[MPWG] herbal remedies associated with heart drugs

Thu Feb 4 12:42:11 CST 2010

*Hello Diana*,

I hear you Diana.
There's too many hands in the pot.
Too many organizations making rulings.
Too many people in our world.
It's the nature of the beast I believe.

Where does it go from here?

Well, we can learn many lessons from Nature. And I trust she will step
in to enforce her checks and balances.

*Mark and Wendy*,
Thank you both for answering my question. I will relay your message to the
ones I heard this from.
There's something that rings true in my heart to know there
are still mom and pop companies maintaining and sustaining themselves.

Blessings,

Marguerite

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Terressentials <
terressentials at mailworks.org> wrote:

> Thanks so much for posting this bio-engineering update, Gena.
>
> The continued reports about the genetic mutilation and corporate
> exploitation of everyone's botanicals is outrageous on many levels.
> I'm pretty disgusted with the actions and inactions of large
> corporations and regulators right now.  I'm also not seeing how we can
> stop this madness, and it makes me frustrated, sad and apprehensive
> about our future.
>
> And so it goes...
>
> Regards,
>
> Diana
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Gena Fleming" <genafleming at gmail.com>
> To: "Jean Giblette" <hfg at capital.net>
> Cc: mpwg at lists.plantconservation.org Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:25:07 -
>    0600 Subject: Re: [MPWG] herbal remedies associated with heart drugs
>
> I'm glad this article has inspired so many comments, which I have
> enjoyed reading.  It really is important not to let so much
> misinformation and inuendo go unchallenged.
>
> I agree with Jean's comments about perception problems and paradigm
> shifts. But I would like to emphasize that the current tide is moving
> swiftly from chemical pharmaceuticals that were synthesized from
> petrochemical byproducts to the development of transgenic plants to
> produce drugs.  And this shift really increases the risks.
>
> The chemical synthesis of drugs in the past did not really impede our
> access to herbs.  GM medicinal plants do, because their development
> threatens to contaminate the ancestral integrity of these important
> plants.  They also pose other ecological risks that affect other
> organisms and soil fertility.
>
>
> Transgenic plants are being engineered to increase "active" compouds,
> standardize them,  increase production efficiencies (including cloning),
> decrease "undesired" components, or address other industrial
> preferences. For example, China is developing a transgenic Jujube with
> the antisense gene. (
> http://www.cababstractsplus.org/abstracts%5C/Abstract.aspx?AcNo=20043052888
> ). The purpose of antisense technology is to delay fruiting, so the
> onset of fruiting can be controlled by chemical application.  It's
> similar to terminator technology.
>
> I think most biomedical physicians, pharmacists, and researchers have
> good intent.  They're just doing their job.  The devil is in the system.
>
> In the United States, two events really attached the carrot to the
> stick; both occurred in 1980.  1)  The Supreme Court upheld the right to
> patent living organisms; 2) the Bayh Dole Act allowed universities
> operating with public funds to form partnerships with corporations.
>
> So our taxpayer money is paying for research to develop transgenic
> organisms which can be patented and owned by multinational
> pharmaceutical companies or agribusiness.  Multinational corporations
> are now funding and directing university research.  The research follows
> the money.  The universities get a cut of the royalties.
>
> Now, more than ever, it is important to promote not simply the use of
> "medicinal plants", but the validity of indigenous knowledge. Indigenous
> science offers a more complex, integrative, contemplative worldview that
> attempts to cooperate rather than conquer Nature.  It is not simply the
> therapeutic modalities and substances of these traditional systems which
> need to be adopted.  It is necessary to have a pluralistic medical
> society, even a pluralistic scientific society, with more appropriate,
> integrative research methodologies, and research funded for the public
> good, not private enterprise.
>
> In such a world, it should be inconceivable that life could ever be
> owned by a corporation.
>
> best regards,
>
> Gena
>
>
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