While the public is celebrating continuous victories to better their food quality and health, corporate food and biotech industries are working diligently in the shadows to remain alive. Seeing clearly that they have failed as public-facing companies, sinking corporations are pouring funds into lobbying for new government laws that would make it illegal for their extinct business model to die.
With a growing list of food companies bowing to public petitions and demands, the people gain strength with each compounding victory. Chipotle, McDonald’s, Panera, Starbucks, Monsanto, and many others have all recently announced changes to their food ingredients and business practices. On a long enough timeline, corporations that have built their gains on cutting corners and cheap, dangerous additives can’t survive. Enter lobbying and structured corruption.
Mentioned on the now famous “Dr. Oz Fires Back” episode was H.R. 4432, Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act which seeks to ban the growing food labeling trend germinating in the collective U.S. consciousness exponentially. This “Alamo Bill” represents the last grasp at control by food corporations. As proof of this reckless urgency, H.R. 4432 has seen 62 organizations register to lobby on this bill spending record dollars. In a government with porous integrity, the coming battle to kill this Alamo Bill is ramping up.
The stalled Vermont GMO labeling law, caused by corporations influencing the legal process, has finally broke free and is set to be mandatory on July 1st, 2016. Excited Vermontians are now left to ask, why the long wait? Meanwhile in Maui, the citizens voted to halt GMO testing, planting, and toxic chemical spraying from local biotech corporations (Dow and Monsanto). Having been essentially ignored, it is now clear the People of Maui have no representation in their own courts for a bill that should have already been enacted. Reporting since the onset, Jon Rappoport writes:
“Federal Judge Susan Oki Mollway dropped a bomb in Monsanto vs. Maui. She ruled that the case cannot go to Hawaii State Court, but will remain under her federal jurisdiction.”
Rappoport continues “Among the obvious reasons for refusing to allow this matter to be settled at a state level, there is a hidden factor: a guiding principle invoked in the Hawaii State Constitution:
“Each person has the right to a clean and healthful environment, as defined by laws relating to environmental quality, including control of pollution and conservation, protection and enhancement of natural resources. Any person may enforce this right against any party, public or private, through appropriate legal proceedings, subject to reasonable limitations and regulation as provided by law.”
“For the benefit of present and future generations, the State and its political subdivisions shall conserve and protect Hawaii’s natural beauty and all natural resources, including land, water, air, minerals and energy sources, and shall promote the development and utilization of these resources in a manner consistent with their conservation and in furtherance of the self-sufficiency of the State.”
The American experience is shifting rapidly. Where you focus your attention moving forward will greatly determine your experience. As the social fabric shifts, many are moving from frustration to solutions. Light can be seen shining through the cracks in the corporate food and biotech industries resting on weakened foundations. The days of dominance once enjoyed by forward-facing food corporations are over; the tipping point has passed. Clever ad campaigns and carrot-dangling incentives will never undo the abuse and toxic additives the people have endured from industry hands for decades. Like an absentee father now attempting to make up for lost time and years of neglect, the food and biotech corporations will end broken and alone.
With a growing list of food companies bowing to public petitions and demands, the people gain strength with each compounding victory. Chipotle, McDonald’s, Panera, Starbucks, Monsanto, and many others have all recently announced changes to their food ingredients and business practices. On a long enough timeline, corporations that have built their gains on cutting corners and cheap, dangerous additives can’t survive. Enter lobbying and structured corruption.
Mentioned on the now famous “Dr. Oz Fires Back” episode was H.R. 4432, Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act which seeks to ban the growing food labeling trend germinating in the collective U.S. consciousness exponentially. This “Alamo Bill” represents the last grasp at control by food corporations. As proof of this reckless urgency, H.R. 4432 has seen 62 organizations register to lobby on this bill spending record dollars. In a government with porous integrity, the coming battle to kill this Alamo Bill is ramping up.
The stalled Vermont GMO labeling law, caused by corporations influencing the legal process, has finally broke free and is set to be mandatory on July 1st, 2016. Excited Vermontians are now left to ask, why the long wait? Meanwhile in Maui, the citizens voted to halt GMO testing, planting, and toxic chemical spraying from local biotech corporations (Dow and Monsanto). Having been essentially ignored, it is now clear the People of Maui have no representation in their own courts for a bill that should have already been enacted. Reporting since the onset, Jon Rappoport writes:
“Federal Judge Susan Oki Mollway dropped a bomb in Monsanto vs. Maui. She ruled that the case cannot go to Hawaii State Court, but will remain under her federal jurisdiction.”
Rappoport continues “Among the obvious reasons for refusing to allow this matter to be settled at a state level, there is a hidden factor: a guiding principle invoked in the Hawaii State Constitution:
“Each person has the right to a clean and healthful environment, as defined by laws relating to environmental quality, including control of pollution and conservation, protection and enhancement of natural resources. Any person may enforce this right against any party, public or private, through appropriate legal proceedings, subject to reasonable limitations and regulation as provided by law.”
“For the benefit of present and future generations, the State and its political subdivisions shall conserve and protect Hawaii’s natural beauty and all natural resources, including land, water, air, minerals and energy sources, and shall promote the development and utilization of these resources in a manner consistent with their conservation and in furtherance of the self-sufficiency of the State.”
The American experience is shifting rapidly. Where you focus your attention moving forward will greatly determine your experience. As the social fabric shifts, many are moving from frustration to solutions. Light can be seen shining through the cracks in the corporate food and biotech industries resting on weakened foundations. The days of dominance once enjoyed by forward-facing food corporations are over; the tipping point has passed. Clever ad campaigns and carrot-dangling incentives will never undo the abuse and toxic additives the people have endured from industry hands for decades. Like an absentee father now attempting to make up for lost time and years of neglect, the food and biotech corporations will end broken and alone.
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