Obama appoints Monsanto's VP to Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA

Obama appointed Monsanto's former Vice President to Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA. If you are wondering why I care about this or why anyone should care, here's the deal:

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here’s the back story.

When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply—the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods—secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried “serious health hazards,” and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

But the biotech industry had rigged the game so that neither science nor scientists would stand in their way. They had placed their own man in charge of FDA policy and he wasn’t going to be swayed by feeble arguments related to food safety. No, he was going to do what corporations had done for decades to get past these types of pesky concerns. He was going to lie. From Jeffery Smith's article on Institute for Technology

So, Michael R. Taylor has been promoted. He is now a more direct influence on the FDA and what the FDA regulates as safe.

This is the same man that was in charge of FDA policy when GMO’s were allowed into the US food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety. He “had been Monsanto’s attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA [and then] he became Monsanto’s Vice President and chief lobbyist. This month [he] became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. -From OnePennySheet.com

Does anyone understand how a man who lead Monsanto's production for GMOs and put them in the mouths of US Citizens WITHOUT A SINGLE TEST is now qualified to regulate food safety? This makes absolutely no sense. Not to mention his "product" is linked to serious health hazards.

So, what's the big deal about Monsanto? They are responsible for 90% of Genetically Modified Plants, which also turns out to be quite the chunk of the US food industry:

Currently, up to 85 percent of U.S. corn is genetically engineered as are 91 percent of soybeans and 88 percent of cotton (cottonseed oil is often used in food products). According to industry, up to 95% of sugar beets are now GE. It has been estimated that upwards of 70 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves–from soda to soup, crackers to condiments–contain genetically engineered ingredients. -Center for Food Safety

We used to be a country filled with independent farmers and now big agribusiness and GM foods have taken over and ruined it all.

To make matters worse, our government, which is supposed to protect us, is on board.

Are you are looking for a way to be healthy, get in good shape and feel good? All you have to do is eat local and organic. Resist processed foods. Eat what God put on this beautiful earth. (and exercise, of course!)

I don't want to ever eat another tomato that has been injected with who-knows-what to produce a seed that will grow a tomato that will last 45 days. I'll buy my tomatoes from local farmers and eat them before they go bad (15 days).

If you don't know where to start, visit LocalHarvest.org to find good, minimally processed, organic food near you!

Read more about the concerns of GMOs:

GMO Hazards: Gene Mutation and Food

Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops

Health Hazards of Genetically-Manipulated Foods