Disgusting!
This is Business Socialism on steroids.
If GMO are so good...you would not need a law to protect them
Monsanto Teams Up With Congress to Shred the Constitution
… Why is this such a big deal? The court system is often our last hope,with Congress,the White House,and regulatory agencies deep inside industry's pocket. Several legal challenges have resulted in court decisions overturning USDA's approval of new GMO crops,for example,sugar beets.
So the biotech industry,unable to make its case to a judge,figured why not just rewrite the Constitution instead,with the help of a Democratic Senate led by Senator Barbara Mikulski,chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Seems like all the courts would have to do is declare such a provision unconstitutional. I’m not aware of any real limits the Constitution puts on the Supreme Court.
Here’s another case where Cruz, Lee, Rubio and others could practice political jujitsu and use Obama’s crony capitalism against him and the Dems.
This issue would really wake up voters beyond the GOP base.
Or as Saddam said, “We have 24 million people in Iraq, but we only need about 5 million of them.
The silver lining is that this law affirms that congress can stop agencies from regulating anything. Perhaps the gutless wonders in the House can figure this out.
“They say many Democratic members who voted for the bill were unaware.”
The ruling class, as usual, not doing their job and getting paid.
Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Want to bet that the US Congress bought stock in
Monsanto or the equivalent?
GM is a real “Janus” idea. Two-faced.
How one GM company almost wiped out all plant life on Earth by accident.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18503_how-biotech-company-almost-killed-world-with-booze.html
Not quite as bad, but still awful, is how the courts treat GM products in nature. Since the modified DNA is patented, the courts have ruled that *any* plants that carry that particular modified DNA are the property of the GM company.
Even if those plants are the result of GM pollen upwind of a field of non-GM crops.
This means that all a GM company has to do is plant a single GM crop upwind of thousands of non-GM farms, and after the first season, all subsequent crops, by all those other farmers touched by the pollen, are no longer the farmer’s property.
A great example of this was with a GM test bed in Mexico, whose pollen, within a few years, had “infected” all Mexican crops of that species, corn, in the entire country.
Needless to say, the Mexican government quickly changed *their* patent law, to tell the GM company to go get knotted. But US judges are made of sterner stuff. They don’t care who gets hurt, or how much, as long as precedent is obeyed. Congress would likely agree with the judges.
Hair on fire, running around the room screaming, “Here come the GM’s, Here come the GM,s!!!!!....Hide the children!!!!”.
Monsanto wrote the dang thing.
Someone needs to ask Moo if her garden was planted with heritage or GMO seeds and which are being served to her family.
This is a perfect example of what you get with ‘biparisanship’!
Don’t forget the big push on this by Republican Rep. Roy Blunt!
[snip]According to an article published Monday in the New York Daily News, US Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) “worked with Monsanto to craft the language in the bill.”
http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/
I wonder if Michael Taylor (former Vice Prez of Monsanto) is STILL Bath-House Barry’s “Safe Food Czar”?
A number of my fellow Vietnam War veterans have suffered with the effects of Agent Orange caused cancers. I was based in the Delta where Operation Ranch Hand was very active.
C-123 Veterans: Operation Ranch Hand (color)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j6Ocf-5DTs
http://www.everydayhealth.com/prosta...ncer-4096.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHClxfT2lI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQKIQDj2dP4
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