Genetically Modified Seeds:
Conceived as a Weapon
Global Research, February
11, 2020
Region: USA
Theme: Biotechnology and GMO, Intelligence
GM seeds and GM food carry
great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably
imperative these foods be banned outright. This subject is too large to be
discussed here, but one aspect requires brief notice. If we were to ask about
the origin of GM seeds, how the idea was conceived and developed, who did the
research and who provided the funding, how would we reply? We might reasonably
suggest that perhaps the concept originated in the Biology or Agricultural
Department of some university, or that a government lab doing research on food
supplies might have conceived and pursued the idea. Or, we might suggest a
private company in the agricultural field was looking for more productive
varieties of grains and stumbled on this process.
We might suggest all those
answers, but in each case we would be wrong. GM seed was conceived, promoted,
researched and funded by the US Department of Defense – the American War
Department. GM seed was never meant as a way to feed the hungry, but was
instead conceived and developed as a weapon or, more precisely, as a
weapons-delivery system. Genetically-Modified seed was never intended to
support human life, but to eliminate it.
GM seed is neither more
productive nor healthier than traditional heritage crops, and is far more
expensive and destructive, but it presents almost irresistible military
advantages against any nation that becomes dependent on this source of food
grains. One is that the US can use it as a political weapon, refusing to supply
seed to a disfavored nation, perhaps causing widespread famine and dislocation.
The other is more sinister, in that many groups have experimented with
gene-splicing technology, inserting unrelated DNA into various seeds.
In one case in Canada, a
government department discovered an “anti-freeze” gene contained in the blood
of fish living in Arctic waters, permitting them to survive in waters of
sub-zero temperature. (20) The scientists spliced this gene into Canadian wheat
crops, permitting the wheat to withstand freezing temperatures without damage.
Monsanto also forced these genes into tomatoes, resulting in the first GMO
tomato. (21) An American research lab spliced the genes from fireflies into
tobacco plants, producing a tobacco field that glowed in the dark. (22)
These examples may be
harmless, but others are much less so. The US Defense Department has invested
huge sums in research directed to splicing lethal genes into these GM crop
seeds, including smallpox, bird and swine flu viruses, coronaviruses, the
plague, AIDS, and more. As a military weapon, such science is priceless. Why
begin a shooting war when Monsanto or Cargill can sell rice, corn and soybeans
that contain smallpox, H5N1, or a coronavirus? When the seed is harvested and
passes into the nation’s food supply it could, within weeks, exterminate 50% or
more of the population without firing a single shot.
And this was precisely the
reason GM seed was conceived and developed by the Americans. It is a weapon of
war, designed and meant to deliver to a nation’s entire population a lethal
virus or other disease, to literally exterminate an enemy with no risk to the
aggressor. Many scientists and US military documents have demonstrated that
seeds are far cheaper and much more effective than bombs in the search for
military domination. One such military document I’ve discussed elsewhere stated
the cost per death of an enemy population by nuclear, conventional and
biological weapons, the latter being orders of magnitude less than the former.
In 2001 scientists at the
Epicyte bio-lab in San Diego created a GM contraceptive corn, having discovered
a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm. Their researchers isolated
the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies and inserted them
into corn plants, creating horticultural factories that make contraceptives.
(23) (24) Shortly after the 2001 Epicyte press release, all discussion of the
breakthrough vanished. The company was taken over by Biolex and nothing more
was heard in any media about the development of spermicidal corn. Epicyte,
DuPont and Syngenta (sponsors of the Svalbard Seed Vault) had a joint venture
to share and use this technology. Silvia Ribeiro, of the NGO ETC Group, warned
in a column in the Mexican daily La Jornada, that “The potential of spermicidal
corn as a biological weapon is very high”, and reminisced about the use of
forced sterilizations against indigenous peoples.
The Doomsday Seed Vault at
Svalbard
A new and serious cause for
concern is the recently-announced seed vault built on a piece of barren rock
named Svalbard, which is owned by Norway, is very remote near the North Pole,
and virtually inaccessible. According to press releases, this seed vault has
dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of
steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick. There are no full-time staff, but
the vault’s relative inaccessibility will facilitate monitoring any human
activity. The stated purpose is to store the entire world’s heritage seeds so
that crop diversity can be saved for the future, but that crop diversity is
already “saved”, stored in vaults all around the world. What do these people
foresee, that such a remote and secure facility should be developed?
The promoters and financiers
of this venture are the same people who control the world’s GM seeds and who
have been among the most outspoken proponents of drastically reducing the
world’s population: the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, Syngenta, DuPont,
Monsanto and CGIAR. These are the same people who are actively destroying crop
diversity all over the planet. Why would they suddenly get religion and decide
to save in Norway the same seeds they are destroying everywhere else?
Some time ago, William
Engdahl wrote an excellently researched article on this subject of the seed
vault and arrived at the same conclusion, that the vault was created as a
storehouse for lethal biological pathogens, the DNA of which can be combined
with GM seed and unleashed anywhere with the help of these same seed companies.
No other use would explain the list of participants or the need for the remote
location and virtually nuclear-proof security. Engdahl asked, “Is it a coincidence
that these same organizations, from Norway to the Rockefeller Foundation to the
World Bank are also involved in the Svalbard seed bank project?” (25)
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Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and
businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting
firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a
visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in
international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai
and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and
the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com
Notes
(23) GM corn set to stop man
spreading his seed; https://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/sep/09/gm.food
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