Food Safety Bill?

By Dr. Evelyn Higgins

If Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro has her way, H.R. 875 ("Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009") will be a reality. She introduced this bill February 4, 2009 while the nation was in deep debate over passage of President Obama's "Stimulus Bill." Smart move. DeLauro's bill is supposed to protect the U.S. food supply; however, it leaves a lot of wiggle room. It leaves small farmers, especially organic farmers, at a great disadvantage to the corporate giants. Enter the world of politics. As we all know by now, in politics, everything is premeditated, nothing is by accident. This bill masquerades itself as a food safety bill while cutting the legs out from under the farmers - the blood, sweat and tears behind the family farm in America. You would think we are finally waking up; we are going green (even Washington tells us to go green) but you're wrong. It's only on the terms specified by the giants. So what mega giant business would benefit from knocking out any competition? Monsanto, the giant of genetically engineered food - the same folks that brought us the excitotoxin aspartame, which literally translates to exciting your neurons to death. That one was snuck in under the guise of helping you to lose weight, so of course it's good for you. Interestingly enough Congresswoman DeLauro's husband , Stanley Greenberg, a political strategist, has Monsanto as a client. Change? Where is the change? [more...]