• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

More toward World Domination

  • Thread starter Thread starter Anonymous
  • Start date Start date
A

Anonymous

Guest
Not so much strictly ranch or cattle related, this is an interesting article about how the multinationals continue working to control the worlds food supply....I stole this off another site where an interesting question was raised "Why if this was a US government financed genetic research project was a private company allowed to license and control the patent on the end product?" :???:

----------------------------------------------

Monsanto buys 'Terminator' seeds company


The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government's US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world's largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri.

Relations between Monsanto, Delta & Pine Land and the USDA, on closer scrutiny, show the deep and dark side of the much-heralded genetic revolution in agriculture. It proves deep-held suspicions that the Gene Revolution is not about 'solving the world hunger problem' as its advocates claim. It's about handing over control of the seeds for mankind's basic food supply—rice, corn, soybeans, wheat, even fruit, vegetables and cotton—to privately owned corporations. Once the seeds and their use are patented and controlled by one or several private agribusiness multinationals, it will be they who can decide whether or not a particular customer—let's say for argument, China or Brazil or India or Japan—whether they will or won't get the patented seeds from Monsanto, or from one of its licensee GMO partners like Bayer Crop Sciences, Syngenta or DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred International.
 
As much as I dislike large multinationals, I think the author of the article is rating a little high on the scare tactics. The genetically modified seeds, while being strictly controlled, are definitely not the norm when you look at what people are seeding. For every genetically modified variety, there are often dozens of non-controlled varieties available. And quite frankly, the genetically modified seeds haven't fullfilled their promise. RoundUp Ready canola immediately pops to mind. Most of the farmers in my area have quite using it due to bad problems with volunteer canola in successive years. And since its RoundUp resistant, its difficult to eliminate.

Rod
 
Scare tactics? Maybe.

But if you check out the WTO website, this is the kind of control they are looking for. And amusingly enough USDA is not the only one spending taxpayer money and licensing it over to the privates. A lot of terminator work was done by our own beloved Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.

(Totally off in left field, I wonder if they'll soon be relabelling our Natural Resources department "Energy, Mines, Resources and Petro-Food".

Back on topic, why do you think so much work has gone into making sure everyone gets fed imports? It's so when you don't do as you're told you can be sent to your room without supper.

Indian lawyer N.J. Nanjundaswamy reports that a Cargill motto is, "One who controls the seed, controls the farmer, and one who controls the food trade, controls the nation."

In Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies by Brewster Kneen, he reports: Between 1985 and 1992, the legal entity called Cargill received $800.4 million in tax subsidies via the Export Enhancement Program, a continuation of the infamous "Food for Peace" policy. Promoted by Hubert H. Humphrey and instituted as PL 480, food became a Cold War tool, i.e. "for Peace". If we can induce people to "become dependent on us for food," then "what is a more powerful weapon than food and fiber?" Humphrey declared.

In Cargill's defense, they are not the only predator in the forest. Though knowing there are tigers around the corner probably won't make you any happier with the lion that is eating you now.
 
You are right ROD and thats why you can't give rice away today.They just don't know what load has been changed by a GMO. Thats why ScoringAg tracking and Traceback is important. We keep the buyer informed.
 
Hey jdst, nice to see another thinking person out there. Welcome to the board. I have been reading your posts while on vacation and have enjoyed them.

The really scary thing is that our government has allowed this gmo thing to just get out of hand. Farmers without gmo fields should be allowed to sue for genetic drift but the only way around is what is allowed.

The multinationals will not have to bring up the price much to rake in tons of money. A small unnoticable increase yearly is enough to get the resources to buy almost any government including our own.

It is pretty scary.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top