U2, Bono? Celeb partners with Monsanto, G8, to biowreck African farms with GMOsRady Ananda And Bono, of the rock group U2, is out shilling for Monsanto on this one. Its phase 2 of the Green Revolution. Tanzania, Ghana, and Ethiopia are the first to fall for the deception, with Mozambique, Cote dIvoire, Burkina Faso and other African nations lining up for the Grow Africa Partnership, under Obamas Global Agricultural Development plan. In Obama Pitches India Model of GM Genocide to Africa, Scott Creighton writes: With a commitment of $3 billion, Obama plans to partner up with mega-multinationals like Monsanto, Diageo, Dupont, Cargill, Vodafone, Walmart, Pepsico, Prudential, Syngenta International, and Swiss Re because, as one USAID representative says There are things that only companies can do, like building silos for storage and developing seeds and fertilizers. Of course, thats an outrageous lie. Private citizens have been building their own silos for centuries. But its true that only the biowreck engineers will foist patented seeds and toxic chemicals on Africa. Volatility chimed in: The soil is stripped of all nutrition and zombified by ever-increasing applications of synthetic fertilizer. Monoculture is ever more dependent on the increasing application of ever more toxic herbicides and pesticides. Deployment of GMOs escalates these vulnerabilities. Factory farms can exist only with ever increasing use of antibiotics. All these systems are extremely tenuous, vulnerable, not robust, not resilient. Theyre all guaranteed to collapse. Hermetic monoculture, and industrial agriculture as such, is one big hothouse flower which requires perfect conditions to survive. Thats not all the harm wrought by the petrochemical synthetic ag industry, as this 2012 superweed map by the University of Wisconsin shows: Insects have also developed resistance. As reported last August, The Western rootworm beetle one of the most serious threats to corn has developed resistance to Monsantos Bt-corn, and entire crops are being lost. In March, two dozen corn entomologists warned regulators that the only way to defeat growing insect resistance to genetically modified corn is to plant non-GMO seed. Increasing pesticide use or buffer zone size will not solve the growing problem of rootworm resistance to corn genetically modified. But if that doesnt deter African farmers, these petrochemicals have also been linked to human birth defects. Where Roundup Ready soy is being cultivated on a massive scale, reports Dr. Mercola, widespread reports exist of immediate illness defects from massive glyphosate spraying operations. In fact, Monsanto, Philip Morris and other U.S. tobacco giants knowingly poisoned Argentinean tobacco farmers with pesticides, reports Courthouse News Service, causing devastating birth defects in their children, dozens of workers claim in court. The Bt toxin used to engineer cotton and corn also kills human kidney cells, reports Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, and the drift from aerial application of Roundup prompted the Mississippi Rice Council to sound a national alarm over genetic damage to natural rice, calling for severely restricted aerial application. Newly emergent pathogens have appeared, reports Dr. Don M. Huber, a plant pathologist who coordinates the Emergent Diseases and Pathogens committee of the American Phytopathological Society, as part of the USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System. Last year, his team discovered a self-replicating, micro-fungal virus-sized organism which may be causing spontaneous abortions in livestock, sudden death syndrome in Monsantos Roundup Ready soy, and wilt in Monsantos RR corn. Hubers warning to the USDA to halt GM crop approvals, and specifically, genetically modified alfalfa, was not only ignored, but two months ago, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack hastened the approval process for genetically engineered crops. The new rules will cut the time needed to approve biotech crops in half, reports Dr. Mercola, from an average of three years, to about 13 months for new versions of already existing crop technologies, and about 16 months for brand new technologies. Obamas Global Agricultural Development plan conspires with multinational corporations to foist these ecological and human health costs onto the public while siphoning the profits. As Creighton says, Socialized costs, privatized profits. All in the name doing good and saving the people of Africa. Lets hope these public/private partnerships are met with firm resistance by African farmers, as supported by this Declaration from a group of African civil society organizations. The last thing Planet Earth and all its organisms need is more toxic industrial chemicals. cc Creative Commons. This work may be reproduced in whole or in part as long as the original URL and author name are included. You can help support this information by voting on Reddit HERE. Rady Ananda is an investigative reporter and researcher in the areas of health, environment, politics, and civil liberties. Her two websites, Food Freedom and COTO Report are essential reading. RECENT REPORTS BY RADY ANANDA: 