In 2009, President Obama appointed Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lawyer-lobbyist, as Food Safety Czar in the FDA (Food & Drug Administration), and Tom Vilsack, Iowa’s former Biotech Governor of the Year as Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture. Mr. Vilsack’s award was conferred by an industry organization representing Monsanto and the other genetic engineering companies.

May 26 will mark 20 years since the FDA decided, at the request of the biotech industry and corporate agribusiness (and most recently under the leadership of Michael Taylor) to prevent Americans from knowing if their food has been genetically engineered or not. Due to the efforts of Michael Taylor, genetically engineered foods do

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have to be safety tested or labeled. The Food & Drug Administration conducts no premarket review or approval engineered foods, as long as Monsanto (and other industry members such as Dow, Dupont, Syngenta, BASF) concludes that the genetically engineered substance is not “materially different” from normal food.

Michael Taylor’s FDA has rubber-stamped Dow Chemical Corporation’s conclusion that their Agent Orange Corn (genetically engineered to resist the herbicide 2,4-D used in Agent Orange) is somehow comparable to normal corn.

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Tom Vilsack’s USDA is ready to give Agent Orange Corn final approval. Soon, we will be eating corn engineered with genes from a soil bacterium that isn’t killed by 2,4-D herbicide: A “food” which human beings have never eaten before, has never been tested for safety, and marketed without any indication that it is a genetically engineered product.

2,4-D is currently the 7th largest source of dioxin pollution in the US and is toxic to the eye, thyroid, kidney, adrenals, ovaries/testes, and neurological system. Agent Orange Corn is projected to increase 2,4-D use 50 times over.

Click here to take action and STOP un-labeled genetically altered food products from entering our marketplace and our bodies.