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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
7/19/2013 4:49:35 PM

Archangel Gabriel via Shanta Gabriel: The Lion’s Gateway Initiation – July 26 through August 12



lions_gateway_initiationArchangel Gabriel: The Lion’s Gateway Initiation, channeled by Shanta Gabriel, July 15, 2013 at www.TheGabrielMessages.com

Dear Ones,

We have called this time New Life Awakening – your spiritual journey through human birth into Homo Luminus – becoming an awakened being of Light in the fullness of your human form. You are in the process of incorporating your Divinity and your human-ness as a co-creator in the evolution of consciousness on the Earth.

As with all spiritual journeys, there are initiations, portals through which the devotee must pass in order to incorporate the next level of spiritual awakening.

And so it is now as you approach the Lion’s Gateway from July 26 through August 12 – a two-week portal with extreme waves of Light that will activate the coding within your DNA to the next level. This will assist your integration of the 5D imprint that is a part of your Soul’s Destiny, if you are the one reading this work.

When we look at the Earth we see the sparks and flares igniting as the awakening codes are firing within each open heart on the planet. By the12th of August there will be a fireworks display the likes of which we have never seen. The Heavens are celebrating you and honoring your commitment to assist in this planetary awakening.

The Gyroscope within Your Being

To integrate and ground these new light codes, you will need to strengthen the Gyroscope in the heart of your being so you can stay in True Balance. You do this with your preparation and intention, as well as with the assistance of the Masters and Archangels working with you. As you let these Waves of Light clear the last vestiges of old energy from your mental/emotional fields, you will awaken higher frequencies in your physical body while anchoring the power of Light on the earth. Consider the fact that you do this work not only for your own spiritual evolution, but for that of all humanity, even though they may be currently unaware of this opportunity.

As you hold and anchor the new frequencies on the great interconnecting Web of Life, you become a magnetic Beacon of Light. You are attracting your soul community who resonate with the vibration of your being. As you come into contact with these people, you have never felt so at home, and these new frequencies will also have that familiar quality of Home as well. It will nourish you at a whole new level. There are many hundreds of thousands of souls walking with you through the Lion’s Gateway from July 26 – August 12.

The collective consciousness will take a quantum leap into Love as the pure feminine energy expands throughout the world.

A Gift for You: A New Partnership for Your Life

When these codes are fired within your being, a true Spiritual Activist will commit to a designated interval in life that allows the integration of the new frequencies. In ancient times, devotees were required to create an “anusthan” – a special time where they did a specific spiritual practice, through the beginnings and endings of an initiation period to integrate the new teachings. Living in the world has now become a vast spiritual ashram in which your life reflects the ceremonies of initiation. As with ashram life, you are never alone in this process.

Your Soul Community is with you in ever-strengthening numbers, offering boundless support on every level. The Archangels are orchestrating this awakening, and your Angelic teachers and Masters are available to you in a real and personal way as never before. And now there is a new partnership being offered – the nurturing presence of Nature is opening to you in a way you have never experienced.

This Gift from Nature is being offered as a reward for your willingness and intrepid spiritual warriorship. This Gift is from the Universal Presence of Nature – the forces who constitute the Earth’s evolution, this great Presence is offering to be your Partner in Life. With the assistance of the elemental forces of Nature, you will be able to walk through the fires of your initiation with Gracious Assistance. The Realms of Awakening Light and the Presence of Nature offer you a powerful Nurturing and Grounding Force to ease the process of this powerful Initiation into Awakening Life.

There are many levels that can be utilized simply and gracefully. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Spend as much time as you can with trees, flowers, gardens, flowing waters and let Nature soothe and nourish your delicate nervous system that has been so over-stimulated by the forces of Awakening Light.

2. Keep live plants and flowers in the place where you live so you can continue to receive from the over-lighting Angels within each plant.

3. Hold the Sacredness of the Earth in your heart and mind. Speak and more importantly, listen to what Nature is offering to you at this time. You are being gifted from the most gracious, nurturing arms of the Mother of all Life. She is offering to hold you and nourish you through your awakening. You are being gifted a sense of Safety in your heart that will assist you in your Earth life.

4. Consider the use of Essences of Flowers, Gem Elixirs and energetic Essences of Light that can bring you into harmony with the essence of Nature. If appropriate, use Aroma Therapy and other supportive natural systems of healing, balance and stability. If you have used them in the past, you will find they have taken on a new frequency of Awakening Light.

5. Most of all, keep Hope, Faith and Trust alive as you walk thorough yet another initiation portal into new life awakening in the 5th Dimensional Realms where you now live. You are so loved and cared for in this process. As Beacons on the Web of Life, you are the ones who are bringing the awakening Light into manifest consciousness, and it is Good.

Stand in the truth of your Heart. Let Beauty, Harmony and Love permeate to the very cellular structure of your being and step boldly through the Lion’s Gateway into the new patterns of Awakened Life that await you. And so it is.

Archangel Gabriel through Shanta Gabriel. Copyright: June 9, 2013 . www.TheGabrielMessages.com. Permission to use this post is given as long as it is used in its entirety and credit is given to the author(s)with the website name.


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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
7/19/2013 4:51:04 PM

Pleiadian Message via Bella Capozzi: Just Be Happy!


imagePleiadian Message: Just Be Happy! channeled by Bella Capozzi, July 18, 2013. at: http://cupcakesandangels.wordpress.com/

Waves of love are rushing in. Coursing over this beloved planet, a storm of love washes over everyone and everything, leaving nary a blade of grass untouched by it’s transfiguring effect. Waves of love, topped off by dainty whitecaps, constructed not of foam but of brilliant crystalline white Christ Light. This energy is ever so pure and it is profoundly healing by nature.

Oh, how very dearly is our Earth in need of healing! Our Earth-indeed, as this was not written in error. For Earth is every bit as much our planet as it is yours. Not only because, as well you know, we are all created as One. But because we have been intimately and creatively tied in with the original conception, seeding and eventual progression of the Human Race. So yes, your destiny is our destiny, and thus we soldier on as one diverse, and yet highly functional family; one team, one Sacred Heart, interlaced.

Feel the love being sent to you from On High. It is the grandest of gifts, not to be overlooked amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday Human existence. Dispense with the trivialities, if only for a little while, and simply allow yourself to revel in this bliss. Joy is your natural state, as is abundance, peace and the feeling you have when something you’ve done has affected another in beautiful and positive way.

If only you could hold onto the ecstasy for a minute or two of your time, it can serve to make a world of difference in the way you feel about and undertake your Earth journey. Trust us, please, when we tell you that the kindest thing you can do for yourselves is to release your fears – for however long you are able to sustain such a neutral state – and just be happy! Uncover the priceless value to be found in the companionship of other like-hearted souls, and also in the smaller and sweeter pleasures of life.

Such energies are on the increase, so expect to feel many more sudden rushes of exultation, and enjoy them. Whether they last all day or but a scant few seconds, the key is in the recognizing of them and in the conscious understanding of what and how powerful they truly are. They are tiny bits of heaven, these waves. They are tangibly recognizable clues that your awareness is expanding and that you are beginning to connect with Spirit at a higher and more refined level.

What about that is not cause for celebration, we ask you? And so we conclude this transmission with the simplest of instruction; you are to let go and allow. Allow the Universe to meet your needs, be they emotional or physical. Resist the temptation to exhaustively manipulate outcomes, as when there is too much resistance it is often a sign that the very thing you are suffering to create may well not be in your highest and best interest. So release. Allow. And most importantly, take time to go within and genuinely listen to what your heart is telling you. And, of course, be happy!

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7/19/2013 5:06:34 PM
Dear friends, from Wes Annac's personal blog:

Saan and the Arcturian Councils: The Galactic Headquarters that will be the Earth

[19Jul2013]

-Channeled through Wes Annac-

With warm and Loving greetings from every facet of we souls speaking with you, I am Saan of the Arcturian Councils of the Galactic Federation.

The Galactic Federation as you’ve perceived of it is an organization of myriad ascended races and societies, who’ve evolved from our respective planets and seek to help as many lower-dimensional civilizations to evolve as possible.

We hold routine meetings amongst the entirety of our Federation, and our Councils operate in united factions as each race and each Council works together on the ascension of various planets and civilizations.

We work in service to Source; to the Creator, who’s funneled Him/Herself down from the pure realms of Source to experience a different facet of His/Her ultimate omnipotence. Everything is Source; is God; is Love. We are all comprised the same energy of Love, which has taken various different and unique forms.

You are an extension of your ultimate oversoul consciousness, who’s been funneled-down to assist the Earth in Her ordained evolution, and we work to help you grow back into the realms of consciousness we found upon evolving from our various planets and civilizations.

The Ascension Process for an Unawakened Soul

We uplifted our planets as well, as we cultivated individual awakenings and worked to awaken those around us. While collective ascensions don’t happen very often, they can be initiated by just one soul awakening and working to awaken those around them.

This is so because the extent to which disbelief and hate have ruled on your Earth has not been experienced on most other lower-dimensional worlds and rather, third-dimensional awareness can give way to purer awareness and understanding quite easily depending on one’s Life path.

Those around you who you perceive to be unawakened but who operate on their own level of consciousness on which they’re comfortable in this moment, are going through their personal ascension processes and responding to the increasingly-pure energies you’re being given, which are being delivered en masse, in their own ways.

For some who haven’t yet understood the realms of full consciousness you’re growing toward, this process of absorbing and assimilating energies from realms they don’t yet understand, is very difficult.

At their surface they know or believe nothing of the realms of full consciousness they’re growing back into, but underneath their surface, they’re more than knowledgeable of such realms. This is because every soul has come from these realms, and while you experience the Earth as extended facets of your higher selves, you’ve never really left the higher dimensions.

What we mean is that you sustain active roots in the higher dimensions as your higher selves, and your lower-dimensional Selves existing on the Earth are facets of the oversoul that is your higher self.

This is why every Earthly soul knows completely of the higher dimensions underneath their surface. The further one goes underneath one’s surface, the closer one gets to a connection with Source and with oneself.

Planning Life Lessons

Connecting with your higher self is very important to your personal evolution, as your higher self has so very much to teach you and orchestrates lessons in your personal Lives for you to learn from. Your guides work with your higher self, and you work as well in your sleep realms to plan events that play out in your Lives in the specific ways needed for your ultimate growth as a soul.

You’re growing (back) into the higher dimensions of consciousness, and your process has included meetings facets of yourselves that could easily be judged as dark or in need of hiding from.

We ask you to realize your completeness as a spiritual being in every facet you exist on the Earth, including the parts of yourselves you’d otherwise hide from or feel ashamed of. Every facet of You is Divine, and we’ve asked our scribe to capitalize the “Y” in the word You to display it’s importance.

Your power as a Divine being is unparalleled, and those facets of yourselves you perceive to be “bad” are simply in need of understanding.

As you properly understand yourselves as spiritual beings, so does your level of security with yourselves begin to grow. We wish for each of you to be completely secure with yourselves as Godsparks of the infinite Creator, as this is what you truly are and you’ve never been meant to struggle too much in self-orchestrated guilt or insecurity regarding oneself.

You’re meant to Love and understand yourselves as facets of Source, and this is why we say that in the eyes of Source, you can never err.

You’re on the lower-dimensional Earth to experience it, and experience it you certainly have.

Enjoy the Earth Experience

Aspects of your human existence that don’t directly impede your growth (or infringe upon others’ growth or freewill) should certainly be sought-out and enjoyed, as even aspects of the lower-dimensional experience that aren’t prevalent in the higher dimensions are still worth experiencing whilst you find yourselves on the Earth.

You’re on the Earth to help awaken and uplift the collective, but why not enjoy your experience as you do this, dear souls?

Why hide yourselves away from the Earth experience or seek only to work away, even if that work benefits your collective, rather than recognizing that you exist in a very unique situation and treating it as such?

In short, we ask for you to enjoy your Earth experience, rather than see it as less-than or in need of upgrading to the higher dimensions you’re growing toward. You’re indeed growing toward the higher dimensions, but your Earth existence is and has always been Divine, unique and worth exploring in every facet.

You can enjoy your Earth experience and even feel at home on your dearest Earth, and we can feel already that many of you who’ve incarnated on the Earth and expected yourselves to venture away from it after Gaia’s ascension has taken place, will choose instead to stay for quite a while and seek to uplift the rest of Creation from the Galactic Headquarters that will be the Earth.

Earth will indeed be a Galactic Headquarters of sorts, as the pure and powerful energy that will emanate from the Earth, which will result from your powerful collective ascension, will reverberate out to so many other planets, and indeed, even galaxies.

The Typical Planetary Ascension Procedure

The Light of your Earthly ascension will spread out to every facet of Creation in need of uplifting and evolution.

The Earth is responding to the energies emitted from other planets whose populations have ascended individually in great numbers, causing the Light-quotient on such planets to tip enough in favor of the Light for planetary ascension to occur.

This is the typical manner in which planetary ascension comes about; as a result of individual souls who Live on such planets awakening and shifting the collective energies into the Light.

Of course – every evolution, be it individual or collective, is monitored and guided Divinely, and you’ve (previously) sought to help various worlds and civilizations to see the Light by working from the realms of their unseen to help awaken their individuals who, in turn, awakened the collective and caused planetary ascension to occur.

The unique thing about your Earthly ascension is that it’s to come-about by your collective awakening and ascending, after the Earth has already reached the pure states of the fifth dimension, which She indeed already has.

The Earth’s spirit exists in the fifth dimension for the most part, and She’s waiting for Her dear collective to catch up. This is quite uncommon for a planetary ascension, but we’ve long recognized that the Earth’s evolution is nothing if not unique.

The individual evolution of each of you is certainly unique, and this is one of many reasons we ask you to embrace your Earthly experience, rather than hide yourselves from it or brand it unworthy of experiencing, simply because it doesn’t exist in the purer realms of consciousness.

Joy and Love are Just as Prevalent

Trust, dear souls: you’re going to learn and discover so very much in the higher dimensions, but for now, we ask you to enjoy the growing higher-dimensional perspective you find descending unto you, as you enjoy the fact that you’re on a very unique planet.

We do indeed note the struggle experienced on your Earth, which makes it quite difficult for a plethora of higher-dimensional souls to incarnate and enjoy their experiences, but we ask you to see that joy and Love are just as prevalent on your Earth, and indeed more so, than any of the lower-dimensional emotions that have been fed for so very long.

Before making our final impressions for this communication, we wish to make one last note about humanity’s concept of time.

You Exist in a Constant Energy

As our scribe has learned by seeking information through books that accurately display the merging of science and spirit, the same energy that Creates and sustains your realities is responsible for the flow of time and the force of gravity humanity experiences. (1)

The force of this flowing energy helps you to stay within your dimensional domain, and what you experience as the flow of time is a movement of energy on your part; energy you Create when moving around or simply existing on your Earth.

In this very moment, you exist in a constant energy; a force that you Create and travel through as it holds you in place and sees you experience a seemingly-linear movement through it.

We seek to offer more information regarding this concept, but find ourselves limited in the terminology and understanding we can express through this scribe.

For now, we’ll make our final impressions for this communication by reminding you that you’re working toward a brimming Galactic future; a future that’ll validate your beliefs concerning the higher dimensions.

Indeed, some of what you believe currently may become outdated in a factual sense, but what so many of you can feel regarding the higher realms and your own lineage is indeed real. What you can feel deep within is realer than could possibly be expressed, and it’s for this and many other reasons that we ask you to nurture it and to nurture yourselves.

Thank you to Saan and the Arcturian Councils.

WesAnnac.com

AquariusParadigm.com

Contributing Editor: The Golden Age of Gaia


(1)- Specifically, David Wilcock’s “Source Field Investigations” discusses this concept.

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7/20/2013 1:23:43 AM
Peace talks for Israel, Palestinians? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with the two sides on Friday, and makes a big announcement.

Kerry wins step to resuming Mideast peace talks

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — After a rush of last-minute talks with Palestinian officials, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sealed a step toward relaunching the long-halted Mideast peace process, announcing Friday that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed on a basis for returning to negotiations.

The statement, which came in a press conference after a day in which Kerry shuttled between the Jordanian capital and the West Bank, reflected how painstakingly incremental movement in the process is. While it appeared deep differences over the groundwork of talks had been bridged, the two sides are to meet — likely in the coming week — to work out final details on actually resuming their negotiations on the toughest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Up to the last minute, the Palestinians had been reluctant to sign on to Kerry's formula for returning to the table with the Israelis, five years after talks broke down.

Late Thursday, the Palestinian leadership said it was sticking by its demand that any negotiations on final borders between Israel and a Palestinian state be based on the cease-fire line that held from 1949 until the 1967 war, when Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. Israel rejects preconditions on the talks.

Kerry held extended talks Friday morning with top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in Amman, then spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry then flew by helicopter to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah, although his departure was delayed by nearly three hours.

Returning to Amman, Kerry told reporters, "We have reached an agreement that establishes the basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis." He added, "This is a significant and welcome step forward."

Still, he said "the agreement is still in the process of being formalized" and the Israeli and Palestinian chief negotiators — Tzipi Livni and Erekat — would hold initial talks in Washington "within the next week or so."

Kerry would not give details on the agreement on the negotiations' basis. "The best way to give these negotiations a chance is to keep them private," he said. "We know that the challenges require some very tough choices in the days ahead. Today, however, I am hopeful."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended Kerry's efforts and the decision by the parties to return to the negotiating table, pledged U.N. support, and called on both sides "to show leadership, courage, and responsibility to sustain this effort towards achieving the two-state vision," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

Kerry has made winning a resumption of Mideast peace talks a priority, and this was his sixth visit to the region as secretary of state. He has been in the region since Monday, meeting in person with Abbas three times over the course of the week. By contrast, he did not see Netanyahu in person at all, but spoke to him numerous times by phone.

Netanyahu's office said it would not immediately comment on Kerry's announcement.

Hoping to push Israelis and Palestinians toward talks, President Barack Obama asked Netanyahu to work with Kerry "to resume negotiations with Palestinians as soon as possible," according to a statement released by the White House late Thursday.

Final status negotiations aim to reach a deal on the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including borders, the fate of Palestinian refugees and security arrangements. Talks ground to a halt five years ago, and previous efforts to revive them have stalled, particularly over Palestinian demands that Israel announce a freeze in construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which they claim as part of a future state along with Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and it is now ruled by the Hamas militant group, which rivals Abbas' Palestinian Authority.

Thursday night, the Palestinian leadership did not repeat the settlement freeze demand. But officials said they wanted guarantees the 1967 lines would be the basis for talks, saying that if Israel accepts that, it would make most of the settlements illegitimate.

Kerry's announcement suggested that the issue had been resolved. In a statement issued after Kerry spoke, Abbas said "lengthy talks ... have resulted in the Palestinians accepting the resumption of talks."

Abbas said "some details still need to be worked out," but that Israeli and Palestinian officials could be invited to Washington for talks in the coming days.

A senior State Department official said the two sides had agreed on the core elements that will allow direct talks to move forward, and that agreement was not reached until Friday afternoon.

Still to be worked out in the upcoming initial talks is the process of the final status negotiations, including the agenda, the official said. When the sides first meet, they will not be "sitting down to draw a line on the map," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the details.

One question still unanswered is whether the tentative agreement reached by Kerry involved Israel explicitly accepting a reference to the 1967 lines — or if it involves the U.S. acting as guarantor that they will be the basis for negotiations.

Previous Israeli governments twice negotiated on the basis of the 1967 lines, with talks focusing on land exchanges. But besides disagreeing over how much land to trade and where, the two sides hit logjams on other key issues, including dividing Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees.

Netanyahu has given lukewarm endorsement to the idea of a Palestinian state but has not delineated his vision of boundaries, while demanding that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Palestinians reject that, concerned that it would undermine their claims that millions of refugees and their descendants have the right to return to their original homes, lost in the 1948-49 war surrounding Israel's creation. Israel has rejected that claim outright.

While Kerry has not publicized details of his plan, an Arab League decision Wednesday to endorse his proposal raised speculation that the Palestinians would agree. Abbas traditionally has sought the blessing of his Arab brethren before making any major diplomatic initiative.

Ahmed Majdalani, a Palestinian leader, said Kerry has proposed holding talks for six to nine months focusing on the key issues of borders and security arrangements.

He said Kerry would endorse the 1967 lines as the starting point of negotiations and assured the Palestinians that Israel would free some 350 prisoners gradually in the coming months. The prisoners would include some 100 men that Israel convicted of crimes committed before interim peace accords were signed in 1993. Israel has balked at freeing these prisoners in the past because many were convicted in deadly attacks.

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7/20/2013 1:31:54 AM

RT: No more GMO: Monsanto drops bid to approve new crops in Europe

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A corn field in Godewaersvelde, northern France. (AFP Photo / Philippe Huguen)
A corn field in Godewaersvelde, northern France. (AFP Photo / Philippe Huguen)

The world’s largest seed corporation says it has dropped its bid to get more genetically modified crops onto the European market due to the wide-spread popular opposition. The biotech giant says it will expand its share of the natural seed market instead.

“We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe. Instead, we will focus on enabling imports of biotech crops into the EU and the growth of our current business there,” the US-based company said in an email statement.

The pending applications for GM crops – 6 types of corn, a soybean variety and a modified sugar beet – will be withdrawn shortly, the biotech giant stressed.

Currently, only two GM crops are approved in Europe, the MON810 maize and a modified potato created by BASF, a German biotech company. However, much of the allowed genetically modified produce is delivered to Europe as animal feed.

Europe has long expressed its concern over the effects of GM food produce on human health.

Several EU member states, including France, Germany, Austria, Spain, have banned the cultivation of genetically-modified crops.

Last September, French scientists from the University of Caen released a study showing that rats fed on a diet containing NK603, a corn seed variety resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup weed-killer, along with those given water mixed with the product at levels permitted in the United States, died earlier than those on a standard diet.

Protests against Monsanto are frequent all over the globe, online and on the streets.

In mid-June, the latest initiative against the corporation was launched. Monsanto Video Revolt was set to bypass the corporate media blackout on GMO foods and bring the issue to world’s attention. The campaign was announced by the Global Healing Center, Natural News and Natural Society, which have united to counter GM produce and the huge amounts of poisonous herbicides and pesticides being dumped all over the world.

In May, an estimated two million people, many of them in Europe, turned out for global anti-GM rallies.

Anti-genetically modified organism activists gather on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel tower during a demonstration against GMOs and US chemical giant Monsanto on May 25, 2013 in Paris. (AFP Photo / Fred Dufour)
Anti-genetically modified organism activists gather on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel tower during a demonstration against GMOs and US chemical giant Monsanto on May 25, 2013 in Paris. (AFP Photo / Fred Dufour)

In the UK, a YouGov poll released last month shows that only 21 percent of Britons are in favor of growing GM crops, with 35 percent opposed to the technology.

However, senior officials in Britain have been stepping up the campaign to bring large-scale farming of genetically-modified crops into Europe. In June, UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson asked the EU to loosen existing controls due to the risk of being “left behind.”

Monsanto noted that they will invest in its European non-GMO seed business instead to boost the corporation’s sales.

The company’s seed business in Europe accounts for over 98 per cent of its $1.72 billion turnover in Europe.

“Conventional seeds is the area where we are focusing at this time in Europe, and we are funding the business in a way that we haven’t done for more than 15 years,” Monsanto’s President and managing Director for Europe, Jose Manuel Madero, indicated to Reuters.

The corporation is already investing $300 million to boost its seed production in France, Romania, Hungary and Turkey, with a mind to cashing in on “several hundred million dollars” more over the next five years, Madero says.

A significant part of that money – an initial investment of $150 million which could double to $300 million within a couple of years – is to be directed to Ukraine, a major global grain producer. Monsanto stressed that the total area sown with its seeds in Ukraine doubled between 2012 and 2013.

Madero wasn’t so optimistic about the corporation’s prospects in Russia, though, as there are no production facilities there.

GM crops not currently grown in Russia or in Ukraine, with the corporation stressing they are not currently seeking to push for such cultivation in those markets.

Despite harsh European opposition, Monsanto-produced GM crops and agro-chemicals are widely used in the US and in other parts of the world.

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