The Future According to Monsanto

According to author Jeffrey Smith (“The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods.”):

Monsanto’s vision was established in the ‘90s, with Arthur Andersen as a consultant - they were also Enron’s consultant. They asked the Monsanto executives, describe your ideal future in 15 to 20 years. And the executives described a world in which 100 percent of all commercial seeds were genetically engineered and patented. And Andersen worked backwards from that goal to create that strategy and tactics to achieve it.

So here was a company designing a plan to replace nature. To eliminate the products of the billions of years of evolution and replace it with designer genes and designer organisms for their greater profit and control. And they’ve since become the largest seed company in the world.

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One of the former Monsanto scientists told me rats that were fed genetically modified corn, in Monsanto laboratories, that they were damaged severely. So instead of withdrawing the corn, Monsanto covered it up by rewriting the study, which was no surprise to us who have caught them red-handed over and over again.

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For corn and cotton, they actually insert a gene from bacteria that actually produces a Bt toxin. The toxin breaks open holes in the stomachs of insects to kill them. They promised us up and down that it would have no effect on humans, but a 2012 study showed that it poked holes in human cells as well. And it actually gets into our bloodstream, and for pregnant women, it gets into the unborn fetuses.

For Roundup-ready crops, those are crops inserted with a gene that allows the crops to be sprayed with Roundup herbicide. The Roundup gets absorbed into the crops and is stored in the food portion which we eat. A recent paper on Roundup linked it to obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, anorexia, autism, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, aggression and depression, because it cuts off certain metabolic pathways, it kills gut bacteria, it disrupts the digestive channels, and it might even create leaky gut.

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[Monsanto] spent $250mn over five years, with the other biotech industry companies about a decade ago, trying to convince Americans that they needed to accept GMOs because it would feed the world.

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The average GMO reduces yield. The Union of Concerned Scientists’ report “Failure to Yield” shows that. In fact, the most comprehensive evaluation of agriculture, the ISTAT report signed on by 58 countries, said the current generation of GMOs has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world or eradicating poverty. Whereas sustainable agriculture, in a study of more than 12mn farms, showed an increase of 79 percent in yield.

  Caveat Emptor

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.