Monsanto VP To Head Food Safety?

Fox to Guard Henhouse?
Former Monsanto VP May Be Named To Head FDA Safety

Working Group
By Susie Madrak
Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 7:00pm

Sometimes I'm just rendered speechless, and this is one of those times. Natasha
Chart via Sustainable Food at Change.org:

Obama's considering appointing a former Monsanto vice president, Mike Taylor, to
head the Food Safety Working Group at the FDA.

As Jill Richardson writes at LaVidaLocavore at the link above, Taylor thinks the
FDA wastes too much time on food safety inspections at meat packing plants.
Further, he believes that one of their main problems is that they have to slow
down their line speed too much.

Everyone who's read anything about the horrendous working conditions at US
meatpacking plants knows that incomplete kills before slaughter and worker
injuries increase dramatically when line speeds increase.

As also noted at the Ethicurean, Taylor is the reason milk from rBGH/rBST cows
doesn't have to be labeled. Bovine growth hormone is perfectly safe, after all.
Except for cows, or humans who drink its breakdown products in milk.

So yes, Mike Taylor is the person we have to thank for putting pus from
mastitis-infected cows into the milk supply, and exposing milk-drinking
Americans by the millions to greater cancer risks.

This guy is heading up a food safety working group.

I'm just swimming in the changeiness.

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