Back at the beginning of GM, some big players in the world agribusiness game realized that the experiment with GM crops might not work out in the long run as successfully as they hoped. Their scientists saw that the supposed increased yields per acre they always promised only lasted the first few years, and after that yields declined. They also realized that the new GM mutations of plants and crops that were being released into the world were indeed irrevocable, and also were contaminating forever the natural lines with which they were able to crossbreed. They began sowing terminator gene technology into the natural agriculture of the planet.
So being realistic, the top scientists decided they needed to hedge their bets -- they needed a Plan B, in case they would really cause a Mad Max /Armageddon scenario to evolve. So they had a meeting - the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto, Bill Gates, Syngenta, the Norwegian government, and a few other players got together and decided that they would gather together as many of the pristine original varieties of seeds from as many of the world’s plants as they could find. And they would build a big deep-freeze vault in some safe place to store the seeds in case this GM crop experiment got so out of hand that it irremediably contaminated all the vegetation on earth.
So the place they picked a remote, frozen, little island off the coast of Norway in the North Sea called Svalbard and carved a vault into the side of a mountain. 1,2
You can view images of Svalbard at www.croptrust.org
Their goal: to store seeds from as many as 3 million different varieties of plants, from all around the world. They are almost finished. Bizarre as it sounds, this story is absolutely true. And if you don’t believe it you can visit Svalbard next time you are in Oslo. (Bring your own nightlife.)
Why Norway? Because Norway had been smart enough not to join the EU. The EU banned GM seeds across the board in 1997.
The point here is - this is how drastic and potentially catastrophic the global GMO agriculture experiment really might be, that the largest corporations on earth would find it necessary to build a Noah’s Ark of the world’s seeds in case they unwittingly destroy the majority of the world’s agriculture. The name Doomsday is actually their own word -- that’s what they call it!
Dr. Tim O’Shea is a Dr. of Chiropractic with more than 19 years of clinical experience. He has practiced in Europe and has traveled throughout the world studying holistic health practices. An author with several books to his credit, he is best known for his meticulously researched and uncompromising book on the risks and limitations of vaccines, The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination Is Not Immunization. A strong advocate for nutrition and holistic health, he reminds us, “The healthiest people in human history were groups who were geographically isolated from ‘civilization’… they had beautiful teeth, strong bones, and very little degenerative disease.” ![]()