Minister Louis Farrakhan by Final Call Staff. Originally published in January 2004, the information continues to be relevant in this hour.] 

 FC: Recent news reports have revealed a relationship among drug manufacturers, agricultural firms and the Food and Drug Administration. This has allowed substandard, chemically-riddled food to be approved that will undoubtedly lead to illness, more illness, for which the pharmaceutical companies produce so-called medicine to alleviate.

What are your views on this, and how can an unsuspecting public protect themselves from the danger to their health created by this link? How does the struggle for survival of Black farmers against discriminatory practices and regulations fit into this picture and perhaps a solution?

HMLF: I have read recently of this unholy alliance between pharmaceutical companies, agricultural conglomerates, chemical firms that produce pesticides and the Food and Drug Administration. There is no doubt in my mind that we live in The Valley of the Shadow of Death.

The Bible teaches that we are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. The unsuspecting American people have put their trust in those who feed and medicate us. Those who feed and medicate us are more interested in the bottom line of profit than they are in delivering health and well-being to the American people.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me that the medical profession is really not a profession of true healing; it is a profession of drugs. He said these drugs are created to stimulate a natural process.

However, stimulation of the natural process by the use of these drugs creates another problem—harmful side effects. This gives the pharmaceutical companies more leeway to make more drugs, to make more money, to cause more death.

How can this unsuspecting public protect itself? In reality, it cannot, unless the public is made aware and the public’s will is to take control of the earth and what goes in it that produces our food.

Unless we are watchful of the chemicals that are sold to the agricultural conglomerates and unless we are watchful of the pharmaceutical companies and their desire to make money from the illnesses that are created by this unholy alliance, then we are locked in The Valley of the Shadow of Death.

This is why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted us to buy or lease millions of acres of land, so that we could be responsible for providing the food, which we need to maintain our lives. How our food is prepared and how we live our lives are important to help us to survive.

The poor Black farmer is in deep trouble and the small White farmer, as well. The farmers are in debt incurred for equipment, pesticides, seeds, water and the many things that they need to make their farms successful.

Many farms are in foreclosure. As the banks take over these farms, the conglomerates buy these farms and expand their unhealthy way of food production for the American people and for the people of the world. All of this is to the detriment of the masses of the people.

The greed of these companies is monumental and only our unity under the Guidance of Allah (God) will allow us to come up out of The Valley of the Shadow of Death and come to life. That is why the scripture teaches “to those who overcame, He gave them of the Tree of Life.” 

That overcoming is what we have to be involved in and it starts with a knowledge of Allah (God); a knowledge of self; a knowledge of the time and what must be done; a knowledge of the enemy of God and the true religion of Allah (God). This kind of knowledge will lift us up out of this horrible Valley of the Shadow of Death.

In my Saviours’ Day speech, I will go deeper into this aspect of what I’m now writing in a capsule form, be it the Will of Allah (God).

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This article was originally published by the Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website June 3, 2026.

A new publication marks the entry into the peer-reviewed literature of some remarkable lab findings on synbio milk.

Synbio is short for synthetic biology, an extreme form of genetic modification (GM). The synbio fake milk that was analyzed in the lab tests was produced from genetically engineered yeast in a process known as “precision fermentation.”

The testing showed that, contrary to the manufacturer’s claims, the synbio milk is nothing like cow’s milk and the production process is anything but precise.

In the study, published in Scientific Reports, multi-omics profiling (in-depth molecular analysis) found that synbio milk differs nutritionally from cow’s milk and contains 93 uncharacterized fungal metabolites and 236 fungal proteins.

The authors, based at the Health Research Institute (HRI) in the U.S., write: “By three independent methods synbio milk was found to contain predominantly fungal protein, not the 90–99% β-LG [recombinant bovine β-lactoglobulin], claimed by the product developer.”

Bovine β-lactoglobulin (β-LG) is the most abundant whey protein in cow’s milk.

In addition, the scientists found that the synbio milk was nutritionally deficient: there were “substantial levels of 69 nutrients in bovine milk, of which only 7 were present in small amounts in synbio milk.”

Their analysis also revealed: “93 compounds in synbio milk, byproducts/waste products of fungal fermentation, whose chemical identities could not be established searching large mass spectral databases, suggesting they are novel compounds.

“Neither these nor the fungal proteins found in the synbio milk have been tested for safety or allergenicity at exposure levels relevant for synbio milk consumption. Therefore, comprehensive toxicity and allergenicity testing are needed to assess the safety of synbio milk for human consumption.”

The companies

The brand name and manufacturer of the synbio milk product in question are not mentioned in the published article. However, it appears to be the same product as that featured in media reports about the lab findings back in 2024 and 2025.

In these reports, the product was named as Bored Cow, a brand of Tomorrow Farms. The manufacturer of the GM yeast-derived protein, known as ProFerm, was given as the biotech startup Perfect Day.

Dr. John Fagan, chief science officer at HRI and corresponding author on the new publication, was reported at the time as saying that there were 92 small molecules in the product that are unknown to science: “They’re completely novel to our food. They are things that we haven’t consumed as human beings.”

This was in spite of reported claims by Perfect Day and Bored Cow that the synbio protein is identical to the protein in cow’s milk. While the lab findings themselves are not new, the current development is that they have been assessed as scientifically and methodologically sound, having passed peer review and been published in the scientific literature.

Lawsuit

Perfect Day was hit in 2025 with a lawsuit alleging it is misleading consumers about ProFerm.

In the lawsuit, filed in the District of Columbia, plaintiffs the Organic Consumers Association and GMO/Toxin Free USA argue that: “Perfect Day markets ProFerm as safe, environmentally friendly, identical to cow-derived whey protein, capable of creating milk identical to cow’s milk— ncluding its nutritional profile—and free from genetically modified organisms. The reality is markedly different.”

As part of their legal action, GMO/Toxin Free USA and the Organic Consumers Association commissioned HRI to analyze the synbio product. The results appear to be those that were recently published in Scientific Reports.

It is astonishing that any claim could be made that the synbio milk was “identical to cow’s milk” when the product in question only contains a single whey protein (β-LG) and so lacks the several other casein and whey proteins that are normally present in cow’s milk.

It is all the more astonishing that the lobby group WePlanet, with the endorsement of George Monbiot, among others, is encouraging European Union (EU) and British governments to pour vast sums of public money into “precision fermentation” as a solution to the climate and biodiversity crises, on the basis that this technology can produce “proteins that are biologically identical to those found in animal products.”

In other words, it’s not just a company making the biologically identical claim to help sell its “milk” product, but a whole lobby claiming that this is the future of food, and, in George Monbiot’s words, “the beginning of the end of most agriculture.”

Synbio milk brand vanishes

What do the findings mean for the future of the synbio milk? Bored Cow’s website is no longer functioning, and the product seems to have quietly disappeared from shelves, although what may be surplus stock is currently still available to order online via a few outlets, like Walmart. Another product made with Perfect Day’s ProFerm—an animal-free “ice cream” known as Brave Robot—has also been discontinued.

Perfect Day still seems to exist, although it has downsized its workforce and shuttered its consumer-facing brands. At the end of 2025, the company said it expected manufacturing operations to begin at its new production facility in Gujarat, India, in the second half of 2026.

Its business plan appears to consist of selling its genetically engineered yeast products as ingredients for inclusion in other brands. In the past, these have included the food giants Mars and Nestlé, though the resulting products never hit the mainstream and proved short-lived.

Synbio milk findings raise questions about other GM-derived foods

HRI’s findings build on safety questions about other foods derived from GM micro-organisms, such as Impossible Foods’ soy leghemoglobin, which is added to fake meat burgers in the U.S. to give a “bleeding” appearance, like undercooked meat.

A particular concern regarding the food safety of the soy leghemoglobin product (called LegH Prep) is that it is only 65% soy leghemoglobin. The other 35% is made up of contaminant proteins and (potentially) metabolites derived from the GM yeast production strain.

This high level of contaminants—effectively the “dark matter” of LegH Prep—includes an unknown number of proteins that remain unidentified and unanalyzed for safety, as revealed by the company’s submission to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for EU food approval.

Nevertheless, EFSA gave a favorable opinion on the safety of the product for food use, though the EU institutions and Member States have not yet approved it for commercialization.

The soy leghemoglobin product has been used in the Impossible Burger in the U.S. for several years. That doesn’t prove it’s safe, as there is no widely understood and popularly used procedure for systematically tracking any reactions that consumers may have to the product.

Highly likely synbio products will contain contaminants

The 35% contaminants in LegH Prep are especially concerning in light of a tragic episode in the 1980s, in which more than 1,500 people were sickened and some died after consuming a GM bacteria-produced version of the food supplement L-tryptophan.

The toxicity turned out to be due to unexpected contaminants resulting from the unpredictably disturbed biochemistry of the GM bacteria.

Even though the L-tryptophan purification process used by the manufacturer was of a high standard, the company was unaware of these contaminating toxins. Therefore, the purification process proved to be inadequate.

Commenting, professor Michael Antoniou said: “The synbio milk and LegH Prep molecular composition profile findings, as well as the L-tryptophan episode, show that with current technologies it is difficult.

If not impossible to purify GM micro-organism-produced proteins or small biochemicals intended for food use to an extent that the final product only consists of what the manufacturer intends. It’s therefore highly likely that such products will contain contaminants, which could prove to be toxic or allergenic.

“These examples should teach manufacturers and regulators alike that rigorous multi-omics (molecular analyses) must be performed on these products to look for potential toxins and allergens as a foundation for follow-up animal toxicity studies before they are released into the food supply.”

Meanwhile, consumers should be wary of any synbio or GM food ingredient that lacks a history of safe use in food. For the same reason, Fagan previously recommended that the synbio milk product his team studied should either carry a risk warning on its packaging or be taken off the market altogether.

This article was originally published by the Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BYNCND 4.0.

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Starla Muhammad, The Final Call (FCN): Brother Minister, why are you so concerned about health, food and nutrition? What do you see happening now and on the horizon? How is this related to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s teachings of How To Eat To Live?

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (HMLF): You asked three questions in one, so I’m going to try to remember them in order.

First of all, it is written in the scriptures that on the coming of God, He would give us life and give it to us in abundance. As you look in your scriptures at the old patriarchs they lived many long years, 300, 400, 500 years, and in the time of Moses, God gave the people at that time 120 years.

And by the time David came to be, the life span was cut down to three score and ten (70 years) and now we have turtles that live 400 and 500 years, we have trees that live a thousand years, but man and woman who are the glory of God can hardly make it to 100.

The reason that we are interested in food and the raising of food and how—and the correct foods to eat—is because that is the only way we can prolong human life and that is the gift of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad from Allah to teach us what foods to eat and what foods to store in our houses.

FCN: What do you see happening now and on the horizon?

HMLF: As you can see, we are learning more of the better foods to eat, but unfortunately our food growth is in the hands of those whom we call the Merchants of Death.

They’re not caring about how food is raised or how to protect the earth and its nurturing qualities. Pesticides and chemicals are being used, hormones are used to grow livestock at faster rates and chemicals are used for the growth of vegetation;

It may look good but in the end the product is toxic. This is why so many diseases are afflicting us. So we’re learning how to eat to live, what foods to choose, but now we must be willing to go to the earth and produce that food so that we can extend our days.

FCN: Can you discuss the connection between developing and maintaining an independent sustainable food source, economics and health as it pertains to Black people?

HMLF: If we go to the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, all economies are based on land and what the land produces.

If we now have no earth that we can call our own, then our food consumption is based on what others raise and how others raise that food. So we’re at the mercy of others because we don’t have earth that would give us sustainable agricultural growth and progress.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave us an example—when he was here in the 1960s we went to Georgia and purchased 5,000 acres of land. We went to Alabama and purchased another 8,000 or 10,000 acres of land.

We went to Honduras and bought another 20,000 acres of land and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had an ad in our paper at that time, Muhammad Speaks, that said we wanted to lease one million acres of land.

Why? Because we wanted to produce a sustainable agricultural program that would give us health, maintain our health and sustain us in a proper way.

FCN: Given the lack of access to healthy and nutritious foods in Black and poor neighborhoods nationwide (also known as food deserts) and the health problems that plague Black America, how should the community respond to this crisis? What should Black leaders and organizations be urging our people to do?

HMLF: Well, many Whites are building hoop houses and doing gardening to get away from the high cost of food and the denatured food being produced that looks so good in our supermarkets.

But in the Black communities, we have what are called food “deserts” because there are not adequate supermarkets bringing us whole food or organically grown foods, so we are living in the midst of death in the sense of fast foods and restaurants that are not producing or cooking and getting foods that are best for the consumers.

In these food deserts we are trying to utilize space in cities that are vacant that we might set up what are called hoop houses. One of the greatest exponents of that is a young man we had the privilege of meeting about a month and a half ago named Mr. Will Allen.

Who has gotten many awards, many accolades for the work that he is doing in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I went there recently to examine the work that he is doing.

And the beauty of Mr. Will Allen’s work is not only that he’s producing clean or wholesome fish for the consumer but he’s also producing products, vegetation that is from healthy soil that he himself is producing and teaching others how to produce good healthy soil.

We brought him to our farm in Michigan and he’s showing us how to turn that land and give life to the land that it would bring out more healthy produce for us.

And we’re going to hopefully set up some hoop houses and invite our laborers from across the country to learn how to do it then go back to their cities and produce this good food and fish—if they desire to eat fish—that they may be able to correct health problems and maintain a healthy life if they eat good food and eat it at the proper time.

FCN: In what ways can people with no agricultural or farming background be inspired to plant gardens and practice healthier eating?

HMLF: Just go and look at the food desert and see what you’re eating. If you’re not inspired to want to take care of the life that God has given to you then we’re truly mentally and economically, socially dead.

But if you love the life that you have, your desire should be to maintain that life and to give yourself a healthy lifestyle that will give you longer life. Anyone who is alive wants to have health and well-being.

The only way to have it is to have some of this earth that we can call our own and then go back to the earth and grow our own food, produce our own soil and give ourselves a chance to live the kind of life The Creator desires for us to live.

FCN: We have been “conditioned” to eat unhealthy food; how do we reverse that trend?

HMLF: The scripture says, “My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge.” We eat unhealthy food because we don’t know what we’re eating and the effect of what we’re eating on the systems of our body, in particular on our brain.

So the only way to change that is to introduce new knowledge, correct knowledge, and when you have the correct knowledge, then you correct your behavior according to that knowledge.

So, the key is making our people more knowledgeable and that’s why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad set up Mosque Maryam and called it, “The National Center for the Reeducation and Retraining of the Black Man and Woman of America” and from there throughout the world.

FCN: Are more grocery stores, convenience stores and corner markets in poor communities the way to address the issues of health and nutrition or is more needed to educate and motivate people to take responsibility for their diets and lives?

HMLF: It would be great if we had more stores in our community servicing our needs. But we need earth to produce the food so the stores can bring the food that we produce to market so our people can have access to healthy food and good food. Yes, we need more convenience stores, more stores, more supermarkets, but what is the root of that? It is the earth and what the earth produces.

We need both. We need the earth to produce food and we need the urban marketplace to bring our produce to the market so our people absolutely can have good food.

FCN: As we know, Black farmers have been battling the U.S. Government to collect money and aid the farmers are due. In what ways can Black farmers and Black communities work with one another to combat these food deserts and to ensure the survival of Black farmers and a healthy food supply?

HMLF: First, if the U.S. government finally comes through and gives them the money that they have earned, that they deserve, they can plow that money back into producing crops for themselves, then bring those crops to the urban centers, putting products in convenience stores and stores in our community, or opening up marketplaces in the inner cities for the products from the Southern farmers.

It is going to have to be through connections—the unity of the farmers with each other, the unity of the farmers in the South with the urban centers of the South and the North, marketing plans, trucking systems, warehouses that we may begin, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, to do something for ourselves.

FCN: And the last question: The U.S. House of Representatives passed bill H.R. 2749, a so-called food safety bill which gives increased regulating authority and control of growing food, storing seeds and harvesting crops to the FDA.

The equivalent U.S. Senate bill S510 was under review. With the passage of these bills, what are the social, economic and health implications on society as a whole?

HMLF: It will ultimately produce revolution. Because of the tyranny that is inherent in such a bill, the people that are suffering from these merchants of death and the quality of food and livestock that they produce are such that the people want alternatives.

With these bills it appears as if the legislation is designed to kill alternatives to big agribusinesses, such as the Monsanto company that produces seeds, and the genetically modified food being produced.

People don’t want it, people want health and well-being so if the government takes that position, then the American people, I believe, when they understand the weight of legislation, may rise up in rebellion against their government.

This kind of tyranny is what caused America to come into existence, and if government will produce these tyrannical laws that strip the American people of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then the present government will need to be reformed or abolished and the American people are thinking along both lines.

FCN: Thank you, Minister Farrakhan for this interview.

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by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. The Defender

This article was originally published by The Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website on June 22, 2026.

Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised the autopsy results of children who died after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, reducing the number of children the agency classified as having likely died as a result of their vaccination, according to documents released late June by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

The documents show that in November 2025, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) identified 10 child deaths related to the COVID-19 shots. But in December 2025, it reduced the number to seven and downgraded the probability that those deaths were connected to the children’s vaccination.

The Daily Caller, which first reported, quoted two former FDA officials and a forensic pathologist who performed two of the children’s autopsies. One of the FDA officials told the outlet the emails reveal “a coverup” by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Johnson included the documents in a letter sent last week to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CDC Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas.

Even the reduced number of deaths was enough to trigger concern among some FDA scientists about the safety of the COVID-19 shots, Johnson’s letter stated. “Although what drove the decision to change these three cases remains to be seen.

What is clear is that these officials appear to have determined that the seven cases warranted warning about the risks,” Johnson wrote. These risks “should have raised serious concerns at HHS and CDC about the mRNA COVID-19 Injections.”

Even after the downgrade, the FDA’s Division of Pharmacovigilance recommended revising the label of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to include a warning about the risk of “myocarditis with fatal outcomes.”

The change was never made, for reasons that are not clear. Myocarditis is widely associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, with reports of deaths connected to the vaccines, particularly among teenage and young adult males.

Sen. Johnson: ‘The biggest government scandal’ of his lifetime

Johnson, who chairs the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is investigating a potential federal cover-up of COVID-19 vaccine risks.

In a post on X earlier this month, Johnson called the cover-up “way bigger than Watergate.” In a follow-up post, he called it “the biggest government scandal” of his lifetime.

According to the Daily Caller, the children’s deaths occurred in 2021 and 2022, but were not revealed until 2025.

One of the unnamed FDA officials who spoke to the outlet said, “One wonders if there was internal pressure at the FDA during that time not to report these pediatric deaths in a timely manner.” Attorney Greg Glaser said the FDA’s “maneuvering to obscure the true devastation of these vaccines is the definition of a fraudulent act” to protect Big Pharma.

Johnson is asking the CDC to provide him with all records relating to its decision to award Pfizer new contracts for its COVID-19 shots, and all CDC and FDA records about child deaths related to COVID-19 vaccination and any deliberations that occurred over whether to change the labels of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said the number of child deaths linked to the COVID-19 shots is likely much higher, citing reports from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). He said:

“VAERS reports (for U.S. only) show 84 child deaths (17 and under) from the COVID shot. We know that because of the gross underreporting of VAERS and the consistent efforts by the medical profession to mask vaccine deaths, 84 child deaths are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to mortality associated with the COVID shot.

“In light of this, it seems ridiculous to quibble over the HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] trying to reduce the number of deaths from 10 to 7. However, it belies the fact that when it comes to vaccines, the deep state within HHS, past and present, will lie through their teeth about a death or injury related to vaccines.”

Rutgers University molecular biologist Richard Ebright, Ph.D., said the deaths are the outcome of a government cover-up of the “reckless” gain-of-function research “that caused COVID” and “killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion.”

HHS did not respond to The Defender’s request for comment by press time.

FDA officials who studied child deaths linked to COVID shots later ousted

The Daily Caller published a Dec. 5, 2025, email by Dr. Meghna Alimchandani, deputy director of the FDA Division of Pharmacovigilance, to then-CBER Director Vinay Prasad, informing him of the downgrade from 10 to seven deaths.

Of the seven deaths, two were deemed “probable” and five were classified as “possible.” Five of the seven deaths involved myocarditis, with two of those considered “probable” and three “possible.” That email also contained the recommendation to change the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine labels.

A week earlier, on Nov. 28, 2025, Prasad sent a memo to CBER staff informing them that he had evidence that “at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination.” In that memo, Prasad linked those children’s deaths to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

“For the first time, the U.S. FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children. Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death,” Prasad wrote.

According to the Daily Caller, the memo leaked to the press “within hours,” resulting in “a media firestorm.” In her email to Prasad, Alimchandani wrote that the FDA’s review of the children’s deaths was a “MONUMENTAL effort … while being bombarded with media articles on the subject.”

Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D., Ph.D., who at the time was acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and who was investigating VAERS reports of children who died after receiving a COVID-19 shot, noted that Prasad’s memo contained indications that a cover-up was underway. The memo stated:

“Dr. Hoeg organized a small meeting to discuss these deaths with OVRR [Office of Vaccines Research and Review] … stakeholders. The slides she presented, emails she sent, and distorted firsthand reports was shared with media outlets. The general narrative was that OVRR staff disagreed with Dr. Hoeg’s assessment that the deaths were due to vaccine receipt.

“Some staff present who leaked portrayed the incident as Dr. Hoeg attempting to create a false fear regarding vaccines.”

In April, Prasad resigned from the leadership of CBER—for the second time in less than a year. Last month, the FDA fired Høeg for unknown reasons. Her ouster came a week after Dr. Marty Makary resigned his FDA commissioner post following rumors that he would be fired.

Høeg had previously authored a report recommending that the number of diseases covered by the childhood vaccination schedule be reduced from 17 to 11.

Writing on Substack, Høeg questioned whether “any of these 10 cases have come to light if I had not given that presentation and Vinay had not asked for a ‘detailed analysis’ of the cases” or if Johnson “had not pursued getting the information.”

Claims children died due to parvovirus a ‘red herring’

The documents Johnson released show that two of the deaths were downgraded in part because of the presence of parvovirus B19—a commonly occurring virus that causes mild symptoms in most people.

But in remarks shared with the Daily Caller, Dr. James Gill, a Yale School of Medicine pathologist who conducted the autopsies of two of the children who died postvaccination and published his findings in 2022, said the FDA and CDC’s parvovirus explanation is a “red herring.”

“Essentially, they could exclude about half of the potential complications because of this finding,” Gill said. He noted that parvovirus is found in the tissues of approximately half the population.

Gill said that while parvovirus infection can lead to heart problems, it would result in a different pattern of injury than what he observed in the two children. In his 2022 paper, Gill noted that the two children demonstrated symptoms of atypical myocarditis instead of “the alterations seen with typical myocarditis.”

Gill’s published study of the two cases “provoked an urgent rebuttal from the FDA and CDC,” the Daily Caller reported, citing documents the Epoch Times obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The FDA documents Johnson released confirmed that the cases were downgraded in part due to the presence of parvovirus.

Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist for CHD, said the CDC “muddied the waters” and “deliberately obscured” the evidence. Jablonowski referred to his analysis of the VAERS reports of two of the seven children listed in the documents Johnson released, noting that the FDA and CDC reached different conclusions.

One of the children, 16-year-old Micah Williamson, died a few days after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 shot. His death certificate attributed his death to “stress cardiomyopathy” related to his vaccination, and his VAERS report indicated myocarditis.

Yet, “The CDC claimed the presence of parvovirus B19 made the myocarditis of viral origins and not the vaccine,” Jablonowski said.

The FDA classified Williamson’s death as “possibly related to COVID-19 vaccination,” noting that “parvovirus B19 likely has long-term persistence in heart tissues and is frequently detected in heart tissues from autopsies of patients with no clinical or histopathologic evidence of myocarditis.”

Another of the children cited in Johnson’s documents, Jacob Clynick, died on June 16, 2021, three days after receiving his second Pfizer dose. His VAERS report referred to flu-like illness, but the report was later updated to include cardiac conditions including myocarditis, pericardial effusion and cardiomegaly.

This updated report was deleted in May 2025, Jablonowski said. Yet, “the CDC found a bacterial growth, and overstepping its purview, concluded that the death was attributable to C. septicum sepsis.”

The FDA overruled the CDC, finding that COVID-19 vaccination was the “probable” cause of Clynick’s death. Jablonowski said Clynick received a vaccine from Pfizer lot number EW0217, “which consisted of 2,857,140 doses and resulted in 28 deaths reported to VAERS.”

“VAERS captures the smallest sliver of actual adverse events. Jacob and Micah represent the smallest sliver of actual adverse events from a time when every living generation jeopardized their heart health with an unsafe vaccine,” Jablonowski said.

Gill said he “tried to engage” the FDA in a dialogue, but “they shut it down.”

We must move immediately from investigation to indictment’

Experts said the cover-up warrants legal and regulatory action, especially in light of the FDA’s likely forthcoming approval of an mRNA flu vaccine and the liability shield COVID-19 vaccine makers continue to enjoy under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act).

“With the approval of the mRNA flu jab, the carnage will continue, and federal officials will ‘smile and wave’ as they knowingly send precious children to their demise,” Hooker said.

“We most definitely should be talking about subpoenas, arrests and prosecutions,” Ebright said. “We also most definitely should be talking about debarment and clawbacks of federal pensions and benefits.”

Glaser agreed. “We must move immediately from investigation to indictment. The era of polite ‘oversight hearings’ is over. We need the full force of subpoena power followed by grand jury proceedings.”

“There is no need to debate seven versus 10,” said former pharmaceutical research and development executive Sasha Latypova. “The mRNA shots killed hundreds and possibly thousands of children. … However, even seven acknowledged children’s deaths are sufficient to remove the product from the market immediately.”

This article was originally published by the Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BYNCND 4.0.

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful

“My servants, the Righteous,
shall inherit the Earth.”—Holy Qur’an 21:105

Master Fard Muhammad, the Great Mahdi, to Whom praise is due forever, warned us (the Sisters, in particular) about the effects of weighing other than ourselves in regards to living the life and weighing properly. Being overweight is devastating to the proper functioning of the life organism that we call the human body.

The weight of the Earth is constant. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that the Earth has a weight of six sextillion tons (a unit followed by 21 ciphers). What you see above the Earth came from within it, therefore, the weight of the Earth is constant.

The Holy Qur’an teaches us of a Time when the Earth will cast off its burden. What burden? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “unrighteous people.” The Earth was created for the righteous; the wicked are an unwanted burden. Allah (God) intends to remove this excess weight, according to the Bible and Holy Qur’an, “root and branch.”

The attitude of Allah (God) toward the wicked is the same attitude we should adopt toward the excess weight we are carrying on our bodies. If the Earth is casting off its burden (excess weight of the wicked), should not we cast off ours?

We have overburdened our skeletal muscles with unwanted FAT. Bone, muscle, tendon and ligament are designed to work together in a harmonious relationship to move the body. When we stand, our entire weight is carried by the power of our legs down to our feet. If taxed by excess weight, muscle wears down and eventually falters.

There is a precise, mathematical relationship between skeleton, height and weight. Like the bones, the skeletal muscles range in size and shape to suit the particular functions they perform. Their ability to perform with speed and power can be literally of life-or-death importance, enabling us to move in response to sudden danger.

When it is not overburdened, skeletal muscle can move into action within a few hundredths of a second and, when necessary, support 1,000 times its own weight.

The spine, our most central structural member, would collapse without muscles and ligaments. Health experts blame poor diet and excess weight as primary reasons why the number one daily physical complaint in America is backache.

The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on pain relievers specifically for this problem are misdirected. The human frame was designed to carry a precise amount of weight. When that amount is exceeded, there is a breakdown of the structure that painkillers will never repair.

When you begin to shed excess fat, you take on different thinking, as well as a different appearance. Allah (God) has given us a pattern for Life. All of the prophets gave us Guidance from Him for healthy living.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that the brain cells of the Original people are constructed to “think right.” To “think right” means to think in accordance with Truth and Actual Facts. Thinking contrary to Truth does damage to brain cells and impairs the vision.

If we are created to think right, we are also created to do right. Any act we participate in that is contrary to right thinking and acting creates an unwanted burden on the mind. The burden of sin covers the intellect, veils the vision and impairs the power of the mind to do the wonderful things Allah (God) created the mind to do.

It is said that we use only a small portion of our brain. Why? Could it be that sin impairs our ability to use the Power of the Mind?

Paul wrote, “The wages of sin is death.” The burden of being overweight with sin causes spiritual and mental imbalance, then spiritual death, leading to imbalance of the systems of the physical body and ultimately, physical death.

I am appealing to all members of the Original Nation and to all people who desire the betterment of Self, to cast off the burden of being physically overweight, then let us begin to cast off the burden of sin (Transgression of Divine Law).

The mental burden people carry, particularly the American people, has exceeded the natural ability of the brain’s hormonal secretions to soothe and comfort us during stressful events in our daily lives.

There are 15 pounds of atmospheric pressure for every square inch of the human body; but we do not feel this pressure because, through the process of breathing, we are able to exert force from within us that is equal to the force outside of us.

Mentally, however, the burden of sin has rendered people incapable of exerting sufficient force from within to neutralize the stress and tension from without. This is why the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad are vital to mental and physical health and well-being.

Let us cast off the burden of excess weight and begin to cast off the burden of sin. “When the earth is shaken with her shaking, And the earth brings forth her burdens, And man says: What has befallen her?

On that day she will tell her news, As if thy Lord had revealed to her. On that day men will come forth in sundry bodies that they may be shown their works. So he who does an atom’s weight of good will see it. And he who does an atom’s weight of evil will see it.” -Holy Qur’an, Surah 99, “The Shaking”

To be “overweight” is to carry a burden that we were not made to carry. Your frame was not made to carry the swill (garbage) that you put in it and on it. Nor was our mind made to carry the burden that comes from sin. The Holy Qur’an says that the Earth will cast off its burden.

The burden that the Earth will cast off is not physical weight; it had at one time more than five billion inhabitants. It is now over four billion, so it is not overburdened with the number of people that are on it, but the kind of people that are on it.

“The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” The Earth was not made for the wicked, it is the home of the righteous. But the Earth is burdened by a civilization that does not belong here. This is why, in both the Bible and Holy Qur’an, you read of a destruction coming to the people of this world.

Dormant volcanoes are coming to life, burning people up with lava; earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones and hurricanes are destroying people. Allah (God) says, “I am getting rid of a burden on my earth and I am going to kill human beings until there is hardly anything left, because this Earth was made for the righteous.” 

Now, you and I must rid ourselves of the burden that we carry. If you are awake and conscious, you cannot do things you know are wrong and not bear the burden and scar of your own actions. When you know what is right and willfully go against what is right, then your mind carries a burden. That is called “the burden of sin” and sin produces the death of the mind and spirit. 

The way to relieve yourself of the burden of sin is to recognize that confession is good for the soul. Do not go to the preacher to confess, go to Allah (God). You have no intercessor between you and your Creator. You do not need any minister, priest, father or pope.

Go to your Creator and talk to Him, because He already knows. Then you openly confess. No one has to be there, just you; if you are sincere and sorry over what you did, you will start crying as you pray because you are so sad for what you did.

When you finish your prayer, you will feel clean and when you come out from the private place where you confess your faults, the burden is lifted. Don’t ever go back to that behavior ever, ever again. When you make up your mind and not go back to that behavior, you are free of it.

So, you go home, Beloved, and get that long mirror as I told you to do in Part I of this series. When you are alone, take your clothes off and look at yourself. Make up your mind you are going to cast off the unwanted burden of excess fat.

Do not take any crash diet. That is madness. The excess fat did not arrive in a crash diet. Losing weight is a slow, painful process. Select the right foods to eat and discipline yourself. Say, “I am not going to eat between my meals. I am not going to do it.”

Beloved, there is nothing more powerful than a made-up mind. Don’t say, “I’ll do it tomorrow.” Don’t tell me about “tomorrow.” Don’t tell me about tomorrow, because you know nothing about tomorrow. All that you have is this moment in time. Make up your mind, now! No more swill, junk or filth in the House of Allah (God).

May God bless you with success in your endeavors to do His Will for the benefit of yourself, your family and your Nation.

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by U.S. Right to Know
Published on The Defender by Pamela Ferdinand

For decades, regulators viewed chlorpyrifos—a pesticide widely used in the U.S. and around the world—primarily as a neurotoxin that disrupts signaling in the brain and nervous system.

But as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reconsiders whether to continue to allow its use on foods like apples and soybeans, a new review indicates other insidious harms.

Published in April in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, the review synthesizes findings from nearly 300 studies worldwide published up to this year. These include laboratory experiments, animal studies, epidemiological research, regulatory documents and risk assessments.

Growing evidence suggests chlorpyrifos may damage the brain, hormones, liver, gut microbiome, muscles, reproductive organs and bones. Studies also link the pesticide to DNA damage and lasting changes in gene activity that may increase the risk of chronic disease.

Together, the findings portray chlorpyrifos as what the reviewers call a “multi-system toxicant” that poses a more significant threat to public health than previously understood.

It suggests the pesticide acts on the body in ways far beyond disrupted nerve signaling or obvious poisoning. Pregnancy and early childhood are especially sensitive periods for chemical exposure.

“What has genuinely evolved over time is our understanding that chlorpyrifos causes harm in ways that go beyond its effects on the nervous system including damage to DNA, changes in how genes are switched on or off, interference with hormones, and disruption of the healthy bacteria that live in the gut,”

Said Dana Boyd Barr, Ph.D., a professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and past president of the International Society of Exposure Science.

The authors warn that current regulatory systems may not fully capture the complexity of chlorpyrifos’ dangers to the body. Many occur at levels too low to be detected by current safety testing, which looks for the disruption of an enzyme involved in nerve cell communication.

The review links chlorpyrifos exposure to:

• Biological changes associated with inflammation, chronic disease and cancer.

Brain and nervous system damage, including lower IQ and developmental harms in children, neurodegenerative disease, and disrupted cell growth, survival and communication.

DNA damage and altered gene regulation that hinders normal cell repair and changes how genes are switched on and off during development (epigenetics).

Hormone disruption involving thyroid, estrogen and testosterone pathways.

Liver injury, gut bacteria disruption and metabolic dysfunction are linked to obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Reproductive, muscular and skeletal harm, including reduced sperm quality and bone loss.

Industry pushback despite reported harms

The review comes as the EPA reassesses whether the pesticide’s remaining uses meet the statutory standard of “no unreasonable adverse effects.” The action follows years of official stalling, prior bans, policy reversals and legal challenges.

Meanwhile, agrichemical companies are lobbying federal and state lawmakers to shield pesticide manufacturers, including Bayer and its subsidiary Monsanto, from some lawsuits involving Roundup weedkiller. The suits allege their products cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma, among other cancers.

In February 2020, Corteva Agriscience—then the world’s largest producer of chlorpyrifos—announced it would stop production, citing declining demand.

But existing stocks continued to be used. The chemical remains approved for several major crops in the U.S., including apples, strawberries, soybeans, citrus, wheat and peaches.

Health concerns trigger restrictions and bans 

Chlorpyrifos—the active ingredient in Dursban and Lorsban—belongs to a class of chemicals known as organophosphates. Introduced in the U.S. in 1965, chlorpyrifos became one of the world’s most heavily used insecticides by the 1990s.

Farmers use chlorpyrifos to control ticks on cattle and pests on crops. It is used on golf courses, in greenhouses, on wood products such as telephone poles and in residential areas.

U.S. regulators banned chlorpyrifos for household use in 2001. The ban came after mounting evidence, including a prominent study by Columbia University, linked exposure to developmental brain harms in children.

Evidence that chlorpyrifos damages children’s brains later prompted bans or restrictions in more than 40 countries, including the European Union.

The European Food Safety Authority concluded there was no safe exposure level, but it is still widely used elsewhere in the world. Several U.S. states, including California, New York, Hawaii, Oregon and Maryland, currently maintain restrictions or bans.

Yet chlorpyrifos persists in food (including fruits, cereals and vegetables), the environment and human tissue. The compound dissolves easily in fats and crosses cell membranes, allowing it to accumulate in tissues over time.

It can also travel long distances—in some cases more than 600 miles—from where it was applied. Researchers have detected residues in food, drinking water, soil, rain, snow and wildlife. Samples range from the Mississippi River to remote Antarctica.

Children, pregnant women, farm workers face the highest risks

Health effects of chlorpyrifos depend on dose, duration and route of exposure, the reviewers say. Genetic differences may also influence vulnerability.

For most people, exposure occurs through contaminated food, water, and air. Farmworkers often face the highest exposure levels. But researchers say chronic low-level exposure during pregnancy and childhood may also carry risks.

Infants and children remain especially vulnerable because their detoxification systems are still developing. They also consume more food relative to body weight and frequently put their hands in their mouths.

Chlorpyrifos risks extend beyond nerve damage

For years, scientists and regulators focused on one primary mechanism of harm. Chlorpyrifos becomes more toxic after the body converts it into a compound called chlorpyrifos-oxon. This blocks acetylcholinesterase (AChE), the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine in the nervous system.

Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter essential for communication between nerve cells. It also helps regulate attention, learning, memory, movement, breathing and heart rate.

Without acetylcholinesterase, nerves fire uncontrollably. In insects, the effect causes paralysis and death. In humans, severe poisoning can cause seizures, respiratory failure or death.

That effect on the single enzyme still matters. But the review argues it no longer explains the full scope of chlorpyrifos toxicity.

Chlorpyrifos affects the nervous system not only by blocking AChE activity, its well-known toxic mechanism, but also by disrupting fat balance in cells and interfering with other cell signaling pathways. These additional effects may worsen its harmful impacts on the brain and nervous system.

Chlorpyrifos is linked to cell damage throughout the body

Instead, researchers describe evidence that the pesticide may trigger widespread biological stress across organs and tissues.

Studies point to several possible mechanisms, including inflammation and oxidative stress, when highly reactive oxygen-containing molecules build up, damage cells and weaken the body’s defenses. Other ways include hormone disruption and altered gene regulation.

Chlorpyrifos may be especially harmful to mitochondria, the structures inside cells that produce most of the body’s energy. Damaged mitochondria can leak harmful, highly reactive molecules that can damage DNA, proteins, and cell structures.

The review also highlights how chlorpyrifos may cause genes to switch on and off. Scientists increasingly believe these changes may help explain how environmental exposures contribute to chronic disease years after exposure occurs.

The authors wrote:

“While traditionally characterized by its potent acetylcholinesterase-inhibitory properties, accumulating evidence now shows that chlorpyrifos and its bioactive metabolite, chlorpyrifos-oxon (CPO), exert far broader toxic effects, including the induction of oxidative stress, enhancement of neuroinflammatory processes, and the triggering of persistent epigenetic alterations.”

Babies and children are more susceptible to chlorpyrifos harms

The American Academy of Pediatrics warns that chlorpyrifos exposure poses risks to fetuses, infants, children, and pregnant women. Chlorpyrifos crosses the placenta and injures the developing nervous system before birth.

“Chlorpyrifos poses a significant neurotoxic risk to humans, with developing fetuses and children being particularly vulnerable,” they wrote. “Neurotoxic effects of the pesticide have been observed even at low doses.”

The body’s defenses against chlorpyrifos also depend heavily on an enzyme called paraoxonase-1 that helps break it down. But paraoxonase-1 activity varies widely among individuals due to genetics and age.

Infants and young children naturally have lower levels. This may also increase their susceptibility to toxicity, the authors say.

Prenatal exposure linked to lasting

brain damage and lower IQ

Human studies link prenatal chlorpyrifos exposure to:

• Attention deficits
• Delayed motor development
• Lower birth weight
• Reduced IQ
• Structural brain abnormalities

For instance, an August 2025 study of New York City children found that prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos was linked to widespread brain abnormalities and weaker motor skills years later. The researchers concluded prenatal exposure may cause lasting brain disruptions. The effects appeared to worsen with higher exposure.

Meanwhile, animal studies show that chlorpyrifos disrupts nerve cell growth and alters brain signaling tied to learning and memory. It also damages connections between neurons during critical developmental periods, studies suggest.

Perhaps most striking, chlorpyrifos appears in these studies to suppress brain-derived neurotrophic factor. BPA, flame retardants, and other toxic chemicals also disrupt brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which Dr. Bruce Lanphear describes as “fertilizer for the brain.”

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor helps neurons survive and form synapses. It also helps them strengthen learning pathways and recover from injury.

“What emerges is a troubling picture: the developing brain is being shaped by a toxic soup of chemicals acting on the same parts of the brain,” said Lanphear, a preventive medicine physician and professor at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University who studies how toxic chemicals impact human health.

“Yet when the EPA evaluates chlorpyrifos, it largely considers the pesticide on its own—not alongside other chemicals that disrupt the same brain pathways.”

Studies investigate links between chlorpyrifos and cancer

The ways chlorpyrifos affects the body may contribute to the growth and rate of liver, breast and ovarian tumors, studies indicate.

One large 2015 study of more than 30,000 women—spouses of pesticide applicators—linked chlorpyrifos exposure to elevated breast cancer risk. While human evidence remains limited and inconsistent, the reviewers say, the combination of effects warrants closer investigation.

Additionally, 3D laboratory models suggest that chlorpyrifos may cause breast cancer cells to invade nearby tissues more actively. Epidemiological studies also report associations with hormone-related cancers, particularly more aggressive forms of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer.

Animal studies done in living organisms also indicate that long-term, low-dose exposure to chlorpyrifos increases the risk of breast cancer, the reviewers say. The pesticide can make tumors appear sooner and increase their number, likely due to hormone disruption.

Parkinson’s, memory loss and other neurological impacts

The review cites evidence linking chlorpyrifos exposure to movement problems, memory impairment, anxiety-like behaviors and damage to brain regions involved in emotion and cognition. One recent study reports that chlorpyrifos exposure may be associated with more than double the risk of Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers say chlorpyrifos-oxon (CPO)—produced when the body breaks down chlorpyrifos —may be especially dangerous. According to federal researchers, chlorpyrifos-oxon is about 1,000 times more toxic than chlorpyrifos itself.

Laboratory research indicates CPO may disrupt pathways tied to learning, memory, inflammation and nerve cell survival. Studies also suggest that chlorpyrifos-oxon damages a structural protein called tubulin, potentially disrupting brain development. Tubulin helps nerve cells grow and form connections.

“Overall, the ability of CPO to interfere with normal developmental processes in the nervous system far exceeds that of its parent compound,” the authors wrote.

Hormone disruption linked to fertility and metabolic problems

The review finds substantial evidence that chlorpyrifos may interfere with multiple hormone systems (endocrine disruption) throughout the body. These include thyroid, estrogen and testosterone pathways.

Research links exposure to abnormal reproductive cycles and tissue development, lower sperm counts, and reduced sperm quality. Some studies suggest it causes reduced prostate weight and disrupted hormone signaling in placental cells.

Chlorpyrifos may also contribute to obesity, insulin resistance and blood sugar problems, the review shows.

Gut bacteria changes may fuel inflammation and disease

The review also tracks harms involving the gut microbiome—the ecosystem of microbes that supports digestion, metabolism and immune function. Experimental studies indicate reductions in beneficial bacteria alongside increases in potentially harmful microbes after chlorpyrifos exposure.

These changes may be tied to leaky gut syndrome, when bacterial toxins enter the bloodstream and trigger inflammation throughout the body. This type of gut-liver axis disruption may contribute to systemic inflammation and metabolic disease, the reviewers say.

Studies link chlorpyrifos  to liver, bone and muscle damage

The liver itself emerges as a major target of chlorpyrifos, experimental studies show. Researchers describe potential ties between chlorpyrifos and:

• Chronic liver inflammation.
• Disrupted cholesterol, with higher levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and lower HDL (“good”) cholesterol.
• Liver cell injury, including a form of cell death linked to iron buildup in liver cells (ferroptosis).

The review also links chlorpyrifos to musculoskeletal damage, including weaker bone formation, reduced bone density, and increased bone breakdown. Some bone changes occurred alongside neurological problems, suggesting broader developmental damage.

Studies show structural and functional changes involving both “slow-twitch” endurance muscles and “fast-twitch” muscles used for rapid movement. Some suggest chlorpyrifos may damage the diaphragm.

Chlorpyrifos DNA damage and altered gene activity raise alarm

The review highlights growing evidence that chlorpyrifos may damage DNA. Researchers describe chromosome damage and broken DNA strands.

Studies also point to disruption of microRNAs, molecules that help regulate processes such as brain development, inflammation and cell growth. And they suggest chlorpyrifos alters gene regulation in ways linked to neurodevelopmental disorders, metabolic disease, inflammation and cancer.

“Collectively, the studies discussed above indicate that chlorpyrifos is a multifaceted genotoxic agent whose harmful effects extend far beyond acetylcholinesterase inhibition to include direct DNA strand breaks, chromosomal instability, and epigenetic reprogramming in various cell types, tissues, and species, detectable even at environmentally and clinically relevant concentrations,” they wrote.

Studies investigate links between chlorpyrifos and cancer

The ways chlorpyrifos affects the body may contribute to liver, breast and ovarian tumors, studies indicate. These include changes in DNA damage and repair, cell growth control and gene expression.

Experimental studies in liver and breast cells found abnormal cell growth and altered tumor progression. Some epidemiological studies report associations with hormone-related cancers, particularly more aggressive forms of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer.

One large 2015 study of more than 30,000 women—spouses of pesticide applicators— linked chlorpyrifos exposure to elevated breast cancer risk. While human evidence remains limited and inconsistent, the reviewers say, the combination of effects warrants closer investigation.

Current safety standards fail to protect public health

Underlying the review is a larger challenge to how regulators evaluate the safety of chlorpyrifos and other pesticides. Current approaches, the authors say, do not adequately account for their effects, especially during fetal development and early childhood.

“The regulatory system was designed to prevent obvious poisoning, but many pesticide-related diseases do not appear immediately. Exposures too low to cause symptoms today may impair fetal brain development or contribute to Parkinson’s disease decades later,” Lanphear added.

“The science has moved ahead of the regulatory framework. That is the gap this review highlights.”

Epidemiological studies suggest that prenatal and early-life exposure, even at relatively low environmental levels, may be linked to impaired neurodevelopment and cognitive function.

That means both the way exposure occurs and the amount of exposure should be considered important factors that influence toxic effects when evaluating health risks, they say.

They also revisit longstanding criticism of industry-funded chlorpyrifos studies that have been used to shape federal exposure limits for decades. They cite the so-called “Coulston study,” a 1972 safety evaluation funded by Dow Chemical.

Later researchers questioned parts of the study, arguing that it was not peer-reviewed. They also found that some baseline data was excluded from the original analysis, understating the pesticide’s toxicity.

The review calls for an independent reassessment of industry-sponsored toxicology studies used in past safety evaluations. It also calls for stronger protections for children and pregnant women, expanded biomonitoring programs and safer pesticide alternatives, the authors say.

They argue that academic research should play a larger role in regulatory decisions to provide a fuller picture of the chlorpyrifos harms. Independent research indicates a potentially higher threat to human health, particularly for children, due to exposure to this pesticide, they say.

“The societal costs associated with these risks are substantial, highlighting the urgent need for stricter regulations on chlorpyrifos use,” the authors wrote.

Originally published by U.S. Right to Know. This article was originally published by The Defender Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BYNCND 4.0. Pamela Ferdinand is an award-winning journalist and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology Knight Science Journalism fellow who covers the commercial determinants of public health.

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 [Editor’s note: The following article was first published in The Final Call newspaper, Vol. 10, No. 18, September 9, 1991, as the fourth installation of a special five-part series on health penned by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. This is the final excerpt from that article.]

(According to the American Journal of Public Health, December 1990, less than 10% of Americans are getting the minimum amounts of fruits and vegetables in their daily diets while National Institute of Health physicians reported that fruits and vegetables have “a significant protective effect against some forms of cancer.”

Prevention magazine, which reported this statistic, said that despite the knowledge of this fact, it is difficult to get fresh produce into the diet and “takes a conscious effort to meet those healthy-eating goals.”)

The priorities of the food industry should not be profit first and health last, but health first. No rich man would be unwilling to give away his wealth in return for his health.

It is sad that we spend our lives amassing wealth, only to die of heart attack, stroke, cancer, or some sexually transmitted disease that renders us unable to enjoy what we spend our entire lives amassing.

Television and radio are powerful tools that should be used as teaching instruments. I am disgusted at the misuse and abuse of the airwaves to poison the hearts and minds of children and adults with words and pictures of filth.

Debauchery and indecency, when the same medium, properly used, could motivate and stimulate the American people to accept the challenge of living a moral, healthy, productive life.

By developing the Will of the people to change and improve their lifestyle, we could bring about preventive health care that would turn our kitchens into health care facilities for our families.

America will not be a great nation in the 21st century unless she changes her priorities. Whether she chooses to do so or not, we, as Black people, MUST change our priorities now. We MUST NOT let the Merchants of Death control the necessities of life for us.

We MUST Take control of our destiny. Let us begin by taking control of what we put in our mouths as food and drink. We MUST rid ourselves of the lazy spirit which puts exercise off of our agenda for a happy and productive life.

I repeat, get HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOKS One and Two by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. These books are so reasonable in price, particularly in comparison to what we pay for medicines that we have to ingest because we have eaten the wrong kinds of food.

The Great Mahdi, Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praise is due forever, came among us to give us abundant life. One of the first things He did was ask us to go to our medicine cabinets and throw away every prescription drug we were using.

In the early days of Islam (submission to the Will of Allah (God)), you would find no prescription drugs in the home of any Muslim follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, not even aspirin. Our wives and mothers were the official doctors and nurses of our families.

In our kitchens, we produced the health and well-being of our families. We MUST go back to what we were taught and what we know has worked for us and pledge to never depart from that again.

Remember, as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us, we dig our graves with our teeth—eating too much, eating too often and eating the wrong kinds of food.

The body is the House, Temple, Synagogue, Cathedral, Church, Mosque of The Living God. The Greatest Gift of all, the most Magnificent Structure in the Universe, is the Human Body. Allah (God) teaches us in the Qur’an that He fashioned for us the best of forms.

It is also written in the Qur’an that there is a special place of honor for those who maintain the House of Worship (a Mind and Body in which Allah (God) can dwell).

“Certainly We created man in the best make.”

Holy Qur’an, Surah 95, verse 4

Be it the Will of Allah (God), in the next edition of The Final Call, I will address the subject of weighing properly, mentally and physically.

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by Sustainable Pulse– Published on The Defender

This article was originally published by The Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website on June 4, 2026.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a sweeping investigation to tackle the major issue of glyphosate residue in food that his office stated June 3 “puts America’s health and children at risk.”

This announcement comes after Paxton’s office issued Civil Investigative Demands to major pesticide and food manufacturers, including Bayer and PepsiCo.

Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup weedkiller. It is a widely used herbicide that is applied to genetically engineered crops. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer determined that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen.

Since then, extensive human and animal research has shown that glyphosate contributes to endocrine disruption, infertility, kidney disease and autoimmune diseases, in addition to its cancer-causing properties.

More than 250 million pounds of glyphosate are sprayed in the U.S. each year. Research has found that over 70% of American adults have detectable traces of glyphosate in their bodies compared to a mere 12% in 1993.

Scientists attribute much of this dramatic increase to the widespread use of glyphosate as a desiccant. Desiccation is the practice of applying herbicides such as Roundup to crops shortly before harvest so that they dry down uniformly.

This practice contributes to over 90% of the glyphosate found in food, particularly in food products containing oats, wheat, sunflowers and pulses.

Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prohibits the use of glyphosate as a desiccant on oats in the U.S., off-label use does occur, and major food companies also source their ingredients from foreign countries where the practice is widely practiced.

Oats are widely found in cereals, breakfast bars and cookies, which make children particularly vulnerable to glyphosate’s harms. In fact, studies show that certain food products marketed to children are some of the most glyphosate-contaminated food products in the U.S.

Other products are marketed as “healthy” when manufacturers know their products are contaminated with dangerously high levels of glyphosate. Research further indicates that children between the ages of 1 and 2 years old have the highest dietary exposure to glyphosate of any population.

“If any corporation is using regulatory loopholes to poison our kids with glyphosate, we will find out and we will secure justice,” said Paxton.

“My office is also investigating whether major food companies are complying with Texas law and whether consumers, especially parents, have been misled about the health claims of common food products marketed to their families. No corporation is above the law, and no illegal action will go unpunished,” he concluded.

Originally published by Sustainable Pulse. This article was originally published by The Defender Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BYNCND 4.0.

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Hambrick, et al. v. United States of America was filed by family attorneys Benjamin Crump, alongside co-counsels William H. Murphy Jr., Jason P. Foster, Carol D. Powell Lexing, Malcolm P. Ruff, Nabeha Shaer, and Brooke Cluse. 

They allege that nearly six decades ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) secretly enrolled the Black infants as test subjects in an experimental RSV vaccine trial conducted between 1965 and 1966—without the knowledge or consent of their families.

Both babies died in January 1967.

The lawsuit was filed on May 22 in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern Division. The federal government typically has 60 days to respond after service of the lawsuit, at which time they may answer or ask a judge to dismiss the case.

The Final Call has reached out to the Department of Justice for a response to the lawsuit and has not yet received a reply.

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) is a common respiratory virus that infects the nose, throat, and lungs, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is transmitted when an infected person coughs or sneezes, through direct contact with an infected person, or by contact with a contaminated surface.

Further, while RSV usually does not pose serious health risks to healthy children and adults, older adults and children are at increased risk of severe adverse health consequences related to RSV. Symptoms include runny nose, cough, congestion, sneezing, fever, wheezing and/or loss of appetite, and in very young infants may be limited to irritability, lethargy and difficulty breathing.

“Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King were two Black babies who were used as guinea pigs, as lab rats, in a very targeted effort by the United States Government. 

This follows a long history of the medical society of the United States government experimenting on Black bodies—what we believe was an epidemic of medical racism,” stated Atty. Crump, during a press conference on May 28 in Washington, D.C.

During his sweeping condemnation, he situated the case within a lineage of documented atrocities, including the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Alabama, in which Black men were withheld treatment for syphilis.

Also the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks by Johns Hopkins scientists. Ms. Lacks was a Black woman whose cervical cancer cells were taken without consent over 70 years ago during her treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

This disturbing history also includes Black soldiers used in World War II who were given faulty gas masks and subjected to chemical exposure, and the forced sterilization of Black women in the South during routine medical procedures—known as the “Mississippi Appendectomy.”

“But today, we’re talking about these Black babies—Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor King—these innocent babies, these infants,” said Atty. Crump. “It was worst of all, because they were using babies who couldn’t talk, who couldn’t walk, who could not in any way give any type of consent.”

Specifically, the complaint alleged:

•   The United States government, through the NIH, selected the most vulnerable children it could find—Black infants from low-income families—to test a dangerous, highly concentrated experimental vaccine known as “Lot 100.”

•   Tissue samples harvested from their autopsies were preserved without the families’ knowledge.

•   Decades later, NIH researchers retrieved those samples to study what went wrong – knowledge that directly informed the development of RSV vaccines approved by the FDA in 2023, now generating billions in revenue.

•   The families of Ross Otto and Victor have never been compensated or acknowledged for the role the infants’ deaths played in that medical breakthrough.

“What I do remember vividly was the change in my mother,” said Sharlette Hambrick, Ross Otto’s sister. She was five years old when her baby brother died. Her mother was once funny and outgoing until the tragedy. She then became super religious and “barely let us out of her sight,” she said, reported New York Times columnist Charles Blow.

Mr. Blow reported that Victor’s older brother, Darius King, also five when his brother died, spent decades believing it was because of pneumonia. He quietly blamed his stepfather, who had taken the baby outside in the cold to show him off to friends. 

That impression stuck until journalist Michael Schulson of Undark magazine contacted him in 2023 and informed him that Victor’s death was most likely caused by the experimental RSV vaccine.

The report by Undark was highlighted by Mr. Blow in 2023.

He reported that the non-profit digital magazine affiliated with M.I.T., “found that in the 1960s, some of the first and youngest subjects to receive experimental shots, in a clinical trial of early attempts to develop R.S.V. vaccines, were Black and poor children, some in foster care.

And though questions remain about what parents knew, archival documents housed at the N.I.H. suggest that parents did not give informed consent—or in some cases, any consent at all—for their children to receive the largely untested shot.”

Mr. King also expressed the sorrowful resignation of a people—Black people—who have so often been mistreated, and he reflected on the country’s checkered history, including when it comes to medical ethics, explained Mr. Blow. “That was the way America was,” said Mr. King, adding that the children who were given the experimental vaccine “were probably thought of as disposable.”

Dr. Christina X Parks, a cellular and molecular biologist, described the core scientific failure of the 1960s RSV vaccine trial:

“When they processed the virus, they tried to kill it—they changed the conformation of it, they denatured it. And the body didn’t actually recognize the adulterated or denatured form of the virus and didn’t produce the right antibodies,” she told The Final Call.

The result, she said, was a catastrophic miseducation of the immune system.

“It actually disabled their own innate immune response. It skewed their immune system, it mis-trained their immune system,” Dr. Parks explained. “The antibodies kind of bound, but in fact they sort of mis-trained the immune system to ignore the virus—to actually help the virus infect the person.”

According to Dr. Parks, the RSV trial data devastatingly manifested this, explaining that vaccine recipients were getting more ill and dying with the vaccine than without it. “And so, they (scientists) did the right thing in this case and pulled the vaccine—but they should never have been experimenting,” she said.

“It’s time for accountability,” Dr. Parks told The Final Call. “The fact that they’ve been experimenting on Black populations and Black children—low income—and they experimented on special needs children. They basically always experimented on the children and people that they thought didn’t have anybody to protect them,” she said.

During the May 28 news conference, Atty. Lexing said, “The families knew for a long time that something wasn’t right with what happened to their baby brother … to their sons. 

They didn’t know that the babies had been used as infants. They did not know that the babies’ tissues had been preserved and that now the medical community is building a billion-dollar industry off the backs of these babies.”

Accountability transcends any single institution, including the federal government, said Atty. Murphy. “These families deserve honesty. They deserve the truth to be told. They deserve justice, instead of being just us.”

Houston-based attorney Pamela Muhammad said the case cuts to the heart of a long and documented history of racial exploitation in American medicine.

“History is so filled with this type of racial exploitation and experimentation and really just torture. I mean, our history is filled with this,” she told The Final Call. 

Central to the complaint is the total absence of informed consent, which must be completely free from financial or physical coercion, she said. But disproportionately, Black people are given experimental substances that they haven’t agreed to. “We have a whole history of this,” she said.

She drew a direct line from the NIH lawsuit to the founding abuses of American gynecology, in which Black women’s bodies were used without anesthesia for surgical experimentation, as well to the Tuskegee syphilis study and the Henrietta Lacks case.

On the legal claims themselves, she explained, “Battery is the legal term for somebody causing bodily harm to you. We’re talking about the destruction of human lives, with intent to do it.” 

While the lawsuit is a civil matter, the underlying conduct raises serious criminal questions, Atty. Muhammad explained. But it’s both significant and chilling that the defendant itself is the U.S. Government, she added.

“To actually see a suit being waged against your own country, your own ‘government’ because of their abuse of private citizens’ lives, that’s just huge. It is just horrible,” stated Atty. Muhammad.

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[Editor’s note: The following article was first published in The Final Call newspaper, Vol. 10, No. 18, September 9, 1999, as the fourth installation of a special five-part series on health penned by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. This is the first excerpt from that article.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

A good diet and daily exercise must be accompanied with the right thoughts in order to work for the long life of the individual. Thinking properly is the most difficult part of the health equation to achieve, so we are asking the Black Nation to attack that which appears most difficult, which is to develop the Will to be completely wholesome in mind, body and spirit.

Why do I say that development of the Will “appears” to be the most difficult thing to do in achieving complete health? We live in a world where scientists have developed all manner of artificial methods to eliminate the effects of wrong habits:

Pills to stop smoking; pills to curtail the appetite; surgery to staple the stomach, forcing a reduction in the intake of food; plastic surgery to mask the effects of living in rebellion against Divine Law.

In a society such as this, where pill pushers advertise that we can “eat all you want and still lose weight,” development of the Will of the individual to overcome all impediments to good eating habits “appears” to be the most difficult approach, but in the long run, it is actually the easiest and most simple path to follow.

To develop the Will of the American people (Black people in particular) to live good, wholesome lives, is to make it easier to change behavioral patterns that have led or are leading to the general destruction of the health and well-being of the overall population.

The approach of government and scientists—spending inordinate sums of money on health problems—has not worked. We, the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, are proving, with very little money, that we have the ability to change the destructive behavioral patterns of our people, not only as individuals but as a society.

The stigma of hate, bigotry, intolerance, anti-Semitism and violence that the United States government, its agencies and others have deliberately attached to the Nation of Islam is causing the cure for America’s social ills to be obscured while the effects of these ills multiply in diametric proportion to America’s own efforts to suppress the Truth.

If President Bush and the United States government would see (as Pharaoh in the time of Joseph saw) the value of a Divinely guided group of people in her midst, then steps could be taken to take the Revealed Message of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and solve 100 percent of America’s social, spiritual and health problems.

I am trying with the Help of Allah (God) and the few persons working with me, to produce a healthy community of strong, able-bodied men, women and children who are willing to shoulder the responsibility of self-reliance, self-determination and self-independence.

The American food industry has gone a long way in destroying the health and well-being of the American people by its misuse of the knowledge of chemistry. The addition of coloring to change the appearance of food; preservatives to lengthen shelf life;

Injection of hormones into livestock to produce speedy growth and a fatter animal—the sum of these profit-seeking actions brings in its wake an unprecedented growth of cancer and heart disease, both of which have increased more than 250 percent since the beginning of the century and are now the leading causes of death in this country.

The American Cancer Society reports that more than 35 percent of all cancers directly result from “bad diet,” defining a “bad diet” as one that is high in fat and low in fiber.

The American Heart Association also points to “bad diet” as the “greatest single factor in heart disease” and blames poor eating habits for at least 50 percent of all cases of heart ailments that plague an estimated 60 million Americans.

There are safer and better ways to grow food and raise livestock. These methods may be slower and less profitable, but “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul (the health and well-being of a Nation)?”

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