If it weren’t for the intense lobbying of Monsanto, GMOs would likely never have been introduced at all in the USA.
In 1986, four executives from Monsanto visited the White House to see then-VP George H. W. Bush with the objective of gaining a valuable ally.
Ronald Reagan was a deregulator; if there was red tape he could cut in DC in order to benefit business, industry and the economy in general, he would gladly do it.
Monsanto wanted to get in on the deregulation bandwagon.
Monsanto opted to pursue a more aggressive policy of “eliminating what White House hardliners called ‘bureaucratic hurdles’ like health and environmental safety testing, which were Monsanto’s key problems,”
There's a video. In it Bush offers his help-- 7 simple words.
“Call me…we’re in the dereg business.” Then he adds, “Maybe we can help.”
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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