Thread by @gargiuvacha

Important Thread: How They Still Try to Colonise Bharat – This Time Through Seeds

1. The New Empire: Monsanto, Cargill, Bayer, Syngenta
500 years ago, Columbus came with a Papal Bull to colonise land. Today, biotech giants like Monsanto (now Bayer), Cargill, Syngenta, and DuPont come to colonise life itself, via GM seeds, patent laws, and WTO trade pressure. Same script. New tools.

2. US Wants India’s Soil for Its Frankenfoods
The US is pushing India to open its markets to genetically-modified corn and soy, crops already banned here. They call it “agricultural trade.” We call it biopiracy. The intent: patent our food, hijack our farmers, and turn Bharat into a dumping ground.

3. 1998–Bt Cotton: The Trojan Horse
Monsanto introduced Bt Cotton in India in 1998. Price per packet rose from ₹7 to ₹1700. Within a decade, 200,000 farmers committed suicide, crushed by debt and crop failure. This was not technology. This was economic terrorism

4. 2001–Basmati Patent: Theft from Our Plate
In 2001, Texas-based RiceTec patented our traditional Basmati rice: the seed, the aroma, even cooking methods. They claimed to have invented it. The theft was so absurd it almost succeeded, until Vandana Shiva and others legally challenged and won.

5. 2005–Neem Patent: They Tried to Steal Grandma’s Wisdom
The neem tree, used for centuries in Bharat for natural pest control, was patented in the EU by WR Grace and the US Department of Agriculture. In 2005, the patent was finally revoked, after a 10-year battle led by Indians who refused to bow.

6. Percy Schmeiser Case – Windborne Tyranny
In Canada, Monsanto sued farmer Percy Schmeiser after its GM pollen accidentally contaminated his crop. The courts ruled he stole their patented seed, despite not planting it. Even the wind has to obey US corporations now?

7. The Masterplan: Geneva 1987
In 1987, Vandana Shiva attended a secretive meeting in Geneva. Corporations laid it bare: "5 companies will control global food and health via patents, GMOs, and WTO." This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a documented strategy.

8. Climate-Resilient Crops: The Next Target
Now, they’re patenting crops that can survive droughts, floods, and salinity, traits developed over centuries by Indian farmers. They call it "innovation." We call it theft. This is biopiracy of our climate resilience.

9. Flavr Savr Tomato & Bovine Growth Hormone – Botched Science
Remember the GM tomato that never wrinkled? It was botoxed—tough as a ball, tasteless, rotten inside. Or the rBGH hormone injected in cows to overproduce milk, banned in Canada for causing cancer. This is the science they want to sell us.

10. The Real Villains: Lobbyists and Indian Mouthpieces
Every Indian voice supporting GM imports is either bought or blind. These include FICCI-backed lobbyists, foreign-funded “scientific” NGOs, and corporate journalists parroting biotech propaganda. They are not pro-science. They are pro-subjugation.

11. Earth Democracy vs Corporate Slavery
India is one of the few countries resisting the full-scale invasion of GM crops. Citizens, farmers, and the government are saying no. It’s not about tradition. It’s about sovereignty. You control your seeds, you control your civilisation.

12. What You Can Do – Stand With Bharat
Support those protecting our food system. Reject traitors who side with Bayer, Cargill, and the US lobby. Remember, every time you eat, you're voting. Make it count.

13. This Is Colonisation by Other Means
They took our gold. They took our cotton. Now they want our genes. This is not progress. This is war. A war for the right to grow, to eat, to live. And this time, Bharat is fighting back.

Source: Vandana Shiva