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Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

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Engdahl lays bare the partnership between government, the major foundations and the agribusiness industry in their eternal quest for global domination with extensive citations, tying it all together well. The Rockefellers do not shine with this exposure. This book is a sobering analysis of the situation we are facing with respect to destruction of the globe's biodiversity and the indigenous and cultural knowledge of how to feed ourselves, all for the sake of a scheme to lock in profits by a handful of corporations and a government that works on their behalf. If you're already down about what's going on, this book is not for you. If you can handle the reality of the situation, definitely read it. This threat is greater than any threat of nuclear destruction by far. Whatever your feelings on overpopulation, the schemes he lays out, developed by the Rockefeller foundation, are truly disturbing. Especially so are the contraceptive corn and incorporation of hCG into a tetanus vaccine(resulting in sterility) given out in enormous numbers to women of childbearing age in Mexico, Phillipines and Nicaragua. This book will make you want to collect seeds on everything you bring into your kitchen from now on, to say nothing of making you not want to eat anything of which you do not know the provenance.

This is my first Amazon.com book review and it is this book, Seeds of Destruction, that finally moved me to write such a review.

I have purchased literally thousands of dollars worth of books from Amazon.com alone and I find this book, Seeds of Destruction, is THE most important book I have come across.

I haven't read the entire book yet, but from what I have read so far (especially the chapter on Argentina), this is one of THE most important and timely books of the past 100 years and this new century.

There are only a few books that are worth their weight in gold and this book by F. William Engdahl is one of them. This work will be remembered as a "signature service" to humanity (a term used in the intelligence world to denote exceptional work).

What a priceless work of research and documentation (some 17 years of hard research) into the heart of absolute Evil that is masquerading behind this GMO movement--the veritable cancer that is metastasizing upon the Earth body--and that has been behind the so-called eugenics movement since 1913. But this book is much more than GMO. It is about the people behind the GMO and eugenics movement and why they are doing what they are doing.

If you really care about your children, your family, and the survival of the human race and of planet earth, then you must first buy and read this book, and then buy 10 more copies as I did and give them to all your friends and family members.

Tell them that this book might save their lives.

I have said this many times, "Knowledge is only a seed, only illumined action produces fruits!' This book is that vital seed without which we are looking toward to some really dire eventualities.

William Engdahl's new book, like his 'Century of War' book of a few years ago gives the layman like myself an understand of complex subjects that is rare with authors dealing with complex subjects. This is such a readable book. It is a great investigation into one of the most important issues of our times: The attempts by a few powerful groups to control the world's food supply. This book made me angry and worried for the future of our food supply and our future as a free (sort of) people. How dare our government leaders allow this !
Every person who cares about where their food comes from,truth in labeling, nutrition, health and affordable access to food supplies NEEDS to know this information. Is there a more important issue? What is more important than water, air and food ? The political agenda of food control, so well explained in this book, is more than a little chilling.

Seeds of Destruction should be read widely and it's information talked about by everyone. As a mother trying to feed my family healthy, nutritious meals everyday, this information is invaluable. Thank you Mr. Engdahl for this well written book! Maybe I'll read it to my children at night so they'll grow up knowing who the boogie men are!
Lori "The Rogue Reader Mom" Arizona

This book seems at first glance to be primarily about genetically modified organisms (GMO), but is actually a frightening history of the power elite's largely successful attempt to gain control over food and food production. In the last 50 years food has gone from being an agricultural product grown by small farmers, to being a national security concern, to now being a weaponized commodity under the control of a few corporate owners.

Mr. Engdahl lays out his case in a methodical, scholarly, yet riveting manner, much as he did in A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order. He begins with the GMO Revolution launched by a few powerful corporations, aided and abetted by a cooperative USA government. He then explores the birth of "agribusiness" and the oxymoronic Green Revolution. He monitors the revolving door between corporate advocates of GMO and government officials charged with policing food safety. The Rockefeller brothers' roles in these machinations are painstakingly revealed.

The eugenics movement -- very popular in early to mid-20th century USA until the Nazis lowered its public acceptance -- is shown to be alive and well under the new guises of genetics and molecular biology. I was more surprised by this than anything else in the book, but Mr. Engdahl proves this point beyond dispute. Along these lines, the only part of the book that I felt needed more explanation was the role of Darwinism, actually neo-Darwinism, in molecular biology. One could almost be left with the impression that a belief in evolution has led to the abuses of molecular biology in genetic manipulation. Once Mr. Engdahl got that far into the discussion, I wish that he had made a brief mention of the symbiogenesis interpretation of evolution now challenging the neo-Darwinists, e.g., in the books by Lynn Margulis. (Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species is one good example.) I'm not a scientist, but I would tend to think that a subscriber to the symbiogenesis interpretation would be less likely to want to create Frankenfoods.

What motivates the Genetic Manipulators, huge profits and control over the world's food production? As usual with the power elite, it's not just about the money, it's about power and control, but with a particular goal in mind. That goal is an elitist Utopia; a modern world much as it is, only with a whole lot fewer people, especially poor dark-skinned people who live in resource rich places like Africa, South America and parts of Asia. Complete control over food production is one of the primary means to this end, ethno-specific diseases being another. I had read this assertion before, but regarded it as the rantings of right-wing loonies until I read this book.

Mr. Engdahl is a regular contributor to on-line journals on the topic of geopolitics.

Seeds of Destruction; The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl - is not especially well written or edited, and there are occasional proofing errors, but the information conveyed is astonishing. My consistent reaction was `O my God, how could this be happening?'

I am no friend of the so-called green revolution which has marginalized, impoverished, and caused death by suicide of many farmers, nor of factory farming, and certainly not of genetic engineering, the gene revolution, which has been pushed on the public through a consistent campaign of lies, but I was unaware that the Rockefeller brothers and their foundation have been the main power behind all these developments and of their consistent goal to control the global human food supply while claiming that their aim is to reduce hunger in poor countries, while at the same time the real aim is to reduce world population. This latter goal is to be achieved with biological weapons, specifically `pharm crops' aka farmaceuticals such as genetically modified corn or a common vaccine with a genetically engineered and undisclosed contraceptive gene. This begs the question: was HIV created for the same purpose? The author doesn't touch this, but he does tell us that the myth of overpopulation was created by the Rockefellers to further their interest in eugenics. The US's 'altruistic' food aid is surplus genetically modified crops, this plus intentional smuggling is one of the chief means of achieving widespread distribution, replacing locally grown and adopted seeds.

Henry Kissinger is a Rockefeller protege [no surprise], as was Jimmy Carter, the Bush family, and many others. Bill Clinton went along with the Rockefeller genetically modified food and World Trade Organization schemes, both designed to control the world via economic rather than military means. Rockefeller protege Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of President Obama's economic advisors. We need to keep our eyes open.

The chief value of the book is the many years of research. The author has turned up much generally unknown information. I highly recommend that everyone who wants to know who is pulling our strings and why give this book a read. Much more is revealed than what I have noted.

This book by F. WIlliam Engdahl details the politics behind genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If people read this book, there would be a demand for labeling. Sadly, most corn and soy is now genetically modified. Canola oil is also always genetically modified.

The book lists the dangers of eating GMOs:

1) NEW TOXINS CREATED: Toxins are unintentionally created when new genes are introduced into a plant's cells. (page 6)

2) SMALLER SIZE IF THOSE WHO EAT GMOs: In a study in which rats were fed GMO potatoes, they were found to have smaller body size, smaller liver and heart sizes, and smaller brain sizes! (p. 23)

3) UNPREDICTABILITY: A given DNA molecule may be stable in a test tube, but can become unstable in living organisms, interacting in extremely non-linear and complex ways. (p. 156) Biologist Dr. Mae-Wan Ho stressed, "Entirely new genes and combinations of genes are made in the laboratory and inserted into the genomes of organisms to make GMOs. Contrary to what you are told by pro-GMO scientists, the process is not at all precise. It is uncontrollable and unreliable, and typically ends up damaging and scrambing the host genome, with entirely unpredictable consequences." (p. 159)

4) BAD HEALTH OR DEATH WHEN EATING A LOT OF GMOs: Glockner, a university trained farmer, was shocked to find his cattle having gluey-white feces and violent diarrhea after he increased the dosage to a diet of pure GMO corn! Their milk contained blood, and some cows stopped producing milk. Five calves died! Glockner ultimately lost almost his entire herd of 70 cows! (p. 231)

5) INFANT DEATH: In 2006, a story in a respected London newspaper, The Independent, carried a story called, "Unborn Babies Could be Harmed by GMOs." A Russian scientist found that half of the offspring of rats fed a GMO diet of soybeans died in the first three weeks of life---six times as many as those born to mothers with normal diets!

In the book Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating, author Jeffrey M. Smith gives more dangers of GMOs:

6) GMOs may have genes spliced from plants or sources not listed, and someone could unknowlingly eat some food she or he is allergic to.

Incidentally, Dr. Gabriel Cousens adds this:

7) GMOs deregulate our cells' DNA into premature aging.

IF IT IS LABELD ORGANIC, IT IS NOT A GMO. Yet, even organic standards are diminishing now that the government is in control. Some foods are only 70% organic, though labeled organic.

WARNING: If you are timid and faint of heart, do not read "SEEDS of DESTRUCTION" by F. William Engdahl. Instead, go back to sleep, and take comfort in being lied to by American corporations and U.S. governmental agencies. After all, ignorance is bliss.

Otherwise, "SEEDS of DESTRUCTION" is a MUST-READ book for persons seeking truth and knowledge about our food system, related health, and world control. Engdahl's book reads like a fictional thriller. Sadly, however, it is a truthful and chilling account of the evolution of our food supply chain; from family farms to Agribusiness conglomerates.

Americans will read this book with humility over the impact a dummied-down America has on ushering in a "New World Order" via "FREE Markets" that serve to trample constitutional rights, liberties, and FREEDOMS in clouds of lies and propaganda.

While most Americans were fast asleep, or on the treadmill of life, corporate lobbyists were fast at work wining and dining U.S. congressmen to deregulate corporate America. IN FACT, the same era of mass de-regulation that failed the banking industry, and is costing American taxpayers TRILLIONS of BAIL OUT dollars, is also responsible for grave dangers in our food system that is going, going, gone global.

Engdahl assembles many wide- and far-reaching historical aspects of the evolution of Agribusiness, including vertical integration of food systems, milk containing "recombinant bovine growth hormone" ("rBGH"), foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMO), factory farming and related pollution, the use of surreptitious, heavy-handed enforcement of "patent" rights over food, the common threads that link the few large international corporations to global control of food systems, the interrelationship between Agribusiness and U.S. foreign policy, and the myopic, autocratic decisions made by behemoth corporations and bureaucracies.

Sadly, the collateral damage is the health of consumers where Agribusinesses provide few, if any, FREEDOM of choice in grocery stores, and at our dinner tables. The winners in this mess: a few, faceless conglomerates, and women with breast cancer who can save a postage stamp by enclosing two thank you notes in one envelope to the same company; one for unlabeled rBGH-milk, and the second for Agent Orange sprayed on their brothers who fought courageously in Vietnam to defend American FREEDOMS.

Hang on tight, or launch your own letter-writing campaign, because Agribusiness and the misnomer "Green Revolution" is Corporate America's ONE WORLD VIEW over the planet's food system, and the means for controlling the world's population.

After his remarkable book, `A Century of War', about the fierce battle for world energy (oil) control, F.W. Engdahl examines here a second extremely important world power instrument: food.
He integrates carefully this power line in a much bigger framework concocted by the world power elite in order to control world demographics and even eugenics.
The world power elite (see Daniel Estulin's shocking book `The true Story of the Bilderberg Group') created a transnational agribusiness in order to open new markets for energy products (petro-chemical fertilizers). This agribusiness, however, developed a more effective weapon for worldwide food control: genetically modified organisms (GMO), thereby creating through patent registration a world oligopoly of 4 transnational companies: Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and Novartis.

Risk assessment of GMO
Risk data remain mostly hidden behind the veil of `confidential business information'. However, certain experiments on rats showed that GMO food could be responsible for lower body, liver and heart, but also brain size. Possible effects on birth defects are also a big question mark.
The scientific policies of these companies seem to be `don't tell, don't ask'. In this context, they seem to use the whole world population as guinea pigs.
Another risk constitutes the reduced genetic plant diversity (monocultures).
One blatant lie was the statement that GMO would lead to a lower use of herbicides, but, in fact, more herbicides were necessary to combat herbicide-resistant weed.

Seed serfs
Farmers became totally dependent on the members of the oligopoly. Each year they had to pay a fee and were forbidden to re-use seeds from previous year.
As it became extremely difficult, even with an army of Pinkertons, to control the re-use, more effective technologies were developed: `Terminator food', whereby GMO plants `commit suicide' after one harvest season and `contraceptive corn' where the genes of antibodies in women with immune fertility were used.
Besides the plant seed patents, other ones will be introduced for animals (semen of pigs and bulls).

Politics
One of the goals of the world power elite is the drastic reduction of the world population (the author uses the term `genocide') through control of the human reproductive process. Genetically engineered crops are part of this strategy. As one member of the military stated: `GMO-based biological weapons are `cost-effective' weapons of mass destruction.'

WTO
The transnational corporations tried to force their seeds patents into all national and international markets during the WTO negotiations. They played it very hard, as they stipulated that `food standards and measures aimed at protecting people from pests can be potentially used as a deliberate barrier for trade'; in other words, `Free market über Alles', even health.

F. William Engdahl wrote a frightening book. It is a must read for all those interested in the future of mankind.

A disturbing exposé on the manipulation of a few to gain global dominance through something we often take for granted: Food.

Engdahl offers up a banquet of information pertaining to the relationship between eugenics, genetics, the impact and importance genetic modification of our food is having on our society on a micro and macro level. For those that are pro-GM, this is not a book written by someone with an axe to grind on interfering with nature and perceived scientific progress, but rather, this is a well researched volume of information that explains how the likes of the Rockefellers (and their 'non-profit' organisations), Kissinger and the big agri-corps manipulated people and produce by promising great results, covering up bad ones and then turning poor farmers into serfs.

This exposure shows in a nutshell how and why wealthy American Elites were able to manipulate the government into burying research, backing their disguised eugenics ideas and churning out new organisations to change the face of agriculture into agribusiness. Doesn't affect you because you're not a farmer? You eat: therefore it does. Not American? The information put forth in this research affects almost every living thing on the face of this planet and it's about to get worse.

There is too much in this book to relay in a simple review.

This is an absolute must read and I have not seen it appear for sale at traditional bookstores. Too hot to handle?

I really wanted to like this book because I think there is some good investigative journalism involved. The author draws a lot of interesting connections between corporate america, Washington politicians and farming. I found more than a few shocking details that I haven't read anywhere else, so I think the author has really done his research.

The only complaint though is his writing style is very dry and long winded. I'll get the point he's arrived at for a chapter and follow his reasoning well, then realize that I'm only halfway through the chapter. The rest of the chapter then seems trivial and a overly detailed. It almost seems like it's a detailed journal for history's sake and not meant to be read for enjoyment. I'm not saying that I dislike detailed accounts, but rather that I think the flow of the chapters seems to cause them to peak too early.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in being a government watchdog, because the subject is rather far reaching in it's implications. It's not a page turner though and it won't offer much to organic gardeners looking to learn about GM crops, since this is a book detailing the developing corporatism in Washington.