CHAPTER 6
6-37 Genetically engineered food
6-37a Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)
“The eight GM food crops are: Corn, Soybeans, Canola, Cottonseed, Suger Beets, Hawaiian
Papaya (most), and a small amount of Zucchini and Yellow Squash. GM alfalfa is also fed to
livestock.”
The Non-GMO Shopping Guide (2012)
“The experiments (on GMO food) simply haven’t been done and we now have become the
guinea pigs... Anyone that says, ‘Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe’, I say is either
unbelievably stupid or deliberately lying. The reality is we don’t know.”
Canadian geneticist David Suzuki
“Population reduction and genetically engineered crops were clearly part of a broad strategy:
the drastic reduction of the world’s population. It was in fact a sophisticated form of what the
Pentagon termed biological warfare, promulgated under the name of “solving the world hunger
problem.”
F. William Engdahl in his book “Seeds of Destuction”
“By failing to require testing and labelling of genetically engineered foods, the agency (Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)) has made consumers unknowing guinea pigs for potentially
harmful, unregulated food substances.”
Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of the International Center for Technology Assessment
“Once released into the environment, genetic mistakes cannot be contained, recalled or
cleaned up, but will be passed on to all future generations indefinitely”.
Dr Michael Antoniou, senior lecturer in molecular pathology, London
“In 2004, more than 85% of all US soybeans planted were genetically modified crops, and
most were from Monsanto. 45% of all US corn harvested was GMO corn. Corn and soybeans
constituted the most important animal feed in US agriculture, which meant that nearly the entire
meat production of the nation as well as its meat exports had been fed on genetically modified
animal feed.”
F. William Engdahl in his book “Seeds of Destuction”
“My worry is that advances in science may result in means of mass destruction, maybe more
readily available even than nuclear weapons. Genetic engineering is a possible area.
Joseph Rotblat, British physicist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for battling nuclear weapons
“The problems with GM foods may be irreversible and the true effects may only be seen well
in the future.
... The situation is like the tobacco industry. They knew about it but they suppressed that
information. They created misleading evidence that showed that the problem wasn’t so serious.
And all the time they knew how bad it was. Tobacco is bad enough. But genetic modification,
if it is going to be problematic, if it is going to cause us real health problems, then tobacco will be
nothing in comparison with this. The size of genetic modification and problems it may cause us
are tremendous.”
Dr. Arpad Pusztai, researcher and the world’s expert on lectins
“Control the food, and you control the people.”
Henry Kissinger
“Research on GMOs is now taboo. You can’t find money for it. We tried everything to find more
financing, but we were told that because there are no data in the scientific literature proving that
GMOs cause problems, there was no point in working on it. People don’t want to find answers to
troubling questions. It’s the result of widespread fear of Monsanto and of GMOs in general.”
Manuela Malatesta, researcher at he University of Pavia, 2006
“Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov and his colleagues, of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution
of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Association for Gene Security, set out to
discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields,
leads to problems in growth or reproduction. After feeding hamsters for two years over three
generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet,
showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability
to have babies.”
Institute for Responsible Technology, April 5, 2011
“National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM) 200 made depopulation in foreign developing
countries a strategic national security priority of the United States government. It outlined what
was to become a strategy to promote fertility control under the rubric “family planning”.
F. William Engdahl in his book “Seeds of Destuction”
“The (Bill and Melinda) Gates Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically
modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa. The grant is for the John Innes Centre in
Norwich, Connecticut, which hopes to engineer seeds for corn, wheat and rice.”
www.commondreams.org, July 15, 2012
“The Rockefeller foundation scientists developed the idea of molecular biology from the
fundamental assumption that almost all human problems could be “solved” by genetic and
chemical manipulation... The people in and around the Rockefeller institutions saw it as the
ultimate means of social control and social engineering -- eugenics.”
F. William Engdahl in his book “Seeds of Destuction”
“The TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement was designed
by multinational corporations to seize the genetic resources of the planet, chiefly in Third World
countries, which have the greatest biodiversity.”
Marie-Monique Robin
“The hope of the biotech industry is that over time, the market is so flooded that there’s nothing
you can do about it. You just sort of surrender.”
A biotech consultant - in the book “Seeds of Deception” by Jeffrey M. Smith
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