In a breaking development, the FBI confirms that 1,500 GM Sugar Beet
plants were destroyed this month in Oregon, in what they are calling an
act of "Economic Sabotage."
Sayer Ji
Activist Post
When GM pollen blows into a non-GM farmer's fields and irreversibly contaminates his crop with 'biopollution,'
who does the law side with? Historically, Monsanto. Also, it's not
called 'economic sabotage' but rather 'copyright infringement,' and the
victim not the aggressor is threatened with economic ruin.
When Monsanto's unapproved and therefore illegal GM wheat is found years
after open field trials growing freely in an Oregon wheat field, the
entire state crop's export fate is held in limbo, jeopardizing the
present and future living of thousands of farmers and their dependents,
with Monsanto receiving little more than a reprimand, followed by rapid
USDA assurance that despite a lack of approval their GM wheat is "safe."
Given the unfair rules of the game, no wonder some folks in Oregon,
having been treated much like feudal peasants, are taking things into
their own pitchfork-bearing hands.
So, when the FBI investigates the destruction of
genetically modified sugar beets from two fields in Southern Oregon's
Jackson County this month, the act is immediately labeled "economic
sabotage," presumably against the multinational corporation who owned
the plants.
How fitting an FBI description, considering that Monsanto already
planted these 'evil seeds' of doubt by suggesting their unapproved GM
wheat in Oregon was a result of sabotage, and not negligence on their
part
According to the Spokesman Review,
"The agency [FBI] said in a statement Thursday that about 1,000 sugar
beet plants were destroyed on June 8, and more than 5,000 plants were
destroyed on a different plot three nights later."
The article went on to explain that the plants were owned by the
Swiss-based biotech company Sygenta, and that the FBI spokewoman, Beth
Anne Steele, would not comment on the manner in which the crops were
destroyed "...because we don't want to encourage copycats."
When multinational corporations like Monsanto have already succeeded in
genetically modifying the political system, splicing in their
ex-executives and lawyers into positions of great power within the
government [see image above], how can folks rely on these Monsanto, Dow
and Sygenta-influenced regulatory agencies, and the enforcement arms
within their control, to make decisions in the interest of their health
or basic civil rights?
Some resort to pulling up, burning and otherwise destroying the plants
themselves. Are they terrorists or freedom fighters? And if you answer
affirmatively to the latter definition, will you yourself be defined as
an "economic saboteur," or terrorist?
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