Big Agriculture

[FishForLunch]

I thought Dems were against anything with "Big" tag attached to it. Unless it has to do with raising money I guess.

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So later this month, according to THIS INVITATION, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, is holding a "Rural Americans for Hillary" lunch and campaign briefing at the end of this month….

..but she's holding it in Washington, DC...at a lobbying firm…...and specifically, though it's not mentioned in the invitation, at the lobbying firm Troutman Sanders Public Affairs, which just so happens to lobby for the controversial multinational agri-biotech Monsanto.

You read that right: Monsanto, about which there are serious questions about its culpability regarding 56 Superfund Sites, wanton and "outrageous" pollution, and the decidedly unkosher (and quite metaphoric) genetically-bred "Superpig."

...A company that the website "Ethical Investing" labels "the world's most unethical and harmful investment."

Holding an agri-summit in the plush halls of the lobbyists for Monsanto doesn't sound like the kind of "rural Americans" a presidential candidate would necessarily want to be photographed with. Particularly if Clinton's two primary opponents -- former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. -- don't take money from lobbyists and are trying to depict the frontrunner as too much a part of the corrupt Washington system, lobbyists, corporate America, et al….

But then again, it doesn't say Clinton will attend this luncheon -- just senior staffers and congressional endorsers! (Is that better or worse?)

[12 Tone Melodies]

Monsanto was also a leader in the development of the "Terminator" gene, so that farmers could no longer catch seed from a crop and plant them in future years, thereby increasing the farmers seed cost anywhere from 12 to 100 times what it was
They also developed one of the hormones that dairies give cows to make them produce 10 times the mil they normally would

[DevinFuture]

I love the smell of agent orange in the morning.