Obama had Michael Taylor, a Monsanto lawyer, on the transition team, the same guy who ran the FDA under Clinton and is responsible for rBGH and then with the conflict of a Monsanto employeed approving a Monsanto product - 1st genetically engineered product ever approved by the FDA - Clinton put him in charge of the USDA. So, with Taylor to advise, Obama appointed Vilsack, a close Monsanto ally and promoter of biotech, CAFOs, NAIS and antidemocratic laws, to head the USDA.
So maybe, just before the inauguration with all the sustainable agriculture people "hoping" Vilsack isn't the plant he has neon signs on him saying he is, it might be a good idea to look more at Monsanto - at genetic engineering and how Monsanto operates.
In India where Mahyco is Monsanto's distributor there, doctors there are questioning every aspect of genetically engineered food as well as the absurdity of the government accepting Mahyco's own studies as proof Bt-brinjal (eggplant) is safe.
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