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diamidue Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 12:11 AM
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"Control the food and you control the people"
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2006/0828.html

The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri.
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The role of the US Government in backing and financing Delta & Pine Land’s decades of Terminator research is even more revealing. As Kissinger said back in the 1970’s, ‘Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and you control people…’
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FlavaKreemSnak Donating Member (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 03:00 AM
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1. I read something about food and want to know if it is true

I can't remember the link and it was like six months ago, this article was saying that like some really big percent of all the food in the world is controlled by just 2 big American companies. Does anybody know if that is true and what are the companies, the article had the names but I forgot but this message made me remember the article.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:11 AM
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5. Monsato is one of them. what they are doing in India is past criminal
Edited on Tue Aug-29-06 08:15 AM by AZDemDist6
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:17 AM
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6. Monsanto, ConAgra, ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland)
That's three; I'm not sure about their order, and it's possible that I missed one or more.

But they're big muthas, that's for sure.

--p!
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 03:22 AM
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2. Food, water, electricity, gas.

They used to be commodities here in America, however, they are destined to become a method of social control to keep the population in line with what the multigenerational elite desire us to be -- servants. Just like it has been for decades in so many other countries.
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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 05:28 AM
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3. Try like it has been for so many century's in so many countries.
Socially, we are going backward at the moment.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 05:59 AM
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4. Developing GM seeds at the risk of financial peril. American rice farmers
risk significant losses because their non-GMO rice is indistinguishable from that of the GMO and all American rice has been banned from import by many countries. If overall, American crops can't be purchased by outside markets, farmers (small and large corporate) will lose necessary markets. Rice, corn, soybeans. I think the GM-farmers and manufacturers believed that they could sneak their products into the market by integrating them with non-GM and then claim their products must be continued to be purchased as they are indistinguishable and hey, "nobody died".
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