Who determines whether or not you eat?

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world. ~ Kissinger

Some of you know that I love a tin foil hat and I’ve written here many times about my views on 9/11 (inside job), education (shitty by design), and income taxes (theft to support the Federal Reserve). Today I want to talk about food and specifically, Monsanto.

I found an online article today that discusses what many online conspiracy sites have talked about for years- the corporate takeover of the food supply. The article, written by Andrew Bosworth, explains order 81 of Paul Bremer’s 100 Orders for Iraq and says:

Under this mandate, Iraq’s commercial farmers must now buy “registered seeds.” These are normally imported by Monsanto, Cargill and the World Wide Wheat Company. Unfortunately, these registered seeds are “terminator” seeds, meaning “sterile.” Imagine if all human men were infertile, and in order to reproduce women needed to buy sperm cells at a sperm bank. In agricultural terms, terminator seeds represent the same kind of sterility.

At first glance these seed sellers didn’t seem like too big a deal. I thought that since farmers have been saving seed for thousands of years there wouldn’t be too much reliance on genetically modified seed but a little research told me just how wrong I was. There are a number of ways that transgenic contamination can happen and therein lies the problem. If testing of saved seed crop shows any evidence of Monsanto patented technology, a farmer must prepare himself for a costly court battle.

And, let me tell you that Monsanto isn’t weak. Watch the following video to get an idea of the type of ball it plays.

Questions about the safety of genetically modified food aside, the idea that a few corporations can literally control the world’s food supply should scare the shit out of the reasonable person.

What wouldn’t you do if your children were starving?

~ by Miche on October 21, 2008.