Monday, December 12, 2005
"The Future of Food"
It's not very pretty. - from BuzzFlash.com
In the increasingly "privatized" world of the Busheviks, even food is becoming patented. The rights to the most basic necessity for our survival are now being bought up by big corporations. It's truly unbelievable. Will "sleep" be patented next -- and we will have to pay to go to bed?
From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology.
Can you imagine that a farmer can be successfully sued by an agri-business company for accidentally growing crops from patented seeds that have blown onto his field without his knowledge? Believe it now.
And then there's the whole issue of genetically modified foods. Europe has been making a bit of a fuss about GMO (genetically modified) products, but not much is happening in the United States, because the agri-business "K" Street lobbyists have their way in D.C. and in state legislatures.
It's a fact that unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
The health implications and the corporate/government push towards globalization are reasons why many people are alarmed by this introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.
The complex web of market and political forces are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. This is the global corporate revolution that is seizing control of the most fundamental human need: food. It's a quiet, nefarious development that threatens to hold us all hostage.
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It's not very pretty. - from BuzzFlash.com
In the increasingly "privatized" world of the Busheviks, even food is becoming patented. The rights to the most basic necessity for our survival are now being bought up by big corporations. It's truly unbelievable. Will "sleep" be patented next -- and we will have to pay to go to bed?
From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology.
Can you imagine that a farmer can be successfully sued by an agri-business company for accidentally growing crops from patented seeds that have blown onto his field without his knowledge? Believe it now.
And then there's the whole issue of genetically modified foods. Europe has been making a bit of a fuss about GMO (genetically modified) products, but not much is happening in the United States, because the agri-business "K" Street lobbyists have their way in D.C. and in state legislatures.
It's a fact that unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
The health implications and the corporate/government push towards globalization are reasons why many people are alarmed by this introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.
The complex web of market and political forces are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. This is the global corporate revolution that is seizing control of the most fundamental human need: food. It's a quiet, nefarious development that threatens to hold us all hostage.
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