Monsanto-Controlled Nutrition Board Deep Sixes Member Who Pointed Out Conflicts

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[div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px;"]"The politics of genetically modified food has created a rift in a policy-setting committee of the influential Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that demonstrates the difficulty in finding anyone — anywhere — who doesn’t already have an opinion on the issue.

A dietitian working on a panel charged with setting policy on genetically modified foods for the academy contends she was removed for pointing out that two of its members had ties to Monsanto, one of the biggest makers of genetically modified seeds.

“Perhaps it is possible for someone who works for an organization that creates or promotes G.M.O.’s to be objective, however, that would be hard to do,” Carole Bartolotto, a registered dietitian in California, wrote in a Feb. 6 e-mail to an academy executive."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/business/a-dismissal-raises-questions-about-objectivity-on-food-policy.html?ref=geneticallymodifiedfood&_r=0

[Nihil]

1. Wonder when she'll get added to the No Fly list as a "terrorist" for her subversive opinions?

From the other current thread:
"$62,356,730 spent in the last two years on U.S. lobbying efforts - and its strong ties
to lawmakers, regulators and researchers, including decades packing the Food and Drug
Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Agriculture,
which has never denied a Monsanto application"

Welcome to "the best democracy money can buy".

[kristopher]

2. Sounds like how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ousted Jazcko

Your concern seems rather selective.