The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels
Uploaded on 3 Jul 2008
Across the world, food riots are taking place. Scientist and activist Vandana Shiva explores whether the future will be one of food wars or food peace. She argues that the creation of food peace demands a major shift in the way food is produced and distributed, and the way in which we manage and use the soil, water and biodiversity, which makes food production possible. 17th Annual Margolis lecture at UC Irvine. http://youtu.be/Iq6jpkDNxtI
“For centuries, Europeans dominated the
African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to
rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was
to "civilise" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans
robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable
suffering on the African people...
Although most Africans are poor, our
continent is potentially extremely rich. Our mineral resources, which
are being exploited with foreign capital only to enrich foreign
investors, range from gold and diamonds to uranium and petroleum. Our
forests contain some of the finest woods to be grown anywhere. Our
cash crops include cocoa, coffee, rubber, tobacco and cotton... This
is one of the reasons why we have in Africa the paradox
of poverty in the midst of plenty, and scarcity in the midst of
abundance.”
- Kwame Nkrumah 1961,
Source: I
Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology
(London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961), pp. Xi-xiv. Transcribed:
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook, Transcription Edit/HTML: Mike B.
http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/1961/speak-freedom.htm
Food is a weapon. - Earl Butz, 1974, the United States Secretary of Agriculture
To borrow from Napoleon, quoted as saying, "An
army marches on its stomach," it should be easier to understand that a nation also "marches" on its stomach. If the British had had absolute control over our food, we could probably still be a British colony even today. It would have certainly been a formidable task, even under the great leadership of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Just as "procuring enough food to support
an army in the field is a paramount concern for all commanders.
Although weapons, clothing, and shelter are of the greatest immediate
importance to soldiers, logistical support to provide food and
material is often the decisive element in winning wars", so in the same way our survival as a sovereign nation depend upon our own abilities to feed ourselves.
The focus of this segment is to take a look at the implications of seed patents, disappearance of natural seeds, and the monopoly of food by giant multinational corporations. Fortunately, if we are to learn from our own history, we would not require a genius to point out the extreme dangers associated with having foreign multinational corporations in control of whether we live or we die. Our history over the period of the past 500 years has been a history about foreign domination. A people with a history of slavery and colonialism must not find it too hard to understand the new forms of bondage that are being surreptitiously introduced into our lives, without any discussion or consent from us.
The new chains creeping in are being designed and reinforced with materials difficult to break, and much more effective than the metal shackles, plus all the military accoutrements associated with slavery, gin, gun powder, cannon balls and all! This is what the topic of food as a weapon is about. It is about the use of food to control a targeted population, or country. The drive to replace natural food with genetically modified foods is gathering steam, and we need to know and understand that we should take our history of slavery and colonialism seriously because the use of food as a weapon surpasses all chains.
It
is a widely known fact that hungry people will do anything in order to
get food. Whoever is able to control the access to the food of the
people, controls the people. Anthony Gucciardi puts it nicely in How food is being used as a weapon, when he writes: “When
people begin to starve instinctive primal triggers lead to a desire to
do absolutely anything for food. Those with food, whether it is the
government or a nearby family, will have complete power over others.
Food could essentially be used as a weapon, thousands of times more
powerful than money or most any other resource. But even in current
times, food is used as a weapon by those in power through the use of
government regulations and chemical additives that destroy both your
health and your bank account. Artificial inflation and speculation,
toxic substances hidden in the food, and government regulations are but a
few examples. But where did the idea of using food as a supremely
powerful weapon begin?” [1]
Of course, throughout history, examples are replete with the use of food as a weapon of war. "Sieges of fortified positions have been used since time immemorial to starve, demoralize, and physically weaken the ensconced combatants. Pictorial representations in Egypt depict sieges over 4,000 years ago, while the Iliad of Homer describes the siege of Troy by the Greeks over 3,000 years ago. It, like many of the numerous sieges that followed, ended not through force of arms, but through deception and treachery." [2]
The current sanctions against Iran could have been far more devastating and effective if Monsanto had a monopoly over the seeds in that country.
In surrendering our natural and fundamental rights to seeds to multinational corporations, we surrender our very sovereignty to them. The real challenge facing our generation today is whether we would be born as free and die as slaves. The power of the patent on life has put a veritable instrument in the hands of those who wish to dominate and control access to food, unprecedented in history. Anthony Gucciardi answers his own question in the article quoted above, he explains that, in 1974, the idea of using food as a weapon was introduced in a 200-page report (http://wlym.com/text/NSSM200.htm) by US politician and former Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger. The report, entitled National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests, stated that food aid would be withheld from developing countries in need until they submitted to birth control policies that would effectively sterilize large numbers of the population to curb growth.” [3]
In this document, Dr. Kissinger writes:
"There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion." [4]
The transition from the use of “food aid” as a tool in international diplomacy to “food monopoly” as a weapon of control has only been made possible through the patents on life-forms. Where powerful nations with a history and appetite for domination, who "oppose the right to water and sanitation as a fundamental human right," begin all of a sudden, a campaign to assure our "food security and nutrition", while millions of their own citizens, particularly, African-Americans, who are worst hit by the on-going economic downturn, go hungry on a daily basis, we need to take that with a pinch of salt, if not smell a rat!
Published on 29 Mar 2012
The US has suspended food aid to
North Korea after the country refused to cancel a scheduled rocket
launch. Washington says this breaks the deal in which North Korea agreed
to suspend its uranium enrichment program and nuclear missile tests in
exchange for humanitarian support. Pyongyang says the launch is merely
intended to send a satellite into space.For more, lets' talk to James
Corbett, editor of The Corbett Report, who joins us from Osaka, Japan. http://youtu.be/8Ijpk6_Dt-cThe problem is that, "With little economic prowess and a nation in peril, developing countries would be forced to comply or face continued famine and death. Food was the weapon, and it was being held captive as a means of foreign policy and warfare. Holding onto valuable food aid and allowing innocent villagers to starve is not much different than waging open physical warfare upon them, which would be prohibited by international law and frowned upon by the majority of citizens worldwide. Henry Kissinger's report is but one incident of food weaponry, however. There are a number of other ways in which food is used as a daily weapon against the public." [5]
In her thesis, "Edible Armaments: Food as a Weapon in the Cold War and Culture," Meghan O’Dea eloquently observes, “What the world eats and why is as much a part of decades-old politics as the alliances, trade agreements, and military conflicts in which governments are entangled today.” [6]
We live in a world where the power of the patent on life-forms have reached the absurd. The Automatic Earth, Tuesday, February 26, 2013, an opinion, "Time To Stop Monsanto And The US Supreme Court", which opened with, "The US Supreme Court heard a case on February 19 that is interesting perhaps not even so much because of the topic at hand but more because of the level of absurdity involved. It feels like we warpsped our way into a parallel universe where the laws of nature are entirely different from those on earth.
That is to say, the court should never have been in a position to hear the case, but it has created the legal space for itself, aided and abetted by Congress and the US patent system, to hear it anyway. Because of this we should all ask ourselves: How on earth have we ever allowed things to get this far? What were we thinking, and what were we not, because we were busy doing other things? And finally: how do we get out of this parallel universe and into our own?" [7]
This may be coming soon to a court near you! For those unfamiliar with the case, it involved a so-called "patent infringement" in which a large AgriBusiness multinational corporation, Monsanto, sued Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman. "It is
one of a large number, 142, patent infringement suits against 410
farmers and 56 small businesses in the US. Monsanto alleges that Mr.
Bowman has infringed on one of its patents, the Roundup Ready
soybean, by buying cheap(er) "excess" soybeans from a local
grain elevator for a late-season planting, which, first, allowed him
not to pay the company the full price for its patented seeds, and
second, runs counter to its demand that farmers buy new seeds for
every planting instead of saving seeds from the previous
harvest." [8]
There are suspicions that this charade of a case, if a carefully orchestrated attempt to affirm the rights of multinational corporations over farmers who would naturally like to continue the practice of saving their seeds for re-planting, or cutting the corners and not paying royalties. It the appears the observation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. who was reported to have asked: "Why
in the world,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asked, “would
anybody spend any money to try to improve the seed if as soon as they
sold the first one anybody could grow more and have as many of those
seeds as they want?" [9]
As they continue to fine-tune the legal and political framework of control, it is about time we take a good look at the major players in this game and do our own institutional analyses. They are certainly not going to call us on the phone or make press conferences announcing the real intentions if Dr. Kissinger's words in the famous "food as a weapon" document, is anything to go by. I refer to, "In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion."
2. "No Food Shall Be
Grown That We Don't Own!"
Monsanto takes a
proud global tradition of 12,000 years that has involved millions of
farmers through hundreds of generations and kills off their sweat,
toll and achievements in just a few years’ time. Making all
farmers, and all people, dependent on its products. This is the
opposite of food security. After all, when Monsanto et al thoroughly
control our food supply, what do you think they will do? Lower
prices?
…
While there can be no doubt that Monsanto is a profitable business, the US agriculture industry still receives tens of billions in direct and indirect subsidies. - Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically Modified Seeds [10]
…
While there can be no doubt that Monsanto is a profitable business, the US agriculture industry still receives tens of billions in direct and indirect subsidies. - Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically Modified Seeds [10]
One company religiously carrying out the mission of control and monopoly over food is Monsanto. Avoiding “the appearance of coercion," and pretending to be an ecological saviour “with Taquin's ravishing strides”, Monsanto moves like a ghost! As Jeffrey M. Smith points out, “At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team asked Monsanto executives what their ideal future looked like in 15 to 20 years. The executives described a world with 100 percent of all commercial seeds genetically modified and patented. Anderson consultants then worked backwards from that goal, and developed the strategy and tactics to achieve it. They presented Monsanto with the steps and procedures needed to obtain a place of industry dominance in a world in which natural seeds were virtually extinct.” [11]
It is not an accident
that a company that sees its success in terms of replacing natural
seeds, a company with a history as the producer of Agent Orange, DDT,
PCBs, and a host of nature-unfriendly chemicals would style itself as
eco-friendly. To fully appreciate the profound nature of this strange
behaviour one must first know a little bit about what Monsanto has
been up to, since its formation in 1901. Strongly recommended is
Brian Tokar's Monsanto
A Checkered History: Resurgence & Ecologist (Vol 28 No 5
- September / October 1998). The reason why Monsanto began to portray
its image as eco-friendly is due in part to the successes of the
rising ecological movements in the sixties and seventies, and the
heightening of public consciousness that emerged after the disasters
of the 1980s. Joshua Karliner explains in A
Brief History of Greenwash, CorpWatch, March 22nd, 2001:
“As the 1980s produced the Bhopal, Chernobyl and
Exxon Valdez disasters, the environmental movement gained in
strength. In response, greenwash advertisements became even more
numerous and more sophisticated, peaking in 1990 on the 20th
anniversary of Earth Day. It was during that year of eco-hoopla that
"corporate environmentalism" came into its own in the US.
The transnationals came to recognize that increasing numbers of
consumers wanted to buy green products. In fact, in the early 1990s,
one poll found that seventy-seven percent of Americans said that a
corporation's environmental reputation affected what they bought.3
In another US poll, eighty-four percent of the people regarded
corporate environmental crimes as more serious than insider trading
or price fixing.4”
[12]
In 1997, EuropaBio, the
largest Biotechnology trade federation, representing 540 companies
and 8 national associations, organized EuropaBio '97, European
Bioindustry Congress (June 25 – 27, Amsterdam). Faced with a
hostile European reception to their products and a bleak prospect for
their respective businesses, they commissioned Burson Marsteller
(B-M) the world's largest PR firm, operating from 60 offices in 30
different countries, to write up a strategy proposal for achieving a
change in public 'perceptions'. The document was leaked to
Greenpeace:
“The federation were
advised to stay clear of form of public debate and particularly the
industry's 'killing fields' - namely 'Public issues of environmental
and human health risk'. The task of persuading consumers to embrace
genetically modified products should be left to those charged with
public trust – politicians and regulators. Instead, the industry
should concentrate on the spread of positive stories and symbols,
eliciting a message of 'hope, satisfaction, caring and self-esteem.'
'Symbols', they add, are 'central to politics because they connect to
emotions and not logic'. The public, they advised, should be
convinced that genetically altered products are not simply safe but
'environmentally superior to standard crop varieties'.” [13]
In 1998, the then
President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Sir Gordon Richard Conway,
outlined his plans in his book: The Doubly Green Revolution: Food For
All in the 21st Century, [15] (Penguin and University Press, Cornell)
ISBN
0-8014-8610-6, in which a clear link is made between
biotechnology and global food security. He explains his vision in an
article, Food
For All In The 21st Century:
“The technologies of
the first Green Revolution were developed on experiment stations that
were favored with fertile soils. well-controlled water sources, and
other factors suitable for high production. There was little
perception of the complexity and diversity of farmers' physical
environments, let alone the diversity of the economic and social
environments. The new Green Revolution must not only benefit the poor
more directly, but must also be applicable under highly diverse
conditions and be environmentally sustainable.
In effect, the need is
for a Doubly Green Revolution, a revolution that is even more
productive than the first Green Revolution and even more "green"
in terms of conserving natural resources and the environment. During
the next three decades, it must aim to repeat the successes of the
Green Revolution on a global scale in many diverse localities and be
equitable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. ” This article is
drawn from his most recent book. The Doubly Green Revolution:
Food for All in the 21st Century (Ithaca. N.Y.:
Cornell University Press. 1998). [14]
“Several years ago,
Monsanto bought Seminis (a seed company that has 40% of the US seed
market), and more recently bought De Ruiter Seeds (one of the top
vegetable breeders in the world). Monsanto is now in the vegetable
seed business for the first time, and it's in big time. More than 55
percent of store bought lettuce, 75 percent of U.S. tomatoes, and 85
percent of peppers now originate through Monsanto's fingers. (Source)
Our salad plate is now being dished out by Monsanto!
Although Monsanto has
yet to release many genetically modified vegetables into the market,
they spend almost 2 million dollars a day on research and
development, so GM vegetables are probably not very far away.
(Monsanto currently holds the technology for more than 90 percent of
the world’s genetically engineered crops, and they also hold
thousands of U.S. seed patents without mentioning their alleged theft
of heirloom seeds world-wide.) If you see PVP (Plant Variety
Protection) listed after a seed or plant name, that means the seed or
plant carries a U.S. patent, and Monsanto could own it.” [15]
3. “The White
Man's Dream For Africa”
In September 2006 the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
launched the “Alliance for a
Green Revolution in Africa” (AGRA) as a joint initiative.
AGRA expands on the Rockefeller Foundation’s Green Revolution in
Africa Initiative. Founded with an initial commitment of $100 million
from the Gates Foundation and another $50 million from the
Rockefeller Foundation, today AGRA is the biggest grantee of the
Gates Foundation. On 14 June 2007 AGRA announced the appointment of
former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as its first chairman.
“Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape
Town, where he was due to deliver a keynote address on African
agriculture, Mr. Annan said he was deeply honored to be taking up the
position and hoped to use it to help drive forward progress on an
issue critical to wider African development.” [16]
AGRA has since transformed its image as a foreign solution to African
problems by placing Mr. Kofi Annan firmly as its public face. In a
document, Agricultural Development Strategy 2008-2011, prepared by
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we read, “AGRA is an African
face and voice for our work and also informs our work as a key
strategic partner....” But it must be clearly stated that this has
not fooled all the people all the time. Monsanto had earlier on tried
to use Mr. Nelson Mandela to soften African resistance and failed.
AGRA contents itself, for the time being, with propaganda and the
laying of the grounds such as the legislative framework to ensure a
comfortable life for bio-tech corporations in Africa, and to round-up
the “stake-holders”, or African consumer as well as our poor
farmers, into the scheme. Anuradha Mittal observes in the
Introduction
to Voices
From Africa: African Farmers
& Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in
Africa [PDF]:
"Despite the Gates
Foundation’s rhetoric, AGRA’s vision for agricultural development
was not drawn up by African voices, nor does it take into account
developing countries’ experience with the first Green Revolution.
Instead, this agricultural revolution for Africa was designed by
Gordon Conway, President of the Rockefeller Foundation through 2004.
The appointment of key staff at the
Gates Foundation was also indicative of the direction that AGRA was
intended to steer agriculture in Africa. In 2006, the Gates
Foundation appointed Dr. Robert Horsch as the Senior Program Officer
in the Global Development Program, which directly supervises the AGRA
initiative. Horsch came to the foundation after 25 years on the staff
of the Monsanto Corporation, one of the world’s biggest
biotechnology multinationals and one of the most aggressive promoters
of GM crops. At Monsanto, Horsch was the Vice-President for Product
and Technology Cooperation, later Vice-President for International
Development Partnership, and also a member of the team that developed
Monsanto’s YieldGard, BollGard, and RoundUp Ready technologies.”
[17]
She
continues:
"The appointment of Kofi Annan as AGRA’s chairman was a strategic decision that the Gates Foundation made to silence criticisms that its agricultural development agenda was a “White Man’s Dream for Africa.” In fact, this more reeks of Monsanto’s campaign: “Let the Harvest Begin.” Launched in 1998 to gain acceptance of GE crops around the world by projecting the benefits of the Green Revolution in Asia and its potential in Africa, Monsanto’s campaign managed to draw several respected African leaders, such as Nelson Mandela, to speak for a new Green Revolution in Africa. In response, all of the African delegates (except South Africa) to the UN Food and Agriculture Negotiations on the International Undertaking for Plant Genetic Resources in June 1998 issued a counter statement, “Let Nature’s Harvest Continue.” The delegates clearly stated their objection to multinational companies’ use of the image of the poor and hungry from African countries to push technology that is not safe, environmentally friendly, or economically beneficial." [18]
In
Why
is Kofi Annan Fronting For Monsanto? The GMO Assault On Africa,
2010/08/31, Crossed Crocodiles writes: "Kofi Annan has joined
with President Obama, Monsanto, AGRA, and the Gates foundation to
promote and execute food aid that replaces bags of wheat, rice and
corn (agricultural dumping) with bags of pesticides, herbicides,
chemical fertilizers and genetically engineered seeds. The end result
will be to starve people in Africa and feed corporations in the US
and Europe." [19]
This has since been confirmed in Business English by the perpetrators
themselves when the industry called on the G8 members to “spur
innovation and engage the private sector by reducing regulatory
barriers, building capacity, strengthening intellectual property
protections, and adopting and implementing policies to increase trade
in commodities and food." [20]
This
is a strategy session, and so I am not going to go into the merits
and demerits of GM technology. We know the technology has excellent
medical applications, such as the preparation of insulin for diabetic
patients, or in other medical fields such as "treating for
example, inherited diseases such as immune deficiencies, thalassemia,
sickle disease, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, and so on." Indeed,
the quote on the specific medial applications is a quote from Dr
Michael Antoniou, a molecular geneticist, Kings College London
(www.kcl.ac.uk). It is an interesting point because one way the GM
industry bully the public is to accuse us of "scientific
ignorance" whenever their Frankenstein foods are questioned.
In
an interview on BBC's "One Planet", he was asked whether or
not he was comfortable with the GM crops:
"The
people who create GM crops use very similar techniques to yours,
different applications though, are you comfortable with that?"
"I
am not comfortable at all with the way that GM is being used in
agriculture". Dr. Antoniou answer categorically, "because
compared to what we do in a clinical context, where not only research
is done under contained genes, they are non-replicated. They can't
reproduce and spread and cause harm. In agriculture the same
technique is used in open fields, the organism can spread in an
uncontrolled way and we suffer with the consequences of that
forever."
"You
use this technology to device medical therapy to help people to live
longer and healthier lives," he was further asked, "to keep
more of us on the planet for longer, what is wrong with other
scientists using these same techniques to fed those extra millions
and billions? They say - you heard the argument – that there was a
need, a moral moral obligation?"
Dr.
Antoniou responded:
"Indeed,
the world has a moral obligation to feed itself. What is invariably
ignored by advocates of GM crops in explaining why almost a billion
of people in the world go to bed, each day, hungry, is that actually,
we have more than enough food to feed everybody now. In fact, we have
have doubled the amount of food to feed everybody in the world now,
but people don't have access to food. And in terms of meeting future
food needs, specifically in the face of climate change, then the
latest United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation sponsored
report clearly pointed that the future in meeting future food needs
lie in applying agro-ecological methods. They said that genetic
engineering would play little or no role in meeting immediate food
needs of the world and future food needs of the world. Which is why
the Americans were not signatory. But 62 other nations, actually
signed up, including the UK, signed up to that report. We have to
take on board, the report compiled by 400 independent scientists from
around the world, in all manner of expertise and discipline, which
said go forward with low-input, agro-ecological, sustainable
agriculture, not GM, because GM simply does not fit the bill." [21]
Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah
Research And Information Committee
Our Food Under Our Control
Accra Freedom Centre, Accra.
Take Action! Join
the Campaign:
"Just Say No To GM Foods!" Accra,
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food is being used as a weapon",
by Anthony Gucciardi, Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Meghan O’Dea, Departmental Honors Thesis , The University of
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as a Weapon
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[10] Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically
Modified
Seeds http://billmoyers.com/segment/vandana-shiva-on-the-problem-with-genetically-modified-seeds/
[11] Jeffrey M. Smith
http://www.naturalnews.com/029325_Monsanto_deception.html
[12] A Brief History of Greenwash by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch,
March 22nd, 2001 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=243
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Monsanto's
Failing PR Strategy - The FrankenFood
Files,
frankenfoodfiles.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/brunofinal.pdf,
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For All In The 21st Century
By Gordon Conway [PDF] e-teacher.clanteam.com/conway.pdf,
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Food for All in the 21st Century (Ithaca. N.Y.:
Cornell University Press. 1998).
[16] To read the full
press release, visit the AGRA
Web site
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to Voices
From Africa: African Farmers
& Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in
Africa [PDF]
[18] Voices From Africa: African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak Out
Against a New Green Revolution in Africa | oaklandinstitute.org
http://bit.ly/LEdRVw
[19]
Why
is Kofi Annan Fronting For Monsanto? The GMO Assault On Africa,
2010/08/31, Crossed Crocodiles http://crossedcrocodiles.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/why-is-kofi-annan-fronting-for-monsanto-the-gmo-assault-on-africa/
[20] Chicago Council On Global Affairs, Upcoming G8 Summit Can Make New Progress in Advancing Global Food Security, http://bit.ly/LDkHdR
[21] “The father of GM foods, bolivian seeds and wildebeest, Dr Roger Beachy, the father of GM foods on scientific ignorance and our moral obligations, Listen 28 minutes” http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b2rgn. See also, for the transcript, Why Kofi Annan’s “Green Wash” In Africa Does Not Wash! Feature Article of Sunday, 17 October 2010 by Mensah, Nana Akyea http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=195305
[21] “The father of GM foods, bolivian seeds and wildebeest, Dr Roger Beachy, the father of GM foods on scientific ignorance and our moral obligations, Listen 28 minutes” http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b2rgn. See also, for the transcript, Why Kofi Annan’s “Green Wash” In Africa Does Not Wash! Feature Article of Sunday, 17 October 2010 by Mensah, Nana Akyea http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=195305
FURTHER READING:
Scarce
Goods as Political Weapons: The Case of Food, Full Text (PDF)
Journal of Peace Research December 1976 13: 277-298,
http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/13/4/277.full.pdf
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