Bush and Monsanto pushing to give FDA more power

is this the same FDA that made us destroy like 250 million dollars worth of tomatoes.

I see the shilling redlighters are at it again

Important news and excellent comments. Thanks, JanforGore.

From the article:

'But what people need to understand is that frightening the public is valuable to the FDA in pushing the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2008. It is a Bush bill so red flags should go up. A bill that Bush wants is not a bill that people would.'

The title is accurate and I already commented regarding the fact that a Democrat is asking for this provision. There has been no political favoritism in my postings about Monsanto. The facts are the facts. Bush is lobbying for them, and he like his father has used the power of the office and influence through the FDA to give special treatment to a company that has poisoned many people and the environment with their products. And this current globalization act will do nothing but give this agency even more power over the health and wellbeing of our citizens which is to me at this point is criminal.

The headline claims that "Bush and Monsanto" are pushing to increase the power of the FDA, but the article CLEARLY states (in the VERY FIRST sentence mind you), that the legislation is being pushed by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) The "D" stands for "Democrat" in case you were wondering.

This is certainly an important issue, but today it is a Democrat trying to expand the power of the federal government for the benefit of her corporate contributors, NOT a Republican. According to the statistics provided by Opensecrets.org, "Health Professionals" and "Pharmaceuticals/Health" are two of the three leading industries that contributed to DeGette in 2007-2008. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00006134

Good story and link JanforGore, but your headline is false, misleading, and will likely result is many people dismissing the story out of hand as just another Bush-hater post. I'm giving the story a vote up, but I wish I could also give the headline a vote down.

I feel like I'm going crazy. Though I knew about the FDA and its' real motives, I get downright depressed over everything that is happening. People...we have to revolt or boycott anything to do with big corporations. Every single aspect of our industrialized society is corrupt. The power has to come from us citizens to reject this bullshit!!! I take so many different vitamens and natural supplements. It's eventually going to come down to the American people to stop their daily lives and revolt/protest against the government (corporations). I'm also now learning about the banking system and how everything is geared toward putting more money in the hands of a few elites. This has been occurring for centuries. We are dealing with sociopaths here!!!

The FDA should not have the same people who they are supposed to be monitoring also be the monitors. This should never be allowed.

Scientists who are in charge of the FDA should be paid well and never be allowed to serve in private industry, or else they loose the privilege of being an FDA official. These scientists must be sheltered from the lobbying influence of the industries they are charged with policing.

The FDA is due for a major overhaul; like Homeland Security except, there should be a Presidential committee established, much like the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).

It should be called CFEE (Commission for Family Equality and Edification) who should be placed in charge of the overhaul and consolidation of government agencies charged with protecting public health, family services, and human resources. This would include Department of Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Housing and Development, National Centers for Disease Control, Department of Agriculture and Department of Labor.

The new government agency could be called The Department of Family Security. It's mandate would be to ensure that all families; traditional heterosexual, non-traditional heterosexual, same-sex unions, polygamous, polyandrous, and polyamorous, are treated equally under the law, have the same rights and responsibilities and receive the same benefits and considerations as Corporations do as artificial people.

This would include a massive overhaul of the FDA, the Family Court System, the Department of Health and Human Services just to name a few. Through Presidential decree, just like Dubya did with Homeland Security with his pen on a piece of paper.

Do it for the good of the Country and its people, for the families that are left by the wayside, and to put family rights on an even par with those of artificial people like Corporations and Government Institutions.

Love the pic you used!

I am convinced it will take some severe actions to stop this monster (Monsanto). Action that would put the killer tomatoes to shame.

Where with you on this Jan. Thanks for enlightening us on what the big, bad, ugly, underground is up to at the moment. Ahh, how fast can we get Bush Man out of office?

The FDA is an agency in the US Department of Health and Human Services... another oxymoron. It doesn't look like anyone regulates it these days. And if you look at the first sentence in this story, it is a Democrat who is trying to get this provision into this act... very disheartening to see they are all in this together. Where is our protection? They are trying to destroy family farming as we know it to industrialize, privitize, and supersize their own profits and the profits of multinationals like Monsanto by allowing them to peddle their poisons and cover for them. Dangerous indeed.

The FDA isn't even a joke, it's downright dangerous. Who regulates the FDA?

ah, teddy must be rolling in his grave over what the FDA has become

Yes, and the fact that our food labels do not tell us if we are eating GMOS in our food which the FDA was instrumental in supporting along with Monsanto doesn't seem to bother the FDA regarding "disclosure" matters, only 'killer' tomatoes...

Yes, a few measly outbreaks of Possible tomato or jalapeno, and we were inundated in the msm over it. Good gosh, there are many more conditions that we are experiencing from chemical exposure, and "they" are not in the msm daily.

For example: Roundup is one that just puts me almost in the hospital. Yet anyone can spray that stuff and legally poison me,

By George (no pun intended) I think you've got it. Insidious, isn't it?

one more thing:

here is a quote from the article that further explains my view:

Recalls are a weapon that can be to destroy those competing with corporations, and land particularly brutally on small producers. And as with the tomatoes, the USDA or FDA, if they truly wished to protect those family farms and were not interested in writing more power into a Bush bill, would simply put out a message to the public to heat any milk they are concerned about for 5 minutes, or that the tomatoes are safe if made into a sauce. Instead, they whip the public up into a frenzy of fear, and get them to push politicians to write regulations that will ONLY benefit corporate interests. And producers are forced to throw away valuable product.

Ok, I just read the entire article.

Here is what came to me:

I recall (good word ;) ......back when all this salmonella scare started, I was wondering why they were so freaking worked up over a few isolated incidents of Possible tomato contamination. I knew then something bigger was coming down the tubes. Now I know, now I can see the bigger picture, and it ain't pretty.

They (fda) in my view (and I don't wear tin foil hats) has created this scare in order to further push their agenda, and then real "dance" begins.

Thank you Jan for this enlightening piece!