Hello,
I feel sorry for Melissa Etheridge because she is being misused
by Safeway. Safeway is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Safeway states
it wants to fight the war on cancer by using Etheridge as a public
relations item but in reality Safeway values money over people's
lives.
It went to court and stated a cancer causing item does not cause
cancer. Below is something I wrote on that subject that is political
and I am sending around the net. I want people to talk about it in
order for this misdeed done by Safeway is brought to Etheridge's
ear. I wish I could tell this to her in person so that she could
correct this problem. Maybe if lots of her fans talk about it would
come to her attention and she could correct the problem.
The Bush administration places money over the lives of the
American people it has the duty to defend under the U S
constitution. It will even practice perjury in order for members of
its administration to make money. Steve Burd was one of the Bush
administration Home Land Security advisors. The company he is CEO
of is Safeway and the state of Ca. wanted to put warning labels on
some of its food products so it went to court because Safeway refused
to do so. The federal government wrote a letter to defend Safeway
and in it the federal government stated that what the state of Ca.
claimed had no scientific basis to it. This is not true. We have
known for a long time that methylmercury and mercury binds to DNA.
We have various scientific methods to show that this occurs. For
example in circular dichroism studies one uses how items absorb beams
of polarized light in order to determine the structure of an item.
Different items absorb light in different ways and at different wave
lenghts. Another way is to use DNA sedimentation rates. Different
items have different rates of moving through sediments and that is
the reason for using this way to look at things. The next one I will
mention is nuclear magnetic spectroscopy (nmr). Nmr spectroscopy
looks at how items absorb radio waves in a strong magnetic field.
The last one I will mention is thermal analyses. Heat is used to
look at things because things behave differently at different
temperatures. The point I want to make here is that all these
different ways of looking at things show that mercury binds to the
DNA and anything that binds to the DNA can potentially cause problems
to the DNA. We have known that mercury and methylmercury mutate
genes years before the court case. Safeway and the Bush
administration do not care if your DNA gets messed up due to
methylmercury and mercury. If you do not believe what I state look
up the Ca. court case the People of the State of California v Tr-
Union Seafoods, LLC, et al. (case no. CGC-04-432394) since Safeway
was in that court case and claimed that DNA damage does not happen by
methylmercury.
Over two hundred years ago we knew that mercury reacted with
oxygen. Studies by two of the most famous scientists in the history
of science found this to be important in their studies of oxygen. J.
Priestley who is best known for the discoverer of oxygen and doing
some of the first studies of photosynthesis used this fact in his
studies of oxygen. A. L. Lavoisier who is known for his work in
animal respiration also found mercury's ability to react with oxygen
useful in his studies. One can find these people's names in high
school science textbooks. The reason I state this is the fact that
this reaction is one of the reasons why mercury causes birth defects,
cancer and miscarriages. Lets look at the periodic table because
things are grouped together by the fact they have common traits.
Mercury is found in the transitional metal group. A common reaction
to this group is the Fenton reaction. It is the name for the
reaction of these metals with oxygen and it creates reactive oxygen
species. Reactive oxygen species is what causes the destruction of
DNA and thus causes what the state of Ca. claimed in court. Right
next to mercury is cadmium which is a known cancer agent and it
causes cancer by doing this reaction. Mercury does the Fenton
reaction at the temperature which living things live at but at a slow
rate according to a chemistry book.
Mercury mutates various genes found mutated in cancer
patients. Some of these genes are p53, Fos, Jun and L1. The
mutation of either Fos or Jun genes can cause tumor growth. L1
mutaions are due to retrotransposition of DNA which causes lots of
problems to the DNA due to the misreading of DNA and this can be
found in breast and blood cancers.
Now I should state some textbooks state that a change in a
single gene is not important but that is not true. The last time I
checked there was around six thousand human diseases caused by a
single bases change of a gene. For example there are osteogenesis
imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and sickle cell anemia diseases
caused by a single base changed.
Mercury also causes nondisjunction of the chromosomes. This
has been known for decades and it is because it impairs spindle
function thus the cell cannot divide correctly. Various human
diseases are caused by the nondisjunction of the chromosomes such as
Down's syndrome, Edward's syndrome and Patau's syndrome.
I should also state that methylmercury is found in cow's milk
and that is one of the reasons why cow's milk causes cancer and we
have known for decades (since the 1980's) that cow's milk causes
cancer. Cow's milk has low rates of lots of pollutions in it that
are known to cause cancer plus excess calcium in a cell causes tumor
growth so it is a great chemical stew for causing cancer. Last year
I sent out an email with 20 abstracts of science studies showing that
milk causes cancer. For example in 1984 DA Snowdon and etc. wrote
Diet, Obesity and Risk Of Fatal Prostate Cancer which was published
in AM. J. Epidermiol.. A good one showing that intake of calcium is
associated gene mutations is by E Kampman and etc. published by
Carcinogenesis is Animal Products and K-Ras Codon 12 and 13 Mutations
In Colon Carcinomas (2000 Feb. 21(2):307-9. To show you that over
twenty years of studies linking milk intake to cancer I will mention
Giovannucci and etc. study published in Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers
Prev. in 2006 (Feb. 15(2):203-10) entitled A Prospective Study Of
Calcium Intake and Incident and Fatal Prostate Cancer which was done
in the US.
Marcus Horton
P O Box 84
Salinas, Ca 93902
I should also state that methylmercury loses its methyl
functional group in the human body and becomes just mercury so one
has to look at studies that have to do with both when looking at this
issue. Also mercury also binds to other functional groups once
inside the human body.
List of some studies to back up the statements in the above
article. I have a longer list of studies showing what I stated is
true.
Mercury binding to DNA
A. Casadevall and L. A. Day Silver and mercury probing of
deoxyribonucleic acid structures in the filamentous viruses fd, If1,
IKe, Xf, Pf1, and Pf3.
1983 Biochemistry Sep 27;22(20):4831-42.
D. Ding and F. S. Allen A circular dichroism study on the structure
of DNA and the nucleosomal core particle using Hg (ll) and Ag (l)
1980 Biochim. Biophys. Acta. Nov 14; 610(1):72-80.
D. Ding and F. S. Allen Electric dichroism and sedimentation
velocity studies of DNA-Hg(II) and DNA-Ag(I) complexes.
1980 Biochim. Biophys. Acta. Nov.14;610(1):64-71.
H. Torigoe, A. Ono and K. Kawahashi Thermodynamic analyses of the
specific interaction between T:T mismatch base pair and mercury (II)
cation: toward the efficient detection of single nucleotide
polymorphism (1).
2004 Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. (Oxf.) (48):275-6.
P. R. Young, U. S. Nandi and N. R. Kallenbach Binding of mercury(II)
to poly (dA-dT) studied by proton nuclear magnetic resonance.
1982 Biochemistry Jan. 5;21(1):62-6.
Early studies showing mercury causes nondisjunction of the
chromosomes.
J. Magnusson and C. Ramel Genetic variation in the susceptibility to
mercury and other metal compounds in Drosophila melanogaster.
1986 Teratog. Carcinog. Mutagen 6(4);289-305.
C. Ramel and J. Magnusson Chemical induction of nondisjunction in
drosopila.
1979 Environ. Health Perspect. Aug.;31:59-66.
Some studies showing chromosome problems due to mercury.
H. C. Wulf and others. Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in
Greenlandic Eskimos. Dose-response relationship between SCE and
seal diet, smoking and blood cadmium and mercury concentrations.
1986 Sci. Total Environ. Jan; 48(1-2):81-94.
L. Verschaeve, M. Kirsch-Volders and C. Susanne Mercury-induced
segregational errors of chromosomes in human lymphocytes and in
Indian muntjac cells.
1984 Toxicol. Lett. Jun;21(3):247-53.
A. Renzoni, F. Zino and E. Franchi Mercury levels along the food
chain and risk for exposed populations.
1998 Environ. Res. May;77(2):68-72.
J. R. Lazutka and others. Chromosomal aberrations and sister-
chromatid exchanges in Lithuanian populations: effects of
occupational and environmental exposures.
1999 Mutat. Res. Sep. 30;445(2):225-39.
One of the population cancer studies we have dealing with
methylmercury. Since methylmercury goes after microtubles and causes
microtubular damage one should find chronic liver damage as well and
this study also shows that.
H. Tamashiro, M. Arakaki, M. Futatsuka and E. S. Lee Methylmercury
exposure and mortality in southern Japan: a close look at causes of
death.
1986 J. Epidemiol. Community Health Jun:40(2):181-5.
One of the population studies showing methylmercury causes fetuses to
die before being born.
M. Sakamoto, A. Nakano and H. Akagi Declining Minamata Male Birth
Ratio Associated With Increased Male Fetal Death Due To Heavy
Methylmercury Pollution.
2001 Environmental Research.
A couple of studies showing that methylmercury causes an increase in
the reactive oxygen species in the cell. It does this by various
ways.
T. Sarafian and M. A. Verity Oxidative mechanisms underlying methyl
mercury neurotoxicity.
1991 Int. J. Dev. Neurosci. 9(2) :147-53.
S. Gasso and others. Antioxidant compounds and Ca(2+) pathway
blockers differentially protect against methylmercury and mercuric
chloride neurotoxicity.
2001 J. Neurosci. Res. Oct 1:66(1):135-45
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thanks
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--- In melissaetheridge2@yahoogroups.com, sparklin_rainbow0101
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hey !! I was wonderin If Any one had any info on any up comin melissa
> tour dates and locations., or if i've missed the ship once again this
> year.,. n have to wait till next summer., :( any information would
be
> helpful. I've loved melissa for a long time and stil have not
> experienced her live...:( i know i'm missin out.,. XoXo
>
I would like info as well...I have listend to her since I was 22 and I
am 36 now. I have seen her 2 times here in houston and she puts on a
great show....she is a wonderful preformer and always worth the
wait!!!!!!I hope that you see her soon!!!!
Hey !! I was wonderin If Any one had any info on any up comin melissa
tour dates and locations., or if i've missed the ship once again this
year.,. n have to wait till next summer., :( any information would be
helpful. I've loved melissa for a long time and stil have not
experienced her live...:( i know i'm missin out.,. XoXo
Why would you put this on MLE site!!! that was totally uncalled for,it has
nothing to do with Melissa Etheridge at all!!!! We would appreciate not seeing
things like this on the site!!!
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