06/20/2017
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 37 35 min |
Puzzling Protection Policies
In the turmoil and confusion over genetically modified foods and pharmaceuticals, consumers should feel confident that the government will protect their health and well-being. Unfortunately to the contrary, primary protective agencies of the United States have demonstrated consistently that big business is prioritized over consumer safety. Now with the Dark Act recently passing the first rounds in congress, preventing states from challenging GMO labeling laws and favoring food corporations, this is more obvious than ever. Consumers are now left with no voice, fewer choices, and little recourse. When it comes to public safety, the system is failing miserably and forcing us to ask the question: who do we turn to now? |
06/13/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 36 35 min |
Controversial Codex: The Unspoken Food Standard
Codex Alimentarius is an assemblage of standards, guidelines, codes, and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. Governed by an international commission made up of the EU and arms of the United Nations among others, the Codex has fallen under suspicion due to the significant influence from big pharmaceutical, biotech, and energy corporations with special interests. How far reaching is the Codex and what are the real impacts on those forced to play by its rules? |
06/06/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 35 35 min |
Digitalized DNA - The Corporate Genome
It has always been mankind's nature to push the boundaries of science. Since the explosion of the digital age, virtually nothing has been left unaffected by tampering as we strive manipulate and mold the world around us as we see fit. Corporations have excelled at the capitalization of this advancement and have implemented these new technologies to create a seemingly boundless profit-driven industry. The integration of digital information now reaches into all aspects of life and has reached new levels as computer programs are able to recreate complete digital genomes. This allows them to simulate and map evolutionary outcomes through electronic hardware that can be successfully merged with living cells, thereby producing hybridized biology at the cellular level. This may sound like science fiction but it is happening now and comes with major implications. Where is it all going and what could happen when it gets there? |
05/30/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 34 35 min |
Bending the Course of Evolution
Tampering with genes has been the foundation of GMO applications for years. However, the ability to imbed altered genes into the genomic structure of an organism ensuring a trait will be unnaturally inherited nearly one hundred percent of the time in offspring, is one of the latest developments and intentions of the biotech industry. Is it man’s place to take the reins in steering the evolution of species based on them being a nuisance or perceived danger? And what organization or individual has the right to make such decisions? As we wade into the untested waters of gene drive technology, even the best of intentions may very well lead to the worst of outcomes. |
05/23/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 33 35 min |
The Great Divide: Science, Ethics, and Ideology
Can science, ideology, and ethics co-exist? In the current climate of biotech companies marching forward with GMOs and their implementation into the food supply, public opinion is becoming more a factor in how policies and decisions regarding the food industry will proceed. Where do we draw the line between science for the benefit of mankind and science exploited solely for purposes of corporate profit gains? As society becomes more aware of the issues, the clash between what is morally right and the executive decisions being made by longstanding oligarchies, will ultimately come to a head forcing us to reach a common ground. What will it take to bridge the gap? |
05/16/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 32 35 min |
Nano Technology: Gateway to the future
It has been said that nanotechnology is the gateway to the future. Building objects and processes that are only the size of atoms has the scientific world intoxicated with the scope of possibilities. Already, nanotech is finding its way into the food and drug industries where it can be used to achieve functions no other material can. However, as incredible as the new field promises to be, it also holds the potential to greatly harm the environment and consumers. Impossible to contain once released, nanotech could become an unleashed and unregulated set of ramifications for mankind going forward. Will the benefits outweigh the inherent risks? Despite the technological nano breakthroughs, there are many negative consequences to consider. Nano materials are so small they cannot be detected or filtered. Their unique properties make them particularly dangerous tools in the wrong hands. What should we be talking about and who do consumers trust to keep this technology within proper safety guidelines? |
05/09/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 31 35 min |
Consumer Genetics: Empowering or Exploiting Our Lives?
As a result of major advances in biotechnology, what once cost millions of dollars in equipment, time, and expertise is becoming streamlined and affordable to the general public. Biotech companies are now able to offer genetic testing and other services directly to consumers without guidance from healthcare professionals. What are the implications of this burgeoning industry as consumers’ detailed personal genetic information is stored in corporate cloud-based data banks accessible through the internet? Will this open a Pandora’s box for privacy issues? How easy will it be to collect DNA samples from unsuspecting individuals and more importantly, how could this information be used? |
05/02/2017 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 30 35 min |
Monsanto Manuever: RNA Spray - The Latest Evolution of Pesticide Techonology
Contrary to claims in the past, Monsanto’s flagship product, RoundUp, has become significantly less effective against super-weeds and bugs. In the latest evolution of pesticide technology, Monsanto intends to add RNA interference to their arsenal. Instead of rethinking the use of what has proven to be a failed technology, Monsanto wants to fix the problem by implementing more GMO in the form of a newly developed RNA spray that will silence vital genes in targeted pests, thereby killing them. Expected to be approved by regulatory agencies soon and to market shortly thereafter, how will this new application of biotechnology affect the bigger picture? Will it spur a disastrous environmental chain reaction as many experts believe? The disturbing facts behind Monsanto's new battle-plan tactic - RNA spray, what it does, how it will be used, and the audacity of those willing to subject nature and consumers to a potential hazard all in the name of maintaining dominance in the pesticides marketplace. |
04/25/2017
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 29 35 min |
Biomedicine: Behind The Big Pharma Promise
As a society we have become reliant on high-tech remedies to cure us of disease and improve our physical and mental well-being. Billions of dollars are made by selling us these very promises. But how much of this is really necessary? Are we being exploited by Big Pharma and the biomedicine industry? Are we being sold the illusion of health and longevity through genetically engineered drugs and vaccines designed for maximum profit at minimal production cost? Taking a deeper look into the troubling reality of targeted drug development, the questionable methods of mass producing them, and the huge yet unseen corporations and affiliates profiting behind the scenes at what certainly seems to be consumer expense. Is all of that expense financial or are we paying too high a price by compromising our long-term health without realizing it? How much trust should we be giving these corporations and how much blind faith in their promises? |
11/10/2015
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 28 35 min |
Leveraging Loopholes: Biotech’s Answer to Anti-GMO Protest
One of the latest practices in biotech is a process that allows DNA to be edited down to the letter. Known as CRISPR technology, scientists now have the ability to control gene mechanisms with unprecedented accuracy and without traditional invasive high-cost GMO procedures as they exist now. In effect, CRISPR is the evolution of GMO. All of this allows corporations to continue producing genetically altered foods without ever having to worry about legislation or labeling mandates. As consumer "right to know" demand increases and more companies are responding to protests by voluntarily labeling GMO products or removing them from their ingredients altogether, industry is well ahead of the game and consumers should not be fooled into complacency. CRISPR technology allows a crafty bypass because it is not recognized technically as a GMO process as is currently defined. Industry can use this technology to dodge existing regulations now, or in the future, and avoid GMO stigmas in public perception as they continue driving corporate profit. They would not have to disclose this new process to regulators or the public, rendering the hotly debated GMO labeling issue effectively moot. Present day loopholes in an obsolete agribusiness regulatory system may be the biggest challenge yet as consumers fight to stay informed and aware of what is happening to the manufacturing of food. Is CRISPR technology the ultimate bait and switch in the GMO debate? |
11/03/2015
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 27 35 min |
Biotech Breach of Nature: Cost and Consequences
Throughout the GMO, biotech and agribusiness debate, we have witnessed their disastrous impact in a variety of ways, including on our world food supply, pharmaceuticals, and in the reckless tampering of our genes for profit driven purposes. These impacts all drastically affect our human health and evolutionary process. But, there is another side to the story that we are not talking about enough and one that is just as serious --- the frightening consequences the biotech industry has created that now affects the very delicate balance of our planetary ecology and environment. As the hand of biotech continues to sweep across and outright ignore all reasonable boundaries of ethics and morality in its unquenchable thirst to increase profit, how close are we to the final curtain-call where nature, in its own inevitable wisdom, will protest against us? |
01/15/2015
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 26 35 min |
Gluten and GMO: The Toxic Reality for 18 Million and Counting
It is still a fairly new-recognized and rapidly increasing reality. Gluten intolerance has become a primary health concern for millions of consumers around the world. However, in the face of such an epidemic, the biotech industry is in aggressive pursuit of genetically manipulating a relief for this affliction, one they seek undoubtedly to capitalize on. If brought to fruitition, the result of such a genetically engineered response may in actuality cause more grave consequences to consumers than it will provide them help. Revealing the latest research and what it says about gluten intolerance and the dangers involved with GM alternatives currently under development. If you are one of the millions suffering from this affliction, please don't miss out on hearing the important information brought to you in this broadcast. |
12/11/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 25 45 min |
GMO Crossroads: The Point of No Return
To celebrate the airing of our 25th broadcast episode, tonight's show is a special episode examining some of the highlights in previous shows and developments that have happened since. A discussion about everything from GMO labeling, to the global presence of agribusiness, to the frightening innovations under design in the biotech industry that may have serious impacts on consumers before another year comes to pass. We have seen good progress in consumer awareness and global action for change over the course of our previous broadcasts since first airing in January, 2013. But how much further do we have to go? Have we reached the point of no return? With planetary impact, climate change, and consumer health in the balance, find out how the link to GMO is affecting us all. |
09/24/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 24 30-35 min |
Synthetic Biology - The New Revolution
As we forge our way into the future, designing and constructing biological devices and systems for marketable purposes is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but quickly becoming the norm. Much more frightening is that it is rapidly being realized as the acceptable norm. What are the real implications of what is being dubbed, "The New Biological Revolution," in which agribusiness meets synthetic biology to not only define the next step in GMO, but also our own evolution as a species? |
04/15/2014 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 23 30-35 min |
Insidious Exports - GMO Invasion
Many nations in the world have become prey to the agribusiness industry as it engulfs more and more crop-lands around the globe. Developing countries in Africa, South America, and Asia, are ripe for the picking, but how far will the push for profit and power go when it comes to the natural development of these vulnerable lands? As the corporate players of biotech and chemical agribusiness work to secure even bigger markets for themselves, what will be the ultimate impact to developing countries, and ultimately, to the rest of us? |
04/01/2014 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 22 30-35 min |
From Double Helix to Double Standard
From the time our society saw the industrialization of our food supply, corporations have continued to push the limits of minimizing costs to maximize profits. Although the practices and policies of the biotech industry and its GMO make up a large part of this, in recent years there has been an ever growing list of dangerous chemical additives being incorporated into our food supply. These same dangerous chemicals are outlawed with strict fines and consequences for their use in most all other countries. Why are US consumers exposed to these toxic substances and why are we not being told? How can such a double standard exist in the United States when countries worldwide deem these substances far too dangerous for their citizens to consume? |
03/25/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 21 30-35 min |
Beyond Conspiracy
There are numerous theories passed around about the sinister objectives of the corporate biotech machine, so much so that it is difficult to know what to really believe. Are there wealthy organizations using biotechnology for a more sinister agenda? Is the public being manipulated and kept from the truth? Some activists and conspiracy theorists are making frightening claims but we must go beyond the conspiracy theory to find what is really going on. |
03/18/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 20 30-35 min |
Public Protection? The Agencies in Charge of Our Health and Safety
Who are the consumer protective agencies and what are their functions regarding GMOs? The FDA, USDA, and EPA make up the big three in American consumer protection – but are they doing a good job? A look at the historical actions of these agencies and the people driving them, may shed some light. Do they really have an interest in protecting the public? You decide. |
03/13/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 19 30-35 min |
Climbing the Food Chain
Who are all the players involved in bringing food to our table? As the conflict rages on about GMO labeling, who of these players stand to lose or gain the most? Understanding exactly who is involved and what their stake is in the agricultural process may shed light on the motivations behind pushing GM foods on consumers and why certain companies and institutions are willing to spend millions to keep us from knowing. |
01/21/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 18 30-35 min |
Genetically Modified: The Biotech World - Here and Now
What are the latest developments in the world of GMOs? From GMO labeling laws, global outrage, corporate product pipelines, to the debacle over the Seralini study on human health risks, we will examine new aspects to the biotech business and their implications for the health and safety of consumers worldwide. We may know where we have been and we may know where we are in the midst of the genetically modified debate, but can we see where we are going? |
01/14/2014
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 17 30-35 min |
Building to Break
Science. It has propelled the human race forward for thousands of years. While we have bettered our lives in some aspects, there has been a heavy toll to pay in others. Biotechnology is being used by corporate and political interest in the most self-destructive drive for profit in all of history. It is only our species that works against itself by using the very progress it creates. It is only us who build with one hand and break with the other. There is a union of science and human progress, but where is the union of science and preservation? With corporations deciding the evolutionary fate of human health and longevity, is biotech really change for the better or is it the beginning of the end? |
08/13/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 16 30-35 min |
The Chemical Burn
Agent Orange, PCB's, DDT, Glyphosate. These are words that many of us believe are in a deadly past of devastated lives. There are also new, and just as deadly, toxic cocktails in the pipeline today such as Dicamba. Many of us have believed that chemicals such as these are no longer allowed for use, or that at least in extreme cases, they are heavily regulated. Yet, the US government has recently approved the increased use of Monsanto's pesticides in crops. What's more, the biotech industry still tries to promote these as being safe for use. What are the real dangers for consumers and for our environment? We'll look into the shadows on the dark side of this frightening industry. |
08/06/2013 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 15 30-35 min |
Discrowning the Six Kings Corporate giant, Monsanto, may be feeling the most headline heat from an outraged and growing body of consumers and concerned scientists objecting to the practices and blatant oversteps of GM crops and biotech business, but they are not the only player at the GMO table. There are six kings presiding over this controversial and frightening industry: Monsanto, Syngenta, Dupont, Bayer, Dow and BASF, and each one of these corporate kings contribute enormously to the rise of profit-driven science at the expense and downfall of unsuspecting consumers worldwide. Who are they? And how are they affecting you? |
07/30/2013 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 14 30-35 min |
Agent 21: Domination What exactly is Agenda 21 all about and why are so many outraged because of it? Is it a United Nations voluntary consortium or a stepping stone toward a global centralized government? Under the disguise of world sustainability and feeding the hungry, is there an underlying agenda that is not so altruistic as they may have us believe? Monsanto along with other powerful corporations have shown more than an interest in Agenda 21. What use could this be for them and their profit driven GMO biotech science? The possibilities are frightening. |
05/07/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 13 30-35 min |
The Safety Dance
The GM biotech industry assures us they have conducted adequate safety studies of genetically modified foods, and that these DNA manipulated foods are entirely safe for human consumption. To bolster their claims of safety, the industry loves to tout the names and institutions of corroborating scientists. However, these same scientists and institutions are among the hidden benefactors funded by the very industry they support. Contrarily, a wealth of independent testing by credible and experienced scientists around the world, reveals consistently frightening results, all pointing to the dire health risks of long term GMO consumption. All of these test studies are inexplicably and vehemently dismissed by the profit driven biotech industry under claims such as a lack of credibility and faulty testing. It is alarming the protective agencies put in place to keep us safe do not even conduct their own testing of these foods, and instead rely on the tests supplied to them by corporations like Monsanto. In the safety dance of the GM biotech industry, it is the unsuspecting consumer who is not so safe after all. |
04/30/2013
8:00pm Pacific Broadcast 12 30-35 min |
GMO - The Issues of Today
GMO: The Issues of Today: What are the latest happenings in the GMO industry? This show will examine the current state of GMO in the US and around the world – from the newest wave of biotechnology in food crops to the steps of congress. Has our food industry hit new lows? Or has Monsanto hit new highs? Looking at trends of today, are we able to forecast what is coming in the future? |
04/16/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 11 30-35 min |
In the Absence of Ethics
The GM biotech industry has used its technology to produce a variety of products using combinations of genetic material between plants, animals, and even humans…some of which cross what most would consider the ethical line. This program will investigate the history of current products and practices going on in the biotech world and how some of the seemingly innocuous creations may give insight to the mind-frame of the industry and the madness of many of its practices. |
04/09/2013 7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 10 30-35 min |
Kill Technology - Gene Genocide
The GM industry has developed what is termed, "terminator technology," and has already utilized gene silencing techniques to manipulate certain gene expressions from occurring in transgenic crops, and intend the same for the bee population which is currently in a state of crisis due to colony collapse disorder brought on by what is believed the excessive use of pesticides required for farmers to control Super Weeds in genetically modified crops. The industry now plans to implement this kill technology in a variety of ways, including the eradication of insect species and certain rodents. Experts in the biotech field have warned about GM wheat currently in development, saying it could potentially silence human genes if ingested and result in both premature death and future generations inheriting this critical defect. The implications and ethical issues involving this technology are profoundly frightening and potentially catastrophic to our delicate ecosystem, the future of human health and our evolutionary process. What is the natural progression of this technology if fully implemented? Instead of preserving plant, animal and insect species, will we now terminate those which are inconvenient to our motivations? Could we be headed for a culture as in 'GATTACA' where eugenics in human life is standard and accepted practice? The possibility is not as science fiction as it sounds. |
04/02/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 9 30-35 min |
__The Garden of Eden - For Sale
The GMO industry wants to own the genetic blueprints of all existing food sources around the globe. 250,000 farmer suicides in India, forced GMO compliance by European countries under threat of exclusion from the union, and even the swift impeachment of a South American President and extermination of native seeds are all frightening glimpses into the overtaking of world crops. Henry Kissinger said, "If you control the oil, you control nations. If you control the food, you control the people." What once was the proverbial Garden of Eden has surreptitiously become the property of an unregulated and untested industry. And consumers are paying the price. |
03/26/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 8 30-35 min |
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Parallels
Often, art defines real life and in many forms predicts, and even creates the future. It is uncanny how art has revealed so many parallels between fact and fiction. We also find this in actual historical events. What have we learned from the past and parallels to the present we find there? Whether fact or fiction, art or historical event, what are some of these parallels and using the past as a guide, can we prevent the onset of a human catastrophe? What responsibility do consumers have in using the lessons of the past to avoid potential perils of the future? |
03/05/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 7 30-35 min |
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The Hidden Beneficiaries
46 million dollars were spent to shut down Proposition 37 in California, calling for mandatory labeling of GM foods. Several independent studies proving serious health consequences of GMO consumption have been strangely discredited. It has been said, "All roads lead to Rome." Yet in this context, following the trail of curious connections of beneficiaries leads consistently back to the GMO industry itself. |
02/26/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 6 30-35 min |
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A Simple Game of Risk
Would you subject yourself, or your children, to be participants in a potentially harmful game? Consumers are unwittingly already part of a game in which we are merely pawns. Who has the right to determine what is an acceptable risk? The GMO industry is playing with our lives and making self-serving decisions about our safety, health and evolution. Their game of risk is not as simple as they would have us believe. |
02/19/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 5 30-35 min |
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Contaminating the Human Code
All food contains genetic material that directly effects the expression of cells in the body. GM food forces a different expression than that of a natural state. To what degree, is yet to be quantified. Dr. Eva Notony said, "Even minor tampering with nature is apt to bring serious consequences, as did the introduction of a single chemical, DDT. Genetic engineering is tampering on a monumental scale, and nature will surely exact a heavy toll for this trespass." Will we reach the event horizon in contamination of the human genetic code, changing what it means to be human? |
02/12/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 4 30-35 min |
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Monsanto - Down the Rabbit Hole
Why are chemical companies, like Monsanto, exercising such inexplicable amounts of freedom and power over our world food supply? Their tentacles reach disturbingly into business and political interests unbeknownst to most consumers. The deeper you look into the twists, turns and connections, the further you fall into a rabbit hole of mounting questions and alarming concerns. |
02/05/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 3 30-35 min |
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Dismantling DNA
Behind the veil. The building blocks of life are being synthetically manipulated and altered from a natural state. Nearly 80% of all products in grocery stores now contain GMO ingredients. What is really involved in the process of altering the DNA in our food supply? Find out what they would rather you not know. |
01/29/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 2 30-35 min |
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Toxic Promise
This episode examines the origins of the GMO industry and its purported global benefit impressed upon consumers under the guise of safety, stronger and more plentiful crops, and a world problem solver in meeting population demand for food. In the face of the industry's blatant disregard to disclose genetically modified organisms to the public, are GMO foods really what they promise? |
01/22/2013
7:00pm Pacific Broadcast 1 30-35 min |
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The GMO Puzzle
Series Opener. Anna Kavanaugh introduces her new radio program, Mad Science: The Genetic Crossroad. In this episode, she raises questions about the GMO industry and its unregulated practice. She further spotlights some of the most puzzling issues surrounding GMO, including the control of chemical companies, like Monsanto, and their deep connection to the US Federal Government. Also examined is the questionable lack of mandatory labeling of GMO containing food products, and the unbiased scientific study of their safety. |