Obama looks to Monsanto ally to oversee food safety

Did something get lost in translation here? Do I hear "population control"... not to spread any conspiracies or anything.... but it just doesn't make sense.

This is just like letting Goldman Sachs capture the regulatory system in Washington and have actual Goldman Sachs board members, ex-lobbyists and ex-CEOs in charge of watching Goldman Sachs.

You Obama-worshipers were warned about this. We skeptic populists/libertarians have been saying for years that the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans doesn't work. That they are both owned by Wall Street.

Obama talked the talk, and very well, I might add. Only by having been around a lot of radical people in my adolescence and in my early adulthood have I been able to see my way past this type of soft demagoguery.

Frankly, I thought Obama was too intelligent for the cap-and-trade mess, too intelligent to allow Goldman Sachs free rein, and too intelligent for a stimulus plan that was not really good at all.

Now I want to see those grades at Occidental College and his thesis.

His real problem, though, is not his intelligence, of which he has more than enough. His real problem is that he has never been forced to admit to error, compounding a high degree of narcissism. He never admitted that the surge worked in Iraq, but he kept Gates on as Def Sec.

That is why Rep Bobby Rush called Obama " an educated fool". The label has begun to stick.

Obama is sold-out. Hillary Clinton is sold out. Many of the republicans are sold out. The two-party system is about to die.

The system is its members. Only someone sold out is allowed to ascend in the ranks.

No, we are going through a major crisis in the world and the regular people have to get off their duffs and stop letting elitists, demagogues, disguised as "operators of change", dupe them into merely reshuffling the status quo.

Even the commies, the most radical reformers seen so far, just put themselves in as "the new boss", to use the phrase from "The Who's" song.

Transparency and accountability. Without them there will be no change, no re-structuring. And we, the people, must demand them. The elites will not yield on this because we asked or because "it is the right thing".

They are addicted to power.

All I can say is I hope that inauguration party for the Obamaholics was worth the 4 years of hangover for the whole US.

If people generally don't take the time and interest to ensure that their food is safe to eat and nutritious and produced in a sustainable manner we will continue to get mega-food-factories.  Vegetables grown on depleted soil lack nutrients, shipping them adds CO2 to the atmosphere and massive distribution centres spread the bacteria from tainted food far and wide.  Witness the current recall in the US and Canada of romaine lettuce because of Salmonella contamination.  Once these mega corps eliminate all but 'boutique' family farms, you can bet the price of food will skyrocket as well.  Buy locally.  Support farmers' markets.  Grow what you can.

Perhaps Obama's advisors did not investigate his background fully, or were not aware of what Monsanto has done in the U.S. and in other countries.

Forty years ago India had 100,000 varieties of rice. Today it is difficult to find fifty. Why? The introduction of genetically engineered or terminator seeds by Monsanto.  They would offer farmers free seeds.  The farmers had no idea that these were engineered to kill all competing seeds leaving only the Monsanto seeds.  Then Monsanto would go back to the farmers, but this time the farmers had to buy the Monsanto seeds.  The farmers had no choice because indigenous varieties would no longer grow.  If the farmers could not afford Monsanto seeds, they lost their farms and their livelyhood.

These kinds of practices where profit supercedes health and livelyhood by Monsanto together with the ones stated in the article it is impossible to support the Obama Administration's choice.    

Sounds like your making excuses for "the smartest guy to ever get into the White House" with an "IQ so high it is off the charts".

Those of you who want reform, wake up and let yourself crash off the high of thinking you had gotten what you wanted.

Obama doesn't have the guts to do real reforms. Never has done real reforms. Never will do real reforms.

Name one campaign promise that Obama has kept so far.

Really, as if "posts bills on-line for 5 days"? Or is "bi-partisan"? Or will end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? or won't increase taxes? Or will end the war in Iraq? Or will clean up Wall Street? Or end the earmarks?

Yes, you have there 30 inconsequential promises.

This is really insane.  Now he will have another group ready for revolution with this already hot button topic!  MONSANTO?  He will have his ratings really plummet down when this gets discussed more than the Gates fiasco.