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That's interesting you bring that up. I take it you've probably read Engdahl's 'Seeds of Destruction'? In it we discover why the supercapitalists were so eager to back the emerging GMO industry, despite the clear and documented dangers associated with their products. Backed by the might of the Rockefeller Foundation, the biotech industry successfully lobbied the Bush-Quayle administration for a "no-regulation" policy with regard to GMO research and products, in spite of the protests and warnings of independent scientists.Originally Posted by Thranduil
We find out quite a lot about biotech giant Monsanto's activities there. Their first major project was the creation and patenting of a recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, rBGH, which caused cows to produce 30% more milk. What they didn't tell the public or farmers was that it also stimulated the production of a carcinogenic Insulin-like Growth Factor, or that scientists at Vermont discovered that it led to deformed births, inflammations and infections. Farmers themselves discovered that they had to administer much more antibiotics and that the cows were spent after two years. The American public were the guinea pigs for this milk, which was presented as "nature's most perfect food."
Monsanto achieved all this through providing scientists for the FDA, through their connections in the US government, through suppression of studies, manipulation of data, and straightforward bribery, used in an unsuccessful attempt to introduce their product to Canada. The EU also resisted and had a moratorium in place by 1993.
In Scotland after an extensive independent study on GM potatoes by a scientist of impeccable credentials, Dr Pusztai, yielded negative results in the rats tested- specifically smaller hearts, livers and brains, lowered immune system, smaller size and body weight- all hell broke loose. Despite the fact that Dr Pusztai's subsequent appearence on ITV had been cleared by his own state-sponsored institute, Rowett, to present only some of his results, within 48 hours he had lost his job, his papers had been confiscated and placed under lock and key and he had been warned not to speak publicly about his results again- under threat of losing his pension.
Monsanto had rung Bill Clinton who telephoned Blair who phoned Pusztai's boss, Prof Philip James, who was warned to silence Pusztai or risk losing his funding. Afterwards pressure from the homegrown British biotech industry along with Monsanto's British representatives ensured Pusztai's work was rubbished by the British Royal Society. later the Lancet reprinted his study in full despite threats to its editor from the Royal Society.
The political manouverings behind the scenes were uncovered by investigative reporters from the Guardian.
Of course, an exercise of such unscrupulous raw power could not have come from one biotech company standing alone. In fact the Rockefeller Foundation had been behind the GMO revolution from the very start, investing $100 million in research at the outset. They were enthused about the possibility for total control over food production, an aspect of "elite planning for global management", ie, global domination by an elite. This was evidenced by their support for "Terminator" seeds, seeds which had been designed to prevent the germination of harvested seeds as grains. Farmers consequently would be prevented from saving their own seeds for regrowing and be reduced to a state of continual dependence.
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