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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why does President Obama keep Appointing Monsanto Shills to Key Gov. Positions? [View all]
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Found this on
The Republican War on Women fb page
"You're not going to want to hear it, but tough shit. It needs to be said and you need to be educated and stop acting like teabilly fuckheads (some of you) We are the ones with logic, so lets start acting like it. We are fucking up as a country and I am about to tell you why. I'm going to put the smack down of ALL smack downs on this pathetic and quite frankkly silly "outrage" about Obama signing this stupid little six month extension on an already existing law. All the liberal pages are running to his defense. "It was snuck in!" "He had no choice!" Give me a fucking break. Oh if only I had seen all of your outrage when......
the president 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. (are you awake yet?)
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 preciously worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO agriculture research.
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.
In the real activist world, they see Obama as a lobbyist for Monsanto already. So don't pretend to care NOW all of a sudden. He signed this six month extension of a already existing law that quite frankly nothing could have been done about it anyway, that part is true. But don't sit there and actually defend him like he's so god damn helpless, because you weren't saying a fucking thing when he gave his buddies at Monsanto key appointments as listed above. No one put a gun to his head any of those times and they didn't "sneak in" to their jobs! Stop being hypocrites, (some of you) pages and fans, the stupid is starting to really stink. The quicker you admit we have a huge problem, the quicker we can solve it. But don't defend what is wrong. Wrong is wrong. Deal with it"
DISCLAIMER: I did not write this, However, I do find it bothersome that we voted for change, and yet President Obama Keeps hiring the same lackeys any other candidate would have.
This is my biggest problem with Our President. He is really into GMO farming as if it will save the world. Meanwhile our First Lady is an Organic Farmer.
I know some of you will get mad at me for posting this. But I am not the one choosing these people to high level positions of Authority within the Government.
ANOTHER ADDITION:
Apparently the Original Source of this information comes from a Right-Wing Nut Job my apologies. I am not a wing nut in disguise. Infact I am a black female part of the 99% I don't believe the Republican party wants my support.
That being said, I still have a few questions of concern:
Why does Monsanto need so much protection from us consumers?
What are they doing the food, that makes them afraid of being sued?
Can we get a Surgeon General warning on all Monsanto products?