The Monsanto - Bush Administration Connection

Thanks to a friend (Gloria) for sending along this link to an absolutely tremendous expose on Monsanto - Monsanto and the Pelican Brief?. John Cohen, details the case of Monsanto's use of bovine growth hormone in milk that was approved in 1994. This hormone has been linked to a lot of problems - both for cows and consumers. For example, because the hormone causes cows to over-produce milk, they get lots of infections for which massive doses of antibiotics are used. These infections result in high levels of pus in the milk that consumers drink.

The article show the links between Monsanto and the Bush administration. Such as:

John Ascroft - Attorney General

Monsanto's chief lawyer (Clarence Thomas) appointed to the Supreme Court by Bush Sr. who then casts seciding vote that gave GW the 2000 election

Donald Rumsfeld - former president of Searle Pharmaceutical which is owned by Monsanto

Ann Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture, was on the board of directors of Calgene Pharmaceuticals, purchased by Monsanto.

And it goes on from there. Of course, these connections might be made to other companies as well what with interlocking directorates and the revolving door between the big corporations and government insiders. But it does make very interesting reading.

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