THE GMO SCRAPBOOK: YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT THE GMO MYTHOLOGY THAT IT IS ...

April 13, 2015 / Joseph P. Farrell /

Mr. V.T. contributed this article, and if you've been following the story of GMO foods and crops and the growing opposition to them, then this is an important development:

New Report Debunks 'Myth' That GMOs are Key to Feeding the World

The pdf file of the report mentioned in the article is here:

Feeding the World Without GMOs PDF

This report is important because it confirms a number of other reports that I have blogged about, including studies from the University of Iowa that suggest that not only are GMOs ultimately less productive per acre than their natural counterparts, but their cost effectiveness  declines over time as well.

But there's something else here as well, and I hope you caught it:

"After examining recent research on GMO crop production, the report also found:

  • "Genetically modified crops—primarily corn and soybeans—have not substantially contributed to global food security and are primarily used to feed animals and cars(sic), not people.
  • "GMO crops in the US are not more productive than non-GMO crops in western Europe.
  • 'A recent case study in Africa found that crops that were crossbred for drought tolerance using traditional techniques improved yields 30 percent more than genetically engineered varieties." (Emphasis added)

This one line summarizes what has been wrong with GMOs all along: the lack of inter-generational study of their effects (and effectiveness) compared to normal natural seeds and the time-honored agronomical techniques of breeding characteristics into plants over time and several generations. We were confidently assured by corporate science that GMOs were not only safe, but the answer to world hunger and feeding the world's growing population. But the third point above implies that exactly the opposite seems to be the case. Add to this the second line "GMO crops in the US are not more productive than non-GMO crops in Western Europe", and, as the University of Iowa pointed out, over the long term more expensive to plant and raise, and one gets the picture.

What has been the response of I.G. Farbensanto and DuPonzanto and the other big agribusiness giants? They have fallen back on standard mercantilist policy, seeking government protections and interferring in local and state laws and campaigns. In short, the truth be damned: we need protection, because the jig is up, and we cannot compete without that protection. And the government and corrupt politicians have played along. In the end, of course, it will be to no avail, and the USA's GMO geopolitics will stand as another example of a bad policy, pursued to its end.

And one can expect, with the new Chinese Asian Infrastructure Development bank, and the participation of European countries such as Germany, that have increasingly called into question the whole GMO issue, that GMOs will be on the agenda once that bank is operating, and issuing loans. If those loans are made for agricultural infrastructure development such as has been advocated in this article and report, then we'll know that an old prediction of mine - that the BRICSA nations would eventually make the GMO a geopolitical and human rights issue - is happening.

See you on the flip side...

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

13 Comments

  1. Margaret on April 13, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    It’s been a bad quarter for Mon[ster]santo. Profits are down another 15% and the World Health Organization has just released a report calling glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, as ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’. Even more devastating is this video with a GMO lobbyist who glibly told the interviewer that glyphosate was so safe you could drink a quart of it without harm … but when offered a glass of it to drink, he said “I’m not an idiot.” The video, which has gone viral mainstream, is linked at the bottom of the article.
    http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2015-articles/16027



    • Robert Barricklow on April 15, 2015 at 10:57 am

      Glyphosate should be classified as a chemical warfare agent.



  2. Robert Barricklow on April 13, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    GMOs, Fracking, The Federal Reserve,
    the lists of criminals syndicate policies are replete
    throughout the Empire.

    When you get sick in AmeriKa?
    If the Doctors don’t kill you…
    Their bill will.



  3. terminally skeptical on April 13, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    The sordid history of GMOs:

    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/03/08/altered-genes-twisted-truth-gmo.aspx?e_cid=20150308Z1_SNL_NB_art_1&utm_source=snl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20150308Z1_SNL_NB&et_cid=DM69481&et_rid=868307305



  4. DownunderET on April 13, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    Eh, why doesn’t Monstersanto just give up, they must be aware of the mounting opposition from around the world. The number of governments that have supported them is dying, did Monstersanto stop the “handouts”?
    All I can say is, this joke of GMO’S is over, done and dusted, and about time to.



  5. basta on April 13, 2015 at 9:59 am

    Well, Moninsanito didn’t say exactly how GMOs were going to help feed the world, but it’s pretty obvious that it is not a simple, one-step process of plant GMO seed => harvest more grain to feed more mouths.

    The flow chart is a bit more complicated (and lucrative): plant GMO seed => destroy the health of the population (and impoverish small farmers) => raise cancer rates => make more money in the “healthcare” division => with a lower population, it is easier to feed those who remain … er, survive.



  6. marcos toledo on April 13, 2015 at 9:15 am

    There was a science fiction novel I pickup in the children section of the public library in New York. I think the title was The Lord Of Outer Space which told of these beings who went about exterminating other being in other solar systems around the galaxy, and they would put up obelisks tallying their conquests. I think we are dealing with a Empire that worships slavery and intends to turn Earth into zombie world a Night Of the living Dead, Z Nation, Walking Dead, Twelve Monkeys.



  7. Aridzonan_13 on April 13, 2015 at 8:28 am

    Wow, what else would Borg.Inc put out in a press release? Check the fine print for “You will be assimilated.”



  8. Robert Barricklow on April 13, 2015 at 8:13 am

    Bad Policy might be too good a tag for an act that is, in essence,

    CRIMINAL.
    But as I found of saying… [stole it from Catherine Austin Fitts]
    Crime That Pays
    Is Crime That Stays



  9. jedi on April 13, 2015 at 7:57 am

    breeding over time and several generations….they still teach that don’t they.



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