I kid you not... General Mills used to be America´s top developer of bioweapons including anthrax, smallpox and plague, via their
General Mills Aerospace Research Division. General Mills also supports right-wing think-tank The American Enterprise Institute.
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The breakfast cereal manufacturer General Mills was the nation's foremost developer of Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction in the early 1960s.The Department of Defense has released small portions of several reports detailing the work in biological warfare performed by the Minneapolis-based company following a lengthy declassification review.
During World War 2, American consumer products companies were expected to come to the aid of their nation's defense needs. After the war, many of these companies established small but lucrative defense contracting divisions.
General Mills set up a research division to tap into the long experience the company had in grinding or milling of fine particles, and in fabricating large thin films used for balloons, as well as making intricate electronics assemblies {such as
General Mills Aerospace Research Division).
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The US initiated a biological weapons program in 1942 which was banned in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. The program was directed by George W Merck, president of pharmaceutical company Merck, based in Fort Detrick, MD.
Experimental pathogens included smallpox, anthrax, and plague. General Electric, Lockheed, Monsanto, Goodyear, and General Mills all participated in the program.http://www.thinkandask.com/news/sarin.html= = =
Spending on biological weapons rose dramatically after John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961. Robert S. McNamara, the new secretary of defense, did a sweeping review of military programs, including biological weapons. The Joint Chiefs of Staff found that the arms had unique advantages, especially their ability to incapacitate rather than kill. They strongly endorsed a crash program to prepare the germs for war.
The virus work, already a high priority, was redoubled, and such companies as General Electric, Booz-Allen, Lockheed, Rand, Monsanto, Goodyear, General Dynamics, Aerojet General, North American Aviation, Litton Systems, and
even General Mills, maker of Cheerios and Wheaties, joined the germ program. Quietly, the purveyor of dry cereals built a “line-source disseminator,” a device meant to spray germs continuously from airplanes to ensure wide swaths of infective mists. http://www.blackherbals.com/germs.htm= = =
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