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The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

Review of F William Engdahl's book published by Global Research

by Arun Shrivastava

Global Research (June 19 2008)


Last three or four years have seen a number of books, documentaries and
articles on the dangers of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds. Majority has
focused on adverse health and environmental impact; almost none on the
geo-politics of GM seeds, and particularly seeds as a weapon of mass
destruction. Engdahl has addressed this issue but the crop seed is one
of the many "Seeds of Destruction" in this book.

Engdahl carefully documents how the intellectual foundations of
'eugenics,' mass culling of the sick, coloured, and otherwise disposable
races, were actually first established, and even legally approved, in
the United States. Eugenics research was financially supported by the
Rockefeller and other elite families and first tested on Jews under Nazi
Germany.

It is purely by chance that world's poorest nations also happen to be
best endowed with natural resources. These regions are also the ones
with growing population. The fear among European ruling families,
increasingly, integrating with economic and military might of the United
States, was that if the poor nations became developed, the abundant
natural resources, especially oil, gas, and strategic minerals and
metals, may become scarcer for the white population. That situation was
unacceptable to the white ruling elite.

The central question that dominated the minds of the ruling clique was
population reduction in resource rich countries but the question was how
to engineer mass culling all over the world without generating powerful
backlash as it was bound to happen. When the US oil reserves peaked in
1972 and it became a net oil importer, the situation became alarming and
 the agenda took the centre stage. Kissinger, one of the key strategists
of Nixon, nurtured by the Rockefellers, prepared what is known as
National Security Study Memo (NSSM#200), in which he elaborated his plan
for population reduction. In this Memo he specifically targets thirteen
countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia,  Egypt, Ethiopia, India,
Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Thailand, and The Phillipines.

The weapon to be used was food; even if there was a famine food would be
used to leverage population reduction. Kissinger is on record for
stating, "Control oil, you control nations; control food and you control
the people". How a small group of key people transformed the elitist
philosophy, of controlling food to control people, into realistic
operational possibility within a short time is the backdrop of Engdahl's
book, the central theme running from the beginning till the end with the
Rockefellers and Kissinger, among others, as the key dramatis personae.

He describes how the Rockefellers guided the US agriculture policy, used
their powerful tax-free foundations worldwide to train an army of bright
young scientists in hitherto unknown field of microbiology. He traces
how the field of Eugenics was renamed "genetics" to make it more
acceptable and also to hide the real purpose. Through incremental
strategic adjustments within a handful of chemical, food and seed
corporations, ably supported by the key persons in key departments of
the US Government, behemoths were created that could re-write the
regulatory framework in nearly every country. And these seeds of
destruction of carefully constructed regulatory framework - to protect
the environment and human health - were sown back in the 1920s.

Pause to think: a normal healthy person can at the most go without food
for perhaps seven days but it takes a full season, say around four
months, for a seed to grow into food crop. Just five agri-biz
corporations, all US based (Cargill, Bunge, Archer Daniels, et al),
control global grain trade, and just five control global trade in seeds.
Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, and Dow Chemicals control genetically
engineered seeds. While these powerful oligopolies were being knocked
into place, anti-trust laws were diluted to exempt these firms. Engdahl
writes, "It was not surprising that the Pentagon's National Defense
University, on the eve of the 2003 Iraq  War, issued a paper declaring:
'Agribiz is to the United States what oil is to the Middle East'.
Agribusiness had become a strategic weapon in the arsenal of the world's
only superpower." (page 143)

The "Green Revolution" was part of the Rockefeller agenda to destroy
seed diversity and push oil and gas based agriculture inputs in which
Rockefeller's had main interest. Destruction of seed diversity and
dependence on proprietary hybrids was the first step in food control.
(See my notes, Box 1)

It is true that initially Green Revolution technologies led to spurt in
farm productivity but at a huge cost of destruction of farmlands,
bio-diversity, poisoned aquifers and progressively poor health of the
people and was the true agenda of 'the proponents of Green Revolution'.

The real impetus came with the technological possibility of gene
splicing and insertion of specific traits into unrelated species. Life
forms could be altered. But until 1979, the US Government had
steadfastly refused to grant patent on life form. That was changed [my
comment: helped much by a favorable judgment in the US Supreme Court
granting patent protection to oil eating bacteria developed by Dr Ananda
Chakraborty]. Life forms could now be patented. To ensure that the world
surrendered to the patent regime of the seeds corporations, the World
Trade Organization was knocked into shape. How it conducted business was
nobody's business, but it forced the world to accept intellectual
property right of these corporations. There is opposition but these
firms are too determined as Engdahl describes.

"The clear strategy of Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and the Washington
Government backing them was to introduce the GMO seeds in every corner
of the globe, with priority on defenceless ... African and developing
countries", write Engdahl (page 270). However, Engdahl also describes
how US and Canadian farmlands came under GMOs. It was suspected that GMO
could pose serious threat to human and animal health and the
environment, yet efforts at independent biosafety assessment were
discontinued. Scientists carrying out honest studies were vilified.
Reputed scientific establishments were silenced or made to toe the line
that was supportive of the Rockefeller's food control and mass culling
agenda. The destruction of the credibility of scientific institution is
yet another seed of destruction in Engdahl's book.

Engdahl cites the example of a German farmer Gottfried Glockner's
experience with GM corn. Glockner planted Bt176 event of Syngenta
essentially as feed for his cows. Being a scientist, he started with ten
percent GM feed and gradually increased the proportion, carefully noting
milk yield and any side effects. Nothing much happened in the first
three years but when he increased the feed to 100% GM feed, his animals
"were having gluey-white feaces and violent diarrhea" and "milk
contained blood". Eventually all his seventy cows died. Prof Angelika
Hilbeck of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found from Glockner's
Bt 176 corn samples Bt toxins were present "in active form and extremely
stable". The cows died of high dose of toxins. Not if, but when human
food is 100% contaminated should be a sobering thought.

In the US unlabelled GM foods were introduced in 1993 and that seventy
percent of the supermarket foods contain GMOs in varying proportions in
what should rightly be called world's largest biological experiment on
humans. While Engdahl has clearly stated that the thrust of US
Government and the agi-biz is control over food especially in the third
world, he has left it to the readers to deduce that American and
European citizens are also target of that grand agenda. And there are
more lethal weapons in the arsenal: Terminator seeds, Traitor seeds, and
the ability to destroy small independent farmers at will in any part of
the world, and these are powerfully presented in the book. Engdahl
provides hard evidences for these seeds of final destruction and utter
decimation of world civilizations as we have known.

It is a complex but highly readable book. It is divided into five parts,
each containing two to four short chapters. The first part deals with
the political maneuverings to ensure support to Seed and Agri-biz firms,
the second deals with what should be widely known as 'The Rockefeller
Plan', the third deals with how vertically integrated giants were
readied for Washington's silent wars on planet earth, the fourth part
deals with how GM seeds were unleashed on unsuspecting farmers, and the
final part deals with how the elites is going on destroying food,
farmers that would eventually cause mass culling of population. He does
not offer any solution; he can't because it is up to the rest of the
world, including Europeans and Americans, to wake up and take on these
criminals head on. An essential read for anyone who eats and thinks.

Seeds of Destruction

The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

by F William Engdahl

Global Research, 2007 ISBN 978-0-937147-2-2

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This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political
American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human
survival: the provision of our daily bread. "Control the food and you
control the people".

This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO.  Engdahl takes the
reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science
labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms.

The author cogently reveals a diabolical World of profit-driven
political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic
manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide
control over food production. If the book often reads as a crime story,
that should come as no surprise. For that is what it is.

Engdahl's carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar
controversies surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a
scientific technique. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all
those committed to the causes of social justice and World peace.

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F William Engdahl is a leading analyst of the New World Order, author of
the best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, A Century of War:
Anglo-American Politics and the New World Order,' His writings have been
translated into more than a dozen languages.

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What is so frightening about Engdahl's vision of the world is that it is
so real. Although our civilization has been built on humanistic ideals,
in this new age of "free markets", everything - science, commerce,
agriculture and even seeds - have become weapons in the hands of a few
global corporation barons and their political fellow travelers. To
achieve world domination, they no longer rely on bayonet-wielding
soldiers. All they need is to control food production. (Dr Arpad
Pusztai, biochemist, formerly of the Rowett Research Institute
Institute, Scotland)

If you want to learn about the socio-political agenda - why biotech
corporations insist on spreading GMO seeds around the World - you should
read this carefully researched book. You will learn how these
corporations want to achieve control over all mankind, and why we must
resis ... (Marijan Jost, Professor of Genetics, Krizevci, Croatia)

The book reads like a murder mystery of an incredible dimension, in
which four giant Anglo-American agribusiness conglomerates have no
hesitation to use GMO to gain control over our very means of subsistence
... (Anton Moser, Professor of Biotechnology, Graz, Austria).

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