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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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25 Families Own $1.1 Trillion Between Them as the Global Wealth Inequality Gap Grows
Using data from their list Forbes has produced a list of the top 25 richest families in the world. Together they are worth over $1.1 trillion, or the entire GDP of Indonesia. By Rosa Tressell and Dr. Leon Tressell Source: SouthFront Once … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Billionaires, Bloomberg, Cargill, Dictators, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Frobes, Jeff Bezos, Koch Brothers, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Power, Roche, Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Waltons, Wealth, Wealth Concentration
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