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*From: * " Becky Bond, CREDO Action " <act@...>

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Dear ,

Why is a former Monsanto lobbyist currently serving as the FDA's food

safety czar waging war on small dairy farms that produce fresh milk?

While factory farm operators are getting away with serious food safety

violations, raw milk dairy farmers and distributors across the country have

been subjected to armed raids and hauled away in handcuffs.

The Food and Drug Administration is running sting operations followed by

" guns-drawn raids usually reserved for terrorists and drug lords " as part of

a crackdown on unpasteurized milk.1 Meanwhile, the FDA is letting the highly

consolidated industrial meat and factory farm industry off the hook despite

growing problems.

Not surprisingly, the person responsible for prioritizing armed raids on

small dairies over holding agribusiness accountable is a former Monsanto

attorney and chief super lobbyist. Monsanto's is the second

highest-ranking official at the FDA, and as Food Safety Czar is responsible

for implementing the day-to-day policies that govern the food safety laws

for the U.S. 2

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CREDO is joining our allies at Food Democracy Now! in calling on the

president to fire Monsanto's from the FDA. Midwestern farmers

will play an important symbolic role in President Obama's reelection

campaign. We need to let the president know that we stand with small farmers

and not Monsanto!

seems focused on entirely the wrong aspects of food safety

enforcement. Rather than making sure that food safety inspections are done

properly at our nation's largest factory farms, where antibiotic resistance

has run amuck, has been leading a departmental crusade against small

raw milk dairy producers. So far several dairy farmers have been subject to

a year-long undercover sting operation from the East Coast to California.

Incredibly, and FDA inspectors have not arrested or fined

the Iowa agribusinessman — Jack DeCoster — who was wholly responsible for

the half-a-billion eggs that were recalled in 2010 salmonella-tainted egg

recall.3 Though this industrial agribusinessman endangered the health of

millions, thinks Amish farmers producing fresh milk are more

deserving targets of his FDA enforcement raids with guns drawn.

While CREDO recognizes the inherent risks that are involved in food

production, it's time that the U.S. government start responsibly looking

into the real origins of our nation's largest food safety recalls and stop

harassing family farmers trying to survive in the excessively consolidated

food and agricultural sectors.

* Tell President Obama to fire Monsanto's from his job as

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Thanks for standing up for small farmers and taking our government back

from Monsanto.

Becky Bond, Political Director

CREDO Action from Working Assets

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1 " Food safety chief defends raw milk

raids " <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=231176 & id=26849-2163802-k72XNBx & t=11>,

San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 2011

2 " Monsanto's man returns to FDA in food-czar

role " <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=231177 & id=26849-2163802-k72XNBx & t=12>,

Grist, July 8, 2009.

3 " DeCoster Gets Warning, Hillandale Sales

OK'd " <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=231178 & id=26849-2163802-k72XNBx & t=13>,

Food Safety News, October 19, 2010.

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