
Willow Bark to Aspirin: The Tree That Gave Us the World's Most-Used Painkiller
Your headache tablet started life as tree bark. For thousands of years, people chewed willow bark for pain and fever, and in 1897 a chemist turned it into aspirin.
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Your headache tablet started life as tree bark. For thousands of years, people chewed willow bark for pain and fever, and in 1897 a chemist turned it into aspirin.

In 2001, a biotech company announced it had engineered corn to produce anti-sperm antibodies. The research vanished from public view within months. The companies that acquired it are the same companies now receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to feed Africa and South Asia. These are the documented facts. Draw your own conclusions.

Every seedless grape you eat, every navel orange you peel, every watermelon slice without a pip — none of them can grow another plant. That is not a coincidence. It is a design. And the same logic is being applied to the entire food supply by a handful of corporations that now control most of the world's seeds.

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