Poisoned Agriculture:
Depopulation and Human Extinction — Guest Column by Colin Todhunter
The One Percent Are
Enemies Of Life
Global Research, November 06, 2015
There is a global depopulation agenda. The plan is to
remove the ‘undesirables’, ‘the poor’ and others deemed to be ‘unworthy’ and a
drain on finite resources. However, according to Rosemary Mason, the plan isn’t
going to work because an anthropogenic mass extinction is already underway that
will affect all life on the planet and both rich and poor alike. Humans will
struggle to survive the phenomenon.
A new paper by Rosemary A Mason in the ‘Journal of
Biological Physics and Chemistry’, indicates that a ‘sixth extinction’ is under
way (the Holocene extinction, sometimes called the Sixth Extinction,
is a name describing the ongoing extinction of species during
the present Holocene epoch - since around 10,000 BCE). In
her paper, ‘The sixth mass extinction and chemicals in the environment: our
environmental deficit is now beyond nature’s ability to regenerate’, she argues
that loss of biodiversity is the most urgent of the environmental problems, as
biodiversity is critical to ecosystem services and human health. And the main
culprit is the modern chemical-intensive industrialised system of food and
agriculture.
Mason asserts there is a growing threat from the
release of hormone-disrupting chemicals that could even be shifting the human
sex ratio and reducing sperm counts. An industrial agricultural revolution has
created a technology-dependent global food system, but it has also created
serious long-run vulnerabilities, especially in its dependence on stable
climates, crop monocultures and industrially produced chemical inputs. In
effect, farming is a principal source of global toxification and soil
degradation.
Without significant pressure from the public demanding
action, Mason argues there could little chance of changing course fast enough
to forestall disaster. The ‘free’ market is driving the impending disaster and
blind faith in corporate-backed technology will not save us. Indeed, such faith
in this technology is actually killing us.
Since the late 1990s, US scientists have written in
increasingly desperate tones regarding an unprecedented number of fungal and
fungal-like diseases, which have recently caused some of the most severe
die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species and which are
jeopardizing food security. Only one paper dared to mention pesticides as being
a primary cause, however.
Mason cites a good deal of evidence to show how the
widespread use on agricultural crops of the systemic neonicotinoid insecticides
and the herbicide glyphosate, both of which cause immune suppression, make
species vulnerable to emerging infectious pathogens, driving large-scale
wildlife extinctions, including essential pollinators.
Providing evidence to show how human disease patterns
correlate remarkably well with the rate of glyphosate usage on corn, soy and
wheat crops, which has increased due to ‘Roundup Ready’ crops, Mason goes on to
present more sources to show how our over-reliance on chemicals in agriculture
is causing irreparable harm to all beings on this planet. Most of these
chemicals are known to cause illness, and they have likely been causing
illnesses for many years. But until recently, the herbicides have never been
sprayed directly on food crops and never in this massive quantity.
The depopulation agenda
Mason discusses how agriculture and genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) fit into a wider agenda for depopulating the planet.
She notes that on the initiative of Gates, in May 2009 some of the richest
people in the US met at the home of Nurse, a British Nobel prize-winning
biochemist and President (2003–10) of Rockefeller University in Manhattan, to
discuss ways of tackling a ‘disastrous’ environmental, social and industrial
threat of overpopulation. The meeting was hosted by David Rockefeller Jr. These
same individuals have met several times since to develop a strategy in which
population growth would be tackled.
The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) was involved in
extensive financing of eugenics research in league with some of the US’s
most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale,
Harvard and Princeton. The explicit aim of the eugenics lobby funded by wealthy
élite families, such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman and others since the
1920s, has embodied what they termed ‘negative eugenics’, the systematic
killing off of ‘undesired bloodlines’.
RF funded the earliest research on GMOs, which Mason
regards as part of the depopulation agenda. The RF funded the earliest research
on GMOs in the 1940s and effectively founded the science of molecular biology.
Mason cites Steven Druker to show the fraud behind
GMOs and how governments and leading scientific institutions have
systematically misrepresented the facts about GMOs and the scientific research
that casts doubt on their safety. Druker has shown that GMOs can have severe
health impacts, which have been covered up.
The Royal Society is the preeminent scientific body
within the UK that advises the government. It has misrepresented the facts
about GMOs and has engaged in various highly dubious and deceptive tactics to
promote the technology.
Druker wrote an open letter to RS as it has an
obligation to the British public to provide a public response and ‘put the
record straight’ on GMOs. Although Sir Paul Nurse’s presidency of Rockefeller
University terminated in 2010, after he assumed the Royal Society presidency,
Mason notes that Nurse is said to have maintained a laboratory on the
Rockefeller campus and has an ongoing relationship with the university.
She asks: is that why Sir Paul was unable (or
unwilling) even to discuss GMOs with Steven Druker? Was he sent to London by
the Rockefeller Foundation to support the UK Government in their attempt to
bring in GM crops? The UK Government and the GM industry have after all been
shown to be working together to promote GM crops and foods, undermine consumer
choice and ignore environmental harm.
Mason then goes on to discuss the impact of glyphosate
residues (herbicide-tolerant GM crops are designed to work with glyphosate),
which are found in the organs of animals, human urine and human breast milk as
well as in the air and rivers. She documents its widespread use and
contamination of soil and water and notes that the WHO International Agency for
Research on Cancer’s assessment of glyphosate being a 2A carcinogen (probably
carcinogenic in humans) is unwelcome news for the agrochemical industry. She
also notes that Roundup usage has led to a depletion of biodiversity and that
loss of biodiversity is also correlated with neonicotinoids. However, despite
the evidence, the blatant disregard concerning the use of these substances by
regulatory agencies around the world is apparent.
To provide some insight into the impact on health of
the chemical-intensive model of agriculture, Mason shows that in the US
increases in Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, breast cancer, oesophageal cancer,
congenital anomalies and a growing burden of disability, particularly from
mental disorders are all acknowledged.
She claims that plans are under way to depopulate the
planet’s seven million plus people to a more manageable level of between
500–2000 million by a combination of means, including the poisoning and
contamination of the planet’s food and water supplies via chemical-intensive
industrialised agriculture. Mason also notes that health-damaging GMOs are
being made available to the masses (under the guise of ‘feeding the poor’),
while elites are more prone to eat organic food.
We may be gone before planned depopulation takes hold
Although Mason cites evidence to show that a section
of the US elite has a depopulation agenda, given the amount of poisons being
pumped into the environment and into humans, the thrust of her argument is that
we could all be extinct before this comes to fruition – both rich and poor
alike.
In concluding, she states that the global pesticides
industry has been allowed to dominate the regulatory agencies and have created
chemicals of mass destruction that can no longer be controlled. She has some
faith in systems biology coming to the fore and being able to understand the
complexity of the whole organism as a system, rather than just studying its
parts in a reductionist manner. But Mason believes that ultimately the public
must place pressure on governments and hold agribusiness to account.
However, that in itself may not be enough.
It is correct to highlight the poisonous impacts of
the Rockefeller-sponsored petrochemical ‘green revolution’. It has uprooted
indigenous/traditional agriculture and local economies and has recast them in a
model that suits global agribusiness. It is poisoning life and the environment,
threatening food security across the globe and is unsustainable. The ‘green
revolution’ was ultimately a tool of US foreign policy that has been used in
conjunction with various institutions like the IMF, World Bank and World Trade
Organisation. GMOs represent more of the same.
In this respect, Mason follows the line of argument in
William F Engdahl’s book ‘Seeds of
Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation’, which locates the GM issue and the ‘green
revolution’ firmly within the context of empire. Engdahl also sees the
Rockefeller-Gates hand behind the great GMO project to a sinister eugenicist
strategy of depopulation.
Mason’s concerns about depopulation therefore should
not be dismissed, particularly given the record of the likes of the Gates and
Rockefeller clans, the various covert sterility programmes that have been
instituted by the US over the decades and the way agriculture has and continues
to be used as a geopolitical tool to further the agendas of rich interests in
the US.
To understand the processes that have led to modern
farming and the role of entities like
Monsanto, we must appreciate
the geopolitics of
food and agriculture, which
benefits an increasingly
integrated global cartel of finance, oil, military and agribusiness
concerns. This cartel seeks to gain from war, debt bondage and the control of
resources, regardless of any notions relating to food security, good health and
nutrition, biodiversity, food democracy, etc.
Food and trade policy analyst Devinder Sharma notes
the impacts in India:
“India is on fast track to bring agriculture under
corporate control… Amending the existing laws on land acquisition, water
resources, seed, fertilizer, pesticides and food processing, the government is
in overdrive to usher in contract farming and encourage organized retail. This
is exactly as per the advice of the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund as well as the international financial institutes.”
In Punjab, India, pesticides have turned the state
into a ‘cancer
epicentre‘. Moreover, Indian soils
are being depleted as
a result of the application of ‘green revolution’ ideology and chemical inputs.
India is losing 5,334 million tonnes of soil every year due to soil erosion
because of the indiscreet and excessive use of fertilisers, insecticides and
pesticides. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research reports that soil
is become deficient in nutrients and fertility.
And now, there is an attempt to push GM food crops into India in a secretive, non-transparent manner that
smacks of regulatory delinquency underpinned by corrupt practices, which
suggests officials are working hand in glove with US agribusiness.
As smallholders the world over are being driven from
their land and
the GMO/chemical-industrial farming model takes over, the problems continue to
mount
.
The environment, the quality of our food and our
health are being sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit and a type of
looting based on something we can loosely regard as ‘capitalism’. The solution
involves a shift to organic farming and investment in and reaffirmation of
indigenous models of agriculture. But ultimately it entails what Daniel Maingi of Growth Partners for Africa says what we must
do: “… take capitalism and business out of farming.”
It must also entail, according to Maingi, investing in
“… indigenous knowledge and agroecology, education and infrastructure and
stand(ing) in solidarity with the food sovereignty movement.”
In other words, both farmers and consumers must
organise to challenge governments, corrupt regulatory bodies and big
agribusiness at every available opportunity. If we don’t do this, what Mason
outlines may come to pass.
The original source of this article is Global Research
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