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I would like to report on my amendment which states that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund any grant related to any transgenic edible vaccine. Does the term transgenic edible vaccine sound far-fetched? Well, it’s not. We’re funding it. In fact, scientists from the University of California Riverside funded with your taxpayer dollars have been studying whether they can turn edible plants, such as lettuce and spinach, into RNA vaccine factories, thereby creating a transgenic edible vaccine.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) $500,000 grant to UC Riverside scientists to grow mRNA lettuce for humans ^{(05) Grow and eat your own vaccines? Grant enables study of plants as mRNA factories https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/09/16/grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines}
  • (OH. THE “NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION”, THE SAME NSF THAT WANT US ALL MERGED INTO THE INTERNET OF THINGS WITH THEIR “Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno” AGENDA?) ^{(06) NBIC (Converging Humans With Tech) Links https://pennybutler.com/nbic-converging-humans-with-tech/ (07) NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) https://pennybutler.com/chatgpt-nbic/}

One associate professor at UCR explained that ideally a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person. We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce, and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens.

Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it. I don’t think this is a good idea. I don’t think the American people should be funding this. And I think, and I would hope, that we’ve learned something from the COVID experience with SARS-CoV-2, that some of our science projects aren’t the best ideas.

• Emerging trends of edible vaccine therapy for combating human diseases especially COVID-19: Pros, cons, and future challenges (2022) ^{(08)Khalid F, Tahir R, Ellahi M, Amir N, Rizvi SFA, Hasnain A. Emerging trends of edible vaccine therapy for combating human diseases especially COVID-19: Pros, cons, and future challenges. Phytother Res. 2022 Jul;36(7):2746-2766. doi: 10.1002/ptr.7475. … Click for full citation}
  • Edible vaccines: In order to prepare the edible vaccine, the plant is genetically modified to express antigens in its edible part; when the edible part is consumed, it induces an immune response (Van Buren & Schaffner, 1991).
    • (YOU MEAN, IT POISONS US.) ^{(09)Bechamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biolog by Ethel Hume published in 1942. “This book is a compelling and thorough account of Pasteur’s plagiarism and scientific fraud. It contains the evidence of the false grounds on … Click for full citation (10) 1885 – The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters – by William White https://t.me/HandbooksGuidebooks/214}
  • Edible vaccines for hepatitis, diarrhea, rabies, cholera, and cystic fibrosis are under clinical trials (Qian et al., 2008; Tacket et al., 1998; Tacket et al., 2000).
  • As it is said, “Let thy food be thy medicine,” scientists suggest that vaccines against diseases can be produced by plants as potential source of natural recombinant vaccine. 
    • (HEALTHY FOOD IS ALREADY OUR MEDICINE! WE DON’T NEED YOUR FRANKENSTEIN BIOWEAPONS – WE NEED YOU TO STOP POISONING THE DAMN FOOD SUPPLY)

Well, my colleague on the other side of the aisle talks about keeping prices low. I think there’s more to it than that for the American people and he also speaks as if these vaccines, these transgenic edible plant vaccines, are only used for livestock. Well, in fact, they have been used for livestock. I’ll get to that in a second. But they’re also being used for people. That is the intended outcome of many of these programs that we are funding, funding with money from the USDA. What could possibly go wrong with this research? ^{(11) Plant-made vaccines against viral diseases in humans and farm animals https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1170815/full}

• Can one grow Covid vaccines? Researchers say lettuce, spinach can replace the traditional mRNA shots – Hindustan
• Covid-19: Researchers working on making edible plants like spinach, lettuce as mRNA vaccines; check details – The Financial Express
• Edible vaccines: Scientists studying potential of leafy greens as homegrown ‘mRNA factories’ – National Post
• Grow and Eat Your Own Vaccines? Using Plants As mRNA Factories – SciTechDaily
• Grow and eat your own vaccines? – University of California Riverside
• New research: Scientists attempt to turn edible plants into vaccines – The Indian Express
• Plants as mRNA Factories for Edible Vaccines – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
• Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines – News Medical Life Sciences
• Scientists are developing plants that can deliver same vaccine technology used by Pfizer and Moderna Covid shots by being EATEN – Daily Mail Online
• Scientists studying whether it’s possible to grow, eat mRNA vaccines – CTV News
• U of O scientist seeking edible vaccine for COVID-19 – CBC News
• Vaccine Hesitant? US Researchers Are Engineering Lettuce and Spinach to Carry mRNA COVID Jabs – Vision Times
• Vaccines in your salad? Scientists growing medicine-filled plants to replace injections – WGN-TV

Well, we found out a few years ago when a biotech company was experimenting, growing in corn, a vaccine to keep pigs from getting diarrhoea. What happened? Well, the next year where the corn was grown, the prior year the corn came up, and it got co-mingled with soybeans that were being grown there. It contaminated 500 bushels of soybeans, which were then co-mingled with 500,000 bushels of soybeans. And those all had to be recalled and destroyed. Luckily, they caught it. ^{(12) Spread of Gene-Altered Pharmaceutical Corn Spurs $3 Million Fine https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/us/spread-of-gene-altered-pharmaceutical-corn-spurs-3-million-fine.html}

Do we want humans eating vaccines that were grown in corn, meant to stop pigs from getting diarrhoea? I don’t think we want that to happen. Yet that almost happened, and it could happen.

• Edible Vaccine – Wikipedia ^{(13) Edible vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_vaccine}
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There’s another case where the pollen, cross-contaminated another crop of corn, and 155 acres of corn had to be burned. What are the cases where we’re not discovering this?

I think it’s dangerous to play God with our food.

• 2000-CORN/AIDS: ProdiGene announced that it had received a 2-year grant from the NIH to develop genetically enhanced corn that could serve as an oral delivery system for an AIDS vaccine. ^{(22) Company Reports Edible AIDS Vaccine Milestone, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 34, Issue 11, 1 June 2002, Pages i–ii, https://doi.org/10.1086/512300 https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/34/11/i/370083}
• 2005-RICE/ALLERGY: Rice-based edible vaccine ^{(23)Takagi H, Hiroi T, Yang L, Tada Y, Yuki Y, Takamura K, Ishimitsu R, Kawauchi H, Kiyono H, Takaiwa F. A rice-based edible vaccine expressing multiple T cell epitopes induces oral tolerance for inhibition of Th2-mediated IgE responses. Proc Natl Acad … Click for full citation}
• 1999-TOBACCO/POTATOES/HEP-B, TOMATOES/RABIES: ^{(24) Transgenic plants as edible vaccines – reality and future prospects https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Transgenic-plants-as-edible-vaccines-%E2%80%93-reality-and-Domansky/4ea3bb6edc6d9c75e0262016344c962c6e2db1b4}
• 2018-RICE/CONJUNCTIVITIS: ^{(25)Fukuda K, Ishida W, Wakasa Y, Takagi H, Takaiwa F, Fukushima A. Oral Immunotherapy for Allergic Conjunctivitis Using Transgenic Rice Expressing Hypoallergenic Antigens. Cornea. 2018 Nov;37 Suppl 1:S67-S73. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000001758. PMID: … Click for full citation}
• 2018-LETTUCE/FASCIOLOSIS: ^{(26)Wesołowska A, Kozak Ljunggren M, Jedlina L, Basałaj K, Legocki A, Wedrychowicz H, Kesik-Brodacka M. A Preliminary Study of a Lettuce-Based Edible Vaccine Expressing the Cysteine Proteinase of Fasciola hepatica for Fasciolosis Control in … Click for full citation}

I think we need a safe food supply and this is about food safety. Ultimately, the people in this country need to know what’s in their food and if we start contaminating the DNA of our food with DNA from other animals or viruses, the pollen could spread, and we don’t know what could happen, and I would hope we’ve learned a lesson from the Wuhan lab that sometimes things escape. Sometimes things don’t go as you plan and so that’s why I think it’s a bad idea to fund transgenic, edible plant vaccine research from the USDA. I urge adoption of my amendment.

The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed say no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment is agreed to.

Other sites talking about this:

• Vaccines Grown in Lettuce? Rep. Massie Asks House to Bar FDA, USDA From Funding Transgenic Edible Vaccines (CHD)
• Salad or Syringe? The Madness of Edible Vaccines (Robert Scott Bell)
• The Shocking Truth About Edible mRNA Vaccines in Our Food (Facts Matter) ^{(27) The Shocking Truth About Edible mRNA Vaccines in Our Food – DavidIcke.com | EpochTimes.com | FactsMatterYouTubeShort | EpochTV Full Episode}
• Edible Vaccines – mRNA Gene Therapy Through the Food Supply (Anna Speaks Out)
• The mRNA Vaccines Could Wind Up in Food Supplies; CDC Investigates Vaccines and Strokes (Joshua Philipp)