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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Health, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, GMOs, Green Revolution, hunger, IMF, military spending, NATO, obesity, Oxfam, Public Health, Technocracy, Ukraine, World Bank, WTO
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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Agroecology, ‘A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045, Big Tech, Bill Gates, biotechnology, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, Gates Foundation, Global Food System, GMOs, Green Revolution, Health, Industrial Agriculture, Long Food Movement, Neoliberalism, Technocracy, technology
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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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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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