This is war. You have been warned.

The recent all-out endorsement of Pro-genetic engineering propaganda has not gone unnoticed. Already the hacker community of legion that is known only as Anonymous has already aligned itself with the farmers, environmentalists and social activists in confronting head-on Monsanto and company’s lies of using genetic engineering as a solution to stopping world hunger.

Earth First! Philippines declares itself also in solidarity with the broader anti-GMO movement that exists here in the Philippines and we count ourselves among their ranks in confronting the immanent threat of genetic contamination here in our country by misleading and dishonest utilization of so-called ‘scientific’ bodies in state universities like the University of the Philippines Los BaÑos.

We see the problem of food as a problem of justice.

Justice not only for the hungry majority of the world’s population but also for the environment and the countless life forms it puts under threat.

Those who choose to advance genetic engineering have always promoted it as a solution to food scarcity are misguided in the sense that they believe that world hunger would be solved if we increase food production.

However, it does not necessarily follow that if there’s more food, world hunger would be eliminated.

Sadly, even if production has risen in recent years –most of those who need more food still don’t get their share.

A good example of this can be seen in the rise in the number of fast food chains in Manila.

Yet a majority of the population still eat less than 3 square meals a day.

And if ever the poor get the chance to eat from those chains it would either be the equivalent of a week’s worth of their income or it would be in the form of leftovers that they would scavenge.

So what we have is more waste in Styrofoam and plastic packaging; animals that are bred to suffer and die so that we can get meat; rainforests razed for cattle gazing and plantations for feeds; and finally genetically modified organisms in our food supply chains.

Where then is the sense of justice in all that?

Could we say that pollution, animal suffering, deforestation, habitat loss genetic contamination and unaddressed hunger of the poor be tantamount of equality while the corporate continue to profit.

Let this serve as a warning to those who chose to manipulate science, the academe and politicians in advancing genetic engineering.

This is war. You have been warned.