Monsanto's Hometown Paper Takes Missouri Senator Roy Blunt to Task for Monsanto Protection Act
Monsanto's Hometown Paper Takes Missouri Senator Roy Blunt to Task for Monsanto Protection Act
http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/apr/11/monsantos_hometown_paper_spanks_senator_blunt/
Two weeks after the passage of the Monsanto Protection Act, Monsanto's hometown paper, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has come out with a blistering editorial titled "Blunt's 'Monsanto Protection Act' Undermines Legislative Process'", taking Missouri Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) to task for sneaking the provision, Section 735 into H.R. 933, the must pass continuing resolution that funds the U.S. government for the next 6 months.
The editors of Monsanto's hometown paper were appalled enough, something rare these days, to take the time to write a scathing editorial, calling the Monsanto Protection Act, "a sleazy bit of business", noting that the crop biotech and factory farm industries both took advantage of the funding emerency and "larded up" the continuing resolution "with a lot of special interest deals".
And from the looks of campaign contribution report found in OpenSecrets.org, Blunt received a total of $74,250 from Monsanto during the 2012 election cycle, Senator Blunt specializes in "special interest deals".
The recent condemnation of Senator Blunt and the Monsanto Protection Act is a direct result of more than 300,000 signatures from Food Democracy Now! members signing a letter asking that President Obama veto H.R. 933 and comes on the heels of an official apology by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), the Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriation Committee where the deal was struck to allow Section 735 into the continuing resolution.
Regretfully, President Obama, like Congress, failed ....
