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    Keep Monsanto Chemical Corporation Out Of The FDA (Food And Drug Administration)

    Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents in the American heartland to strike fear into farm country.They fan out into fields and farm towns, where they secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops; infiltrate community meetings; and gather information from informants about farming activities.

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    by Kimberly Truth

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    President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor, a former VP and lobbyist for Monsanto, the widely criticized genetically modified (GM) food multinational, as senior advisor to the commissioner at the FDA. Taylor is the same person who as a high-ranking official at the FDA in the 1990s promoted allowing genetically modified organisms into the U.S. food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty.

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    2008 Vanity Fair Article about Some of Monsanto's Practices

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    Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear

    Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.

    by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

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