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<br /> l 1990 radio ine rest Indeed, no Food 6: hater Most telhngi}, this group a passionate to pre. aw e and hcAmg.
<br /> campaign is complete wuhout charges or 'cancer sent cancer has no er uttered 3 ,Ord about cancer On :he remaining !our opponents. one is
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<br /> a word lath unequaled poster to arouse rear and risks from cigarette smoking, b, :at the most :mpor. iamuei Epstein. a proremor at the I nn ersia
<br /> rv%lsion. Food & waters long camparen against (ant cause of cancer in the Cara States. According !Ilinois Medical Center in Chicago. ~9111 3 cocc,c
<br /> nod irradiation taught the group a valuable lesson ` to the Amencan Cancer Socicn smoUng causes
<br /> When you don't have science on y an our side - and 8741 of cases of lung cancer - -.`.e leading cause of Epstein, it turns out, i5 the
<br /> Food k Water never does - you r win people cancer in both men and women - and accounts for
<br /> over by crying cancer. about 301h of all cancer deaths. only "health professional and
<br /> Food & Water's fight against food irradiation Why the silence? Food & %ater's sources of n
<br /> has stressed one argument above all others: Anyone income may be one reason. In tae fiscal sear ended physician' in the entire COUntrs'
<br /> rash enough to eat irradiated food is courting June 30, 1994, the group recened 5188,000 from who claims that rBGH causes
<br /> almost certain death from cancer. "Doctors and sct the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, part I dancer
<br /> enlists are concerned that radiation-exposed food of the Reynolds tobacco format and, over the
<br /> can cause cancer." the group stated in a typical yams, Food & Water's most generous donor.
<br /> press release in 1992. The reason cancer occurs: Such donations can have a corrupting influence on of years ago. Epstein was a member of Food o
<br /> 'Exposing food to radiation creates dangerous recipients. as Food & Water itself has noted. The Waters board of directors and its vice president for
<br /> unique residues in the food, some of which are Spring 1994 issue of the groups newsletter, Safe special projects. Since he'll soon be staining in Food
<br /> known carcinogens." Food News, attacked the Hudson Institute, which & Water press conferences on the 'link" between
<br /> While researching my food irradiation amcfe. had recently published a book favorable towards rBGH and cancer, it's worth knowing comet ung
<br /> I asked Colby to name some of these "unique" pesticides: "it should come as no surprise that the about him.
<br /> cancer-causing chemicals. "No one has identified Hudson Institute receives funding from big chemical Epstein has gained national prominence by
<br /> them," Colby told me. "We know they exist. thev companies including Eli Lilly and Dow. The claiming that man-made chemicals are causing a
<br /> just haven't been Identified,' meaning that Food & Institute even has a DuPont strong on its board of cancer epidemic One observer of Epstein's career
<br /> Water's most suamful feat campaign is bated directors. Money talks.' since 1980 is Dr. Victor Herbert, a professor of med-
<br /> on hypothetical chemicals in Michael Colby" & Clain scientl(ic support. icine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
<br /> mind No tatter what the issue, depend on Food & York City and chief of the Hematology and
<br /> And as Vermonters know, cancer plan a promi- Water to claim that scientists are on is side. In its Nutrition Research laboratory at the Veterans
<br /> nent role in Food & Water's battle against Cabot June 6 letter, the group told Vermonters that within Affairs Medical Center there. Herbert told me that
<br /> and rBGH. In an Urgent Action Alert headlined a month "a ma of new srhntihc report will be b Epstein `has always been a flaky individual falsely
<br /> "Cabot Creamery to Accept rBGH Milk!' Food & dished in a peer-reviewed journal which wig further representing that harmless food additives are harm.
<br /> Water wrote: "Some scientists have even expressed explore the rBGH-cancer fink.' But as one who has ful and that the food industry is out to get us all.
<br /> concerns about the possible link between rBGH He's basically a kook and is clearly delusional."
<br /> followed this group ton hearty IO pecan, I've teamed
<br /> heated milk and colon tumors and cancer." that the overwhelming majority of scientists But it's Epstein's position as a board member
<br /> Ironically, food irradiation and rBGH do have strongly dissignot with whatever position had and former scientific dhrecion of an Iowa-based
<br /> something in common: a dearth of evidence that k Water takes. group called People Against Cancer that especially
<br /> either of them actually does cause cancer. For example, Food & Water often insists that rankles Herbert, who is one of the nation's most
<br /> The search for cancer or some other hazard "numerous objective scientists' agree with is vigorous opponents of health quackery. Herbert
<br /> lurking in irradiated food has been going on for 40 stance a says that this group, which champions altematiye
<br /> who've food irradiation. But i face, most so-
<br /> Years and has come up empty-handed. That effort, enlists w who've expressed an m opinion about food cancer treatments, "s mooing a multimillion dollar
<br /> advocates say, has made irradiation the most thor- irradiation have endorsed it as have numerous fraudulent cancer remedy scam.` The fact that
<br /> oughly studied of all food-processing technologies, health and scientific organizations, including the Epstein is associated with People Against Cancer,
<br /> As for rBGH, allegations that it poses a risk for American Medical Association, and the World Herbert says, "tells you something about the quj
<br /> cancer and other health problems are entirely Heft organization and Food and Agriculture of his thmking.'
<br /> bogus. In November 1993, the Clinton administra- last year, Epstein treated headlines with his
<br /> tion assembled a team of 40 experts from seven claim that girds and women who drink milk from
<br /> federal agencies to review the scientific evidence on Epstein °hasS always been a flaky rBGH-treated cows face an increased risk for breast
<br /> rBGH. Its report, Issued the following January, badivldual faduly representing cancer Anxious inquiries triggered by Epstein s
<br /> found 'no evidence that jrBGHI poses a health claim prompted the American Cancer Society to
<br /> threat to humans or animals' and called rBGH'the that harmless food additives issue a statement that rBGH "enuals no health risks
<br /> most examined ankml drug ever approved for use are harmful and that the food for consumers.' And in a scathing letter, the FDA
<br /> in the U.S.' told Epstein that his breast-cancer charges were
<br /> Food & Water professes deep concern for cancer industry is out to get us all. 'riot only not substantiated in the scientific liters-
<br /> victims: 'Our eyes remain fixed on the prize of a He's basdeatly a kook and is tore, but, in fact, have no basis in science.`
<br /> society with fewer cancer, not more' it writes to Not surprisingly, Food & Water her embraced
<br /> its June 6 letter to Cabot. "If you ever etpenence ckally delusional. Epsttln's renegade cancer claims and features them
<br /> the unspeakable sadness of regularly seeing in its campaign against rBGH and Cabot.
<br /> children with wigs due to hair loss associated with Organization of the United Nations. When I asked 'Actardkng to the Cancer Prevention Coalition, an
<br /> cancer treatments, you'll understand why our orga- Food & Watt, fa the names of some food hzadia- hsdependent organization directed by health pro-
<br /> mation doesn't believe in accepting even the don opponents, l was sent a list of six'aedentiakd faiddinals and physicians, injection of j in
<br /> possibility of Increased cancer risks to consumer.' scientists' to contact. Only two had done resandt dairy cpIn hW Food d& of WuBn growth factor
<br /> Yet Food h Water's smack for sodas cancer on food irradiation, and neither wanted to be letter to C O tier tabmilk.' Food & Water wrote re is June 6
<br /> when k" sot is makW only by its ability described as opposing it. One of them even told rut, M. 'The cbnsumptlon of inatattd levels
<br /> to overlook cancer risks that are sesainely •I,ve probably eaten mere irudiated strawberries of IGF-1 fa proteinhormone found in tiny amounts
<br /> important than anyone else in ibe United States, and I'm utll in of j may lead to an increased risk of breast and
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