactic (toxic shock) reaction and could kill someone who is allergic. He believes there is a causal link between GM contamination and the rising allergy rate that has doubled in 10 years. He argued that studies of local incidences of allergic reactions to GM maize crops in the Philippines by Professor Terje Traavik of Genk in University of Tromsø, Norway [9] ( GM Ban Long Overdue , SiS 29) have provided us with the empirical evidence against GM crops. Furthermore, as GM foods have not been medically proven as safe, it is important that we keep using opinion polls to assess public support for them and epidemiological studies to assess their safety. He even suspects a relationship between GMOs and the rising cancer rates, antibiotic resistance, and the obesity epidemic. From a medical point of view, he said, we can't wait for outcomes of sickness and deaths from GMOs, we must have proof that GM food and feed is healthy and safe. Finally, we must be aware of the ethical issues around genetic engineering and that it is not job of producers, but of the public authorities to protect our health from diseases. The world's genetic resources threatened by GM genebanks robbersDr Pietro Perrino from the Institute of Plant Genetics in Bari, Italy, tells a sorry tale of the destruction of seeds and germplasm held in genebanks throughout the world subsequent to the rise of genetic engineering. On the one hand, genetic engineers have ruthlessly plundered the seeds and germplasm held in the genebanks for genes, DNA sequences and varieties which they patent in acts of biopiracy. On the other and, they are colluding in the destruction of the genebanks themselves [9, 10] ( SOS: Save Our Seeds , Italy's Genebank At Risk , SiS 27). Perrino explained how genebanks came about through the need to collect, conserve and protect crop diversity because of the genetic erosion caused by industry-led agricultural revolutions that attempted to increase crop yields from monoculture crops of a few species. In the past forty years 1 400 genebanks have been created to compensate for the negative effects of the “Green Revolution.” However, the second generation of the “Gene Revolution” where new varieties can be made by taking the genes from any organism: animal, fungus, plant, microbe or virus to create new plants, are a direct threat to the larger indigenous genetic bases. Pietro said, “We urgently need to protect the genebanks as they may soon be the only source of uncontaminated seed stocks in the world. This may be why the biotech industry and their supporters are so keen to see them destroyed after they've sequenced the genomes and patented the genes.” Furthermore he called upon the regulators of in-situ plant conservation, organic farmers, natural reserves, and nature conservation organisations to fight what he calls the “genebanks robbers”, the genetic engineers who seek to replace genebanks with DNA biobanks filled with synthetic plant resources that are not only useless, but are also dangerous for biodiversity, and for the health of living organisms, including human beings. USDA approves GM under pressure from MonsantoJournalist and author Jeffrey Smith and executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology; began his talk with, “I am from the US, so I want to apologise for GM at least.” He then slammed the US Food and Drug Administration who say that no testing whatsoever is necessary on GM food. This, he claims, is a lie perpetrated by Monsanto, which has infiltrated the FDA. Who, he asks, has overruled the scientists worried about toxins? Evidence gathered from thirty scientists over three years from his latest book, GM Roulette [12] documents no less than sixty-five health risks associated with the process of genetic engineering. Jeffrey argues that the main possible cause of health problems is related to DNA mutations within synthetic genes that create changes within the genome. He also points out that industry's claims of safety of the bt toxin used in GM corn and GM cotton crops are a fallacy and they that have caused thousands of allergic reactions around the world, as well as sterility and unexplained death in humans and livestock. The fundamental assumption made by industry that GM crops and pesticides are safe must be overturned. GM production is a trapMr Wojciechowski closed the meeting with the warning that the expansion of GM production is a trap. And, as a European Parliamentarian, he thanked all the experts who spoke to the meeting for their knowledge. It is a challenge for European Parliamentarians to make their activity against GM more intensive. The first opportunity will be the question raised by MEPs on risk assessment of the EFSA, which will restart the debate over the dangers of GMOs, he said. Enthusiastic discussions followed for nearly an hour after the official end of the conference, and carried on in the European Parliament cafeteria, where Mr. Wojciechowski kindly treated the speakers and friends of ISIS to lunch. References
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