MONSANTO CORPORATION

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For starters, consider the fact that Bush Sr. appointed Clarence Thomas,
a Monsanto attorney, to the Supreme Court.  Thomas cast a key vote
in the decision that handed the White House to George Jr.



How many Ex (?) Monsanto executives are now in the Bush's Cabinet?
Answer:  Currently (as of 8/5/01) there are five, all in regulatory power positions.
 
     1.  Linda Fisher, Deputy Director, EPA - ex V.P. Of Monsanto & chief lobbyist
     2.  Donald Rumsfeld, Sec. of Defense - ex Pres of Searle Pharmaceuticals, owned by Monsanto
     3.  John L. Henshaw, Asst. Sec. of Labor for OSHA - A 20-year veteran of Monsanto
     4.  Ann Veneman, Sec. of Agriculture - Bd. of Dir. Calgene Pharmaceuticals, owned by Monsanto
     5.  Mitch Daniels, Dir. of the Office of Management and Budget - V.P. Eli Lilly Pharm.
          So what's the tie-in between Daniels and Monsanto?  Eli Lilly and Monsanto developed the genetically engineered
          bovine growth hormone.  Lilly "owns" the European "franchise."  Daniels presence insures that the bovine growth
          hormone will one day be approved for use in Europe.

Note the following changes in job assignments:  {Monsanto's History Within "Our" Government Goes Back Decades}

* Marcia Hale, in early May, 1997, from asst. to the President of the United States for intergovernmental
          affairs to senior official with Monsanto Co. to coordinate public affairs and corporate strategy in the
          United Kingdom and Ireland.

* L. Val Giddings, in mid-May, 1997, from biotechnology regulator at the United States Department of
          Agriculture (USDA/APHIS) to vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
          Mr. Giddings was at the first meeting of the Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group on a Biosafety
          Protocol as a member of the United States delegation; he attends the second meeting as the
          representative of Biotechnology Industry Organization.



"Our" U.S.D.A. just approved "Terminator Technology" for Monsanto. (Aug. 3, 2001)
Are you, dear reader, starting to see a "pattern" developing here?
And I haven't begun on the oil & coal corporations control of "our" government yet. . .

CorpWatch's Greenwash Award of the Month: Monsanto


Let's see who's been through the Revolving Door of the Monsanto Corporation and "our" government. . .

 

David W. Beier, ex-head of Government Affairs, Genentech, Inc., was Gore's chief domestic policy advisor

Michael A. Friedman, M.D, ex acting commissioner of the FDA - Dept. of Health & Human Services,
now senior V.P. for clinical affairs at G. D. Searle & Co., a pharmaceutical division of Monsanto.

Michael (Mickey) Kantor, ex Secretary of the Dept. of Commerce, ex Trade Representative of the United States, a member of the OilSpace, Inc. Advisory Board, a partner at Mayer, Brown & Platt law firm, and now - a member of the board of directors of Monsanto.  (Advisor Board of OilSpace, Inc.?!?)

Josh King, ex director of production for White House events, now director of global communication in the Washington, D.C. office of Monsanto.

Terry Medley, ex administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the USDA, ex chair and vice-chair of the USDA's Biotechnology Council, ex member of the FDA food advisory committee, and now Director of Regulatory and External Affairs of Dupont Corporation's Agricultural Enterprise.

Margaret Miller, former chemical laboratory supervisor for Monsanto, now Deputy Director of Human Food Safety and Consultative Services, New Animal Drug Evaluation Office, Center for Veterinary Medicine in the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). *(See note at end of this list)

Michael Phillips, recently with the National Academy of Science Board on Agriculture, now the head of regulatory affairs, for the Biotechnology Industry Organization. (BIO),  (See L. Val Giddings above)

William D. Ruckelshaus, ex chief administrator of "our" EPA, now (and for the past 12 years) a member of the board of directors of Monsanto.

Michael Taylor, ex legal advisor to the FDA's Bureau of Medical Devices and Bureau of Foods, later executive assistant to the Commissioner of the FDA, still later a partner at the law firm of King & Spaulding where he supervised a nine-lawyer group whose clients included Monsanto Agricultural Company, still later Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the FDA, and later with the law firm of King & Spaulding, now head of the Washington, D.C. office of Monsanto.*(See note at end of this list)

Lidia Watrud, ex microbial biotechnology researcher at Monsanto in St. Louis, Missouri, now with the EPA's Environmental Effects Laboratory, Western Ecology Division.

Jack Watson, ex chief of staff to the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, now a staff lawyer with Monsanto in Washington, D.C.

Clayton K. Yeutter, ex Secretary of the USDA, ex U.S. Trade Representative (who led the U.S. team in negotiating the U.S. Canada Free Trade Agreement and helped launch the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations), now a member of the board of directors of Mycogen Corporation, whose majority owner is Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.

Larry Zeph, ex biologist in the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, EPA, now Regulatory Science Manager at Pioneer Hi-Bred International.

*(The note) Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen (an FDA "primary reviewer for all rbST and other dairy drug production applications") were the subjects of a GAO investigation in 1994 for their role in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Posilac, Monsanto's formulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbST or rBGH).  The GAO Office found "no conflicting financial interests with respect to the drug's approval" and only "one minor deviation from now superseded FDA regulations".  (Quotations are from the 1994 GAO report). (Oh Yeah - Now I Feel Safer - Don't you?)


IF you've gotten this far, don't stop - Now that you know the connections, read on and learn how
"our representive" government has allowed you to become nothing more than a lab rat for this corporation,
and its friends inside "our" government.  Stephen King couldn't have created this horror-tale better.
And believe me when I say. . .  "It does not get better."

Proof of Monsanto's Evil Is Readily Available All Over The Web - Spread Out . .
So I Am Providing This Dedicated Site To Bring It All Together.
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