to those that want to know about hillary this is sick!!!

[Guest guest]

Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from Another Wellesley

College

Alumna

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Dear Hillary,

By polling logic, I should be your supporter -

Democrat, older woman,

white, liberal. I was even in a dorm with you in

college. I have

pulled for you for years. But something this past

summer

fundamentally changed my responsibility to my children

and

grandchildren. In the time I have left in my life to

protect them and

others, I need to speak out.

I saw a News Hour piece on Maharastra, India, about

farmers

committing suicide. Monsanto, a US agricultural giant,

hired

Bollywood actors for ads telling illiterate farmers

they could get

rich (by their standards) from big yields with

Monsanto's Bt

(genetically engineered) cotton seeds. The expensive

seeds needed

expensive fertilizer and pesticides (Monsanto, again)

and irrigation.

There is no irrigation there. Crops failed. Farmers

had larger debt

than they'd ever experienced

And farmers couldn't collect seeds from their own

fields to try again

(true since time immemorial). Monsanto " patents " their

DNA-altered

seeds as " intellectual property. " They have a $10

million budget and

a staff of 75 devoted solely to prosecuting farmers.

http://www.grist. org/comments/ food/2008/ 01/17./).

Since the late

1990s (about when industrial agriculture took hold in

India),166,000

Indian farmers have committed suicide and 8 million

have left the

land.

Farmers in Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia,South

America, Central

America and here, have protested Monsanto and genetic

engineering for

years.

What does this have to do with you?

You have connections to Monsanto through the Rose Law

Firm where you

worked and through Bill who hired Monsanto people for

central food-

related roles. Your Orwellian-named " Rural Americans

for Hillary " was

planned with Troutman , Monsanto's lobbyists.

Genetic engineering and industrialized food and animal

production all

come together at the Rose Law Firm, which represents

the world's

largest GE corporation (Monsanto), GE's most

controversial project

(DP & L's - now Monsanto's - terminator genes), the

world's largest

meat producer (Tyson), the world's largest retailer

and a dominant

food retailer (Wal-Mart).

The inbred-ness of Rose's legal representation of

corporations which

own controlling interests in other corporations there

and of

corporate boards sharing members who are also

shareholders of each

other's corporations there, is so thorough that it is

hard to

capture. Jon y, senior executive of the s

Group - one of

the largest institutional shareholders of Tyson Foods,

Wal-Mart,

DP & L - is also Chairman of the Board of DP & L and

arranged the Wal-

Mart deal. s' s Group staked Sam

Walton and

financed Tyson Foods. Monsanto bought DP & L. All

represented at Rose.

You didn't just work there, you made friends. That

shows in the flow

of favors then and since. You were invited onto

Wal-Mart's board, you

were helped by a Tyson executive to make commodity

trades (3 days

before Bill became governor), netting you $100,000,

s

strongly backed Bill for Governor, and then for

President (donating

$100,000). http://www.financia lsense.com/ editorials/

engdahl/2006/

0828.html

Food and friends, in Clinton terms:

Bill's appointed friend Mike Espy, Secretary of

Agriculture, who

immediately significantly weakened federal chicken

waste and

contamination standards, opening the door to major

expansion of

Tyson's chicken factory farms (www.financialsense

..com/editorials/

engdahl/2006/ 0828.html) . Espy resigned, indicted for

accepting

bribes, illegal contributions, money laundering,

illegal dispersal of

USDA subsidies, .... Tyson Foods was the largest

corporate offender.

http://www.engdahl. oilgeopolitics. net/GMO/Monsanto

/monsanto. html

But what Bill did for Monsanto " genetic engineering "

goes beyond

inadequate concepts of giving corporate friends

influence: He

unleashed genetic engineering into the world. And then

he helped

close off people's escape from it.

Genetic engineering is many orders of magnitude

different

from " normal " (even polluting) business in its

potential biologic

ramifications. The warning myth of Pandora'a Box -

letting

irretrievable things rush out into nature - has become

real. The

harrowing change to the world from nuclear fission and

fusion is the

closest parallel.

What did Bill do?

1. Bill's put Monsanto people in at the FDA, as US

Agricultural Trade

Representatives, on International Biotechnology

Consultive Forums,

and more ... ( http://www.commondr eams.org/

headlines/ 072600-03.

htm) or http://www.monitor. net/monitor/

9904b/monsantofd a.html or

http://www.mindfull y.org/GE/ Revolving- Door.htm

2. Bill's FDA gave Monsanto permission to market rBGH

(a GE bovine

growth hormone), the first genetically engineered

product let loose

on us (or did tomatoes with fish DNA get there

first?).

3. Despite reports of bovine illness and death, Bill's

FDA did not

recall it or put warnings on it. Even " a very angry,

very vocal

nationwide consumer base " had no impact. "

http://www.wafreepr

ess.org/14/ Envirowatch. html

4. Bill's FDA wouldn't even label rBGH as " present " in

milk.

5. When dairy farmers tried to label their own milk

rBGH-free so the

public could choose, Bill's USDA threatened all

dairies that their

products could be confiscated from stores.

, USFDA

Deputy Commissioner, was formerly Monsanto's counsel.

6. How were consumers to protect their family, given

Bill's FDA

enforced public blindness, except to buy only organic?

But Bill's FDA

tried to close off that last escape, proposing to

include

in " organic " standards, " the dirty three " a : genetic

engineering of

plants and animals, use of irradiation in food

processing and use of

municipal sewage sludge as a fertilizer. (My

emphasis.) The FDA

backed down. http://query. nytimes.com/ gst/fullpage.

html?res=

9C0DEED91E31 F933A1575AC0A96E958 260

Had this gone through, Monsanto could have finally

labeled rBGH

milk ... as " organic. " And animal waste from factory

farms, a

pollution nightmare for Tyson and others, could have

been sold as

fertilizer.

USDA head Dan Glickman: " This is probably the largest

public response

to an [Agriculture Department] rule in modern

history. " In fact the

response was 20 times greater than anything ever

before proposed by

the USDA. http://www.orpheusw eb.co.uk/ john.rose/

orglab.html

Personally, I resent years of effort to protect my

children and now

grandchildren, from that crap.

Politically, Bill sided against small farmers and

against the

public's right to know, and with Monsanto.

A snap shot of our food:

Oils: Sheep died in India after feeding on Bt cotton

fields

(http://btcotton. blogspot. com/). We feed our

children Bt cotton, as

cottonseed oil in peanut butter and cookies.

Grains: 49% of US corn acreage was planted in Bt corn

in 2007. A

French study proved Monsanto's GMO corn causes kidney

and liver

toxicity (http://www.organicc onsumers. org/articles/

article_4790.

cfm). Soft drinks and candy have highly concentrated

Bt corn, in the

form of high fructose Bt corn syrup. The US food

system depends most

on two crops, soy (90% GMO, 90% of traits owned by

Monsanto) and

corn, the largest crop (60% GMO, nearly 100% Monsanto

traits). " [E]

ssentially our entire food supply is genetically

modified, to the

benefit of one company. " The Grocery Manufacturers of

America in 2000

estimated that 70 percent of US food contains GM

traits.

http://www.organicc onsumers. org/articles/

article_9716. cfm

Meat: Steroids bulk up athletes. Monsanto steroids

bulk up animals -

more weight, more profit. We feed our children

steroids in meats. Is

this why our children are fattening, like Hansel and

Gretel?

Poultry: Bill's USDA weakened chicken waste and

contamination

standards and attempted to allow sewage sludge as

fertilize crops. I

will say more about disease from industrialized

poultry farms waste,

at the end of this letter.

Milk: Over 30 scientific publications have shown

increased levels of

IGF-1 in milk with rBGH increases risks of breast

cancer by up to

seven-fold, also increasing colon and prostate cancers

risks. Canada,

29 European nations, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, New

Zealand,

Australia, and South Africa ban U.S. rBGH dairy

products. Bill's

USFDA put no restrictions, no warning labels (not

allowing labels at

all). (My emphasis.) http://www.sustdev. org/index.

php?option=

com_content & task=view & id=2127 & Itemid= 35

American children eat that food and drink that milk,

Hillary.

Coincidentally, American children are increasingly fat

and sick.

Here, Bill ignored pleas for labeling. Abroad, Bill

ignored intense

international objections over the same issue -

unlabeled US food

exports - badly straining trading relations.

Monsanto's " good ole

boy, " he betrayed American families at the deepest

levels

conceivable - their family's health and their

democratic right to

know. He betrayed our rural life and American family

farmers -

backing corporation deceit and control, over honesty

and clean

farming.

But, Hillary, it is one thing to not label a regular

ole food product

to sell it, and quite another to sell a

suspected-dangerous food

product (rBGH), but Bill's administration didn't label

(or stop) a

well-known, terrifying threat - Mad Cow Disease.

Bill's FDA's August, 1997 regulation permitted " known

TSE-positive

[Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy] material to

be used in pet

food, pig, chicken and fish feed, " only requiring the

label to

read " Do not feed to cattle and other ruminants " in

the US.

Monsanto added to the problem. " There is evidence that

rbST use

[Monsanto's GE bovine growth hormone] reduces the

useful lifespan of

a dairy cow. ... Given that the incubation period for

BSE is at least

three to five years and perhaps longer, rbST-treated

cows could

harbor " hidden " BSE. That is, they might be infected

but still

asymptomatic when sent to slaughter. " (My emphasis.)

http://www.consumer sunion.org/ food/bgh- codex.htm

Bill let TSE into our entire food chain. And who owned

the feed and

slaughter and genetic engineering corporations which

benefitted?

Please, tell me, Hillary, what he could possibly have

gotten in

friendship or favors, that could ever justify his

exposing millions

of people to this?

With genetic engineering itself, Bill did something to

the whole

world, which tried to object. Words are inadequate to

express how

astoundingly immoral, beyond human bounds and conceit

and power, that

was.

" Even for the biggest " winners, " it is like winning at

poker on the

Titanic. " Jerry Mander: Facing the Rising Tide

He had no right.

Do you hear that?

Bill had sex from Lewinsky. That's " dinky

immoral. " That's

chicken feed immoral - excuse the Tyson pun, excuse

the TSE-laced

pun. Bill let genetic engineering lose on NATURE

itself.

" Our way of life is likely to be more fundamentally

transformed in

the next several decades than in the previous one

thousand years…Tens

of thousands of novel transgenic bacteria, viruses,

plants and

animals could be released into the Earth's

ecosystems…Some of those

releases, however, could wreak havoc with the planet's

biospheres. "

Rifkin, Biotech Century

Bill did this to us, like it was some nothing and he,

some big dumb

ass Southern boy, just smiling and getting in good

with the Big Boys,

thinking about as much about the consequences of

something this

immense and about us human beings out here, as he

thought about you,

when he was unfaithful with . Just one big fool

getting off on

the power and used to getting away with things.

Terminator genes, developed by DP & L, a Rose Firm

client, prevent

seeds from " working " after only one season. Farmers

" must " repurchase

(patents and suing not certain enough control, it

seems).

Those " killing " genes pose the apocalyptic risk of

breaking out into

nature. Natural seeds could fail, too. Nature could

fail.

Far-fetched?

GMO fields are already contaminating normal species

(http://www.foodfirs t.org/pubs/ backgrdrs/

2002/sp02v8n2. html.

Berkeley Professor of Microbiology, Ignacio Chapela,

wrote an open

letter, warning the Mexican government about just this

breaking out

phenomenon happening in maize (http://www.slogefre

e.org/newsletter

s/News_Item. 2004-12-21. 4353/).

And it has already happened with weeds - pesticide

resistant GMO

seeds break lose and weeds become pesticide-resistant

Superweeds

(http://www.newscien tist.com/ article/dn1882-

geneticallymodif ied-

superweeds- not-uncommon. html).

But Bill's USDA spokesman, Willard Phelps said the

USDA wanted the

technology to be `widely licensed and made

expeditiously available to

many seed companies.'

http://www.globalre search.ca/ index.php?

context=viewArti cle & code=

ENG20060827 & articleId= 3082

" Genetic Engineering is often justified as a human

technology, one

that feeds more people with better food. Nothing could

be further

from the truth. With very few exceptions, the whole

point of genetic

engineering is to increase sales of chemicals and

bio-engineered

products to dependent farmers. " Ehrenfield:

Professor of

Biology, Rutgers University

Hillary, one third of the world's bee colonies have

collapsed. Gone.

Farmers in India are killing themselves. Farmers and

bees. Since

organic farmers in India are fine and organic farmers

report no

colony collapse, what does these farming catastrophes

say

about " industrial agriculture " ?

Mad Cow Disease is another direct result of industrial

agriculture.

And now ....

..... transnational poultry factories are implicated as

the source of

bird flu. ... Small scale poultry farms and wild birds

seem not to be

the problem [just as small farmers are not the issue

in Mad Cow

Disease], and yet " initiatives are multiplying to ban

outdoor

poultry, squeeze out small producers and restock farms

with

genetically modified chickens. ... http://www.ens-

newswire.

com/ens/feb2006/ 2006-02-27- 01.asp " Of the few

outbreaks that did

occur in [Laos], more than 90% broke out in commercial

poultry

operations, not free-ranging flocks. "

http://www.birdflub ook.com/a.

php?id=75

Monsanto (and others) is currently working with the

USDA

(http://www.farmandr anchguide. com/articles/

2006/01/30/ ag

_news/updates/ update01. txt)

to force small farmers to tag every animal with a

global tracking

device (NAIS - National Animal Identification System).

Allegedly

related to food safety, Monsanto and others would be

creating a vast

corporate digital library on every move of small

farmers' livestock.

http://goexcelgloba l.he.net/ ~natpropg/ nonais.html

But small farmers do not create the contaminated

environments, do not

supply the feed, do not grind up diseased animals into

feed (how Mad

Cow began) and then sell it. In fact, their farming

methods, free

range and small scale, are significantly healthier and

safer for

animals and food than the massive concentration of

animals by

corporate industrial agriculture.

Monsanto is also aggressively pushing for state laws

to limit

farmers' right to choose what to plant and the

public's right exclude

GE plants from their communities http://www.rense.

com/general65/

righto.htm

Cattle bloated by steroids, lapse and loss of 10,000

year old normal

seeds, immense pollution from factory farms,

deadly-disease- ridden

feed, world-wide bee colony collapse, poisoned soil

and depleted

water supplies, Superweeds (http://www.newscien

tist.com/

article/dn1882- geneticallymodif ied-superweeds-

not-uncommon. html),

lawsuits against farmers, loss of family farms, and

.... India farmers

killing themselves in what may be the largest mass

suicide in

recorded human history (on average ... one farmers'

suicide every 30

minutes since 2002 - The Hindu 1.30.08) - that is

industrial

agriculture.

Monsanto and Tyson are two of the largest industrial

agricultural

corporations in the world. Industrial agriculture is

represented by

your Rose Law Firm.

Your claim to care about food safety is terrifying

double-speak given

what Bill did and who you take donations from. Your

idea of a

Department of Food Safety would centralize control of

food - in whose

corporate connected hands? You talk tough about

labeling food - ah,

but " foreign " food - a sleight of hand tricking a

public desperate

for safe US food. You talk about food safety but Bill

degraded food

in every imaginable way and prevented minimally sane

labeling.

I am a person before I am a woman. Your gender means

nothing. It is a

media distraction. Your policies on health and food

and women and

children, are meaningless in the face of connections

that have

threatened those groups profoundly, connections you

have never

denounced.

Monsanto uses child labor in India, primarily very

young girls,

exposing them to a lethal pesticide 13-14 hours a day,

for pennies in

pay. http://www.indiares ource.org/ issues/agbiotech

/2003/monsantoun

ilever.html But you take donations from their

lobbyists. You say you

care about black people but as the poorest people in

this country,

they are least able to buy organic and are forced to

eat the

contaminated foods Bill let into our food system. The

National Black

Farmers Association has a boycott out on all Monsanto

products.

Do you eat organic?

So, who are you with, hapless black consumers and

black farmers, or

Monsanto? Mothers left to give their children rBGH

milk, or Monsanto?

Women exposed to 7 times greater risk of breast

cancer, or Monsanto?

Desperate farmers in India and young children forced

into child labor

in cottonseed factories there, or Monsanto? Animals

suffering from

lives in filthy cages and disgusting feedlots, shot up

with steroids

and hormones and antibiotics, or Monsanto? Our

children who eat candy

with high fructose Bt corn syrup associated with

kidney and liver

toxicity, or Monsanto?

was right about your corporate connections. I

just didn't

understand until I saw that PBS show and read about

Monsanto, how

personally affected my children and grandchildren, and

all people

around the world, have been.

I will not vote for you. I will vote for someone who

will commit

themselves to work on behalf of small farmers and real

food and

decent treatment of animals and to end this

industrialized

agricultural nightmare that is taking us off a cliff.

Linn Cohen-Cole

Atlanta

Spiritual freedom is my birthright.

I am a free thinker. I am able to rise above mental

prejudices and stereotypes of others.

I am a free thinker. Nobody and nothing can manipulate

me or deceive me.

I am a free thinker. I freely choose truth and love.

Today, I embrace a greater degree of spiritual

freedom.

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