Review: Wildfire #1- The Poisons In our food supply

Writer: Matt Hawkins
Artist: Linda Sejic
Publisher: Image Comics
Released: 11th June 2014

It’s so refreshing to read a comic book that at least acknowledges one of the most important issues of our times, as most of the other books available today don’t go anywhere near them. That’s why I bought this first issue of Wildfire, a comic book that explores the impact of genetically modified foods. Yes, a comic book that actually looks at food, rather than telling you to wear a pink ribbon and go on another pointless charity run.

First thing to mention is that this is NOT a book that will please people who talk about GMO’s causing the cancer epidemic that is plaguing the western world. This book is going to play it safe, and look at the mainstream media’s idea of what the debate about genetically modified food is all about. This means that you won’t get any discussion of the wider eugenics programs, and how poisoning the slave’s food is actually a good idea on two fronts. Firstly, it kills off a lot of poor people who can’t afford to eat organic food, and secondly it delivers lots of mainstream television watching middle class dupes into the hands of big pharma, where they can milk them dry whilst managing their diseases, without ever curing them or looking at what caused them to get ill the first place (that will be the GMO food).

No, this book is going to play it very safe and frame the debate as a problem with population expansion and diminishing food stocks. There will be no discussion about the real-world reality behind organic food and how it can be grown in abundance, thus eliminating the need for GMO’s in the first place. There will be no discussion on how the private banking sector is manipulating the GMO debate behind the scenes, as they always do. There will be no discussion on how GMO crops keeps on failing and are no solution for any imagined deficit in food supply anyway. For more information on these topics see the work of Dr. Vandana Shiva, a marvellous woman who is exposing the reality behind the GMO con.

The scientists in this book however are portrayed quite accurately, as manipulative career obsessed dimwits, who need funding (that's where the banks come into it), so follow the agenda of their hidden masters, whilst simultaneously buying into the mainstream propaganda about food shortage themselves. In this book they are portrayed as the main protagonists, and we see their family lives. This contrasts with the portrayal of the opposition to GMO’s who are angry, aggressive and violent outsiders who are scaring the poor, good-hearted scientists.

Yeah, that’s the sort of book you are going to get here. The cancer epidemic that is actually being caused right NOW by genetically modified food is already being glossed over, and the book comes across as very statist, so don’t expect it to look at the deeper issues behind western government’s/corporations (same thing really) GMO agenda.

Put simply, the book frames the GMO debate as two opposing sides, as pro and con. This structural framing device falls into the same trap as mainstream politics, giving a ‘left’ and ‘right’ framing device to keep the debate within acceptable (to the corporate mainstream establishment) boundaries. By framing the debate as between two opposing views it fails to recognise the outside of the box reality behind GMO food. This reality is the DELIBERATE eugenics agenda that I’ve already alluded to, and it’s a rabbit hole that you need to dive down into if you ever want to navigate the subject. A good place to start, if you want to research the eugenics agenda for yourself, is to look at the work of F. William Engdahl.

This book limits the scope of debate by refusing to entertain the possibility that this eugenics based rabbit hole even exists. This is very dangerous as it limits possibilities, just like what happens every day in the political sphere. If you cannot see the bigger picture, then you are already trapped within the mainstream matrix, and all debate is debate that is allowable within their structual paradigm. The end result is no change, with everybody safely corralled within the corporate reservation.

So why bother to get this book at all? Because it’s a start, and it’s better than nothing. At least it’s talking about food, and it even mentions that eating organic might be a good idea, which of course it bloody well is, because all of the rest of the food is poisoned for Christ’s sake.

 I understand that this debate about food will be very new to a lot of comic book readers, and if this book gets people to start researching the topic for themselves then it might do some good. And even if it does fall into the mainstream media’s framing trap, it at least has to be more worthwhile than the latest Spiderman book? Hey, how come the NSA hasn’t picked him up yet? Oh yeah, there’s no reality in Marvel comics, and that’s why it’s so nice to see a rare glimpse of it in this book.  Review done. Anybody for McDonald’s? Rating: 7/10