Organic Consumers Association
Energy-intensive industrial farming practices that rely on toxic chemicals and genetically engineered crops are not just undermining public health, they’re destroying the planet.
Here’s how:
- Generating massive greenhouse gas pollution (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide) and global warming, while promoting false solutions such as industrial biofuels, so-called drought-resistant crops, and genetically engineered trees
- Polluting the environment and the soil-food web with pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and persistent toxins, including dioxin
- Draining and polluting wetlands and aquifers, turning farmland into desert
- Poisoning wells and municipal drinking water, lakes, and rivers
- Chopping down the rainforests for monoculture GMO crops, biofuels and cattle grazing
- Increasing the cost of food, while reducing nutrition and biodiversity
- Spawning pesticide-resistant superbugs and weeds, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Generating new and more virulent plant, animal and human diseases
- Utilizing wasteful fossil fuel-intensive practices and encouraging the expansion of natural gas fracking and tar sands extraction (which destroy forests, aquifers, and farmland)
- Stealing money from the 99 percent to give huge subsidies to the 1 percent wealthiest, most chemical and energy-intensive farms and food producers
It’s not enough to stop eating genetically engineered food. If we want a liveable planet we’ve got to boycott all factory farmed food and make the great transition from energy and chemical-intensive agriculture to a relocalized and organic system of food and farming. The world according to monsanto is a recipe for disaster. Monsanto and Big Ag contaminate every link in the food chain, threatening the very foundation of life—living nutrient-rich soil, clean water, resilient crops, healthy animals, stable climates, and diverse food sources. The good news is that agro-ecological and organic methods can reverse this threat and sustain food production for future generations, but we don’t have much time to turn things around.
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Ten Ways Monsanto and Big Agriculture Are Trying To Kill You- And The Planet
As we look at the Ten Ways Humanity and Nature are being destroyed, we should consider who are the Top Five Agriculture Giants destroying Humanity and Nature with Genetically Engineered or Modified Seeds, Plants, Foods and Animals;
1. Monsanto
2. Syngenta
3. Bayer
4. Dow Chemical
5. DuPont
These Chemical Companies are not only trying to control agriculture, they are also trying to control Seeds globally. As they exercise this control by destroying Family Farms and forcing Seed Businesses out of existence, we all suffer.
If we look closer at the “Ten Ways Big Agriculture is Trying To Kill You and The Planet”, we need to examine how these Chemical Companies are destroying Humanity and the Planet.
1. The Genetic Engineering of the Seeds, Plants and Animals produce something Nature does not produce naturally and is indeed a False Solution and danger to our environment and survival.
2. The Chemicals used on the earth completely destroy any Biodiversity within the soils and completely destroys the natural ecosystem of insects and microorganisms, which break down the natural vitamins, minerals and trace elements we all need for good health.
3. As the wetlands and estuaries are drained and destroyed for farmland which becomes desert after being depleted, the natural chain of Nature’s ecosystem is broken and our Food, Water, Air and Biodiversity are severely endangered.
4. When these farmlands are sprayed or seeded with chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and other dangerous chemicals, those chemicals enter into the earths water table, lakes, rivers and oceans creating hazards to us all. So the water for mammals, animals, fish and plants becomes a threat to all.
5. Scientists’ have already proved the destruction of the Rain Forest for Monoculture GMO Crops adds to Global Warming and destruction to the Balance of Nature.
6. Increase in food cost comes from the added cost of chemicals farmers need to produce GMO Crops, costs which they pass on to consumers. The loss of Nutrition is due to the destruction of the microorganisms of the soil, which help create and support Biodiversity, the microorganisms actually produce the vitamins, minerals and trace minerals absorbed by the plants.
7. Superbugs, Weeds and Antibiotics are able to redevelop and adapt to chemical changes in order to survive. This survival results in the need for Chemical Companies to produce stronger more toxic chemicals to control them. Eventually the environment is destroyed with the cross-pollination and spread of these man made biological mutations spread globally.
8. New Animal, Plant and Human Diseases result from the un-natural GMO Foods produced by these chemical companies. These GMO Foods and Grains contain Genetically Engineered substances the Organic bodies of Plants, Animals and Humans cannot properly utilize resulting in illness, disease, deformity and sterility. Many animal farmers have gone out of business because the GMO Grains fed to their animals caused Sterility in those animals.
9. The Natural Gas Fracking issue again destroys the Biodiversity of Nature, farmlands, forests and underground natural water systems.
10. Money lost to the 99% fall at the blame of Governments, which allow Lobbying, and the employment of individuals who have vested interests in chemical companies which profit with our Tax Dollar$.
It will really be up to Humanity as a whole to come together and demand the end to chemical companies and other corporations destroying Agriculture, Water, Food, Seeds, Biodiversity, Air, Water and Energy.
As chemical companies are allowed to produce agriculture food plants and grasses that actually kill insects, we should all consider this question, “Are Honey Bees Insects? Because the obvious answer is yes, we should be able to see why millions of honeybee hives are destroyed each year. The more serious implication is that honeybees are the major pollinators of the earth and without them the majority of foods we eat will be lost. The other serious implication is, generally what kills insects eventually kills man.
Good Luck in your Fight For Justice,
John Burns
UMOJA Research
USA
Ref: Books
1. Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating, by Jeffrey M. Smith
2. Genetically Modified Foods, Michael Ruse, David Casti
3. Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature, Kimberly A. Wilson, Martin Teitel PH.D., Ralph Nader
4. Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. Smith
5. When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods by Mark A. Pollack and Gregory C. Shaffer
6. Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, William F Engdahl
Ref: DVD
1. The World According To MONSANTO, A Film by Marie-Monique Robin
2. Genetically Modified Food/ Panacea or Poison? By NSI New Science Ideas
3. The GMO Trilogy/ Why GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS threaten your health, the environment and future generations. Jeffrey M. Smith
4. BAD SEED The Truth About Our Food By UFOTV 5. FOODMATTERS You Are What You Eat By James Colouhoun & Laurentine Ten Bosch
6. Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals/ Genetically Engineered Foods By Jeffrey M. Smith
7. The Future of Food/ A Film by Deborah Koons Garcia
8. The Corporation, A Film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan
READ Think, Listen & Pay Attention
John Burns
UMOJA Research
Private Health Research Since 1986
AIDS, Cancer, Disease & Agriculture
USA
John love you reply do you mind if l repost in full : )
Excellent, Excellent. But why are these monstrous corps such as Monsanto so powerful? They seem to have governments around the world by the throat, using the USDA and USA Trade to twist arms to penetrate particularly emerging and developing nations? We all know the game is to get a leg in the door with gmo’s, then follows the poisonous destruction of both nature and human health, even if it goes in as “aid” food, the seeds are there…and what about the collusion with the Gates Foundation and FAO, WHO…again, what does Monsanto have that makes foreign governments cave?
In answer to pdjmoo, It helps to have Monsanto’s key people put into positions of power by previous and present presidents of the US. Just look who is in charge of food.