Monsanto to have Power Over US Government

[Noob]

Monsanto Protection Act Trumps US Government

Federal courts would be powerless to regulate the sale and even cultivation of illegal and dangerous GMO crops, succumbing instead to the power of the biotech industry and Monsanto.


https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1415

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_the_monsanto_protection_act/

[DamianTV]

Say hello to the Corporate Congress.

Anything YOU do is illegal, regardless if it harms billions of people or not.

Anything Corporations do is just "too big to jail", and no one will hold them accountable.

[donnay]

Say hello to the Corporate Congress.

Anything YOU do is illegal, regardless if it harms billions of people or not.

Anything Corporations do is just "too big to jail", and no one will hold them accountable.


SMH--truth. However we can stop this by educating as many people as we can about this evil enterprise!! These people are pure evil!!

[Noob]

Tell your Senators: Reject the Biotech Rider!

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50202/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10027

[erowe1]

Federal courts would be powerless to regulate...

I don't need to read the rest of the sentence. Whatever it is, I'm for it.

[kathy88]

Feds SHOULD have no say. Get the individual states on this.

[donnay]

http://www.rawfoodlife.com/Monsatan_scientist.jpg


Monsanto's Government Ties

"Agricultural biotechnology will find a supporter occupying the White House next year, regardless of which candidate win the election in November"
- Monsanto Inhouse Newsletter, 2000

A Monsanto official told the New York Times that the corporation should not have to take responsibility for the safety of its food products. "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food," said Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job."

It would be nice to think the FDA can be trusted with these matters, but think again. Monsanto has succeeded in insuring that government regulatory agencies let Monsanto do as it wishes. Take a look:

Prior to being the Supreme Court Judge who put GW Bush in office,Clarence Thomas was Monsanto's lawyer.

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Anne Veneman) was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Calgene Corporation.
The Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Searle pharmaceuticals.


The U.S. Secretary of Health, Tommy Thompson, received $50,000 in donations from Monsanto during his winning campaign for Wisconsin's governor.
The two congressmen receiving the most donations from Monsanto during the last election were Larry Combest (Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee) and Attorney General John Ashcroft. (Source: Dairy Education Board)

In order for the FDA to determine if Monsanto's growth hormones were safe or not, Monsanto was required to submit a scientific report on that topic. Margaret Miller, one of Monsanto's researchers put the report together. Shortly before the report submission, Miller left Monsanto and was hired by the FDA. Her first job for the FDA was to determine whether or not to approve the report she wrote for Monsanto. In short, Monsanto approved its own report. Assisting Miller was another former Monsanto researcher, Susan Sechen. Deciding whether or not rBGH-derived milk should be labeled fell under the jurisdiction of another FDA official, Michael Taylor, who previously worked as a lawyer for Monsanto.

Organic and Natural Product Companies
Associated with Monsanto

• Brand Name(s): Arrowhead Mills, Bearitos, Breadshop, Celestial Seasonings, Earth's Best Baby Food, Garden of Eatin, Health Valley, Imagine Foods, Terra Chips, Westbrae, Millina's, Mountain Sun, Shari Ann's, Walnut Acres Owned By: Hain Food Group Principle Stockholders: Bank of America, Entergy Nuclear, ExxonMobil, H.J. Heinz, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Monsanto, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Walmart, Waste Mangement Inc. Significantly Owned By: Citigroup

• Brand Name(s): Cascadian Farms, Muir Glen Owned By: Small Planet Foods Principle Stockholders: General Mills Significantly Owned By: Alcoa, Chevron, Disney, Dupont, ExxonMobil, General Electric, McDonalds, Monsanto, Nike, Pepsico, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Starbucks, Target, Texas Instruments

Article From: http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html

[mrsat_98]

http://www.gematrix.org/?word=monsanto

[sailingaway]

this bill is up like tomorrow, according to twitter. Or as soon as it is called.

[J_White]

makes me remember when in the movie Idiocracy, the Brawndo firm bought FDA !! LOL !

http://i.imgur.com/KyxjVcO.png

[sailingaway]

Feds SHOULD have no say. Get the individual states on this.

This bill gives monsanto immunity for its stuff that is out before harm is proven. FDA rules would only be for everyone else who competes.

[anaconda]

Does anyone know which congress critter slipped this in the bill? Says it was introduced by the Senate Appropriations Committee. This is the Chairperson:

http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/about-chairman.cfm

[Inkblots]

I don't need to read the rest of the sentence. Whatever it is, I'm for it.

Hear, hear.

[libertyjam]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/598883_499898996713823_148068026_n.jpg

[amy31416]

• Brand Name(s): Arrowhead Mills, Bearitos, Breadshop, Celestial Seasonings, Earth's Best Baby Food, Garden of Eatin, Health Valley, Imagine Foods, Terra Chips, Westbrae, Millina's, Mountain Sun, Shari Ann's, Walnut Acres Owned By: Hain Food Group Principle Stockholders: Bank of America, Entergy Nuclear, ExxonMobil, H.J. Heinz, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Monsanto, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Walmart, Waste Mangement Inc. Significantly Owned By: Citigroup

• Brand Name(s): Cascadian Farms, Muir Glen Owned By: Small Planet Foods Principle Stockholders: General Mills Significantly Owned By: Alcoa, Chevron, Disney, Dupont, ExxonMobil, General Electric, McDonalds, Monsanto, Nike, Pepsico, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Starbucks, Target, Texas Instruments


God damn. It's not enough to just avoid RoundUp and cheap hybrid seeds. Argh.

[Noob]

Monsanto is trying to push through a “rider” -- an amendment that has never been debated or reviewed by a committee -- to take away the right of farmers and consumers to question the approval of new genetically modified plants and animals in court. In response, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D- Oregon, 4th) has authored a “Dear Colleague” letter opposing the biotech rider and is urging his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives to join him.

Please tell your Representative to sign Rep. DeFazio’s Dear Colleague letter opposing the biotech rider and ask your Senators to urge Senate Appropriations Chairman Inouye to oppose the rider!

The Big Four Meatpackers -- Tyson, Cargill, JBS and National Beef -- are trying to repeal USDA’s “GIPSA” rules that restrict some of the most egregious anti-competitive practices, such as requiring producers to make expensive upgrades even though the original equipment still functions, or failing to give if the company intends to suspend a production contract.

Please contact your Representative and Senators. Ask your Representative to sign the Dear Colleague letter and oppose the “GIPSA” rider. Urge your Senators to oppose the “GIPSA” rider and encourage Sen. Inouye to oppose the biotech rider.


https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5706/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12356

[Noob]

going to bump this.

[Deborah K]

God damn. It's not enough to just avoid RoundUp and cheap hybrid seeds. Argh.

It's so much more than that now. They are patenting seed. Which means they will control food.

[Deborah K]

http://www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/user_upload/themen/patente_auf_leben/greenpeace_patente_von_monsanto_englisch.pdf

[Deborah K]

http://stks.freshpatents.com/MON-sym.php