'Doomsday Seed Vault' is not a Humanitarian ProjectBy F. William Engdahl
Doomsday Seed Vault
'Did we miss something here? Their press release stated, "so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future." What future do the seed bank’s sponsors foresee, that would threaten the global availability of current seeds, almost all of which are already well protected in designated seed banks around the world?
The first notable point is who is sponsoring the doomsday seed vault. Here joining the Norwegians are, as noted, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the U.S. agribusiness giants Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, one of the world’s largest owners of patented genetically-modified (GMO) plant seeds and related agrichemicals; Syngenta, the Swiss-based major GMO seed and agrichemicals company through its Syngenta Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation, the private group who created the "gene revolution" with over $100 million of seed money since the 1970s and; CGIAR, the global network created by the Rockefeller Foundation to promote its ideal of genetic purity through agriculture change.'
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