{"id":9223,"date":"2013-12-09T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:23:58","slug":"monsanto-and-global-food-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/monsanto-and-global-food-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto, and global food dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gmo-corn-28752130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9224\" title=\"gmo-corn-28752130\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gmo-corn-28752130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gmo-corn-28752130.jpg 800w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gmo-corn-28752130-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newsroom Panama reported on the story of what is happening with GMO corn here in Panama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The introduction of\u00a0 <span>GMO<\/span> (genetically modified)\u00a0 seeds to Panama to grow corn that will be fed to locally grown chickens has passed almost unnoticed. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; height: 260px; width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsroompanama.com\/images\/stories\/gmo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">It has not \u00a0been seriously debated in the National Assembly and ignored by most media, but has stirred serious comment from <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Newsroom<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The following article supplied by \u00a0TRANSCEND Media Service may stir  some further reactions: It\u2019s long,\u00a0 but worth taking the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Ellen Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><em>Control\u00a0oil and\u00a0you control\u00a0nations<\/em>,\u201d said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the <span>1970s<\/span>. \u00a0\u201cC<em><span>ontrol<\/span> food<\/em> and\u00a0<em>you control the people<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with <span>GMO<\/span> (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few  transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at  grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (<span>TPP<\/span>)  passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment  and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational  corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic engineering has made proprietary control possible over the seeds on which the world\u2019s food supply depends. \u201cTerminator\u201d genes enable the production of sterile seeds,  using a synthetic chemical catalyst appropriately called \u201cTraitor\u201d to  induce seed sterility. Farmers must therefore buy seeds from their  patent owners year after year. To cover these costs, food prices are  raised; but the harm is far greater than to our pocketbooks.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Acres USA interview\u00a0of  plant pathologist Don Huber, Professor Emeritus at Purdue University,  two modified traits account for practically all of the genetically  modified crops grown in the world today. One involves insect resistance.  The other, more disturbing modification involves insensitivity to <span>glyphosate-based<\/span> herbicides (plant-killing chemicals). Often known as Roundup after the best-selling Monsanto product of that name, <span>glyphosate<\/span> poisons everything in its path except plants genetically modified to resist it.<\/p>\n<p><span>Glyphosate-based<\/span> herbicides are now the most commonly used herbicides in the world. <span>Glyphosate<\/span> is an essential partner to the <span>GMOs<\/span> that are the principal business of the burgeoning biotech industry. <span>Glyphosate<\/span> is a \u201cbroad-spectrum\u201d herbicide that destroys indiscriminately, not by  killing unwanted plants directly but by tying up access to critical  nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the insidious way in which it works, it has been sold as a  relatively benign replacement for the devastating earlier dioxin-based  herbicides. But a barrage of experimental data has now shown <span>glyphosate<\/span> and the <span>GMO<\/span> foods incorporating it to pose serious dangers to health. Compounding  the risk is the toxicity of \u201cinert\u201d ingredients used to make <span>glyphosate<\/span> more potent. Researchers have found, for example, that\u00a0the surfactant <span>POEA<\/span> can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells.\u00a0But these risks have been conveniently ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The widespread use of <span>GMO<\/span> foods and <span>glyphosate<\/span> herbicides helps explain the anomaly that\u00a0the US spends over twice as much per capita on healthcare\u00a0as the average developed country, yet it is rated far down the scale of the world\u2019s healthiest populations.\u00a0The World Health Organization has rankedthe US LAST out of 17 developed nations for overall health.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty to seventy percent of the foods in US supermarkets\u00a0are  now genetically modified. By contrast, in at least 26 other  countries\u2014including Switzerland, Australia, Austria, China, India,  France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy,  Mexico and Russia\u2014<span>GMOs<\/span> are totally or partially banned; and significant restrictions on <span>GMOs<\/span> exist in about sixty other countries.<\/p>\n<p>A ban on <span>GMO<\/span> and <span>glyphosate<\/span> use might go far toward improving the health of Americans. But the  Trans-Pacific Partnership, a global trade agreement for which the Obama  Administration has sought Fast Track status, would block that sort of  cause-focused approach to the healthcare crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roundup\u2019s Insidious Effects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roundup-resistant crops escape being killed by <span>glyphosate<\/span>,  but they do not avoid absorbing it into their tissues.  Herbicide-tolerant crops have substantially higher levels of herbicide  residues than other crops. In fact, many countries have had to increase  their legally allowable levels\u2014by up to 50 times\u2014in order to accommodate  the introduction of GM crops. In the European Union,\u00a0residues in food are set to rise 100-150 times\u00a0if a new proposal by Monsanto is approved. Meanwhile,\u00a0herbicide-tolerant \u201csuper-weeds\u201d have adapted to the chemical, requiring even more toxic doses and new toxic chemicals to kill the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Human enzymes are affected by <span>glyphosate<\/span> just as plant enzymes are: the chemical blocks the uptake of manganese  and other essential minerals. Without those minerals, we cannot properly  metabolize our food. That helps explain the rampant epidemic of obesity  in the United States. People eat and eat in an attempt to acquire the  nutrients that are simply not available in their food.<\/p>\n<p>According to researchers <span>Samsell<\/span> and <span>Seneff<\/span> in\u00a0<em><span>Biosemiotic<\/span> Entropy: Disorder, Disease, and Mortality<\/em> (April 2013):<\/p>\n<p><span>Glyphosate\u2019s<\/span> inhibition of <span>cytochrome<\/span> <span>P450<\/span> (<span>CYP<\/span>) enzymes is an overlooked component of its toxicity to mammals. <span>CYP<\/span> enzymes play crucial roles in biology . . . . Negative impact on the  body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages  cellular systems throughout the body. Consequences are most of the  diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include  gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease,  depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 diseases have been linked to <span>glyphosate<\/span> use, and more keep appearing. In September 2013,\u00a0the National University of Rio <span>Cuarto<\/span>, Argentina, published research\u00a0finding that <span>glyphosate<\/span> enhances the growth of fungi that produce <span>aflatoxin<\/span> <span>B1<\/span>, one of the most carcinogenic of substances. A doctor from <span>Chaco<\/span>,  Argentina, told Associated Press, \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from a pretty healthy  population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects and  illnesses seldom seen before.\u201d Fungi growths have increased  significantly in US corn crops.<\/p>\n<p><span>Glyphosate<\/span> has also done serious damage to the environment.\u00a0According to an October 2012 report by the Institute of Science in Society:<\/p>\n<p>Agribusiness claims that <span>glyphosate<\/span> and <span>glyphosate-tolerant<\/span> crops will improve crop yields, increase farmers\u2019 profits and benefit  the environment by reducing pesticide use. Exactly the opposite is the  case. . . . [T]he evidence indicates that <span>glyphosate<\/span> herbicides and <span>glyphosate-tolerant<\/span> crops have had wide-ranging detrimental effects, including <span>glyphosate<\/span> resistant super weeds, virulent plant (and new livestock) pathogens,  reduced crop health and yield, harm to off-target species from insects  to amphibians and livestock, as well as reduced soil fertility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics Trumps Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In light of these adverse findings, why have Washington and the European Commission continued to endorse <span>glyphosate<\/span> as safe? Critics point to lax regulations, heavy influence from  corporate lobbyists, and a political agenda that has more to do with  power and control than protecting the health of the people.<\/p>\n<p>In the ground-breaking 2007 book\u00a0<em>Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation<\/em>, William <span>Engdahl<\/span> states that global food control and depopulation became US strategic policy under Rockefeller <span>prot\u00e9g\u00e9<\/span> Henry Kissinger. Along with oil geopolitics, they were to be the new  \u201csolution\u201d to the threats to US global power and continued US access to  cheap raw materials from the developing world. In line with that agenda,  the government has shown extreme partisanship in favor of the biotech  agribusiness industry, opting for a system in which the industry  \u201cvoluntarily\u201d polices itself. Bio-engineered foods are treated as  \u201cnatural food additives,\u201d not needing any special testing.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, confirms\u00a0that  US Food and Drug Administration policy allows biotech companies to  determine if their own foods are safe. Submission of data is completely  voluntary. He concludes:<\/p>\n<p>In the critical arena of food safety research, the biotech industry is  without accountability, standards, or peer-review. They\u2019ve got bad  science down to a science.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not depopulation is an intentional part of the agenda,\u00a0widespread use of <span>GMO<\/span> and <span>glyphosate<\/span> is having that result. The endocrine-disrupting properties of <span>glyphosate<\/span> have been linked to infertility, miscarriage, birth defects and  arrested sexual development. In Russian experiments, animals fed GM soy  were sterile by the third generation. Vast amounts of farmland soil are  also being systematically ruined by the killing of beneficial  microorganisms that allow plant roots to uptake soil nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>In Gary Null\u2019s eye-opening documentary\u00a0<em>Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Lies of <span>GMOs<\/span>, <\/em>Dr.  Bruce Lipton warns, \u201cWe are leading the world into the sixth mass  extinction of life on this planet. . . . Human behavior is undermining  the web of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <span>TPP<\/span> and International Corporate Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the devastating conclusions of these and other researchers awaken people globally to the dangers of Roundup and <span>GMO<\/span> foods, transnational corporations are working feverishly with the Obama  administration to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade  agreement that would strip governments of the power to regulate  transnational corporate activities. Negotiations have been kept secret  from Congress but not from corporate advisors, 600 of whom have been  consulted and know the details.\u00a0According to Barbara <span>Chicherio<\/span> in\u00a0<em>Nation of Change<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>The Trans Pacific Partnership (<span>TPP<\/span>) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history.\u00a0. . .<\/p>\n<p>The chief agricultural negotiator for the US is the former Monsanto lobbyist, Islam <span>Siddique<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0If ratified the <span>TPP<\/span> would impose punishing regulations that give multinational corporations  unprecedented right to demand taxpayer compensation for policies that  corporations deem a barrier to their profits.<\/p>\n<p>. . . They are carefully crafting the <span>TPP<\/span> to insure that citizens of the involved countries have no control over  food safety, what they will be eating, where it is grown, the conditions  under which food is grown and the use of herbicides and pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>Food safety is only one of many rights and protections liable to fall to this super-weapon of international corporate control.\u00a0In an April 2013 interview on The Real News Network, Kevin <span>Zeese<\/span> called the <span>TPP<\/span> \u201cNAFTA on steroids\u201d and \u201ca global corporate coup.\u201d He warned:<\/p>\n<p>No matter what issue you care about\u2014whether its wages, jobs, protecting  the environment . . . this issue is going to adversely affect it . . . .<\/p>\n<p>If a country takes a step to try to regulate the financial industry or  set up a public bank to represent the public interest, it can be sued . .  . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to Nature: Not Too Late<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a safer, saner, more earth-friendly way to feed nations. While  Monsanto and US regulators are forcing GM crops on American families,  Russian families are showing what can be done with <span>permaculture<\/span> methods on simple garden plots.\u00a0In 2011, 40% of Russia\u2019s food was grown on\u00a0<em>dachas<\/em>(cottage  gardens or allotments). Dacha gardens produced over 80% of the  country\u2019s fruit and berries, over 66% of the vegetables, almost 80% of  the potatoes and nearly 50% of the nation\u2019s milk, much of it consumed  raw.\u00a0According to Vladimir <span>Megre<\/span>, author of the best-selling Ringing Cedars Series:<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, what Russian gardeners do is demonstrate that gardeners can feed the world \u2013 and you do not need any <span>GMOs<\/span>,  industrial farms, or any other technological gimmicks to guarantee  everybody\u2019s got enough food to eat. Bear in mind that Russia only has  110 days of growing season per year \u2013 so in the US, for example,  gardeners\u2019 output could be substantially greater. Today, however, the  area taken up by lawns in the US is two times greater than that of  Russia\u2019s gardens \u2013 and it produces nothing but a multi-billion-dollar  lawn care industry.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, only about 0.6 percent\u00a0of  the total agricultural area is devoted to organic farming. This area  needs to be vastly expanded if we are to avoid \u201cthe sixth mass  extinction.\u201d But first, we need to urge our representatives to stop Fast  Track, vote no on the <span>TPP<\/span>, and pursue a global phase-out of <span>glyphosate-based<\/span> herbicides and <span>GMO<\/span> foods. Our health, our finances and our environment are at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsroom Panama reported on the story of what is happening with GMO corn here in Panama. 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