This forwarded article is one of the most disturbing examples of insane
collusion between government, biotechnology science and industry. Health
promoters everywhere need to know what the biotechnological food industry
is up to and find ways to make this public knowledge.
Best wishes to all
David Burman

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>Although I cannot vouch for the assertions below, I believe it is worth
>investigating.
>This is only about 20% of the article; full piece at:
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>http://www.arkinstitute.com/98/up0606.htm
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>Steve Kurtz
>Fitzwilliam NH
>                     Food Supply Update: June 5, 1998
>
>        Seed Terminator and Mega-Merger Threaten Food and Freedom
>
>                    Copyright © 1998, by Geri Guidetti
>
>       There have been times in human history when the line between
>       genius and insanity was so fine that it was barely
>       perceptible. In the world of biotechnology and food, that
>       line has just been obliterated. Announcements made over the
>       past 90 days suggest that an ingenius scientific achievement
>       and subsequent, related business developments threaten to
>       terminate the natural, God-given right and ability of people
>       everywhere to freely grow food to feed themselves and
>       others. Never before has man created such an insidiously
>       dangerous, far-reaching and potentially "perfect" plan to
>       control the livelihoods, food supply and even survival of
>       all humans on the planet. Overstatement? Judge for yourself.
>
>       On March 3, 1998, the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
>       and the Delta and Pine Land Company, a Mississippi firm and
>       the largest cotton seed company in the world, announced that
>       they had jointly developed and received a patent (US patent
>       number 5,723,765) on a new, agricultural biotechnology.
>       Benignly titled, "Control of Plant Gene Expression", the new
>       patent will permit its owners and licensees to create
>       sterile seed by cleverly and selectively programming a
>       plant's DNA to kill its own embryos. The patent applies to
>       plants and seeds of all species. The result? If saved at
>       harvest for future crops, the seed produced by these plants
>       will not grow. Pea pods, tomatoes, peppers, heads of wheat
>       and ears of corn will essentially become seed morgues. In
>       one broad, brazen stroke of his hand, man will have
>
>       irretrievably broken the plant - to - seed - to - plant - to
>       - seed - cycle, THE cycle that supports most life on the
>       planet. No seed, no food-unless-unless you buy more seed.
>       This is obviously good for seed companies. As it turns out,
>       it is also good for the US Department of Agriculture.
>
>       In a recent interview with RAFI, the Canada-based Rural
>       Advancement Foundation International, US Department of
>       Agriculture (USDA) spokesman, Willard Phelps, explained that

>       the USDA wants this technology to be "widely licensed and
>       made expeditiously available to many seed companies." The
>       goal, he said, is "to increase the value of proprietary seed
>       owned by US seed companies and to open up new markets in
>       Second and Third World countries." The USDA and Delta & Pine
>       Land Co. have applied for patents on the terminator
>       technology in at least 78 countries!
>       (snip)
>