{"id":147596,"date":"2015-04-30T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/the-fbi-is-now-working-for-monsanto\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:06:23","slug":"the-fbi-is-now-working-for-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/the-fbi-is-now-working-for-monsanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto has the FBI in its pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\"><em><strong>Monsanto corporate executives probably thought they had a decent amount of influence with the federal government, but they may never have thought that their genetically modified food products would become protectorates of the FBI, all under the guise of &#8220;national security.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As reported by the Des Moines Register in recent days, &#8220;protecting America&#8217;s lucrative [GMO] seed corn industry&#8221; now rises to the level of fighting terrorists and government spies, according to the FBI, which has invoked broader powers authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, in a case against two Chinese siblings who allegedly plotted to steal patented GMO seeds from cornfields in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>The paper further reported:<\/p>\n<p>Stealing hybrid seeds enhanced with traits such as drought resistance doesn&#8217;t pose the same immediate threat as a suicide bomber, but the FBI treats economic espionage and similar trade secret theft as dangerous threats to national security. Monsanto gets the power of the intelligence community to do its bidding<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforfreedom.com\/GMOs-and-Roundup-A-Destructive-Combination-p\/2144.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-147613\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/GMOs-and-Roundup.gif\" alt=\"GMOs and Roundup\" width=\"224\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>&#8220;It&#8217;s people&#8217;s lives,&#8221; Christopher Burgess, CEO of security consulting firm Prevendra and a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, told the paper. &#8220;It&#8217;s our livelihood. It&#8217;s why we feed so much of the world is because we invest in research and development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;feeding the whole world&#8221; argument is controversial in and of itself, based on scientific findings that, among other things, GMO corn lacks nutrients but is full of chemicals, according a 2012 paper entitled, &#8220;2012 Nutritional Analysis: Comparison of GMO Corn versus Non-GMO Corn.&#8221; An earlier study found that rats fed a steady diet of GMO corn developed major tumors , with 70 percent of female rats dying early.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/049544_Monsanto_FBI_GMO_seeds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsanto corporate executives probably thought they had a decent amount of influence with the federal government, but they may never have thought that their genetically modified food products would become protectorates of the FBI, all under the guise of &#8220;national security.&#8221; As reported by the Des Moines Register in recent days, &#8220;protecting America&#8217;s lucrative [GMO] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}