Hey. I’m
always here to offer advice to the Left, to make their road smoother,
to point them in the direction of fellow travelers they should cancel
for deficiencies of “wokeness.”
Let’s start with the issue of GMOs, poisonous Roundup, and Monsanto (now swallowed up by Bayer).
Joe Biden is going to appoint Mr. Monsanto, Tom Vilsack, as his Secretary of Agriculture. Tommy boy held that post under Obama.
The
Organic Consumers Association writes: “If, like us, you dream of an
organic, regenerative food system led by independent family farmers,
then news that Joe Biden has asked Tom Vilsack to return to his Obama
Era post as Secretary of Agriculture should be a real cause for
concern.”
“…when you look behind the curtains to see what Vilsack was really doing at USDA from 2009 through 2017, it’s not pretty.”
“He
pushed through a corporate agribusiness agenda that began with his
approval of more new genetically modified crops than any other
Secretary, culminated in his shepherding of a bill to kill GMO labels
through Congress, and included his racist firing of African American
land trust hero Shirley Sherrod and his distortion of data to conceal
decades of discrimination against black farmers. Between 2006 and 2016,
the USDA [US Dept. of Agriculture] was six times more likely to
foreclose on a black farmer than a white farmer.”
“But,
Biden doesn’t care about any of this. Vilsack is Biden’s buddy and
that’s all that matters to him. As the American Prospect reports,
Vilsack has had ‘a decades-long relationship with Joe Biden, going back
to when he endorsed him for president while mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
in 1988’.”
“Vilsack
has remained very loyal to Biden. In the last year, he gave Biden more
than $8,000 in campaign contributions (excluding money from his wife or
to Democratic Party committees).”
“This
support didn’t just get him a job in the cabinet, he wrote Biden’s
campaign platform on agriculture issues, stuffing it full of false
solutions like corn ethanol and methane digesters run on factory farm
dairy waste.”
“We
need a USDA Secretary of Agriculture who will be a hero, steering our
food and farming system toward a brighter, regenerative future---not a
Secretary who will continue to be a pawn for the same corporate
interests that are causing, and profiting from, the mess we are in.”
Good luck with that dream under Biden.
Let’s
go further. Here’s a piece I wrote during the Obama years---you know,
when we were all living in paradise---about the president’s GMO program.
Keep
in mind that Biden’s new secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, was on
board every step of the way, with Obama. Vilsack was enabler, expert,
political operative, cheerleader---
MEET MONSANTO’S MAN IN WASHINGTON, BARACK OBAMA
Obama? A warrior against corporations on behalf of the people? It’s long past the time for ripping that false mask away.
During
his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that
he understood the GMO/Roundup issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were
impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to
their concerns and act on them.
These
activists weren't just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama
said: “Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because
Americans have a right to know what they're buying.”
Making
the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication
that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to
draw in the sand.
Beyond
that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He
was adamant in assuring that, if elected, his administration wouldn't do
business “the old way.” He would be “responsive to people's needs.”
Then came the reality.
After
the election, people who had been working to label GMO food and warn
the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core. They saw Obama
had been pulling a bait and switch.
After
the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in
federal agencies that wield tremendous force in 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 new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.
As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.
As
the new 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 wasn't just experiencing a failure of short-term
memory. 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.
Coming soon: Monsanto's GMO sweet corn.
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.
And perhaps, soon, genetically engineered salmon and apples.
This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most GMO-dedicated politician in America.
You
don't attain that position through errors or oversights. Obama was, all
along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and
corporate control of the future of agriculture.
From
this perspective, Michelle Obama's campaign for gardens and clean,
organic, nutritious food is nothing more than a diversion, a cover story
floated to obscure what her husband has actually been doing.
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.
We
are talking about a president who presented himself, and was believed
by many to be, an extraordinary departure from politics as usual.
Not only was that a wrong assessment, Obama was lying all along. He was, and he still is, Monsanto's man in Washington.
To
those people who fight for GMO labeling and the outlawing of GMO crops,
and against the decimation of the food supply and the destruction of
human health, but still believe Obama is a beacon in bleak times:
Wake up.
---end of 2014 article---
Well, well. Tom Vilsack is back. Biden is about to betray the Left on a key issue.
Dear Lefties: Are you going to sit still for this?
Start tweeting and FBing.
I wonder whether you’ll get censored by your comrades in Big Tech…
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here -- with sources.) 
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