If ever there was a company that embodied evil,
it would be the
Monsanto Company.
The combination of unfettered corporate greed, a
eugenics agenda and corrupt political manipulation forms an unholy
trinity that could make Monsanto the real Cyberdyne Systems. In the
Terminator movies, Cyberdyne Systems created the artificial
intelligence computer system
Skynet, which destroyed most life on earth and forced survivors
to live underground.
Proving once again that fact is indeed as strange
as fiction, the Monsanto Company could singlehandedly cause
TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It).
The History of Monsanto
Monsanto was started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1901
by John Francis Queeny, whose background was in the pharmaceutical
industry. Beginning as it would continue, the first product made by
Monsanto was saccharin, a controversial artificial sweetener now banned
in many countries for its links to cancer.
Over the last century, Monsanto was responsible for
bringing many controversial substances to the market.
· Saccharin
· Agent Orange
· DDT
· Aspartame
· Bovine Growth Hormone
Initially a chemical company, it wasn’t until 1982
that Monsanto branched into agriculture, immediately tying the chemical
background to the formerly wholesome business of growing food. Monsanto
was determined to improve on nature and by the late 1980s had begun
trials with genetically modified crops.
Monsanto and the Court System
Monsanto is no stranger to either side of the
courtroom. In effort to eradicate the family farm, Monsanto has taken
many farmers to court for patent infringement. Farms unfortunate enough
to be downwind of Monsanto have been sued because of cross-pollination
with Monsanto plants from neighbouring farms. Because these farmers did
not purchase seeds from Monsanto, they were “stealing” the benefits of
this genetic engineering, and thus, successfully sued until they lost
their businesses to the greedy company.
Farmers have incurred millions of dollars in
judgements, sometimes even being required to pay for Monsanto’s
investigation of their crops and Monsanto’s legal expenses. According
to the
Center for Food Safety, the odds are stacked against the farmers. “Monsanto
has an annual budget of $10 million dollars
and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and
prosecuting farmers.”
Monsanto has been in the defendant’s seat as well. The chemical giant
recently settled for an undisclosed amount with the residents of
Nitro, West Virginia in a class action lawsuit over the production
of the carcinogenic chemical 2,4,5-T, an ingredient in herbicides and
pesticides, as well as the banned “Agent Orange.”
A group of more than 300,000 organic farmers recently took a page from
Monsanto’s book and sued the company because they found through testing
that their crops had been “tainted” by genetically modified plants
growing nearby. The case, unfortunately, was dismissed.
Monsanto’s Incestuous Relationship
with the Federal Government
Part of the reason Monsanto has been so successful in
the courtroom has been the company’s incestuous ties to the US de facto
government. Despite the blatant conflicts of interest, Monsanto
executives have held Cabinet, judicial and policy-making positions in
the Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations. When you’re sleeping with
the enemy, the enemy tends to get away with all manner of crimes.
Michael Taylor:
VP of Monsanto à Deputy Commissioner of the
FDA
Roger Beachy: Director of the Danforth Plant Science Center (paid for
by Monsanto) à director of the USDA National Institute of Food and
Agriculture
Elena Kagan: Obama Solicitor General (when she famously took Monsanto's
side against organic farmers in the Roundup Ready Alfalfa case) àUS
Supreme Court justice.
Clarence Thomas: General Counsel for Monsanto àUS Supreme Court
justice.
Margaret Miller: Monsanto supervisor à Deputy Director of Human Food
Safety
Donald Rumsfield: Board of Directors for Monsanto’s Searle Pharmaceuticals à US Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfield: Board of Directors for Monsanto’s Searle Pharmaceuticals à US Secretary of Defense
Ann Veneman: Monsanto Board of Directors à US Secretary of Agriculture
Linda Fisher: Assistant Administrator at the
EPA àVP of Monsanto àDeputy Administrator of the EPA
Dr. Michael A.Friedman: Deputy Commisioner of the FDA àSenior VP of
Monsanto
Monsanto’s Corporate Bedfellows
Monsanto’s collusion goes further than mere ties with government. The
power-mad and wealthy seem to be magnetically drawn to the company.
Recently, public depopulation proponent
Bill Gates bought half a million shares in Monsanto and began
“gifting” Monsanto seeds to farmers in Third World countries. These
farmers will be permanently tied to Monsanto, as the self-terminating
seeds will have to be repurchased every year.
Monsanto’s Board of Directors has ties to corporate giants such as
McDonalds, Cisco Systems, Sara Lee, Lockheed Martin
and Proctor and Gamble, to name a few.
Monsanto has sponsored exhibits at Disneyworld and
Disneyland.
Monsanto has tentacles in the following companies
through mergers and spin-offs: GD Searle, the Nutrasweet Company,
Pharmacia, Upjohn, Eli Lilly & Co., Seminis, Delta
and Pine Land Company, and De Ruiter Seeds.
Starving Amidst Abundance
Perhaps the most disturbing issue with Monsanto and their products
is the fact that the genetically engineered food is simply untested
– we don’t know the full repercussions from eating this stuff.
Animal studies in Europe have proven that animals fed a GMO diet are
more likely to suffer from organ failure.
The study
concluded, “It is unacceptable to submit 500
million Europeans and several billions of consumers worldwide to the
new pesticide GM-derived foods or feed, this being done without more
controls (if any) than the only 3-month-long toxicological tests.”
Other studies have shown disturbing results like
stomach lesions, increased risk of anaphylactic shock, increased
antibiotic resistance, and toxins in the bloodstreams of newborns.
We aren’t allowed to be warned about GMOs either. Although Obama
promised labeling of GMO foods appearing at your local grocery
store, it’s yet another campaign promise that has never been
fulfilled. The state of Vermont is currently being sued by Monsanto
for labeling GMO foods. The FDA has also refused to force GMO
producers to label their food. At this point, the only way you can
be sure you are getting your food as nature intended it is to pay
high prices for organic foods.
Monsanto has changed the face of world agriculture to the point that
each trip to the grocery store results in a lottery of genetic
mutations. Will the tomato that you eat today cause bleeding ulcers
tomorrow? Will the gmo corn that insinuates itself into 90% of
processed foods cause your child to have a resistance to antibiotics
that might otherwise save her life? Are you missing important
nutrients by consuming these foods, causing you to overeat to
attempt to satiate your need for vitamins and minerals?
Monsanto has been publicly accused of mishandling toxic chemicals.
Many of the items the company has brought to market have since been
banned, which suggests proper testing was not done in the first
place. With all of Monsanto’s criminal accessories in the US de
facto government, as well as Big Pharma and other corporate
entities, is it any stretch to question the company’s mutation of
our food supply?
Amidst all of this genetically modified abundance, wouldn’t it be
ironic to perish from malnutrition
Monsanto Plays Monopoly
With the world’s farms as its gameboard, Monsanto is aggressively taking
over agriculture. As mentioned above, one of the primary ways Monsanto
removes the competition is through lawsuits that regular farmers can not
afford.
Another tactic used by Monsanto is that of genetically engineering seeds
to be self-terminating. Quite simply, Monsanto seeds can be used to
grow one plant. The time-honored practice of carefully harvesting seeds
from plants so that they can be reused will not work with Monsanto seeds
because they have been sterilized.
The donations of Monsanto seeds to Third World countries is, then,
somewhat akin to the drug dealer who gives his clients a “free sample”
for their first hit. The client has no choice but to come back.
The creation of the self-terminating seed causes a revolving need for
more seeds every year. If plants grown in subsequent years are found to
have some residual DNA from previous Monsanto plantings, the farmer
knows he will be sued and lose everything. The farmer is unable to
propagate from previous crops. Monsanto has created a customer who has
no option but to purchase from them year after year.
As a method to take over the world, what better way than to control the
source from which all food comes? If the ONLY seeds are one day these
modified sterile creations, what happens when those seeds disappear?
What happens if Monsanto stops producing the seeds? What if seeds
become regulated and only distributed in certain amounts to certain
growers?
Starvation on a scale more massive than the world has ever seen occurs.
Control is complete and absolute.
This is the ultimate power.
“Who controls the food supply controls the people.”
~ Henry Kissinger