Missouri Senators: shills for corporations

Once again, our government voted against you and me--against the people--and voted, instead, to protect the corporations in the country.

The Senate just voted last week to keep you and I from knowing what's in our food.

Again.

Companies don't have to label genetically-modified foods (GMO's) to show that they're in what we eat. Basically, they're protecting the corporations--St. Louis' own Monsanto, among others, I'm sure--instead of protecting the people.

Forget that we otherwise are supposed to know what's in our foods.

Forget that all over Europe they don't even let GMO's into their food chain, let alone not label them.

This provision, added to the farm bill, "would permit states to 'require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered for sale have a label on indicating that the food, beverage, or other edible product contains a genetically engineered ingredient.'"

What's particularly and especially galling about this is that our own Senators Roy Blunt (Republican) and Senator Clair McCaskill (Democrat) both voted to protect the corporations--Monsanto--instead of us.

It's not surprising--not surprising at all--since Senator Blunt regularly, typically and repeatedly votes to protect corporations and "Big Oil" and Monsanto instead of voting with and for the people--you and me.

As for Senator McCaskill, it's an election year and she no doubt needs and wants the Right Wing and corporate support and money.

It's disgusting.

It's this same Senator Roy Blunt who is, right now, also trying to get the Canadian company's Transcanada Keystone XL pipeline to cut through the good old US of A, from the Northern border all the way to Texas, just short of the Southern border, all so a Canadian company--Transcanada--can get their oil to world markets and make yet more money for themselves.

Forget that oil spills inevitably happen with these things. Forget that we'd have to then clean it up. Forget the environmental damage it would, without question, inflict, permanently.

Senator Blunt HAS to stand up for his corporations and get all that money in his pockets.

And Senator McCaskill has to fight to be re-elected.

Truly disgusting.

Links: http://www.americablog.com/2012/06/senate-votes-7326-to-deny-states-right.html

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2012/06/genetically-modified-america.html