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The Other Silver War: Is Silver Being Used to Taint the Food Supply?

The war on silver which has gotten its due attention has been the manipulation of the price of silver via paper exchanges to which the physical metal is tied. Major banks such as JP Morgan and HSBC have been the focus of these complaints. But, there is a newer war in which silver is an agent instead of an object, and it is being led perhaps by Big Agriculture through the food supply: it is the other silver war. Increasingly found in agriculture under the guise of antimicrobial and insecticidal properties, engineered nanomaterials such as silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are being used to treat agricultural goods, thereby risking public health and the environment. For months and years scientific reports have been covering the public health risk posed by silver products, failing to pinpoint where the dangerous levels of silver were coming from, but now it has come out that silver is being found in dangerous concentrations for a particular reason: It is being actively added to the food supply.

The study in particular of which we speak focused on Pears. The contamination of Ag NPs in pears was detected and quantified via numerous methods, including transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersives spectrometer (EDS) and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). Pear samples were treated with two different sizes (20 and 70nm in diameter) of Ag NPs and stored for different periods of times.

Residual AG NP’s of both 20 and 70nm were still detected in samples after 4-day treatment followed by rinsing with water. It was revealed that the 20nm AG Nps penetrate the pear skin and pulp after 4-day treatment. Numerous tests were enlisted and they all came up with the same data, thus cementing the theory that Big Agriculture is treating food supplies with nano-silver.

According to the government’s own report:

In long-term oral studies with experimental animals, silver compounds have produced slight thickening
of the basement membranes of the renal glomeruli, growth depression, shortened lifespan, and granular silvercontaining deposits in skin, eyes, and internal organs (Matuk et al., 1981; Olcott, 1948, 1950). Hypoactivity
was seen in rats subchronically exposed to silver nitrate in drinking water (Rungby and Danscher, 1984).

That signals that silver could be used for the same reasons fluoride, GMOs and other things theorized to be used in the nations’s food supply for population control.

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Gabe

Wait so what about the people who use colloidial silver? I personally dont but I’ve always considered it, wouldnt silver be a better alternative than pesticides?

SilverVigilante

Presumably so, silver would be MUCH better than pesticides. I use colloidal silver for colds, it is in concentrations designed for consumption. Is Big Agriculture ensuring the same?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1611823793 Mike McMillen

I have several testimonials of folks that have used my colloidal silver http://beinkisown.blogspot.com/
fairguy

the author dunno the difference between collodial silver and silver compounds. Of course, the general public dunno either so can be easily scared off their pants.
geepers

pretty soon silver will be too expensive….problem solved.
believers voice

I use colloidal silver. When made properly, it is the strongest natural antibiotic there is. It has helped me alot. This writer speaks of things he really has no Knowledge of and certainly no experience with. When the truth gets out about silvers almost miraculous curative properties, that’s when silver will skyrocket. This is one of my chief reasons for being a stacker.
Mike

I’ll bet you all wished you paid more attention in chemistry class! Coilloidal minerals are large clusters of atoms of a single element suspended in solution, ie. a large cluster of Ag atoms only. Their cluster size makes it difficult for them to cross membranes. Nano particles, on the other hand, can be any combination of elements, such as silver nitrate (AgNO3) that are separated into single molecules. They are small enough to pass through membranes. Keep in mind, just because “silver” is fine or neutral, doesn’t mean a silver compound, such as AGNO3 Or AGOCN (silver cyanate). Silver Cyanate will absolutely kill you even if absorbed through the skin.

It is quite possible that silver compounds could be toxic in the food supply. And, given the level of chemistry ignorance, it would be easy to fool people who think that all silver compounds will kill bacteria but not harm people.
jhpace1

People who do not know the difference between colloidal silver and the silver particles mentioned above will miss the difference. The article says that the nano-silver is silver nitrate, not colloidal silver. “Mike” and “fairguy” are correct in pointing this out; I want to also make the distinction plain.

Silver mixed into salt water is poisonous, and it is this silver water that can cause the blue skin and the toxic reactions. But colloidal silver is always made with distilled water. No other particulates. This is how colloidal silver is both anti-viral and anti-bacterial. Anyone promoting ALL silver as toxic is trying to foster scaremongering.

Modern silver coins are typically .999 pure silver, and should be marked as such. The oils in your skin and the sulfur in the post-Industrial Age air (and your breath) will cause pure silver to oxidize into black silver rust. This is “toning” and tarnish on silver coins and bars, and why you should wear cotton gloves when handling pure American Silver Eagles and other coins. Silver coins should also be stored in plastic for the long-term, away from the open air. Sterling silver is 80-93% silver, depending when and where it was made, either into “junk silver” pre-1964 American coins, ancient coins, and various silverware. Don’t use ancient silver coins or “junk silver” to make colloidal silver at home, because you will also get a lot of the junk filler metal into your solution.

Education is the best way to counter this scaremongering.
EdD

Silver nanoparticles are not necessarily toxic. The root article is obviously scaremongering propaganda aimed at discrediting colloidal silver use for medicine. Read the article linked in SV’s column. The writer pretends to maker a case for “silver pollution” by proceeding from the assumption that silver is toxic.

SV would be a much more valuable resource if the sv himself would try to gain a little practical command of the English language. One one masters his native language, he is much more resistant to the kind of nonsense promoted by government funded studies such as the one that served as the basis for the nonsensical JAFC article.

Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this.