b'The Second Coming No Deathsof Mr. Monsanto from VitaminsThe Latest Danger to Supplement Safety YetHealth and Health Freedom Again Confirmed by Americas BY SCOTT C. TIPS Largest DatabaseF ormer Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack recently won approval from the Sen- BY ANDREW W. SAUL, M.D.ate Agriculture Committee for a second go-around as head of theT he 37th annual report from the American Associa-U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). His nomination by Joetion of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths Biden as the Departments Secretary is about to go before the full Sen- from any vitamin. Supporting data is in Table 22B, ate, where he is expected to be confirmed by the Democrats who controlpages 1508-1518, at the very end of the report published the Senate. Some Republicans, such as Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa,in Clinical Toxicology 1 . It is interesting that it is so quietly who introduced Vilsack at the committee hearing, also support Vilsacksplaced way back there where nary a news reporter is nomination. In fact, by the time you read this, Vilsack will almost cer- likely to see it.tainly have been confirmed as the new agriculture secretary. Furthermore, there were no fatalities from amino This is extremely bad news for those of us opposed to geneticallyacids, creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, or modified (GM) organisms. Vilsack had previously served as the U.S. Sec- chondroitin.retary of Agriculture from 2009-2017 under Barack Obama. Vilsacks re- Therewerenodeathsfromanyhomeopathic cord at the helm of the Obama Department of Agriculture is not a prettyremedy, Asian medicine, Hispanic medicine, or one and can easily be used to predict what will happen under Joe Biden. Ayurvedic medicine. None.Among many other things, Vilsackwho is hard-core, pro-geneti-cally modified crops and pro-Big Agroutinely blocked any scientificThere were no deaths from herbs. This means no work that Big Ag disliked. The Public Employees for Environmental Re- deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo sponsibility (PEER) has noted that under Vilsack, USDA scientists: (1)biloba, citrus aurantium, ginseng, kava kava, St. have been targeted if they dared to disagree with Big-Ag positions; (2)Johns wort, valerian, yohimbe, ma huang/ephe-were ordered to rewrite scientific articles to remove any wording thatdra, guarana, kola nut, or yerba mate.might be objectionable to Big Ag; (3) suffered long delays in obtaining ap- On page 1508, a single death is attributed to an un-proval to submit controversial scientific papers for publication; (4) werespecified Other Single Ingredient Botanical. The obvi-ordered not to publish data on topics sensitive to industry; and (5) wereous uncertainly of such a listing diminishes any claim of restricted on what topics they could address in conference presentations. validity.Moreover, not only was Vilsacks record on scientific integrity atOn the same page, a single fatality is attributed to an USDA repulsive, but we can thank Vilsack for having allowed on theEnergy Product. The Orthomolecular Medicine News Ser-American market: vice considers these items to be over-the-counter drugs. Monsantos Roundup Ready Sugarbeets They are improperly classified as dietary supplements.Monsantos Roundup Ready Alfalfa Throughout the entire year, coast to coast across Monsantos DroughtGard Hybrids corn products the entire USA, there was not one single death from a Monsantos dicamba-tolerant Xtend soybeans and cotton vitamin. If vitamin supplements are allegedly so dan-Scotts Miracle-Gro Roundup Ready lawn grass gerous, as the FDA, the news media, and even some Syngentas Agrisure corn (illegal even in China) physicians still claim, then where are the bodies?Syngentas ethanol-only corn (unsuitable for consumption) Andrew W. Saul is Editor-in-Chief of the Orthomolecular Dow (now Cortevas) 2,4-D-tolerant Enlist corn, cotton and soy- Medicine News Service, now in its 17th year of free publica-beans (an EDC) tion. He is also a member of the Japanese College of Intravenous J.R. Simplot Company Innate Potatoes Therapy, the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame, and is Okanagan Specialty Fruits Arctic Apple author or coauthor of twelve books. He has no financial connec-SynBio dairy substitutes tion whatsoever to the supplement or health products industry.Laboratory-cultured meat Originally published at: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/Vilsacks roots with Big Agriculture run deep. While Iowas gover- omns/v17n06.shtmlnor, Vilsack had even been named Governor of the Year by the Bio- Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) free sub-scription link:http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html; technology Industry Organization. Then, after serving under Obama, heOMNSarchivelink:http://orthomolecular.org/resources/served his corporate masters as the top-paid executive of the U.S. Dairyomns/index.shtmlExport Council, which promotes inhumane concentrated animal feeding1 Gummin DD, Mowry JB, Beuhler MC, et al., 2019 Annual Report of the operations and GM feed for cattle. With a track record like this, VilsackAmerican Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System is a mortal threat to small ranchers and farmers everywhere, and to the(NPDS): 37th Annual Report, Clinical Toxicology 2020; 58:12, 1360-1541; DOI American consumer. at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15563650.2020.1834219.30 H ealtHF reedomN ews /w iNter2020'