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One way or another, the Rockefeller Foundation aims to reduce population. It's also doing it cooperatively with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) by quietly funding its "reproductive health" program through the use of a tetanus vaccine. Combined with hCG natural hormones, it's an abortion agent that prevents pregnancy, but women getting it aren't being told. Nothing is said about the Pentagon's view of population reduction as a sophisticated form of "'biological warfare' [to] solve world hunger". heaven" to help them. If small Asian chicken farmers can be squeezed out, Tyson and the others can access the huge Asian poultry market. That's their aim, and removing competition is their method—with help from friends in high places. Creating the first GMO animal population is also part of the scheme, with the prospect of transforming the world's chickens into GMO birds. Engdahl puts it this way: "By 2006, riding the fear of an avian flu human epidemic, the GMO or Gene Revolution players were clearly aiming to conquer the world's most important source of meat protein, poultry". But another scheme to dominate world food production also lay ahead: "Terminator was about to come into the control of the world's largest GMO agribusiness seed giant". Avian Flu Panic and GMO Chickens lay ahead: "Terminator was about to come into the control of the In 2005, George W. Bush duped the public into believing that world's largest GMO agribusiness seed giant". a so-called avian (bird) flu epidemic threatened to become a pandemic if not addressed. The solution, as always, was to turn Genetic Armageddon: Terminators and Patents on Pigs to the private sector and reward his friends. In this case, he In 2007, Monsanto acquired Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) to asked Congress to appropriate an emergency one billion complete its aborted 1999 takeover attempt. D&PL had global taxpayer-dollars for a drug, Tamiflu. Unmentioned was a key Terminator patent rights and successfully extended them on fact: it was developed and patented by Gilead Science—whose GURTs. The deal made Monsanto "the overwhelming chairman prior to becoming US monopolist of agricultural seeds of Defense Secretary was Donald nearly every variety", including fruits Rumsfeld and who was still a major and vegetables taken up in the stockholder. The scare, combined That information is suppressed company's acquisition of Seminis a with government funding anda . . year earlier. With that company, rising stock price, stood to make him In the mainstream, so the Monsanto is now first in vegetables a fortune, just as Dick Cheney has ici Y and fruits, second in agronomic profited as Vice President from his public IS duped. It $ $0 that crops, and the third-largest Halliburton ties. chicken-processing giants can Engdahl asks: "Was the avian flu globalise world production, scare another Pentagon hoax" with an unknown aim? Based on known with the avian flu scare and suppressed past government | "gift from heaven" to help them. actions, "a supposedly deadly" new flu strain "had to be treated with more than a little suspicion". It was In 2005, Monsanto applied to the being used to advance global WTO for international patent rights agribusiness and poultry factory farm interests "along the model for its claimed genetic engineering of a means to identify pig of Arkansas-based Tyson Foods". Consider the facts. Factory genes derived from patented swine semen. The company also farms are breeding grounds for potential disease proliferation wants patents and the right to collect licence fees for particular because of their cramped, overcrowded conditions, but this was farm animals and livestock herds. If granted, "[a]ny pigs that never mentioned as a threat. Instead, small family-run free-range would be produced using this reproductive technique would be chicken farms were cited as culprits, especially in Asia, when, in covered by these patents". Several techniques are being used and fact, that notion is at least very unlikely. Small farms like these patented as fast as GMO lawyers can submit applications to lock are the safest, but an industry-government propaganda campaign up animal life as intellectual property. agrichemical company in the world. With D&PL, the company has absolute control over the majority of agricultural plant seeds as well. In addition, it's getting into the genetic engineering and patenting of animals. claimed otherwise. Companies like Monsanto and Cargill have invested huge The scheme is clear. Five multinational giants dominate US amounts to genetically modify animals for profit. They thus chicken meat production and processing: Tyson (the largest), want patent and licensing rights to the results, even though this Gold Kist, Pilgrim's Pride, ConAgra Poultry and Perdue Farms. represents a controversial goal to patent life itself. A 1980 US They produce chicken meat under "atrocious health and safety Supreme Court decision in Diamond v. Chakrabarty, however, conditions". According to the US GAO (Government gave them an opening by ruling that "anything under the sun that Accountability Office), workers in these processing plants have is made by man" is patentable. It paved the way for a landmark "one of the highest rates of injury and illness of any industry". patent of the "Harvard mouse" that was genetically engineered to Cited was exposure to "dangerous chemicals, blood, fecal matter, be susceptible to cancer. exacerbated by poor ventilation and often extreme temperatures". Engdahl explains how four agribusiness giants used "stealth, In addition, chickens are tightly cramped and "prevented from system, and a well-supported campaign of lies and distortion" to moving or getting any exercise on factory farms [so they can] progress toward Henry Kissinger's ultimate goal: controlling oil grow...much larger [and faster] than ever before". Growth to control nations, and food to control people. The pursuit of boosters are also used, which create health problems. both are ongoing, with little public knowledge of how far Growing numbers of animal experts believe these farms, not advanced things are and how reckless the scheme is: to small Asian ones, are the real source of dangerous new diseases genetically engineer all plants and life-forms and to control world like avian flu. That information is suppressed in the mainstream, population by culling its "unwanted" parts. so the public is duped. It's so that chicken-processing giants can globalise world production, with the avian flu scare "gift from Continued on page 79 That information is suppressed in the mainstream, so the public is duped. It's so that chicken-processing giants can globalise world production, with the avian flu scare 26 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2008 "gift from heaven" to help them. Continued on page 79 www.nexusmagazine.com