Passing up the chance to veto the bill in favor of stopping Monsanto’s increasing monopoly on the food supply, Obama
pushed the bill through into a law in a move that reminds us of his failed 2007 promise to ‘immediately’ label GMOs upon his election.
Contained in the rider (Farmer Assurance Provision, Sec. 735) of
HR 933, Monsanto is now even protected (at least under this law) from the United States government.
As I pointed out in a previous article, the Monsanto Protection Act’s success actually proves how
corporations have more power than
even the United States federal government. Monsanto’s lobbyists managed
to slip the rider into the major bill, which — despite the rider — has
virtually nothing to do with the topic.
This is a typical and routinely practiced move by lobbyists to insert
an incognito line of legislation into a bill generally viewed as
favorable overall. One that has proven to be effective for Monsanto.
2007 Promise to Label GMOs
The result is now major outcry against Obama for signing the bill
into law and protecting the biotech juggernaut Monsanto. Many fail to
remember, however, that Obama first decided to allow Monsanto to
continue pulverizing the food supply and the health of the nation back
in 2008 when he went back on his
promise to ‘immediately’ label GMOs.
It was in 2007, during a campaign speech, that Obama first stated his
support of non-GMO and GMO labeling activists, in which he promised to
swiftly label GMOs.
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