Top 10 Companies Killing the Natural World with Pesticides – Also the Biggest Seed Producers
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In a report released by etcgroup.org, the world’s six largest agrochemical manufacturers are also controlling the seed industry. According to the report, agrochemical is running the show, not by providing food to the people of the world, but by poisoning the seeds they provide with chemicals. All of these companies are also gene manipulating, GMO-giants. There is an inextricable link that cannot be ignored.
It breaks down like this:
- The biggest agrochemical company in the world, Bayer, is also the seventh biggest seed company.
- The second largest agrochemical company, Syngenta, is the world’s third largest seed company.
- The world’s biggest seed company, Monsanto, is the world’s fifth largest agrochemical company.
- The world’s second biggest seed company – DuPont, is the world’s sixth largest agrochemical company.
Read: 7 Nasty Effects of Pesticides
Furthermore, weed killers, like Monsanto’s RoundUp herbicide, account for one-third of the global pesticide market. About 80% of GMO seeds suck down this toxin like a crack-addict. There is no herbicide resistance in GMO plants, as we are told. There is only glyphosate and herbicide addiction. This is why Dow is making a new herbicide called Enlist Duo. It is because the pests are now becoming immune to glyphosate, and even greater toxins will have to be used to destroy the super-bugs created by these poisons.
If you’ve ever worked with heavy drug-addicted individuals, they will deny there is a problem, and seek greater and greater doses of their ‘drug’ in order to get the same high. The agroscience industry has created the same paradigm. The worldwide market for agrochemicals grows another 10% every year. It’s a 40 billion dollar/year market – to sell the world these chemicals.
Despite sky-rocketing fuel and fertilizer costs, high grain prices created soaring demand for commercial seeds and pesticides in 2007. Today’s GMO seed sales are chump change in comparison to herbicides and pesticides, but they keep a farmer addicted to the chemicals these…idiots sell. Pesticide sales are up all over the world, particularly in South America.
Furthermore, two GMO crops meant for biofuel (ethanol derived from GMO corn being the largest) boosted sales for the world’s largest pesticide companies the last few years – in large part due to the subsidy-driven boom supported by an infiltrated government.
Report from ETC Group (extracts only)
The World’s top 10 pesticide firms
| Company | 2007Agrochemical Sales (US$ millions) | % Market Share |
| Bayer (Germany) | $7,458m | 19% |
| Syngenta (Switzerland) | $7,285m | 19% |
| BASF (Germany) | $4,297m | 11% |
| Dow AgroSciences (USA) | $3,779m | 10% |
| Monsanto (USA) | $3,599m | 9% |
| DuPont (USA) | $2,369m | 6% |
| Makhteshim Agan (Israel) | $1,895m | 5% |
| Nufarm (Australia) | $1,470m | 4% |
| Sumitomo Chemical (Japan) | $1,209m | 3% |
| Arysta Lifescience (Japan) | $1,035m | 3% |
| Top 10 Total | $34,396m | 89% |
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 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
“It is because the pests are now becoming immune to glyphosate, and even greater toxins will have to be used to destroy the super-bugs created by these poisons” -This article seems to imply that glyphosate is an insecticide, not an herbicide, which is in error.
Can you explain how the plant immune system does this?
monsanto is #1 threat to humanity.
Great article THANKS.
Guess we need to start naming more names as Monsanto is not the only gene splitting chemical dumping monster raping and pillaging the land while poisoning land, animals and humans. I bet the CEOs with no conscience and fat salaries eat from greenhouses of organic food while spouting lies to the rest of the world about the safety of their products.
That you would at least know, that organic farming also uses pesticides… And those naturally derived pesticides not always is not as bad as chemically… For example natural product – cyanide is much better then synthetically produced H2O from Hydrogen
not relavent and nonsensicle sounds like a troll
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