A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA.
Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and drugs. In his new position, Taylor will also work with the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Congress and the White House.
Taylor’s FDA career began in 1976, when he served as an attorney for the agency. From 1981 to 1991, Taylor functioned as a private attorney and lobbyist. During this time period, he wrote numerous articles criticizing the 1958 Delaney Clause, which prohibited known carcinogens from being introduced into the food supply. A number of chemical and pesticide companies had long been critical of the law, including agrochemical and genetic engineering giant Monsanto Corporation. Taylor rejoined the FDA from 1991 to 1994, serving as deputy commissioner for policy.
At this time, Taylor remained an outspoken opponent of the Delaney Clause. The law was repealed in 1996. He is also widely viewed as instrumental in securing agency approval for Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), an artificial hormone that is used to increase milk production in cattle. After leaving the FDA, Taylor served as Monsanto’s vice president for public policy from 1998 to 2000.
Taylor’s long history of close ties with Monsanto led to a Government Accountability Office investigation into whether the rBGH approval process had been influenced by conflicts of interest.
“The FDA allowed corporate influence to run rampant in its approval” of rBGH, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said.
Taylor also played a key role in the FDA decision to treat genetically modified organisms as “substantially equivalent” to unmodified organisms, thus bypassing the need for safety studies or labeling or those ingredients.
These “geniuses” can split the atoms from german plans and throw it on innocent japanese BUT NEED THE GERMANS TO PUMP THE WATER FROM NEW ORLEANS ??????`
What the F++ck is their function anyway ??
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The system,in love with its achievements will not stop until they reach the highest of high.They have evolved what was old and as such needs replacement with a better model.This extends to all levels of society,industry,science .The move to control and understand that which is in nature and there environment a goal of order and direction.Technology care work for the good of humanity or against it.I see the culling of population around through there use of science.The programing of group think to the point that if you say anything different than topic of the day as set forth by the group you are looked at with a questioning suspicion.O your one of those ,is a common reply to such topic as Kennedy 9/11,birth certificate,flu shot,etc…YOU don’t like sports,what you collect books and read something other than fiction,NOT A BELIEVER,then the questioning glare.They are the makers of history an I watch history being made.
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Monsanto has killed and crippled untold millions of people, poisoning their land with dioxins, and TCDD found in Agent Orange, Purple, Blue, Pink and White. Agent Orange was sprayed by US military forces in the Republic of Viet Nam, 1961−1971. Volumes are calculated at 19 million gallons of Agent Orange alone was sprayed.
Monsanto and Dow Chemical are the producer of this poison.
Now Monsanto is killing us with GMO food.
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Am I understanding this correctly ? Are they putting the fox in charge of the hen house ?
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