Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Nonfiction
Author:	F. William Engdahl

In Abraham Maslow's classic work on human psychology, The Theory of Human Motivation, he argues that in man's hierarchy of needs, food is the foremost of all human needs and must therefore be first to be satisfied. As such, it, too, is the most basic of all motivations without which all other needs are irrelevant including life itself.

So when you learn that there's a careful, deliberate and strategic plan to control food supply by a group of elite individuals with the resources, the technology and the brain trust of the most brilliant individuals to actually draw-up and execute such a plan with the ultimate goal of world domination, how do you react? You'll probably think that that is not possible and may only happen in the world of Hollywood.

But author and researcher F. William Engdahl says that indeed this is not just a possibility but already a reality. And as a matter of fact, it is not just an elite group of private individuals who are in on the plan but also some of the most influential personalities in the government of the most powerful country in the world. Engdahl's book, "The Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda Of Genetic Manipulation," reads like one of those best selling spy-suspense thriller. As thrilling as Ludlum's Bourne Series. With more twists and turns than any of the Tom Clancy, John le Carré or Michael Crichton novels. The only difference is that this one is real.

This book has a special relevance to me as I am part of the Philippine food industry and I have first hand experience on the effects and impact of a food shortage to a country like ours. Upon reading this book, I have developed a very different view of IRRI, the international organization that leads the research on food grains. It's supposed to have in one of its vaults a collection of all indigenous grains seeds in the world, which implies total control. In a world which population is expected to double in the next 50 years or so, food will be the most sought after, most expensive and most valuable commodity. Anyone who has control of it will be able to control the world. And one of the most influential person of the current century is on record for having said: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." This was uttered by Henry Kissinger, the guy who was called a "Svengali*" to Richard Nixon in the 70s. And as a matter of record, he actually ordered a study resulting to Henry Kissinger's classified memo in April, 1974. It was on a secret project called National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) that was shaped by Rockefeller interests and aimed to adopt a "world population plan of action" for drastic global population control - meaning to reduce it. The US led the effort, and it worked like this - it made birth control in developing countries a prerequisite for US aid. Engdahl summed it up in blunt terms: "if these inferior races get in the way of our securing ample, cheap raw materials, then we must find ways to get rid of them." Control of population. Control of food. Control of progress and development to ensure superiority of the elite group.

Below are some of the published reviews as published in Amazon.com website.
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Editorial Reviews

If you want to learn why biotech corporations insist on spreading GMO seeds around the World you should read this carefully researched book. You will learn how these corporations want to achieve control over all mankind, and why we must resist...
--Marijan Jost, Professor of Genetics, Krizevci, Croatia

The book reads like a murder mystery of an incredible dimension, in which four giant Anglo-American agribusiness conglomerates have no hesitation to use GMO to gain control over our very means of subsistence...
--Anton Moser, Professor of Biotechnology, Graz, Austria

What is so frightening about Engdahl's vision of the world is that it is so real. In this new age of free markets, everything science, commerce, agriculture and even seeds have become weapons in the hands of a few global corporation barons and their political fellow travelers...
---Dr. Arpad Pusztai, biochemist, formerly of the Rowett Research Institute, Scotland.

General Description

This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish its control over the very basis of human survival, the provision of our daily bread. Control the food and you control the people. This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms. The author reveals a World of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those committed to the causes of social justice and World peace.

About the Author

F. William Engdahl is a leading analyst of the New World Order, author of the best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, A Century of War: Anglo- American Politics and the New World Order. His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

*Svengali - A person who, with evil intent, tries to persuade another to do what is desired: “a crafty Svengali who lures talented people with grand promises yet gives them little lasting operational authority” (Chris Welles). After Svengali, the hypnotist villain in the novel Trilby by George du Maurier.