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Posted in Bill Gates, Europe, Intellectual Monopoly, Patents at 11:16 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: The world’s monopolist of food, which also puts people at risk while it acquires this monopoly, is connected closely to Lord Sainsbury
LIKE MANY OTHERS IN THE UK, I REGRET being an almost exclusive client of Sainsbury’s, which is connected to Lord Sainsbury of Turville. Based on the following couple of news items, the Sainsbury family is a big pusher of Monsanto’s GMO agenda (Professor Jonathan Jones, the head of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre, is also funded by Monsanto to push its agenda). The new items are:
=> Professor Jonathan Jones | push its agenda
GM FOOD: FACTS NOT CROPS [via Glyn Moody]The European Commission has recently approved growing genetically modified crops for the first time in 12 years, putting the GM lobby’s profits over public concerns — 60% of Europeans feel we need more information before growing foods that could threaten our health and environment.Lord Sainsbury calls for new debate on GM crops [via ThistleWeb]A former science minister has called for the debate on genetically modified crops to be reopened, arguing they are vital for a growing global population.Ahead of his speech at the British Science Association festival, Lord Sainsbury warned it would be foolish for the UK to rule out the technology.
This led us to looking for some older articles too. Here is what we fished for and netted within minutes:
GM row: Lord Sainsbury in Monsanto talks His meeting with Monsanto, attended by civil servants, raises fresh concerns about the extent of his role in dealing with GM issues within government and the potential conflict with his private business interests.The day after the Monsanto meeting, Lord Sainsbury chaired a government- sponsored biotechnology seminar with consumer associations, environmentalists such as Friends of the Earth, and one of the Monsanto officials he had met the day before.Letter: Sainsbury must go When we continued to call on him to do the decent thing and resign, Lord Sainsbury continued to insist that he had nothing to do with GM food issues in government. Now The Independent has revealed that, as minister, he met with Monsanto the US GM crop giant, and discussed GM crops and food.GM crops set to make Sainsbury millions THE science minister Lord Sainsbury could make millions of pounds from his investments in firms researching genetically modified (GM) crops, including one company closely associated with Monsanto, the controversial American biotechnology company. [...]In November 1999 Paradigm signed a deal with Monsanto, which is paying it £30m and up to £9m more in performance bonuses, to work on novel genes. Paradigm will also get royalties if any of the genes are used in commercial products. It is royalties that offer the biggest chance of high returns. UK Testing GM Potatoes That Offer No Benefit to Farmers or EatersThe person heading the project is Jonathan Jones, who runs the Sainsbury Laboratory. During none of his promotion of the project have his ties with Monsanto been noted. The Guardian reports that Jonathan Matthews, the spokesman for GM Watch, pointed out: The frontman for the latest GM push in the UK is being portrayed as a dedicated public servant doing science in the public interest, but it now appears he not only has vested interests in the success of GM but even commercial connections to Monsanto. It turns out that Jones not only has links to Monsanto, he has direct financial interests. He founded Mendel Biotechnology, whose most significant customer—and also collaborator—is Monsanto. Yet, he didn’t provide that information in a recent tirade against opponents of GM, which he wrote for BBC. He went so far as to call them, “fussy eaters”. When confronted with his lack of transparency, he stated to the Observer that he hadn’t tried to hide his connections.Sainsbury denies conflict of interest It is the same gene at the centre of a food scare following tests on rats that were fed GM potatoes. Lord Sainsbury said the virus is owned by Monsanto.
For those who are new to Monsanto, appended below are links to previous posts. The Gates Foundation is also a Monsanto pusher and investor (with an increasing stake). █
=> ↺ Gates Foundation | an increasing stake
How the Gates Foundation Privatises AfricaWith Microsoft Monopoly in Check, Bill Gates Proceeds to Creating More MonopoliesGates-Backed Company Accused of Monopoly Abuse and InvestigatedReader’s Article: The Gates Foundation and Genetically-Modified FoodsMonsanto: The Microsoft of FoodSeeds of Doubt in Bill Gates InvestmentsGates Foundation Accused of Faking/Fabricating Data to Advance Political GoalsMore Dubious Practices from the Gates FoundationVideo Transcript of Vandana Shiva on Insane PatentsExplanation of What Bill Gates’ Patent Investments Do to Developing WorldBlack Friday Film: What the Bill Gates-Backed Monsanto Does to Animals, Farmers, Food, and Patent SystemsGates Foundation Looking to Destroy Kenya with Intellectual MonopoliesYoung Napoleon Comes to Africa and Told OffBill Gates Takes His GMO Patent Investments/Experiments to IndiaGates/Microsoft Tax Dodge and Agriculture Monopoly RevisitedBeyond the ‘Public Relations’UK Intellectual Monopoly Office (UK-IPO) May be Breaking the Law“Boycott Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in China”The Gates Foundation Extends Control Over Communication with Oxfam RelationshipWeek of Monsanto
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