As an example, the FDA cover up from 1984 thru 1989 of the serious sicknesses brought on by genetically engineered L-triptophan. Watch the video lecture the dangers of GMO and cover up by Jeffrey Smith to understand the extent of the cover up and the FDA's dishonest corporate policies with complete disregard for the public health, concerns and wishes.
USDA director Vilsack who when he was governor regularly traveled in Monsanto's jet, was named governor of the year by Biotechnology Industry Organization. He is also an ardent support of corn and soy based bio-fuels, which use as much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving up world food prices and literally starving the poor.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, a former dental amalgam company executive, helped subvert a federal judge's order to label mercury fillings as a hazard to children and pregnant women.
The FDA's top medical-device regulator, Daniel Schultz, resigned following internal dissent over decisions that his critics said were too friendly to industry.
Janet Woodcock, the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, was recently accused of a massive conflict of interest stemming from an ethics complaint filed by Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The agency's list of corruptions and collusions is now a mile long. And each piece of new legislation aimed to improve its function seems to do just the opposite--making the FDA even more dependent upon financial support by Big Pharma.
We ,the people, have the right to choose the type of food that we want to grow and consume. But it is going to take a little more than a bit of discontent and fussing on the internet to get back our American Dream.
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