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This comes from the Ag Journal, Billings, Montana:
"At a recent ceremony at the White House, Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore let slip what many have long believed was his real intention as regards to U.S. agriculture.
"While presenting a national award to a Colorado FFA member, Gore asked the student what his/her life plans were. Upon hearing that the FFA member wanted to continue on in production agriculture, Gore reportedly replied that the young person should develop other plans because our production agriculture is being shifted out of the U.S. to the Third World." showcase.netins.net...
Who's your Tin Foil Hat manufacturer?? Isn't it much more likely that the Republican's who have been in charge of America for most of the last 15 years caused this catastrophe with their intellectually and morally bankrupt political/economic philosophy of tax cuts for the rich in a time of war and deregulation to the point of no regulation? Try reading some articles that aren't sourced to Stanton Freidman and Jim Marr's and other guys who make fortunes off your delusions about the NWO.
Cargill is the second largest private corporation in the United States...
Political Campaign Contributions2 (1990-2006): more than $1.5 million
U.S. Government Connections:
• Dan Amstutz, president of Cargill Investor Services 1972-1978,
was the USDA Undersecretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs 1983-1987
Chief Agriculture Trade Negotiator for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1987-1989 in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
In 2003, he was appointed to lead U.S. agricultural reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
• Warren Staley, Cargill CEO, was appointed to Bush’s Export Council in 2003.
• Daniel Pearson, Cargill VP for Public Affairs, appointed to the International Trade Commission in 2002.
• Ernest Micek, the president of Cargill 1994-1998, was appointed to President Clinton’s Export Council in 1998.
Cargill is represented on the U.S. Trade Representative’s Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee and the USTR Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade’s Subcommittees on Animal and Animal Products; Grains , Feeds and Oilseeds; Processed Foods; and Sweeteners and Sweetener Products.
Monsanto sells its genetically engineered, pesticide-resistant seeds worldwide. By contract, farmers are not allowed to reuse these seeds, as they would with traditional seeds; rather they must buy new seeds each year.
Top World Company in: Genetically engineered agricultural seeds, herbicide Global Reach: Operations in 53 countries
Products Include: Genetically engineered cotton, soybean and corn seeds, herbicides, bovine growth hormone, swine genetics
Political Campaign Contributions2 (1990-2006): more than $1.2 million
U.S. Government Connections Include:
• Linda Fisher, Monsanto Vice President and Corporate Officer 1995-2000, was Deputy Administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency 2001-2003
• Michael Taylor, former lawyer from the law firm King & Spalding that has represented Monsanto and Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto
was an FDA staff lawyer 1976-1981,
Deputy Commissioner for Public Policy at FDA 1991-1994,
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator 1994-1996. While at the FDA, Taylor wrote the guidelines on milk labeling and rBGH, which was the basis of Monsanto’s lawsuit against Oakhurst dairy.
• Monsanto is represented on the U.S. Trade Representative’s Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee and the USTR Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade’s Subcommittee on Grains, Feed and Oilseeds