Michael Taylor - Representative for Evil Monsanto Scary Stealth Pick for USDA

Pay Attention to the seemingly less important Presidential Appointments. In the end Obama will be intimately involved in the details of our Foreign Policy and getting the economy started. So those appointees will be carrying out his specific will. But the picks for lower more technical positions are where we really must be vigilant. I doubt Obama will be working closely on the intricacies of seed policy, factory farming or the difference between real Organic and USDA approved Organic. But these issues are just as important if not more important. USDA oversees everything we put into our body. We are getting a representative of company I would say is the most evil in the world. Yes, even more so that Halliburton and Exxon, and that is saying something. Michael Taylor, Esq. is a Washington D.C. attorney who once represented Monsanto. In that regard, he replaced Clarence Thomas. Taylor also used his powerful connections to be named as an FDA and USDA undersecretary, where he wrote the guidelines for the "future" approval of genetically engineered organisms, thereby serving his true master, Monsanto. Michael Taylor is Tipper Gore's first cousin. Taylor performed a key role by paving the way for the approval of Monsanto's genetically engineered organisms for our food supply. Taylor's interpretation of Congressional cancer laws alleviated the responsibility of companies like Monsanto future drug studies and applications. ...Michael Taylor followed another lawyer from his firm into serving his nation. That other Monsanto attorney? Clarence Thomas, now a Supreme Court Justice. ...People are terrified of cancer. Five decades ago Americans lived in fear of two major cataclysms. One was nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Another was receiving a diagnosis of cancer, which was most often an incurable and painful death sentence. In the late 1950s, one of the goals of Congress was to enact a Food Additives Act. People were becoming more aware of the factors that were known to induce cancer. Although only a few substances were actually identifiable as carcinogenic, scientists were developing new techniques including analytical methods which were implicating chemicals in our food supply to be carcinogens. As a result of much debate, Congress passed the Food Additive Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in 1958. The goal of this amendment was to insure that the health of Americans would be safeguarded from the consumption of any food product containing a chemical additive. The Delaney Clause was actually a safety standard which stated that no food additive would be deemed safe if it was found to induce cancer when eaten by people or laboratory animals. Taylor's interpretation of this clause would set new policy at FDA. Despite the evidence of overwhelming effects on cows. FDA reviewers "looked the other way" when approving that drug which now taints America's food supply. Taylor has not been appointed... but we must look out for similar corporate hacks who will be in charge of much of the agencies not in Obama's immediate policy agenda. Often he will get up and call them smart and experienced. Both could be said of Dick Cheney and nearly everyone appointed by the Bush Administration. What experience and where did they use their intelligence is the real question. So far we have much to worry about Obama appointees. RSS