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Tag Archives: Biotech
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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Annihilation: Alex Garland’s Bad Trip Through Dis-ease and Over-Reproduction
By Kim Nicolini Source: CounterPunch If you go see Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) – and I highly recommend you see this film in an actual movie theater with a big screen and big sound –, you are in for a trip. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Environment, Feminism, Film, GMOs, media, Science, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Alex Garland, Andrei Tarkovsky, Annihilation, Biotech, culture, environment, Ex Machina, Feminism, Horror, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Science fiction, technology
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The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, society, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Big Agra, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Ecology, environment, Food System, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Pesticides, Public Health
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Sweat Shops, GMOs and Neoliberal Fundamentalism: The Agroecological Alternative to Global Capitalism
By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research Much of the argument in favour of GM agriculture involves little more than misrepresentations and un scrupulous attacks on those who express concerns about the technology and its impacts. These attacks are in part designed to whip up … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Agroecology, Big Ag, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Decentralization, Eric Holtz-Gimenez, Food First, Gates Foundation, geopolitics, GM Agriculture, GMO, Herbicides, Localism, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Organic Food, Pesticides, Poverty, Raj Patel, Sweat Shops, WTO
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population
By Paul Buchheit Source: CommonDreams Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Agra, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Biotech, Charitable Foundations, economic inequality, Economics, Education, Facebook, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritocracy, Microsoft, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Plutocracy, Taxes, Warren Buffett, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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