Monsanto's Dark Act ready for Obama's signature
President Barack Obama: Monsanto's man in Washington
By Jon Rappoport
"Let folks know when their food is genetically modified,
because Americans have a right to know what they're buying." (Barack
Obama, 2007)
Really?
In the last eight years, the global outcry against Monsanto
and the other biotech giants has accelerated---but not a significant
peep has emerged from the Obama White House.
And now, the bill dubbed The Dark Act is ready for Obama's
signature. It will make GMO labels on food an exclusively federal
matter---and those labels will be confusing, weak, and therefore
meaningless for the majority of Americans. The Dark Act is basically a
free pass for Monsanto and the other biotech giants.
After his victory in the 2008 election, Obama filled key
posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous
force in GMO food issues---the USDA and the FDA:
At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of
Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto
Danforth Center.
As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues
czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public
policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval
for Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.
As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack.
Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors' Biotechnology
Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the
Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.
As the Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.
As the counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.
As the head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously
worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a
major funder of GMO agriculture research.
We should also remember that Obama's Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was
counsel to Monsanto.
Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan,
as federal solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the
Monsanto v. Geertson seed case before the Supreme Court.
The deck was stacked. Obama hadn't simply made honest
mistakes. Obama hadn't just failed to exercise proper oversight in
selecting appointees. He was staking out territory on behalf of Monsanto
and other GMO corporate giants.
And now let us look at what key Obama appointees have wrought
for their true bosses. Let's see what GMO crops have walked through the
open door of the Obama presidency.
Monsanto GMO alfalfa.
Monsanto GMO sugar beets.
Monsanto GMO Bt soybean.
Syngenta GMO corn for ethanol.
Syngenta GMO stacked corn.
Pioneer GMO soybean.
Syngenta GMO Bt cotton.
Bayer GMO cotton.
ATryn, an anti-clotting agent from the milk of transgenic goats.
A GMO papaya strain.
Genetically engineered salmon.
This is an extraordinary parade.
Obama was, all along, a stealth operative on behalf of
Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and corporate control of the future of
agriculture.
He didn't make that many key political appointments and allow
that many new GMO crops to enter the food chain through a lack of
oversight.
Nor is it coincidental that two of the Obama's biggest
supporters, Bill Gates and George Soros, purchased 900,000 and 500,000
shares of Monsanto, respectively, in 2010.
Obama has been a covert agent since the beginning.
Imposter. Charlatan. These words fit Obama. He doesn't care
that GMO food is taking over the country and the world. He obviously
wants it to happen.
The sitting president of the United States, and Monsanto,
DuPont, and Dow, among others, are prepared to do whatever is necessary
to make GMO food dominate America.
Obama is on board.
He is the GMO president.
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