2013 World Food Price - And the Award Goes to … Monsanto!!

In the world where war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength it is quite logical that the World Food Price would go to companies responsible for Gene Crimes. Those are crimes without precedence leading into destruction of our food base and irreversible genetic corruption of the nature.

It is equally absurd but true. This year’s World Food Prize is set to be awarded to top executives at Monsanto and Syngenta for creating GE crops. 

As part of the upcoming annual World Food Day celebrations, the prestigious World Food Prize is being awarded in Iowa on October 16th. The World Food Prize is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of agriculture,” where individuals around the globe ostensibly doing the important work of increasing food safety and security are recognized. In its own words, the Prize “emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people.” But in an obscene twist, Monsanto’s vice president is receiving this year’s World Food Prize -- for creating and spreading genetically engineered (GE) crops! To make matters worse, a top executive at the chemical-biotech company Syngenta is also receiving this year’s prize. Well, Obama got his Nobel Peace Price for promoting War. Why shouldn't Monsanto and Syngenta get the World Food Prize for destroying our food base? Even if the world is crazy, we can demand some sanity by signing a petition against this madness.

Tell the World Food Prize Foundation that you do not support rewarding Monsanto and Syngenta’s unsustainable and deceitful practices.

Though the World Food Prize is held in high esteem, it was created from the vision of Norman Borlaug, the father of the “Green Revolution” of chemically intensive, mechanized agriculture. So to see the World Food Prize Foundation raking in millions from big agriculture and chemical companies is no great surprise. But by giving undue accolades to corporate donors who do nothing to further the goal of a “sustainable food supply,” but rather endanger it, the Foundation is undermining the credibility of the prize, and supporting a type of industrial agriculture that goes against its founding principles. The last thing you can say about dispersion of genetically corrupt genes into the biosphere is sustainability.

Contrary to the biotech industry myth the World Food Prize is perpetuating, GE crops do not create more food, more access to food, or more nutritious food, and instead actually endanger food security. As far back as 1998, African scientists representing many of the nations affected by poverty and hunger warned that GE crops would actually undermine the nations’ capacities to feed themselves by destroying established diversity, local knowledge and sustainable agricultural systems, despite a manipulative Monsanto ad campaign featuring photos of African children and the subtitle “Let the harvest begin.” [1]

Sign the petition to the World Food Prize Foundation demanding they stop rewarding their own corporate sponsors for undermining food safety and security.

GE crops undermine food security in several ways. Half the world’s farmers rely on saved seed to produce food that a billion people rely on for daily nutrition, but farmers growing these patented GE crops are not allowed to save their seeds, forcing them to purchase these costly seeds every planting season. According to a joint project between the United Nations and the World Bank, the high cost of GE seeds and chemicals along with uncertain crop yields make GE crops a poor choice for farmers in the developing world. [2]

As eighty-one members of the World Future Council told the World Food Prize Foundation in their letter of protest, “This award not only communicates a false connection between GMOs and solutions to hunger and agricultural degradation, but it also diverts attention from truly ‘nutritious and sustainable’ agroecological approaches already proving effective” like organic agriculture.[3]

1. Let Nature’s Harvest Continue, African Counter Statement to Monsanto, at the 5th Extraordinary Session of the FAQ Commission on Genetic Resources (June 12, 1998)
2. Agriculture at a Crossroads. Executive Summary of Synthesis Report, IAASTD (April 2009)
3. Choice of Monsanto Betrays World Food Prize Purpose, Say Global Lea..., NPR (June 26, 2013)

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/take-action

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