Nexus - 1502 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

SOWING THE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION SOWING THE SEEDS DESTRUCTION With Rockefeller family funding, the Green Revolution laid the groundwork for the Gene Revolution, allowing a handful of Anglo-American agribusiness giants to gain worldwide control of the food supply. Part 1 of 2 F. William (Bill) Engdahl is a leading researcher, economist and analyst of the New World Order who has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for over 30 years. He is also a frequent speaker at international conferences and is a distinguished research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, where he's a regular contributor. He is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (Pluto Press, 2004) and Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation (Global Research, 2007; see http://globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html), which is the subject of this review article. He can be contacted by email at info@engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net. — Stephen Lendman Genetically Engineered Foods: An Experiment on the Masses n 2003, Jeffrey Smith's Seeds of Deception was published. It exposes the dangers of untested and unregulated genetically engineered or modified (GE/GM) foods that most people in the USA eat every day with no knowledge of the potential health risks. Efforts to inform the public have been quashed, and reliable science has been buried. Consider what happened to the world's leading lectins and plant genetic modification expert, UK-based Arpad Pusztai. He was vilified and fired from his research position at Scotland's Rowett Research Institute for publishing industry-unfriendly data that he was commissioned to produce on the safety of GM foods. His Rowett Research study was the first ever independent one conducted on them anywhere. He undertook it, believing in their promise, but became alarmed by his findings. His results were startling and have implications for humans eating genetically engineered/modified foods. Pusztai found that rats fed GM potatoes had smaller livers, hearts, testicles and brains, as well as damaged immune systems; they showed structural changes in their white blood cells, making them more vulnerable to infection and disease compared to other rats fed non-GM potatoes. It got worse. Thymus and spleen damage showed up, as did enlarged tissues, including the pancreas and intestines. There were cases of liver atrophy as well as significant proliferation of stomach and intestinal cells that could be a sign of greater future risk of cancer. Equally alarming was that all this happened after only 10 days of testing, and the changes persisted after 110 days—that's the human equivalent of 10 years. GM foods today saturate our diet, particularly in the USA. Over 80 per cent of all processed foods sold in supermarkets contain them. Other GM foods include grains like rice, corn and wheat; legumes like soybeans (and a range of soy products); vegetable oils; soft drinks; salad dressings; vegetables and fruits; dairy products including eggs; meat and other animal products; and even infant formula. There's also a vast array of hidden additives and ingredients in processed foods (such as in tomato sauce, ice cream and peanut butter). They're unrevealed to consumers because such labelling is prohibited— yet the more of these foods that we eat, the greater the potential threat to our health. Today, we're all lab rats in an uncontrolled, unregulated, mass human experiment, the results of which are as yet unknown. The risks from it are beyond measure, and it will take many years to discover them. Once GM seeds are introduced to an area, the genie is out of the bottle for keeps. Despite the enormous risks, however, Washington and growing numbers of governments around the world in parts of the UK, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa now allow these products to be grown in their soil or imported. They're produced and sold to consumers because agribusiness giants like Monsanto, DuPont, Dow AgriSciences by Stephen Lendman © January 2008 A Review of Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl Email: lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Blogsite: http://www.sjlendman.blogspot.com by Stephen Lendman © January 2008 NEXUS = 11 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com