Fresh out of high school in 1968,
and rated 1A in the draft; I enlisted in
the navy, figuring if I was going to see Vietnam it might as well be from offshore! Before I could say "this might have
been a mistake" I found myself aboard the logistical support ship USS
Platte, off the coast of south Vietnam ;
pumping fuel and hauling ammunition. We
carried all manner of explosive and dangerous ordinance, but none with more
respect than we gave those 55 gallon drums of Agent Orange, the
notorious defoliant used to deprive the enemy cover. Whenever those drums with the orange stripe
around the middle came aboard everyone was extra jittery; we were never told anything
about the drums contents officially mind you; yet the scuttlebutt
in the fleet said the stuff had a nasty reputation &
not to go near it if we could avoid doing so.
Five years after my enlistment ended I was living in Ketchikan
Alaska Vietnam
vet outreach center. In another hasty
decision, I became the groups advocate for filing Agent Orange claims with the
VA. Over the next five years I assisted several
dozen fellow veterans with their Agent Orange claims. Part of my job description was to absorb
everything available on the subject. I
only mention these things because we're gonna talk about Monsanto again, and maybe
it's important to know I have some skin in the game as they say.
Every story needs a beginning; and for Agent Orange
that would be in a Monsanto factory explosion ironically located in Nitro
West Virginia back in 1949, (the year of my
beginning as well.) Monsanto
was manufacturing a compound called 245T which when combined created the highly
toxic by-product Dioxin.
Following the explosion 228 workers developed acute cases of chloracne,
an extremely disfiguring illness directly linked to dioxin exposure.
Agent Orange is what you get when you mix 235T with another
toxic compound, 24D.
During the Vietnam war over 45 million liters of agent
orange was sprayed, containing over 600 kilograms of pure dioxin. Dioxin is a human carcinogen, and mutagen
in that serious genetic malfunctions occur as well as cancer. The spraying program contaminated over 3
million people, including many thousands of American servicemen;
and is still claiming victims 45 years later.
When humans are contaminated with dioxin, it is primarily stored in the fatty
tissue. When you get discharged from the
military and become a civilian again, your entire lifestyle changes
dramatically; and sudden weight loss is often the first of such changes, which
releases the dioxin back directly into the veterans bloodstream and activating
it. As you can imagine, reunions with
loved ones also happen a lot, with lots of lovemaking in the first weeks
especially. So, not only is the dioxin
now active in the returning veterans bloodstream, but he is also passing it
along to his wife, & is guaranteed
to infect any children conceived during homecoming intercourse.
Monsanto's own research into dioxin showed the toxicity & lethality of the stuff; so they cooked
the books, skewed the results and decreed that there were no harmful effects
from using agent orange or dioxin. For
the next ten years, the Veterans Administration denied every single agent orange
claim, based on Monsanto's own false reports.
Only after a decade of relentless effort by veterans support advocates,
did the government finally relent, a little, and grudgingly begin
granting limited benefits for dioxin contamination.
After I'd assisted in so many agent orange claims being
filed and heard firsthand of the horrors these men had to live with, seen their
disfigured kids; you can maybe imagine my disgust, outrage and horror when the
home & garden weed killer Roundup
was first introduced, what with it having dioxin as an active
ingredient! Since that time, Roundup has
become Monsanto's flagship product for both consumer and industrial
applications. Making Roundup the world's
leading agricultural pesticide was just Monsanto's first step towards the
introduction of GMO crops, which would be
immune to the pesticide.
It's important to make the distinction here, that Monsanto
does not make GMO food crops in order to
somehow make the food better, or more nutritious- not in the least. The genetic alterations are done to make the
crops immune to the deadly poisonous dioxin sprayed on them. They have other stuff to spray on us, but
that's another (horror) story. Monsanto
likes to brag that what they do is some huge benefit to all of humanity; but
the ever so clear truth is that where ever they go, whatever they grow; a
legacy of death follows. The dioxin mutates
the DNA
of the food we eat, then it mutates our DNA !
Back in the 1940's there was some concern over Monsanto PCB's (a
hydrocarbon derivative of petroleum used in medicine, plastics & dyes)
because they were linked to cancer, hepatitis and diabetes. The health risks of PCB's was well documented at the time, including in the findings
of Monsanto itself, which summarily burned their documents. With the companies
future as a transgenic giant at stake, Monsanto wasn't about to let bad press
over dioxin ruin things; so they created a full court press disinformation
campaign, and created solid connections to Washington, and the FDA.
What makes dioxin so nasty is that affects cell division;
not the cell division mechanisms themselves, but those which control
cell division. This is one of the
reasons birth defects and deformities result from dioxin contamination. As I said, Roundup was just phase one,
and with the roll out of GMO's waiting in
the wings as phase two; the Monsanto propaganda machine was going full
tilt. When Roundup Ready soy
beans were introduced in 1994 Monsanto had already cleared all major obstacles
from the field to ensure a seamless assimilation into the world food
chain.
How Does it
Work?
To create the genetically modified Roundup Ready soy
bean Monsanto goes right to the core of the soy bean cell, where the DNA is encoded. Next, they break the species barrier
using a roundup resistant gene harvested from a bacterium. This gene is then placed on microscopic
particles of gold, which are fired into the soy bean cells with a gene
gun. The gene penetrates the DNA
and creates a protein making the plant resistant to roundup pesticide...making
the plant resistant, but not the humans who consume
the poison sprayed plant. A point worth
making! Meanwhile, roundup ready soy
beans constitute over 90% of the American market; and 70% of all food
in American stores contain bio-engineered elements. Something to ponder.
Don't take my word for it.
If you want to see the Monsanto legacy just hit up google
images for Vietnamese Monsanto victims, and the truth will soon be
apparent. The images are deeply
disturbing. I originally thought to
include a couple with this post; but the world is awash with ugliness just now,
and I don't feel like adding to it. Closer to home; many Vietnam
veterans are still suffering from dioxin related cancer and chloracne;
as are their children who they passed it on to.
The suffering continues even as Monsanto simultaneously denies
responsibility and rejects the labeling of their
products.
Once Monsanto became a multi-national corporation it
automatically received some degree of special treatment in the legal system and
ever since has sought to entwine itself like poison Ivy, deeper and deeper into the government;
to the point where today we cannot tell where the government ends and Monsanto
begins. By way of example: if you want
to start using a new food color additive, you must first navigate a
bureaucratic quagmire of tests, permits, certifications and approvals. In contrast, Monsanto had to undergo none
of those steps before marketing GMO
food-like-products in America
under the "Grass" umbrella, an acronym for Generally
Recognized AS Safe. Every American president since Bill Clinton
has afforded Monsanto special waivers and privileges, right up to Obama who
gleefully signed into law the Monsanto Protection Act which essentially
holds the corporation exempt from lawsuits stemming from the use of their
products. Don't you think Smith & Wesson would just love a deal like
that!!?
"They are
in the process of owning all food" - Troy Roush
Monsanto also has a long history of intimidation, threats,
lawsuits and general bullying to get what it wants. What it wants is total monopoly
and control over the worlds food production &
distribution, plain and simple. They get
laws passed to make it illegal for farmers to have or keep non-GMO seeds, forcing them to buy Monsanto Terminator
Seeds every year. These terminator
seeds are called that because they're genetically programmed to die after one
crop, leaving no seed, forcing farmers to buy only what Monsanto offers;
terminator seeds of death. Between 1995 and 2005, Monsanto acquired over
50 seed companies around the world, getting several steps closer to the global
monopoly it desires.
Monsanto gene police employees routinely trespass on
farms to inspect for violations with impunity; harassing farmers with their
heavy handed intimidation. Monsanto
seeds and crops are protected by various bio-tech patents; and they tend
towards pre-emptive protection. Monsanto
singles out "independent" farmers who don't wish to grow GMO crops, then persecutes them into
bankruptcy. When every farm surrounding
you is growing GMO crops, there is always
going to be transgenic migration of GMO
seeds to the non-GMO farm. What Monsanto cannot achieve "legally"
they force thru intimidation. One recent
omen for worse to come was Monsanto's purchase of the Blackwater mercenary
corporation. Now, whatever could
they possibly need mercenaries and trained killers for? Doesn't this make your skin crawl? Why do we the people, allow
this?
Over the last several administrations in Washington
DC
More
powerful than guns &
bombs; Food is how to control world populations.
If you google Monsanto falsified scientific studies,
you will get 174,000 hits, which together tell quite a story. If Monsanto products are safe for humans and
the environment then why all the effort to falsify scientific studies and
doctor their reports? One would think
that having the government, laws and judges in their pocket, Monsanto wouldn't
need to go to all that trouble covering their tracks. Whether it is PCB's,
rGBH bovine growth hormone, dioxin, or
aspartame - the truth is clear; Monsanto sells poison. Monsanto is a merchant of death and lingering
illness across the planet, operating with impunity under the protection of the
American government and congress.
Former Monsanto CEO
Robert Shapiro once said: "Bio-tech itself is neither good or bad, it
is a tool, and as such can be used well or used badly." Well Bobby, the same thing can be said for
guns, knives, & nuclear radiation;
and like your products, they all kill people.
Like lobsters slow cooking in a pot of water, we have failed
to react as the water temperature has gradually reached a boil over the
years. Self absorbed in our own comfort as
chemtrails & other pacification
technologies have marginalized us even more; the monsters have run amok, and too
late we realize that we are on the menu.
© 2014 full re-post with permission only
May the Source be with You!
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Here's an idea! How about feeding GMO (happy) meals to all those in any way associated with the production and lobbying of every and all products they produce. Think of what a great ad campaign that could be! Like when the Obama crew went swimming (in Florida's east coast) to prove that the (west coast ) Gulf of Mexico was safe after the BP (sort of) spill(?)......just sayin...............
ReplyDeleteAnon@2:25PM~
DeleteIndeed, then banish them to Japan for good measure. let the punishment fit the crime.