Ag-gate 2011.wmv
Channel: GMOreform
Date: 2011-09-16

Attention video avengers! Please cut videos from this public hearing to expose dirty congressmen. http://www.agriculture.house.gov/hearings/hearingDetails.aspx?NewsID=1269 Infested with conspiring company men, the House Committee on Agriculture swears in this hearing their allegiance to biotechnology at the exclusion of everyone else. 
GMOreform.org brings you the next Watergate. Say hello to Ag-gate 2011. 

The committee instructs Secretary Vilscack of the USDA to deregulate GE alfalfa without his "so-called option 3" a.k.a. buffer zones between GE and non-GE alfalfa which were meant to lessen contamination to non-GE alfalfa growers from GE alfalfa pollen. 

The conspiracy is that not only do they tell us over and over in this "forum" that they are working for biotech interests alone, but they let everyone go through the court system, let the USDA devote nearly 4 years to come up with a 2,300 page Environmental Impact Statement per the court order, and let everyone send in our comments in the 30 day minimum comment period but in the middle of that comment period they admit they have no intention of allowing any of it to dissuade them from giving away the farm to biotech companies. 

All we want at GMOrform.org is for you to watch this video on agriculture.house.gov and see the plot to contaminate and force GE ingredients into alfalfa...

then see Sec. Vilsack go to bat for all farmers, not just his beloved biotech but all, and see he was overridden in what looks very much like a show trial. 

Your Congresspeople have been writing Sec. Vilsack letters about the GE alfalfa contamination problem and no one has volunteered this information to them that the Committee is telling Vilsack he has to do what they tell him. No one knew why Vilsack flopped when just a week before he was still working hard at finding solutions to preserve everyone's farm method choice- whether we liked them or not, we all thought we'd have that protection at least. 

It was in plain sight. But it won't go unpunished. Representative, Ranking Member Peterson called everyone but biotech "our opponents." Well Representative, you just admitted to not representing the public except a privileged industry and now you're going to be fired. Not only that, but the committee didn't bat an eye when you said that on their behalf and you are the Ranking member. 

The House Committee on Agriculture has admitted in this video testimony that they are crooked. If there was any doubt the campaign contributions they receive from Agribusiness are having an affect on their loyalty, the last wisp of that doubt is now removed. Having someone fired for being a company man in biotech is the beginning of a house cleaning that needs to happen now. 

Given that all our Congresspeople were played for fools with the rest of us, we think this will be dealt with. But only if they watch or read the transcript of this forum.