http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/19/6373/9820

Obama and the USDA

Monsanto's man in the Clinton admin joins the transition team

by Tom Philpott 

19 Nov 2008

EDITED

Whither Obama's food/ag policy?

The transition named its "team members" looking at energy and natural resources agencies, which includes USDA. The list includes Michael R. Taylor, a man who spent his career bouncing between the employ of GMO-seed giant Monsanto and Bill Clinton's FDA and USDA. Taylor is widely credited with ushering Monsanto's recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) through the FDA regulatory process and into the milk supply. He was particularly useful in the effort to prevent abstaining dairies from advertising their milk as rBGH-free.