The Renewable Insanity of Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers and Craig Venter

The Renewable Insanity of Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers and Craig Venter

Cassandra Anderson, Contributor
Activist Post

Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, Craig Venter and other investors
are working behind-the-scenes to bring genetically engineered (GE)
algae to market with products that include fuel, animal feed made with
manure, human food and vaccines.

The US government has a stake in this enterprise, too. Obama put a
moratorium on drilling for oil on federal land and voted down the
Keystone pipeline, in addition to subsidizing the nuclear industry
instead of increasing oil reserves.

Obama has advocated replacing 17% of US oil imports with oil made from algae.

Algae could be the next bottomless pit that the government flushes money
down, to the detriment of the taxpayer, similar to the many solar
energy scandals.

There are two major areas of algae research that the
government and private entities are funding; open pond algae farms use
massive amounts of freshwater, but this is the cheapest option. The
second option is mutated, genetically engineered (GE) or synthetic algae
that may be able to use saltwater and polluted water, but there are
risks of out-of-control consequences.



OPEN POND


Obama referenced a study that suggested 17% of US oil imports could
be replaced with algae oil using the open pond method. However, he
failed to mention that these algae farms would require land mass the
size of North Dakota and a continuous supply of freshwater.

It requires 350 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of algae oil! The
amount of water required to replace 17% of oil imports is equal to 25%
of all water in the US used for crop irrigation.

The study
published by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory failed to
account for polluted water, evaporation and the energy required to keep
ponds from freezing.

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED (GE) / BIOTECH ALGAE

Critics of GE algae say that there are great risks that include
mutation, contamination, becoming out-of-control, killing fish and
polluting water systems.

The purpose of genetically engineered products is to lock up income-generating patents and to create monopolies.

Green Crude Alliances: Sapphire Energy

Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, the pharmaceutical giant
Wellcome Trust fund and others invested $144 million in the Sapphire
Energy algae oil biotech company that is based in San Diego. The US
government, funded by taxpayers, gave over $100 million in corporate
welfare grants and loan guarantees to Sapphire Energy.

Sapphire recently opened an operational algae-to-oil farm in New Mexico
that uses non-potable (non-drinkable) water to grow algae that is
mutated, but not genetically engineered at this time. However, Sapphire
plans to switch over to GE strains of algae.

Sapphire Energy has partnered
with Monsanto and are receiving an undisclosed "significant income
stream" from them. Monsanto's interest in the fast-growing algae is in
increasing staple crop yields on an enormous level, in addition to
stress tolerance. Most people who give a rat's-tail about their health
know that Monsanto's GE crops are harmful, as was shown in a recent
2-year [url=http://morphcity.com/Monsanto Corn Study In France Finds Tumors And Organ Damage ...]study[/url] published in France in which rats were fed only Monsanto GE food and they developed horrible tumors and organ damage.

The Business of Slime: Synthetic Genomics
Craig Venter's company, Synthetic Genomics, is also conveniently
based in San Diego. Craig Venter is known for mapping the human genome
and creating 'synthetic' life. He created artificial life by taking a
disease-causing bacteria, replicating its DNA in the lab and implanting
it into a host to 'create' a new species/disease that took over and
killed the host.

Critics
warn against an unintentional plague that could result from Venter's
tinkering. Some critics have also argued that he should cease his
dangerous experiments until regulations are in place. It would be a
pleasant change to see regulations for criminal prosecution against
those who create out-of-control organisms that destroy health and the
environment.

Exxon,
a direct descendant of Rockefeller's Standard Oil, has committed $600
million toward Venter's GE synthetic algae oil enterprise. Venter has
also received funding from BP Oil.

In addition to Venter's interest in algae oil, he wants to make
GE/synthetic algae based food and vaccines that can be produced
large-scale within hours.

Venter admits that governments will play
a critical role in algae products because they can impose a tax on
carbon dioxide to kill the coal and oil industries with artificially
high prices, opening the door for expensive alternative fuels. This is
the very definition of a monopoly- monopolies are dependent on
government intervention to manipulate markets and discourage
competition.

Pond Scum Partnerships

The J. Craig Venter Institute, Synthetic Genomics and Sapphire Energy are listed as [url=http://spg.ucsd.edu/algae/SD-CAB IV Presentations/Renew. Energy Conf. (Mendola 17 March-REV1).pdf]partners[/url]
with the San Diego Center for Algal Biotechnology (SD-CAB). Other
partners include the San Diego Super Computer Center, General Atomics
Corp, Carbon Capture Corp and Chevron (another Rockefeller Standard Oil
spin-off).

SD-CAB promotes algae farming using degraded water sources such as
wastewater to be used for biofuels and high-protein animal feed in
California.

While algae is being pushed as an alternative fuel, animal feed and food for humans is far more profitable.

SD-CAB proposes manure from dairies and feed lots, known as Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs), to be placed
in an anaerobic bacteria digester (an oxygen-free processing container)
to make a biogas to be used as a methane gas fuel. Some of the sludge
could then be used as a soil supplement fertilizer.

Then SD-CAB proposes using algae ponds to recycle nutrients from the
digested sludge to make high-protein omega-3 oil to be used as a cattle
feed supplement. It is hard to understand how feeding cattle
algae-treated manure is supposed to make better dairy products. Do
these people think that the products will taste better or be more
nutritious?

This video shows that they also have an interest in pharmaceuticals (0:40):



SD-CAB's enterprise is estimated to cost $8 to $10 billion, and taxpayer funding will be essential to "kick-start" the industry.

THE BIG GUNS: THE US GOVERNMENT

As previously mentioned, government intervention is necessary to create monopolies, and government financing is required for the high cost of creating algae farms. 'National energy security' is used as an excuse to waste taxpayer money on another unrealistic alternative energy program. The US Department of Defense is is the largest consumer of oil, burning 320,000 barrels a day at a cost of $11 billion a year.

A government collaboration that involves the Department of Agriculture focusing on feedstocks, the Department of Energy overseeing technology and the Navy providing a market by buying the fuels sets the stage for corporate favoritism and monumental spending. However, the Armed Services Committee voted to ban the Department of Defense from buying alternative fuels that cost more than traditional fuel. For now.


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http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/the-renewable-insanity-of-monsanto-bill.html