Dr. Tyrone Hayes made a fatal mistake in his early years of practice. He absolutely did. He was ethical and believed Syngenta once a member of the Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals merger wanted research that was honest in it's findings. In fact it wanted lies. It wanted Dr. Hayes to manipulate science to prove how wonderful it's products were. They never thought a hungry African American would actually practice ethics and the truth. What the hell was wrong with the man? Didn't he know he could have had anything he wanted if he just lied enough?
I mean, look the climate idiots that were on the corporate take. Hello?
My dear people, this is the ethics of Syngenta.
By TOM WRIGHT,
International Herald Tribune
Published: November 27, 2005
Profits at any cost!
GENEVA, Nov. 27 -Swiss voters today supported (click here) a five year-ban on the
farming of genetically modified crops, offering a further sign of
widespread distrust in Europe of scientifically enhanced foods.
"The vote reflects the view across the E.U., not just Switzerland,"
said Adrian Bebb, an expert on the issue at Friends of the Earth, an
advocacy group. "The public doesn't want to eat genetically modified
food."
The vote also underscored the problems facing the European
Commission and biotech companies like Syngenta, Bayer and Monsanto as
they try to overcome consumer doubts about safety.
While the
United States has led the production and consumption of genetically
modified crops, Europeans consumers have been largely hostile. The
European Commission banned the import of genetically modified organisms
from the United States between 1998 and 2004.
But under pressure
from the United States and other nations, the commission ended the ban
after Washington took Europe to the World Trade Organization, claiming
its ban amounted to unfair protection, and was not based on scientific
evidence that the organisms harm human health or the environment....
Can you imagine that? The corporate greed of this lousy company actually forcing politicians to NEGATE the vote of a free people of an entire continent. This wasn't about research, it was about THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE in a VOTE they favored for their SOVEREIGN country, it's people and children. This had nothing to do with research and the pressure by a scientist to have his way. This was about the free will of the nations of people. What chance would an African American scientist have?
The USA turned the WTO on it's head. It turned the WTO into a political arm of the corporate paid for politicians. Like. What the hell?
The American people had to go underground for a decade or longer to develop crops and growing techniques to provide GMO free foods for themselves and their children. Now, that very underground movement is the basis of an entire growing local economy that is flourishing and providing quality of life to people.
UNDERGROUND. Seriously. Who ever thought people that wanted to grow heritage crops would actually matter? They were nobody. Ah, but, in fact they were the saviors of a drying and hot planet.
American corporations? They are the gods of the rightwing. There is no greater deity.
