IN EIGEN HAND
In the end free discussion might not determine the future of GM. It’s proponents have less democratic means of getting access to the markets they want. They speculate on GM crops contaminating or getting mixed with non GM-crops. If nobody can tell the difference it’s useless to resist GM. In this way, if only a few countries alow GM crops, the pollen in the wind can force the other countries to accept ‘reality’. Another way of forcing GM on the ‘free’market is starting a tradewar or filing a complaint with the WTO against anyone that doesn’t want to accept GM in their country or has restrictions, like a duty to label products with GM ingredients. The USA, Canada and Argentina filed such a complaint against the EU, after the EU banned new GM-food in 1998. If a free market means you are forced to eat stuff you don’t want, i would rather return to the dark old days of unfree markets where you buy stuff of local producers.
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08. In Eigen Hand
Als alles is gezegd, dan rest alleen de dwang
De afkeer van de massa, botst met het belang
Zeventig procent is graag baas op eigen bord
De WTO zorgt dat dat verboden wordt
Vrij zijn we alleen als we kiezen wat er is
Als het nieuwe voedsel gewillig wordt geslikt
Manipulatie zet ons buiten spel
De wet van vraag en aanbod kent geen grens
Gooi de grenzen dicht
Voor gedwongen handel
Tegenstand wordt plicht
Als voedsel wordt besmet
Door stuifmeel wat vervliegt
En zo het land verpest
Als dit de toekomst is
Vertrouw op eigen kracht
Op eigen kracht
In eigen hand
Tegenstand
Er tegenaan
Tegenstand
In eigen hand
Er tegenin
Er tegenaan
TRANSLATION
In Eigen Hand / In Our Own Hands
When everything is said only coercion remains
The antipathy of the masses collides with the interest
Seventy percent prefers to be boss of their own plate
The WTO is gonna make sure that that’s illegal
We are only free if we choose what’s there
If the new food is swallowed willingly
Manipulation puts us offside
The law of supply and demand has no limits
Close the borders
For enforced trade
Resistance is a duty
If food is infected
By pollen that is blowing in the wind
And is contaminating the land
If this is the future
Rely on our own strength
On our own strength
In our own hands
Resistance
Let’s go for it
In our own hands
Resistance
Let’s go for it
Let’s go against it
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