-Caveat Lector- The Corporate State goes round and round. Clinton pollster linked to Monsanto, PM Blair, and HIS pollster. God Save The Queen (and Monsanto and Clinton). flw THE TIMES February 16 1999 GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD Labour linked to biotech companies BY JAMES LANDALE, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE companies producing genetically modified food have substantial links with the Government and the Labour establishment. Ministers and officials have met representatives of the firms more than 60 times since May 1997, according to written Commons answers. The most active company has been Zeneca, a British chemical firm that is developing tomatoes that are slow to rot. It has had 33 Whitehall meetings. Monsanto, one of the largest producers of GM crops, has held 23 meetings at the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. David Hill, former chief spokesman for Labour, gives media advice to Monsanto in his new role as a director of Bell Pottinger Good Relations. Stan Greenberg, an American political strategist who worked for Labour from 1992 to 1997, gives consultancy advice to Monsanto. He works with Philip Gould, Tony Blair's personal pollster. Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK, sister company to Novartis New Farm Crops, a GM maize specialist, spent £15,000 in 1997 sponsoring an exhibition stand and reception at the Labour conference. It also sponsored a skills training day for new Labour MPs. Officials for the parent company, Novartis UK, deny any of this amounts to lobbying for GM foods, a claim rejected by environmental campaigners. Nick Palmer, Labour MP for Brox-towe, is paid up to £5,000 a year as a parliamentary adviser for Novartis. The MP, who was a computer scientist with the firm for 18 years, briefs managers but does not lobby for them. Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the Science Minister, is a supporter of GM foods. His Gatsby Foundation, a charitable trust, pours thousands of pounds into research, much of it through the Sainsbury Laboratory for Plant Molecular Pathology in Norwich. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
