By Zen Honeycutt – The Hill, 4 November 2015
Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/259043-gmo-industry-is-motivated-by-deception
Last month I attended the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa to learn about the direction of the GMO industry. Started by Norman E. Borlaug 101 years ago, the gathering is an international symposium of GMO chemical company CTO’s like Dow, Dupont and Monsanto mingling with food companies like Cargill and Land O’ Lakes. Big Ag suppliers and international banks like the Bank of Africa mixed with notables such as Chelsea Clinton, Google, Starbucks, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Warren Buffett’s son Howard, Pamela Anderson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, many foreign dignitaries, along with our tax-payer-dollar-supported USDA officials.
The entire conference was a GMO commercial. The attendees should have been paid to be there. Apparently GMO is “activist lingo” now, so instead they spoke of the latest “agriculture technology.” It sickened me to see them repeatedly lie about yield, nutrition and improved technology. They failed to tell the whole story, which is that the yield is not consistent, the nutrition is lacking, the chemicals destroy the soil, poison waterways and people, and the technology overall is failing.
asked a question about organic farming at a smaller panel with African farmers led by Julie Borlaug. I pointed out that the UN had recently released their own report titled “Wake Up Before It’s Too Late” which stated that small organic farms are the only way to feed the world. She immediately dismissed this report as opinion when it was created by 60 international scientific experts from around the world.
As leaders of the agriculture industry, these attendees have a legal and moral obligation to inform the international community of the risks of GMOs and related chemicals like glyphosate. Unfortunately that is not what was discussed throughout the entire conference.
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