Reply #17: So have you got any good reasons? [View All]

[Hanse]

"* Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack's support of genetically engineered pharmaceutical crops, especially pharmaceutical corn..."

Finally, an administration which is pro-science instead of anti-science.

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* The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership. "

Great

"* When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning dairy cows."

Sounds like more good news to me.

"* Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government's possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address."

So he's not just pro-science, he's pro-farmer.

"* Vilsack has a glowing reputation as being a schill for agribusiness biotech giants like Monsanto. Sustainable ag advocated across the country were spreading the word of Vilsack's history as he was attempting to appeal to voters in his presidential bid. An activist from the west coast even made this youtube animation about Vilsack "

Is he really a shill for Monsanto? Has he done anything improperly with regards to Monsanto? Or is this just more conspiracy theories from the anti-science kooks? Everytime somebody speaks out in favor of GMOs they get labeled a shill for Monsanto. If I hadn't just pointed that out, I'd probably get accused of being a Monsanto shill in this thread.


"*Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy based biofuels, which use as much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving up world food prices and literally starving the poor. "

Meh.