We’ve mentioned Monsanto here, including their relationship with Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn), whose husband works for Monsanto, and her obnoxious bill which would cripple organic and local farmers, drive them out of business, and install more of Monsanto’s genetetically engineered seeds and chemicals into our homes and our bodies.
Well look where else Monsanto is about to drop their mutant seeds:
President Obama has named Rajiv Shah, the Gates Foundation’s director of agricultural development, as Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics at the USDA.
The Gates Foundation’s agriculture efforts have been criticized for ties to Monsanto, the globe’s largest seed company and dominant purveyor of genetically modified seed traits. In 2007, the Gates Foundation named Rob Horsch, a long-time Monsanto VP, deputy director of its agricultural development initiative.
Better living through chemicals and “high yield” using genetically altered seed is apparently the goal of this administration and his complicit House of Representatives. Continue to plan to say good bye to your local Farmer’s Market because local small farmers are about to be smoked by Monstanto’s friend Ms. DeLauro - and now Mr. Shah can help her out. You probably should buy some stock in Monsanto though. Here’s hoping you live long enough to enjoy the profits. Isn’t it amazing how so many people could be so feverishly concerned about Global Warming and concurrently not give a rat’s butt what Americans are forced to ingest through their food supply?
What also bothers me just as much is how little the Republicans are saying about the kind of things that really affect “regular people”. They commandeered a boatload of Tea Parties, but we haven’t heard a word from their congressional members about things like this.
I guess I shall have to assume that Monsanto’s chemicals and seeds are just fine to both sides of this useless Congress. Apparently, the company that strongarmed the FDA into approving Aspartame when they knew it carried health risks is a friend to all concerned — and should be trusted to control the rest of our food ingestion, whether we want them to do it or not.
Since it appears that we are on our own and now officially have NO party looking out for anyone but themselves and their friends, here’s more reading for you on what Monsanto has planned for your body. I guess this explains why so many people are stocking up on non-hybrid non-Monsanto seeds as part of their survival stash.
Filed under: Uncategorized
--Graphic by Freedom Fairy
--Graphic by Dances With Pumas
"This is not culture. This is not custom. This is criminal."
Why is it that everyone 0 appoints has a name that sounds like all the folks we arrested under Bush?
Ah….seems that helping spouses is alive and well in this “New” political Climate:
“On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. ”
Gee, imagine that.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/
crooked, crooked, crooked…….all of them
I gave up eating corn many years ago because of Monsanto – and it was so hard to do, cause I loved fresh corn. I won’t even buy canned or frozen corn anymore and won’t grow it, because of the cross pollination possibilities.
This is so depressing – stop the world, I wanna get off!
Controlling the food supply is no small matter. Where is this going? This sounds like a way we are going to be dominated and it will be worse than our addiction to oil. We all need to eat. Rosa Delauro is another one that needs to be voted out!
Well guess what Spock? There are now claims that overeating causes Global Warming. Something to do with food production. Tomatoes just don’t give enough back, according to the story I saw. They cause more damage than they are worth. Do you like tomatoes?
You Vill Eat Less Und Like It!
Uppity – they want to get rid of tomatoes so Bo won’t tear up Meanchelle’s garden.
Remember, Zero said that PWD’s like to eat tomatoes…..
Can’t have that horrible creature digging up the fruits of HER labors….
Yeah, Bo could drag the SS man over to the tomatoes and dig in.
Oh 3 months, not 3 years……
My bad. But living in Obamaland means never having to say you’re wrong!!!!!!!!!!
lol
What worries me are the bees dying off Uppity. From the toxic seeds.
Here is more off Grist:
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-vilsack-biotech-will-solve-our-ag-probl/
ps: have you guys ever heard of Kent Whealy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Whealy
When I was first a gardener I had this great book and I learned about him — back when that craze for heirlooms was on. He is just this amazing gardener. He saved the seeds because it strengthens them? Like if I planted a tomato and Uppity did and FF did — and we started out with the same seed to begin with — but every year we saved it — those three tomatoes would start to adapt to each location — it’s a little like what happened in the Irish potato famine? You need more than one? The strength is in the diversity?
So, each year the seeds each of us had would grow stronger in terms of location? Anyway…I can’t see the cover of the book I had but this one in Amazon is about that subject too!
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers: Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity (Hardcover)
hugs Upp & Co! ps: this heatwave— my roses! grrrrrrrrrr!
it’s frying them! Out here we are having oh, 20 to 30 degrees in temp change up and down.
one good thing about being a gardener — you notice when stuff isn’t normal like that– because you have been planting for years and all of a sudden the weather is different…
Valentine, my grandfather, and then my mother always saved seeds from tomatoes for next year’s planting. Also, beans.
Valentine, Monsanto doesn’t give a rat’s rear about bees.
You guys are so brave to even utter the word m o n s a n t o. If we are even slightly aware of what they are doing all over this world, can yoiu just imagine what we do not know.
Rosa kissing butt live on teevee.
Shiver-me-timbers.
I hate M o n s a n t o. Thanks for this post, Uppity. It motivated to call all my reps about this, not that I think they care or anything. Still, good to vent once in a while.
[...] want you to think that has anything to do with it. This will also move along a lot faster now that Monsanto’s guy took over the USDA. But don’t worry, it will taste just like real food! Organic gardening is so over-rated! [...]
[...] want you to think that has anything to do with it. This will also move along a lot faster now that Monsanto’s guy took over the USDA. But don’t worry, it will taste just like real food! Organic gardening is so over-rated! [...]