THEY ARE WHAT YOU EAT
...
... HOW THE CORPORATIONS CONTROL THE
FOOD CHAIN
Hello all ...
Twenty-five years ago when I was a national spokesman for the
British Green Party I was talking about the plan by the corporations to
monopolise global food production from field to plate. Today, the crime is
almost complete.
This is even more significant when you realise that those
'corporations' are in fact one corporation operating under different
names. Behind the fake directors and interlocking personnel the same force
dictates the policy and goals for them all. And one of those goals is to control
everything we eat and drink.
People talk about controlling oil to control the people. But
nothing, apart from air, is more fundamental to human survival, let alone health
and prosperity, than food and water. If anything should be exempt from the
profit motive it should be water, which is a most basic requirement for life in
this reality. But our water supplies are in the hands of the same corporation
that now controls food production and sales across the world. This was all
planned a long time ago.
To achieve this control, diversity had to be eliminated and this
is why life has been made so difficult for small and independent farmers. Almost
wherever you look suicide rates among farmers are some of the highest in the
population and often the stress of battling daily to survive is a key, often
overriding, factor. The numbers of independent farmers going bankrupt or selling
up and leaving the land has soared since the Illuminati war on the small farmer
began world-wide. It is a similar story with small businesses of all kinds
because the corporations want to own and control everything.
The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is alleged to have said
that 'Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power'. Whether he said it or not the statement
remains true, not least in Hitler's Germany. Today we see the gathering global
fascism in the merger of state and corporate power - with the corporate far more
powerful than the political. This interconnecting web has allowed the
corporations to integrate their ambitions and manipulations into political
policy and never more powerfully than in the hijacking of the food
chain.
A perfect example was the sting played on European farmers in
the 1980s under the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy or CAP. At
first, this appeared to be the equivalent of winning the lottery for farmers of
all kinds. Basically, they were paid for whatever they produced whether they
sold it or not. Imagine that, whatever you make you are guaranteed the market
rate courtesy of the European taxpayer.
I remember as a Green Party spokesman arguing against the
infamous CAP and facing the wrath of the farming community who were lighting
cigars and raising a glass to the Genie and his magic lamp. But why wouldn't
they, given the short-term thinking that infests the human psyche? All their
dreams had come true.
The policy of we'll-buy-what-you-sow led to massive surpluses
and the infamous 'food mountains' and 'wine lakes' as the unsold production was
stored in giant warehouses across the continent. This was one of the grotesque
examples of the rich-poor divide highlighted by Bob Geldof at the time of Live
Aid in 1985. While extraordinary amounts of food were being stored in Europe,
millions were dying from starvation.
But the Illuminati are nothing if not inhuman.
The CAP also devastated the countryside and the land and soil in
general as farmers cleared all impediments to opening every square inch they
could to more production. Every sow was guaranteed dough and this was without
the need even to find a buyer or a belly. They were also taking out big bank
loans to buy more land at the ever increasing prices fuelled by what was
happening.
Trees and hedgerows were uprooted and wildlife plummeted with
the loss of habitat and the poisons provided by the pharmaceutical cartel to
increase yields in the short term while destroying fertility in the long.
Talking to farmers about the insanity of this as a Green party spokesman was,
appropriately, the story of the seeds and the stony ground.
Then came the sting.
Opposition to the Common Agricultural Policy increased until it
was the major issue of the day because the European taxpayer was footing the
astonishing bill. What's more, the hidden forces behind the policy were
supporting and giving publicity to this public outrage - 'something must be
done'. Stage two was underway.
The European Economic Community, now called the European Union,
announced that it would have to change the CAP in the face of public demand and
the 'mountains' of food left unconsumed. This 'change' was to stop paying
farmers for everything they produced. The gravy train had collided with the
buffer stops. Farmers across Europe were now faced with actually finding buyers
for their produce, but once the subsidies evaporated prices slumped with so much
food and drink available both in production and storage. Small and independent
farmers went bankrupt on a massive scale because they couldn't pay their debts
to the banks that they increased dramatically through land-buying and other
investment in the manufactured boom.
And who was waiting to buy the farms at a few cents on the
dollar? The corporations who were behind the whole thing via the Illuminati
network in government.
In the United States, something similar has happened in the last
half century with a series of decisions by the Illuminati-owned Federal Reserve
leading farm debt to soar. By the end of 2005, it was well in excess of $200
billion and today in the United States, once a nation of small farmers,
only two per cent of the population are involved. Illuminati corporations like
Monsanto in St Louis and the price-fixing Archer-Daniels Midland in Illinois,
have been major beneficiaries of other people's misery.
This has happened on every continent as the market has been
artificially suppressed in readiness for the 'buy outs'. Where this has not yet
happened the corporations control the food chain by owning the seeds, setting
the prices and imposing 'free trade'.
Patenting seeds was unthinkable before the 20th
century and indeed Article One of the US Constitution specifically excluded, for
moral reasons, the patenting of 'life'. In the 1930s, plant breeders were
allowed to patent seed varieties, but not to have rights to subsequent seeds
that were produced from them by the growers. Then in 1980, the Illuminati
challenged these restrictions through the General Electric Corporation and
specifically one of its employees, an Indian-born scientist called Dr Ananda
Chakrabarty. He developed a genetically-engineered microbe to 'eat' oil licks,
which in the end proved unusable. It was refused a patent by the US Patent
Office, but Chakrabarty made history when the US Supreme Court awarded him, by
just one vote, the first patent for a life form. With that judgement, the
floodgates did swing.
During the Reagan-Bush years patents followed for animals, human
genes and body parts. The corporations contend that if they own the gene in the
animal or plant, they own the animal and plant. So what about the genetic
engineering of the human body? Yep, according to this contention they would say
they therefore own the body. As Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of the
Center for Food Safety, said: 'It actually means giving corporations,
incredibly, the power to own and control species of the earth'. It means that if
you own animals or seeds that have been patented by the corporations you have to
pay a royalty for every new one produced. This includes the poorest farmers of
the 'developing world'.
From the mid-1990s, the Illuminati pesticide and chemical
producers, notably Monsanto and Dow, began to buy the seed producers. Monsanto
spent some eight billion dollars alone and Dr. Charles M Benbrook, former Board
of Agriculture Director at the Academy of Sciences, said: 'Basically, the US
pesticide industry bought the seed industry for all intents and
purposes.'
The intent and purpose was to control food production.
The law was changed still further to, wait for this, allow the
corporations to patent seed varieties that they have not genetically
engineered. The only criteria were that no-one else had got there first!
This led to the corporations taking the seeds from the seed banks designed
to protect genetic diversity and going to the patent office to register
ownership. It is reckoned that Monsanto alone owns more than 11,000 seeds.
It has reached such ludicrous levels that even if seeds they
don't own are contaminated by genetically-modified seeds blown onto a farm from
elsewhere, even a passing truck, the corporations are taking the farmers to
court for illegal use of their patented seed without a license. This is
happening to increasing numbers of farmers, including Percy Schmeiser in Canada
who was well-known for developing his own seeds.
Monsanto went onto his land without his knowledge or permission
and then issued a law suit for his use of patented canola seeds that had blown
onto his land. It didn't matter how unjust and crazy it was, the court gave the
judgement in favour of Monsanto. Why? Because the corporations, through the
Illuminati network, control the courts as they control the politicians who
allowed all this to happen in the first place. Percy Schmeiser was forced to
destroy a thousand pounds of seeds that he and his wife had developed over
decades because they had been contaminated by the unwanted Monsanto variety.
Percy's wife, Louise, said:
'Monsanto comes along when we have worked for all these years
and they just want to take it away just like that ... they can just come and do
anything to the farmers, just like they own them, and it really is upsetting.
And I feel they have taken our rights away and our privacy. And we are not the
only ones they have done it to, there are many others.
Why are they prosecuting so many of these little farmers when
they are only worth a couple a hundred thousand, when they are such a
multi-national company - why? Is it greed or is it that they just want to
control all the seeds?'
The answer is both. It is another front on the war against the
independent producer and seed diversity. The Schmeisers lost all their
retirement money in legal costs fighting the case and thousands of innocent
farmers just pay up when Monsanto come calling to avoid crippling
lawsuits.
Rodney Nelson, a farmer in North Dakota, was another Monsanto
victim. He said that every farmer he had spoken to who had been targeted by
Monsanto had told the same story. Monsanto had arrived to test their crop and
those with nothing to hide thought little of it until a year later when, to
their astonishment, Monsanto said they had found their patented seed variety on
their land. The delay of a year meant the plants were not available for them to
challenge the claims.
Monsanto told Nelson that they had tested all 1,350 acres of his
soya bean crop, but when it was pointed out in the subsequent legal case that to
do this would have meant gathering one sample continuously every 20 seconds,
they changed their story. They had, they said, only taken a handful. In short,
they were making it up. But the Illuminati control the courts and Rodney Nelson
describes the judge's 'view' of this incredible injustice:
'It didn't matter how Monsanto's genetic-altered canola got
into his field. Whether it cross-pollinated or blew in by the wind, or by birds,
insects or animals or falling off a farmer's truck, or carbine and so on, it
didn't matter, if there were some plants there I had violated Monsanto's patent,
even though I didn't want it in my field.
He ruled that any farmer that has a conventional plant, it
doesn't matter what kind of plant, if it's a seed, a tree, if it gets
cross-pollinated with Monsanto's gene against your wishes and against your
property, my plant becomes Monsanto's property. Now stop and think what that
means for farmers all over the world, farmers, gardeners, anything to do with a
life-giving form. That shows you the power of patent law over farmers' rights.'
One farmer suggested there is not a single field in western
Canada that has not been contaminated by Monsanto's GM Canola and that's the
whole idea. That was the reason for the 'trials' in the UK ordered by Tony
Blair, the biotech industries man in Downing Street. Once they are established,
the contamination begins, followed by the lawsuit. One of the most active
funders of GM research, by the way, has been the Rockefeller Foundation, which
will surprise no-one who has studied Illuminati history.
But the most sinister development of all are the so-called
'terminator seeds' that die after a single use and cannot be re-used to produce
seeds for the next year's harvest. The United States government has been funding
the research since the Reagan-Bush administration in 1983 and, if you didn't
know the true motivation, it would seem inexplicable that a government would
seek to develop a technology that threatened to turn farmers and whole nations
into slaves of the seed corporations. Willard Phelps, a spokesman for the US
Department of Agriculture, said the aim was to establish the widest possible use
of terminator seeds 'to increase the value of proprietary seed owned by US seed
companies and to open up new markets in Second and Third World countries.' Henry
Kissinger's words in the 1970s capture the motivation: 'Control the oil and you
can control entire continents. Control food and you control people
...'
Jackson Stephens ... if you emptied
his pockets the Clintons would fall out.
The 'suicide seeds' were developed with taxpayer money in a
joint operation between the United States government and a company called Delta
and Pine Land which was reported to have had a rather famous investor - Queen
Elizabeth II. The largest shareholder has been the Stephens Group in Arkansas,
controlled by Jackson Stephens, the major bankroller of Bill Clinton's deeply
corrupt political career. A chairman of Delta and Pine has been Stephens Group
vice-chairman, Jon E.M. Jacoby, who once said of Clinton's alleged corruption in
Arkansas: 'You see a girl walking down the street. You can say, "There goes a
beautiful girl" or "There goes a whore". What the hell's the difference? They've
both got legs.' Nice people.
Now the punch line: In August 2006 it was announced that Delta
and Pine had agreed a $1.5 billion deal to sell its operation and terminator
seed patents to ... Monsanto.
Running parallel with the creation of copyrighted seeds has been
the systematic destruction of the alternatives. Ninety-seven per cent of the
vegetables grown at the start of the 20th century are now extinct.
There were once five thousand potato varieties grown world-wide, now only four
are grown on any scale. This is extremely important because it opens the way
for those varieties that remain to be destroyed by disease or genetic
manipulation. In Ireland in the 19th century when only a few
varieties of potato were grown, the consequences of potato blight attacking
those species was a million people starved to death.
The fewer varieties we use the greater the danger from disease
and insects and this had led to the dependence of chemical spraying - provided
by Monsanto and co - which have created the so-called super bugs and weeds that
have developed through mutation an immunity to the poisons that killed them
before. In my book, It Doesn't Have To Be Like This, published in 1989, I
wrote that the chemicals were ... 'creating super-pests that have become
resistant to the chemicals so more and more pesticides are needed to kill them.
Where will it all end?' Nearly 20 years later we are beginning to see. A report
by the California Policy Seminar, a joint program of the university and state
government, said:
'As a result of these practices worldwide, the number of
resistant pests is growing exponentially, the authors point out. According to
recent biological research, the number of insects and mites that have become
resistant to chemicals since 1950 is up 10-fold, from less than 50 species to
more than 450.'
All these things connect with the Illuminati plan to control the
good chain and, through that, to control the people. Their ownership of the land
and, by lawsuit, the independent farmers, means they control what and how much
is produced; by control of the supermarkets and the commodity markets they
dictate the price it is sold for; and by enforcing 'free trade' laws through the
Illuminati World Trade Organisation they prevent any country from blocking
imported produce to protect homes markets. All this has created:
- Dependency on Illuminati corporations for seeds.
- Dependency on Illuminati corporations for the pesticides,
herbicides and fertilisers to make the seeds grow or survive.
- Dependency on Illuminati supermarkets which have destroyed
independent stores and dictate the price they will pay to farmers.
- Dependency on Illuminati corporations for virtually everything
that we eat or drink.
Dependency = control and that is what this whole story is
about.
To be continued ...
[thanks to http://www.davidicke.com.]
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