African Lambs

You may wonder why I write about animals. It keeps me sane.
I’ll explain.
Many years ago I was working for a GMO in Africa. One day a report
appeared on my desk. It was from an international group, a powerful and very
wealthy group.
The contents:
The world was divided into five regions – wealth the criterion.
There was the first world, of course, the second (Russia inter alia) and
the third – no explanation required.
But, then there were the fourth and fifth ‘worlds’. Couched in PC language,
it was stated that they would never catch up and so were consigned to the trash
bin. The populations of these countries would ‘die out ‘through internecine
fighting and disease.
Guess where they were?
Africa mainly, but also some countries in South East Asia.
Have you ever noticed how most of the famines, diseases and wars are in
these countries, especially Africa? Then, of course, there are the blood
diamonds, corrupt dictatorships undergirded by ? – I’m sure you can guess.
Some years later, I attended a lecture by a medical doctor from Brazil.
She had worked with an international AID organisation. She was a conspiracy
theorist and showed her map of the early AIDS areas in Africa then superimposed
over this map one of the inoculation programme of an international medical aid
organisation. Guess what – they coincided perfectly! Co-incidence?
Others seems to share this
conspiracy theory mindset as the film, The Constant Gardener, based on John le
Carre’s novel, demonstrates. Here, the
Africans (as happens in India) are unwitting guinea-pigs for pharmaceutical
giants.
So you see, the African lambs have been, are and will continue to be led
unknowingly to the slaughter, collateral damage in the great quest for wealth -
for the few – and medical miracles, again for the few.