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Black People : It’s not science fiction anymore: Monsanto seeks to control world’s food
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Monsanto is seeking to control the World's Food.
Many countries will not allow ( franken-food ) FRANKENSTEIN LIKE FOOD.
What you shared are still many of the same trials we still experience and have here. Thanks for sharing
The underlined above stood out to me as I read the accounts. Why would blacks any where garner efforts, raise funds for something the white governments initiated and not feel unless that is the case. Play non existent. Show no like effort to raise funds and steer economic stimulus and growth in general within the Black communities?
Today does this elusive phenomena still exist?
Is it only a frame now within the mind and we react like one would to muscle memory?
Flexing differently in a new way's trains the brain muscle and guides the way to strengths untapped.
Not just reading but experience is the key. the brain with all of the reading is just well read. Actions that stimulate your other senses, emotions and ( trails, change) fears because the brain is involved are ones that stay.
Many countries will not allow ( franken-food ) FRANKENSTEIN LIKE FOOD.
What you shared are still many of the same trials we still experience and have here. Thanks for sharing
The underlined above stood out to me as I read the accounts. Why would blacks any where garner efforts, raise funds for something the white governments initiated and not feel unless that is the case. Play non existent. Show no like effort to raise funds and steer economic stimulus and growth in general within the Black communities?
Today does this elusive phenomena still exist?
Is it only a frame now within the mind and we react like one would to muscle memory?
Flexing differently in a new way's trains the brain muscle and guides the way to strengths untapped.
Not just reading but experience is the key. the brain with all of the reading is just well read. Actions that stimulate your other senses, emotions and ( trails, change) fears because the brain is involved are ones that stay.
Keita Kenyatta said: ↑
The ultimate monopoly would be control of the world’s food supply. Although not the only multi-national corporation attempting to achieve the ability to dictate what you eat, Monsanto Company appears the most determined.
Already infamous for toxic chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Agent Orange and dioxin, Monsanto’s march toward control of the world’s food supply is focused on proprietary seeds and genetically modified organisms.
No corporation or corporate oligarchy possessing a food monopoly would be desirable, but Monsanto is a particularly frightening contender. So powerful is the company that a special law tailored for it was snuck into a congressional appropriations bill funding U.S. government operations.
The Farmer Assurance Provision — better known by its nickname, the “Monsanto Protection Act” — was quietly slipped into an appropriations bill in March by a Missouri senator, Roy Blunt.
The appropriations bill had to be passed to avert a government shutdown, providing an opportunity to do a favor for the powerful. Slipping off-topic special measures into bills hundreds of pages long is routine in the U.S. Congress.
Efforts to remove the language from the bill have so far failed. The relevant language is this:
“Directs the Secretary [of Agriculture], if a determination of non-regulated status under the Plant Protection Act has been invalidated, to authorize movement, introduction, continued cultivation, or commercialization for the interim period necessary for the Secretary to complete any required analyses or consultations related to the petition for non-regulated status.”
In plain language, what the above passage means is the U.S. Department of Agriculture is required to ignore any court order that would halt the planting of genetically engineered crops even if the department is still conducting a safety investigation, and rubber-stamp an okay. The group Food Democracy Now! summarized the implications of that requirement:
“This dangerous provision, the Monsanto Protection Act, strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer and farmer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, citizens and the environment.”
The Monsanto Protection Act expires at the end of the government’s fiscal year, September 30, with the expiration of the appropriations bill of which it is a part, but the language could easily be included in next year’s appropriations bills.
As outrageous as the special provision is, it is consistent with the basic methodology of public safety in the United States — new products are routinely put on the market with minimal testing (or the product’s manufacturer providing the only “research” and declaring it safe), and can’t be removed from sale until independent testing determines the product is unsafe.
Sell first, ask questions later
In other words, it’s not up the company selling a product to prove it is safe; it is up to others, after the fact, to prove that it is unsafe. This is the case with, for example, chemicals and pesticides.
And it is the case for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). No corporation has more riding on GMOs than Monsanto. That is not merely because GMOs have steadily taken an increasing share of foods grown for animal and human consumption, but because of genetically engineered seeds. A report by the Center For Food Safety and Save Our Seeds puts the magnitude of this change in stark terms:
“The vast majority of the four major commodity crops in the U.S. are now genetically engineered. U.S. adoption of transgenic commodity crops has been rapid, in which [genetically engineered] varieties now make up the substantial majority: soybean (93 percent transgenic in 2010), cotton (88 percent), corn (86 percent), and canola (64 percent).” [page 5]
Seeds containing genes patented by Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, account for more than 90 percent of soybeans grown in the U.S. and 80 percent of U.S.-grown corn, according to a separate report by Food & Watch Watch. These seeds have been engineered to be resistant to insects or to withstand the application of herbicides.
The report, “Monsanto: A Corporate Profile,” states:
“Monsanto not only markets its own patented seeds, but it uses licensing agreements with other companies and distributors to spread its traits throughout the seed supply. … The acreage on which Monsanto’s [genetically engineered] crop traits are grown has increased from a total of 3 million acres in 1996 to 282.3 million acres worldwide and 151.4 million acres in the United States in 2009.
… Monsanto’s products constitute approximately 40 percent of all crop acres in the [U.S.]. …
“A lawyer working for DuPont, the next largest competitor in the seed business, said ‘a seed company can’t stay in business without offering seeds with Roundup Ready in it, so if they want to stay in that business, essentially they have to do what Monsanto tells them to do.’ ” [page 8]
DuPont is one of the world’s largest chemical corporations and a major competitor in many fields. If an enterprise as powerful as DuPont finds itself at the mercy of Monsanto, what chance does a family farmer have?
The reference to “Roundup Ready” in the quote above is a reference to a suite of Monsanto agricultural products (soybeans, corn, sugar beets and other crops) that are genetically engineered to be resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.
Farmers growing these crops with Monsanto seeds can thus spray more herbicides on their crops. Unfortunately, as more pesticides are sprayed, weeds and insects become more resistant, inducing farmers to spray still more and thereby introduce more poisons into the environment.
Patents on life reverses precedent
As with the consolidation of seed companies, the rise of genetically engineered crops and the right to patent living organisms is a recent development. After decades of refusal by the U.S. Congress to allow patents on food-producing plants that re-produce via seeds, it passed a law in 1970 allowing patenting of “novel” varieties produced from seeds.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued rulings in 1980 and 2001 allowing living organisms, including plants, to be patented, opening the floodgates to current corporate practices. A frenzy of acquisition of seed companies and a rapid expansion of patents on seeds and plants ensued. The report by Center For Food Safety and Save Our Seeds summarizes what these changes have wrought:
“As a consequence, what was once a freely exchanged, renewable resource is now privatized and monopolized. Current judicial interpretations have allowed utility patents on products of nature, plants, and seeds, without exceptions for research and seed saving. This revolutionary change is contrary to centuries of traditional
Doesn’t this so the maliciously EVIL GM MADNESS from Monsanto and their ilk highlight that the so despicably cowardly WAR that was never EVER openly declared as opposed to being waged as standard on our enslaved African ancestors [and their siblings who were tortured, mutilated and murdered for either not submitting/being BROKEN or to traumatize the rest of US into total subservience] which didn’t so much end did it, as evolve though European colonialism into the current fundamentally warped status quo’s ongoing socio economic domination of every area of human activity; has morphed into all pervasive onslaught on ALL of Humanity [this time]?”
What is really very very frightening is the manner in which coordinated worldwide demonstrations last year against Monsanto’s continual attempt to force farmers everywhere to accept their seeds were totally ignored by all of the mass media, without the internet I would never have learned [how many people would actually know] that so many people literally took to the streets to try to stop these LUCIFERIAN LUNATICS, which begs the question, what is WRONG with these maliciously EVIL PARASITES?
Isn’t it also a FACT that for at least 70% of the USA’s population THE AMERICAN DREAM is just that, a fantasy that degenerates into a very real living NIGHTMARE for non-whites in general, peoples of African ethnicity specifically or weren’t the so public executions without any conviction or penalty at all of the perpetrators of Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X with even less prominent members of our community like Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride [Mark Duggan here in the UK] and many others murdered without anyone being ever convicted or punished NOT a clear enough indication to of just how relevant the USA’s constitution/their Justice system is to US?”
Isn’t ANYONE who genuinely believes they are not programmed
graphically illustrating that their programming is COMPLETE?
With regard to the chaotic carnage, unnecessary GRIEF being created as standard world wide, are WE genuinely supposed to be impressed with the infantile manner in which the current POWER ELITE/LUCIFERIAN LUNATICS inc continues to squander this planet’s resources; and is totally focused on enslaving ALL of Humanity in every area of human activity [are THEY really the alien lizards David Icke surmises/they are certainly behaving like viciously predatory reptiles] with their monolithic religious faiths/PEOPLE CONTROL MACHINES; and their even more maliciously destructive monetary manacles as applied by the IMF/World Bank?
What about the manner in which their massive murderous CHAOS MACHINE template [which has been for over 50 years and in fact still is looting the Congo and other resource rich regions of Africa] has been exported to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, with Egypt on the cusp of plunging into the civil war precipice too even though Iran is STILL their primary target in the region?
Where is the maturity in instigating and orchestrating so much MADNESS [while deluding themselves that they are either being benevolent, manipulative or arch] death and destruction in the name of Democracy/FREEDOM, while openly stating that this planet’s optimum population is 500 million to 1 billion when there are already over 7 billion people here [most of whom THEY intend to cull]?
Isn’t ANYONE who genuinely believes they are not programmed
graphically illustrating that their programming is COMPLETE?
