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Biotech Giants Using GMOs to Build Food Tyranny
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian The article below was written the day before India’s state-run biotech regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), approved genetically modified (GM) mustard for commercial cultivation. This decision was taken on 26 October 2022. The … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, news, NGOs, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged ADM, Aruna Rodrigues, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cargill, ChemChina, Corteva, CRISPR, food crisis, Food Security, Friends of the Earth, Gates Foundation, GEAC, GM Mustard, GMOs, GMWatch, Inflation, Mark Lynas, Syngenta, Technocracy
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Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged AGRA, Agrochemicals, BASF, Bayer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Biopiracy, Cargill, CGIAR, Corporate Philanthropy, Corteva, Diversity Seek, DuPont, environment, FMC, Food Security, food sovereignty, Gates Foundation, Global Justice Now, Global South, Globalization, Glyphosate, GMOs, Health, Herbicides, imperialism, Monocrops, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Poverty, Syngenta, USAID, WHO
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Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Agroecology, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cargill, Eric Holt-Giménez, Fertilizers, Genetic Engineering, Global Food System, GM Crops, GMOs, Green Revolution, IMF, India, Industrial Foods, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, organic agriculture, Steven Druker, tyranny, Ukraine, Vandana Shiva, World Bank
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How GMO Seeds and Monsanto/Bayer’s “RoundUp” are Driving US Policy in Venezuela
With Juan Guaidó’s parallel government attempting to take power with the backing of the U.S., it is telling that the top political donors of those in the U.S. most fervently pushing regime change in Venezuela have close ties to Monsanto … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, History, imperialism, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, Social Engineering, society
Tagged AEI, Agrochemicals, American Enterprise Institute, Bayer, Betsy DeVos, Big Ag, Big Oil, Biotech, Chavista United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Corporate Crime, Dow Chemical, Elliott Abrams, Fred Kagan, geopolitics, Glyphosate, GMOs, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, John Bolton, José Cardenas, Juan Guaidó, Marco Rubio, Martin Rodil, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Monsanto, Neocons, Nicolas Maduro, Paul Singer, Paul Wolfowitz, Roger Noriega, Roundtable of Democratic Unity, Roundup, Trump Administration, venezuela
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The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: OffGuardian As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed accordingly. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Bayer, Big Ag, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, environment, Food Security, Food System, geopolitics, Glyphosate, Health, Human Rights, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism
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Harvest of Greed – the Merger of Bayer and Monsanto
By Dr. Mercola Source: Waking Times The featured documentary, “Harvest of Greed,” investigates a number of the many issues brought about by the merger of Monsanto and Bayer AG. The merger was initially announced in May 2016, when Monsanto accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Law, news, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cartel, CSA, DOJ, Economics, environment, EPA, FDA, GE Foods, Genocide, Glyphosate, GMO, I.G. Farben, Monopoly, Monsanto, neonicotinoid pesticides, Organic Consumers Association, Organic Food, Roundup, Seed Patents, The Hague
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Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell
By Steven MacMillan Source: New Eastern Outlook In a world infected with a plethora of immoral multinational corporations, it is hard to think of two corporations who have more nefarious histories than Bayer AG and Monsanto. Considering this, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Agent Orange, Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Bayer, Biotech, Cancer, Chemical Warfare, Glyphosate, GMO, I.G. Farben, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Monsanto, Nazis, Pharmaceuticals, Roundup, World Health Organization
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