After denying WFM sold GMO foods, then admitting it would label them, Whole Foods Market went from 65.44 in October 2013 to 51.28 in February 2014, a loss of $5 Billion dollars so far
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22485.cfm
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22485.cfm
What the Whole Foods-Monsanto connection really means
by Jon Rappoport
February 26, 2014
Yesterday, I wrote and
posted an article, "Top shareholders in Whole Foods and Monsanto:
identical."
I laid out the five investment funds that hold huge numbers
of shares of both companies.
This means very little to Monsanto.
But to Whole Foods---that's a very different story.
Suppose, for example,
Whole Foods executives suddenly decided the best and most ethical
approach to GMO crops is to ban them altogether.
Not label them. (I
know, it's a fantasy, but just suppose.)
And suppose Whole Foods led such a movement.
Now, the investment
funds that own all that Whole Foods stock could decide Whole Foods was
going too far, and needed to be taught a lesson.
The lesson could come
in the form of unloading WF shares and sending the company's stock price
plummeting.
The message would be:
"Look, if you want to label GMOs, it won't make Monsanto and Dow and the
other ag-bio-tech giants very happy, but they can handle the fallout
from labeling.
If you start to get serious, though, and go for an
outright ban on GMO crops in counties across America...that's a no-no.
That's a violation of the existing order, and we will punish you."
In other words, if a
company is playing in the field of the big boys, the money boys, who buy
and sell shares in the millions and billions without blinking an eye,
the game changes. The rules tighten. The options dwindle.
The men who came up
with the money to back those GMO-labeling ballot initiatives in
California and Washington?
They were doing anti-GMO Lite. That's the
soft approach. That still leaves the majority of farm acreage in
America with GMO crops---and genes drifting into non-GMO growing fields
24/7.
But a real movement, with money behind it, to ban growing GMO food?
That's anti-GMO Heavy. That's going for the throat.
In the world of buying
and selling stocks in publicly traded companies, companies are under a
ceiling.
The CEOs know serious activism of any kind, on any vital
issue, can disturb Big Money, the kind of money the giant investment
funds use to send the market up...and take it down.
All publicly traded
companies willingly sign on to a tacit understanding.
They're "in the
stock market." They're in that world. They're in a space where the
status quo is respected and acknowledged.
The boundaries are drawn.
That world, in certain
respects, resembles one of those Club Feds, where white collar
criminals and other Lite offenders are sent to serve out their
sentences.
The convicts enjoy
many privileges. Within those fences, they can move about with relative
freedom.
But if an inmate decides to hop the fence and go out into the
wider world, and if he's caught, he'll find out what a real prison
feels like.
In an interview I did
years ago with Richard Bell, a financial analyst, Richard put it to me
this way:
"Imagine that a publicly traded energy company suddenly
brought out a device that supplied enormous amounts of energy at a very,
very cheap price.
"Among the many
punishments that would be heaped on the company, its stock price would
go into free fall.
It would be taken down, amid accusations of fraud.
It would be massacred in the market..."
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power.
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative
reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and
health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other
newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered
lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative
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