By Alex Constantine
Deep Politics
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“I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a
cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle.” Edgar
Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, The Spirit
of Enterprise, 1934.
The FDA is ever mindful to refer to aspartame, widely
known as NutraSweet, as a “food additive”-never a “drug.”
A “drug” on the label of a Diet Coke might discourage the
consumer. And because aspartame is classified a food
additive, adverse reactions are not reported to a federal
agency, nor is continued safety monitoring required by
law.1 NutraSweet is a non-nutritive sweetener. The brand
name is misnomer. Try Non-NutraSweet.
Food additives
seldom cause brain lesions, headaches, mood alterations,
skin polyps, blindness, brain tumors, insomnia and
depression, or erode intelligence and short-term memory.
Aspartame, according to some of the most capable
scientists in the country, does.
In 1991 the National
Institutes of Health, a branch of the Department of
Health and Human Services, published a bibliography,
Adverse Effects of Aspartame, listing not less than 167
reasons to avoid it.2
Aspartame is an rDNA derivative, a
combination of two amino acids (long supplied by a pair
of Maryland biotechnology firms: Genex Corp. of Rockville
and Purification Engineering in Baltimore.)3 The Pentagon
once listed it in an inventory of prospective biochemical
warfare weapons submitted to Congress.4 But instead of
poisoning enemy populations, the “food additive” is
currently marketed as a sweetening agent in some 1200
food products.
In light of the chemo-warfare
implications, the pasts of G.D. Searle and aspartame are
ominous. Established in 1888 on the north side of
Chicago, G.D. Searle has long been a fixture of the
medical establishment. The company manufactures
everything from prescription drugs to nuclear imaging
optical equipment.5
Directors of G.D. Searle include such
geopolitical heavy-hitters as Andre M. de Staercke,
Reagan’s ambassador to Belgium and Reuben Richards, an
executive vice president at Citibank. Also Arthur Wood,
the retired CEO of Sears, Roebuck & C disgorged by the
clan of General Robert E. Wood, wartime chairman of the
America First Committee.6
America Firsters, organized by
native Nazis cloaked as isolationists, were quietly
financed by the likes of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Allen
Dulles and Edwin Webster of Kidder, Peabody.7
Until the
acquisition by Monsanto in 1985, the firm’s chairman was
William L. Searle, a Harvard graduate, Naval reservist
and-a grim irony in view of aspartame’s adverse effects-
an officer in the Army Chemical Corps in the early 1950s,
when the same division tested LSD on groups of human
subjects in concert with the CIA.8
The chief of the
Chemical Warfare Division at this time was Dr. Laurence
Laird Layton, whose son Larry was convicted for the
murder of Congressman Leo Ryan at Jonestown (“Come to the
pavilion! What a legacy!”.
Jonestown, of course, bore a
remarkable likeness to a concentration camp, and kept a
full store of pharmaceutical drugs. (The Jonestown
pharmacy was stocked with a variety of behavior control
drugs: qualudes, valium, morphine, demerol and 11,000
doses of thorazine-a better supply, in fact, than the
Guyanese government’s own, not to mention a surfeit of
cyanide.9)
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