The following excerpt from the book "...AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE" by David Icke is an excellent overview of the concept behind food control:

pages 271-272: "Another aim of the Elite is to control the land and production of food at every level of the process. The natural crop seed varieties are being systematically destroyed and replaced by genetically-engineered seeds, which a handful of Elite-controlled multinational companies are patenting. Under Plant Breeder's Rights legislation, anyone using these seeds must pay a royalty to these companies or face a six-month jail sentence or fines of up to $250,000. This applies to anyone from a Western farmer to a poverty-stricken peasant in Bangladesh. The same "patents" are being applied to all plants, animals, fungi, genes, and viruses, that have been genetically tampered with. The Uruguay Round of the GATT agreement has increased the hold that companies like Britain's ICI (supported by BP) and the US giants have over global seed varieties. This is giving them control over what we eat and even IF we eat. This was the GATT agreement that the politicians, the media, and the big-name news presenters were telling us was so vital to our economic well-being!

The "Green Revolution" of the 1960s and 70s which was sold as a means to feed the poor countries of the world was, in truth, a means to steal the natural plant varieties used there and replace them with hybrids dependent on chemical inputs which the same companies monopolise. The chemical inputs are killing the land and the body, in another form of population control. Control and dependence was the plan. The Rockefeller Foundation collected the seeds from 95% of the world's major cereal crops in the years leading up to the GATT Agreement and the Plant Breeder's Rights Bills. The multinationals are phasing out the varieties they do not have rights to and making the world dependent on those that they do. UN statistics estimate that 75% of genetic diversity in agricultural crops has been lost in this century and what is left is now in great danger. More than 1,500 varieties of vegetable seeds were withdrawn from use in England in the first few years after a national list of "approved" species was established. The costs of registering seed varieties is so high that only the multinationals can do it and yet genetically-engineered varieties forced upon Third World countries are often useless in those environments. This adds to the hunger and debt. In India, a million farmers took to the streets when a US patent was awarded for the active genes of the neem tree, which has been used for centuries as a herbal remedy. No-one should own the patent to any seed or animal and especially not the mindset that controls the multinationals.

The farming policies of the European Community and those demanded by GATT have been designed to destroy the small and medium-sized farmer and allow the land and the market to be taken over almost entirely by the multinational corporations across the world. Over-production in agriculture, the butter 'mountains' and the wine 'lakes', has not been caused by stupidity. It has been calculated to destroy smaller farms. What is happening to the smaller farmers in the industrialised countries is only a continuation and expansion of the policies used to steal the land of the Third World farmers. Ninety per cent of the food trade on this planet is in the hands of five multinationals."

FOOD FUELS FOOD TRUCKS

TRAFFICKERS IN FOOD

GATES PLANTING STERILE SEEDS

AFRICA AGRO-FUELED FAMINE

BIO-FUEL CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and BIO-FUEL WAR ON FOOD

Forget oil: new global crisis is food (more crippling than world's ever seen) & Ethanol driving up food prices (lowest grain stocks on record) & Bio-fuelling the world's hunger (switch from food to fuel crops) & Haitians eat cookies made of dirt (food prices up 40%). FP/Yahoo/HT, Jan 31, 2008

GM = F0OD GONE MAD

USA okays animal clones as food (companies force on consumers). BBC, Jan 31, 2008

The rice with human genes (major step in Frankenstein Foods). ThisIsLondon, Mar 6, 2007

USA mulls planting 'medicine rice' (public has until March to object; planting begins in April). BBC, Mar 6, 2007

ENGINEERED FAMINE IN ZIMBABWE (never food shortages in 120-years & plight not reaching media). Telegraph, Apr 18, 2004. Go to 9.Keeping Masses Down & TAKE NOT OUR DAILY BREAD & FOOD CONTROL & 16.Minitrue & SOVIET UNION FAMINE EXPOSURE

GIs to go 5 days without food (using cocktail of 'neutraceuticals' to squeeze last ounce of strength). Wired, Feb 17, 2004. Go to 14.Experimentation & 15.Life in Oceania & MAMAS DON'T LET YOUR BABIES & TAKE NOT OUR DAILY BREAD

Trial judge once Monsanto's lawyer (& also previously ruled in their favour for $3-million against Tennesee farmer). Guardian, Jan 10, 2004 & MONSANTO PRICE FIXING WITH AGRI-GIANTS (seeds of world being given to handful of corporations who are going to own all food production). Guardian, Jan 7, 2004. Go to ANTI-NATURE IS ANTI-GOD

Cattlemen say Mad Cow is no risk (hope common sense kicks in soon). Daily World, Dec 31, 2003. Go to 4.Old World Destruction & MAD COW TERROR

Sales of cloned cattle multiply (world's largest hog producer cloning for faster-growing pigs). Houston Chronicle, Nov 3, 2003. Go to 4.Old World Destruction & ANTI-NATURE IS ANTI-GOD & FACTORY FARMING

African locust plague planned (could damage 1/10th world population). BBC, Oct 22, 2003

UK farmers fear harvest catastrophe (farmland a dustbowl for man & animal). Telegraph, Oct 21, 2003. Go to WEATHER CONTROL & 9.Keeping Masses Down

Agroterrorism poses devastating threat (insects-viruses-bacteria-fungi aimed at wiping out crops). Pittsburgh, May 23, 2003. Go to ORDER OUT OF CHAOS

Mad Cow case in Canada (USA immediately bans imports which total $2.5-billion/yr). Boston.com, May 20, 2003. Go to 9.Keeping Masses Down & JAMES BOND FOOT & MOUTH

LENIN BEHIND ENVIRONMENTALISM

Elk farmers sue over Mad Cow (disease has wiped them out). CBC, Nov 30, 2002. Go to 9.Keeping Masses Down & FOOT & MOUTH IN 007

Giant hog farms in Canada (animal waste polluting waterways). CBC News, Nov 10, 2002. Go to FACTORY FARMING COVER-UP

Defiant farmers go to jail (to defend basic freedoms). Globe & Mail, Nov 1, 2002

Canada inprisons farmers (for selling own grain). National Post, Oct 24, 2002

FACTORY FARMING

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