{"id":16366,"date":"2024-04-02T06:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/tennessee-legislators-pass-bill-classifying-foods-with-vaccines-as-drugs\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T06:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:41:01","slug":"tennessee-legislators-pass-bill-classifying-foods-with-vaccines-as-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/tennessee-legislators-pass-bill-classifying-foods-with-vaccines-as-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Legislators Pass Bill Classifying Foods with Vaccines as Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Tennessee Senate passed a bill that redefines the term \u201cdrug\u201d to include foods that contain vaccine components.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, HB 1894, passed 23-6 in the Senate after receiving a 73-22 vote in the House.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tennessee-class-edible-vaccines-drug-lettuce-1885558#:~:text=The%20proposed%20law%2C%20HB%201894,have%20to%20be%20labeled%20accordingly.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>, vaccine material is defined as a substance that \u201cstimulate[s] the production of antibodies and provide immunity against disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foods containing vaccine materials can still be sold in stores, but would require labeling.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation comes as some lawmakers have raised concerns about the presence of \u201cedible vaccines\u201d in foods.<\/p>\n<p>Transgenic edible vaccine research <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/rep-massie-scientists-researching-a-transgenic-edible-vaccine-using-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took place<\/a> at the University of California, Riverside, as a means of implementing mRNA into plants, such as lettuce and spinach.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucr.edu\/articles\/2021\/09\/16\/grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines#:~:text=UC%20Riverside%20scientists%20are%20studying,protect%20us%20against%20infectious%20diseases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a>\u00a0a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to assess whether DNA containing the mRNA vaccine can be integrated into a plant cell and replicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,\u201d said UCR\u2019s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences associate professor Juan Pablo Giraldo. \u201cFarmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/tennessee-legislators-pass-bill-classifying-foods-with-vaccines-as-drugs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Senate passed a bill that redefines the term \u201cdrug\u201d to include foods that contain vaccine components. The bill, HB 1894, passed 23-6 in the Senate after receiving a 73-22 vote in the House. According to Newsweek, vaccine material is defined as a substance that \u201cstimulate[s] the production of antibodies and provide immunity against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}