Monsanto: India's famine

Today, Boris Johnson posts an article on India's onion crisis. Amusing, until you dig a bit deeper. He says:

Why are onions so expensive in India? Because agriculture is the last unreformed part of the economy, creaking with middlemen and inefficiency.

Might he mean that India's farming community has not yet been sufficiently savaged by GM terminator seeds?

Here's a brief history of India's farmers and a sneak peek into what's going to happen next.

Monsanto sells India GM terminator seeds, promising boosted harvests with no weeds. The crops that result are less viable than the indigenous crops grown before and their seeds are infertile - they won't grow. But no longer can farmers return to growing their indigenous crops because the GM crops have overwhelmed them and they won't grow on the farms any more.

So next season the farmers have no choice but to buy more of Monsanto's seeds, because nothing else will grow now. But Monsanto has increased the price of seeds and the farmers have no choice but to pay. Crops start to fail at a greater rate, year by year, as seed prices rise.

Farmers go bankrupt and migrate to live in cities, in poverty, their lifestyles devastated.

Now India has a food production crisis. But guess what? Monsanto has a solution. It will bestow its blessings on India by setting up massive agribusinesses. For efficiency, you understand.

The remaining peasant farmers find their indigenous crops overrun by Monsanto terminator seed crops, blown in by the wind. Monsanto threatens to prosecute the farmers for growing its patented seeds without permission or payment.

Peasant farming ceases. Monsanto takes over.

Monsanto now has complete control of the nation's food.

One country down.

Next.



The World According to Monsanto:



Update:I posted a similar comment on the DT - which was deleted by over-zealous censors.