Obama's State Department Pledges to Step Up Its Cheerleading for Monsanto and GMOs

sad, and whose the PR firm behind putting Clinton, Gore and evil Bush on the same platform...is this somehow supposed to make the poison more palatable?

our corporations will kill us...and most will be blind to it while watching the tube and stuffing their faces

It's good to know that the President supports a corporation that poisons your food, isn't it?

Clearly , they have the presidents' balls . Terrorists need to go after them , the REAL EVIL .

produce more food with less? duhhh hydro & aeroponic farming can feed the world. The problem is getting enough energy to power such an undertaking, and all we need to do is harness some of that energy. We live in a plentiful universe chock full of energy more than our species will ever be capable of using even if we colonized other planets. If we had a small fraction of the suns energy we could grow healthy, organic, limitless food indoors and underground via hydroponic/aeroponics... wait for it... forever. I guess though such a system would be too efficient and no one could get rich from it either, so we get stuck with gmo food.
Call the engineers and farmers for this one, maybe we need to compete with the industry as citizen farmers.

Aww! Not Clinton too!

It's pretty disturbing how much momentum the GMO push is gaining.I think the general public fails to take notice because of the science involved. I certainly don't think there's any rocket science involved. To me it's more common sense.

Maybe Mike Specter should think about re-naming his book.

I just love how the white house has an organic garden and everything that is served there is 100% organic and the media touts this as "A great step towards a healthier america". Then the powers that be push for GMO's for the masses. If the WHite House really wanted us to be healthier they would subsidize organic food. If the white house really wanted to address climate change and sustainability they would put higher taxes on meat and use revenues to pay higher subsidies for fruits and veggies. Unfortunately the White House is concerned with corporatism and cronie capitalism (also know as systematic wholesale theft)!

Full-scale sellout...

The U.S. State Department will aggressively confront critics of agricultural biotechnology "

And just what do they mean by 'aggressively?' Taking away our right to protest or to even speak about it? Putting us in jail for telling the truth? Clandestinely contaminating our food with it? Bring it on Mrs. Clinton, Monsanto shill, because you won't shut me up.

Oh, and I also wanted to comment that I did notice Mr. Gore being listed as a keynote speaker at this conference with the likes of war criminal George Bush which disappoints and angers me. HOW? WHY? Mr. Gore, if you truly support this undemocratic environmentally degrading GMO SHAM that will lead us to a monoculture/pesticide-fossil fuel intensive/climate change enabling world that is the antithesis to what you wrote about in your most recent book then I no longer can support you in this. How can anyone go to a conference like this, listen to talk like this, and claim to be an environmentalist or someone who believes in democracy? Who is advising you? You need to go back to the true rebel and environmental crusader sans politician you were in the beginning with the man in black look. You have changed.

Biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, (and GMOS ARE NOT sustainable agriculture) a healthy natural environment that fights climate change and enriches soil, indigenous peoples and farmers in the developing world, and my son and his children and all children and the world they will live in are more important than the profits of Generation Investment Management, and I am truly saddened to tears to think that you seem to have forgotten that.

What a damned OUTRAGE that our own State Department would publicly announce plans to aggressively stifle free speech and dissent! But then, that is proof positive that everything being reported about the health and environmental effects of GMOS and industrial agriculture which they are in league with is ON TARGET. And there is then only one word left to say: SATYAGRAHA.