Virus in Blue Genes

Our farmers are very funny
This is how they earned their money
With sheep’s brains inside cow’s tummy

Our abattoirs are also jolly
Finding ways to up their lolly
But it’s proved an offal folly

Could BSE and CJD
- not a bunch of laughs you see -
Give but a glimpse of what’s to be?

Biotech has much invested
In a planet that’s infested
With the crops that they’ve molested

Governments just won’t protect us
From the toxins that affect us
Isn’t that a trifle reckless?

The bureaucrats, it seems, don’t care
Their attitude’s “Buyer beware!
Our corporate pals must have their share”

Supermarkets too are jolly
Glad to maximise their lolly:
With goods unlabelled in our trolley

Pesticidal foods, you’ll see,
Will mean we eat our genes for tea*
Can it all end happily?

Our farmers are very funny
This is how they’ll earn their money:
Misplaced genes inside our tummy
Seems to me that’s rather rummy

Silent Spring
At an international meeting of entomologists experts warned that genetically engineered (GE) Bt crops are continuously exuding 10-20 times the amount of toxins contained in conventional (non-GE) Bt sprays, and are thus harming beneficial insects (such as ladybirds and lacewings) and soil microorganisms, and could well be harming insect-eating bird populations.

Lacewings and ladybirds, mind where you roam
The plants are all poisoned that once were your home
They’ve spliced in a toxin to kill off all pests
Now friendly bug-eaters will die like the rest

Ladybird, ladybird, have your children all flown?
The food chain is poisoned - we’re left here alone

Transgenic honey

This is not food that the people need
It's a terminator-deal for corporate greed
Power of the people gonna stop the crop
The people in power have lost the plot.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2012 01:33AM by riverhousebill.

Just a few more, Art, poly tics, music, what ever, People need to ban as one to fight this death food corp Monsanto


There was a young boffin from Norwich
Who thought he would mutate his porridge.
He turned it bright green
With a gene of gangrene.
The marvels of molecular knowledge!


Little Boy Blue come blow on your horn,
The people are pulling up transgenic corn
Sharp with a sickle and quick on their toes
They're ridding the world of GMOs

There once was a fruit from Nantucket...

That was great Banana who did you write it?




The corn is plowing a field of tractors
whose plumes of carbon smoke
have spread a kind of deadly pollen
on the iron soaked fields

The corn received so much genetic attention
that it became intelligent

It gained control over the insects
it gained control over the rats
the hares the horses and finally
it gained control of the tractors

The corn was plenty mad by this time
and it began harvesting the tractors

When the corn raised enough tractors
it had the tractors take it into the towns and cities
and made demands of the men and women
who were running the show

It demanded that all humans on the earth
return immediately to the sea
from whence they had come

The corn gave humans just ninety days
to get off the land

–Latif Harris (1983)