Side-effects of Profit-based Food Production

Varieties of localized and empire-extended civil and military dictatorships have typically ruled over peoples in times past and still do today, despite the fairly recent aberration of government that many of us in the West have grown up with: ‘democracies’ that pretend to be genuine democracies. However, times do change. Corporate industry now boasts vast financial resources, and it uses that new world power to play God in the re-structuring of the entire agricultural, business, population and ecological morphology of this Planet.

A New World Order sees vaccine intrigues, stampeding GMO and herbicide innovations and monolithic and draconian factory farming at the heart of excruciatingly fascist corporate notions of world domination. And these main causes and effects produce side-effects, with one of the most notable being global GMO and pesticide pollution and poisoning on an unimagineable scale. What we are witnessing in this modern era is the forcible alchemic turning of an entire Planet into a profit-based Holocaust experiment: a global pesticide gas chamber and massive Frankenstein genetics waste receptacle.

So, what does this mean to all of us locally? “New European pesticides legislation (article 3, paragraph 14 [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:309:0001:01:EN:HTML]) now recognises that residents living in the locality of sprayed fields are “subject to high pesticide exposure over the long term” (Downs 2012).

Also: “Things are worse than Rachel Carson might ever have dreaded and will certainly get worse yet before there is any hope of improvement. Will any of us have the quiet, dignified, deeply intelligent courage that lay behind her work? Capitalism cannot change track. It is condemned to measuring success and failure in terms of profit and loss” (Don 2012). That being profit and loss that is interpreted in a global market and workforce context and planned for in terms of a New World Order. It is a regime where, it is assumed, power can generate predictable order and profit. Strangely though, those elites who worship at the feet of this power do not appear to understand that utter chaos is the inevitable outcome of every forcing of that anti-Nature governmental, legal, military and, especially, TECHNOLOGICAL control (all for the sake of that faithless anti-Nature sense of control).

And so, while the globalists connive, while industry advertises, and while we still bask in a somewhat unsettling reflected trust in all things science (when we trust in science, the scientists, industries and governments smile back at us…), the slate-wiping effects of science continue: “Hundreds of thousands of people are dying around the world each year from the effects of the use, or misuse, of pesticides” (Konradsen, et al., 2003).

How many? “…Georgina Downs from Sussex who has run a vigorous campaign for over a decade to highlight the dangers of pesticides… estimated in a 2008 World Bank report to kill 355,000 people worldwide each year” (Metcalf 2012).

“So, 50 years on from Silent Spring, why has there been such a lack of action on pesticides?” (Downs 2012). Is it partly because we are too busy living at the speed of life? And working and paying out for what technology says we must own? That we are anesthetized in a type of mesmerized awe at the tangible and “goodies” boon end of technology? That all this distracts us so effectively that we can easily and weakly accept an almost silent capitulation to a largely invisible pesticide horror? And, given that the persistent barking of advertising confronts us with ever more “improved” techno goodies and technological fixes, can’t that easy distraction, forgetfulness and capitulation even extend our dreamstate further into an utter obscenity of apathetic characterlessness, the worst possible waste of a human mind other than conscious and wilfull evil? And on that broad point of the wilfull denial of the truth of toxicant cause and effect (whether the aberration be man-made pesticides and direct human poisoning or man-induced tick over-population through the disturbance of Nature via environmental replacement) I can apply this generously wise quote originally applied to Lyme disease: “one of the most shameful episodes in the history of medicine because elements of academic medicine, elements of government and virtually the entire insurance industry have colluded to deny a disease” (Liegner 2010).

What of:

BHOPAL: a gas leak disaster in India, “one of the world’s worst industrial disasters”. Potentially, “3,787 deaths related to the gas release”.

THREE-MILE ISLAND: “a partial nuclear meltdown…” that occurred “in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania”, USA.

CHERNOBYL: “a catastrophic nuclear accident…” contaminating “much of Western USSR and Europe… [where] long-term effects such as cancers and deformities are still being accounted for”.

MEXICAN GULF OIL SPILL: “An oil spill… which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to seep… It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry…” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)

GMO WHEAT AND BARLEY: An altered protein GM wheat variety could cause serious liver problems, according to some scientists. Enzyme inhibition in the two crops could translate into glycogen inhibition in humans, and could lead to death by age 5 in children born without this enzyme working (Huff 2012).

GMO SOY: Hamsters fed on a GM soy diet suffered growth problems, high pup mortality and sterility, with the third generation growing hair inside their mouths (Smith 2010).

GMO CORN: Rats fed GM corn and trace amounts of Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup suffered huge tumours, organ damage and premature death (Adams 2012).

And Fukushima; and 911; and the Exxon Valdez oil spill: “25 to 32 million US gallons” of oil spilled in some estimates (and the Torrey Canyon and Amoco Cadiz).

And the Piper Alpha North Sea oil platform disaster.

And the “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City” in 1911 (more than 100 died).

And the “Kader Toy Factory fire” in Thailand in 1993 (188 workers died, mostly young women).

And the 1906 “Courrières mine disaster in Courrières, France” which killed 1,099 workers.

And the “Benxihu Colliery disaster in Benxi, Liaoning, China” which killed 1,549 workers.

And the “Baia Mare cyanide spill” in Romania which is considered “the worst environmental disaster in Europe since Chernobyl”, released “100,000 tons of cyanide contaminated water”.

And the Oppau fertilizer explosion in Germany in 1921 “killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more”.

And the 1947 Texas City Disaster where ” minimum of 578 people lost their lives and another 3,500 were injured”.

And the 1976 Seveso disaster in Italy where “due to the release of dioxins into the atmosphere and throughout a large section of the Lombard Plain, 3,000 pets and farm animals died and, later, 70,000 animals were slaughtered to prevent dioxins from entering the food chain”.

And the 1986 “Sandoz disaster in Schweizerhalle, Switzerland, releasing tons of toxic agrochemicals into the Rhine”.

And the 2012 Karachi, Pakistan industrial disaster that saw 289 people die (“workers were suffocated or burnt alive”).

And the Port Chicago munitions explosion of 1944.

And the 1962 Centralia, Pennsylvania coal mine fire (still burning today!).

And Challenger, and the faulty levees of New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/).

And when waste dumps leak (http://poisoningandlegalaction.com.au/castlereagh/Toxic-Chemical-Leakage-Outside-Waste-Depot.pdf).

And… my son’s and my (http://indiegogo.com/poisoned-people) pesticide poisoning.

And everyones else’s pesticide poisoning (“HUMAN HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL IMPACTS OF PESTICIDES IN GENERAL, AND ORGANOPHOSPHATES IN PARTICULAR, INCLUDING GLYPHOSATE” at https://poisonedpeople1.wordpress.com/).

Further, and even more insidiously than our above-noted dreamstate, is the fully conscious and willful LEGAL (see: http://indiegogo.com/the-good-samaritan), MEDICAL, CORPORATE and GOVERNMENT hiding of real knowledge that would help to protect us from toxic dangers! These irresponsible authorities, corrupted as they are by industrial vested interests, cannot imagine fully identifying our techological woes for what they are, so utterly intertwined with the modern fabric of life are they! Our “protectors” see the repudiation of bad technology and a full accounting of our insidious techno impact on our natural environment as an introduction to smaller paypackets, and perhaps even some form of immediately uncomfortable and undesirable social chaos (large protests over the discovery of the extent of the toxic coverups?).

Deception and ignorance are commodities that are historically “chaos in the bank”, accruing a very deadly form of degenerate ‘interest’ that typically plays out at the end of civilizations: “History shows that degeneration of the criminal justice system contributes greatly to the downfall of states, and is a sign of rot within a political system” (Aulich 2006).

So, we continue to embrace (and are encouraged to embrace) what is also strangling us. And in so completely embracing technology, natural dynamics have been muted and cast far away from us. We have therefore lost ourselves on the treadmill of science. Further, as blatantly obvious our loss of a direct communion with Nature is to so many, and as blatantly catastrophic as the cascade of techno nightmares that confront us is, we still — given the “sins of omission/neglect” deficiencies of Human Nature and the “sins of commission” deceptions of industry and government — tend to ignore the catastrophes in favour of a now tattered hope in scientific salvation. Such are the repetitions of human thought at the ends of ages.

A degenerating civilization indeed: we the people are so paralyzed by our contradictory and conflictual relationship with technology that “we are monitoring our own extinction” (Prof. Stuart Hill, University of Western Sydney 1999, pers. comm.).

But it is time now for us to grow up and be mature and wise and understand that our now dull hopes in toxic technology are funded by mis-information from luminaries that are stationed at our radio, in our governments and regulatory bodies, inside our legal and medical systems, on our TVs and throughout the Internet by corrupt and civilization-destroying industrial vested interests.
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