Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-has-taken-over-usda-1368111215

Monsanto is, of course, the world's largest biotech corporation. These are the people who brought us Roundup weed killer and the resulting superweeds and superbugs, along with growth hormones for cows, genetically engineered and patented seeds, PCBs, and Agent Orange -- which Monsanto now wants us to use as herbicide on genetically engineered corn and soybeans.

This chemical company -- responsible for environmental disasters that have destroyed entire towns, and a driving force behind the international waves of suicides among farmers whose lives it has helped ruin -- has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A recent study links Roundup to autism, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's.

While Hungary has just destroyed all Monsanto genetically engineered corn fields, the USDA takes a slightly different approach toward the chemical giant. The USDA has, in fact, never denied a single application from Monsanto for new genetically engineered crops. Not one. Not ever.

(More at the link.)

[99th_Monkey]

1. You are NOT exaggerating, according to this Nation article by Jeremy Scahill

The MegaCorporate many headed Frankenstein (Monsanto, GE, Blackwater Black Ops, et. al.) is emerging from the shadows,
and POTUS is AWOL.

http://www.thenation.com/article/154739/blackwaters-black-ops#

[Demeter]

2. POTUS is a wholly owned subsidiary

[99th_Monkey]

4. More to the point, you are. ~nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. And there's a frikin' Monsanto "roundup" ad at the top of the page. Little trick: Use vinegar

as an herbicide, diluted. I've heard it works wonders, but I don't know if it will also kill the plants you wish to keep.

[limpyhobbler]

5. And the State Deptartment too, apparently

US government lobbying for Monsanto across the globe

After US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that the State Department was lobbying worldwide for Monsanto and other similar corporations, a new report based on the cables shows Washington's shilling for the biotech industry in distinct detail.

The August 2011 WikiLeaks revelations showed that American diplomats had requested funding to send lobbyists for the biotech industry to hold talks with politicians and agricultural officials in "target countries" in areas like Africa and Latin America, where genetically-modified crops were not yet a mainstay, as well as some European countries that have resisted the controversial agricultural practice.

After a concerted effort to "closely examine five years of State Department diplomatic cables from 2005 to 2009 to provide the first comprehensive analysis of the strategy, tactics and U.S. foreign policy objectives to foist pro-agricultural biotechnology policies worldwide," nonprofit consumer protection group Food & Water Watch published on Tuesday a report showing in plain detail the depth of the partnership between the federal government and a number of controversial biotech companies that have slowly but surely pushed their GMO products on a number of new countries in recent years.

http://rt.com/usa/wikileaks-monsanto-cables-report-273/


Credit for Food & Water Watch:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/pressreleases/biotech-ambassadors-diplomacy-or-marketing/