[Ngo-sanrm] Obama's and Monsanto's GMO plans for Africa -- similar to strategy for Vietnam, Asia?

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Working Group ngo-sanrm at ngocentre.org.vn
Sun May 11 09:51:37 ICT 2014


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Jon
Rappoport
*Activist Post*<http://www.activistpost.com/2014/05/barack-obama-and-monsanto-betrayal.html>

Under the selective radar of mainstream media, Barack Obama has been
carving out a whole new level of support for Monsanto and other destructive
biotech giants.

>From Scott Creighton, "Obama Pitches India Model of GM Genocide to Africa":

"At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President Obama met
with private industry and African heads of state to launch the New Alliance
for Food Security and Nutrition, a euphemism for monocultured, genetically
modified crops and toxic agrochemicals aimed at making poor farmers debt
slaves to corporations, while destroying the ecosphere for profit.

"But African civil society wants no part of this latest Monsanto aligned
'public private partnership.' Whatever will the progressives do now that
their flawless hero has teamed up with their most hated nemesis [Monsanto]
to exploit an entire continent like they did to India not that long ago?...

"With a commitment of $3 billion, Obama plans to 'partner up' with
mega-multinationals like Monsanto, Diageo, Dupont, Cargill, Vodafone,
Walmart, Pepsico, Prudential, Syngenta International, and Swiss Re because,
as one USAID representative says 'There are things that only companies can
do, like building silos for storage and developing seeds and fertilizers.'

"Of course, that's an outrageous lie. Private citizens have been building
their own silos for centuries. But it's true that only the biowreck
engineers will foist patented seeds and toxic chemicals on Africa."

Under the guise of replacing the "donor-recipient model" of charity with
"smart business development that's a win-win for everybody," a new level of
corporate-government colonialism is aimed at the continent of Africa. The
new and improved strategy means bigger profits for the few and greater
suffering and displacement for the many.

Support self-sufficiency for the small farmer? Expand the number of small
farms growing nutritious and non-toxic food? Never heard of it. Not on the
agenda--except in false propaganda statements and promises.

No, instead, the idea is putting small farmers into debt to Monsanto for
GMO seeds and highly toxic herbicides, so they can grow (until they go
bankrupt) noxious GMO food crops. Small farms will eventually be snapped up
by big ag corporations.

Obama? A warrior against corporations on behalf of the people? It's long
past the time for ripping that false mask away.

During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals
that he understood the GMO issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were
impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to
their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren't just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail,
Obama said: "Let folks know when their food is genetically modified,
because Americans have a right to know what they're buying."

Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication
that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to
draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government.
He was adamant in assuring that, if elected, his administration wouldn't do
business in "the old way." He would be "responsive to people's needs."

Then came the reality.

After the election, people who had been working to label GMO food and warn
the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core. They saw Obama had
been pulling a bait and switch.

After the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in
federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and
the FDA:

At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.

As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the
infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for
Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto's
genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack had set up
a national group, the Governors' Biotechnology Partnership, and had been
given a Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, whose members include Monsanto.

As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for
export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.

As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate
counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.

As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously worked in key
positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO
agriculture research.

We should also remember that Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton,
once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was counsel to Monsanto.

Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan, as federal
solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the *Monsanto v.
Geertson* seed case before the Supreme Court.

The deck was stacked. Obama hadn't simply made honest mistakes. Obama
hadn't just failed to exercise proper oversight in selecting appointees. He
wasn't just experiencing a failure of short-term memory. He was staking out
territory on behalf of Monsanto and other GMO corporate giants.

And now let us look at what key Obama appointees have wrought for their
true bosses. Let's see what GMO crops have walked through the open door of
the Obama presidency.

Monsanto GMO alfalfa.

Monsanto GMO sugar beets.

Monsanto GMO Bt soybean.

Coming soon: Monsanto's GMO sweet corn.

Syngenta GMO corn for ethanol.

Syngenta GMO stacked corn.

Pioneer GMO soybean.

Syngenta GMO Bt cotton.

Bayer GMO cotton.

ATryn, an anti-clotting agent from the milk of transgenic goats.

A GMO papaya strain.

And perhaps, soon, genetically engineered salmon and apples.

This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most
GMO-dedicated politician in America.

You don't attain that position through errors or oversights. Obama was, all
along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and
corporate control of the future of agriculture.

*Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, **The Matrix
Revealed
<http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/the-matrix-revealed-vol-1-mp3s-pdfs-by-jon-rappoport-mega-info/>**
and **Exit From the
Matrix*<http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/exit-from-the-matrix/>*,
Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for *CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern*,
and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered
lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power
to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at
www.nomorefakenews.com <http://www.nomorefakenews.com/>*
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