Comments on: Obama Serves Up Five-Star Science And Rancid Food Choices http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:21:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: helena http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1768335 helena Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:54:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1768335 <p>Thanks for a brilliant and right-on post.<br /> Unless you’re a policy wonk you may not know that a)progressive alternatives were put up for all of these positions;<br /> b) Obama ignored petitions, personal appeals, etc<br /> c) The positions of these 3 appointees are on the record as horrific.</p> <p>I’m glad I never supported him in the primaries–I knew he didn’t give a damn about many of our issues.</p> Thanks for a brilliant and right-on post.
Unless you’re a policy wonk you may not know that a)progressive alternatives were put up for all of these positions;
b) Obama ignored petitions, personal appeals, etc
c) The positions of these 3 appointees are on the record as horrific.

I’m glad I never supported him in the primaries–I knew he didn’t give a damn about many of our issues.

]]> By: Katherine Graham Cracker http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1768259 Katherine Graham Cracker Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:46:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1768259 <p>One more <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/16/101132/99/797/673492" rel="nofollow">link</a> to another petition </p> <p>It’s a KOS diary that links to a petition talking about a list of people who would be acceptable appointments for undersecretaries at the dept of ag</p> One more link to another petition

It’s a KOS diary that links to a petition talking about a list of people who would be acceptable appointments for undersecretaries at the dept of ag

]]> By: Katherine Graham Cracker http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1768250 Katherine Graham Cracker Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:39:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1768250 <p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a petition against Vilsack’s confirmation from the Organic Consumer’s Association</p> Here is a petition against Vilsack’s confirmation from the Organic Consumer’s Association

]]> By: bigbrother http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767894 bigbrother Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:17:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767894 <p><a href="http://www.epa.gov/endo/pubs/regaspects/index.htm" rel="nofollow">EDSP</a><br /> Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program over 86,000 domestic chemicals have to be classified as to the health and environmental risks they bring…USEPA was sued by The National Resources Defense Council to comply.</p> EDSP
Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program over 86,000 domestic chemicals have to be classified as to the health and environmental risks they bring…USEPA was sued by The National Resources Defense Council to comply.

]]> By: sagesse http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767855 sagesse Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:49:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767855 <p>So we have the high-flying Science Team, and then those actually in charge of the Federal Agencies implementing decisions being really questionable. I am becoming afraid that the high-flying Science Team may be window-dressing? Cover for continued assault on the environment by industries which are increasingly foreign-owned and/or controlled.</p> So we have the high-flying Science Team, and then those actually in charge of the Federal Agencies implementing decisions being really questionable. I am becoming afraid that the high-flying Science Team may be window-dressing? Cover for continued assault on the environment by industries which are increasingly foreign-owned and/or controlled.

]]> By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767833 Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:27:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767833 <p>“see them linked”</p> “see them linked”

]]> By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767831 Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:26:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767831 <p>Ouch! Hope all affected parts are fully recovered - and truly glad to see wolves’ great work and seem them linked here.</p> Ouch! Hope all affected parts are fully recovered – and truly glad to see wolves’ great work and seem them linked here.

]]> By: sagesse http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767827 sagesse Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:23:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767827 <p>I remember that unfortunate back-and-forth incident. Blame it on blisters in someone’s hiking boots, or something …</p> I remember that unfortunate back-and-forth incident. Blame it on blisters in someone’s hiking boots, or something …

]]> By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767787 Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:01:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767787 <p>Thanks - I did not know this. You learned me.</p> Thanks – I did not know this. You learned me.

]]> By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D. http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767786 Kirk James Murphy, M.D. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:58:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-up-five-star-science-and-rancid-food-choices/#comment-1767786 <p>Ending our role as involuntary human subjects demands the precautionary principle. The pp places the burden on industry to demonstrate absence of harm before releasing new substances or technologies.</p> <p>Until then, we are all helpless human subjects in innumerable uncontrolled trials of how - together and in combination - the tens of thousands of chemicals flowing through our air, food, water and bodies affect our personal health.</p> Ending our role as involuntary human subjects demands the precautionary principle. The pp places the burden on industry to demonstrate absence of harm before releasing new substances or technologies.

Until then, we are all helpless human subjects in innumerable uncontrolled trials of how – together and in combination – the tens of thousands of chemicals flowing through our air, food, water and bodies affect our personal health.

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