SRC - The Managed Food Supply
Folder: 06 - SOURCE MATERIAL Supporting: The Managed Food Supply
Seed Patents & Corporate Consolidation
Farm Action — September 2025 “Seeds and Pesticides: Farming Under Corporate Patents” https://farmaction.us/seeds-and-pesticides-farming-under-corporate-patents/ Four corporations control 50%+ of global seed market confirmed. Technology packages locking farmers into seeds + pesticides confirmed. Seed saving prohibition confirmed. Bayer-Monsanto merger and regulatory approval confirmed. Farmers forced into system by herbicide drift confirmed.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition — July 2021 “Farmers Trapped in Unsustainable Cycle by Biotechnology, Seed Consolidation” https://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/farmers-trapped-in-unsustainable-cycle-by-biotechnology-seed-consolidation/ Bayer controls 35% corn seed, 28% soybean seed, 70% cottonseed globally confirmed. 1980 Bayh-Dole Act privatisation of public research confirmed. Monsanto Papers — internal documents showing Monsanto avoided testing real-world toxicity confirmed. John Deere patents preventing farmer equipment repair confirmed.
USDA Economic Research Service — August 2023 “Expanded Intellectual Property Protections for Crop Seeds Increase Innovation and Market Power” https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2023/august/expanded-intellectual-property-protections-for-crop-seeds-increase-innovation-and-market-power-for-companies 2016–2020: 5,137 plant patents, 5,010 utility patents issued — double the rate of a decade earlier. Corteva and Bayer account for more than half of retail seed market sales of corn, soybeans, and cotton confirmed. Big Six to Big Four consolidation confirmed.
Center for Food Safety — 2005 “Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers” https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/cfsmonsantovsfarmerreport11305.pdf 145 farmer lawsuits by Monsanto confirmed. Seed saving prohibition revoking millennia-old farming right confirmed. Farmer liability for drift contamination confirmed. Congress never approving seed patents confirmed. Justice Clarence Thomas — former Monsanto attorney — writing Supreme Court opinion upholding seed patents confirmed.
Center for Food Safety — GE Food https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/311/ge-foods/ge-food-and-farmers Seed saving prohibition, bar on small-scale seed sale, and prevention of research without patent holder permission confirmed. Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement requiring farm access confirmed.
IISD — September 2016 “Bayer Tightens Control Over the World’s Food Supply” https://www.iisd.org/articles/insight/bayer-tightens-control-over-worlds-food-supply Bayer post-merger: 29% global seed market, 24% global pesticide market confirmed. WHO glyphosate Group 2A classification confirmed. Seed diversity loss and biodiversity threat confirmed.
Ultra-Processed Food — Health Evidence
The Lancet — November 2025 Three-Part Series: “Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health” https://www.thelancet.com/series-do/ultra-processed-food Nutrient imbalances, hyper-palatability, endocrine disruptors confirmed. UPF displacing whole food diets globally confirmed. Transnational corporations as central drivers confirmed. Corporate political activities blocking regulation confirmed.
American Heart Association — Circulation 2025 “Ultraprocessed Foods and Their Association With Cardiometabolic Health” https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001365 High UPF intake consistently linked to negative health outcomes confirmed across multiple independent research groups, populations, and age groups. verified
PMC — Gyorgy Scrinis “Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7720198/ Industry funding bias in nutrition research confirmed. Pepsi and Unilever funding neuroscience fMRI research for product improvement confirmed. Nestlé publishing research to support probiotic health claims confirmed. Sugar, salt, fat masking technologically degraded food confirmed.
Science Suppression
ScienceDirect — June 2025 “Ultra-processed foods and public health: Evidence of harm and of conflicts of interest in the food industry to evade regulation” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2514664525000426 2023 press conference — 4 of 5 speakers with food industry ties confirmed. Science Media Centre funded by Food Drink Europe (Cargill, Coca-Cola, Danone, Mars), Nestlé and Procter & Gamble confirmed. Bradford Hill criteria for causal inference satisfied by UPF evidence confirmed. 30+ meta-analyses linking UPF to multiple negative health outcomes confirmed.
Lab-Grown Meat
Center for Food Safety “Is Lab-Grown Meat Healthy and Safe to Consume?” https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/blog/6458/is-lab-grown-meat-healthy-and-safe-to-consume GRAS self-assessment loophole confirmed. Cancerous cell line characteristics in cultivated meat confirmed. Federal statute prohibiting sale of cancerous cells in meat — and unresolved application to lab-grown product confirmed. Companies doing own testing in secret without FDA review confirmed.
Food Safety Magazine — June 2023 “From Lab Bench to Consumer: The Regulatory and Safety Challenges of Cultivated Meat” https://www.food-safety.com/articles/8660-from-lab-bench-to-consumer-the-regulatory-and-safety-challenges-of-cultivated-meat First commercial approval — Eat Just Singapore 2020 confirmed. USDA approval Upside Foods and Good Meat June 2023 confirmed. Cell culture media components becoming part of final food product confirmed.
Ron Simon & Associates — April 2025 “The Rise of Lab-Grown Meat: Safety Concerns and Regulations” https://www.ronsimonassociates.com/insights/the-rise-of-lab-grown-meat-safety-concerns-and-regulations/ 2023 Pseudomonas aeruginosa recall of lab-grown salmon confirmed. 2023 GAO report — interagency communication gaps and unclear jurisdiction over GM growth factors confirmed. Florida 2024 ban on cultivated meat sales confirmed.
Congress.gov — CRS Report 2023 “Cell-Cultivated Meat: An Overview” https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47697/2 USDA/FDA shared oversight framework confirmed. 2020 GAO report on GE tools in cultivated meat confirmed. 50% of surveyed consumers not interested in eating cultivated meat confirmed. Production cost $63/kg wholesale confirmed.
Glyphosate
Wikipedia — Monsanto legal cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases $10 billion Roundup settlement 2020 confirmed. 145 farmer lawsuits confirmed. Bowman v. Monsanto Co. 2013 Supreme Court ruling confirmed.
IISD — as above WHO IARC Group 2A classification glyphosate 2015 confirmed.
Still To Source
- Specific Lancet 2025 paper citations — full DOIs investigate
- Neuroscience fMRI studies — Pepsi/Unilever primary source investigate
- Glyphosate-resistant weed emergence data — acreage and timeline investigate
- US UPF percentage of caloric intake — primary survey data citation investigate
- Lab-grown meat long-term safety study absence — confirm no studies published investigate