(NaturalNews) – The freedom to grow one’s own food is a foundational
pillar of civilization, and one that absolutely must persist if
humanity itself is to exist. But this freedom is rapidly disintegrating
in the US, as multinational corporations like Monsanto seize control
of the American food supply through the widespread propagation of
patented, genetically-modified (GM) seeds and crops. And the Obama
administration is currently at the helm of orchestrating this hostile
takeover, as it continues to openly support any and all efforts to
spread GMOs far and wide, whether it be on private farmland or public
wildlife refuges.
The American
landscape is quickly becoming nothing but a giant patchwork of
corporately-controlled biotechnology farms, with individual landowners
biting hook, line, and sinker at the bait by willingly tilling their
fields with “frankenseeds,” and collectively dousing them in millions
of tons of chemical herbicides and pesticides like Monsanto’s Roundup
formula. And now the US government wants to plant GMOs in national
wildlife refuges, where the crops’ easily-transmissible transgenic
traits are sure to permanently pollute pristine ecosystems all across
the US (http://www.naturalnews.com/032726_G…).
The Obama administration’s stance on GMOs is just like the Bush administration’s, except on steroids
During
the time George W. Bush held presidential office, his administration
took quite a bit of flack from organic and consumer groups over its
open support for GMOs. And rather than reverse any of that
administration’s corrupt policies, the Obama administration has since
taken them to a whole new level, with an accelerated push to spread
GMOs wherever it possibly can.
Almost immediately after being
declared the winner of the US presidential election in 2008, Barack
Obama began rapidly packing his administration with GMO apologists like
current US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor
and long-time supporter of GMOs (http://www.organicconsumers.org/art…),
and Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Michael Taylor, who had formerly served as Vice
President for Public Policy at Monsanto (http://www.organicconsumers.org/art…), just to name a few.
You can view a more extensive list of the GMO shills that Obama has appointed within his administration here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/art…
Obama lied about supporting mandatory labeling for GMOs
Many
people have probably already forgotten this, but Obama actually
promised while he was on the campaign trail that he would support
mandatory labeling for GMOs. Now that he sits as president, not only has
he failed to fulfill this promise, but he and his administration’s
continued actions are a blatant contradiction to this promise in
practically every way (http://www.organicconsumers.org/art…).
According
to a recent report from Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility (PEER), a national alliance of local, state, and federal
resource professionals, the Obama administration has actually entered
into an alliance with the biotechnology industry to remove all current
legal and procedural barriers that prevent the open spread of GMOs. This
includes the USDA’s recently announced “hands-off” policy that GMOs
are essentially exempt from the agency’s regulatory jurisdiction (http://www.anh-usa.org/the-wheels-c…).
The
Obama administration formed an “Agriculture Biotech Working Group” in
2010 as well that consists of 35 officials from ten different federal
agencies. The purpose of the group is to advocate for GM agriculture,
and establish legal protection for GMOs that will allow their further
propagation without obstruction. This illegitimate partnership between
industry and government serves no public benefit, of course — it only
serves to enrich the coffers of Monsanto, Syngenta, BASF, and other key
players in the industry that are effectively seizing control of
agriculture, one seed at a time (http://www.naturalnews.com/033148_s…).
Obama has provided no real change, just more of the same
Obama’s
legacy thus far is one that has not only continued the dismal policies
inherited by the Bush administration, but also one that has made them
far, far worse. And yet very few seem to be concerned about holding the
administration responsible for blatantly lying to the public about
GMOs, or for following in the footsteps of previous administrations
that served as “revolving doors” for key players to move easily between
biotechnology industry positions and high political positions.
However,
PEER is attempting to bring about some real change with its recent
lawsuit against the administration’s Working Group. Several agencies
continue to conceal important documents that may eventually reveal the
true extent to which the US government is colluding with the
biotechnology industry to promote its interests. You can read more about
this lawsuit here: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/…
“It
is frankly depressing that the top White House official for ecosystem
recovery is hustling genetically altered soybeans on slivers of land
set aside for wildlife,” said PEER Staff Counsel Kathryn Douglass
concerning the GMO wildlife proposals in a recent statement. “One thing
we do know is this Biotech Working Group exhibits the opposite of the
transparent, science-based decision-making we were promised from this
administration.”
Sources for this story include: http://www.anh-usa.org/the-wheels-c…
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