But around
the world, private environmentalist groups and government environmental bureaucrats
are now working hand-in-hand to prevent consumers from having access to
products that have incorporated antimicrobial silver into their makeup.
Indeed, in
what appears to be a globally coordinated campaign reaching from Europe to
Australia to North America, environmentalists groups and their bureaucratic
counterparts in government are now using the specious and speculative argument
that silver can leach from these products and eventually find its way into the waterways
where it “might” harm fish or other wildlife, or even result in microbes
becoming silver-resistant.
The truth is
quite the opposite, of course. There are
already millions of tons of trace mineral silver in the world’s waterways that
exist there naturally, without any help from man. And there’s been no hint of harm to the
environment from all of this natural, microscopic trace silver that’s been
there for millennia.
But as the old
saying goes, “Truth is the first casualty of war.” And don’t be deceived: The environmentalist campaign to ban the use
of antimicrobial silver in consumer products IS a war being waged for the
complete corporate and government control of your health and well-being. Here’s
what I’m talking about…
Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
My
good friend Anders Sultan, who manufactures Sweden's most popular brand of
colloidal silver, Ionosil, is reporting that a Swedish Environmental minister,
Lena Ek, has called for a ban on the use of antimicrobial silver in all
consumer products.
Simultaneously,
as if on cue, Anders Finnson, an “environmental advisor” with the Swedish Water
& Wastewater Association, has published a typical hysterical critique of
the use of antimicrobial silver in consumer products, claiming:
“Silver is very dangerous to
fish and crustaceans, which are important to the ecosystems of our waters.
Silver ions are in fact so toxic to aquatic organisms they are comparable to
mercury. There are also concerns about a link between antibacterial agents and
the development of resistant bacteria.”
This
claim is then reiterated in a news article by environmental writer Ulla Karlsson-Ottosson, published in the online newspaper, NY Teknik (i.e., New Technology), who states:
“Silver ions
kill bacteria. But they are also an environmental toxin, at least as toxic as
mercury…The silver ends up in wastewater treatment plants where the beneficial
water-purifying bacteria are then at risk of being killed.”
This,
of course, is complete nonsense. There’s
no comparison whatsoever between silver, a noble metal, and mercury, a toxic
heavy metal. In fact, silver used to be added to mercury amalgam fillings for
the specific purpose of ameliorating the toxic qualities of the mercury!
But
while sensationalistic and completely fabricated comparisons of safe, natural
antimicrobial silver to known toxic substances like mercury may help generate
news headlines for the environmentalists and their bureaucratic counterparts,
they also demonstrate the extreme and decidedly unethical lengths the greenies
will go to in order to deprive the public of access to antimicrobial silver and
its vast array of infection-fighting benefits.
Sensationalism
Sells…
Apparently
the Swedish environmentalists and their counterparts in the Swedish government are
attempting to follow the same unscrupulous anti-silver propaganda program that the
radical anti-silver environmentalists here in the U.S. and in other parts of
the western world have been following.
First,
the environmentalists make broad, sensationalistic claims against antimicrobial
silver that have no basis in reality.
These shrill claims are then coordinated with calls by prominent
environmental bureaucrats for a ban on the use of antimicrobial silver in
consumer products. And then the claims are repeated melodramatically, ad nauseum, in newspapers or in online news
sources under blaring, tabloid-style headlines.
For
example, the anti-silver environmentalists here in the U.S. -- who for years
have been linked to taking
millions of dollars in donations from charitable foundations set up by Big
Pharma
-- frequently claim, with straight
faces, mind you, that the use of antimicrobial silver in consumer products will
harm children by preventing them from coming into contact with the requisite
number of pathogens needed to stimulate their tiny immune systems.
But
as I wrote in my article 8 Prevalent
Myths and Misconceptions About Colloidal Silver, “As anyone
with children knows, this claim is completely ludicrous. After all, little kids roll around in the
grass and dirt all day. They throw mud
balls at each other. They play baseball
in empty lots, climb trees, swim in lakes and rivers, play on dirty floors, and
climb into dumpsters in search of ‘treasure.’ In short, children do all of the
things needed to put themselves into contact with hundreds of billions of
microorganisms every single day of their lives.”
So
the idea that the use of antimicrobial silver on a kitchen cutting board or a
computer keyboard will deprive little children of having their immune systems
stimulated by germs is laughable. Yet
the environmentalists use these kinds of absurd and sensationalist claims (see
a good example, here) hoping
they’ll scare parents into refusing to purchase products that incorporate
antimicrobial silver into their makeup.
What’s
more, you’ll now find these same shrill propaganda tactics being used in other
parts of the world, including Australia, New Zealand and other western industrialized
countries.
For
example, see this
ludicrous newspaper article from Australia’s Herald Sun,
in which the environmentalist make the unbelievably ridiculous claim that
antimicrobial silver used in stockings to help prevent stinky feet is causing
“global warming” and “killing the planet.”
Exaggerated
Claims v/s Facts
In
an article published in News Voice, Anders
Sultan points out that the criticism from the environmentalists over of the use
of antimicrobial silver in consumer products is often so specious, they have to
resort to the use of weasel words and speculative phrases like "may cause
harm" or "might prove to be toxic," since they have no real evidence of silver from consumer
products ever causing harm or toxicity under real-world conditions.
As
Sultan stated:
"We’ve lived
with silver at our side for thousands of years, not just in the environment
where it comes from in the first place, but also in consumer goods such as necklaces,
bracelets, rings, cutlery, plates and cups.
Yet the
environmental bureaucrats persist in trying to convince people that suddenly
all bacteria are in danger of becoming immune to antimicrobial silver because
of the small amount of silver coming into wastewater treatment plants.
Yet in the
1980's there was 10 times more silver coming into wastewater treatment plants
than there is today. But there was no
problem with microbial resistance to silver then."
In
a personal communication with this author, Sultan pointed out that in Sweden, over
the past 20 years silver from commercial sources being released into nature
through wastewater has dropped from 47 mg/kg in 1987 to a measly 4 mg/kg 2011 –
an astonishing 90% drop.
This
of course, had largely to do with the advent of digital photography in the
early 1990’s, which gradually did away with the need to process tens of
millions of rolls of film each year using silver halide.
Yet
even in 1987, when silver entering wastewater treatment plants had reached its zenith
just before the advent of digital photography, there were no signs whatsoever of silver being detrimental to the environment
or creating antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.
But
now that silver levels in wastewater are 90% lower than they were in 1987, the environmentalists are screaming
that it’s the end of the world as we know it.
They claim silver-resistant pathogens are going to start climbing out of
the mire and marching into our homes if we don’t ban the use of antimicrobial
silver in consumer products altogether.
Go figure.
Junk Science…
Sultan
goes on to point out that many of the clinical studies touted by the
environmentalists as demonstrating harm to aquatic life from antimicrobial silver
have, upon closer examination, turned out to be little more than agenda-driven
junk science studies conducted in artificial laboratory conditions rather than
being conducted under real-world conditions.
Indeed,
these studies are often fatally flawed from the outset, being specifically
designed by environmental researchers to reach the preconceived conclusion that
antimicrobial silver used in consumer products is harmful, or toxic, or acts as
a “pollutant” (learn more about biased silver studies, here).
Says
Sultan, “Claims of risk to aquatic life
are based on studies conducted in artificial laboratory conditions using
sterile aquariums without any hint of organic matter. But in nature, silver
falls to the bottom of lakes, rivers and streams and is incorporated into
sediments where it binds with organic material such as sulphur and is largely neutralized.”
Sultan
continues, “The environmental bureaucrats
attempt to sweep these facts under the carpet, relying instead on contrived laboratory
studies to achieve their goal of depriving consumers of the protection of antimicrobial
silver.”
Bearing
out Sultan’s contentions is a recent study conducted by researchers at the
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technologies (EMPA), and
published in the well-known and trusted science journal, Environmental Science & Technology.
According to
the study authors, after 120 years of nanosilver usage by consumers – in
applications ranging from public and private swimming pools, fountains,
cosmetics, medicines, wound care, disinfectant products, water filters, and
dietary supplements used by millions worldwide -- there has been no significant discernible harm to the
environment from silver.
Sultan
concludes:
“Let’s ask instead how
dangerous the pharmaceutical drug residues in our waterways are. We know, for example, that pharmaceutical
drugs being found in aquatic environments are creating hermaphrodite fish. This is apparently preferable to the
environmental bureaucrats than having a natural element like silver being
returned to nature where it once came from.
Why aren’t
the environmental bureaucrats instead making the effort to ensure we don’t end
up drinking antidepressant medications, antibiotic residues or various hormone
preparations in our home drinking water?”
Good
questions, indeed. And these are
questions the radical, anti-silver environmentalists assiduously sidestep when
asked.
The bottom
line is this: The battle is on for your
mind. The radical anti-silver
environmentalists are doing the bidding of Big Pharma by working to take away
the world’s safest and most natural method of preventing the spread of
infectious microorganisms.
And
to accomplish this goal, they have to deceive the public into believing the sky
is falling, i.e., that there’s an imminent and catastrophic threat to the
environment from antimicrobial silver.
The ultimate goal, of course, is complete corporate and government control
of your health and well-being.
Of
course, it’s up to you whether or not
you fall for it. To learn more about the
powerful infection-fighting qualities of safe, natural colloidal silver, click the link.
Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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