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Bovaer: What is the cattle feed additive and why is it leading to shoppers pouring milk down the toilet?

Shoppers have threatened to boycott three major supermarkets over their participation in a new trial to add a methane-suppressing supplement into cow feed.

Arla Foods, which owns the UK’s biggest dairy co-operative, announced on 26 November it was going to start using the supplement.

The initiative is aimed at tackling climate-heating methane emissions produced by cows during digestion.

Arla said it will work alongside Aldi, Morrisons and Tesco to trial the use of the feed additive known as Bovaer across 30 British farms.

But the announcement has since been heavily criticised, with swathes of British shoppers threatening to boycott all three supermarkets and Arla brands, especially Lurpak butter.

Arla’s X post announcing the trial has been viewed more than five million times and gained 13,000 comments.

Videos on TikTok also showed some people throwing tubs of Lurpak in the bin, while others poured cartons of Arla Cravendale milk down the sink and down the toilet.

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Fauci admitted to RFK Jr. that none of 72 mandatory vaccines for children has ever been safety tested

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently recounted how when threatened with a lawsuit, Dr. Anthony Fauci finally had to eat his words and admit that none of the 72 vaccines currently mandated for children in the U.S. has ever been safety tested.

“For many years, I was saying that not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested in pre-licensing, placebo-controlled trials,” began Kennedy, speaking at a Hillsdale College event. “Not one.”

Fauci went so far as to call Kennedy “a liar.”

When then-President Trump appointed Kennedy to run a vaccine safety commission, Trump ordered Fauci and Collins to meet with him along with White House counsel present.

Kennedy told Fauci, “You say I’m lying. For eight years you’ve been saying I’m lying,” and challenged Fauci to “show me the study” which shows that the multitude of vaccines America’s children are required to receive have been safety-tested.

Fauci claimed that he didn’t have it with him. “It’s back in Bethesda. I’ll send it to you.”

“I never got it,” said Kennedy, “so I sued him.”

“After stonewalling us for a year, their lawyers met us on the courthouse steps and said, ‘Yup, you’re right. We never had any study,’” said Kennedy.

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Florida Surgeon General Urges End To Water Fluoridation

Florida’s top health official on Friday advised governments across the state to stop adding fluoride to their water, citing the neuropsychiatric risks — particularly for pregnant women and children — associated with the practice.

“It is public health malpractice, with the information we have now, to continue adding fluoride to water,” Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo said.

Ladapo made the announcement last week during a press conference. His office also issued written guidance detailing the latest research showing that exposure to fluoridated water can lead to neurodevelopmental issues in children, including lower IQ.

Given that risk, along with the wide availability of toothpaste, mouthwash and other alternative sources of fluoride, Ladapo recommended against community water fluoridation.

Florida’s new written guidance includes a tool for communities to determine if their local government fluoridates their water so they can contact local officials to discuss.

Ladapo said that as a physician, he previously supported water fluoridation because he learned in medical school that it was an important public health intervention. However, the landmark ruling in September by a California federal judge prompted him to review the science.

In that ruling, Judge Edward Chen concluded water fluoridation at current U.S. levels poses an “unreasonable risk” to children’s health. He ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take regulatory action in light of recent scientific findings.

Ladapo said that once he better understood the science, “I was appalled, frankly,” because scientists have been publishing high-quality studies demonstrating these neurotoxic effects for years yet the public has been largely unaware of those findings.

Stuart Cooper, executive director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) — a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the EPA — told The Defender, “Dr. Ladapo’s response is exactly how leaders ought to be reacting to this urgent public health crisis affecting over 200 million Americans, including 2 million pregnant women and over 300,000 exclusively bottle-fed infants who rely on fluoridated tap water for most of their nutrition.

Cooper added:

“He’s not alone. Municipal and state officials from around the country are now beginning to respond, by suspending or ending fluoridation locally …

“Citizens need to realize that politicians are voluntarily authorizing the addition of this neurotoxin to the water. The harm is needlessly self-inflicted, but that also means the solution is simple: ban the use of fluoridation chemicals.”

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Major Dairy Supplier to Trial Potentially Toxic “Low Emission” Cow Feed

Major dairy suppliers and supermarkets are partnering with chemical company DSM-Firmenich to trial new “low-emission” dairy products nationwide.

Arla, a cooperative of over 2500 British dairy farms, is working with supermarkets Tesco, Aldi and Morrisons to market new “low emission” milk, butter and cheese.

A joint statement from supermarkets published on Arla’s website says:

Through collaboration as part of Arla’s FarmAhead™ Customer Partnership, we have the ability to address some of the climate challenges facing our food system. It is this collective approach that is really going to make a difference. Being involved in using a feed additive is a great way of testing out where we can drive change at scale to bring down emissions.”

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Popular Asthma Drug May Cause Serious Mental Health Issues in Children and Adults, FDA Data Reveals

Singulair, a widely-prescribed asthma drug, may cause serious mental health issues, according to data revealed last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA researchers found that the drug, also sold under the generic label montelukast, attaches to multiple brain receptors critical to psychiatric functioning.

The data support the thousands of patients and dozens of studies that have reported harmful psychiatric side effects, including depression, suicide, anxiety and aggression.

Originally manufactured by Merck, the drug is prescribed for year-round indoor allergies in patients 6 months and up, seasonal outdoor allergies in patients 2 years and up, and for preventing asthma in patients 1 year and older.

Julia Marschallinger, Ph.D., a cell biologist who has studied the drug at the Institute of Molecular Regenerative Medicine in Austria, told Reuters the new data bolster patients’ reports of harm. “It’s definitely doing something that’s concerning,” she said.

The FDA researchers presented their findings — which are preliminary and have not yet been released publicly — during a Nov. 20 meeting of the American College of Toxicology in Austin, Texas.

Their lab tests showed “significant binding” of the drug to multiple brain receptors, according to Jessica Oliphant, Ph.D., a deputy director at FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research.

“These data indicate that montelukast is highest in brain regions known to be involved in (psychiatric effects),” Oliphant said. The FDA researchers’ findings confirmed prior research that showed montelukast penetrates the brains of rats.

The data do not show whether the binding mechanism leads directly to harmful effects in individual patients or which patients are particularly at risk, Reuters reported.

The FDA said it has no plans to update the drug’s label based on the new data. The FDA did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, about 4.9 million children under 18 have asthma, making it a leading chronic disease in children. Overall, nearly 28 million — or 1 in 12 — people in the U.S. have asthma.

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Operation Warp Speed official questions COVID vaccine purity, worries ‘they may ingrate’ into DNA

COVID-19 vaccine supporters are fond of sneering at public figures who have called for the Food and Drug Administration to pull or at least re-evaluate the safety of the increasingly unpopular therapeutics, such as Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., cardiologist Peter McCullough and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.

They might have a harder time caricaturing a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director who ran the agency when COVID vaccines were being developed, promoted vaccination and repeat boosting as recently as 2022 and promoted cloth face masks as “one of the most powerful weapons we have” against COVID, before vaccines were available.

Robert Redfield cited “concerns that the mRNA vaccines actually have contaminating nucleic acid in them” but also sequences from Simian Virus 40, “which is a tumor virus,” in the debut episode of songwriter, author and Lyme Disease activist Dana Parish’s podcast.

Some of the 98 million polio vaccines given from 1955 to 1963 contained SV 40, which is part of the same family as the human papillomavirus associated with cervical cancer, according to the federally convened Immunization Safety Review Committee’s 2002 review of the evidence for the contamination’s effect on cancer rates.

The review was inconclusive on whether “SV40-contaminated polio vaccine did or did not cause cancer in the vaccine recipients” but affirmed that exposure concerns are “significant because of the seriousness of cancers as the possible adverse health outcomes and because of the continuing need to ensure and protect public trust in the nation’s immunization program.”

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Weight-loss Drug Prescriptions for Kids and Teens Soar Despite No Safety Data

The number of weight-loss drug prescriptions provided by pediatric and adolescent medical specialists for children and teens increased sevenfold between October 2022 and September 2024, according to a MedPage Today analysis of Symphony, a prescription drug database.

Prescriptions for Novo Nordisk’s drugs liraglutide, the generic name for Saxenda, and semaglutide, the generic name for Wegovy and Ozempic, rose from 3,448 to 24,435 in the U.S. during that time.

Total prescriptions for all GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs — the broader class of drugs they are part of — prescribed by pediatric and adolescent medicine specialists, more than doubled during the same period, from 59,868 to 125,538.

However, those numbers do not even include GLP-1 drugs prescribed to children by primary care physicians or family medicine practitioners, or at compounding pharmacies, MedPage Today said.

Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Wegovy in 2021, the drug — and the entire class of drugs — has become a sensation, promoted by influencers and celebrities, helping to fuel a massive new drug market estimated to be worth $100 billion a year for drugmakers.

About 20% of U.S. children and adolescents are chronically obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The FDA approved Saxenda to treat obesity in kids 12 and up in December 2020 and Wegovy in December 2022.

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Newly identified chemical in drinking water is likely in many homes and could be toxic, study finds

About a third of U.S. residents have been receiving tap water containing a previously unidentified chemical byproduct, a new study has found. Some scientists are now concerned — and actively investigating — whether that chemical could be toxic.

The newly identified substance, named “chloronitramide anion,” is produced when water is treated with chloramine, a chemical formed by mixing chlorine and ammonia. Chloramine is often used to kill viruses and bacteria in municipal water treatment systems.

Researchers said the existence of the byproduct was discovered about 40 years ago, but it was only identified now because analysis techniques have improved, which finally enabled scientists to determine the chemical’s structure.

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Prozac: A Safe and Effective Treatment for Young People With Depression?

Could a commonly prescribed medication like Prozac be unsafe and ineffective for young people? According to a study published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, the answer is a clear yes.

This revelation challenges the widespread use of Prozac in treating adolescent depression and raises important questions about its safety and efficacy.

Prozac is one of the most frequently prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for adolescents struggling with depression.

However, the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine study highlights significant safety concerns and questions the drug’s effectiveness in this vulnerable age group.

These findings suggest that what was once considered a standard treatment may not be as beneficial as previously thought.

Furthermore, regulatory data has highlighted inconsistencies in the reporting of adverse events, particularly suicidal behaviors, in clinical trials.

This underreporting distorts the true safety profile of Prozac, again indicating that the risks associated with the medication may be greater than the published studies suggest.

In light of these concerns, lifestyle changes and psychotherapy emerge as safer and more effective alternatives for treating adolescent depression.

Studies have shown that therapeutic approaches significantly reduce the risk of suicide among young patients. Understanding these alternatives is key for making informed decisions about mental health treatments for youth.

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Bacterial DNA a major worry in Jabs

We know about the species of Bacteria used in filthy toxic soups in the production mRNA Jabs, but it appears some people are confused about the extremely high risk of Bacterial DNA contamination in the vile vials and how that varies Lot to Lot.2

Imagine you are swimming inside a vat when they add Sodium Hydroxide to make the live bacteria spill their guts to yield the desired circular Plasmid double stranded DNA. You need to think of the Bacterial DNA which is rolled up into a tight little Nucleoid ball creating delight for topologists plus all the other toxins liberated.3

How effective is the filtration? We know Bacterial DNA is “nicked” by the alkali and even mechanical handling. What tests have been done by Regulatory Authorities.

Have all test results been redacted?

How much Bacterial DNA has been found by indepedent labs?

When BioNTech applied for Emergency Use Authorization in 2020, the scientists assessing the Process 2 Poojabs5 were clearly aware of the risk from Bacterial Host Cell Genomic DNA “impurities”.

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