Gates is heavily invested in GMOs and genetic engineering technology.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested a ton of money in projects ranging from vaccine distribution to grade school education (the controversial Common Core systems) and much more. And depending on who you ask, Gates and his foundation are either helping the world, doing something much more sinister, or at the very least simply offering up their money in order to gain more control and influence over world affairs.
Gates is also heavily invested in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetic engineering technology. We all know how GMOs are not widely accepted across much of the globe – they’re banned in several countries in Europe, where Hungarian professor Árpád Pusztai discovered serious evidence of harm caused by genetic engineering technology in potatoes and the story was covered fairly and distributed widely, causing a backlash that has lasted to this day. China routinely denies shipments of crops contaminated with even traces of GMO material.
And over 60 countries have mandatory labeling for GMOs – countries that recognize that this inherently unique, unnatural and risky technology was never asked for by citizens who greatly prefer natural food when given the choice.
Now, the GMO “debate” in America has become anything but – more and more people are avoiding GMOs, and over 90% routinely vote for mandatory labeling in national polls. When given the choice, the vast majority of people prefer to avoid them; people do not seek them out but merely consume them because the system has included them in our food without our consent.
According to the Gates Foundation in America, this particular “debate” has become too “polarized” in America today, and changing the narrative is one of the main stated goals of the foundation’s $5.6 million grant to Cornell University in 2014. The grant was provided for the new Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) which aims to “depolarize the charged debate” about GMOs.
But is this foundation really considering all of the science (especially independent science on GMOs that shows evidence of risks and potential harm but is routinely ignored by the media) or is it simply operating as a Public Relations arm of the GMO industry?
According to a new article on the website Alternet.org by Stacy Malkan of the U.S. Right to Know organization, the answer may in fact be the latter.
A review of the group’s materials and programs suggests that beneath its promise to “restore the importance of scientific evidence in decision making,” CAS is promoting GMOs using dishonest messaging and PR tactics developed by agrichemical corporations with a long history of misleading the public about science.
CAS is a communications campaign devoted to promoting genetically engineered foods (also known as GMOs) around the world. This is made clear in the group’s promotional video.
Malkan continues:
The companies that profit most from this system – Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and other agrichemical giants – have repeatedly violated trust by misleading the public about science, as Gary Ruskin showed in his report Seedy Business. So they rely on front groups and third-party allies such as scientists and professors to spread their messaging for them.
While certain entities in the mainstream media like to scrutinize, and criticize those who promote transparency, sound, unbiased science, and the use of the precautionary principle in regards to GMOs, what they fail to realize is that the GMO industries spend countless millions simply to pitch their products, and their supposedly airtight “science,” to the world even though public opinion is clearly against them.
If GMOs were so desirable, and if the science is so strongly in favor of them, why would these corporations need to rely on millions in donations from people like Gates, and organizations like the Grocery Manufacturers’ Association, in the first place?
These are the questions we all should be asking ourselves as the “debate” continues.
For more on Cornell, Pro-GMO tobacco industry-style “science” and the massive PR industry campaign behind it launched by Cornell, check out Malkan’s article by clicking on this link.
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