{"id":545,"date":"2009-10-10T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/dr-mercola-points-out-that-the-obama-administration-apparently-isnt-immune-from-monsanto-influence-but-while-health.html"},"modified":"2009-10-10T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T15:29:04","slug":"dr-mercola-points-out-that-the-obama-administration-apparently-isnt-immune-from-monsanto-influence-but-while-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/dr-mercola-points-out-that-the-obama-administration-apparently-isnt-immune-from-monsanto-influence-but-while-health.html","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Influence in DC Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/10\/10\/Obama-Monsanto-Alliance-Too-Close-for-Comfort.aspx\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/imageserver\/public\/2009\/September\/10.10whitehouse.jpg\"><\/a>\nDr. Mercola points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/10\/10\/Obama-Monsanto-Alliance-Too-Close-for-Comfort.aspx\">the Obama administration apparently isn&#8217;t immune from Monsanto influence:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nBut while health care reform is finally on the table, and an organic farm has, for the first time, been planted on the White House lawn, there are an unsettling number of foxes being appointed to guard the U.S. health care and food industry hen houses \u2026 foxes that have entirely too many connections to Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer turned agricultural giant that is slowly gaining control over the world\u2019s population, one seed at a time.\n<p>\nThe New Secretary of Agriculture is a Fan of Factory Farms, GM Crops and More\n<p>\nFormer Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is now the Secretary of Agriculture, an appointment that took place despite massive public outcry. What was needed for an effective Secretary of Agriculture was someone who would develop and implement a plan that promotes family-scale farming and a safe and nutritious food system with a sustainable and organic vision.\n<p>\nWhat we got was yet another politician who\u2019s already made room in his bed for the industry lobby. As the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) points out:\n<\/blockquote>\nMany more details follow.\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s going to take more than just a new president to break the grip of big agribusiness on government.\nAs FDR said:<blockquote>\nI agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Mercola points out that the Obama administration apparently isn&#8217;t immune from Monsanto influence: But while health care reform is finally on the table, and an organic farm has, for the first time, been planted on the White House lawn, there are an unsettling number of foxes being appointed to guard the U.S. health care [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,12],"tags":[2761,1760,1345,1800,15,1798,1802,179,1801,1799],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-factory-farming","tag-fda","tag-mercola","tag-monsanto","tag-obama","tag-organic-consumers-association","tag-roundup","tag-sustainable-agriculture","tag-vilsack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}