From “Planting Seeds” in The Guardian in January:

“Bill and Melinda Gates hate controversy, but the world’s top philanthropists do seem to be moving ever deeper into political lobbying. They’ve just given the Danforth plant science centre in St Louis $5.4m (£3.8m) to help them persuade African and other poor countries to “overcome regulatory hurdles” and allow the field testing of bio-fortified GM crops. So what is Danforth? Just a “charity” set up and funded by Monsanto.” (Ref: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; please also see The Guardian’s clarification of the above statement.)

From Wikipedia:

“The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The facility was established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern. The Seed Vault holds duplicate samples, or “spare” copies, of seeds held in genebanks worldwide. The Seed Vault will provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large scale regional or global crises. The island of Spitsbergen is about 1,120 kilometres (700 mi) from the North Pole.”

The Gates Foundation has also donated $34.6 million to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, along with contributions from DuPont and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Now why would the Gates Foundation want to use its resources to force indigenous farmers to destroy their seed supply while the Foundation was financing the ultimate seed bank?

Think about it…

16 Comments

  1. Catherine,

    I’ve recently discovered your site and I’m finding it to be a fascinating treasure-trove of insight and knowledge.

    I know this is a bit off-topic from your post, but I wonder if you have any ideas as to what the next ‘bubble’ might be? I can’t see big corporate-driven government turning away from a technique that has made them so rich, so I just assume that there is a new bubble in the works. Which area do you think they might exploit next? Which area is ripe for inflating? If we had some ideas maybe we could manage things accordingly.

    Thanks,

    Sadie

  2. Re: Kevin Taylor, thank you for that link. I have a friend and compatriot who has warned of the coming genetic patenting. This order seems like a tip of an iceberg and I don’t know if we are going to see the end of it any time soon. But I have to go ahead and say that all of this is only the capitulation of market capital and the zombie corpse of capitalism slithering and writhing toward its rightful place at the top of the tower of Babel. This Frankenstein can be stopped.

  3. “Seeds of Democracy” is how F. William Engdahl describes Coalition Provisional Order 81 which gave Agribusiness patent rights on seeds in Iraq. Yes indeed it is always the same group of people that gain for themselves and leave a wide path of destruction for the rest of us to endure. Thanks, Catherine for this post.

  5. Thank you for this post Ms. Fitts.

    “The Gates Foundation has also donated $34.6 million to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, along with contributions from DuPont and the Rockefeller Foundation.”

    The interesting thing to me is how in all of these highly controversial, political, and economic moves all around the world you see the same names over and over again. Cui Bono, right? It’s good that you posted this. That way we know where to go to get back our food seeds once we take care of the Pro Centralization Team.

    Thanks again for the information. Much appreciated and have a good one.

  6. The Evil Empire at its worst. Thank you Billy Billerton and Lindy Helperton for making life so _Chemical_! “Better Life Through Chemistry.” We’ll soon have this messy planet whirring like a well-oiled machine! Do they have “tech support” for seeds that “go wrong?”

  7. Likewise, seemingly intelligent people applaud the Bill and Melinda Gates’s Foundation for their stated goal of vaccinating each and every third world child without a question. Thanks for shining the light once again into the rats lair.

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