An article in the Washington Post is entitled “Everywhere chemicals are in our food, decades after scientists recognised dangers“. It reports that a large body of published research has linked phthalates to a variety of serious health problems including premature birth, infertility, neurodevelopmental issues like ADHD, heart disease (350,000 implicated deaths worldwide) and breast cancer (due to hormonal disruption). Phthalates are plastic softeners known as forever chemicals because they don’t break down easily. Despite the risks known to science for over 50 years, governments have failed to control their use except for relatively recent belated efforts to eliminate them from food packaging. As a result they are still widely used in manufacturing and thus found in processed food, cosmetics, cars, flooring and many other common plastics to which humans are regularly exposed.
All this brings me to the new class of genetically altered medicines, foods and microorganisms which have rapidly become ubiquitous in the food chain, pharmaceutical products and in agriculture. This has given rise to a new type of pollution, not forever chemicals, but forever genetic compounds. These compounds contain biologically active sequences of genetic information which are capable of attaching themselves to human, animal and plant DNA where they can continue to function. Some of them are self-replicating entities capable of rapid mutation and global dispersal, creating long term risks for human health. A recently published study Genetically Modified Microorganisms: Risks and Regulatory Considerations for Human and Environmental Health shows that these risks extend into the environment. Governments seem oblivious to the elevated risk profile, but their effects are showing up in health statistics and they are not going away.
Stats NZ has released the births and deaths figures for 2025
In 2025 births were DOWN again to the lowest fertility rate on record, insufficient to maintain NZ’s population. Death rates have stabilised at 3% ABOVE pre-pandemic levels, accounting for an additional 1,087 excess deaths for the year. Since Health NZ has refused to release data comparing the health outcomes of the vaccinated with the unvaccinated, we cannot complete needed research on the effects of mRNA vaccines. But thanks to a study entitled “Unprecedented Persistence of Vaccine mRNA, Plasmid DNA, Spike Protein, and Genomic Dysregulation Over 3.5 Years Post-COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination, we do know that the genetic sequences in the mRNA Covid vaccine can persist for years and create havoc in bodily chemistry. Our recent article Red Flag: 2023 NZ Cancer Data Released by Health NZ—A Record gives some idea of how this is playing out. In February, Time Magazine’s cover headlined “The Race to Explain Why More Young People Are Getting Cancer” citing data from NZ. But this is not all, forever genetic compounds can adversely affect a range of organs including the heart and the brain through a variety of complex pathways that they are capable of orchestrating in the physiology. There is no doubt the knock-on effects of both Covid infection and Covid vaccines, which are both associated with biotechnology experimentation, are exacerbating health crises in nations around the world.
We could be forgiven for feeling bombarded by health scares reported in the media, but this is not just one more scare to add to the list and hope we can somehow get lucky and escape. Genetically modified compounds can cross the cell membrane and modify the organising power of the whole physiology. Some, like mRNA vaccines, are specifically designed to do so. An analogy will clarify the increased scale of risk. A pick pocket might lift your wallet, steal some cash and use your credit cards. The disruption is an extreme annoyance but you can recover from the situation. But a hacker might gain control of your computer and empty your bank account. Recovery becomes far more difficult and you may never regain your savings.
The mechanisms inside the cell are equivalent to the central processing unit of a computer, if the system in the CPU is compromised you may need a new computer. The scale of risk from the genetic modification of food, medicine and the environment dwarves previous threats to health. They extend to systemwide collapse and the emergence of new diseases. As we should have appreciated from the pandemic, genetically modified sequences can spread without limit, they cannot be contained or easily remediated. There are already around 7,000 rare diseases known in the world, 80% of them have a genetic cause. These diseases are difficult to diagnose and costly to treat as this article in the Washington Post illustrates. As the scale of genetic modification, gain of function research, genetic vaccine development and food modification increases, we can expect to see more ill health and more baffling new diseases. We are sitting on a ticking time bomb.
Attempts to reform the health system from within are immediately attacked
Here in NZ doctors who exercised caution about Covid mRNA vaccine safety during the pandemic have been subject to disbarment and prosecution. An orchestrated campaign to stamp out anyone within the system expressing doubts about gene medicine is still going on. All the while the public are being kept in the dark about the known adverse effects of mRNA vaccines identified in multiple studies which have contributed to record levels of hospital overcrowding, rates of disease and excess deaths. See for example this recently published study “mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: intracellular processing and aggregation of the encoded spike protein as a mechanistic contributor to cardiac cellular stress”
The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) initiative was formed in response to the crisis in US health care. The US spends US$5 trillion per year on healthcare, that is $14,700 per person per year (NZ$25,000) or 30% of per capita income, yet the average US life expectancy is currently 79 years. In contrast NZ has an average life expectancy of 81 years and spends NZ$9,800 per person on public and private healthcare. This is about 20% of all earned income. These expenditure levels are all but unsustainable for both nations. The answer is not more funding, an article the UK Telegraph headlines: Doubling cash for NHS ‘had no impact’ on health. It reports government figures over 17 years showing health expenditure in the UK has doubled from about £100bn to £200bn, but had had “no impact” on the nation’s health, with outcomes getting worse for many and life expectancy flatlining.
The MAHA movement covers a number of ideas to improve health, ranging from improved diet and exercise regimes to regulation of ultra processed foods. Initial goals of MAHA included initiatives to reduce hidden incentives to over medicate patients (which led to high levels of US opioid deaths) and cozy relationships within regulatory bodies governing foods, medicines and vaccines. Advocates called for higher standards and stricter testing of drugs.
The most significant appointment of Health Secretary RFK Jnr was Vinay Prasad, working at Stanford University, a highly published and respected long term advocate of drug safety. He is not in any way an extremist. As we reported recently, Prasad took a stand against the approval of Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccines. He has cited Covid mRNA vaccine deaths among children and was worried about the short and long term adverse effects. Moderna is a $20 billion biotech giant, a flagship company of US government plans to dominate the global biotechnology market.
Rebuffed by the FDA, Moderna got its lobbying machine into high gear. US lawmakers, who rely on campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical lobby, suddenly called foul play. The US media, who similarly enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship with big pharma, began en masse to publish absurd claims that Americans would die in droves unless Prasad was ousted. Last week Prasad gave in and resigned under pressure. Moderna’s shares resumed an upward trend based on the increased likelihood that its Liquid Nano Particle (LNP), mRNA and cancer vaccine programs would receive regulatory approval unhindered by Prasad’s caution and insistence on robust testing standards.
This depressing outcome underlines the inability of government health authorities to act independently of the pharmaceutical lobby.
We are going to have to learn how to take better care of our own health irrespective of what our government authorities decide to do. In many articles (see here and here for example) we have explained the extent of genetically modified forever compounds already entering the food chain unannounced. They are particularly in use during food processing, where they have supplanted traditional processes. Yeasts, rennets, flavours, emulsifiers, and many ingredients have been replaced with genetically modified compounds which are not typically identified on labels. Lax labelling laws enable food processors to use the same names as the original natural compounds without disclosing that a switch has taken place. Diets fed to animals and veterinary medicines have also been subject to genetic modification as have crop types. This all means we need to inform ourselves. Seek alternatives like sourdough or unleavened bread, organic milk and dairy, cheese from makers still using traditional rennets. Reduce processed food, increase the use of fresh ingredients. Our choices at the supermarket check out ultimately influence manufacturing and production methods. Our voice counts.
Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food testing and safety company (now known as FoodChain ID). You can visit his website hatchardreport.com or subscribe to his Substack.
He is the author of ‘Your DNA Diet: Leveraging the Power of Consciousness To Heal Ourselves and Our World. An Ayurvedic Blueprint For Health and Wellness’.
