Through wrongful and biotech patenting, a small group of agro-chemical companies exerts extreme control over crop genetics, including Monsanto/Bayer, Cargill, Dupont and Syngenta.
US farmers have seen a 64% rise in seed prices in the past three years, directly to this cartel. Its patented biotech straits are in 90% of US soybeans and in 80% of US corn. Monsanto alone accounts for 60% of the corn and soybean market in the US. The top ten world seed companies account for over 65% of all world seed sales, – with the top three – Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta – accounting for half of all sales of patented seeds. There is tight control over seeds and high-yield seed traits. Cargill, through its Nutrena feed division, is also the biggest producer of animal seed and hybrid seed in the world, while Continental Grain, through its Wayne Feed division, is also a major producer of feed and hybrid seed production. Having bought Purina Mills, BP is now the second largest feed producer in America. BP, through its Nutrition division, is the largest feed producer in Europe. The cartel also controls feed for animals and seed for planting. Earnings and profits are up 20% in recent years for all these firms, while shortages and hunger worsen. No other forces in the world, including governments, are as well organized as the cartel, and therefore, London’s power in this area remains unchallenged. own world shipping fleets, and have long-established sales relationships, financial markets, and commodity trading exchanges (such as the London-based Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange) on which grain is traded, which completes their domination. Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus et al. In fact, however the control is far greater than the sum of its parts: The Big Six grain companies are organized as a cartel they move grain back and forth from any one of the major, or minor, exporting nations. In sum, the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss –American food cartel dominates 80-90% of the world grain trade. Although they have their own unique internal picture, with a modicum of political influence from farmers, both are British Commonwealth Elizabeth II nations, under the thumb of the Queen. Grains, or cereals as they are often called, consist of wheat the coarse grains, including corn, barley, oats, sorghum, and rye and rice.Ĭanada and Australia combined are the world’s third largest grain exporting region, after America and Europe. Several of these same firms dominate grain processing, and are also heavily involved in biofuels In the U.S.-the world’s single largest corn grower-nearly 40% of production is now going to ethanol, instead of the food chain, This is the policy of New York and London. Of the total 2,300 million metric tons of grains produced worldwide, some 400 million tons are traded, about 80% of which is dominated by a very few firms, principally Cargill Inc., ADM, Bunge, and Louis Dreyfus. Look at the food cartels control over each of the four dominant food groups. The following summarizes some of the aspects of the degree of control and ruination of today’s world food situation by these commodity cartels. On every continent, potential food productivity, through national water, power, and agro-industrial improvements has been deliberately subverted, to the point now of mass hunger and starvation. Beyond gargantuan profiteering, the result of today’s cartel practices is genocide. If this sounds like a replay of the British East India Company, dictating conditions and trade in rice, indigo, cotton, tea, opium, and other goods of their time, it should. And, of course, they thwart any and all attempts at national food self-sufficiency.A rancher, who does not sell his beef at the depressed price offered by these five firms, will starve.They position their operations to control retail-final distribution of food-and dictate prices and standards to suppliers.They dominate fertilizer and other agro-chemicals-development, pricing, and availability.They dominate world crop and livestock research and genetics with wrongful patent/intellectual property rights, to seeds, breeds, and even biotech procedures.They engage in, and often set, speculation on the commodity exchanges.They intervene to determine where crops are grown, which they call “export sourcing,” and “value chain” development.They dominate the export and import of basic foodstuffs-wheat, soy, corn, rice, sugar, dairy tropical products, etc.In this report, we will explain how the global grain and food cartels function. Here, we continue with our report on the food cartel.
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