Bill Gates and Monsanto

[wehateporn]

How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture


"After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this so-called benevolent charity is up to something other than eradicating disease and feeding the world's poor (http://www.guardian.co.uk). It turns out that the Gates family legacy has long been one of trying to dominate and control the world's systems, including in the areas of technology, medicine, and now agriculture.

The Gates Foundation, aka the tax-exempt Gates Family Trust, is currently in the process of spending billions of dollars in the name of humanitarianism to establish a global food monopoly dominated by genetically-modified (GM) crops and seeds. And based on the Gates family's history of involvement in world affairs, it appears that one of its main goals besides simply establishing corporate control of the world's food supply is to reduce the world's population by a significant amount in the process.

William H. Gates Sr., former head of eugenics group Planned Parenthood
Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates Sr., has long been involved with the eugenics group Planned Parenthood, a rebranded organization birthed out of the American Eugenics Society. In a 2003 interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, Bill Gates admitted that his father used to be the head of Planned Parenthood, which was founded on the concept that most human beings are just "reckless breeders" and "human weeds" in need of culling (http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html).

Gates also admitted during the interview that his family's involvement in reproductive issues throughout the years has been extensive, referencing his own prior adherence to the beliefs of eugenicist Thomas Robert Malthus, who believed that populations of the world need to be controlled through reproductive restrictions. Though Gates claims he now holds a different view, it appears as though his foundation's initiatives are just a modified Malthusian approach that much more discreetly reduces populations through vaccines and GMOs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus).

Gates Foundation has invested heavily in converting Asian, African agricultural systems to GMOs
William Gates Sr.'s association with Planned Parenthood and continued influence in the realm of "population and reproductive health" is significant because Gates Sr. is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/leade...-gates-sr.aspx). This long-time eugenicist "guides the vision and strategic direction" of the Gates Foundation, which is currently heavily focused on forcing GMOs on Africa via its financing of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

The Gates Foundation has admittedly given at least $264.5 million in grant commitments to AGRA (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about...FFactSheet.pdf), and also reportedly hired Dr. Robert Horsch, a former Monsanto executive for 25 years who developed Roundup, to head up AGRA back in 2006. According to a report published in La Via Campesina back in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto, and nearly 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology (http://www.organicconsumers.org/arti...icle_21606.cfm).

The same report explains that the Gates Foundation pledged $880 million in April 2010 to create the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which is a heavy promoter of GMOs. GAFSP, of course, was responsible for providing $35 million in "aid" to earthquake-shattered Haiti to be used for implementing GMO agricultural systems and technologies.

Back in 2003, the Gates Foundation invested $25 million in "GM (genetically modified) research to develop vitamin and protein-enriched seeds for the world's poor," a move that many international charities and farmers groups vehemently opposed (http://healthfreedoms.org). And in 2008, the Gates Foundation awarded $26.8 million to Cornell University to research GM wheat, which is the next major food crop in the crosshairs of Monsanto's GM food crop pipeline (http://www.organicconsumers.org/arti...icle_21606.cfm).

If you control agriculture, you control the populations of the world
The Gates Foundation's ties with Monsanto and corporate agriculture in general speak volumes about its real agenda, which is to create a monopolistic system of world control in every area of human life. Vaccines, pharmaceuticals, GMOs, reproductive control, weather manipulation, global warming -- these and many other points of entry are the means by which the Gates Foundation is making great strides to control the world by pretending to help improve and save it.

Rather than promote real food sovereignty and address the underlying political and economic issues that breed poverty, Gates and Co. has instead embraced the promotion of corporately-owned and controlled agriculture and medicine paradigms that will only further enslave the world's most impoverished. It is abundantly evident that GMOs have ravished already-impoverished people groups by destroying their native agricultural systems, as has been seen in India (http://www.naturalnews.com/030913_Mo..._suicides.html).

Some may say Gates' endeavors are all about the money, while others may say they are about power and control. Perhaps it is a combination of both, where Gates is still in the business of promoting his own commercial investments, which includes buying shares in Monsanto while simultaneously investing in programs to promote Monsanto.

Whatever the case may be, there is simply no denying that Gates now has a direct interest in seeing Monsanto succeed in spreading GMOs around the world. And since Gates is openly facilitating Monsanto's growth into new markets through his "humanitarian" efforts, it is clear that the Gates family is in bed with Monsanto.

"Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead of paying taxes to state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions," wrote Silvia Ribeiro in the Mexican news source La Jornada back in 2010.

"On the contrary, their 'donations' finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world ... Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified (GM)."

[wehateporn]

Eye-opener here (from above)

"Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead of paying taxes to state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions"

[xNetworx]

Without GMOs there wouldn't be enough food to feed even a small % of he population

[L-Pink]

"establishing corporate control of the world's food supply is to reduce the world's population by a significant amount in the process."

1/3 of the population suddenly freezes in place, see's blue and dies?


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[Captain Kawaii]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

"establishing corporate control of the world's food supply is to reduce the world's population by a significant amount in the process."

1/3 of the population suddenly freezes in place, see's blue and dies?


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I bet Gates gets a boner every time a mother is sterilized.

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by CamBoss

Without GMOs there wouldn't be enough food to feed even a small % of he population

[onwebcam]

No surprise considering Bill Gates is one of the primary funders of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault which stores the Worlds heirloom seed strains. Dubbed the "doomsday seed vault"

You can bet they aren't storing any GMO seeds there.

[dyna mo]

hey, question, my bath towels are from http://www.cotton-made-in-africa.com/en/
a project funded by the bill gates foundation.

should i be concerned?

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

hey, question, my bath towels are from http://www.cotton-made-in-africa.com/en/
a project funded by the bill gates foundation.

should i be concerned?

Is it Bt cotton?

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

Is it Bt cotton?

no, it's all cotton.

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

no, it's all cotton.

How can you be sure it's not GM Cotton?

[wehateporn]

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

And ????


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[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

How can you be sure it's not GM Cotton?

mostly because i don't live my life thinking my towels are out to get me.

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

no, it's all cotton.

While I'm not certain at what stage they're at now in 2013, but the plan is for Bt Cotton to take over in West Africa, so that's the plan and that's why Gates is involved.

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

And ????


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Check back to Dyna Mo's question

[dyna mo]

i'm not doubting you sorted that out for yourself.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by CamBoss

Without GMOs there wouldn't be enough food to feed even a small % of he population

Not sure if trolling or stupid.

[BareBacked]

Originally Posted by CamBoss

Without GMOs there wouldn't be enough food to feed even a small % of he population

What makes you say that?

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

mostly because i don't live my life thinking my towels are out to get me.

No shit Peter can't grasp that. Someone needs to call the insane asylum and have his internet privileges taken away.

[dyna mo]

another question-

if bill gates/gm foods saved millions of starving people, would the op portray that as a ct?

[sandman!]

he is free to do whatever he wants to with his $$$$

[helterskelter808]

So we can start hating Bill again? Cool.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by helterskelter808

So we can start hating Bill again? Cool.

buy windows 8 if you really want to hate.

[Si]

The only thing your post brings to the table is fair trade and monopoly.

The way north America works is so backward. You have a government in Canada buying and selling from its own people "liquor" that they have a monopoly on, but can't make a profit off of it.

Opposite in the UK, it's pretty much a free market, but open to the "black market".

Monsato is very similar in that respect, nobody should "own" food supply, Water supply, etc. Doesn't matter what object you want to use, nobody should control it.

[helterskelter808]

I think the basic point is, when you have a substance that is essential to life, that has worked for thousands of years, don't fuck it up with all kinds of genetic mutations that could have potentially catastrophic and irreversible effects.

Probably too late for that though. I doubt there's a person alive who even remembers what a strawberry is supposed to taste like.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by helterskelter808

I think the basic point is, when you have a substance that is essential to life, that has worked for thousands of years, don't fuck it up with all kinds of genetic mutations that could have potentially catastrophic and irreversible effects.

Probably too late for that though. I doubt there's a person alive who even remembers what a strawberry is supposed to taste like.

thoughts on this?

Now there is a new push to develop GM crops for the developing world that may recast genetic engineering as the best path out of hunger for billions (not just a cash crop for companies such as Monsanto, which create the pesticide-resistant "Roundup Ready" crop varieties).

At the forefront of this GM effort is the lowly cassava. The starch root, resembling a long thick-skinned potato, is major source of sustenance for more than 250 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Yet it’s also a poor sustenance: Its lack of essential micronutrients as vitamin A, iron, and zinc contribute to the malnutrition among 800 million people worldwide.

BioCassava Plus, a program backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is re-engineering the cassava into a nutritious crop with higher levels of beta carotene, iron, and protein, as well as resistance to pests and pathogens. Progress is slow--field trials and breeding programs take years--but other attempts are being made to apply these same principles to other crops with life-saving potential for millions in the developed world: golden rice, sweet potatoes, and others.

[helterskelter808]

If the question is, should we fuck up the food chain and use as the spurious excuse that we can feed starving people in Africa, then the answer is no. There is more than enough actual real food in the world to feed everyone. We just don't happen to give a genuine shit about people who are starving.

[Nasty]

Originally Posted by CamBoss

Without GMOs there wouldn't be enough food to feed even a small % of he population

monsanto propaganda

[dyna mo]

food for thought::

the amount of actual real food farmed today is due to technology /pesticides leading to the introduction of high-yield crops.

also

The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's growing population is to be fed.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that farmers will have to produce 70% more food by 2050 to meet the needs of the world's expected 9-billion-strong population.

But as it is, most available farmland is already being farmed, and in ways that decrease its productivity through practices that lead to soil erosion and wasting of water.

This means that to meet the world's future food needs, a major "sustainable intensification" of agricultural productivity on existing farmland will be necessary

http://www.fao.org/nr/water/news/Sol...onference.html

[FlowerKid]

We have enough food, only too many people.

[PR_Glen]

I'll trust the educated scientists and the philanthropists with the food before I'll trust the morons who have never contributed anything other than posting kook links on the internet.

[HomerSimpson]

Originally Posted by FlowerKid

We have enough food, only too many people.

I would like to come to Zurich...
... to eat the extra food and to increase the population number ...

[BFT3K]

The Mad Scientist Approach To Defeating Monsanto:

Develop and patent Round-Up resistant weeds, and let them loose worldwide.

You're welcome.

[_Richard_]

another personal charity discovered to be more of a 'personal benefit'?

shocker.

[Mickey_]

the effects of genetically modified donuts:

[DBS.US]

How many people on GFY have ever planted a fruit bearing tree?

[BFT3K]

Remember when you were kids in school, and you were shown how colored water would change to color of a white flower?

This is because the plant sucked up the coloring, and changed colors.

When you buy foods that are produced today, they may look fine, but they are filled with round-up resistant pesticides.

Like the dye in the flowers in grade school... this pesticide cannot be washed off. You are eating it all the time.

Is this good for you? Think about it...

[JFK]

Originally Posted by BFT3K

Remember when you were kids in school, and you were shown how colored water would change to color of a white flower?

This is because the plant sucked up the coloring, and changed colors.

When you buy foods that are produced today, they may look fine, but they are filled with round-up resistant pesticides.

Like the dye in the flowers in grade school... this pesticide cannot be washed off. You are eating it all the time.

Is this good for you? Think about it...

So all this Dark Rum I'm drinking is gonna turn me black ?

[onwebcam]

Originally Posted by JFK

So all this Dark Rum I'm drinking is gonna turn me black ?

Only from the waist down.

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by DBS.US

How many people on GFY have ever planted a fruit bearing tree?

10 or so? think i have done about 100 in total