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strong evidence that their GMO varieties harm human health. Population Control: Terminators, Traitors and Their history of concern for public safety is atrocious. Contraceptive Corn Seed Like it or not, they're advancing their agenda, and a 2004 Crucial to its strategy, GMO giants needed a "new technology Rockefeller Foundation report shows it. GM crop production which would allow them to sell seed that would not reproduce". achieved double-digit increases for nine consecutive years since They developed genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) that 1996. More than eight million farmers in 17 countries now plant produce so-called "Terminator" seeds. The process is patented GM crops, over 90 per cent in developing nations. Far and away, and applies to seeds of all plant species. Replanting them doesn't the US is the world's leader "with aggressive Government work: they won't grow. It's the industry's solution to controlling promotion, absence of labeling, and the domination of US farm world food production and assuring themselves big profits as a production". Here, "genetically engineered crops [have] result. What a discovery! Terminator corn, soybean and other essentially taken over the American food chain". In 2004, over seeds have been "genetically modified to ‘commit suicide’ after 85 per cent of soybeans and 45 per cent of corn seeds were one harvest season" by a toxin-producing inbuilt gene. genetically modified, and, since animal feed is mainly from these A closely related, second-generation technology, T-GURT, crops, "the entire meat production of the nation [and exports] has produces seeds nicknamed "Traitor" seeds. The technology relies been fed on genetically modified animal feed". What animals on controlling a plant's fertility and genetic characteristics with eat, so do humans. "an inducible gene promoter" called a "gene switch". GMO crops It gets even worse. Wind and air proliferate GM seeds to that are pest- and disease-resistant only work by using a specific adjacent fields, including organic ones which are now to some chemical compound that companies like Monsanto make. degree contaminated. Engdahl explains: "...after just six years, Farmers buying seeds illegally won't get the compound to "turn an estimated 67 per cent of all US farm acreage has been on" the resistant gene. Traitor technology thus creates a captive [irredeemably] contaminated with new market for the GMO giants, and genetically engineered seeds. The Traitor seeds are cheaper to produce genie was out of the bottle"; nothing than Terminator seeds. known to science can reverse this Combined, these two technologies Complicit government agencies condition. and clever marketing schemes = ff sive asribusiness,_ giants is renders "pure organic" . " sw unprecedented powers: "For the first growing an impossibility, except aid the Gene Revolution time in history, it [lets] three or four perhaps in very isolated farms (iat through "lies and damn lies" private : multinational seed comprise a small percentage of the companies...dictate terms to wor! industry. Even so, organic crops are that GMO crops have farmers for their seed". It's a safer than chemically treated ones higher yields and can solve biological warfare tool almost "too and hugely preferable to any that are good to believe", in the face of the genetically modified. That said, as world hunger problems. open citizen opposition which the the Gene Revolution advances industry and the US Department of worldwide, the future of organic Agriculture (USDA) aim to quash. farming is imperilled—to the horror of Engdahl quotes USDA spokesman people who, like this writer, depend on it. Willard Phelps from a June 1998 interview, saying the agency Consider further the way GMO giants gain market share with wanted Terminator technology to be "widely licensed and made government and WTO backing, helped by the imposition of rigid expeditiously available to many seed companies". Hidden was licensing and technology agreements on farmers who must pay the reason why: to introduce these seeds to the developing world annual fees. They're binding and enforced through Technology as the prime Rockefeller Foundation strategy. Engdahl calls it a Use Agreements that farmers have to sign and, by so doing, "Trojan Horse for Western GMO seed giants to get control over entrap themselves in a "new form of serfdom". Each year, they Third World food supplies in areas with weak or non-existent must buy new seeds and they're forbidden to reuse any from patent laws". It became an urgent Foundation priority to spread previous years as was customary before GMO introductions. the seeds worldwide to capture world markets irreversibly. The Failure to observe the agreements can result in severe legal USDA fully backed the scheme. damages or even imprisonment and possible loss of their land. That kind of muscle (along with WTO rules) is overwhelming. Complicit government agencies and clever marketing schemes It's the tactic used when the US Departments of State and aid the "Gene Revolution" through "lies and damn lies" that Agriculture coordinate famine relief using surplus US genetically GMO crops have higher yields and can solve world hunger engineered commodities. Farmers getting GMO seeds aren't told roblems. The evidence proves otherwise. In addition, resistant what they are: they plant them unwittingly for the next harvest "superweeds" develop over time and crop yields drop. Farmers and get hooked. And the proliferation isn't restricted to Africa. must use greater amounts of herbicides, are locked into high The industry's goal is to introduce GMOs everywhere, through user-fees and end up losing money. The bottom line: the case coercion, bribery and other illegal tactics, but especially in highly for "genetically engineered seeds for agriculture [was] based on a indebted developing states. In the case of Poland, the soil—which citadel of scientific fraud and corporate lies". This information is was amongst the richest in Europe—is now spoiled by genetic idden from the public, and it's too late once unwary farmers contamination. learn they've been had. Consider how the scheme ties in with Rockefeller Foundation Evidence was growing on GMO dangers, and the industry was population control strategy. In 2001, the scheme was aided when alarmed. By 2005, Russian science showed that GMOs cause the privately owned biotech company Epicyte announced it had arm that can start in utero: over half the offspring of rats fed a successfully developed the "ultimate GMO crop": contraceptive genetically modified soybean diet died in their first three weeks corn seed. It was called a solution to world "over-population", but of life—six times the normal rate. news about it vanished after Biolex acquired the company. Complicit government agencies and clever marketing schemes aid the "Gene Revolution" through "lies and damn lies" that GMO crops have higher yields and can solve world hunger problems. APRIL — MAY 2008 NEXUS 25 www.nexusmagazine.com