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Poison – What’s That?

The dose makes the poison. It’s a well-known saying. Dihydrogen monoxide can also be fatal, although the lethal dose isn’t recorded anywhere. It’s readily available and considered completely non-toxic. When ingested in quantities over seven cubic decimeters, however, it can be fatal. This is especially true if you avoid the simultaneous intake of supposedly harmful sodium and chlorine ions.

Too high? Dihydrogen monoxide is also called H2O or, colloquially, “water”. If you drink too much water, the salts are flushed out of it and you suffer from “hyponatremia”. “Hypo” means “too little”. “Hyponatremia” thus means “too little sodium”. In extreme cases, this causes water to be stored in your lungs or brain (“edema”) and can lead to death. In 2015, a man who only drank tap water died this way during a heat triathlon.

An acquaintance used to drink about five liters of fluid each day. She fell down regularly – for years. A new family doctor prohibited her from drinking it and she stopped falling down. Unfortunately, even older people are often told that they have to “drink a lot of fluids”. When they fall down, they often suffer a fracture of their femoral neck, which often has fatal consequences in old age, especially since their weaker hearts have a hard time coping with the amounts of water.

Many poisons (hormones are something else) can be easily broken down by the adult body at moderate amounts as long as the organ (e.g. the liver) that breaks down these toxins isn’t damaged. Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt reached a very old age. I don’t want to know how many poisons he had absorbed in his lifetime from countinuous smoking. Cigarette smoke not only contains nicotine, but fine dust, tar and arsenic as well, not to mention nitrogen oxides. It’s therefore relatively difficult to poison smokers with arsenic because their bodies get used to it. These people are called “arsenic eaters”.

The raspberry is a rose plant. If you were to take a blender and examine it for poisons in the laboratory, its sale would be prohibited because it exceeds any poison thresholds [80]. Strange, isn’t it?

The subject of poisons is complex, both from a legislative and a chemical point of view. Actually, you need a chemistry degree to evaluate these. For example, the press wrote that glyphosate was discovered in milk and even in breast milk. An indignant outcry was the response. What I was told, however, was that’s there’s no way (i.e. no metabolism) that glyphosate can get into milk. The mistake, not to overexcite you, was in the detection method: it hadn’t detected glyphosate but its breakdown product, AMPA (aminomethylphosphonic acid). AMPA is an industrial cleaning agent as well. AMPA was detected in micro traces and was thought to come from glyphosate. Milk contains phosphorus as well (by the way, it has more phosphorus than Coca Cola, which is allegedly poisonous from the E150 dye). Hence, a measuring error may have possibly been involved. The detection methods had to be developed first.

How do you arrive at AMPA?

Normally – not at all. This crazy logic is stunning when it comes to abdominal fat: For years, people theorized that the fat that you ingest is deposited directly into the body as abdominal fat. But when you eat something, it first passes through the digestive tract (stomach, intestine) where it’s broken down by enzymes, absorbed by the intestinal wall, then enters the blood to be finally stored as abdominal fat when the energy isn’t required. There’s no metabolism of how glyphosate gets into milk because it would have to float around in the blood and then get into the milk from the mammary glands.

Meanwhile, glyphosate can, as far as I know, be detected directly. Since then, nothing has been detected in milk. No press release corrects these false reports.

As a “normal person”, you have to trust the press releases, which do not report that you can end up in hospital after two glasses of goji berry juice. The “normal” name of the goji berry is “common wolfberry”. That’s a bad sell, like the kiwi. When it began its triumphal march from New Zealand forty years ago, my father exclaimed: “I know that one”, then checked his “Parey” horticultural dictionary and stated: “You see – it’s called a prickly fruit!” A kiwi is a bird. It’s certainly edible, too. But that wouldn’t be politically correct.

The “Poison” Glyphosate

The German press reports that Monsanto was convicted of using glyphosate in America. That’s incorrect: Monsanto was convicted because the company failed to warn the American public in time about the dangers of “Roundup”.

Roundup contains glyphosate as the herbicidal active ingredient. According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose in rats is up to > 5 g per kilogram body weight.¹³ An 80 kg (176 lb) man would have to consume 400 g (almost 1 lb) to kill himself. In order for glyphosate to be better absorbed by the plant, it needs a wetting agent. The wetting agent, tallowamine, which is only found in the original, American Roundup, has a lethal dose of about 0.9 g per kilogram of body weight. It’s thus about six times more toxic than glyphosate itself.

It’s obvious that excessive use doesn’t make sense because the weeds will become resistant as well, like penicillin. Since glyphosate has a slight antibiotic effect, any excessive use will destroy soil life as well. But this is probably the case with any fertilizer. Glyphosate is an alternative to plowing. This, in turn, is not optimal for soil life either. No system is without its disadvantages.

The German Railway uses tons of glyphosate to keep its tracks free of weeds. It’s the last approved highly effective herbicide. But a problem crops up even here: Applying glyphosate to sealed surfaces isn’t allowed. For example, it’s prohibited to apply glyphosate to paved cycling paths, which develop slits through which a lot of weeds can grow, especially on street corners, which become hazardous when it rains. This increases the risk of falls for cyclists who are on the road in an eco-friendly manner. In track beds, however, glyphosate is only sprayed on the stones. The ban on applying glyphosate to sealed surfaces doesn’t apply here.

The opponents of glyphosate don’t ask what to use instead when it’s prohibited. Since about 2010, when the Monsanto patents expired, it had “become” a poison. In mid-2017, it was discovered that the Deutsche Bahn is its biggest single customer in Germany. On South Tyrolean cycle paths, the agent is used to suppress Mexican grass that destroys the asphalt surface. The choice here is between using glyphosate and re-asphalting the paths every fifteen or eight years – without glyphosate. German vacationers can be seen taking pictures of the apple orchards there. Often, no green stems can be found under these trees. It’s all sprayed away with glyphosate.

Glyphosate hasn’t killed a single person yet in Germany; the risk of cancer is theorized here without one single piece of evidence, although many other substances are considered “probably carcinogenic” as well, and hundreds of people had died from the insecticide E605 in the past.

Psychological Tricks and Manipulations

The following is an example of the methods being currently applied. Science is being misused since valid scientific results are mixed with opinions and psychological tricks. This can be seen in the case of the environmental protection association “Bund e.V.” when it discusses the subject “glyphosate” a.k.a. “Roundup”. The difference isn’t quite clear, which is probably intentional.

The Bund e.V. writes (April 2019):

»What is glyphosate? Glyphosate is the world’s best-selling weed killer and a so-called “total herbicide”. It kills any plant that has not been genetically engineered to survive its use as a herbicide.«

That’s not correct: plants do exist that are not genetically manipulated and don’t react to it.

»Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in Germany and the world; it is used on 40 percent of Germany’s arable land.«

That’s correct. But the argument implies that only farmers use this herbicide. It fails to mention that others like Deutsche Bahn is using it to keep the tracks clear.

The statement that glyphosate is the most commonly used herbicide has “wicked industry” undertones. Since glyphosate is the last cheap herbicide ever approved, it should come as no surprise that it’s the most widely used. The passage implies that real alternatives are available, which isn’t correct.

»70 percent of Germans are in favor of a ban on glyphosate. It can be detected in the urine of over 70 percent of Germans.«

Prevailing opinion is of no relevance whatsoever for the evaluation. In a technically oriented society, decisions must be based on facts that represent the best compromise. The argument that 70% of all Germans would be against glyphosate is therefore a pseudo-argument. Glyphosate has not been detectable for a long time, only its degradation product AMPA. It’s a cleaner as well, and a drug against osteoporosis. False reports are thus disseminated in order to argue with public opinion.

Urine is relatively rich in phosphorus. The first synthesis of phosphorus took place with urine when alchemists wanted to produce gold. They discovered the element phosphorus. In AMPA, the “P” stands for phosphorus. This indicates that something incorrect may have been measured here since micro traces of a simple phosphorus compound are supposed to have been detected in urine with its inherently high phosphorus content.

»The German authorities lack the necessary critical distance to the pesticide manufacturers.«

The line of argument against glyphosate was duly explained. It starts with “...it kills every plant that hasn’t been genetically engineered to resist it...”, which is incorrect. Anyone who sprays a cactus can test this. Exactly these people are accusing the German authorities of “failing to maintain a critical distance to the manufacturers”. Glyphosate is a herbicide, not a pesticide.

»Scientists regard the negative influence on the fertility of people who come into active or passive contact with the glyphosate-containing pesticide “Roundup” as conceivable.«

Which remedy do you mean: Roundup or glyphosate? American Roundup contains relatively toxic tallow amine, the European variety does not. Everything is used interchangeably.

At the same time, glyphosate “mutates” into a contact poison. What’s more: What kind of “scientist” does Bund. e.V. mean? Even a social scientist may think something like this is possible.

»Even the smallest amounts of a harmful substance can cause great damage; especially substances that have an influence on the endocrine system«

Correct: The endocrine system is at risk. This is especially true for children because they’re particularly at risk for everything.

1 Why doesn’t the federal government take action against soy products containing hormones? Causalities can be proven here: Zoos had problems with their offspring until they stopped using soy.

2 The sentence is kept general and the statement is correct. Since glyphosate was previously reported on, the reader is supposed to conclude that glyphosate is an endocrine poison, but this isn’t the case. Manipulations like this are analyzed later in the book (see “Manipulation Instruments of a Democracy” et seq.).

Correct: As with conspiracy theories (see “Conspiracy Theories and Their Parallels”), a large part of these arguments are fear-mongering in order to stop the proper function of the brain.

In a similar vein, the Environmental Institute Munich e.V. writes (14/05/2019) on a social networking site:

»Glyphosate: Next defeat for Bayer-Monsanto

Bayer-Monsanto must pay more than $2 billion in damages to a married couple suffering from cancer who had used the glyphosate-containing agricultural poison Roundup for decades. This is already the third judgment in which a US court established a direct connection between the use of Roundup and cancer of the plaintiffs.

Another 13,400 or so similar lawsuits are still pending in the USA. In Germany, meanwhile, glyphosate is still allowed to continue to be used in agriculture and private gardens.«

Again, “glyphosate” and “Roundup” are used synonymous. Whether an American judgment is comparable to a European judgment cannot be determined a priori because the legal systems are different.

On the subject “(Anti-) Glyphosate Lobby”, see also “Lobby vs. Lobby”

DDT – Modern Colonialism Included

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is an insect poison that was banned around 1950. The (correct) justification for the ban is that it accumulates in the tissues of humans and animals at the end of the food chain because of its chemical stability and good fat solubility. This was used by nurses (Red cross on the cap) around 1945 to spray children gram-wise with a pump (Wikipedia). Of course they exhibited symptoms of poisoning as well. If it had been highly poisonous, then those children who would have reacted particularly sensitively to poisons would have died.

DDT was used to make the Upper Rhine Trench mosquito-free. It was banned afterwards. The reprehensible thing is the way things are handled with self-evidence, thus bypassing reality: People in Africa suffer and die from malaria and other insect transmitted diseases. The evil of contracting malaria is much worse than any accumulation of the poison in their fatty tissue. This is similar to Germany 200 years ago when the intestine was cleaned of bugs using heavy metals: Heavy metals were a lesser evil.

The Good German Chlorine Chicken

The vegetables in France are chlorinated. In Germany, the Greens would immediately start climbing the barricades (“chlorine chicken”). Yet there’s no risk involved, especially since you already have hydrochloric acid in your stomach. You otherwise risk EHEC, for example. It can rear its ugly head again because countries are globally oriented and vegetables from abroad are allowed to be fertilized using fecal matter. Although it’s prohibited, it can’t be ruled out. The “chlorine chicken” was used to take a stand against TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).

Humans can tolerate a lot of toxins since they used to sit in caves in prehistoric times and grill their food over a fire. Acrylamide was produced as a result. Charred food was certainly not thrown away. Those who couldn’t tolerate it can’t survive, are “de-Mendelized”. Say no more when it comes to the European Union’s new acrylamide law. So much for that law. Of course, one or two people out of one billion people won’t tolerate it, but that’s true for every substance (if you ignore the vital substances like water and table salt). It’s likely that someone can’t tolerate it: Where there are effects, there are side effects. The two can’t even be distinctly separated. Yet it seems to be life-prolonging for the rest. Any publications on it are ignored.

Gene Food

“Gene food” is a popular catchword these days as well. One of the first things that humans did was to cultivate things. Cultivation has three goals:

 to reproduce the foodstuffs,

 to increase their yield and

 to reduce the stomach poisons contained therein.

For thousands of years, the only approach used was “trial and error”. Mutations were sought and cultivated further. Contemporary Chinese planted their rice seeds next to the “hot core” of nuclear power plants in order to produce these mutations faster. They, too, failed in this attempt to create new rice varieties, which required too much water. This attempt was then canceled.

BeriBeri

When I was young, people were harangued by “BeriBeri”. Sick Chinese children who had allegedly contracted a vitamin deficiency disease were shown eating peeled rice. That’s why we were always told to eat “whole grains”. The explanation for the origin of the disease was incorrect: the rice that had triggered the disease was infected by fungi. It was thus a storage-related problem. Quality assurance was improved and the problem went away. This false report, too, was never corrected.

Intervention is selective. The fact that the risk would be higher than with conventional cultivation. Why’s that? Nonsense, too, can result from random experimentation.¹⁴ What the Americans are doing with their genetically modified corn is unacceptable in part because it provokes resistance to glyphosate. Anything that is overdone is no good. However, this does not speak against genetic manipulation per se. Genetic manipulation (CRISPR) allows to react much more quickly to changing conditions, for example when fungi or pests begin to multiply in an explosive manner.

Everything you do involves risk.

But the risk of not doing something is

never considered. That’s absurd.

What’s more, neither modern laundry detergents nor dish washing detergents are conceivable without genetic manipulation. Phosphates have largely been banned for environmental reasons. This is technical progress, especially since washing at lower and lower temperatures is desired for energy related and environmental reasons.

Dish washing detergent

The dish washing detergents used to wash dishes at low temperatures (it can be assumed that the same applies to laundry detergents) are not completely safe. These low temperatures can cause black molds, which are hazardous to health.

This is especially true since phosphorus will be one of the first elements to be “depleted”. This represents a high risk to mankind since it is needed as a fertilizer.

“Superfoods”

I already mentioned that superfoods like goji berries can be toxic in medium doses. These berries are mostly imported from China and are sometimes relatively highly contaminated with harmful substances. But this example is not the only one: soy, for example, is a high-quality fruit. It has high quality proteins and oils. To protect the fruit from predation, it contains highly effective toxins: these are thermally stable hormone toxins (normal cooking is of little use) that prevent predators from reproducing. Zoos therefore had problems with heir offspring for decades. Asian monks were given it in small quantities. The soy sauce alone, which isn’t drunk by the gallon and fermented for months at a time, had found its way into Chinese cuisine. It arrived in German healthy cuisine two decades ago. Children, by the way, are particularly sensitive to these kind of poisons.

Measuring and Detecting Poisons

There’s a simple reason why new toxins or poisons are always being discovered: their methods of detection have significantly improved. Today’s press releases that report on certain poisons found in food would never have been possible twenty years ago because the detection methods were simply lacking back then.

It could never have been proven that Cyclist Lance Armstrong had doped during his career. However, samples of his blood were frozen and were then unfrozen years later to reveal that he had doped himself with EPO (erythropoietin). He was consequently stripped of all of his Tour de France victories.

The measuring instruments required to determine the composition of vehicle exhaust gases used to be stationary devices. Because these were so large, measurements could only be made on a test bench. Measuring methods have since improved more and more as the measuring devices became smaller and smaller until it was possible to create these the size of a car trunk. That was the point when the deception by various automobile companies came to light.

Twenty years ago, the astronomer Harald Lesch said in an Alpha-Centauri video, that “gravitational waves” will be detected in 100 years. These waves represent 1/10 proton diameter (= 10-10 m) from the earth to the sun (150 million km = 1.5 × 1011 m). This is a wave with a distortion length of 1 to 1021 or 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1 meters. Mr. Lesch misjudged this somewhat because it became possible to prove this five years ago.

A statement like “It was proven” says exactly nothing in general since these traces are most often micro traces. This becomes apparent whenever how much was detected is not mentioned. That this kind of information is lacking indicates that “manipulative forces” are at work here because the dose makes the poison.

By the way, the most important things for a long life expectancy are clean water and sanitary facilities.