Monsanto has their fox guarding the chickens!

Well, much to my dismay, the FDA have appointed Michael Taylor as Senior Adviser to their commisioner Margaret Hamburg!
Michael has been recently a research professor from George Washington University but is no stranger to the FDA.

He previously began working as a litigating attorney for the FDA in 1976, serving as deputy commissioner for policy from 1991 to 1994 and as administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture from 1994 to
1996.

This was the period during which the FDA were constructing their GM policy (1991-1992) and GM foods were allowed onto the market without any required safety studies, despite warnings from scientists!!
While Taylor was at the FDA in the early 90's, he also oversaw the policy regarding Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH/rbST) -- injected into cows to increase milk supply.

• Taylor also determined that milk from injected cows did not require any special labeling.
• And as a gift to his future employer Monsanto, he wrote a white paper suggesting that if companies ever had the audacity to label their products as not using rbGH, they should also include a disclaimer stating that according to the FDA, there is no difference between milk from treated and untreated cows.
  Taylor's disclaimer was also a lie. Monsanto's own studies and FDA scientists officially acknowledged differences in the drugged milk. No matter. Monsanto used Taylor's white paper as the basis to successfully sue dairies that labeled their products as rbGH-free.

So WHY does Michael Taylor seem to have been so Pro-Monsanto?

He had been Monsanto's attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto's vice president and chief lobbyist.

WE really MUST get researching these and other articles and make some noise about this.

From an article on appomattoxnews.com, (Linked here):

The Organic Consumers Association is urging its members to contact President Obama, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (oversees FDA) to demand Michael Taylor’s resignation, and express their opposition to Dennis Wolff’s appointment.

Now, if you remember Tom Vilsack background in supporting GM crops... (here) and my old vlog here has more links on Mr Vilsack....
Well, I'm not sure how much interest he'll have in any petitions, but this only emphasises how tighter the situation is becoming. TIME TO ACT FAST!!!!

Since Agri-Pulse first reported in March 2009 that Michael Taylor was the leading candidate to staff the White House Food Safety Working Group, Organic Consumers Association members have sent 17,380 letters to the Obama Administration asking that the working group be kept free of former industry lobbyists and supporters of
genetically engineered foods.

Bad bad bad news indeed!
:-(