Reply #3: In honor of Monsanto's "Food Safety" bills: "Poison On The Platter" [View All]

[Joanne98]

Devinder Sharma is not only an award-winning journalist, writer, and researcher on food and trade policy, but an agricultural expert and an on the ground organizer of Indian farmers. He wrote "GATT and India -- Politics of Agriculture" (1994) and "In the Famine Trap" (1997) and chairs the New Delhi-based Forum for Biotechnology & Food Security.

As bogus "food safety" bills are being rammed through Congress by friends of Monsanto such as Rosa DeLauro, it seems the right time to look more carefully at Monsanto itself and what is has already done to "food safety' around the world. Devinder Sharma's article on the reaction in India to Mahesh Bhatt's new film, "Poison on the Platter," gives us not only a view of Monsanto's genetic engineering, the corruption of the political and scientific process, the already apparent harm from GMOs, but strong public revulsion at it.

Michael Taylor, the Monsanto lawyer whom Bill Clinton put in charge of the FOOD and Drug Administration and who subjected the whole populace to rBGH despite its link to increased risks of cancers (thus altering milk, cheese, ice cream, yogurt and an all processed foods using milk solids of any kind - food particularly given to children) showed up on Obama's transition team.

Were he and Vilsack and Monsanto "not-food-safety-on-your-life" bills, the compromise Hillary Clinton and her campaign strategist, Mark Penn (CEO of a huge Monsanto's PR firm) demanded?

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/In-honor-of-Monsanto-s-Fo-by-Devinder-Sharma-090308-449.html