Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

360 Pages·2007·5.58 MB·English

by  William F. Engdahl

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Seeds of Destruction'
The Hidden Agenda
of Genetic Manipulation
Global Research
Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation,
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I dedicate this book to Gottfried Gloeckner,
farmer, friend, self-taught scientist,
whose personal courage in the face of untold pressure
may have saved more lives than he or we shall ever know.
Also by F. William Engdahl
A Century of War:
Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION •••.•••..•••.••.•..•...•..••..••.•.•••• xii
PART I
The Political Beginnings ................................ 1
CHAPTER 1
Washington Launches the GMO Revolution ............. 3
Early GMO Research .................................. 3
The Fraud of "Substantial Equivalence" ................. 4
"Nature's Most Perfect Food ... " ........................ 8
FDA and Monsanto Milk the Public ................... 11
Monsanto's Cozy Government Relations ............... 15
CHAPTER 2
The Fox Guards the Hen-House ...................... 21
Science Bending the Knee to Politics ................... 21
A Bomb Falls on the GMO Project ..................... 22
Blair, Clinton and "Political" Science ............. , ..... 25
A Not-so-ethical Royal Society Joins the Attack .......... 28
Science in the Corporate Interest ....................... 29
PART II
The Rockefeller Plan .................................. 35
CHAPTER 3
"Tricky" Dick Nixon and Trickier Rockefellers .......... 37
America's Vietnam Paradigm Shift ..................... 37
David Rockefeller's "Crisis of Democracy" .............. 39
Kissinger and Food Politics ........................... 42
VIII SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
The "Great Grain Robbery" ........... ............... 43
"When in Rome ... " .................. ............... 45
Nixon's Agriculture Export Strategy ................... 46
"Food as a Weapon" ................................. 51
CHAPTER 4
A Secret US National Security Memo ..... ......... .... 56
Population Growth and National Security .............. 56
Food for Cargill & Co. . .. ............ ..... ........... 60
The Unlucky Thirteen ................................ 61
Brazil as NSSM 200 "Model" ...... ... ........... ..... 64
CHAPTER 5
The Brotherhood of Death .................... .... .. 69
Human Guinea Pigs ...... .......... .......... .... ... 69
"Second Only to Control of Atomic Weapons ... " ........ 71
Rockefeller Supports Eugenics ... ....... ... ........... 72
Combating "The Human Cancer" ..................... 73
The Rockefellers' Darker Secrets ......... .............. 74
"The Best of Breed"-Eugenics and the "Master Race" .... 75
"Calling a Spade a Spade ... " .......................... 79
JDR Ill's Population Council and the "Crypto-eugenics" ... 84
Yes, Hello Dolly .... .. ... ............................ 90
From Eugenics to Genetics ............ .... ........... 94
CHAPTER 6
Fateful War and Peace Studies ....................... 102
Preparing a Post-War Empire ... ... ............... : .. 102
The ''American Century"- The US Lebensraum ........ 105
Nelson Ventures in Latin America .................... 107
Skeletons in Rockefeller's Dark Closet ................. 108
The Rockefeller-Wallace Report ........ .............. 111
Early Agribusiness: Rockefeller Teams up with Cargill .... 114
In Brazil and Venezuela ......... .... ................ 116
SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION IX
PART III
Creating Agribusiness ................................ 121
CHAPTER 7
Rockefeller and Harvard Invent USA ''Agribusiness'' ... 123
A Green Revolution Opens the Door .................. 123
Training Cadre for the Bio-Revolution ................ 127
Rockefeller Finances the Creation of Agribusiness ....... 132
.M onopoly and Vertical Integration Return
with a Vengeance ................................... 133
"Where Have all the Farmers Gone?" .... '. ............. 136
CHAPTER 8
Food is Power ...................... .... ..... ..... . 152
Capturing the Golden Rice Bowl ..................... 152
The "New Eugenics": Reductio ad absurdum ............. 153
Reducing Life ............................. ........ 155
Mapping the Rice Genome· .......................... 160
"Golden Rice" and Black Lies ........................ 160
PART IV
Unleashing GMO Seeds ............... , .............. 173
CHAPTER 9
A Revolution in World Food Production Begins ....... 175
Argentina Is the First Guinea Pig ............ .... ..... 175
How a Debt Crisis Makes Argentina a Soybean Giant .... 177
Breaking Argentina's National Will ............ ....... 177
Rockefeller's Argentina Land Revolution .. ..... ...... .. 182
"Soybeans for Me, Argentina ... " ...... ............... 185
Monsanto Conquers with Deception ... ........... .... . 188
Let Them Eat Soybeans! .................... .... .... 190
CHAPTER 10
Iraq Gets American Seeds of Democracy ......... ..... 197
US-style Economic Shock Therapy .... ............... 197
Bremer's Order 81 ............. .......... .......... 200
Iraqi Seed Treasure Destroyed ....................... 202
No Seeds to Plant ....... ........................... 203
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"Let Them Eat ... Pasta?" ...... ....... ............... 205
Iraq, USA and the IMF Dictates ...................... 209
CHAPTER 11
Planting the "Garden of Earthly Delights" ............ 216
US Agribusiness Moves to Dominate ..... ........ ... .. 216
The IPC and the Agribusiness Lobby .................. 219
WTO and Bad TRIPS .............................. 221
Having Your Cake and Eating it too ........ ...... , .... 224
The Four Horsemen of the GMO Apocalypse .......... 227
GMO and Pentagon Deals .......................... 232
Letting the GMO Genie Out of the Bottle .............. 235
Licensing Life Forms ........... .................... 238
Lies, Damn Lies and Monsanto Lies. . . . ............... 240
GMO Soybeans and Infant Death? ..... .............. . 245
Africa's Fake "Wonder Potato" ....................... 246
PART V
Population Control ............ '. ..................... 255
CHAPTER 12
Terminators, Traitors, Spermicidal Corn ............. 257
"Two Steps Forward, Then One Step Backward ... " ...... 257
The Guardian Angel Saves the GMO Project ........... 261
"Push it Down Their Bloody Throats ... " .............. 267
Killing Us Softly, Ever so Softly, Killing Us Softly With ...... 270
A Very Special Kind of Corn ......................... 270
From Terminator Suicide Seeds to Spermicidal Corn ...... 272
Tetanus, Rockefeller and the World Health Organization ... 273
The Hidden GMO Agenda Emerges .................. 275
CHAPTER 13
Avian Flu Panic and GMO Chickens ................. 282
The President Helps out a Friend ..................... 282
Kissinger and Biological Warfare ........ ............ . 284
Agribusiness Gains in Avian Flu Scare ............. .... 285
A World GMO Chicken? ............................ 287