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Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
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Tag Archives: Green Revolution
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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The Globalisation of Bad Food and Poor Health: Sustainable Development or Sustainable Profits?
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. In India, government … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, Science, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Birth Defects, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diabetes, Factory Farms, Fast Food, Free Trade, GE Food, Global Food System, Globalisation, GMOs, Green Revolution, Junk Food, local economies, Local Foods, Localisation, Malnutrition, Monocrops, obesity, Pesticides, pollution, Processed Foods, Soil, TTIP
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Poisoned Agriculture: Depopulation and Human Extinction
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF There is a global depopulation agenda. The plan is to remove the ‘undesirables’, ‘the poor’ and others deemed to be ‘unworthy’ and a drain on finite resources. However, according to Rosemary Mason, the plan isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, History, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Agroecology, Depopulation, Eugenics, Gates Foundation, geopolitics, Glyphosate, GM Food, GMO, Green Revolution, Herbicides, Monocrops, Monoculture, Monsanto, Rockefeller Foundation, Roundup, The Royal Society
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Get Big or Get Out: Complex Systems and Reciprocal Ecocide
By Gary Gripp Source: The Hampton Institute For awhile now I have been saying that the complex systems which supposedly serve us actually serve themselves: they call the tune and we dance as directed. But I haven’t offered a whole … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Science, society, Technology, war
Tagged agro-chemicals, Big Agribusiness, Gary Gripp, Genetic Engineering, GMOs, Green Revolution, Monocrops
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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO): Profit, Power and Geopolitics
By Colin Todhunter Source: GlobalResearch.ca Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not essential for feeding the world [1,2], but if they were to lead to increased productivity, did not harm the environment and did not negatively impact biodiversity and human health, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, Science, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Colin Todhunter, geopolitics, Global Research, GMO, Green Revolution, IMF, Monsanto, Seeds of Destruction, William Engdahl, World Bank, WTO
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