Health/Sick Care
GMO 1.0 & GMO 2.0
GMO 1.0 Strategy
IRT’s GMO 1.0 approach was The Tipping Point Strategy. We focused on consumer buying behavior. If a sufficient number of shoppers demanded non-GMO products, the economic advantages for brands to switch to non-GMO suppliers would change the marketplace and suppress the introduction of new GMOs.
GMO 2.0 Strategy
Consumer decisions in the supermarket alone will not stop the release of GM grass, insects, trees, algae, bacteria, etc., which are facilitated by gene editing and other GMO 2.0 technologies. Protecting biological evolution from the onslaught of a massive number of new GMOs released into the environment requires responsible regulation.
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Read MoreKaiser Permanente and Lionsgate Studios in California reversed mask mandate policies last week, just a few days after imposing them.
Kaiser Permanente, the largest healthcare provider in California, on Aug. 22 announced it had “reintroduced a mask mandate for physicians, staff, patients, members, and visitors in the hospital and medical offices in the Santa Rosa Service Area,” in a statement obtained by The Press Democrat
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Read MoreThe BC Centre for Disease Control has identified British Columbia’s first case of a person infected with the BA.2.86 variant in the Fraser Health region.
“It is the first known case in Canada of this variant,” said BC Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix in a Tuesday statement.
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Read MoreA study shows paper straws may have toxic chemicals and be risky for people, animals and the environment.
Researchers found most paper and bamboo straws tested contained poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These chemicals can last a long time and may harm people’s health over years of use.
These ‘eco-friendly’ straws are supposed to be better for the environment compared to plastic straws, which are now banned.
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Read MoreCharlie Angus, NDP MP (Timmins-James Bay, ON), tweeted a response to the Western Standard’s story about Angus blaming Alberta resident Sheila Annette Lewis’ death on “right wing disinformation.”
Lewis passed away because she was denied a transplant over her COVID-19 vaccine status.
Angus doubles down while attacking the Western Standard for spreading “disinformation” leading to Lewis’ death.
“‘Charlie Angus blames disinformation for death of woman denied organ transplant because she refused to get vaccinated.’ Yup. Right wing disinformation is toxic and tragic,” tweeted Angus.
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Read MoreHealth Canada is looking to soon approve and release to the public three revised COVID shots, two of which are mRNA-based, to target new COVID-19 Omicron “sub-variants.”
The two mRNA-based COVID shots come from Pfizer and Moderna, with the third shot, a non-mRNA protein-based injection, comes from U.S.-based company Novavax. The Novavax injection, however, is months off from approval as there has yet to be a formal submission to Health Canada on behalf of the company.
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Read MoreIn 2013, the National Vaccine Program Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commissioned an update of earlier findings on the lack of evidence to support claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) infant/child vaccination schedule was safe.
According to the IOM committee, “studies designed to examine the long-term effects of the cumulative number of vaccines or other aspects of the immunization schedule have not been conducted.”
The lack of information on the overall safety of the vaccination schedule was so compelling that the committee then recommended HHS incorporate the study of the safety of the overall childhood immunization schedule into its processes for setting priorities for research, “recognizing stakeholder concerns, and establishing the priorities on the basis of epidemiological evidence, biological plausibility, and feasibility.”
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Read MoreThe BC Centre for Disease Control has detected Canada’s first known case of a new COVID-19 variant that has swiftly circled the globe, in what one expert says is a reminder the virus never went away.
The centre said the BA. 2.86 variant of the Omicron strain was identified in a person from the Fraser Health region who hadn’t recently been outside the province.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Minister of Health Adrian Dix said in a joint statement that there doesn’t seem to be increased severity with the strain and the infected individual is not in hospital.
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Read MoreAt 15, Caleb Silverberg made the most important decision of his life. He ditched technology and headed to the forest.
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Read MoreThree employees had taken their employer, Technical Safety B.C. in Vancouver, to arbitration on behalf of their union, the British Columbia General Employees’ Union, because they were fired for not complying with a company COVID jab mandate.
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