Write me an article Spencer
Spencer, you write the article the way you think it should read, with EPA comment and contact info and I will publish it at Mike Adams Natural News as well as The American Chronicle and other online publications I write for.
I am going to write the article anyway - but you are a very knowledgeable and well spoken (written) person when it comes to silver and I would like to have your input.
The whole concept is such a thinly disguised attack against colloidal sivler it is pathetic. Misguided (or perhaps GUIDED) groups are making an issue about returning elemental silver to the environment that is patently rediculous. As I said earlier, where were these groups the past decades when tens of thousands of untested chemical compounds were introduced to the environment? What about all the chemicals that are flushed down our toilets, including drugs in our urine?
All silver, no matter what form, gives off ions upon contact with other materials. So should all silver be regulated as a pesticide? And when it comes to nano-particles, that is what happens to silver and all other minerals when they are ingested by plants and animals. Should all plant and animal life be regulated as pesticide producers?
The FDA made silver a number one target a decade back - that is an open fact. The EPA tested silver and found it to be non toxic. That is likewise a fact. Silver represents billions of dollars in potential profit losses to the big drug companies antibiotics, which also kill bacteria and which are released into our water supply via urine in much greater quantities - yet another fact.
Utopia Silver was singled out as a test case to regulate colloidal silver, as was admitted by a government official (but Utopia Silver fought back with a unique defense by standing on their constitutionally protected God given alienable rights and refused to accept the color of law court's jurisdiction, which appears to have stymied the governments case by opening up a can of worms they do not want to be aired publicly).
Next, they paraded around Paul Karason, who made his own homemade silver, contaminated it with salt and drank over a quart a day for years now. And then they resurrected Rosemary Jacobs, who took copious amounts of mainstream MD prescribed silver NITRATE drops. And now they are citing things like injuries to fish gills in San Francisco Bay - which comes from silver compounds used by industry, not silver nano-particles, or the CSP they call colloidal silver which is actually silver particles that are TOO LARGE to be suspended in water which uses animal and other proteins to artificially suspend them.
It is obviously not a coincidence. But people are either too apathetic, too ignorant or else they see names like Greenpeace attached to the petition and think that they would be "un-green" to protest, not realizing what really is at stake.
Send me the article and I will get it out as far and wide as I can. I'll even post it in Utopia Silver's Silver Bulletin to the tens of thousands of people on their mailing list.
As it is, I have already sent an urgent notice to Mike Adams asking him to put up an article under his own name and will be posting in other forums, including my own here and at Yahoo.
Tony (DQ)