The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to help the world. The money of the foundation is used to help poor people. Help them do what? Plant GMO seeds, among other things.
According to the Guardian UK:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is sponsoring the Guardian’s Global development site is being heavily criticised in Africa and the US for getting into bed not just with notorious GM company Monsanto, but also with agribusiness commodity giant Cargill. Trouble began when a US financial website published the foundation’s annual investment portfolio, which showed it had bought 500,000 Monsanto shares worth around $23m. This was a substantial increase in the last six months and while it is just small change for Bill and Melinda, it has been enough to let loose their fiercest critics.End quote
Vikram Chandra: You were speaking in the session of food security yesterday; What do you think about the food security bill and other such things which are coming up in India? Is that something which you think is going to make a difference? Bill Gates: Well I don’t know that particular bill; But, the idea of getting new seed varieties out to farmers and having open mindedness to new technology, the GMO technology in some case, there is a lot more that can be done for farmers. It’s an area that we are excited about the progress. There is a challenge in India; you know the water table in some places is increasingly challenged; the fact that certain policies haven’t gotten people to conserve water, even electricity. It is going to take a lot of time. But I visited a lot of our sites and definitely year by year, it gets better.End quote
The Gates foundation is also involved in the heirloom seed bank in the Arctic. This is a vault near the North Pole where thousands of varieties of heirloom seeds are being stored. Just in case. In case what?
In case the GMO seeds destroy the crop diversity of the planet, one must suppose.
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“In case the GMO seeds destroy the crop diversity of the planet, one must suppose.”
And that is exactly what is happening.
Great post!