Change We Can Believe In: Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
December 18th, 2008The fever dream reality of the Obama hive mind goes something like this:
Obama is just pretending to be evil so that he can get into power, but then the Hope and Change, etc. will flow.
—The Cognitive Mechanism Behind Political Fundamentalism… And Probably Lots of Other Fundamentalisms
We have just lost cabin pressure, and I don’t mean on the Monsanto corporate jet that Tom Vilsack uses.
What’s next? Obama Re-Animates Josef Mengele for Health and Human Services?
Via: Organic Consumers Association:
Six Reasons Why Obama Appointing Monsanto’s Buddy, Former Iowa Governor Vilsack, for USDA Head Would be a Terrible Idea
OCA, November 12, 2008
* Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s support of genetically engineered pharmaceutical crops, especially pharmaceutical corn:
http://www.gene.ch/genet/2002/Oct/msg00057.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/drugsincorn102302.cfm
* The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder and former chair of the Governor’s Biotechnology Partnership.
http://www.bio.org/news/pressreleases/newsitem.asp?id=200…
* When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning dairy cows.
* Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government’s possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address.
* Vilsack has a glowing reputation as being a schill for agribusiness biotech giants like Monsanto. Sustainable ag advocated across the country were spreading the word of Vilsack’s history as he was attempting to appeal to voters in his presidential bid. An activist from the west coast even made this youtube animation about Vilsack
The airplane in this animation is a referral to the controversy that Vilsack often traveled in Monsanto’s jet.
*Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy based biofuels, 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.
More: Obama Picks Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary
He’s found the reagent!
I’ve been trying to remain er, positive through the Cabinet Secretary nomination process, keep my mouth shut, and take a wait-see approach. But oh my god, I think I need smelling salts on this one.
At the same time, I think one has to re-remember some of what the Bush appointees were named to and then actually did in the reign of terrorism over we the peoples.
Zoelick (sp) was the Commerce Secretary (I think) and he really chapped my ass BIG TIME selling GMO seeds across the world. I thought what the eff is this guy doing this for in his day job?
Richardson the new appointee to the Commerce Secretary – I don’t think that will be on his agenda at all.
I used to tangentically work for Richardson. He is as they say – a straight shooter. He stood up in front of the world during the Democratic Convention and decried wiretapping. Did anyone else? I don’t think so.
Anyways I don’t think a half of the dorks Obama appointed to his Cabinet are going to pass the mustard test. Remember those pesky confirmation hearings?
I think that for those of us who have a memory we are in for some entertaining times re these “confirmation” hearings. Lest we forget, there is not a confirmed majority of Democrats in the Senate.
So get your bowels in an uproar, if you must. But oh say can you see the Chess game.
That’s all it is.
Even President-Elect Obama’s purely symbolic choices are becoming unpalatably obnoxious.
Hey Loveandlight,
I’ve been missing you!
As for this one- she-ite!
Could be worse! The pastor from my Catholic church. But then he would sound in his tone and inflection of speech, WAY TOO GAY.