While it is hard to dig up material on this, it appears that part of 100 Orders that Paul Bremer left for Iraq after the “handoff” includes a requirement that all food must be grown from registered, patented seeds. In other words, Iraq’s farmers will be forced to use terminator seeds. Forcing people to use corporate “owned” seeds that fail to reproduce or behave like normal seeds, in an effort to turn natural food into Intellectual Property, goes beyond just being unethical and crosses into the realm of evil. Genetically modified seeds “owned” by corporations could end up making natural foods extinct. There is a reason why Bill Gates and Monsanto created the seed vault, and it’s not because of doomsday, it’s because of rampant licensing that may cover the world in genetically engineered garbage and create a crisis for humanity.

Under this mandate, Iraq’s commercial farmers must now buy “registered seeds.” These are normally imported by Monsanto, Cargill and the World Wide Wheat Company. Unfortunately, these registered seeds are “terminator” seeds, meaning “sterile.” Imagine if all human men were infertile, and in order to reproduce women needed to buy sperm cells at a sperm bank. In agricultural terms, terminator seeds represent the same kind of sterility.

Terminator seeds have no agricultural value other than creating corporate monopolies. The Sierra Club, more of a mainstream “conservation” organization than a radical “environmentalist” one, makes the exact same case:

“This technology would protect the intellectual property interests of the seed company by making the seeds from a genetically engineered crop plant sterile, unable to germinate. Terminator would make it impossible for farmers to save seed from a crop for planting the next year, and would force them to buy seed from the supplier. In the third world, this inability to save seed could be a major, perhaps fatal, burden on poor farmers.” (2)

What makes this Order 81 even more outrageous is that Iraqi farmers have been saving wheat and barley seeds since at least 4000 BC, when irrigated agriculture first emerged, and probably even to about 8000 BC, when wheat was first domesticated.

Read more here: Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia.