{"id":17400,"date":"2016-02-04T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17400"},"modified":"2016-02-04T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:26:03","slug":"monsanto-and-the-heirloom-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17400","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto and the Heirloom Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seeds<\/p>\n

MONSANTO AND THE HEIRLOOM SEED<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u201cControl oil and you control nations,\u201d\u00a0said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.\u00a0\u201cControl food and you control the people.\u201d<\/div>\n

World food control is almost in place thanks to the reduction of seed diversity with genetically modified seeds being distributed by only a few transnational corporations. Genetic engineering has made proprietary control through the use of intellectual property rights possible over the seeds on which the world\u2019s food supply depends on. To cover these costs, food prices are raised.<\/p>\n

Monsanto is a leading corporation in agribusiness has been gradually taking over smaller heirloom seeds suppliers in addition to trademarks acquisition of a number of heirloom seeds. This started several years ago and it\u2019s continuing. There\u2019s significant probability that when buying seeds from a local store, one may get a genetically modified product.<\/p>\n

Monsanto was formed in 1901, that\u2019s more than a century ago, in the year. Throughout the ages, Monsanto has emerged and secured its reputation as a face of corporate evil. Demonstrations have been held globally by environmental activists and when Monsanto introduced Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) seeds. Monsanto modifies a plant or crop artificially, making it immune to a specific, all-purpose poison through genetic engineering. It\u2019s expected that the modified crop stays safe with the use of pesticides while everything else is killed.<\/p>\n

\"SAMSUNG<\/p>\n

THE MONSANTO CONTROVERSY<\/strong><\/p>\n

The controversy that lies with Monsanto is not recent; the company used to be a chemical company which produced Agent Orange and its main poison, Dioxin. The company was also involved in selling DDT, dairy cow hormone rBGH, the carcinogenic Aspartame sweetener, and PCBs in the past.<\/p>\n

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MONSANTO AND THE HEIRLOOM SEED \u201cControl oil and you control nations,\u201d\u00a0said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.\u00a0\u201cControl food and you control the people.\u201d World food control is almost in place thanks to the reduction of seed diversity with genetically modified seeds being distributed by only a few transnational corporations. Genetic engineering has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[5127,12227,6751,5841,12225,12224,11458,4131,12226,8748,1166],"class_list":["post-17400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agent-orange","tag-aspartame","tag-carcinogens","tag-ddt","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-genetically-modified-seeds","tag-heirloom-seeds","tag-monsanto","tag-pcb","tag-permaculture-news","tag-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17402,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions\/17402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}