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Fire Walk With Me

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3. Presidents past and present have welcomed Monsanto into government positions.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:56 AM
Sep 2012

"In 2009, in a classic revolving-door move, President Barack Obama appointed former Monsanto VP and head lobbyist Michael Taylor as Deputy Commissioner for the FDA — the board tasked with regulating Taylor’s own industry."

http://petovera.com/professional-web-design-blog/2012/01/monsanto-exec-heads-fda-and-the-obama-administrations-revolving-door-politics/

(If that site is RW or nutjob, just google up the information including "monsanto fda revolving door".)

Note that Clarence Thomas used to be a Monsanto attorney and now he's on the supreme court, and refuses to recuse himself from Monsanto cases. Hillary Clinton also used to work for a firm which consulted for Monsanto.

So yes, class-action lawsuits and blockades! Occupy Monsanto!

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