How the U.S. Government Uses Foreign “Aid” to Force Countries to Buy GMO Seeds b4in.org/r56a The U.S. government, a revolving door for Big Agra’s biotech, is indeed bullying El Salvador into using genetically modified seeds just as current headlines suggest. “‘I would like to tell the U.S. Ambassador to stop pressuring the Government (of El Salvador) to buy ‘improved’ GM seeds,’ said [President of the El Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technologies (CESTA)] Navarro, which is only of benefit to U.S. multinationals and is to the detriment of local seed production,” reported Sustainable Pulse. Through the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a self-described “independent U.S. foreign aid agency that is helping to lead the fight against global poverty,” created by Congress in 2004, $277 million in aid is being dangled over El Salvador’s head if, as the World War 4 Report puts it, “the Salvadoran Agriculture Ministry continues its current practice of buying seeds from small-scale Salvadoran producers for its Family Agriculture Plan.” The threat was apparently made, “with clear intentions to advance the interests of transnational agricultural companies.” While distributing seed packets under the program from small Salvadoran producers (instead of multinational corporations like Monsanto) have actually spurred the growth of basic food crops by a third and employed over 200,000 hectares for cultivation — thus achieving the goals that MCC’s entire existence are supposedly based on — nearly $300 million in aid might be withheld simply because El Salvador isn’t using Monsanto’s GMO seeds. So which is it? Foreign aid or a corporate pay day? More b4in.org/r56a
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:31:25 +0000
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