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The Great GMO Legitimation Crisis
The pro-GMO lobby talks about choice, democracy and the alleged violence of certain environmental groups but says nothing about the structural violence waged on rural communities resulting from IMF/World Bank strings-attached loans, the undermining of global food security as a result of Wall Street commodity and land speculators, the crushing effects of trade rules on poorer regions or the devastating impacts of GMOs in regions like SouthAmerica. To discuss such things is political and thus ideological and is therefore not up for discussion it seems.
Much easier to try to focus on the science and simply mouth platitudes about democracy and freedom of choice while saying nothing about how both been captured or debased by powerful interests, including agribusiness. By attempting not to appear to be ideological or political, such people are attempting to depoliticise and thus disguise the highly political status quo whereby powerful corporations (and some bogus notion of a free market) are left unchallenged to shape agriculture as they see fit:
Anyone whos seen the recent virally circulated Venn diagrams of the personnel overlap between Monsanto and USDA personnel, or Pfizer and FDA, will immediately know what Im talking about A model of capitalism in which the commanding heights of the economy are an interlocking directorate of large corporations and government agencies, a major share of the total operating costs of the dominant firms are socialized (and profits privatized, of course), and intellectual property protectionism and other regulatory cartels allow bureaucratic corporate dinosaurs to operate profitably without fear of competition. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society.
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Failure is us
Even with this power and political influence at its disposal, the GMO agritech industry is far from being a success. Much of its profits actually derive from failure: for example, Andrew Kimbrell notes that after having chosen to ignore science, the industrys failing inputs are now to be replaced with more destined-to-fail and ever-stronger poisonous inputs. The legacy of poisoned environments and ecological devastation is for someone else to deal with. In his book, Steven Druker has shown that from very early on the US government has colluded with the GMO agritech sector to set a technical fix-failure-technical fix merry-go-round in motion.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/the-great-gmo-legitimation-crisis/
The pro-GMO lobby talks about choice, democracy and the alleged violence of certain environmental groups but says nothing about the structural violence waged on rural communities resulting from IMF/World Bank strings-attached loans, the undermining of global food security as a result of Wall Street commodity and land speculators, the crushing effects of trade rules on poorer regions or the devastating impacts of GMOs in regions like SouthAmerica. To discuss such things is political and thus ideological and is therefore not up for discussion it seems.
Much easier to try to focus on the science and simply mouth platitudes about democracy and freedom of choice while saying nothing about how both been captured or debased by powerful interests, including agribusiness. By attempting not to appear to be ideological or political, such people are attempting to depoliticise and thus disguise the highly political status quo whereby powerful corporations (and some bogus notion of a free market) are left unchallenged to shape agriculture as they see fit:
Anyone whos seen the recent virally circulated Venn diagrams of the personnel overlap between Monsanto and USDA personnel, or Pfizer and FDA, will immediately know what Im talking about A model of capitalism in which the commanding heights of the economy are an interlocking directorate of large corporations and government agencies, a major share of the total operating costs of the dominant firms are socialized (and profits privatized, of course), and intellectual property protectionism and other regulatory cartels allow bureaucratic corporate dinosaurs to operate profitably without fear of competition. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society.
SNIP
Failure is us
Even with this power and political influence at its disposal, the GMO agritech industry is far from being a success. Much of its profits actually derive from failure: for example, Andrew Kimbrell notes that after having chosen to ignore science, the industrys failing inputs are now to be replaced with more destined-to-fail and ever-stronger poisonous inputs. The legacy of poisoned environments and ecological devastation is for someone else to deal with. In his book, Steven Druker has shown that from very early on the US government has colluded with the GMO agritech sector to set a technical fix-failure-technical fix merry-go-round in motion.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/the-great-gmo-legitimation-crisis/
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TPP or whatever comes next will be mighty handy for Monsanto, ADM and Big Agra.
Octafish
Mar 2015
#28
The article is about power and politics, and how they're used by the GMO industry,
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#14
Monsanto's been saying one thing to the regulators, and another to the farmers fooled into buying
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#23
Yes, they were saying herbicides must be used continuously. Of course, they were!
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#36
The better way is for crops and herbicides to be rotated, not for one crop and one herbicide
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#37
Aloha pnwmom... I just made a comprehensive post on this thread .. how I feel about Monsanto
Cha
Mar 2015
#57
So you're going for guilt-by-association. Who cares? Drucker's just one person mentioned in the beginning of the article,
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#13
Monsanto's goal is to collapse the natural ecosystem and get exclusive rights to our food supply,
whereisjustice
Mar 2015
#7
propaganda doesn't just get believed or buys time, each bit contributes to a larger overall
MisterP
Mar 2015
#11
Bangladeshi farmers learn the hard way it's not wise to put much stock in the pro-GMO propaganda.
JohnyCanuck
Mar 2015
#29
There is nothing misleading about correct labeling. And the food manufacturers have zero credibility
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#59
Why wouldn't it be? I wouldn't object to the disclosure of the type of fertilizer used, including manure.
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#64
There is a profound difference between simple and clear labeling and scaremongering.
pnwmom
Mar 2015
#66
Not a damn thing.. but you will get a Lot of Hot Air from those defending Not Labeling GMO.
Cha
Mar 2015
#58