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US Senate, Bill Gates Give the Planet a Middle Finger for Earth Day
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| Today the Senate Foreign Relations committee
| held a hearing on the Global Food Security Act
| (S.384), which, as I have documented on this
| blog before, Monsanto HAS been involved in
| lobbying on. The bill first came to my
| attention about a year ago, when the same
| committee held a very similar hearing about
| the same bill. In the year since then, I've
| become increasingly knowledgeable and outraged
| about the issues surrounding global food
| security. In the meantime, the Obama
| Administration took the lead on the issue of
| global food security from the Senate, and
| USAID is doing quite a bit already (in
| partnership with the World Bank and private
| organizations and companies) to really f*ck
| things up worldwide.
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http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20674.cfm
Recent:
Gates Official Comes Under Investigation by Senate Committee
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| The head of global health for the Bill &
| Melinda Gates Foundation is under scrutiny
| by members of Congress for his previous job
| at one of the world's largest
| pharmaceutical companies.
|
| The Senate Finance Committee is
| investigating whether the drug company
| GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible health
| risks associated with the diabetes medicine
| Avandia. The committee's senior members,
| Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, and
| Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa,
| released a report over the weekend that
| says that the company intimidated outside
| researchers from studying the drug.
|
| [...]
|
| Only a small portion of the 334-page report
| focuses on Dr. Yamada. But it says he made
| phone calls to officials at the University
| of North Carolina and the University of
| Pennsylvania to shut down studies of
| possible negative side effects of Avandia.
|
| At the University of Pennsylvania, two
| researchers said that phone calls by Dr.
| Yamada and other drug company executives
| "were highly unprofessional and had a
| chilling effect on their professional
| activities."
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http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Gates-Official-Comes-Under/21393/?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en
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