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POPULATION & FOOD CONTROL THE CORPORATE AGENDA CONTROL POPULATION FOOD CORPORATE AGENDA THE Multinationals collude with governments, international agencies and private foundations to control entire populations and the food they eat. "For the King of Babylon has plotted against you. He has devised a plan against you. Rise up against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, says the Lord. A nation that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone. Their camels shall become booty; their herds of cattle a spoil." Jeremiah 49:30-32 istory contains many accounts where nations at ease became easy prey for marauding external powers through lack of vigilance. At one time, Babylon was the largest and most powerful city on Earth. In its relentless pursuit for global domination, it swallowed everything and everybody in its path. Nations that fared better were those which posted watchmen on the walls of their cities. Today, in our globalised, 'takeover here, takeover there’ marketplace, we are witnessing multinational corporations amassing incredible power, then using the most devious tactics to secure that power while swallowing everything and everybody in their path. And were Jeremiah alive today, no doubt he would be discerning the times in which we live; he would be fully comprehending the Machiavellian moves of Big Business and Big Government as they engulf nation after nation, very few with watchmen on the walls. Marauders always come into the camp when the watchmen have fallen asleep. FOUL PLAY AT TYSON FOODS Take Tyson Foods, for example. Based in Springdale, Arkansas, USA, Tyson is the single largest poultry supplier in the world. Its annual turnover exceeds US$7.4 billion, and the company 'processes' 42 million chickens a week. The Tyson corporate webpage describes the company as a 68,000-strong team, with 7,400 contract growers in 100 com- munities, with operations in 18 US states and 15 countries, and exporting to 73 countries. In their food safety education program literature, we read: "We've always been at the forefront of food safety practices" and "Consumers around the world have come to depend on the Tyson Brand for trusted quality chicken".' Forbes Magazine once described Tyson Foods as one of those "undeniably formidable business juggernauts, whose mind-boggling concentrations of wealth and influence have everything to do with a no-holds-barred, unfettered approach to free enterprise".2. Tyson Foods is indeed the single largest poultry product supplier in the world, and it has every intention of becoming the largest beef supplier in the world, too, having just purchased the world's largest beef supplier, IBP Corporation, for US$3.2 billion. But where does the Tyson Foods 'no-holds-barred' approach to business affairs position it in the 'morality and ethics' league? Journalist Norman Solomon describes Tyson Foods in a slightly different manner to the corporate brochure. The company "keeps its farmers in near-indentured servitude...works its underpaid, frequently injured workers at an extra- ordinary pace...and discharges half a million tons of chicken shit’ into Arkansas rivers every year.’ Here are just a few of the many disturbing facts about Tyson Foods for your sober consideration. by Steven Ransom © 2002 Research Director Credence Publications, UK Tel: +44 (0)1622 832386 Email: stevel @onetel.net.uk Website: http:/www.credence.org From his book, Plague, Pestilence and the Pursuit of Power (Credence, 2001) Workplace Safety and Health Violations Some 4,500 people have added their names to a lawsuit, initially filed by 159 current and former employees, against Tyson Foods. The US Department of Labor has stepped in, saying it will conduct a nationwide audit of the company's practices.’ After one partic- ularly nasty incident when two Tyson workers met their gruesome deaths after falling into APRIL — MAY 2002 NEXUS ¢ 15 BIG BROTHER'S PLAN TO FORCE-FEED THE WORLD by Steven Ransom © 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com