The real war agenda: GM seeds in Afghanistan

this really pisses me off, so now they're gonna poison our food supply too?! thousands of indian farmers have been committing suicide because of monsanto and their frankin.seeds, as the rest of the world stands up against these evil GMO corps, they make their way to poor afghan farmers =(

AND PUT THE VIDEO BACK!!

Just to follow up. 2 of friends of mine were killed and 2 wounded yesterday by an IED. What should we tell their families... they were advancing the the U.S. government's pursuit to dominate the world food market? I hope the flames you spew aren't misinforming the people we are trying to help.

I pulled the video because I will not allow the great work our American servicemen and women are doing (who volunteered for this mission) be tainted and used to advance your distorted vision of their work. The sole purpose of the ADTs is to help the Afghan people get back to pre-Soviet invasion farming levels, so they can prosper in a safe and secure environment. The ultimate goal... grow our way to peace in Afghanistan and bring our service members home.

No one in the ADT program is affiliated with any business entity. Good luck on your quest to "expose the hidden truth" and I recommend you go over to Afghanistan as I have and see first hand what's going on, otherwise... you're just spewing rhetoric like every other left wing conspiracy junkie.

Why did you pull the video down if this is wrong? Truth hurt?

Here's the briefing:

http://www.grain.org/briefings_files/agrecon2009.pdf

Keep drinking the conspiracy juicy people.

this is just sickening.... these companies need to be taken to court for crimes against humanity and the planet... they are poisoning it and people purely for profit...

Is General Motors getting out of the car business then? It seems then that this would be a good way to get a "fresh start" for General Motors, but I'd never thought that they would try to market seeds in Afganistan! talk about "remaking" themselves! Chairman Rick Waggoner is no dummy! "Planning for the future"!! Why are all you guys giving me those dirty looks? Stop whispering about me! Quit calling me an idiot!! No, I DIDN'T read the article? Why- should I? What difference will that make?

This then is also linked to their bogus war on drugs. Eliminating the competition I suppose.

Considering the fact that GM crops, whether soy or corn, need much more water than non-GM crops, and considering the fact that Afghanistan is a dry country with little water resources and frequent droughts, Monsanto is bound to fail there. On the other hand, there are the vast amounts of largely untapped oil and natural gas in Afghanistan, along with other rich natural resources:

Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, marble, gold, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semi-precious stones. In 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that Afghanistan has as much as 36 trillion cubic feet (1.0×10^12 m3) of natural gas, 3.6 billion barrels (570×10^6 m3) of oil and condensate reserves.[11] According to a recent 2007 U.S. Geological Survey's assessment, it was again revealed that Afghanistan has significant amounts of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources. Scientists also found indications of abundant deposits of colored stones and gemstones, including emerald, ruby, sapphire, garnet, lapis, kunzite, spinel, tourmaline and peridot.[12]

In May 2008, Afghanistan signed a contract with China for a project that deals with extracting copper. According to official sources, the project involves an investment of $2.8 billion dollars and an anual income of $400 million dollars to the Afghan government as well as 20,000 of its citizens provided with labor.[13] The country's Ainak copper mine, located in Logar province, is one of the biggest in the world. According to some reports, it is estimated to hold at least 11 million tonnes or 33 billion US dollars worth of copper.[14][15]

The nation's other most important resource has been natural gas, which was first tapped in 1967. During the 1980s, natural gas sales accounted for $300 million a year in export revenues (56% of the total). Ninety percent of these exports went to the Soviet Union to pay for imports and debts. However, during the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, Afghanistan's natural gas fields were capped to prevent sabotage by the Mujahideen. Restoration of gas production has been hampered by internal strife and the disruption of traditional trading relationships following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Gas production has dropped from a high of 8.2 million cubic metres (2.9 × 108 cu ft) per day in the 1980s to a low of about 600 thousand cubic metres (2.2 × 107 cu ft) in 2001. After the formation of the new government under Hamid Karzai, production of natural gas is planned to be restored again. A locally owned company by the name of Azizi Hotak General Trading Group (Azizi Hotak) is currently the main supplier of diesel fuel, gasoline, jet fuel and LPG in Afghanistan.[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Afghanistan

I would almost prefer they keep growing opium poppies than GM crops. We've seen what happened in India where the farmers, driven to bankruptcy by Monsanto, drink the pesticide in ritual suicide by the thousands.

We should send them news of how this worked/didn't work in other countries.

Now, you can take this in two ways. Based on what I have read of this briefing however, this to me is a concerted effort to move agribusiness interests into Afghanistan and force farmers to grow what they tell them to grow. There was also a report that protesters in Shindand were fired upon by Afghan troops, supposedly protesting their houses being blown up and their land destroyed (and this just happens to be where the "agricultural center" is located.) We have taken away their freedom to grow their traditional crops.

I find this to be disturbing, especially in light of what GM crops are doing in other parts of the world regarding transgenic contamination. Is this one reason why troop levels in Iraq will be brought down and more are being sent to Afghanistan? To pave the way for business interests to get their piece of it? Monsanto has already gotten its clutches on Iraq, and now agribusiness has moved to Afghanistan. Is this really what America should be all about? War profiteering? How is this democracy when you force farmers to only grow what you tell them they can grow just to export it for profit? And I have a feeling the farmers will not be profiting from this nearly as much as agribusiness.