GMO aspects of the Ukrainian "revolution"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

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At the end of 2013, the then President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich abandoned the European Association Agreement related to a $ 17 billion loan from the IMF, the terms of which are only now beginning to be clarified. Instead, Yanukovych opted for a $ 15 billion Russian bailout package plus a discount on Russian natural gas. His decision was the main reason for the relentless protests that led to his ouster from office in February 2014 and the ongoing crisis.

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Ukrainian legislation prohibits farmers from growing GM crops. Long considered the “breadbasket of Europe,” Ukraine, with its rich black soil, is ideal for growing cereals, and in 2012 Ukrainian farmers harvested more than 20 million tons of wheat grain.

MONSANTO INVESTMENT

In May 2013, Monsanto announced plans to invest $ 140 million in a plant for the production of seeds of non-genetically modified wheat in Ukraine, with a representative of Monsanto in Ukraine Vitaly Fedchuk confirmed that "" because "" [4].

But by November 2013, 6 large associations of agricultural producers prepared a draft amendment to the law, insisting on "" [5]. President of the Grain Association of Ukraine Vladimir Klimenko said at a press conference in Kiev on November 5 that "". (In fact, GM seeds and GMOs have never been independently verified long term in the United States.)

The draft amendments of agricultural producers' associations coincide with the terms of the European Association Agreement and the terms of the loan from the WB / IMF.

Sustainablepulse.com, which tracks news about GMOs around the world, immediately lashed out at the growers association's amendments, with its leader Henry Rowlands declared: ". Rowlands said that Monsanto's investment in Ukraine [6].

December 13, 2013 Gesuz Madrazo, Monsanto's vice president in charge of international cooperation, at a US-Ukrainian press conference in Washington DC, said the company is seeing "" [7].

Just a few days before Madrazo's words in Washington, Monsanto Ukraine launched its “social development” program for the country, called “The Grain Bin of the Future” [8]. It provides grants to villagers so that they can (according to Monsanto) "".

In fact, the real "handout" is what goes to the Big American Agribusiness under the terms of the WB / IMF loan, which, in addition to opening the country for GMO crops, will also further lift the ban on the sale of rich agricultural land in Ukraine to private hands [9] …

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Morgan Williams, President and CEO of the US-Ukraine Business Council, in an interview with the International Business Times in March, noted that “Ukraine's agricultural production could be a gold mine.” [11] However, he added that "".

DEPESHI VIKILIX

In August 2011, WikiLeaks released US diplomatic cables showing the US State Department lobbying around the world for Monsanto and other biotech corporations such as DuPont, Syngenta, Bauer and Dow. The American non-profit organization Food & Water Watch, combining messages from a five-year correspondence in these dispatches (2005-2009), published its report under the title "" on May 14, 2013 [12]. The report shows that the US Department of State "".

According to consortiumnews.com (March 16, 2014), Morgan Williams is "[13]. In addition to serving as the executive director of the US-Ukraine Business Council, Williams also serves as director of government relations at the private equity firm SigmaBleyzer, which extols Williams' work.

The 16-member American-Ukrainian Business Council Executive Committee is replete with people from American agricultural companies, including representatives from Monsanto, John Deere, DuPont Pioneer, Eli Lilly and Cargill. [14] Twelve “senior advisors” - include James Green (former head of the NATO working group in Ukraine), Ariel Cohen (Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation), Leonid Kozachenko (President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation), six former US ambassadors to Ukraine, as well as the former Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Oleg Shamshuru.

Shamshura is now a senior advisor at PBN Hill + Knowlton Strategies, a division of PR giant Hill + Knowlton Strategies, or H + K. H + K is a subsidiary of the giant London-based WPP Group, which owns several dozen public relations and communications companies; this group includes Barson-Marsteller (longtime consultant to Monsanto).

HILL + KNOWLTON STRATEGIES

On April 15, 2014 Globe & Mail (Toronto) published an article by H + K Consulting Assistant Olga Radchenko[15]. Article directed against the president Vladimir Putin and "Mr. Putin's PR machines" claims that "".

PNB Hill + Knowlton Strategies claims the company's chief executive Miron Vasilyuk is "a member of the board of directors of the Ukraine-USA Business Council", and the executive director of the Ukrainian branch of the company Oksana Monastyrskaya "". In addition, Monastyrskaya previously worked for the World Bank financial corporation.

According to the Auckland Institute, the terms of the World Bank and IMF loan to Ukraine have already led to "" [16].

Meanwhile, the prime minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in April he said: "" [17].

Hill + Knowlton, with her Kuwaiti tales of "hatchery atrocities", was instrumental in gaining American public support for the Gulf War against Iraq in the early 1990s. The company is now involved in fomenting Cold War 2.0, if not worse, and on behalf of Monsanto, according to recent polls, the “most sinister” corporation on the planet. This is something to keep in mind in the midst of the massive demonization of Putin by the mainstream American media.

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