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A2 Federoff – author indictFederoff is a biotech shillPamela Drew August 25, 2008. http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/25/1778758-will-nytimes-science-stoop-to-propaganda It's almost like the problem you have when a lie compounds, at some point there's an awful lot to explain. It appears the NY Times finally decided to tip toe into the subject of gmo foods and use the tobacco industry strategy of employing a paid scientist to do it. The article titled An Advocate for Science Diplomacy is a feeble attempt by the New York Times to slide in the back door using an interview with Nina Fedoroff as an introduction to what we've been swallowing. As the press stayed silent, pretending it's nothing different from any other food, the problem with the cover up grew. Now, it seems the time has come to open discussion and what better way to begin than with a deceptive bit of propaganda from the industry that has been hidden from view? Federoff has all the superficial credentials one would look to for a legitimate scientific view but as with most people who support biotech there's more than meets the eye. By some measure tracing the decade of Nina's career and associations is like a microcosm of the covert industry growth itself. Since this deception took a decade to grow it takes a little patience and back story to unravel. It is after all a web of deception so hang in there through the tangles. We'll take it piece by piece and get to the ties that keep the hands of Monsanto and the other Biotech Brigade profiteers, hidden with a few degrees of separation from their supporters. August 19, 2008 A CONVERSATION WITH NINA V. FEDOROFF An Advocate for Science Diplomacy By CLAUDIA DREIFUS When she was a single mother in the early 1960s, Nina V. Fedoroff, 66, defied odds and conventionality by working her way through college, graduate school and postdoctoral studies. Dr. Fedoroff, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, did fundamental research on plant transposons, or jumping genes, and was among the first to clone plant DNA. She is science adviser to the secretary of state and administrator of the Agency for International Development. We spoke last month in Washington and later on the telephone. An edited version of the conversations follows. Unless being a hand picked Ambassador, by the most industry friendly Administration in US history, raises a red flag, one would need to look to Federofff's biotech pedigree to explain the untenable science she offers in the interview. Let's start with the CV details provided and move on to the missing ones. Like so many programs with benevolent aims, USAID has been influenced by an agenda of promoting the profit objectives of industry. Few have benefitted biotech more than USAID which donates food in the name of addressing global hunger, but forces Nations who don't accept gmo technology to allow gmo as aid. Nations who refuse to accept the gmo grains, either based on concerns for health or fears that the patented seeds will be planted and grow their indebtedness have been targeted for reprisals. Examples of USAID shipments as a mechanism to dump biotech on the poor are plentiful. Here is one that reflects the essence of the benevolent policy feeding the poor of India. The USDA has instructed US Aid Agencies to act as international policemen on behalf of US biotech corporations. In the minutes of its meeting with aid agencies it is made clear that US Aid Agencies are expected to immediately report any opposition to GM food imports by recipient nations to USAID, that they are to make investigations to enable USAID to classify objections as either 'political' or 'trade' related and that USAID will then take the necessary 'diplomatic action' (sanctions?, WTO prosecutions?, aid cancellations/, IMF action?) to ensure that the shipments are accepted. http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2003/USAID-Report-AntiGM14jan03.htm Now for the details of Nina's career history that missed the interview introduction, taken from the biography posted at Penn State's Huck Institute where she was a founding member of the biotech Consortium that became a biotech education program. Much of the picture comes from associations and there'd be a book if we detailed them all. Download 357.18 Kb. Share with your friends:
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