Chapter 254: The Dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (Part II)

In 1996, the company had $187 million in funds for investments and divestitures, primarily for non-strategic investments and asset restructurings. Prior to this, Monsanto had already begun to turn its attention to the world's seed market, trying to control the most important commodities in the human and animal food chain. Monsanto's greedy eyes are aimed at the world, and there is also the mold country government, which has played a major role in the process of launching the "genetic revolution" of genetically modified food crops to spread to the world.

At the end of the 80s of the 20th century, a huge GMO project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation was also officially launched, and Argentina became the first real product, which they considered to be equivalent to the "second green revolution". Under the guise of increasing yields, developing countries such as Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela are in full swing under the guidance of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has even given a new name to the process - commercial agriculture. From 1996 to 2004, in just eight years, the area under cultivation of genetically modified crops worldwide increased by about 40 fold to 167 million acres, accounting for about 25% of the world's total agricultural arable land.

In 1996, Argentine President Menem granted Monsanto a license to sell genetically modified soybean (3288, 53.00, 1.64%, bar) seeds exclusively throughout Argentina. Monsanto's genetically modified soybean seeds were introduced into Argentine agriculture in large quantities, accompanied by the use of its own "Roundup" herbicide, so that Monsanto's genetically modified seeds became the basis for a new commercial agriculture that produces soybeans in an industrial way, and Argentine land will become a huge seed production factory.

Monsanto has been profitable since 1974 when it launched the Roundup herbicide. It was a product that could bring growth to agriculture in the 90s, with sales in 1996 tripling compared to 1990 and even 20 per cent higher than in 1995, when sales were a success. With the growing popularity of no-till, Roundup herbicides continued to generate significant profits in the years that followed. It should be explained that fields with a special "Roundup" herbicide do not require ordinary soil ploughing, and using this no-till farming method, Monsanto claims that genetically modified soybeans are good for the environment and sells them to Argentine farmers. However, this method of "direct seeding", which only wealthy large-scale farmers can afford, requires a huge special machine that automatically stuffs the genetically modified soybean seeds into small holes a few centimeters deep and then fills them with soil, which directly saves a lot of manpower.

This has been hailed by advocates as a "second green revolution", but in reality, it is a "***". What was once a rich and productive national agricultural system based on family farms was transformed into a neo-feudal state dominated by a small group of powerful and wealthy estate owners. Why was Argentina chosen as the first trial? What are the different reasons for choosing different countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Iraq, etc.? Which country was chosen as a "test subject" had a lot to do with the current state of the country at the time, including whether this large-scale experiment would become a reality in the country, for example, Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Robert? Mugabe has repeatedly rejected U.S. food aid because it is in the form of genetically modified seeds, so genetically modified will not work in the country.

At the time, David? Rockefeller and the Rockefeller family's Chase Manhattan Bank with the newly nominated Argentine President Carlos. Menem established a close relationship, and Argentina's emergence as a confirmed country was the result of a win-win situation for both parties, with Monsanto taking advantage of Argentina's inflationary economic woes to expand the scope of "credit" to farmers eager to obtain loans for Monsanto's genetically modified seeds and Roundup herbicides. Although Argentina in the early 90s of the 20th century when by Carlos? President Menem ruled, and in fact soon after the governor's domain became under the control of Davy? Rockefeller control zhì. David? Rockefeller maintained close ties with the families that manipulated the GM project behind the scenes, including the Bush family. He allowed Monsanto to destroy the Argentine family's original farming model, but the original primitive farming was the best in terms of quality. There is no other option in Iraq, under the rule of the United States, Paul? Bremer only provided genetically modified seeds and, in a friendly and generous manner, gave seed relief to Iraqi farmers.

How did Argentina change after it was adopted as a real product? For more than a century, Argentina's agricultural lands, especially the famous Pampas, were once filled with green pastures for cattle and interspersed with cornfields and wheat fields. Farmers rotate crops between agriculture and pastoralism to maintain soil quality. With the introduction of monoculture of soybeans, these soils need more fertilizer – not less, as Monsanto promises, due to the over-uptake and depletion of key nutrients. Large herds of beef and dairy cattle that roamed freely in the Argentine grasslands for decades were forced to build large enclosures, as in the United States, to make way for more lucrative soybeans. Traditional fields of cereals, lentils, peas and mung beans have all but disappeared.

In the relatively calm 70s of the 20th century, before the entry of the big banks in New York, the standard of living in Argentina was one of the highest in Latin America. The official percentage of the population living below the poverty line was 5 per cent in 1970. By 1998, that figure had risen sharply to 30 per cent of the population, and in 2002 it had risen to 51 per cent. Malnutrition, previously unheard of in Argentina, rose to about 11-17 percent of the total population of 37 million in 2003, according to figures published by the Argentine Rural Reflection Group.

At the end of the 90s of the 20th century, Ray? Goldberg defined the transformation of agricultural commercialization as "the greatest event in human history that will change the global economy and society," and the stage for this transformation has been set. In his opinion, all of this qiē is completely free from government control and scientific supervision by any impartial scientific organization. The Rockefeller Foundation has been at the heart of the evolution of the entire genetic revolution. From the Green Revolution to the Genetic Revolution, this foundation plays a decisive role in developing strategies and means to change the way humans eat. They can even starve the world of food. The combination of commercial agriculture and the Green Revolution was part of the Rockefeller Foundation's larger strategy, as was the research on the development of genetically modified plants that they funded a few years later.

Rockefeller's Green Revolution began in Mexico and became popular in Latin America in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. When Borlaug came to Mexico, he was working on new varieties of rust-resistant hybrid wheat and hybrid corn, before he was involved in genetically modified engineering decades later. Thanks to Rockefeller's connections, the Green Revolution soon spread to India and other parts of Asia. The Green Revolution was nominally a propaganda of the efficiency of the free market and the so-called "inefficiency of communism", but its actual purpose was to control food production in a number of key developing countries, and under the guise of agricultural and biological science research in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century, the Rockefeller Group pursued its elaborate strategy through the Green Revolution - the core of which was to introduce "modern" agricultural methods to increase agricultural output and reduce hunger. Years later, they launched the GMO revolution with the same enticing ideas.

Similarly, at the G8 summit in 2008, the United Nations called on countries to inject funds into a second green revolution in the name of fighting hunger. When "the Green Revolution introduced U.S. commercial agriculture to major developing countries under the guise of transmitting crop science and modern technology," what led major developing countries to embrace the U.S. approach to commercial agriculture and make this model a reality in developing countries? The Global Agribusiness project has begun again, and it was also funded by the Rockefeller Fund, which was backed by the Rockefeller Fund in 1950 to support the American economist Vasily Brown. Wassily Leontieff and two Harvard Business School professors, Ray Lee? Ray Goldberg and John? As with the project led by John H. Davis, both of them were former aides to the USDA. They drew a long-term revolutionary blueprint on production and marketing quotas in the food industry and named it "Commercialization of Agriculture".

In 1948, Leontiev received a four-year, $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to set up the "Economic Research Program on the Structure of the American Economy" at Harvard. Goldberg later saw the commercial agricultural revolution and the development of genetically modified commercial agriculture as "the heaviest event in human history that will change the global economy and society." He argues that the core driver of commercial agriculture projects is the reintroduction of "vertical integration" (i.e., monopolies) into U.S. food production. By the '70s, few Americans were aware of the hard fight to prevent monopolies in critical industries from entering into a law prohibiting vertical integration of industry giants like Standard Oil and trusts. Namely, two important laws approved by the U.S. Congress: the Packaging and Livestock Act of 1921 and the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1922. The purpose of these two laws is to control and prevent the concentration of monopoly power in the meat processing and agricultural sectors, and to regulate and ensure the health and hygiene of the public environment.

As they later confirmed, the secret agenda in the project violated decades of law that had prohibited vertical integration in the food industry because health and safety concerns were apparent as companies maximized their pursuit of private profits. In a sense, genetically modified engineering is the culmination of the agricultural commercialization project, a perverted experiment that takes the lives of all human beings.