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ANXIETY OVER G M FOODS

It is impossible to have a rational debate concerning the safety of eating genetically modified food, until we observe the fact that commercial warfare has replaced fair trading.

All is now fair in love, war and business.

Unless we see the truth of that statement we shall not recognise the difference between propaganda and scientific fact.

With scientists being employed by all sides in the pursuit of victories in commercial warfare, we observe scientists spinning the truth.

It is there for all of us to see in the matter of MMR, Foot & Mouth Disease, fish stocks, Gulf War Syndrome, sheep dip, depleted uranium and the list is endless when you start to look.

This sort of graft and sleaze in subjects which determine the health of the human race is far more deadly than open military warfare. We ignore it at our peril.

In order to remain blind to the dangers of commercial warfare, we must remain blind to its cause.

How and why has fair trading turned into commercial warfare.

We all think it is a result of our greed. But we know it is not your greed or my greed, but someone else's greed.

Then we say it is the greed of big business. Now we are off the rails altogether, because greed is a personal attribute of individuals.

Corporations, especially big ones, have no personal attributes of any description. They do have devised public images as part of propaganda, which hides all sorts of evils not possessed by individuals.

It may be painful to look at, but we must confront the reason that competition in commerce has driven out ethics.

"There is no place for ethics in economics" is the datum taught at the LSE.

Something is horribly wrong with the global economy that such a philosophy is acceptable in the world today.

We do have a fraudulent monetary system in which money has to be borrowed into existence. That is a fact which nobody denies.

But the mention of reform to any politician, to any economist or even to the Governor of the Bank of England will be met with the response, "Our job is to make the existing system work. We are not paid to interfere with the status quo."

No one wears the hat of monetary reformer. That hat has not been worn for 300 years.