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The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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Monsanto the "humanitarian"
Monsanto and other U.S. manufacturers of genetically altered crops literally have come a cropper in trying to sell their Frankenfoods in Europe, where they've been banned, and in our country, where a growing consumer rebellion has spooked retailers and processors from buying these genetically contaminated foods.
So, Monsanto and the rest are now trying to peddle their tampered foodstuffs to the world's poor. Particularly disgusting is their shameful claim that they're doing this out of humanitarian concern. The lab techs, they say, can splice foreign genes into rice to juice up its vitamin A content, thus improving the health of millions of Third World children.
Kit Bond, the senator from Monsanto, even put $30 million of our tax dollars into a foreign-aid spending bill to buy Monsanto's Frankenrice for distribution to the poor, piously saying that the funds will "liberate millions from the tyranny of hunger."
Hogwash. Genetic food-tampering is about putting millions into the coffers of Monsanto. These products have not been proven safe for use by us—so why should the world's poor be Monsanto's guinea pigs?