Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Financial Conflicts at National Academy Advisory Panel on the Future of GMO Regulation

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Financial Conflicts at National Academy Advisory Panel on the Future of GMO Regulation

Click here to access article by Jonathan Latham from Independent Science News.

... at least six of the 13 committee members chosen have financial conflicts of interests with the biotech industry, four of which are not publicly disclosed. Several other committee members have backgrounds advocating biotechnology development, including a representative of Dow AgroSciences and Richard Johnson of Global Helix LLC. Johnson, according to their report of 2014-2015, is also head of the United States Council for International Business committee on biotechnology.

That is precisely the way it is among all institutions. The church of capitalism has placed their agents in every important organization to insure that it functions in complete loyalty to Wall Street, the Vatican of the capitalist Empire.