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antigop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 10:43 AM
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Open letter to HRC from a Wellesley College Alumna (re: Rose Law firm, Monsanto,genetic engineering)
Edited on Sat May-17-08 10:46 AM by antigop
http://www.celsias.com/2008/02/19/an-open-letter-to-hillary-clinton-from-a-wellesley-college-alumna

You have connections to Monsanto through the Rose Law Firm where you worked and through Bill who hired Monsanto people for central food-related roles. Your Orwellian-named “Rural Americans for Hillary” was planned withTroutman Sanders, Monsanto’s lobbyists.

Genetic engineering and industrialized food and animal production all come together at the Rose Law Firm, which represents the world’s largest GE corporation (Monsanto), GE’s most controversial project (DP&L’s - now Monsanto’s - terminator genes) , the world’s largest meat producer (Tyson), the world’s largest retailer and a dominant food retailer (Wal-Mart) .

The inbred-ness of Rose’s legal representation of corporations which own controlling interests in other corporations there and of corporate boards sharing members who are also shareholders of each other’s corporations there, is so thorough that it is hard to capture. Jon Jacoby, senior executive of the Stephens Group - one of the largest institutional shareholders of Tyson Foods, Walmart, DP&L - is also Chairman of the Board of DP&L and arranged the Wal-Mart deal. Jackson Stephens’ Stephens Group staked Sam Walton and financed Tyson Foods. Monsanto bought DP&L. All represented at Rose.

You didn’t just work there, you made friends. That shows in the flow of favors then and since. You were invited onto Walmart’s board, you were helped by a Tyson executive to make commodity trades (3 days before Bill became governor), netting you $100,000, Jackson Stephens strongly backed Bill for Governor, and then for President (donating $100,000).

Food and friends, in Clinton terms: Bill’s appointed friend Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture, who immediately significantly weakened federal chicken waste and contamination standards, opening the door to major expansion of Tyson’s chicken factory farms. Espy resigned, indicted for accepting bribes, illegal contributions, money laundering, illegal dispersal of USDA subsidies, …. Tyson Foods was the largest corporate offender.


<edit to add> If anyone can refute the points made in this letter, please do so.
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BanzaiBonnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 11:05 AM
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1. Monsanto visits evil on everything it touches
Everything I've been working against for years.

HRC is just too connected for me. I hope she would actually read this letter and consider the content.
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antigop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 11:47 AM
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2. kick n/t
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