Same ol', same ol'.

....four more sneers.

given rein to market marijuana the DOJ would have nothing to do after Bradley Manning.

But I can't

Welcome to 21st Century America.

no investigation or accountability. Seems to me we have all manner of too big to compete against corporations in many many arenas.

what R$'s lunch with Obama was about...


https://www.google.com/search?q=monsanto+AND+bain&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&client=firefox-a

http://www.muckety.com/Monsanto-Company/5002364.muckety

all that suffering. Endless supplies of victims and their money...

JMHO

This GMO crap is far more dangerous than anyone was ever told, and the latest scientific tests have proven it.

reproductive viability again; with the transformed new genes outside of the so called containment field? That is when genetic seed companies will say that destruction of native seeds is the fault of someone else; that they missed stopping a thief. That it was the responsibility of government to keep the genie in the bottle. That the destruction can be removed by and taken care of by the taxpayers.

Are their hybrid seeds out there? The human insulin gene(s) are placed near E. Coli bacteria so they can transform (absorb) the gene and begin to make human insulin. Then the bacteria are KILLED and the insulin collected and readied through a process before being injected into humans with sever diabetes that need insulin shots. These plant seeds are NOT killed. These seeds/grains are in the food chain.

So we have genes from the Fungi Kingdom transformed in to cells of the Plant Kingdom. These Plant Kingdom cells have NOT been KILLED but are trying to be collected by the genetic companies. Will Man win or will Nature win? In the meantime, living organisms are eating the bounty.

How do Fungi genes effect cells of the Animal Kingdom; our cells? To me, competitiveness is not the issue, biological injury is the issue.

How REPUBLICAN of you.

Prior to GM insulin, insulin was harvested from the carcases of pigs in slaughterhouses. Demand is far far higher today than it was back then too.

across state lines: So in my opinion, it is both a violation of interstate commerce and domestic terrorism.

Cloning of insulin was only an example. It is very ok to kill bacteria but not ok to sicken or kill people with molecules that are eaten as a part of food. Corn is food.

when DoJ was an honorable agency. Growing up during the 60s, I learned me respect for the law through DoJ's actions We will end up, after 16 years of incompetence, w/ an agency that is a shadow of what it once was. What a shame.

Money talks and governing agencies roll over and play dead. You should have seen the lengths Smithkline Beecham went to in the nineties to squash and discredit studies frm the CDC. I remember I wrote a blog title called "losing My Religion" and I did. I've never trusted another word coming from the CDC. They are not a credible source. And I hope if their is a hell, their go to guy Verstaeden (sp) has a special place there. what he did for his corporate overlords is unforgivable.

I had the pleasure of working on both sides of that investigation, and it just "went away".

Bill Gates created his own seed bank (snark).

No snark because here is the issue even for the Obama admin. Both Romneys and Obamas and Bushes all who can afford it or take the time/employees for gardening and preserving enough for thier family are eating organic and staying away from comfronting GMO (perhaps profiting?) yet not realizing that it will affect everyone.
Its not just about getting away from it, becuase it is destructive to nature
Just one of those things in the end you can not buy your way out of imo.

I try to stay away but have limited outlets and also limited time to produce food and preserve myself
plus crops like corn are hard for small land. What i buy often has GMO perhaps but how much can I know without labeling
And how much research must a working person spend to find out and trace sub suppliers

For the 90% of us I think the best we can do now in the United States( how many other countries have banned GMO?) is to push for a labeling win in a large state and push from there -it is going to be local and state cases which may be lame players for GMO giants

this doj case shows no fed help

head in sand as much as it ever was seems

The farmers made the case they couldn't afford to prove their crops had not been contaminated with GMO from neighbors. They said truthfully, perhaps, that the DNA testing cost to prove their crop had remained non-GMO was prohibitive for them. I'm thinking they felt they would be unable to pay their mortgage if they couldn't pass the test and sell their crop 'AS IS.'

This was rumored to have affected some of the organic certified fruit growers in Latin America. To get that organic certification, IIRC, required five years of test results to prove they had not used pesticides or fertilizer on their trees. They had bought the land AS IS and said they could not hold the land for five years without a crop to sell and while there may have been a way to work around, the result was less organic fruit. Did they tell the truth? IDK.

Whether the CA farmers' claim was bogus, just like that, IDK. But that is a marketplace decision, from the producers and voters who voted GMO by voting down labeling. I think the voters of CA got that one wrong, or the bill was written badly. I was disappointed they listened to the growers, if they were acting in bad faith. Perhaps they felt they would be denied produce at a good price if the farms went out of business as some claimed, even here on DU.

A clause offering to subsidize the testing with tax dollars, instead of adding it to the cost of production, might have changed the minds of the growers. But again, IDK their real intention, and it won't do much good to rail at them, but rather, look to make this work with another bill.

With a Democratic super majority in CA now, it will still be a hard job to get CA voters to agree to the creation of another agency they pay for. I am encouraged by my CA political kindred, but at times I forget they still have a lot of radical GOP Tea Party conservatives to deal with.

I know farmers in Oregon who grow everything organically, for over 40 years now, who tried to convince their neighbors who grow beets to refrain from using GMO Roundup-ready seed, for all the reasons we care about here. They were unable to convince them they would get good market price and hose who grew the beets were looking for a good cash crop. We don't know what the rate of subsidy or no subsidy what would have convinced those voters or the ones in CA otherwise.

It's very tasty to find a bogeyman in D.C. when we are fighting these things locally. Washington reflects the will of a lot of people I don't agree with, but it's pretty hard to change their views at the grass roots. We have to keep on pushing against the corporations that have deceived our neighbors, in my mind, anyway, to continue to support these poisonous practices.

New boss.

Mystery solved.

We all know that by now.

What would have surprised me is if Monsanto had been fully investigated and we'd see some actual *gasp* prosecutions coming out of doj.

United States of corporations, indeed :p

should be changed to "expectedly" or "obviously".

We the People does not really hold water anymore, and when monsanto is done they will change the composition of water and charge us more for that. sad very sad

the air we breathe.

campaign contribution.

A Plutocracy?

while both quietly doing the corporations bidding in the shadows.

We should pay our leaders more and make the laws stricter for being corporate tools in government. The disappearing investigation of Monsanto shows the fruits of paying our leaders ridiculously low wages in comparison to their private sector counter parts.

The idea that politicians serve from a moral imperative rather than an economic one is a very noble ideal. However, it is obviously NOT working in this day and age....

than I was on hearing that they just quietly let the matter drop and slunk away without explanation.

Why does the phrase "campaign contributions" pop into my head...

ingredients as such in California either. They were able to spend so much money in advertising on it that they convinced the average Californian that it would hurt farmers. What a crock! These people need to be brought down somehow. They will be poisoning the planet where the energy industry hasn't already and it's our food supply.

But it had enough loopholes to drive a truck full of GMO fruit through. Badly written, even if well intentioned.

A lot of propositions that pass are badly written and you can drive trucks through them, yet when passed they seem to accomplish what their purpose is. In this case labeling food would have been the result. Simple.

The so-called loopholes are foods not yet GMOed.

majorly suspicious

More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1182612

I think it's way too premature to be fatalistic.
(Quote source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/why-californias-proposition-37-should-matter-to-anyone-who-cares-about-food.html?pagewanted=all )

WHY? They never enforce anything and obviously have no real power. Plutocracies don't need antitrust laws, they might affect the uber-wealthy. AT&T is laughing at the DOJ.

There is NOBODY watching corporations (which are 'people, my friend'). There's only time, effort, and $$$ to go after individuals of little means for any freaking infraction, even victimless crimes.

just knuckle in and go die.

...neither of them are talking. Does one have to file a FISA to find out WTF our government is doing? I'm not too keen on secrecy. I can understand it, sort of (don't like it, though), for national security. Yeah, I don't have enough time today to rant about the subject of "secrecy" in our government. Here's a thread on DuPont hiring seed police:



[link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014322285|

no, really, I swear.

but I can't understand how Michelle Obama can sit by and let our children be hurt by an unsafe food supply while her children enjoy organic food. I am not Michelle bashing. I'm not even Obama bashing. I just know how I get when the issue of safe food comes up. I'm a real mama bear. I want safe food NOW for my children and for every child. Please, Michelle, remind your husband at dinner that we want our children to be healthy, too. Monsanto shouldn't be allowed to exist. Stop the revolving door of Monsanto executives getting high positions in government. Bring it down like Enron. Bury it in lawsuits. Imprison its criminal executives. Argh! I think I'll double up on the blood pressure meds now.

I'm disappointed as hell that he could give a shit if we ever label food for GMOs.

As garden tending one of the touted USDA "People's Garden" I take great offense to all this shit.

Perhaps to anyone with an IQ below room temp.

The Corporate States of America has no interest in real justice.

Thank you, President Obama, from Global Monsanto.

and the next step is to find out who got bribed and go from there. Follow the money.

and not the carrot.

just sayin'

Tom Vilsack was appointed to head up the US Department of Agriculture.
Google: "Vilsack & Monsanto"

Michael Taylor was appointed head up the FDA.
Google: "Michael Taylor & Monsanto"

And that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Something ain't right

undermining, checking, co-opting, dissing, and muscling (Goliath Vs. David sans sling).

SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM, INC. IS MONOPOLIZING & CORRUPTING FOOD.

No need to have any blue link material sales points now to argue possible progress now.

Back to funneling resource control and fattening bottom lines.

wondering why they hadn't appeared in this thread - the links, the lists - They've been such a reliable fixture. But you've probably nailed it.

It's very important to not let these seeds be made extinct. You can save the seeds and replant the following year.

buy local and/or grow your own.

Local markets.

If you chose to buy from the chains, you get what you get.

It ain't gonna change.

Holder's DOJ is a joke.

Give me an "R"! And another "R"! Give me a "U"! Give me a "P"! Give me a "T"! Give me an "I"! Give men an "O"! Give me an "N"!

What'd'ya got?

CORRUPTION!

as to what the possible activity could be?


As the article indicates, the licensure availability would probably obviate the antitrust issues.