Breaking: Gates Foundation ag official gets USDA post 2

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   Grass Posted 10:54 pm
   17 Apr 2009

   Those food safety bills are starting to look fishier and fishier.  Monsanto is everywhere.  Vilsack is close to them, this Joe shows up at the USDA with a connection to them, DeLauro puts the biggest bill in and then denies her husband Stanley is connected to them but he sure is proud of them on his website, and then Food Democracy Now says they're going to run the entire food deal.  All of it.  What's wrong with Food and Water Watch?  How come they aren't pointing that out to anyone and jumping up and down like they do about big stuff, like bad things in yogurt?  And how'd they get so many of the things they said about DeLauro's bill so wrong?  Anyone can read the foreign food can get a pass so they can't read and say the opposite?  They don't think we can read? Maybe having Monsanto everywhere just sucks the brains out of some organizations.  OCA has been pathetic, too.  Monsanto fever?  The sustainable/green/progressive community is looking awfully sickly, that's for sure.  Monsanto running all food seems like a big thing.  A humongous thing.  Even bigger.  What do you say?  Big or dinky?  Ho-hum for Food and Water Watch?  Maybe they're only interested in yogurt.

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   Grass Posted 5:31 am
   19 Apr 2009

   Given what Monsanto did to Indian farmers and the over 200,000 suicides over the last ten years, it is gross to see an India doing this and either not having made the connection to those deaths or not caring.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html  Thanks, Gates.  First, for years, he gave nothing whatever to others despite his huge wealth, and then when heget criticizes and "gets into philanthropy" it's a power thing and he joins up with "the most evil corporation on the planet."  He's funding death.  Calling it philanthropy.  Like we can't see it for what it is?  Great guy.   Because of his funding genetic engineering and his associations now, his name has become dirt. And here is what the USDA and FDA have done to us, which Shah will certainly, given his corrupt background, make worse.   Four years ago the FDA promised stricter oversight of GMO plants. None of the oversight promised has occurred and the new rule opens even wider holes in any regulatory restrictions despite the strong desire of US and global consumers to avoid GMO foods through labeling and selection.  The new rule will make that virtually impossible:
     Biotech companies will assess their OWN crops to determine whether USDA SHOULD regulate them.  Since the criteria are loose, open and subjective, the outcome is assured: no regulation.
   Biotech companies will be able to grow UNTESTED crops without any USDA oversight whatsoever, making, according to the USDA contamination of conventional and organic crops with untested GMO material "more likely".
   This contamination does not bother USDA regulators since the new rule allows "Low Level Presence" of GMO material in BOTH conventional "organic" food, feed and seed.
   Outdoor cultivation of pharmaceutical-producing and industrial material-producing crops is allowed without supervision or restriction.  The cross pollination of other plants, weeds, feed and food crops with this material is assured.  The consequences include drugs and industrial chemicals ending up in our food and animal feed.
   The rule virtually assures that the DNA to produce these materials will wind up in our own DNA and that of the animals we eat. Both consumer and food industry groups have urged controls on this practice, but the USDA is determined to ignore that input.
   USDA refuses to propose any controls on GMO plants which require or tolerate high levels of pesticide or herbicide use. Insects and weeds both adapt to the presence of these toxins and become resistant to them. Chemical resistant GMO DNA mixes with the genetic material of weeds and insects: an epidemic of super weeds and pests has already resulted.
   In a move to vitiate State and local authorities from protecting farmers and consumers from these regulations, a last minute "correction"  bars state or local regulation of GE crops more protective than its own weak rule.
   The USDA is following the lead of the FDA by opening new loopholes which make consumer and environmental protection meaningless.  The new rule will be of great benefit to Biotech companies who already have more than free reign to contaminate and then own the entire food stock of the US and beyond.
   

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