Posted on 03/30/2013 11:06:55 AM PDT by Arthurio
By Connor Adams Sheets | March 27 2013 4:55 PM
Anger is growing against President Barack Obama the day after he signed into law a spending bill that included a provision opponents have dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act."
That bill, the HR 933 continuing resolution, was mainly aimed at averting a government shutdown and ensuring that the federal government would continue to be able to pay its bills for the next six months.
But food and public safety advocates and independent farmers are furious that Obama signed it despite its inclusion of language that they consider to be a gift to Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) and other firms that produce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or genetically engineered (GE) seeds and crops.
And protesters have spent the past couple of days demonstrating in front of the White House, first calling on Obama to veto the bill, and now criticizing him for his failure to do so.
The protests come on the heels of a massive petition campaign organized by the advocacy group Food Democracy Now, which gathered the signatures of more than 200,000 people who wanted Obama to veto HR 933 in order to stop Section 735 -- the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act" -- from being codified into law.
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Likely to be a category 1 furor, or .3 on the Richter scale.
Monsanto probably didn’t bring the cash into the Oval Office in grocery bags, as Johnny Chung did during the Clintons’ pay-for-play years. Computers are so much more convenient is stuffing the Democrat campaign kitty for the Won. He’ll be using that to beat the Republicans to a pulp in the House elections next year.
Roy Blunt was the senator who put the Monsanto Language into the bill.
Coming next...
- General Electric Protection Act
- MSNBC Protection Act
- General Motors Protection Act...
Think of it as a kinder, gentler fascism.
He proposed it, and it was then quietly slipped through Barbara Mikulski’s committee. A fine example of “bipartisanship.”
Oh the horror. The trial lawyers will be starving in the streets.
Tis but a tempest in a teapot, a prestitute endeavor to sell some ink
“Oh the horror. The trial lawyers will be starving in the streets.”
I’m concerned about my family and not the trial lawyers. And I’m also concerned about giving any global corporation like Monsanto immunity from accountability. If they have the right to genetically experiment on what they can produce as “food” without any accountability, then they need to disclose it as genetically modified on the label...but they aren’t.
Forget the trial lawyers and shareholder funded civil suits. When stuff happens we need to see the CEOs held criminally accountable when they cause problems for others as did a Wall St, that Obama let slide by.
I’ll predict that there would be rightful public backlash to this type of food if it was disclosed as GMO on labels. Where is the free market so we can all freely decide if we wish to buy and consume it? I don’t trust FDA, government and these companies to tell the truth. Do you?
GMO on a label for many would be a skull and cross bones because there are no long term tests and results. Full transparency is what we need, but instead the lobbyists buy off the pols to give us what makes them most profit. Safe food should not be a political issue.
Obama hasn’t learned the power of the internet yet.
Despite their animus history, Barack Obama seems to be warming to the K Street corporate lobbyists he once adamantly denounced.
In 2009, in a classic revolving-door move, President Barack Obama appointed former Monsanto VP and head lobbyist Michael Taylor as Deputy Commissioner for the FDA — the board tasked with regulating Taylor’s own industry.
Taylor joins the growing list of public officials formerly employed by Monsanto, a worldwide food giant oft-criticized for its poor environmental record and repeated aggressive legal action against small farmers over copyright issues.
“I don’t take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House,” Obama said in a 2008 campaign speech. A little research, however, shows that claim to be a questionable one.
While the FDA’s headquarters are technically located in Maryland and not the White House, this appointment took place just seven months into the Obama presidency, with few noticing until this online petition gained popularity this weekend.
That's why the Baraqqi regime is so dangerous. It's not the left wing ideology, it's the "master's degree" in "operations" from the Chicago political mob.
They are nothing more than street hookers with about as much class.
I’m seeing a nation where the sheeple are purposely kept deflected and divided about mostly passion inciting stuff, while our treasury and we the people are plundered along with our once inalienable rights by foreigners, sovereignty thieving globalists, banksters, corporatists and fascists. While the media is giving us 24/7 views on DOMA, this is what comes through unhindered.
sorta like federal judges meddling with the legislative process by striking down laws passed by state and federal congress at the behest of illegal invader and homosexual groups? Sorta like that?
That being said this seems quite unconstitutional, right up barry's alley.
“Coming next...
- General Electric Protection Act
- MSNBC Protection Act
- General Motors Protection Act...
Think of it as a kinder, gentler fascism.”
Yes, but look at the bright side. Before that nasty business in the early-mid 1940’s, Germany did very well in the 30’s, with the German government and favored business working together towards a better future! The German economy actually managed to pull off “guns AND butter”...for a while, anyway...
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“I’ll predict that there would be rightful public backlash to this type of food if it was disclosed as GMO on labels. Where is the free market so we can all freely decide if we wish to buy and consume it? I don’t trust FDA, government and these companies to tell the truth. Do you?”
Hallelujah! Someone gets it.
There was a French study that shocked a lot of people, but it was reportedly debunked....
But Pollan pointed out that Seralini’s two year study was rejected as unscientific while Monsanto’s 90 day effort was sufficient for EU approval, even though Seralini used the same elements and animals Monsanto used. But mainstream media outlets accept corporate research over independent research. (emphasis mine - tbp)
There is growing anecdotal evidence that the 2nd & 3rd generation of animals fed on GMO feeds are experiencing some severe reproductive problems.
Genetic engineering is not the same as Gregor Mendel's peas. It's forcing combinations that would never occur naturally with no real undersstanding of the long term effects.
Some one has said that GMO stands for "God, Move Over". I agree. God created things to reproduce after their own kind. Genetic engineering definitely goes against this natural low. Just chalk it up to the test tube version of gay marriage.
We keep reading these articles about all the “furor” that’s supposedly “gathering” against Obama, but he continues to claim the loyalties of all those countless millions of Americans who live by depleting the funds of those honest citizens who don’t have their hands out to Uncle Sam.
They just finished voting him a second term - with substantial help from vast numbers of Black criminals who voted more than once - so it’s a little late for “furor.”
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