WORLD BANK WANTS TO HAND OVER SEEDS TO AGRIBUSINESS…

...Yes, you read that correctly: the World Bank is now formulating agricultural policy for, well, just about everyone, and (surprise surprise) it thinks GMOs are a great idea, and that farmers sewing and planting (and of course, trading) their seeds is a very bad idea; here's the article (shared by Ms. M.W.):

World Bank Aims to Hand Over Seed Industry to Agribusiness

While noting that the world's seed supply lies largely under the control of six agribusiness giants (except, of course, in Russia, which has banned them... hmmmm), the first three paragraphs note something important:

A host of concerned organizations and individuals have come out in opposition to a corporate-backed plan by the World Bank to control the world's seed industry. The groups say that the wide-reaching plan will strip farmers of their rights to seeds and food.

The denouncement comes in response to the World Bank’s report titled, "Enabling the Business of Agriculture." A letter signed by 157 organizations and academics, was addressed to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and the EBA’s five donor organizations, to demand an end to the controversial project.

The EBA dictates so-called ‘good practices’ to regulate agriculture and scores countries on how well they implement its prescriptions,” said Frederic Mousseau, policy director from the Oakland Institute. “The Bank, behind closed doors, convinces governments to implement reforms based on the EBA scores, thereby bypassing farmers and citizens’ engagement,” he added.
(Emphasis added)

There you have it: a "study group" sponsored by a central bank recommends "good practice", i.e., "regulations" designed to favor certain competition( in this case, the big agribusiness giants), the bank then adopts its own recommendations, and tells governments to do the same, otherwise the spigot of World Bank loans stops, and a country won't be able to buy I.G. Farbensanto's expensive seeds and pesticides.

In other words, more globaloney:

Control by big mega-corporations good; small farms bad; genetically modified crud and glyphosphates good; natural heirloom seeds that the corporations can't patent, and sell at high prices, with loans from big banks gathering interest, bad.

If what is going on here weren't so tragic, with huge consequences for the world's finances and health, it would be comedy, because the circle of influence peddling and racketeering that is the world agribusiness industry and the World Bank is starkly and nakedly revealed for all to see.

But what's the big deal? After all, we already knew the agribusiness industry is one of the most crooked, protected, and privileged in the world.

Enter my high octane speculation of the day: in the past I've talked about "GMO geopolitics", a term I coined to designate the GMO issue as a global geopolitical issue, when years ago I suggested that Russia could easily turn the global opposition to GMOs into "its" issue, by opposing GMOs in its domestic policy, and then raising the issue in the international forums. Additionally, I've argued that by careful policy, Russia, and perhaps other nations in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, could position themselves to be sellers of natural seeds on the world market, as it also positioned itself to speak for the GMO opposition in the rest of the world. We've already seen Turkey bolt from the EU and NATO, and it doesn't look like this will change, and Russian economic sanctions against that country have been lifted, allowing the flow of Russian agricultural products back into Turkey. Additionally, Mr. Putin in his recent addresses has been doing something else worthy of note: he has been articulating a cultural, social, and political critique of the West and its progressivist left; in other words, Mr. Putin has been attempting to speak for those in the west who have revolted against those agendas. Throw in GMO opposition, and a deliberate positioning on that issue on the world stage at various economic forums, and one gets the idea.

And this raises a question that I've been thinking about for a long time, and that I've finally decided to share: remember the overthrow of the government in the Ukraine? Remember the quiet, behind-the-scenes presence of agribusiness interests in the whole west/USA-sponsored fiasco? I have to wonder if the real reason for western sanctions against Russia is to protect the interests of IG Farbensanto and to prevent those non-GMO Russian agricultural products into western markets? I have to wonder just how much the coup against Brazil's Dilma Rouseff and the ouster of Mrs. de Kirchner in Argentina might be related to all this GMO geopolitics?

And if that sounds a bit far-fetched, consider seeing this advertising slogan on a TV commercial in a non-sanctions world: "Say no to GMO; buy Russian seeds..."

See you on the flip side...

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".

6 Comments

  1. Robert Barricklow on January 21, 2017 at 4:37 pm

    Industrial agriculture and industrial food systems have brought us the triple cross/a dying planet, diseased citizens, and debt-ridden farmers. Ecological and just alternatives have become imperative.
    Seed freedom and food freedom are the foundations for food democracy.
    An industry that depends on profits at ANY cost will do whatever it takes to prevent the flowering of alternatives.
    This is the time to FIGHT FOR TRUTH!



    • Robert Barricklow on January 21, 2017 at 8:25 pm

      Again they’re signature reasoning is being imprinted upon the minds of many by spreading suicide seeds through fake media attention merchant; plant the concept of the death of nature by allowing wars to be leashed against a Living Earth. This growing transformation of nature from a living, nurturing mother to an inert, dead and manipulable form of matter is inherently/eminently suited to the exploitation of exponential financial capitalism. But this, and the monoculture that embodies it do NOT produce more healthy food/seeds; they simply concentrate more control & more power into the hands of the corporate robots.



  2. rich overholt on January 21, 2017 at 2:39 pm


  3. marcos toledo on January 21, 2017 at 11:44 am

    A psychopath is a person who never grow up in essence a talking fetus. These idiots fit that description power-slavery is their aphrodisiac torture-murder agriculture just weapon in their arsenal against their enemy life.



  4. Yogi Greg on January 21, 2017 at 8:27 am

    GMO = Bio-WEAPON…. “THEY” Can Easily Throw A Genetic Swith Inside “Next Yyear’s Seeds and A Year Later You Can Have Major Illness By Hose Who Ate Food Made From Them.



  5. sagat1 on January 21, 2017 at 6:47 am

    A monoploy of GMO products (it cant be called food) to the masses also results in a boom for another industry – big pharma. People are being programmed endlessly via the zombie box nowadays to accept their fate regarding the odds of developing cancer. To knowingly allow this to happen fully aware of the suffering endured by the poor souls ravaged by the disease is pure evil. No doubting that.



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