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The Global Food Cartel – Instrument for Starvation
by Sam Parker
Behind the News Network
The Control Apparatus
The
control of food for use as a weapon is an ancient practice. The
House of Windsor inherited certain routes and infrastructure.
One finds the practice in ancient Babylon/Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago.
In Greece, the cults of Apollo, Demeter, and Rhea-Cybele often controlled the
shipment of grain and other food stuffs, through the temples. In Imperial Rome,
the control of grain became the basis of the empire.
Rome was the center. Conquered outlying colonies in Gaul, Brittany,
Spain, Sicily, Egypt, North Africa, and the Mediterranean littoral had to ship
grain to the noble Roman families, as taxes and tribute. Often the grain tax
was greater than the land could bear, and areas of North Africa, for instance,
were turned into dust bowls.
The evil city-state of Venice took over grain routes, particularly after
the Fourth Crusade (1202-04). The main Venetian thirteenth century trading
routes had their eastern termini in Constantinople, the ports of the Oltremare
(which were the lands of the crusading States), and Alexandria, Egypt.
Goods from these ports were shipped to Venice, and from there made their
way up the Po Valley to markets in Lombardy, or over the Alpine passes to the
Rhône and into France. Eventually, Venetian trade extended to the Mongol empire
in the East.
By the fifteenth century, although Venice was still very much a merchant
empire, it had franchised some of its grain and other trade to the powerful
Burgundian duchy, whose effective headquarters was Antwerp.
This empire, encompassing parts of France, extended from Amsterdam and
Belgium to much of present-day Switzerland. From this
Venetian-Lombard-Burgundian nexus, each of the food cartel’s six leading grain
companies was either founded, or inherited a substantial part of its operations
today.
By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Levant and East
India companies had absorbed many of these Venetian operations. In the
nineteenth century, the London-based Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange
became the world’s leading instrument for contracting for and shipping grain.
Ten to 12
pivotal companies, assisted by another 3
dozen, run the world’s food supply. They are the key components of the
Anglo-Dutch-Swiss-American cartel, which is grouped around the 2 families.
Led by
the six leading grain companies – this food and raw
materials cartel has complete domination over the world’s cereals and grains supplies,
from wheat to oats and corn, from barley to sorghum and rye. But it also
controls meat, dairy, edible oils and fats, fruits and vegetables, sugar, and
all forms of spices.
Each year
tens of millions die from the most elementary lack of their daily bread. This
is the result of the work of the BAC cartel. And, as
the ongoing financial collapse wipes out bloated speculative financial paper,
the oligarchy has moved into hoarding, increasing its food and raw materials
holdings. It is prepared to apply a tourniquet to food production and export
supplies, not only to poor nations, but to advanced sector nations as well.
Today,
food warfare is firmly under the control of London and New York. Today’s
food companies were created by having had a section of this ancient set of
Mesopotamian-Roman-Venetian-British food networks and infrastructure carved out
for them.
The
oligarchy has built up a single, integrated raw materials cartel, with three
divisions – energy, raw materials, and increasingly scarce food supplies.
Figure 1 above represents the situation. At the top are the House of Windsor and Club of Isles.
Right below are the principal control instruments of the Rothschilds – the Worldwide Fund for Nature – headed by the
late Prince Phillip – which leads the world in ethnic conflicts and terrorism.
The firms within each cartel group are listed. While they maintain the
fiction of being different corporate organizations, in reality this is one interlocking syndicate, with a common
purpose and multiple overlapping boards of directors.
The oligarchy owns these cartels, and they are the instruments of power
of the oligarchy, accumulated over centuries, for breaking nations’ sovereignty.
Up to the 1940s, the share of international trade in grains was around
10 million tons. This was a substantial amount, but small compared to the
levels of trade that would follow.
World War 2 ravaged the globe, creating mass hunger, especially in
Eurasia, and what is today the Third World. Under the impetus of American
programs such as “Food for Peace “, the worldwide trade in grains shot up to
160 million tons by 1979.
Today, it is 515 million tons per year. In addition, tens of millions of
other foodstuffs are traded each year.
It is proper for countries with grain, meat, dairy, and other surpluses
to export them. But the cartel’s four exporting regions were given pre-eminence
in a brutal manner, while much of the rest of the world was thrust into
enforced backwardness.
The 2
families (Rothschilds and Rockefellers) denied these nations seed, fertilizer,
water management, electricity, rail transportation, that is, all the
infrastructure and capital goods inputs needed to turn them into
self-sufficient food producers.
These nations were reduced to the status of vassals: Either import from
the cartel’s export regions, or starve.
However,
the food cartel also has control internationally. For
example, outside of the US, the largest producer of soybeans and soybean
products are Argentina and Brazil.
One of the Big Six grain companies, Bunge and Born, settled in Argentina
in 1876, and accumulated plantations of hundreds of thousands of acres. In the
second half of the twentieth century, it also moved into Brazil. Today, in
Brazil and Argentina, Bunge and Born is a major force in soybeans and related
products, along with Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, and Continental.
Thus, the
grain cartel dominates output everywhere. Further tightening the control are
joint ventures, especially in the area of producing new strains of seeds and
biotechnology.
Cargill, the world’s largest grain exporter, through its Nutrena
division, is also the biggest producer of animal feed and hybrid seed in the
world. In 1998, Cargill announced a joint venture with Monsanto, one of the
leading farm biotechnology firms.
Also in 1998, Novartis (the new company name for the 1996 merger of
Swiss chemical giants CIBA-Geigy and Sandoz) formed a joint venture with Land
O’Lakes, and through them, with ADM, for the development of specialty corn
hybrids for food and feed markets.
Meanwhile, the food cartel reduced the export regions, which supposedly
enjoy favored status, to a state of servitude as well. During the last 4
decades, millions of farmers in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, Argentina,
Brazil, India and South Africa, have been wiped out.
This report will document, for the first time, the extent of
concentration and control that the raw materials cartel exercises over both the
international and domestic trade in food. It will look at the food cartel’s
international and domestic control over grain, milk, edible oils and fats, and
meat.
This article will provide the names of the key forces in the cartels’
control of the world’s food supply.
The five privately held grain companies were carved out from the
centuries-old Mesopotamian-Venetian-Burgundian-Swiss-Amsterdam grain route,
which today extends around the world.
The Big Five are Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born,
and André Cargill Company, the world’s largest grain company, is based in the
Minneapolis, Minnesota suburb of Minnetonka.
It was founded by Scotsman William Cargill, in Conover, Iowa in 1865,
and has been run, since the 1920s, by the billionaire MacMillan family. But the
true nexus of Cargill is in Geneva, Switzerland, where Cargill’s international
trading arm, Tradax, Inc., is headquartered, having been established there in
1956.
Archer Daniels Midland’s purchase of Töpfer, a Hamburg, Germany-based
Grain Company, vastly increased ADM’s presence in the world grain trade.
Töpfer’s trade is situated within the old Venice-Swiss-Amsterdam-Paris routes,
and it has extensive business partnerships with the British Crown jewel, the
Rothschild Bank.
The manner in which the grain cartel companies operate is highly
secretive. All but ADM-Töpfer are private companies.
Profiles & Histories
Here are the strategic profiles of some of the key companies that
constitute the food sector of the BAC cartel. The British have a far greater
degree of control in the food business, due to its predecessor’s involvement,
dating back centuries.
Allied with various other European families and companies, the totality
of the European food companies, the British companies effectively exert control
over most of the European giants.
This is due to the fact that the Rothschilds have based themselves in
London, since 1795, and from this base, managed to dominate European business
and finance.
The US has come to the party late. But, since 1945, under Rockefeller
patronage, the American companies have made great strides in the field of food.
That is why the title “British-American Cartel,” or BAC, for short.
The profiles confirm that through multiple forms of concentration, these
companies dominate grain, dairy, meat, and other food production, and the
processing and distribution system of food, all the way to the supermarket.
Very little food moves on the face of the earth without the food cartel
having a hand in it.
Cargill
Cargill raises 700,000 pigs, 14 million turkeys, and 500 million broiler
chickens. In the US, it owns 440 barges, 16 towboats, 3 huge vessels that sail
the Great Lakes, 22 ocean-going ships, 3,000 railroad hopper cars, and 3,500
tank cars.
Cargill and its subsidiaries operate 900 plants globally. It has 500 US
offices, 300 foreign offices. It operates in 60 countries.
Shortly after the American Civil War, William Cargill, a Scottish
immigrant sea merchant, bought his first grain elevator in Iowa. In 1870, with
his brother Sam, William Cargill bought grain elevators all along the Southern
Minnesota Railroad, at a time when Minnesota was becoming an important shipping
route.
But Cargill’s biggest break came when he bought elevators which went
west along the line of James J Hill’s Great Railroad Northern. Hiss was the
business partner of Ned Harriman (father of Averell Harriman, and a front for
William Rockefeller – brother of John D). Through a rebate system, and other
arrangements, Hill’s rail line builds the Cargill operation.
Twice during the 20th century, the Cargill firm nearly went under, and
between 1909 and 1917, Cargill hovered on the brink of bankruptcy. The
founder’s daughter married John Macmillan.
William Rockefeller rescued the firm and designated Macmillan and his
family to come in and reorganize Cargill. This was the period in which the
Macmillan family started running Cargill.
Following the 1929 stock market crash, and ensuing Great Depression,
Cargill nearly went bankrupt, but, this time was again rescued by the
Rockefellers Chase Manhattan Bank. Chase sent its officer John Peterson to help
run Cargill, and soon headed the firm.
Since then, the Rockefellers Chase bank has a stake in Cargill. With
Rockefeller backing, Cargill began to expand.
Cargill has been repeatedly cited for “blending” – adding foreign matter
to its grain. For example, an export contract may allow for 8% of the grain
volume that a company is exporting to be foreign matter.
If Cargill’s grain load is only 6% foreign matter, it will mix in dirt
and gravel. A Cargill supervisor said, in July 1982, “ If we’ve got a real
clean load, we will make sure we hold it until we can mix it with something
dirtier. Otherwise, we’d be throwing away money.”
Cargill has expanded into every major crop and livestock on earth, in
over 60 countries. It has also expanded into coal, steel (becoming America’s
7th largest steel producer), waste disposals and metals.
Today, Cargill runs one of the 10 largest commodity brokerage firms in
the US, trading on the Chicago and world markets. In 1995, Cargill bought the
US business of Continental Grain. The combined Cargill and Macmillan families
own 100% of the company’s stock, with a combined net worth of some $15 billion.
Continental Grain
It is the second largest grain trader in the world. The combined
Cargill-Continental nexus accounts for some 50-60% of the world’s export share.
Continental processes and markets beef, pork, poultry, seafood, along
with animal feeds and wheat flour. The company transports nearly 95 million
tons of grains, oilseeds, rice, cotton, and energy products annually, an amount
that exceeds the annual production of almost every country in the world.
Continental owns a fleet of towboats and 500 river barges.
It owns over 1500 hopper cars. It has offices and plants in 50
countries, on 6 continents.
Simon Fribourg founded the business as a commodity-trading company in
Belgium, in 1813. Fifty years later, the Fribourg family went into milling,
building mills in Luxembourg and Belgium, especially Antwerp, which, with its
deep harbors and connections to the Rhine River, transported Fribourg flour and
wheat to and from the rest of Europe.
By 1914, the heirs moved operations to London, to capitalize on the
ability to trade grain internationally. In 1920, the headquarters moved to
Paris.
Then, in the 1920s, the company opened offices in the US. During the
Depression of the 1930s, the Continental Company made out like bandits.
The then head of the family, Jules, instructed his New York agent to buy
Midwest grain elevators, which were at depressed prices, with the instructions,
“Don’t bother to look at them –just buy them.” When the Nazi army invaded
France in June 1940, the Fribourgs fled to America.
In 1969, the Fribourgs, working with the Cargill company, and through an
agent of the grain cartel in the US Dept of Agriculture, Clarence Palmby,
helped destroy the American merchant fleet, by convincing President Nixon that
the “50-50” provision, by which half of all American grain exports had to be
carried on American vessels, should be abolished, in order to land a large
Russian grain order.
Almost all of the grain went on Russian-bottom boats. Various favors
paid off, for, in 1973, the Russians rewarded Continental by making an
unprecedented purchase from the company of 6 million tons of grain and
soybeans.
In 1976, Continental was fined $500,000 for short-weighting ships. In
the late 1970s, when Congo, or Zaire, which was very poor, was unable to pay
its bills, Continental cut off food shipments to that starving nation.
In the 1970s, Continental became the first grain company to sell grain
to China. The company is headed by Paul Fribourg. The Fribourg family own 100%
of the company, and the family is worth some $4 billion.
Louis Drefuss
It is the number 1 French grain exporters, number 3 world grain
exporter, number 4 US grain exporter, number 5 Argentine grain exporter, and so
on. Louis Dreyfuss operates 57 vessels – bulk carriers, lakers, panamaxes, and
chemical and LNG ships worldwide.
Leopold Louis Dreyfuss was born in France. In 1852, at age 19, he set up
his wheat trading operations in Switzerland. He built mills and grain elevators
throughout Europe, and by the end of the 19th century, he was marketing all
types of grain, corn, barley, and other crops.
Louis Dreyfuss, although privately owned, is also a cooperative under
French Law. It owns 49% of the coop UFC. Ubder this arrangement, UFC sells
French grain exclusively for itself and Dreyfuss, both within the EU and other
markets.
This allows Dreyfuss to obtain credit at low interest rates from the
semi-official French bank- Credit Agricole, which terms are not available to
purely private companies.
Louis Dreyfuss also owns one of the largest private banks in France, the
Dreyfuss Bank. The current head of the firm is Gerard Louis Dreyfuss. The
Dreyfuss family is worth some $3 billion.
Bunge & Born
It is the largest Brazilian grain exporter, as well as a large exporter
from Argentina and the US. Bunge operates 50 grain elevators in the US, and has
a giant grain export elevator in Quebec City.
In 1750, in Amsterdam, the Bunge family had starting trading hides,
spices, and rubber from Dutch overseas colonies. In 1850, Charles Bunge moved
the family business to Antwerp, Belgium. Charles’s two sons established a
merchant dynasty straddling the Atlantic Ocean. With his brother-in-law George
Born, Ernest established the firm Bunge and Born.
In 1897, a Jewish grain trader-Alfred Hirsh joined the firm in Buenos
Aires. In 1927, Hirsh became president of Bunge and Born, holding that position
for 30 years.
Hirsh and others at Bunge and Born accumulated millions of acres of land
in the rich soil region of the pampas. The extent of the Bunge and Born
domination of the Argentine economy was revealed in 1974, when the Montoneros
terrorists kidnapped the heirs to the firm, Jorge and Juan Born, and held them
for many months.
During the time the brothers were in captivity, they revealed that Bunge
and Born not only dominated Argentina’s agriculture, but also that the Bunge companies
produced 40% of Argentina’s paint, 35 % of its tin cans , 20% of its textiles,
etc.
Argentine President Juan Peron attempted to suppress the power of Bunge
and Born and other grain cartel companies in Argentina. When Peron became
President for the first time in 1946, he moved to have the government buy the
grain from the Argentine farmer and export it.
The profits were used to finance the industrialization of Argentina. In
1948, he established the Institute for the Promotion of Trade (IAPI) to achieve
this purpose.
However, the grain cartel companies, weakened by Peron’s reforms, wanted
him out of power. In 1955, Peron was deposed and the IAPI system he had set up
was disbanded. When Peron returned to power in 1973, he established a National
Grain Board for the same purpose.
Again, Peron was fiercely opposed by the grain cartel companies. He died
in 1974, and was succeeded by his wife, Evita. In 1976, Evita Peron was
overthrown. The National Grain Board was disbanded, and control of grain and
meat exports was returned to the private grain companies.
In the meantime, Bunge had diversified a large share of its capital into
Brazil and the US. However, the power of Bunge and Born is still strong in
Argentine. The Born and Hirsh families, which run Bunge and Born today, are
each conservatively estimated to be worth a billion dollars.
Andre
It is the number 1 South African grain exporter, and the 5th largest
grain exporter in the world.
It was founded in 1877 by George Andre in Switzerland. He imported wheat
from Russia for pasta. In 1937, Frederic Hediger went to the US and founded
Garnac, using money from George Andre.
Garnac became a subsidiary of the Andre Holding Company. During the
1970s, after an embargo had been placed on the commercial activities of what
was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Andre helped sell Rhodesian grain on world
markets through illegal channels. After Andre’s death, in 1942, his three sons
inherited the company. The Andre family is conservatively estimated to be worth
more than $2 billion.
Archer Daniels Midland/Topfer
It is the 6th largest world grain exporter, with 9% of the market. It is
also the number 1 US soybean crusher, with an estimated 40% of the market. It
is also the no 1 producer of ethanol, the number 2 us flour miller, and more.
ADM/Topfer makes enough flour to bake 16 billion loaves of bread and enough
soybean meal to feed 14 billion broiler chickens – twice as many broilers as
the US produces.
In 1878, Jon Daniels began crushing flaxseed to produce linseed oil and
in 1920 formed the Daniels Linseed Company. George Archer, another experienced
flaxseed crusher joined the company in 1903. In 1923, the company bought
Midlands Products and adopted the name Archer Daniels Midland (ADM).
ADM purchased a 50% stake in Topfer International, one of the most
powerful second-tier grain cartel companies. This purchase also works the other
way, with the older Hamburg-based Topfer Company, with extensive roots in
Europe, exercising an influence over ADM.
The Topfer Co has an over 70% equity position in two French firms –
Compagnie Europeene des Cereales and G. Muller. The remaining shares in these
companies are held by the Rothschild Group in France. These two French
companies own 10 large grain elevators in France and Germany.
The head of ADM in the 1980s was Andreas, who regularly contributed
between $50,000 and $100,000 a year to the organized crime-linked
Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith.
ConAgra
It is the number 1 US flour miller, number 1 US sheep slaughter, number
2 US beef and pork slaughter, among other things.
Conagra was founded in Nebraska in 1919 as Consolidated Mills, a grain
processor (the name was changed to ConAgra in 1971). In 1982, ConaGra bought
the Peavey Company, along with its Minneapolis confederates, the Pillsbury and
Washburn families dominated the milling of American flour.
This immediately made ConaGra America’s largest flour miller. This was
followed by a slew of purchases in the meatpacking industry.
IBP
It is the number 1 US beef and pork slaughterer. IBP is the largest
butcher in the world, accounting for 14% of the US total. Japan, which consumes
half of all US meat exports, is a major market for IBP.
It was formed in 1960 by A. Anderson and C. Holman, as Iowa Beef
Processors. IBP makes money by driving down the wages of its workforce, and the
price of beef paid to farmers.
Nestle
It is the number 1 world food company, number 1 world trader in dry milk
powder, condensed milk, seller of chocolate and confectionary products, and the
number 1 seller of mineral water, and number 3 US coffee firm. Nestle has 500
manufacturing plants on 6 continents.
In 1866 in Cham, Switzerland, Charles Page founded the Anglo-Swiss
Condensed Milk Co. In 1867, in nearby Vevey, Henri Nestle founded Farine Lactee
Henri Nestle. In 1905, Nestle and the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company
merged.
In 1922, a banker, Louis Dapples, took over management of the company,
and eventually became chairman of Nestle. Over the next 90-odd years, Nestle
made one takeover after another, especially during the past two decades. It
controls the export of powdered milk to the developing sector.
Nestle also owns Alcon eye products, and 26% of L’Oreal, the world’s
largest shampoo and cosmetics company. It is controlled by the Rothschild
Group.
Its board of directors serves as a retirement home for central bank
heads (those central banks that are under Rothschild ownership, such as the
central banks of European countries, and the BIS).
Unilever
It is the number 1 world producer of ice cream, and margarine, and one
of the top five world exporters of dry milk powder, the number 1 European tea
seller, the number 2 world producer of soaps and detergents, and one of the top
five world crushers of palm oil , and one of the world’s largest producers of
olive oil.
In 1885, Englishman William Lever and his brother formed Lever Brothers.
It produces Lifebuoy, Lux, Rinso, and Sunlight soaps. In the Netherlands, rival
butter-makers, Jurgens and Van den Burgh were pioneers in margarine production.
In 1927, they created the Margarine Union, a cartel that owned the
European market. In 1930, the Margarine Union and Lever Brothers merged,
forming Unilever.
Both Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell are corporate entities that express
the joint interests of the Anglo-Dutch monarchies, as well as the Rothschild
Group.
Philip Morris
It is the number 2 world food company, number 1 US Food Company.
In 1847, Philip Morris opened a London tobacco store, and by 1854 he was
making his own cigarettes. In 1919, US financier George Whelan purchased the
rights to market Philip Morris brands such as Marlboro.
Ten years later, Whelan’s successor began manufacturing the cigarettes
in Richmond, Virginia. In 1985, Philip Morris bought General Foods; in 1988, it
acquired Kraft Foods. Philip Morris is one of the largest cigarette smugglers
in the world, both for sale and as barter for other illegal goods. It is also
one of the world’s largest marijuana dealers.
Major US Food Companies
It has been extremely difficult to gather information on the grain cartel
companies, as they are privately-owned. It was easier to gather information on
US companies, as most of them are public companies.
Here is a list of the other major food companies. Most of these are
within the Rockefeller orbit. These include Coca Cola, Pepsico, Mars, Walmart
(acts as a distribution entity). This is just to name a few.
Below is a partial list of a few of the world’s largest food companies. Grain companies are excluded.
Mondolez, Nestle, Associated Biscuits and Unilever are
Rothschild-controlled entities. Pepsico, Coca Cola, Mars, Kellogg’s , Phillip
Morris, Kraft Foods, General Milling, Grand Metropolitan-Pillsbury and
RJR-Nabisco are part of the Rockefeller Group.
The main alcoholic companies are all within the Rothschild bloc, such as
SAB Miller, as well as the groups, such as wine, champagne, whisky, scotch,
etc. Most of these premium brands are based in Scotland and France.
Concentration in four food
groups
Grains and grain products, milk and dairy products, edible oils and
fats, and meat provide the majority of the intake of calories, as well as
proteins and vitamins, which keeps the human species alive. Grain and grain
products can be consumed as animal feed, and directly for human consumption,
sometimes in grain form, but often in a milled form, such as in bread, rotis,
and tortillas.
The big six leading grain cartel companies are Cargill (New York),
Continental (New York), Paris-based Louis Dreyfus, Brazil and Netherlands-based
Bunge and Born, Swiss-based Andre, and US and German-based Archer Daniels
Midland/Topfer. The first five of these companies are privately owned and run
by billionaire families. They issue no public stock, nor annual report.
They are more secretive than any oil company, bank, or government
intelligence agency.
Just two of these companies, Cargill and Continental, control 45-50% of
the world’s grain trade.
Domestic Markets
The cartel exercises an iron hand over the domestic agricultural
economies of nations, especially those that comprise the four export source
regions of the food cartel. This is exercised through the processing
industries: If one controls the processing industries, one controls domestic
trade.
Except for use as animal feed, corn, wheat and soybean cannot be eaten
in their unrefined form. The grain or soybean must be processed. The same is
true for meat, which must be slaughtered and cut, before it is fit for human
consumption.
This is where the processing/milling industries, in the case of grains
and soybeans, and the packing/slaughtering houses, in the case of meat come in.
Taking America as the test case, in order to make the case generally, one can
see the cartel’s domination is about 90% of milling capacity.
In 1979, the top four millers controlled 41% of the industry. Today,
they control 92%!
Finally, four of the six leading grain cartel companies own 64% of
America’s grain elevator storage capacity. However, this figure is deceptive.
Many of the grain elevators are in local areas, where there is a substantial
degree of individual or cooperative ownership.
When one gets to regional grain elevators, the grain cartel’s ownership
percentage is much higher. And at ports, where grain is transshipped, the same
four grain cartels own 89% of all grain facilities. A farmer must sell his
grain either to a grain elevator or, in the rarer case where he can afford
transport, to a grain miller.
In either case, it is grain Cartel Company to which he must sell. By
this process, the grain cartel sets the price to the farmer – at the lowest
levels possible.
Much of their workings are shrouded in mystery, because they release
little information to the public. People who have attempted to write books
about the grain companies have spent years without getting a single interview
from any of the reigning grain company families.
Unlike many American companies, where the founding family has long since
departed the scene, such as in the case of Morgan bank or Chrysler Corp., the
grain cartel companies are run by the same families that have run them for
centuries. The inter-married MacMillan and Cargill families run Cargill; the
Fribourg family runs Continental; the Louis Dreyfus family runs Louis Dreyfus;
the André family runs André; and the Hirsch and Born families run Bunge and
Born.
While evading taxes and inspection, Cargill also uses its network to
move large shipments of goods anywhere on the globe, on split-second notice. It
has an in-house intelligence service that matches the CIA’s: It uses global
communication satellites, weather-sensing satellites, a database that utilizes
7,000 primary sources of intelligence, several hundred field offices, etc.
Cargill is representative of all of the grain companies, and a brief
examination of it gives insight into all the others. Cargill, which had $101
billion in annual sales in 2014, has a dominant position in many aspects of the
world food trade. It is the worlds and the United States’ number-one grain
exporter, and has a market share of 25-30% in each of several commodities.
It is the world’s number-one cotton trader; the number-one U.S. owner of
grain elevators (340); the number-one U.S. manufacturer of corn-based,
high-protein animal feeds (through subsidiary Nutrena Mills); the number-two
U.S. wet corn miller and U.S. soybean crusher; the number-two Argentine grain
exporter (10% of market); the number-three U.S. flour miller (18% of market),
U.S. meatpacker (18% of market), U.S. pork packer/slaughterer, and U.S.
commercial animal feeder; the number-three French grain exporter (15-18% of the
market); and the number-six U.S. turkey producer.
It also has a fleet of 420 barges, 11 towboats, 2 huge vessels that sail
the Great Lakes, 12 ocean-going ships, 2,000 railroad hopper cars, and 2,000
tank cars. Cargill has been able to place its people in top posts around the
world. Today, Cargill Company is privately owned and run by the MacMillan
family. The MacMillan family’s collective wealth, sits at $15.1 billion.
The food cartel continues to consolidate its worldwide control in the
face of the oncoming financial disintegration. In the past 30 years, the food
cartel has bought up many milling-processing plants and bakeries throughout the
former Soviet Union and East bloc, bringing these nations under tight food
control.
The food cartel has also built up its control, in the food distribution
industries, through such combines as Philip Morris, Grand
Metropolitan-Pillsbury, and KKR-RJR-Nabisco-Borden; i.e. Philip Morris, which
owns Kraft Foods, General Foods (Post cereals), the Miller Brewing Company, and
a host of other brand names.
The food cartel’s power must be broken. But the
Anglo-Dutch-Swiss-American cartel is playing for high stakes—the ability to
constrain the supply of raw materials, and above all, food, to turn back the
clock of history, and reduce mankind from the 7 billion population it currently
enjoys’ to the state of a few hundred million semi-literate souls scratching
out a bare existence. That assault cannot be fought timidly.
The full truth about the food cartel must be known.
Alongside the hyper-speculation in food and related commodities that
must be stopped urgently, there is a related feature of the food crisis to be
eliminated: the now-extreme globalization of the food chain.
This has come about under the control of a select few commodities and
logistics cartels, operating above and against national governments and the
interests of their populations. Nations have been forced into dependence on
food from hundreds and thousands of miles away; now it isn’t there to be had.
Genocide is an intent of this system, not a side-effect.
Governments and financiers today, prominently including Federal Reserve
chairman, is notorious for saying that the current spike in food prices, and
the growing shortfalls are simply a result of “increased demand,” i.e., “market
forces.”
They are maliciously lying.
What “markets”? The way it works is that these cartel companies’
activities and practices are what is meant when “the markets” are cited.
The companies are, in fact, the hard-product wing of the financial
interests; best called the neo-British Empire, and since the late 1940s, joined
by the American faction.
Read the full article (this is the second of a 3-part series) at Behind the News Network.
Past articles on Health Impact News that deal with this
topic:
YOU the Taxpayer are Funding the Agri Business
Takeover of our Food Supply
The collapse of native Iraqi agriculture, and the
prosper of US Biotech and GMOs in Iraq
The Real Cause of Revolution in the Middle East?
Food Subsidies can no longer Provide Cheap Bread
