March 4, 2014 – It’s March, everybody! Spring cannot be too far away. The birds are singing up a storm, and though we’ve just gotten a fresh coat of snow on the ground, temperatures will be in the 40’s later this week. Thank heaven, the sun is shining very brightly. You will be unsurprised to learn that Monsanto continues its march toward world domination. Are you as baffled as I am that they do so with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s complicity? Is EVERYBODY on their payroll? What does Vilsack stand to gain by helping Monsanto, et. al. to own the world’s food sources? Can this truly be some form of horribly dysfunctional patriotism?? In 2011, Vilsack convened an industry-controlled panel of stakeholders (known as AC21) in the ongoing confrontation between biotech companies and organic farmers. He ostensibly was seeking a fair solution to the problem of transgenic contamination. After he and his corp...
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