Our people, who evaluate their existential stances through ethnic structure, saying, 'No one can do anything to us', but we are the people who are blinded and used to captivity. We're trapped between the four walls, we're not free, we're living in chaos of identity. In order to be able to respect the statements of “No one can do anything to us”, we have to have the opportunity to decide freely in the economic, cultural and political spheres and to be able to maintain our existence without being dependent on external focuses, right? But unfortunately, everything from cultural and political issues to products we eat and drink is under the control of imperialist power centers. If we stick to these groups until we reach the seeds of the products that we grow in our garden, we have no right to make a patronage and to interrupt.
While discussing the damages caused by GMO products to our health and the explosions that occur in fatal diseases, we see that the seeding law and the criminal practices passed in 2006 are coming and discussed again. Those who make decisions on our behalf in the back are pondering what we eat and drink and keep our lives under full control. Imagine that you do not even have the freedom to grow the products you want in your field. As a slave who tries to remain faithful to his/her master, you surrender without hesitation and you think this bondage is freedom.
The mentality that directs and manages world agriculture supports not the small farmers but the large production sector. This mentality, which does not give way to indigenous seeds, has taken control of the lives of individuals and societies and markets the GMO seeds they produce as they wish and calculates how much income they can earn by disregarding their health. We no longer have access to the products that our grandfathers raised in their gardens. How and in what way fruits and vegetables are brought under the name of organic products are unknown.
Global imperialist forces of power massacred our resources, values and vital products. Instead of claiming these resources, we continue to drift and pursue dry discourses.
Is it possible if we want to return to the native seed at a time when soil water and air are poisoned? I don't think because the agricultural system produced by our grandfathers was largely destroyed. We have almost no chance of reaching unprotected products. As we recall, the former minister of agriculture announced that only certified seeds would be allowed after 2018, and this statement provoked reactions.
Seventy percent of the seed market in our country is under the control of foreign companies. We do not know what the products in our crop contain, which damages. If only certified seeds were allowed as desired, both local varieties would be eliminated and domestic production would be seriously wounded. The local seeds that were banned for sale in 2006 have completely disappeared, so we don't have the chance to reach pure genetically intact products.
95% of corn, 80% of cotton, 85% of soybean, 75% of vegetables, 95% of potatoes, 82% of sunflowers and 5% of wheat are used in the products used in our country. We don't know what the DN of the imported seeds are, the man of the hand tests the imported tomatoes, strawberries and citrus fruits and says that there are agricultural pests in the products and sends them back. On the other hand, we buy and consume the products whose DN will be transformed into chemical weapons in the future. GMO seed companies, including Bill Gates, market genetically modified seeds to underdeveloped countries, gaining commercial income and playing with the health of the impoverished peoples. The Muslim peoples who have been confronted and subjected to intense occupation do not have the courage to object. Isn't that painful?
If we want to leave our children an enlightened, prosperous, peaceful and livable world, we must first get rid of the captive life we are exposed to and return to our own identity and roots. If we want to leave a free country for our children, we must first localize what we eat and drink and rebuild our cultural identity on the axis of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. If we want to leave a free country for our children, we should be able to liberate in the cultural, political and social spheres and re-learn the bricks of our personality in the light of revelation. Otherwise, we're bound to remain under this blind bondage.