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Obama’s Agriculture Secretary supports GMO crops, big agra
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Stop Vilsack’s Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture
Organic Consumers Association
December 17, 2008
Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.
While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding and abetting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or factory farms and promoting genetically engineered crops and animal cloning. Equally troubling is Vilsack’s support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production, which has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.
The Organic Consumers Association is calling on organic consumers and all concerned citizens to join our call to action and block Vilsack’s confirmation as the next Secretary of Agriculture. Please help us reach our goal of 100,000 petition signatures against Vilsack’ nomination. Sign today! Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect’s office.
CLICK HERE to sign the following petition:
We the undersigned reject President-Elect Obama’s choice for Secretary of
Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.
Over the past month, Organic Consumers Association members have sent over
20,000 emails to President-Elect Obama¹s Transition Team, calling for the
appointment of a Secretary of Agriculture who would develop and implement a
plan that promotes family-scale farming, a safe and nutritious food system
and a sustainable and organic vision for the future.
Vilsack¹s business as usual positions have included the following:
-Vilsack has been a strong supporter of genetically engineered crops,
including bio-pharmaceutical corn:
-The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder
and former chair of the Governor’s Biotechnology Partnership.
-When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of
economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning
dairy cows.
-The undemocratic and highly unpopular 2005 seed pre-emption bill was
Vilsack’s brainchild. The law strips local government¹s right to regulate
Genetically Engineered seed.
-Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy-based biofuels, which use as
much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving
up world food prices and literally starving the poor.
We pledge to continue working for a just and sustainable food and farming
system. We urge Congress and the office of the President-Elect to consider
appointing a Secretary of Agriculture that will advance a sustainable and
just future.
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December 18th, 2008 at 1:18 am
http://www.davidicke.com/OBAMA
December 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Oh my goodness, obama doesn’t care about peoples health or small family farms? Here is an idea, If he stopped all gmo’s from being in our food supply, Imagine how much healthier people and the environment would be. It would be as good as free health care. This obama is the biggest and slickest liar in chief we have had in a while. well I guess its not hard to seem slick after dubya. I want regulators who care about me and my health, not just the health of the corporations. This isn’t quite fascism yet. newstheylose.com
December 18th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Folks looks like Obambit is not what he said he would be,Hu. Well it looks like our food source will be foever contaminate by GM seed. Once the coroprates get control of our agriculture it won’t be long for they can decide when we all will starve to death .
December 18th, 2008 at 8:59 am
This is the change we like to see… Obama our hero – haha
December 18th, 2008 at 9:31 am
YES WE CAN!!! Change into corpses.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
HAHA! Obongo the usurper-to-be is at it again. It doesn’t matter to me anymore. If they remove him b/c he is not natural born, then great, problem solved. If they don’t, I won’t obey any federal “laws” passed under his administration (or enforce them – I am law enforcement). His appointments are null, his decisions are null, and congress won’t even be able to pass any valid laws (constitutionally they have to pass bills over the desk of a legitimate president). My oath is to the Constitution, and so is the oath of every other officer in LE or military.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Are you surprised at all by this? why?
Does any clear thinking person actually believe that Obama has any more say so on how things get done in this country than any other president before him? What this proves beyond the shadow of a doubt is that no matter who is inserted as President (Republican or Democrat) they still take their marching orders from the likes of Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral, etc. etc. etc.
until these groups along with other similar groups are stripped of their influence, nothing will change.
That will only happen if individuals in Congress get a testicle transplant and become real men of principle again. one at a time if necessary. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time anymore so the best solution is to be rid of all of them with the exception of Ron Paul and a handful of others and completely start all over again.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Hey Jerry, I’m glad I read your post before I typed. You said it all. Merry Christmas to you, brother.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am
This is far worse than anybody thinks, and even worse than war.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:59 am
obama has nothing to say on this or anything else! he is no natural born citizen and there for he cant be the next president of the united states-PERIOD!!!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
If you really cared, you’d reject the appointment of a secretary of agriculture altogether.
Has Ron Paul taught you nothing? Using government to control anything, makes it worse. Government shouldn’t be standardizing polution, genetics, or ANYTHING that involves our food or livestock.
Worried about it? Don’t eat it. Feel bad for starving people? Start a corporation and give away YOUR money; leave my tax dollars alone.
Stop saying that it’s ‘everyone’s problem,’ when you’re spending our money; it’s you’re problem, separately.
Government does SUCH a bang-up job with everything else it touches: http://mediacondom.com/?p=450
December 18th, 2008 at 11:09 am
as a farmer this obviously disgusts me. i don’t think signing the petition will do any good. they don’t listen to anything we say anymore. military options should be our next choice. one word describes how this needs to be done: GENOCIDE
December 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am
#12 Gary,
But, he will be the next president because the Constitution doesn’t mean a damn thing to these people anymore! Our country has been quietly taken over by greedy, selfish, corrupt puppets, paid for by the “FED”!
In my opinion, GMO foods are the largest threat we face today. Can anyone explain the recent surge in cancer rates?
December 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am
no.14 … i invented a new term for us to use… ELITOCIDE. die new order die
December 18th, 2008 at 11:49 am
The must important thing any individual can do is to petition for HEMP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
only HEMP can save us from Genitically modified crops grow Hemp Sell Hemp, Hemp by any and all means. HEMP FOR VICTORY “U.S. Government 1943″ Support Ron Paul HR1009 industrial hemp farming act
December 18th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Please people wake from your mindless Obama dreams and RESEARCH one name that speaks volumes about who & what Obama values.
JAMES A. JOHNSON, which is one of Obama’s closest friend/advisers. Obama has stated numerous times that he trusts and agrees fully with this POS.
James Johnson is one of the most direct leaders of the NWO that helped put American’s in this subprime mortgage fraud for Trillions while he made billions; WAKE UP & RESEARCH.
The traitors who are destroying our great land are right in front of your eyes BUT you fail to “want” too see! The young placed this traitor in office simply because of his skin color, thinking in their little dream world that somehow Obama knows anything about the “plight” of “his” people when he knows or cares nothing BUT his corporate friends in which he considers HIS TRUE family!
Obama will be the stick that broke the camel’s back for the USA!
Obama will make Bush/Cheney look like a dress rehearsal for how he has ALREADY sold his soul (and ass) to the corporate elites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.....sinessman)
Sad part is that this whole “put Obama in office” has been orchestrated by the Elites for one purpose and that is to make Joe Biden President after they use up Obama for the cultivated puppet he is and everyone can figure out on their own how the NWO will do this…
The end result will be what the NWO has been planning for years, and that is Martial Law.
This will happen when the minorities take to the streets and riot when “they” blame some poor patsy WHITE guy as the assassin. They will blame a white guy so that it will set-off all the Ozabies to riot and because most of the Obama zombies are minorities, they scared little white people will welcome, hell demand, martial law…. the rest will be history and sadly with it the once almost free USA & our Constitution.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
GMO’s are the NWO back door if they can’t control our money, they’ll control our food supply! For anyone who hasn’t yet, watch the Future of Food, and you won’t even have to think of the ramifications as they just pop right out at you.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
At least some Kossacks are against Vilsack.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/17/11022/307
December 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Bought and paid for ….
December 19th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
As a farmer living off the land I have been railing against this stuff for years and watching as it keeps growing and spreading its not the next way to control the poeple; it is the way, and people out there who think food comes from a store are in for a world of hurt and most will sell their brother for a piece(or a promise) of bread,unless people begin to depend on themselves and not the gummit ,liberty as we have known it will be gone and it will be a fight everyday just to stay alive,we gotta teach ourselves and our kids as well as anyone who will listen how to be self sufficent and to get back to constitutional methods and law or we become worse off than stalins russia,because while they were enslaved they never had tasted liberty,we have,that will be hell.
Farming is work,liberty is work,responsibility is work but compared to a police state nwo; whats a little work?
December 19th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
This is the worst thing ever. I think it also spells the end of the honeymoon for enviro conscious supporters of Obama.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I’m not sure I buy it to be honest, there’s no sources it sounds alot like fear mongering to me.
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
This is a problem we can easily fix ourselves. The problem is the food we buy from local grocery stores is genetically altered and detrimental to our health. The solution is to stop buying food from grocery stores and grow your own food naturally – or only buy 100% organically grown/hormone free/chemical free foods.
It’s becoming harder to find natural food in grocery stores which is why we should stop buying from them.
And the people who run sh** aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, which means things aren’t getting better for US anytime soon.
The only thing left to do is look to ourselves to solve the problems.
Buy organic or grow your own food.