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 | | Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by William F. Engdahl ISBN-10: 9780973714722 ISBN-10: 0-9737147-2-7 ISBN-13: 9780973714722 ISBN-13: 978-0-9737147-2-2 Paperback 2007-11-20 Global Research Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish its 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 reveals a 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. 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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What a man sows is what he reaps! What goes around comes around! Henry Kissinger said in the 1970s: Who controls the oil is in the position to control whole nations; who controls food controls the people. According to the author the American Rockefeller foundation has taken over this business. It is not all about money, it is also about the execution of power. Some kind of eco-politics through GMO (Genetically manipulated organisms). The author says, although our civilization is grounded on humanitarian ideals, all in this new neo-liberal age has gone into the hands of some magnates of worldwide operating enterprises and their political hangers-on. Affected are science, trade and agriculture. Whoever controls the production of food controls the people. Or how Bertini, board member of the world food program of the UN expressed it: "Food is power! We use it to change behaviour. Some could call it bribery. We do not excuse ourselves! " What is behind this? The moderate wish that the difference in welfare between the West and the rest of the world is preserved? It was the Rockefeller foundation which in 1984 enticed the first extensive research of the economic possibilities of genetic technology in plants. Though the natural variability was gigantic new sorts were bred which were to press the natural ones out of business for the sheer reason of making money. Seeds provided and monopolized from firms make money. Natural cultivation is only useful for those who cultivate, that is to say the little farmer or the locally limited enterprise in the Third World. If the farmer has to order the seeds he is becoming dependent, dirigible and prone to manipulation. The spread of GMO was accompanied by political coercion, pressure on governments, fraud, lies and even murder. Can we believe the author? Yes, we should. The crime was committed in the name of agricultural improvement, environmental acceptability and the salution of world hunger problems. The author tries to prove that the assertions to back a broad commercial asset of GMO is based on scientific fraud and lies of enterprises. As if we would not have expected it! Example Iraq: The country received besides the seed of democracy some other seeds also: GMO! A patent law was imposed on the Iraq that gives the supply of food into the hands of private US-companies. Example Argentinia: Rockefeller`s greed for power and money is responsible that in Argentinia the traditional, productive agriculture was transformed into a monoculture for the export on the world market, as well as to a laboratory for genetically changed agricultural products. Huge areas of forests, where Indios had been living traditionally were felled only to get more space for soja beans. This exhausted the ground which only served the provider of fertilizer. The cattle was concentrated in mass animal plants because of pasture scarcity. Fields with traditional cultivation almost vanished. Resistances diminished, diseases spread. Since soja cultivation expelled thousands of farmers from their ground poverty grew and starvation began. The standard of living in Argentinia fell continually and notably. The winners were some politicians, a few enterprises and the banks in New York who made the deal perfect. But there is more than this. There is scientific proof that GMO products result in heavy health problems. What nature has not done in a million years should not be produced compressed in a laboratory. This can only be unhealthy. What nature produced genetically is balanced and proved to function well in the eco-system. Man disturbs the balance with his punctual intrusion. The results are foreseeable, but man is insatiable in his greed. What has been done in the name of the national security of the USA is eye-opening! Mostly in favour of the Monsanto enterprise, the world leading provider of GMO seeds. Cosy contacts with the governments? To start with support in elections and to continue with one hand that washes many others with filth and in the end all are filled with dirty dollars. Details can be read in this book! The Rockefellers created the petro-dollar after the oil crises of 1973 and made the going of the South American debt crisis to enable friends of the US business world to take over the economics of Latin America cheaply. But there is something else. Race hygienics! John D. Rockefeller III is said to be a fervent purporter of eugenics. The author says that methods also represented by him were responsible for more deaths than the sum of people who were killed by Hitler, Stalin and Mao. He speaks of genetic Armageddon, terminator-seeds and sperm killing maze. While other countries send money in case of starvation, the USA offers GMO which many countries reject because of health threatening risks. If food makes unfertile in deed another problem of humankind is solved. Starvation and overpopulation! Where no eater there is no hunger! Instead of costly wars to gain domination over the Third World just control them genetically! Reduction of population is in union with domination. Soft biologic warfare! Is this what world politicians in the West are aiming at? This really sounds so weird that it is hardly conceivable that it has originated in the authors fantasy. Perhaps too much of conspiracy and secret plotting! But that love for money is corruptive is a well known fact. For a handful dollars people do not care for lives. Meanwhile seed is developed, with lost potency for self-reproduction so that farmers lose all their independence and their providers get even more powerful. But what if they suffer bankruptcy or politics close the trade? Or the only available seeds get unusable? It could lead to starvation crisis and the uprising of the Third World countries against the West. Just fancy! Mankind digs its own grave! This is no book to make you feel good! Except you are a self-provider with a strong tendency to have a liking in self-destruction of mankind. | ||
A Crime on a Global Scale What do you think about using advanced biotechnology to develop a few plants that are resistant to highly toxic pesticides, and then laying waste to the environment with said pesticides, so that when the "dust clears", the only plants left standing are your proprietary super-resistant crops? What do you think about genetically modifying plants so they don't produce any seeds -leaving the entire world perpetually dependent on your closely-guarded "seed crops" for each next season's food supply? If you have anything like "morals" or "ethics" or an abiding sense of natural law, these ideas are probably abhorrent to you. But of course these ideas were not developed with ethics or morals in mind; they are part of an aggressive business model that has been in development since the 1970's. Henry Kissinger wrote a point paper in 1974... WHOA! BACKUP! Henry Kissinger?? He's not a businessman! Well, he has a successful consulting business now, but he's not PRIMARILY a businessman; he's a strategic political thinker, who's been in the employ of the Rockefeller family for the past fifty years! Yes. That's kind of what's at the heart of this book. Control of the world food's supply is partly a business ambition, partly political, and partly maniacal class/race-based warfare (aimed particularly at indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, and at the middle classes of developed nations). Kissinger and associates have been fostering gene modification technologies since at least the 1970s, with an aim of "weaponizing" (his term, not mine) the food supply. As he cheerfully notes: "Control oil and you control nations. Control food and you control people". And it doesn't get much clearer than that. Seeds of Destruction is about the already highly-centralized world of agribusiness, and how agribusiness is just one small aspect of a much larger unfolding story of worldwide genocidal class warfare. This is a story about capitalism without ethics, and how third-world nations who treat farming as a ECONOMIC activity, rather than a SURVIVAL activity are essentially "bringing a knife to a gunfight". | ||
Seeds of Destruction is an excellent book detailing how the rich 'elite' have usurped power over many aspects of our lives and most especially the government. It gives relevant explanations for why we go to war, why we hate who we hate, and who is the victim. It is really only nominally about GMOs, so the title is somewhat misleading. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in any of the topics mentioned in this review. | ||
Poorly written The facts are interesting, but the book is poorly written. The editing is horrible. The author repeats himself over and over almost in verbatim fashion. There are better books on GMO. | ||
A feast of corruption and betrayal in the name of Genetics (Eugenics) A disturbing exposé on the manipulation of a few to gain global dominance through something we often take for granted: Food. Engdahl offers up a banquet of information pertaining to the relationship between eugenics, genetics, the impact and importance genetic modification of our food is having on our society on a micro and macro level. For those that are pro-GM, this is not a book written by someone with an axe to grind on interfering with nature and perceived scientific progress, but rather, this is a well researched volume of information that explains how the likes of the Rockefellers (and their 'non-profit' organisations), Kissinger and the big agri-corps manipulated people and produce by promising great results, covering up bad ones and then turning poor farmers into serfs. This exposure shows in a nutshell how and why wealthy American Elites were able to manipulate the government into burying research, backing their disguised eugenics ideas and churning out new organisations to change the face of agriculture into agribusiness. Doesn't affect you because you're not a farmer? You eat: therefore it does. Not American? The information put forth in this research affects almost every living thing on the face of this planet and it's about to get worse. There is too much in this book to relay in a simple review. This is an absolute must read and I have not seen it appear for sale at traditional bookstores. Too hot to handle? | ||