E-Mail to a Blog Buddy: Glyphosate Awareness Newsletter

Well, as you readers may have noticed, last week's Glyphosate Awareness "Playlist" at Yellist was a flop. I don't know how or whether that can be fixed. Yellist seemed like such the perfect format for the Newsletter I set up, and then Yellist quit working. I don't know to what extent sloppy coding, cyber-attack, or just the usual bugs in every new online system were to blame.

Here's what I e-mailed to a blog buddy, slightly edited to remove personal details and upgrade formatting:

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Happy Glyphosate Awareness Chat Day! Since you don't do Twitter, here, before you scroll down to the book link, is your invitation to subscribe to the Glyphosate Awareness Newsletter (Thursdays if possible). Please share with friends.

Newsletter information:

1. Addresses will not be fed into any automated mailing system or resold to anyone. I don't want any information about individuals beyond their e-mail or mail drop addresses, and any stories, links, or articles they care to share. Glyphosate Awareness will not ask for your phone number, credit card information, etc. If someone does ask for that in our name, please notify me.

2. E-mail newsletters are free. Printed newsletters, unfortunately, cost me some money for printing and mailing. How much depends on the size print you want and how many of the complete articles cited you want to have printed and mailed. Generally, with ordinary newspaper size print and one-paragraph abstracts of articles cited, printed newsletters will cost about $5/month. Newsletters will be mailed first class. Audio-newsletters are available for the blind, on request; there would be an extra charge for cassette tapes, but there's none for electronic audio files.

3. I'm not doing this for profit. I'm hoping it will be done and over with in less time than it would take to file for 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. If you need a 501(c)(3) charity for a tax write-off, please consider the allies below. Financial support for Glyphosate Awareness is needed and welcome, but not tax-deductible.

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As mentioned Robert Kennedy is the most rich and famous person who's openly been active in Glyphosate Awareness. Children's Health Defense is his charity and this is their letter. Warning--if you "subscribe" they'll send you e-mail every day. Anyway the e-book might be a good resource for the church to have.

I don't really like Glyphosate Awareness being mixed in with "anti-vax" even though Merck has tried to suppress information about measles vaccine being contaminated with glyphosate. And I think CHD is primarily "anti-vax." However I think some people in the media have been vicious, even bigoted, about those who reject MMR vaccine for religious reasons. The (supposedly anti-corporate) Guardian's done a whole series of stories about how some evil pre-vaccine baby-boomer who was willing to risk having measles at 50 or 60 killed this or that wonderful young immune-compromised bundle of potentiality blah blah...Immune carriers probably carry fewer live virus than disease sufferers (has anyone actually counted?) but we look healthy, so people at risk walk right up to us. People who can't just have these minor diseases, or the vaccines, for themselves really need to isolate themselves to maximize their short life expectancies; nobody else can do that for them.

Worth a little brand blurring, though, to have a major celebrity on board.

(We are catching hate--meaning we are winning. EPA is still taking comments at epa.gov. Please post one. Currently glyphosate is still approved for use but much more restricted use, regulations designed to bring us back to pre-2009 levels--although people who've been throwing it around like salt need more re-education than EPA seems to want to give them. A moment of utter confusion, between "not a primary carcinogen" and "safe," has been seized by Bayer the Moral Bottomless Pit as a pronouncement that glyphosate is safe. Leaving people like (an old neighbor of yours) to wonder why, when his "educated" daughters try to get him to eat some "natural" fruit or vegetables, he feels so sick. Also, although most of "the science" supposedly proving glyphosate is not a primary carcinogen consists of research by corporations rather than schools or hospitals, and most of the universities are on the right side if they're weighing in at all, Bayer seems to have subverted Perdue! But the truth will out.)
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Below these words, in my e-mail, I forwarded a Children's Health Defense e-mail that contained two links to use to download the e-books, Conflicts of Interest Undermine Children's Health (the link should enable you to download it, if you so choose) and Conflictos de Interes Socavan la Salud de los Ninos (likewise).

Amazon link? Amazon failed to cooperate. Apparently nobody's selling these books secondhand there, so when I searched for the English title I got the usual lot of irrelevant sponsored garbage plus a book whose title expressed a different view of the same keywords. Amazon really needs to stop allowing sponsors, however desperate and however stupid, to jam links to zombie fiction into a search for a nonfiction book about "conflicts." Failing to pull up the CHD book merely feeds the paranoiac tendencies some CHD members express. Anything but free and scientific debate can only hurt the vaccine marketing campaign, Amazon.

It's nothing new that vaccines can be contaminated, with harmful effects. Actually, although some people who are old enough to read this web site have grown up in a United States where everyone agreed that all the vaccines your schools recommended were safe to have, that's been the case for only about thirty years, with the last big contamination story being the one about the "chronic," complicated mononucleosis associated with MMR vaccines used in Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, or New York. Actually, as every new vaccine has been developed, controversies have raged, and several vaccines have been hastily removed from the market or displaced by improved versions. Several vaccines have been blamed for causing worse rather than milder bouts with the diseases, spreading additional diseases, causing bizarre side effects, and, yes, for fatalities. One year's flu shots were proved to cause cancer; some batches of vaccines became contaminated with live, virulent pathogens. Thirty years of standardization and stabilization have been a hiatus in what used to be a rather shrill ongoing debate. What's new is that rather than hastily withdrawing problem vaccines and telling confused young parents that er well scarlet fever, measles, etc., aren't usually all that bad for children, this time around Merck has tried to censor information about glyphosate-contaminated vaccine with associated fatalities. This is not progress.