Terminator Technology

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Six giant agrochemical corporations propose to control the global production of GM foods, resulting unemployment factual will of millions of farmers and the loss of markets for third world countries.

In 1997 he planted more than 12 million hectares of genetically engineered crops, three times more than in 1996 and it is estimated that the market will double annually.

Monsanto, Novartis multinational conglomerates, Agro Evo, Dupont, Zeneca and Dow Chemical have invested 8,000 million dollars in GM crops and have passed over by commercial organizations, regulators, legislators, media and consumers.

The FAO warns: "You can not expect job creation with new technologies. This will primarily affect agriculture in all parts and have a role in the future of the poorest."

The quarterly report for the British consulting firm McKinsey says: "The world is about to undergo a revolution. Science is now in the hands of giant chemical companies, pharmaceutical and agricultural products that are ready to spend a few products today a full menu in five years. Biotechnology is revolutionizing the food chain. "

Only two food products that may be found in supermarkets in Britain are labeled as produced by generic engineering: the tomato puree and cheese vegetarian Safeway Sainsbury's and Coop. Among the wide range of products of this type containing many generically modified ingredients, but they can not be identified because they are mixed. There is for example corn with genes from bacteria and strawberries with fish genes.

TerminatorLo worst of all is the acquisition by the U.S. company Monsanto of "terminator" technology and its phenomenal growth through mergers and acquisitions illustrate the new global threat to food and freedom.

On March 3, 1998, the Department of Agriculture United States and the company Delta & Pine Land Company of Mississippi, the largest producer of cotton seeds in the world, announced the joint development of a new bio-agricultural technology that was patented in number 5,723,765. Benignly called "Control of Plant Gene Expression", the new patent will allow owners and companies authorized to create sterile seeds by selectively programming the plants DNA to kill its own embryos.

In a plant with "Terminator" or plant "Terminator", 3 genes are inserted, each associated with a dimmer switch called a "promoter". Upon activation of these genes produces a protein called recombinase, which acts as molecular scissors. The recombinase cut a "spacer" between the toxin-producing gene and its promoter. While the "spacer" acts as insurance to prevent the toxin gene is activated.

A third gene has been designed to produce a "repressor" that prevents the recombinase gene is turned off until the plant, manipulated with the "terminator technology" is exposed to a specific external stimulus, such as a particular chemical compound, a heat shock or osmotic shock. When the chosen stimulus is applied to the seed before sale, it interrupts the operation of the repressor. Therefore as there is repression, the recombinase gene is activated. Occurring recombinase removes the security system of the spacer. Since the developer has been chosen to be activated in the later stages of seed maturation, it is only then that will start production of the poison that kills the seed.

The most widely used gene terminator technology are:

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Toxin gene: Gen RIP (ribosome-inhibiting protein)

* DEVELOPER: LEA (abundant during late embryonic development) * Space: DNA fragment flanked by LOX recognition sequences of the recombinase * GEN: CRE / LOX, a bacteriophage system .* PROMOTER: A promoter can be suppressed .* repressor gene, tetracycline repressible system.

The result is that the seeds of the plants after harvest saved for future crops will not germinate. [THIS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY REASON OF PATENT. TO PREVENT THE FARMER MULTIPLY YOUR SEED AND ALWAYS SEE forced to buy seeds to the U.S. company. FOOD IMPERIALISM]

The patent covers plants and seeds of all species, pea pods, tomatoes, peppers, ears of wheat and corn were transformed essentially seed morgues. A slap, the man has a natural cycle inevitably cut plant-seed, and no more food unless you buy more seeds. This course is great for the seed companies and, it seems, is good for the department of agriculture of the United States.

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The "Terminator" was created to prevent farmers from saving hybrid seeds, open pollinated or genetically altered sold by large companies.

The intent of the multinationals is changing the genes for different seeds and these seeds do not belong to anyone who wishes to grow or keep them, but the production company. In recent years, the global community has witnessed with indignation how some multinational seed companies have claimed the right of ownership of entire species of plants based on that altered a gene in a member of that species, so that all its genome belongs .

In a world of continuing population growth and increasing demand for food, giant transnational expect to sell large amounts of genetically engineered seeds and patented. Food is a big business that tends to grow, and those firms seeking to farmers around the world need to come back to them, year after year to buy seeds and, in some cases even to farm chemicals. Plant patents, licenses, intellectual property rights, agriculture research and trials for violating a company a monopoly on a particular variety of seed are some tools that are used to protect their interests.

The "Terminator Technology" ensure that markets, farmers, communities and countries completely dependent on the company that seeds sold them to continue feeding.

But the most serious problem is posed by the risk of escape extermination function of the genome of crops that were intentionally built and is transmitted to other open-pollinated crops or wild plants in the vicinity.

The gradual spread of sterility among plants could result in a global catastrophe that could wipe the planet even higher forms of life, not excluding humans.

If terminator technology is widely used, also for multinational industries seeds and agrochemicals extremely dangerous capacity to control the world's food sources.

MONSANTOCuando was announced the development of the new technique Monsanto, the U.S. multinational seed and pesticides, was a minor shareholder (8%) Delta & Pine Land Co. The purchase of Delta & Pine gives Monsanto a share of 85% in the market for cotton seeds the United States and a global position on this objective. Monsanto also announced the acquisition of DeKalb, the second largest United States corn. In January 1997, Monsanto bought Holden's Foundation Seeds, the company became the dominant world market also in the corn.

In November 1997, Monsanto acquired Sementes Agroceres, a leading seed company in Brazil. The acquisition gave Monsanto business 30% of the corn seed in the country. Brazilian farmers have cultivated for generations and saved their own seeds are considered primary targets of the terminator technology and apomictic.

In January 1998, the United States Department of Agriculture obtained a patent (No. 5,710,367) for "the apomictic corn," which accelerates the production of hybrid seeds to allow the plant to produce clones, thus reducing hybrid seed.

Monsanto has promoted strategies for the protection of its patents, primarily based on its genetically engineered soybeans, which have the ability to support the main herbicide sprayed with the company's Roundup (Weeds and other plants die, but beans survive). In 1996, the company set a new precedent requiring farmers to buy their "Roundup Ready Soybeans" to sign the "agreement on Roundup Ready Gene 1996". The conditions requiring the farmer to sign are: pay a "technology fee" of five dollars per sack give Monsanto to inspect, monitor and test your risk for a maximum period of three years, the herbicide used only on the basis Monsanto's glyphosate-called Roundup, waive his right to save and replant patented seeds, not to sell or supply in any way the seed "No person or entity", and in case of violation of the agreement, an amount paid to Monsanto 100 times higher than the duties applicable to the Roundup Ready gene, plus fees and costs of attorneys. The strong protests of farmers against the inspection and control of private property forced Monsanto to partially modify the 1997 contract.

On June 1, 1998, the potential impact of terminator technology on world agriculture grew explosively with the announcement that American Home Products Corporation (AHP) was merged with Monsanto.

The AHP is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, a world leader in vaccines, biotechnology, agricultural and veterinary products.

In fact, AHP is a family of companies including American Cyanamid, Agricultural Products Group Cyamid and Wyeth Ayerst, among others. It is the third largest United States in herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, but after its merger with Monsanto, it is estimated that the resulting signature will be transformed into the largest agrochemical company in the world, beating the Swiss giant Novartis.

It is clear that the worldwide adoption of newly patented Terminator technology will ensure the absolute dependence of farmers and people that these foods for multinational companies to obtain seeds. Dependence does not promote freedom, quite the contrary. History abounds with examples of peoples and cultures who lost freedoms because their food source was controlled by others.

Alsothe England English response to the "American Monster" (the Terminator) is the "Worm Exterminator", a new destroyer of seeds that are chemically active. The "Worm Terminator" seeds by activating genes kills fat of rodents that have been introduced by genetic manipulation in crops.

Zeneca Bio Sciences of the United Kingdom, it competes with Monsanto for first place in the global seed industry and also to destroy the ancient practice of saving seeds and breed crop varieties.

Derived from Zeneca ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) and applying for patents for its creation in 58 countries, making it impossible for farmers to save seeds. Plants are stunted and will not play unless it is exposed to the chemical activity of Zeneca.

Zeneca is currently the fifth seed company in the world, with annual sales of around $ 437 million in 1997. It is also a major chemical company for crops and pharmaceuticals.

The "Worm Exterminator" is a more extensive and more powerful of the "Terminator" of Monsanto, Zeneca as it may choose to sell seeds that do not serve to replant or operate the "Gen murderer" through the application of chemicals .

A biological warfare against mankind.

The main objective of the "Terminator Technology" is to provide a platform (or Trojan horse) that, through patents, serve to catapult their genes with impunity.

Peasants and farmers will lose the right of 12,000 years ago to save the seed, which is a biological warfare.

Preserving and sharing are the primary source of seeds to 1,400 million poor farmers in the Third World. The threat to these farmers, food security and biodervisidad is real, considering that the Department of Agriculture United States and Delta & Pine Land requested the grant of the patent in dozens of countries in the south, from Madagascar to Mali, from Benin Brazil, from China to Vietnam.

If terminator technology obtains a broad license, Monsanto will take over mainly self-pollinating crops like wheat, rice, cotton, soybeans, oats and sorghum. The two most important agricultural products in the world (rice and wheat), 75% staple of the poor of the world could become a private monopoly.

Wheat is the largest agricultural product grown in the world and in 1995 covered 219 million hectares harvested, while the rice was planted in the same year 149 million hectares and production was the highest total, with 542 million tons.

50% of crops in the Third World were performed using seeds saved from the previous harvest, most farmers reuse seeds and return to the commercial market every 4 or 5 years.

Half of the world's farmers are poor and can not buy seeds every planting season, but grow from 15 to 20% of the world's food and feed directly at least 1,400 million people: 100 million in Latin America, 300 million in Africa and 1,000 million in Asia.

The terminator technology is currently patent pending in Germany, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, DPR Korea, Republic of Korea, Congo, Ivory Coast , Chad, Czech Republic, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Guinea, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya , Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxsemburgo, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Niger, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.

How is the United States Department of Agriculture, a public agency whose mission is to conduct scientific research was proclaimed "For the public good" argument for this terminator technology?

Among the public notices in British newspapers as part of the campaign of Monsanto to promote genetically modified food, one claimed that genetic engineering is necessary to feed a hungry planet. African delegates at a conference of the FAO and through joint delegation, strongly opposed to the giant multinationals use the images of the poor and hungry of Africa to promote a technology that is neither safe nor beneficial to the environment or the economy .

Another trap is Monsanto GM soy, they think planting in several countries in Latin Latina.Por example, with the support "scientific" of the National Biosafety Technical Committee CTN Bio, the Brazilian government is ready to define the lawsuit Monsanto to release Brazilian territory called Roundup Ready property. It will be the signal for the invasion of GMOs in Brazil.

RR soybeans was obtained by introducing a gene from a bacterium called Agrobacterium SP, that makes it resistant to glyphosate herbicide produced by Monsanto itself under the trade name Roundup.

In Brazil, Monsanto has already swallowed up the main Brazilian companies such as FT Agroceres and lement.

RR soy does not improve the nutritional value of soybeans and only increases the profits of selling Monsanto seeds, ensure the sale of its herbicide, as the natural soybean prices reached a 50% higher than GM. Transgenic seeds also contain a highly allergenic protein, the EPSSPS.

Cows fed RR soybean lipid alterations in their milk, because of the phytoestrogen content of the seeds.

GM soy also produces dermatitis and bioaccumulate.

Found in fruits and fish residues of glyphosate, one year after the herbicide treatment.

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