Monsanto’s Government Infiltration

List of former-Monsanto players now in government roles:

• Tom Vilsack, the pro-biotech former governor of Iowa, now head of the USDA
• Michael Taylor, the former Monsanto Vice President, now the FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods
• Roger Beachy, the former director of the Monsanto-funded Danforth Plant Science Center, now the director of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Islam Siddiqui, the former Vice President of the Monsanto and Dupont-funded pesticide-promoting lobbying group, CropLife,  now the Agriculture Negotiator for the US Trade Representative
• Rajiv Shah, the former Gates Foundation agricultural-development director served as Obama’s USDA Under Secretary for Research Education and Economics and Chief Scientist, now head of USAID
• Ramona Romero, the corporate counsel to Dupont, nominated by President Obama to serve as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture

(Source: politicsoftheplate.com)