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The Michael Taylor campaign
A grassroots effort at federal change
By Culinate staff
September 15, 2011
Two years ago, when the FDA appointed former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor to an influential post, many bloggers and food activists cried foul, citing Taylor’s well-known support for genetically modified foods, recombinant bovine growth hormone, and lax federal food-safety regulation.
In the past couple of weeks, Food Democracy Now! and CREDO Action have been agitating to get rid of Taylor, collecting thousands of signatures calling for Taylor’s resignation. What’s the beef now? A variety of complaints, ranging from Taylor’s waffling on the dangerous use of antibiotics on factory farms to Taylor’s campaign against small dairy farms.
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1. by Caroline Cummins on Sep 21, 2011 at 9:58 AM PDT
The CREDO crowd is also calling for supermarkets to refuse to sell Monsanto’s new GMO sweet corn. The corn is the first direct-to-consumer GMO food produced by Monsanto.
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