MONSANTO’S MICHAEL TAYLOR

Food Chain Radio Show #760 • February 3, 2012

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Should Monsanto be in charge of America’s Food Safety?

In 2009, President Barack Obama selected Monsanto executive Michael Taylor to be America’s first food safety czar.

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In the waning hours of 2010, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act, giving the federal government’s food safety czar dictatorial control over the nation’s food.

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In January of 2012, citizen Fredrick Ravid collected 169,000 signatures over the course of a single weekend to have Taylor removed from office.  Why did the President select Monsanto’s Michael Taylor to be the nation’s first food safety czar? What is Taylor and the FDA doing to make the nation’s food safe? Why did 169,000 people move so quickly to sign a petition for Taylor’s removal? And…

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Should Monsanto be in charge of America’s food safety? (Food Chain Radio & Forums #760)

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