MONSANTO FRIENDS AGENDA 21
By Chriss Street
The beauty of UN Agenda 21 is that Big Government collects lots more taxes that they can spend on their Big Business friends.
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That is why it is so instructive to watch Monsanto, the agricultural chemical behemoth that has long been a great partner with rural farmers, turn on its base and join the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Monsanto is now aligned with 200 major banks, oil companies, and other powerful corporate players committed to implementing the United Nations Marxist scheme to expropriate rural land and eliminate the suburbs by moving these unwashed masses to the cities where their independent voting can be cancelled out.
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Monsanto Company is headquartered
in the Missouri heartland. The company’s history is not exactly a pillar of the
environmentalist community. Starting business a hundred years ago producing
saccharin artificial sweetener for Coca-Cola; by mid-century they were
manufacturing polystyrene and other synthetic plastic fibers; and after World
War II they became wildly successful pumping out huge quantities of
environmentally toxic DDT insecticides, Agent Orange defoliants, artificial
hormones for chemically fatten cattle and cancer causing PCBs.
But in the late 1990s, Monsanto
divested most of its commercial chemical operations to focus on biotechnology.
Since then, the company has been a prime target of the “greenies” as the
world’s leader in producing genetically modified organisms, seeds and food
crops. A recent article about these “Frankenfoods” in the New Internationalist
Magazine slammed the company’s activities: “What would you think if I said that
your dinner resembles Frankenstein, an unnatural hodgepodge of alien
ingredients? Fish genes are swimming in your tomato sauce, microscopic
bacterial genes in your tortillas, and your veg curry has been spiked with
viruses.”
Given the controversial nature of
GMO industrial agriculture, Monsanto has been moving to form sustainable
partnerships with government regulators. Former Iowa’s Governor Tom Vilsack,
whom Monsanto named “Biotech Governor of the Year,” is now the United States
Secretary of Agriculture and Michael Taylor, former Monsanto V.P. and
attorney/lobbyist, is the current FDA Food Safety Czar.
The beauty of Genetically Modified
Organisms is that since they could never have been formed in nature, they are
patentable compounds. Over the last few years, Monsanto has been litigating
famers, agricultural coops and competitors to enforce huge royalties on its GMO
patents here and around the world. August of last year, Monsanto won a $1
billion award against DuPont Company for patent infringement on its genetically
modified soybeans. The Federal jury award was the fourth biggest patent verdict
in U.S. history.
The home page of the WBCSD website features lots of pictures of windmills, bike paths and impoverished third world peasants. But digging deep into the website site illuminates that 200 CEOs have embraced UN Agenda 21, because there is great money to be made in teaming with Big Government.
WBCSD states that its’ membership
is willing to work building better and more innovative alliances with key
stakeholders to support effective action. These are crony capitalist code words
for we are ready to make serious political contributions for a piece of the
huge new taxes that embedded in complying with UN Agenda 21.
Prominently featured on the WBCSD
website is: “Accountants Will Save the World”, a Harvard Business Review
presentation from last year’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development in Rio, known as Rio+20. The speech argued for changing accounting
to value “social capital” to “ensure that corporate reporting makes clear how a
company is making its money, not just how much money it has made.” Abandonment
of capitalist profit motive dovetails nicely with the Communist Manifesto’s
first demand: Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of
land to public purposes. But this abolition concept may not be attractive to
farmers, who hold most of the world’s land.
Monsanto’s switching teams is just the latest example of how Big Business is acknowledging that Big Government is where the big money is. As the WBCSD annual report highlights, together multinational corporations can “influence the global sustainability agenda, rather than be shaped by it.”
CHRISS STREET & PAUL PRESTON
Present: “The Agenda 21 Radio Talk Show”
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