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Trump candidates for Ag sec
Posted on: January 4, 2017 at 11:37:57 CT
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For Secretary of Agriculture:
Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, co-chaired the so-called Coalition for Safe and Affordable Food, the front-group Monsanto created to pass the DARK Act. As USDA Secretary, he would push for aggressive implementation of the worst aspects of the DARK Act, including a provision directing the USDA Secretary to “establish consistency” between the DARK Act and organic regulations. This would open the floodgates for GMOs to be allowed in organics.
Ted McKinney, director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture under Gov. Pence for three years, his first job in government. Before that McKinney worked for Eli Lilly, Dow AgroSciences and a number of industry front groups, including the Council for Biotechnology Information, the International Food Information Council, the Meat Export Federation and the International Federation of Animal Health.
Don Villwock, a genetically modified crop farmer who has been active in the leadership of both the non-profit advocacy and for-profit banking and insurance businesses of the multi-billion-dollar Farm Bureau empire. With the Farm Bureau, Villwock advocated for and profited from crop insurance. As of 2014, Villwock and his wife had received more than $1.4 million in farm subsidies from the federal government.
Charles Herbster, Trump’s Agricultural Advisory Committee chair. Herbster is a Nebraska cattleman who also distributes pesticide ingredients and fertilizers, among other things. He’s a major funder and steering committee member of the Ag America Super PAC. Other donors to Ag America include Monsanto, Dupont, BASF, Dow, Syngenta, and Bayer.
Sonny Perdue is the former Governor of Georgia. He supports factory farms, pesticides and genetically engineered crops. In 2009, he signed a bill into law that blocked local communities in Georgia from regulating factory farms to address animal cruelty, pollution or any other hazard. He took money from Monsanto and other pesticide companies for his gubernatorial campaigns. The Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a front group for the GMO industry, named Perdue their 2009 Governor of the Year.
Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, co-chaired the so-called Coalition for Safe and Affordable Food, the front-group Monsanto created to pass the DARK Act. As USDA Secretary, he would push for aggressive implementation of the worst aspects of the DARK Act, including a provision directing the USDA Secretary to “establish consistency” between the DARK Act and organic regulations. This would open the floodgates for GMOs to be allowed in organics.
Ted McKinney, director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture under Gov. Pence for three years, his first job in government. Before that McKinney worked for Eli Lilly, Dow AgroSciences and a number of industry front groups, including the Council for Biotechnology Information, the International Food Information Council, the Meat Export Federation and the International Federation of Animal Health.
Don Villwock, a genetically modified crop farmer who has been active in the leadership of both the non-profit advocacy and for-profit banking and insurance businesses of the multi-billion-dollar Farm Bureau empire. With the Farm Bureau, Villwock advocated for and profited from crop insurance. As of 2014, Villwock and his wife had received more than $1.4 million in farm subsidies from the federal government.
Charles Herbster, Trump’s Agricultural Advisory Committee chair. Herbster is a Nebraska cattleman who also distributes pesticide ingredients and fertilizers, among other things. He’s a major funder and steering committee member of the Ag America Super PAC. Other donors to Ag America include Monsanto, Dupont, BASF, Dow, Syngenta, and Bayer.
Sonny Perdue is the former Governor of Georgia. He supports factory farms, pesticides and genetically engineered crops. In 2009, he signed a bill into law that blocked local communities in Georgia from regulating factory farms to address animal cruelty, pollution or any other hazard. He took money from Monsanto and other pesticide companies for his gubernatorial campaigns. The Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a front group for the GMO industry, named Perdue their 2009 Governor of the Year.
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