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Coronavirus Vaccine Makers Are Not Mass-Slaughtering Sharks
NY times ^

Posted on 06/06/2021 11:43:53 AM PDT by algore

Several companies in the race for a coronavirus vaccine have stumbled upon a new and unexpected hurdle: activists protesting the use of a substance that comes from sharks in their products.

The oily compound, called squalene, is churned out by shark livers and has immunity-boosting powers, which has led several companies to use it as an ingredient in vaccines.

A group called Shark Allies has mounted a campaign calling on the Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory bodies to halt the sourcing of the compound from sharks, warning that mass distribution of a coronavirus vaccine could require harvesting tissue from more than 500,000 sharks.

Companies commonly use squalene as a moisturizing additive in cosmetics and sunscreens. But the substance has also been occasionally used in vaccines as an adjuvant — a chemical that kick-starts the immune system into action, driving stronger, longer-lasting protection against disease.

Although adjuvants aren’t necessary for all vaccines, they can make or break certain recipes. By boosting products’ immunity-priming powers, they can also increase the immunization’s efficiency, giving the vaccine’s ingredients more bang for their buck and freeing up supplies for more doses.

Shark livers are considered among the best sources of the compound. Between 63 million and 273 million sharks die at the hands of humans each year, and liver oil is harvested from at least a couple million of them, according to Catherine Macdonald, a shark biologist in Florida.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adjuvant; chinavirusvaccine; covid; immunesystem; shark; sharkallies; squalene; vax
Are Baby shark killers bothered by human suffering ?

Some of you might remember the links between Squalene and Gulf War Syndrome.

1 posted on 06/06/2021 11:43:53 AM PDT by algore
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Do Vaccines Contain Animal Ingredients?

The Pfizer, Moderna, and Janssen vaccines are free of animal-derived ingredients, in contrast to many other vaccines that include shark squalene, gelatin, cholesterol, egg, and milk. Pfizer has reported that its vaccine used a cow’s milk component in the manufacturing process, but the vaccine does not contain this ingredient.

https://www.pcrm.org/news/good-science-digest/covid-19-vaccines-safety-and-efficacy

2 posted on 06/06/2021 11:48:35 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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So, are those laser beams emanating from their eyes a natural selection process?


3 posted on 06/06/2021 11:53:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I wish I was 14 again so I could ruin my life in a completely different way. I've got ideas.)
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To: BipolarBob

Aborted baby parts fine. Shark parts not so much.


4 posted on 06/06/2021 12:02:44 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: algore

5 posted on 06/06/2021 12:06:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: algore

In other words, the vaccine makers must be slaughtering sharks.

Why, because one takes what the NYT slackers write and file it under “Democrat & Media Outputs & Lies”.


6 posted on 06/06/2021 12:13:22 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: palmer

Yes, but what your fact check article does not say is that they use a synthetic;y produced squalene that is not taken from sharks, and they give it a different name, but it it works the same


7 posted on 06/06/2021 12:25:10 PM PDT by algore
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They only want to depopulate humans... not sharks.


8 posted on 06/06/2021 12:26:27 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” )
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To: algore
Yes, but what your fact check article does not say is that they use a synthetic;y produced squalene

https://www.janssenlabels.com/emergency-use-authorization/Janssen+COVID-19+Vaccine-Recipient-fact-sheet.pdf

The Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine includes the following ingredients: recombinant, replication-incompetent adenovirus type 26 expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, citric acid monohydrate, trisodium citrate dihydrate, ethanol, 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HBCD), polysorbate-80, sodium chloride.

HBCD is HPβCD. Is that what you are calling synthetic squalene?

9 posted on 06/06/2021 1:04:21 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: algore

The vaccine industry is pure. evil

their entire history has been perpetrated by fraud , death and destruction

Notice how the satanic Democrats take out this mantle as a unit constantly

Giant signs. VACCINATE NOW !!! We’ll PAY 💰 YOU!

This is beautiful actually - they’re exposing themselves for the world to see


10 posted on 06/06/2021 1:10:32 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: Truthoverpower

“ The vaccine industry is pure. evil

their entire history has been perpetrated by fraud , death and destruction”

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That’s right tiger! Go get’em!

What a moronic thing to say.

Tell me ole’ wise one, what color would have wanted you IRON LUNG to be?

Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives.

Many deceases have been wiped out because of vaccines.

Good grief.


11 posted on 06/06/2021 1:17:20 PM PDT by David Chase
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The vaccine industry is pure. evil their entire history has been perpetrated by fraud , death and destruction

Remember the good old days? Smallpox, polio, diptheria. Yeah....

12 posted on 06/06/2021 1:17:52 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: algore

If the NYT is saying they aren’t then we can be assured they are.

Throw a rock over a fence and the dog that yelps is the one that got hit. When they react to something nobody claimed, then you know they are guilty as sin.


13 posted on 06/06/2021 1:22:17 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

Except... somebody DID claim it.

(Not that such makes the Times less deserving of scrutiny, but, here, 1/2 million sharks out of likely over a hundred million killed by humans anyway (per year, likely mostly for food?) seems rather inconsequential.)

Heck, create shark farms if need be.


14 posted on 06/07/2021 7:05:59 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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