Jon Rappoport
October 7, 2013
Here’s a quote in an ad Monsanto has run in the UK: “Food Labelling. It has Monsanto’s Full Backing.”
The catch? The mandatory labeling of GMO food is already widespread in the UK.
But in the US, where the whole issue is quite contentious, Monsanto has poured millions of dollars into campaigns to defeat GMO labeling on foods.
There was Prop 37 in California, and now Prop 522, coming up for a vote this November in the state of Washington.
In these campaigns, Monsanto falsely claims labeling is unnecessary, confusing to consumers, and would make food prices escalate.
So which is it? Which position does Monsanto take? Yes on labeling? No?
Both. Whatever works. The truth doesn’t matter. Never has. Never will.
The Prop 522 campaign in the state of Washington is going up against the Monsanto slime. It appears the Yes on GMO labeling forces there have split apart.
I pointed out, during the Prop 37 debacle in California, that telling voters they had a right to know what’s in their food isn’t enough. Voters have to understand the health dangers of GMOs.
They have to understand GMO farming in the US is a disaster, in terms of the amount of chemical poisons sprayed on crops, in terms of crop yields, and resistant superweeds taking over growing fields.
But that wasn’t what the Yes on 37 bosses decided in CA. They firmly ordered their foot soldiers to stick to the “right to know” issue, first, last, and always.
I had a good inside source, after Prop 37 went down in California, who said the Washington state campaign to label GMOs would be very different.
The anti-GMO forces there would educate voters on the dangers of GMOs. The campaign wouldn’t only be about consumer choice.
So…today I found a USA Today article reporting on the Washington campaign (“Washington State battles over genetically modified food”). It contained a statement from an anti-GMO spokeswoman:
“We believe that we have a right to know what’s in our food,” said Elizabeth Larter, the Seattle-based communications director for the Yes on 522 campaign. “This campaign is not about whether GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are good or bad; this is really just providing more information for consumers.”
Really. This is just about “providing more information.”
Good and bad are irrelevant.
If so, then why should consumers care whether the food they buy and eat is labeled?I can’t imagine a more disastrous message from the anti-GMO forces in the State of Washington. It’s pathetic, destructive. It’s a wet noodle.
Was Elizabeth Larter, the spokeswoman, misquoted, or is she working for Monsanto?
I urge all the people in Washington campaigning for GMO labeling to ask her. These people work their guts out. They sacrifice their time, energy, and in some cases their own money and jobs for the cause—and in return they get this:
GMOs, not good or bad, just nice information for consumers to have.
Yes, by all means, let’s stick to Nice. Let’s sport a big grin and a shrug and say good or bad GMOs don’t matter at all.
Maybe the Prop 522 people in Washington think they have the election all wrapped up. Maybe they think GMO labeling is coming to WA and they can soft-pedal the campaign.
Well, Monsanto and other big biotech corporations have just injected millions of $$ into the WA scene. They’re not going to soft-pedal it between now and November.
Now, another insider has told me that the YES on 522 campaign in WA has split apart. On one side are the bosses, who insist on utilizing the same disastrous uni-message to voters: you have a right to know what’s in your food.
On the other side are some of YES ON 522 ground troops, who are determined to tell people: you have a right to know AND this is why—GMOs are dangerous to your health and dangerous to the future of agriculture.
The YES ON 522 bosses, as in California, are quite content to coexist with Monsanto and millions of their acres of of GMO crops. They’re resigned to the gene drift that will blow GMOs into American food crops from coast to coast.
As as you can see from Monsanto’s reaction to mandatory labeling in the UK, Monsanto can deal with GMO labeling wherever it’s passed.
The real threat to Monsanto is a massive popular uprising against the corporation and its horrendous desecration of food. For example, when a US county passes a law against the growing of any GMO crop within its borders, that’s a dagger.
Were such a movement to spread, Monsanto would be shaking in its boots.
But these ballot initiatives on behalf of labeling GMOs are soft. Their organizations are yuppified at the top. They’re Nice.
Which has led me to suspect that the ballot initiative movements have been infiltrated.
In intelligence-agency parlance, they’re limited hangouts. They seem to solve a problem, but they barely scratch the surface of it.
They misdirect attention. They frame the wrong questions. They dampen the much-needed outrage against Monsanto, which is an evil company.
They suck up available money. They co-opt volunteers who could otherwise be taking a much tougher position.
Instead of seeing hundreds of thousands of people in the streets rallying against Monsanto, the public is seeing press releases from spokespeople like Elizabeth Larter, who, if quoted correctly by USA Today, sounds like a Girl Scout selling cookies.
One more time, the public is being treated to a cartoon of dueling PR nonsense.
The effect? A dulling of the senses and the mind.
The ultimate message? Keep sleeping.
Because, you see, to do otherwise would not be Nice.
“Yeah…ballot initiatives, that sounds good. Yes or No on GMO labeling. Two sides. We can handle that. We’ve got plenty of money for false ads. And it’s all so remote. It’s a cool op, not a hot one. Stick with cool and polite and nice. Anger is bad. Outrage is bad. We can make this whole thing seem like slightly contentious diplomats exchanging memos. No real passion. Therefore, in the long run we win. The whole country is GMO.”
It’s a mind-controlled trance.
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
Tags: Farm Wars, farmwars, food safety, genetic engineering, GMO, gmo ban, labeling, monsanto
Barb,
Your a saint!! REALLY! In 2009 I closed all my investment accounts and bought silver. Those rats took over 40% of what I had. Most of my backyard is a garden now, has been for quite a while. Saves me a fortune, and I get to eat my favorite veggies all year long.
I talked to Howard Vlieger last night about a few things. One was if he would address the Minnesota House and Senate. We have a labelling bill coming up this January. He said he would. Sounds like he’s quite in demand these days. I was actually surprised he spent so much time in Washington with the harvest starting. He’s one stand up guy!
The difference between us and the ones who pull the strings. The ones who own the banks, media, newspapers, radio stations, tv stations, casinos, cruise lines and all meat packing companies. I’m trying to be politically correct here. The thing is they do things like revolutions, depressions, revolutions and mass murder. We get a politician who tries to help the country and they kill him. All we do is talk about what they have done to us and what they are doing now and what they are planning to do to us and nothing else. The ones that learn the truth will not eat their crap or take their toxic vaccines and the others will get sick.
I have always been for a total ban on GMO’s. Anything less is totally poiintless. These parasitic corporations and the equally parasitic banks are only able to survive because the majority of the population are compliant to their systems of control and supply. Most people cannot live outside the system simply because of where they live, how much they earn and the limits imposed on them by government and corporate manipulations of the rules for improving their lot. The so called land of the free is only free if you own it. They own it. You the people have been complicit in allowing this state of affairs to propagate and proliferate. You gave them what they wanted……..your brand loyalties.
They took you for a train ride and now the train is running away fast and you cannot get off without suffering extreme harm.
So how do you stop the runaway train?
You starve it of fuel that keeps it running.
You stop subscribing to the belief path they have hooked you onto and stop buying their goods and services. You stop feeding the monster train.
It won’t stop overnight but it will stop. Sooner than most could imagine actually. The ideal of continuous economic growth has a flaw so fatal as to be a weapon that will slay the beastly train. Its called share values. If the beast doesn’t hit their targets their shares lose value. Make it happen big time and they crash. Their shares become undesirable. They lose value rapidly and if they fail to make their targets e next quarter they will be seriously down the pan. Do that to all of these cartels and you will see the end of the beast inside a year or two.
But first you need an alternative source of services and supplies. What exists today is insufficient to meet demand. You need to set up robust local systems to cater for local needs.
Check out the Transition Networks list of ideas and plans for building robust communities.
http://WWW.transitionnetwork.o.....initiative
Hope this helps.
Barb,
It’s me again. Sorry for two comments, but this neat anti GMO movie trailer just came to my attention and wanted to get it to you now before I get busy tomarrow and forget
GMO OMG movie trailer
Looks like a good one !
karin
Hi Barb,
what next? well monsanto is buying the weather ( sort of )
Monsanto just dropped $1 billion on better weather forecasts
If we could stick together we could do anything, but it takes someone to organize the people. The people would never do it by themselves. If that were the case soda companies would have gone out of business decades ago. The soda companies lowered the sugar in Pepsi from 12 teaspoons to 7 teaspoons. They could have always lowered it, but they just did it to keep you drinking those time bombs. Fast food companies would not be able to sell their toxic garbage.
The people that learned the truth quit consuming that crap decades ago and the ones who didn’t have diabetes. The ones who don’t consume the processed crap and GM food and instead grows garden will jot get sick and the ones who get sick will be a burden to the others.
Abe, I spent the day in town today, and went shopping. I bought all organic produce, and delivered a chunk of my homemade goat cheese (non-GMO) to a neighbor to trade for organic veggies that she grows herself. I also don’t have a bank account because I am working full time at starving the beast. If we can all do something to this end, enough of us will make a big difference. They cannot handle a non-compliant populace that doesn’t willingly give its time, effort or money to the system. Working on spreading the word to local communities to ban GMOs, I believe, is one of those things we can do.
Thats a scarey thought but now that I have read the article, I see that he could be right. How easy to have a plant to soft peddle. I certainly wouldn’t put it past them, any of THEM. Things are heating up to a new level. The Feds are ready to rumble. I ‘m worried that it will become very violent. I’ve been thinking a lot about dying. This may be the time to die trying to bring down a behemoth. I think they are poised and ready to go. I live according to destiny and there isn’t anything I can do about it.
I stand for what is right and true!
Divide and conquor. Jay W. Gould said “I can always get half my workers to kill the other half”. Those rat bastards are killing us 20 different ways. We all need to go after the guy behind the curtain, not there shills. The investment banks own all the evils of the earth! There cohorts would be the insurance companies. All under the watchful eyes of the big banks!! Goldman Sucks, JP Morgan, Rothchilds, Rockefellers, has there fingers into GMO’s drugs, vaccines, F-22 fighters, fluoride, fluoride, and a menagerie of other things that are robbing us blind, making us sick, and controlling our incomes.
We need to go after the head of the octopus, not 1 or 2 tenticles. The FED (the head)would be a good place to start! Instead of labeling or banning of products X,Y,Z we need to get the ones behind all this crap! Investment banks!!