Topic: Monsanto Opium

The United Nations reports a dramatic increase in Afghan opium production, which earned farmers $1.4 billion in 2011. The hosts discuss the possibility of Monsanto developing "terminator" poppy seeds that cannot reproduce, which would allow for corporate control of the global heroin market and ensure high prices through artificial scarcity.

An Indiana National Guard unit is deployed to Afghanistan as an Agricultural Development Team (ADT) to assist local farmers. The hosts suggest these units are actually being used to manage the poppy/opium crop. They speculate that Monsanto will eventually introduce genetically modified poppy seeds to the region to increase yields.