This is paving the way for all crops to be grown under contract to just a few giant corporations, essentially giving supply of the food chain to a small group of companies that have well established relationships with governments around the world.
We've decided to use our food supply as fuel (ethanol) and to tamper with God's creation to make up the difference by genetically modifying plants for greater yield. We are crossing over a line that we may not be able to reverse, one that could spell our doom.
What happens when we find out that the modifications to these plants are harming us and we can't go back because all of the natural plants have been destroyed through cross pollination? What if our food starts killing us and we have no other choice?
"Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, physics, and philosophy studying the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect. Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.[1] This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behaviour is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved.[2] In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable.[3] This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos."
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We ain't that smart people! There is no way on God's green earth that even the best computer programmed by the greatest minds in science can anticipate the effects of playing games with the genetic codes of plants or animals. One tiny error, and who among us is perfect, will have long reaching and unpredictable consequences.
We are assuming unto ourselves power that is reserved only to God Himself. And we are going to pay for our hubris in the most horrible of ways.
"Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops.
"Even the best practices can't guarantee perfection," said Mark Ferguson, the company's defense lawyer in a recent trial.
Two Missouri farmers sued Bayer for contaminating their crop with modified genes from an experimental strain of rice engineered to be resistant to the company's Liberty-brand herbicide. The contamination occurred in 2006, during an open field test of the new rice, which was not approved for human consumption. According to the plaintiffs' lawyer, Don Downing, genetic material from the unapproved rice contaminated more than 30 percent of all rice cropland in the United States.
"Bayer was supposed to be careful," Downing said. "Bayer was not careful and that rice did escape into our commercial rice supplies."
The plaintiffs alleged that in addition to contaminating their fields, Bayer further harmed them financially by undermining their export market. When the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the widespread rice contamination, important export markets were closed to U.S. producers. A report from Greenpeace International estimates the financial damage of the contamination at between $741 million and $1.3 billion.
Bayer claimed that there was no possible way it could have prevented the contamination, insisting that it followed not only the law but also the best industry practices. The jury disagreed, finding Bayer guilty of carelessness in handling the genetically modified crops. The company was ordered to pay farmers Kenneth Bell and Johnny Hunter $2 million.
"This is a huge victory, not only for Kenny and me, but for every farmer in America who was harmed by Bayer's LibertyLink rice contamination," Hunter said.
According to Hunter, the company got "the wake-up call they deserved."
Bayer is still being sued by more than 1,000 other farmers from Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas."
Natural News
“Monsanto’s primary reason for enforcing its patents is to ensure a level playing field for the vast majority of honest farmers who abide by their agreements, and to discourage using technology to gain an unfair advantage.” – From Monsanto’s website.
As benevolent as that might sound, make no mistake about it, Monsanto is only concerned about its bottom line (no, not farmers), which would not necessarily be a bad thing per se were it not for the aggressive enforcement of its patents, tactics which include, among others, hiring private investigators, video surveillance, demanding access to records and field inspections, as well as having a toll-free hot line provided for farmers and business owners to anonymously report violations to what farmers call the “seed police.” And of course, there is always the threat of litigation. (In case you wondered, according to USDA records, in 2008, Monsanto was the holder of 674 biotechnology patents.)
But that’s not all. For Monsanto, patent protection (and therefore investment protection) involves not only oppressive investigative techniques and lawsuits, but also entering into agreements with farmers that are heavily one-sided in favor of Monsanto."
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"The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Festering and ugly sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast or worshiped its image." Revelation 16:2.
ReplyDeleteGet ready, folks.