white with foam » Obama http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog The penultimate last word Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:01:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Evil that Is Monsanto http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog/blog/the-evil-that-is-monsanto/ http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog/blog/the-evil-that-is-monsanto/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:27:58 +0000 David Virden http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog/?p=71 Monsanto has inflicted more environmental and health damage than any company on the planet. They are the folks that brought you DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, rBGH, and GMOs. And now they’re trying to make GMOs the law of the land. They’re doing this by buying up seed companies across the Midwest, getting legislation passed that punishes small farmers and suing local farmers across the land. This includes suing dairy farms that don’t use their rBGH (which has been shown to cause cancer and has been banned by Canada and most of western Europe) for stating that their milk is rGBH-free.

And President Obama has chosen a Monsanto lackey — former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack — to head the USDA, which is responsible for ensuring the health and safety of America’s food supply. Vilsack was responsible for passing much of the pro-Monsanto legislation that hurts small farmers who are trying to plant “normal” non-GMO crops. Write President Obama and tell him that the opportunity to choose food that hasn’t been genetically altered, contaminated with pesticides and injected with hormones should be a basic right.

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