PT -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Parte III -- Sementes Geneticamente Modificadas: Concebidas como Armas

Sementes Geneticamente Modificadas: Concebidas como Armas

Parte III

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, 11 de Fevereiro de 2020

Região: USA

Tema: Biotechnology and GMO, Intelligence

As sementes e os alimentos GM (Geneticamente Modificados) apresentam grandes riscos para todas as nações, tanto que, por muitas razões, provavelmente é imperativo que esses alimentos sejam banidos completamente. Este assunto é grande demais para ser discutido aqui, mas um aspecto exige um breve aviso. Se nos interrogassem sobre a origem das sementes GM, como é que a ideia foi concebida e desenvolvida, quem fez a pesquisa e quem forneceu o financiamento, como responderíamos? Podemos sugerir razoavelmente que, talvez, o conceito tenha sido originado no Departamento de Biologia ou de Agricultura de alguma universidade, ou que um laboratório do Governo ao fazer pesquisas sobre fornecimentos de alimentos possa ter concebido e continuado esta ideia. Ou, podemos sugerir que uma empresa privada, no campo da Agricultura, estava à procura de variedades mais produtivas de grãos e deparou-se com este processo.

Podíamos sugerir todas estas respostas, mas em cada caso estaríamos errados. As sementes GM foram concebidas, promovidas, pesquisadas e financiadas pelo Departamento de Defesa dos EUA - o Departamento de Guerra Americano. As sementes GM (geneticamente modificadas) nunca foram concebidas como a maneira de alimentar os famintos, mas foram concebidas e desenvolvidas como uma arma ou, mais precisamente, como um sistema de distribuição e entrega de armas. As sementes geneticamente modificadas nunca foram destinadas a sustentar a vida humana, mas a eliminá-la.

LARRY ROMANOFF -- Genetically Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapon -- Part III

Genetically Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapon

Part III

By Larry Romanoff

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.