The best influence money can buy - the 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists

Why lobby the government when you can be part of it? Former Monsanto vice-president Michael Taylor is now a senior adviser to the US Food and Drug Administration – going from a corporation that aggressively promotes its genetically modified crops to a body that advises on food safety.

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URGENT! Codex Commission Action Item: educate decision makers - demand that our voices be heard!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4279

To all supporters of food and health freedoms:

The Natural Solutions Foundation has attended 18 Codex Alimentarius Committee and Commission meeetings and US Codex meetings and submitted position papers and contributions to the Codex deliberations and debates.  We attend because you, as a food-affected stakeholders have asked us to do so on your behalf.  We have visited numerous Codex Contact Points and others around the world, and they have, and continue to, come to the Natural Solutions Center in pursuit of understanding and equitable food policy, preserving and protecting the interests of consumers, in keeping with the main purposes of Codex, as enumerated on the Codex website.

Despite this active contribution to the Codex process, or perhaps because the interests of consumer stakeholders are so different from the commercial interests which are heavily represented at Codex, the delegation fielded by our organization, made up of the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation, have been repeatedly, and increasingly met with unique discrimination and increasing difficulties as we attempt to represent your interests.

These abusive practices include assigning armed guards to them to keep us away from meetings, sequestering us in inappropriate areas during meetings to prevent us from reasonably observing the meeting or talking to delegates, and other humiliating and degrading treatment must stop.  The Natural Solutions Foundation is the largest health freedom organization in the world, representing the interests of food-effected stakeholders like you from the greed, dangerous non-food, corporate agendas and politics of the agenda as promulgated without their input. The current "Health Freedom Group" has a tiny membership and may purport to speak for you, but is not willing to cooperate with us, as the Codex rules would seem to require.

We trust the Natural Solutions Foundation has earned your respect and should be treated with the same respect by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Please take the Action Item below and help educate decision makers about the need to grant formal Observer status to the Foundation at Codex meetings.

MONSANTO DESIGNED THE FOOD SAFETY BILLS - S 510 is waiting in the Senate

S 510 would turn control over all food in the US to the WTO.  It includes highly deceptive means of stopping anyone in the country from producing food.  One example:

It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.”

  Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced. 

What groups are demanding a stop to the bill?

Rosa Delauro, whose husband works for Monsanto, introduced the first of the big food safety bills, HR 875.  Any part of it can be merged with S 510 at any time.  

The civil penalties section of HR 875 is jaw dropping.  It allows the Administrator - expected to be Michael Taylor, Monsanto VP, already Food Safety Czar at the FDA - to use unlimited "remedies" (nothing is excluded), with no Congressional oversight and without judicial review over the validity and appropriateness of his orders.  The food safety bills cover anyone in the country who "holds" food so Monsanto would in essence be running a corporate court in which they could do anything they wished - even invalid and inappropriate - to any person in America.  Monsanto would have police power over the entire country.

That one small section entails the end of the rule of law in the US.