THE GMO SCRAPBOOK: FRENCH COURT SAYS NO TO GMO CORN

In case you missed it, early last month a French court upheld a ban on GMO corn:

"France’s General Association of Corn Producers had asked the Council of State to weigh in on the parliament’s restrictions on GM corn, but the court also rejected their case on Monday.

"The council said that the current ban on MON810 had not brought about an urgent economic crisis for the corn growers, as they had alleged.

"France adopted a decree in March halting the sowing of Monsanto's insect-resistant MON810 corn, the sole GM crop allowed for cultivation in the European Union.

"The law also applies to any strain adopted at EU level in future, including the GM variety Pioneer 1507, developed jointly by DuPont and Dow Chemical. That product might be approved by the EU executive later this year, after 19 of the 28 member states failed to gather enough votes to block it.

"France is pushing to cut Brussels out of the process entirely, with future GM authorisations taken only at the national level."(Emphasis added, for the full article see French Court Bans GMO corn)

In other words, Brussels, ever the dictatorial oligarchical creature of the Anglo-American finance wizards and technocrats that it is, has been entirely bypassed and, indeed, defied, by the French legislature and courts. 

I believe the significance here, while rather obvious, should be clearly stated, and it is a geopolitical one. In the first place, such defiance on the crucial issue of GMOs can only serve to illustrate to the European population how distant the Fuehrerbefehlen coming out of Brussels are from the growing public concerns about GMOS, particularly in Europe. The GMO issue could become a bellweather issue, in other words, for the future direction of the EU, even to the point of whether or not there will be an effective EU. It's a message to the Brussels technocrats that the Maastricht Treaty which created the EU debacle is a disaster, and that true and genuine representation must come to the EU, or the individual nations thereof will inevitably have to follow their own national course. But in the second place, it's also an indicator of the wider problem: through the heavy handedness of western agribusiness corporations, the GMO is fast becoming a divisive political issue, not only domestically, but as a geopolitical issue on a global scale. And as the science against GMOs grows, their corporate advocates, notwithstanding all their power to manipulate the media and to promote corporate scientism, are going to have to change their game if their advocacy of GMOs - and GMOs themselves - are to survive.

See you on the flip side.

(Thanks to Mr. G.B. for informing us of this article!)

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".

4 Comments

  1. LSM on June 23, 2014 at 11:44 am

    although to my knowledge Marine le Pen has never publicly addressed the issue of GM crops she is gathering a tsunami of followers in France; as so many have stated “she’s the only politician out there making any sense”; among other things she seems to be (at least on the surface) against the tentacles of the rising fascist arms of the European Union octopus and pleads for more individual sovereignty;

    ASSUMING she’s not a pawn of controlled opposition maybe her followers were behind this decision-

    Larry in Germany



  2. Spectator on June 22, 2014 at 4:14 pm

    The word is “bellwether” not “bellweather”. Ask any shepherd.



  3. marcos toledo on June 21, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    So the French courts have thrown a monkey wrench into the USA Agribusinesses plan to poison the world. Now if only the other EU members can come up with enough backbone to join her and force Brussels to change their mind about this issue once and for all. It’s time said no to GMO crops for future generations safety and health.



  4. Robert Barricklow on June 21, 2014 at 10:15 am

    That a line should be drawn about GMOs, is indeed, a sign of the times. Like in the Ukraine, where the USA stands behind Neo-Nazis instead of democracy, it becomes rather easy to distinguish evil from good. The shades of grey are now moving from the shadows into the light of day.

    http://wakingtimes.com/2014/06/20/complete-history-monsanto-worlds-evil-corporation/



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