communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998
Look how sad GMOs make me "Monsanto should not have to vouch for the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." -Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate
communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998
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Watch the video of the Safety, Economic Development, and Government Affairs April 3 2012 hearing. We start at 6 minutes and 40 seconds I think.
Hearing the testimony from both concerned consumers and bio-tech lobbyiest brings out a lot of the GMO issues nicely. Questionable safety of human consumption, bad farming techniques and degredation of soil, the real cost to labeling, how we define choice and right to know, preference of cheap food versus safe food, the truth about America's regulatory system for food, the truth about 'substantially equivalent', tracking GMO's in our food system, the banning of GMO's in other countries, the revolving door between the bio-tech companies and federal regulatory system, the lack of transparency in bio-tec operations... |
...Democracy!"Democracy" is a concept I took for granted for a long time. It's what our political system is, it always has been, always will be, it's the best way, the only right way... it was one of those societal/world views I took as a given. When I learned more about the diverse options of political systems and U.S. committment to spreading/forcing democracy everywhere my first instinct was to take the counter position to that, to be Very Cool-ly anti-American. I still have a place in my heart that holds the dream and faith of a radical totalitarian dictator with all the right principles, motives, and strategies but until that imaginary person comes to fruition, I'm trying to really comprehend and appreciate democratic principles like free speech and expression and political participation. Now more than ever i'm paying attention to people rioting in the streets of their countries and putting their whole life on hold it seems to demand democracy. I started to think, "what do they know that I don't??" because I've been passivly living in societal conditions people are literally dying to secure for themselves. So I am trying to recognize activies I do that reflect democracy where I didn't realize before, and I'm trying to find avenues of participation I can take advantage of AND GET AMPED ON DEMOCRACY Archives
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