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A Mockery of Nature: The Lie of “Natural” GM Technology


By Marivel Guzman, Akashma News
Originally written September 21, 2010. Updated April 2025.

Mexican Roman Tomators and seedless lemons, Los Angeles, Cali. April 19, 2025 (photo by Marivel Guzman)

Recently, a piece titled “Understanding GM Crops; Facts vs Misconceptions” attempted to rehabilitate the image of genetically modified crops and their corporate creators.
Written by AgribiotechTalks and published on November 20, 2024, the article cloaks GM technology in the language of science and reason, presenting it as a natural continuation of traditional plant breeding. But let’s pause and ask a simple question:

How can something be natural if its very design is to prevent life from continuing?

The seed is the foundation of all living plant life. Its core function is to reproduce—to carry forward the genetic code of its parent organism, to adapt, evolve, and respond to its environment. When a seed is engineered to die after one generation—a suicide seed, as many now call it—how dare we label that natural?

The Biology of a Lie

Let’s not forget: a fruit is scientifically defined by one thing—it contains seeds. That’s why tomatoes, cucumbers, and even avocados are classified as fruits. Not because of sweetness or culinary tradition, but because they carry life. A seedless fruit is a contradiction, a hollow replica of what nature intended.

So when companies like Monsanto create seedless crops, or sterilize seeds so they cannot germinate in the next season, they are not participating in evolution—they are interrupting it.

A System of Sterile Control

GM proponents argue these are harmless innovations, designed for crop resilience or pest resistance. But the moment you remove a plant’s ability to regenerate, you are not engaging in agriculture—you are engineering dependency. Farmers no longer save seeds. They buy them—every year, from the same corporations who own the patents. That’s not science—it’s a monopolistic trap.

Update: Mexico’s Fight to Protect Native Corn

In a landmark move, Mexico took a strong stand against genetically modified crops. Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a 2020 decree banning GM corn imports by 2024, aiming to safeguard public health and the country’s diverse native corn strains—an agricultural heritage going back thousands of years. However, this decision triggered a trade dispute with the United States under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). A dispute panel ruled in favor of the U.S. in December 2024, declaring the ban lacked sufficient scientific justification, as published on December 20, 2025 in Reuters

As a result, Mexico was forced to lift its GM corn import restrictions in January 2025 (Mexico Business News). Yet the resistance continued.

In February 2025, President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration pushed forward a constitutional reform that permanently bans the planting of GM corn on Mexican soil, preserving biodiversity and defending indigenous corn varieties from genetic contamination (Reuters).

This ongoing battle between sovereignty and corporate pressure illustrates that GMOs are not just a scientific or economic issue—they are a fight over the soul of agriculture and the right of nations to protect life itself.

A Fruit Without Seeds, A Future Without Sovereignty

We should be alarmed by this deliberate sterilization of life. It mirrors a dangerous philosophy: that humans, or rather corporations, can improve on nature through domination. That profit can be harvested from life only if life can be controlled. But in controlling the seed, they are attempting to control survival itself.

We Must Reclaim Language—and the Land

Let us call things by their real names. A fruit without seeds is not a fruit. A seed that dies after one cycle is not a gift of science—it is a weapon of economic warfare against farmers. It is a mockery of creation. It is a dangerous illusion wrapped in the banner of progress.

And as long as we continue to use the language they give us—“natural,” “safe,” “efficient”—we are complicit in the erosion of truth.

Monsanto: A Greater Threat Than War?

In a compelling exposé, Akashma Online News argues that Monsanto’s genetic manipulation of seeds poses a greater threat than warfare itself. The article contends that by altering the genetic makeup of seeds and promoting “suicide seeds” incapable of reproduction, Monsanto disrupts natural ecosystems and endangers global food security. Highlighting instances like Haitian farmers burning donated GMO seeds in protest, the piece calls for consumer awareness and action against the monopolization of agriculture. It urges individuals to reject genetically modified products and support biodiversity to safeguard the planet’s future.

Read the full article: https://akashmanews.com/2010/09/20/monsanto-more-dangerous-than-war-itself/

References:

1. ETC Group Terminator Seed Technology ETCGROUP

5. Haitian Farmers Burn Monsanto Seeds – viacampesina

2. Mexico Trade Panel Ruling – Reuters

3. Mexico Lifts GMO Corn Import Ban – Mexico Business News

4. Mexico Bans GM Corn Planting – Reuters

5. Haitian Farmers Burn Monsanto Seeds – viacampesina

6. Groups Around the U.S. Join Haitian Farmers in Protesting “Donation” of Monsanto Seeds. WorldPurse

7. Indian Farmers Disrupt Monsanto Lab
Raid is part of continuing protest against GM crops Science

8. India: Karnataka Farmers Protest Proposed Field Trials of Genetically Modified Maize and Cotton ViaCampesina

3. Understanding GM Crops; Facts vs Misconceptions – AgribiotechTalks, Nov. 20, 2024

10. Svalbard Global Seed Vault CropTrus

11. There is an international moratorium on the use of Terminator technology. Terminator seeds are genetically engineered to be sterile after first harvest. Brazil and India also have national bans on Terminator technology. Canadian Biotechnology Action Network

Monsanto: More Dangerous Than War Originally written by Marivel Guzman on September 21, 2010. Updated April 2025.

September 20, 2010 2 comments

Originally written by Marivel Guzman on September 21, 2010. Updated April 2025.

The survival of every species begins with the seed. When we alter its genetic structure, we initiate a molecular conflict—disrupting its natural adaptation and evolution. This tampering, no matter how sophisticated, cannot replicate the sacred balance created by nature itself.

Monsanto has been operating in this domain for decades. It has aimed to monopolize seed supply, dictate genetic development, and engineer soil conditions to accommodate its patented creations. But nature is not a laboratory. Weather, microbes, animals, and countless other factors interact in ways that science cannot fully predict or control.

Monsanto can change the genes of a particular specie of seed, and maybe change the soil where it will be developed, but Monsanto can not possible control all the conditions in the environment; such the weather conditions that are required to create healthy plants, microscopic organisms that by normal natural law live in certain types of soils.

Monsanto has been operating in this domain for decades. It has aimed to monopolize seed supply, dictate genetic development, and engineer soil conditions to accommodate its patented creations. But nature is not a laboratory. Weather, microbes, animals, and countless other factors interact in ways that science cannot fully predict or control.

Once upon a time, Monsanto claimed its genetically modified seeds (GMOs) were designed to resist pests and increase yield. But somewhere along the way, that mission mutated. The company engineered hybrid and so-called “suicide seeds”—seeds designed to die after one harvest, forcing farmers to return year after year to buy new ones. This unnatural cycle has undermined traditional farming, stripped biodiversity, and left farmers dependent and desperate.

Monsanto’s global expansion, often aided by the World Bank and IMF, came with strings attached. Third-world countries were lured or coerced into importing genetically modified seeds. In many cases, these same countries were asked to contribute their native seeds—irreplaceable genetic heritage—to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway under the guise of “global food security.”

If Monsanto lose its laboratories and can not control the continue modification to its perfect balance as they planned, the real catastrophe will take place in all the species that they equivocally modified without Mother Earth consent.

In the event of a global catastrophe. Do you ever wonder what will happen to the species that were modified.

What then?…what it will happen? when they can’t modify the species any more, when all the seeds have lose its ability to reproduce? Who will come to the rescue of the seeds.
The seeds are the base of survival of any species, if we play with their genetic material we taking the risk to forever lose that specie. Every time that one seed is modify, nature lose that specie. We lose that specie.

Monsanto have been modifying genes for 30 years, that we know. There is a short list known to the scientific community, and to the governmental agencies in charge of controlling its activities. But really Monsanto have been honest to the world? Does it planned since the beginning the seize of life on Earth. Did it do it with all premeditation and advantage to control and monopoly the seeds production and/or the food supply?

This are not easy questions to answer without being being puzzled by worry and grieve for our future. The farmers that have suffered already the unfair practices of Monsanto and the controversial rulings of the courts around the world, know better.

Every body should be asking these questions, you do not need to be farmer to be concerned with your future.
If you are human and need to eat to survive, you better start your research on Monsanto activities.

Do what is at your hands to control, DO NOT BE PART of this criminal enterprise that is MONSANTO. DO NOT EAT seedless fruits. Do not eat any vegetables or animal known to have been genetically modified. Why?…because Monsanto oversees the production of seeds and did not took in consideration the DNA modification on Humans and Animals that consume their modified crops.

They only worry for their profits and their monopoly of seeds and eventually Monopoly of Food Supplies.

Monsanto and their gang think that they have cover all the situations, they planned so well, with the complicity of the International Monetary Fund that with trickery forced third world countries to take loan from them, and to force them to import contaminated seeds. They forced these third world countries to “DONATE” TONS OF VIRGIN SEEDS to be stored in the Domed Vault in Norway. Few Billionaires were invited to be part of this Future Enterprise for humanity.

Just recently we saw a video on youtube where farmers in Haiti where burning seeds donated by MONSANTO, those farmers knew what they were doing, they prefer suffer hungry now and not starve to death in a not to far future.
“Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti “a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds. Monsanto’s seed donations were an unwelcomed gift to a country with vocal opposition to GMO seeds for fear they would ruin what little agriculture the country has left.

Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti and MPP leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste has vowed to burn them. According to Food Freedom,”

There is nothing that you as “CONSUMER” can not do, after all we live in a consumerist society ruled by the power of SUPPLY AND DEMAND, do not demand/eat their products and soon rather than later they have to stop producing them.

SAVE your world is in your hands. WAKE UP and take your future back.