Dr. Mercola May 01 2008 397,373 views
[We regret to inform you that this video has been removed for legal purposes, unrelated to Monsanto.]On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television. It is a documentary most Americans will never see, explaining how the gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
For millennia, farmers have saved seeds from season to season. But when Monsanto developed GM seeds that would resist its own herbicide, Roundup, Monsanto patented the seeds. For nearly all of its history the United States Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant patents on seeds, viewing them as life-forms with too many variables to be patented. But in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for seed patents in a five-to-four decision, laying the groundwork for a handful of corporations to begin taking control of the world’s food supply.
Since the 1980s, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetic modification of seeds and has won 674 biotechnology patents, more than any other company. Farmers who buy Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds are required to sign an agreement promising not to save the seed produced after each harvest for re-planting, or to sell the seed to other farmers. This means that farmers must buy new seed every year.
Monsanto puts pressure on farmers, farmers’ co-ops, seed dealers, and anyone else it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds. To do this, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents. They secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops. They infiltrate community meetings. They gather information from informants about farming activities.
Some Monsanto agents pretend to be surveyors. Others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to sign papers giving Monsanto access to their private records. Farmers call them the “seed police” and use words such as “Gestapo” and “Mafia” to describe their tactics.
Monsanto, which was a plain old chemical business before it rechristened itself a "life sciences" company, and started using bioengineering to develop genetically altered crops, is one of the biggest threats to both mankind and the earth today. They have both the capability and the ruthless drive to, more or less single-handedly, destroy the world’s natural biodiversity and food supply for their own profit.
Complicating the picture further, Monsanto is also deeply entrenched with the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacia Corporation was created in April 2000 through the merger of Pharmacia & Upjohn with Monsanto Company and its G.D. Searle unit. Few people ever make the connection between GMO crops and the sale of drugs.
I believe the GMO crop issue is one of the most significant challenges to your future health. And, the drug industry is one of the primary driving forces for the traditional paradigm, which focuses on the treating symptoms with expensive band-aids, so you get sicker and sicker and require more of their self-serving expensive drug solutions to relieve your symptoms. Put these two health disasters together – where one is feeding the profits of the other -- and the picture becomes bleak indeed.
Folks, it’s time to just say no to this madness and abrogation of ethics.
Let your elected officials know how you feel about it; ask your local supermarket to stock their shelves with more natural organic foods; vote with your pocketbook – avoid everything that contains GMO products. That means abstaining from virtually all processed food products and sticking to fresh, locally grown, organic food stuffs, and going back to basic food preparation in your own home.
Cooking from scratch, with wholesome ingredients based on your nutritional type, is one of the absolute best things you can do for your long-term health.
Is New Terrifying Disease the Cause of Genetically Modified Foods?
Have you ever heard of “Morgellon’s Disease?”
As of February 2007, more than 10,000 reports of the mysterious disease have been reported on the Morgellon Foundation's website. That’s up from 2,000 reports in February of 2006.
Reports come from 15 nations across the world, including Canada, the UK, Australia and The Netherlands, as well as all 50 U.S. states. The majority of reports have come from Texas, California and Florida.
People with Morgellon’s disease describe it as a feeling of bugs or parasites scuttling around beneath their skin, accompanied by open lesions that heal slowly and ooze out blue, black or white fibers that can be several millimeters long. These fibers appear like pliable plastic. They can be as fine as spider silk, yet they are strong enough to distend the skin when pulled and elicit shooting pains when you try to remove them.
The CDC, unusually slow to respond to what can only be described as a new outbreak, has finally set up a web page about the phenomenon, which they refer to as “Unexplained Dermopathy.” In August 2007 -- a year after vowing to look into the terrifying disorder -- they gave $300,000 to Kaiser Permanente to investigate the disease.
The CDC’s website lists additional symptoms, including fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, changes in vision, and social dysfunction, including suicide.
According to an article in Natural News, published last week, Morgellon’s disease may be linked to genetically modified food.
While the CDC dragged its feet, a research team from Oklahoma State University lead by Dr. Randy Wymore, studied some of the fibers sent to them by Morgellons patients. They found that the fibers from different people look remarkably similar to each other, yet do not match any common environmental fibers.Vitaly Citovsky, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University in New York, discovered that the fibers contain the substance Agrobacterium, a genus of gram-negative bacteria capable of genetically transforming not only plants, but also other eukaryotic species, including human cells.
Are we now teetering on the brink of the GM food disaster we feared from the very beginning?
Information is Power, so Power Up!
If you aren't convinced this is an important issue for you, your children, and your grandchildren, then do yourself a favor and find some free time to review the evidence, starting with the related articles listed at the end.
You can also search my site by entering “Monsanto” into the search box. I have over 300 pages on this topic alone!
To further guide you in understanding the problems associated with GM foods, I strongly recommend reading the incredible series Seeds of Doubt, written by staffers at the Sacramento Bee.
And, last but not least, I urge everyone to watch the video The Future of Food. Forward the link to this video widely among your friends, family and acquaintances. This in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind genetically modified foods is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. It will help you understand how and why the genetic engineering we allow to be unleashed today is a very real threat to ALL future generations.
How to Avoid GM Foods
Many of you probably don't understand just how ubiquitous GM foods are in the food chain.
The fact is that genetically modified foods are so prevalent in the United States that if you randomly pick an item off your grocery store's shelves, you have a 75 percent chance of picking a food with GM ingredients. This is because at least seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified.
The True Food Shopping Guide is a great tool for helping you determine which brands and products contain GMO ingredients. It lists 20 different food categories that include everything from baby food to chocolate.
Here are four simple steps to decrease your consumption of GM foods as much as possible:
Not to be shown on your TV:
Report: Dalai Lama Nazi Conspiracy, World War 3 Food Crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rut-tXh_TEI&feature=email
And even when the media does bother to give you seemingly reliable news it's just crap anyway: I don't wish to be so blunt, I can't find a more fitting term.
Back to the topic, who knew there was so much anti-natural health? I regret to say but maybe serious, smack-in-the-face problems like global warming will wake people up and help them realize that more natural and less conventional, factorymade, poor,foreign-made, cancer-causing is the better solution to almost everything.
The media blackout on Dr. Ron Paul amazed even me, and I'm a veteran of censorship--I have not been able to publish anything on GMOs or EMFs in the mainstream media. If I were to write an irrational diatribe on either topic, I am sure they would publish it--it would give them something easy to attack. I guess as the list of censored subjects grows, more and more people will become aware of it and open to the idea of censorship covering a broader range of topics. We have a long way to go, however. Intelligent friends who went to college with me in America are now getting sick, but they are afraid to even consider alternative medicine and are unaware of the degree of corporate control over the media. To me it looks like they've been brainwashed. I think we are very lucky if we are aware of these things going on.
I agree with all of this. The TV news never mentions important things for the consumers like how GMOs can kill the food supply and Codex, Ron Paul, etc. The news programs are so heavily endowed with payouts from the food companies that they are afraid for their bank accounts.
Wassily, I think it's "Religion is th opium of the people," and it was Karl Marx, or somebody like him. Anybody know for sure? Anyway, TV pretty much has taken religion's place in America, anyway, so you're not so far off.
"Even if one of them was to read the newspaper cover to cover, that ain't what's going on, journalism dead and gone." - the Eagles, from their newest album, "Long Road Out of Eden"
I have an idea, is someone good with a sniper rifle? Assassination of Monsanto? That will stop em!
Dear Consumers, yes we who buy the stuff.
We live in a capitalistic “democracy” and these companies, Pharmacia & Upjohn and G.D. Searle now Monsanto Company are in business for the money, for the
profits. Whether they have ulterior motives is irrelevant if we consider that it is our money which keeps them in business.
Boycott any products from these companies. It may be harder for farmers to do
do but even they have alternatives to GMO seeds and the pesticides. How have farmers grown our food historically?
The power of the purse is ours.
If you really believe that Monsanto is evil then why would you buy any of their
products? Do you really buy food stuffs which contain Aspartame produced by
Searle? Do you buy products from Upjohn? There are alternatives. No religion will kill you as effectively as the misinformation provided by chemical concerns for the sake of profit. They believe there are too many people on the planet but fail to understand that the excessive number of “sheep” is the source of their profits. The chemical Midas touch.
We spend the money, we have the power but only if we exercise that power.
Boycott Monsanto and all of the products they produce. Boycott Searle and Upjohn.
Wal-Mart has a clever ad which says if we bought only one of something we could improve the climate, each 200 million of us, the ad says.
What would the effect be if the same "each of us" boycotted Monsanto?
We spend the money, we drive the machine of commerce, part of the blame is ours.
Boycott, boycott!
And please consider the profits that our current lame duck administration is conspiring against us regarding the power of our purse, BOYCOTT. We are source of the profits, we spend the money.
If Ron Paul wants our support he will get the media to pay attention, if not he does not deserve our support.
Tondelaya - have you heard of Break The Matrix? Worth checking out especially if you're a Ron Paul supporter. Also just finished recording an election song for those who might be interested.
Peace
MW
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Everyone who is voting for Ron Paul is throwing their vote away...a horrible thing to do under the current circumstances.
Don't forget the lesson of 2000. The election came down to the state of Florida. Gore lost to Bush by 9,000 votes in that state. Ralph Nader received 90,000 votes - votes which assumably would have gone to Gore if Nader hadn't been the spoiler.
Watch out. If you really want another Republican, you should vote for McCain, otherwise, please vote for the Democrat. Any third party has no ability to win at this point in time. You have to try to choose the lesser of two evils.
Sorry, but I fail to understand how a republican (Ron Paul) can have a position that goes against the big corporations and have ideas that go against the capitalism, isn’t that an essential contradiction? Is he in the wrong party? Thanks to anyone that want to clarify this. By the way I don’t think that this issue is "off topic", on the contrary, the issue has EVERYTHING to do with politics…
allgreen, Ron Paul is actually a Libertarian masquerading as a Republican. In fact, he was the 1988 Libertarian presidential candidate. He runs for office as a Republican in Texas because that is the only way he can realistically win. In my view, he is not as beholden to corporate big business as are most mainstream Republicans. He would do things that are in line with the people, the country, and the constitution.
The video is no longer available. Anyone know why? Or where else to access it from?
Ron Paul? Are you kidding?! He's in favor of eliminating practically every governmental agency in this country - something about the government spending too much of taxpayers' money on "frivalous, non-essential" programs. That may be true in some cases, but with that kind of Reagan-esqe deregulation mentality, companies like Monsanto would be free to do virtually anything they wanted to, considering they're already getting away with murder, literally. And for the record, if he truly was ignored by the media, then it was because his ideas for change were too drastic and extreme to even remotely give him any chance as a pontential party nominee.
who is Ron Paul? I need to check him out for sure.
Monsanto is out for world domination obviously. They are the manufacturers of GBH aren't they? They push it to the farmers, deny that it's killing their cows, then refuse to report complaints to the FDA. They also tried to bribe canadian officials before Canada put a ban on bovine growth hormone.
Some reporters actually sued their employer for intentionally slanting an anti-milk bit they did. http://foxbghsuit.com/
The govt. has been sitting on a lawsuit for EIGHT YEARS of people wanting to sue the dairy association for the "got milk" ads, claiming they are misleading. Protein leeches calcium from your bones, not the other way around. DUH!
My brother in-law was a seed farmer growing corn for Big M.
He could only buy planting seed from Big M and could only sell the crop to them and had to use their chemicals and pesticides. Weekly inspections coupled with strict rules. 5 rows of seed A 5 rows of seed B. Irrigation was by centre pivots, and he had to fix these while in operation, spraying water and Big M cocktails of chemicals and pesticides.
Six successful years made him a dollar millionaire - 5 Farms, 30+ tractors and an aeroplane and a big bank balance. Suddenly it went pear shaped. He spent many months at an asylum and then sold the farms for a song, and lost his wife and his kids.
Today he is often ill, his complexion is grey, his demeanour is black and he has unlimited quantities of abuse which he dishes out. He seldom leaves his house and only takes holidays in a camper with his dog. A psychological and physical wreck of a man.
Big M makes good use of farmers.
TO HERSHEL --
This may be the most important blog I've seen anywhere on Health issues! (And I've been studying the "Why" of illness, and solutions for "Wellness" for 34 years.)
See what "Strong's Greek Lexicon Search Results" says about "pharmacy"... [repeated under Fair Use Doctrine for Educational purposes only: 5331. pharmakeia far-mak-i'-ah from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively):--sorcery, witchcraft.
5332. pharmakeus far-mak-yoos' from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician:--sorcerer. 5333. pharmakos far-mak-os' the same as 5332:--sorcerer.]
Your in-law reminds me of the Gadarenes Demoniac in Mark 5, and elsewhere in the Bible.
Ya think we are not ALL subject to what happened to the in-law? I know a child who – as far as I know – was never the same after being caught in a “CropDuster” cloud of chemicals 10 years ago.
To avoid that end, we must get our priorities straight in order to foil the enemy of mankind... As for me, I'm going FIRST to the Rock that is Jesus Christ.
I believe you, Hershel -- Welcome Aboard! Thanks for sharing!
Blessings to all,
MuleMarm
If you know the ultimate goals behind this, you would not wonder any longer why.
When you tally all of this up: frankenfoods, vaccines laced with mercury and live viruses, water polluted and poisoned, deadly prescribtions, cancer rates rising in children..,.,gas prices, food prices, china imports meant to kill and maim.Global warming( in 1979 they were trying to sell us on global cooling/ice age is coming) too many people, we're bad ...reduce our numbers
You have to be darned naive not to get it whats up.
BTW
the stuff on the tv, bought and paid for by multi national corporations.All the stuff on the O and hellary C fights, mindless entertainement for the mindless masses..PAstor Wright and O fight...are made up to lead us..not real people....this $h6#% is not real people, turn it off, turn it off- think
for yourself, stop drinking the death camp cool-aid
themikeb you are so right on! The goal as you say is population control. Everyone on this site needs to go to their local library and get the book Thy Will Be Done, Nelson Rockefeller and the conquest of the Amazon. The author is Gerard Colby. Don't let the title fool you, it addresses a lot of stuff going on in this country and the world and can open eyes.
There were five Rockfeller brothers heirs to the oil barons billions, and each one was in charge of one thing in order to "conquer the world" David in banking (Chase), Winthrop in cattle breeding, Nelson in "new military dictatorships" and John the 3rd in POPULATION CONTROL AND AGRICULTURE. They had ranches in South America and experimented in plant genetics (when they weren't murdering and slaughtering the Indians in the rain forest).
The "crazy stuff" has been mixed with the truth on the internet and anytime someone talks about this they get labeled a "conspiracy nut". Thats because the main stream media has sold us the propaganda and want us to believe that anyone who says anything against the "established" rules is crazy. It's a way of dismissing the truth and getting people to be afraid of it and not to look at it. But it's all out in the open if only we will look. My question? Who started Monsanto? Who funded them? What have all their actions been? My mother used to say that Actions speak louder than words! How true! I could care less what these companies say. They lie, lie lie! What are they doing? I saw the site on this Morgellons disease about 6 months ago. Could this be nano technology dropped from the chemical spraying? The fibers suggest some kind of "growth".
In a remote part of Norway the big money guys have funded a underground fault with every kind of seed known to man, to be assured of genetic diversity in case of a "natural disaster". It's called the Doomsday Vault. I am pretty sure the Rockfellers are part of it. As well as Bill Gates. Just what kind of doomsday do they have in mind?
Hey, yes indeed! But there is only one thing to add - it's not some huge big complicated conspiracy plotted by fascist geniuses - it's actually just a bunch of long time old blue blood families n social/business friends who will do anything to keep their grip on what they think is their money.
If it were economic control geniuses, they'd be doing a much better job of it. Without the satiated masses you'll have to scrub your own toilet, so to speak. All the literature of a certain fraternal organization teaches this quite explicitly. Guess they're not reading for comprehension these days.
I was so thrilled to see the article in the May 2008 issue of Vanity Fair magazine about Monsanto. It was called "Monsanto's Harvest of Fear," by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. (Maybe it's available at vanityfair.com, if you'd like to see it?) Hopefully it will help to open a few more eyes to the great evil this company is causing.
Is this the best source for information?? Vanity fair, a magazine known for fashion and culture...how about a stronger source for this topic.
I always send those "mainstream" magazine articles like Vanity Fair to the non believers. They deem it more credible than the Mercola website...
For 65 years I have been agnostic. It has been easy to ignore a lot of the 'fear mongering' of the past. But now , I dont know any more. The last 10-15 years has been so totally crazy that logic and common sense have fled from our national conscienceness and it seems we are in a freefall of insanity. The things we once held most precious are now against the law and popular acceptance. The things we once classed as decadent, unlawful and antisocial are now mandated by govt.,law,courts, media and social cliques. THe monsanto seed thing is merely a scratch on the surface of the chanker sores on our society. THe pharma chemicals and medicines we are literaly forced to take by law are killing more of us than the diseases that we are trying to heal. A big financial boom for the health industry, that is creating a captive population of perpetually sick people. And, fully endorsed and mandated by the 540 legislators in D.C..Our misguided liberal socialists media and legal system is now trying to screw over the national consciousness and fill it with white guilt for not 'wanting' a black president, even though he isnt qualified in any way. We are fighting wars of aggression to make other nations 'agree' with us. Reason? To fill the financial coffers of the large monoplistic corporations that run our govt. Running out of food? Yes, yes we are. A strategically planned campaign to use food for fuel. Let people eat grass. Put corn, wheat , rice in your gas tank. Running out of oil? Yes, and we wont drill for any on our lands. Enviromental terrorists have stopped that. Fuel efficient/electric cars? NO, we wont build em. lowers oil profits! We have health alternatives, fuel alternatives, food alternatives, many others. Use em? No lowers corporate profits and congressional payola. IF phrophecy is correct, and it looks like it just may be, we are only now experiencing the tip of a hellish iceberg. Mother nature is selfcorrecting and our children will see the carnage of that.
Wow!! corgi you summed it up to a tee!!
I don't know about you being an agnostic but you've certainly got everything in perspective.....I couldn't agree with you more!
What everyone needs to realize is that all of the fear mongering crises ares exactly this:
"A strategically planned campaign " as corgi aptly put it. There is no food shortage and no oil crisis. These are manufactured fears to keep the public's mind off who is taking all the $$$$ and who is controlling the resources so they and their friends and families can party in the Caymans or Switzerland or at any of the other 15 underutilized billion dollar mansions they own. The masses of humanity are paying and suffering for a very small tight group of greedy people to maintain their overindulgent lifestyles.
"liberal socialists media"? Who would THAT be? Our media is not run by "liberal socialists" but by huge corporations. ABC-Disney; NBC-General Electric; TBS- Time-Warner; CBS-Westinghouse; CNBC-affiliated with Microsoft and Time-Warner; Fox-Rupert Murdoch. And what is an "environmental terrorist"? What once was a term used to describe small groups of radicals, it has now been expanded to include anyone who stands in the way of corporate profiteering. I do agree with most everything else you said though.
If you think Obama isn't qualified, then Clinton isn't either. He has more legislative experience than she has. If you feel guilty for not wanting him because he's black, you should.
If you think someone is misguided because they are liberals, than you need to mind your own business and stop worrying about what other people are doing. If you think someone is a socialist because they are a liberal, than you are a facist because you are a conservative.
Please think before you speak. A lot of your points were so on point, but than the next sentence out of your mouth took you right off the map.
If you ran for President I would vote for you.