This petition is about returning the influence of the vote to the human citizens of communities and states a cross the nation, making politicians and polices reflect the will, and serve the common good of the people above all, not the financial interest of corporations.

MICHAEL TAYLOR'S FORMER CONNECTION TO MONSANTO AS VICE PRESIDENT AND LOBBYIST CLEARLY REVEALS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN WORKING WITH THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AS ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER.

To protect all consumers across all industries and especially those historically providing poor service and doing everything possible to avoid providing even basic acceptable levels of customer service.

President Obama appointed former Monsanto vice president and lobbyist Michael Taylor to the FDA. Anyone connected to Monsanto the maker of the terminator seed, GMO food and seed engineering that has destroyed the livelihood, lives of so many cannot possible "protect" consumers in any food and drug related matters. This reveals the integrity of our president and where his true loyalties run - to the highest bidder and the powers of the corporate world. * This is a classic example of the fox guarding the henhouse. *President Obama should isolate the FDA from corporate influence by asking Taylor to step down immediately.

We need to make President Obama aware of the importance why he should not allow someone like Mr. Taylor to be the senior advisor to the FDA commissioner. Mr.Michael Taylor, a former VP and lobbyist for Monsanto, is a classic example of the fox guarding the henhouse. His appointment would not serve us, the PEOPLE, but it would definitely serve Monsanto and many other big CORPORATIONS. Maria Yum Cocord, Ca.

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GM agreed with the local contract on our wages and benefits for workers who work FOS, Flexible Operating Schedules by signing and agreeing with what was in our "local" contract. It stated that employees who work the FOS should be compensated for working 12hr shifts, and, every other Saturday and Sunday by being paid premium pay on Sat. and Sun. forgoing a regular 8hr 5-day week "normal" schedule. Also no overtime for working 8hrs. By sacrificing by not working the "normal" schedule we were promised by GM who signed to and agreed to the local contract. But now they want to pay us straight time for pay even though it would be violating the agreement they signed and agreed to. Please don't let them win they have cut my wages in half and cut my heath benefits. They have "taken" so much making the workers sacrifice while the CEOS and top executives give themselves bonus and raises they don't even deserve for a company they caused to go bankrupt by moving our jobs over seas. We need to stop them from "getting away' with violating the promise they made to their employees and then threatening workers by stating they'll close our facility or getting rid of the jobs we perform if we don't agree with what they want. Help us by signing below letting the politicians and the people in power know that workers have a right to a job and not threatening a union if we don't agree to their terms, even if what they are doing is a violation of the law--unfair labor practice, violated by not honoring what they agreed to. But they know they can intimidate if they don't get what they want "all the time"., Whats the purpose of a union if a corporation can threaten their workers with a loss of job? We sacrificed by letting our income get cut in half and our benefits reduced. It was our sacrifices that turned this company around. Not the CEO'S big bonuses and who shipped our jobs over sea that bankrupted American's who lost the jobs and could not afford to spend money they no longer had which caused this country to go bankrupt. Stand up and be counted, even if your not a union employee no one, especially in today's economy, should be threaten with losing their job. Don't let a big Corporation get away with violating the law nor the people who made them what they are today or it may be you next? If no one stands up then it's as if your agreeing with the unjust treatment. their Goliath we're David wont you be the stone in David's hand and help us get this giant so he doesn't step all over us and crush us all. Thank you for your support our jobs depend on it.

Seigneurie, a subsidiary of PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh-headquartered company is manufacturing paint in Cameroon that they know contains unsafe lead limits. According to a paint sample study done in Cameroon last year, nine of 24 Seigneurie paints bought in stores contained lead concentrations of more than 300 parts per million and eight of those had lead concentrations above 1,800 parts per million. One Seigneurie paint, for metal application, contained 500,000 parts per million of lead, or half its volume, according to the paint survey by CREPD, a Cameroon-based nonprofit. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml#ixzz1lekfAgjr

It has been reported in the Mount Vernon Patch that Safeway plans to tear down the 19,947-square-foot store at Fort Hunt Road and build a new 51,000-square-foot store with underground parking and outdoor seating available.

Monsanto is the largest Agricultural Corporation in the US. They have a monopoly on over 90% of our vegetable seeds. Obama has appointed an ex VP of Monsanto to serve as senior advisor for the FDA. Such a decision will allow even more dangers into our food industry, such as GMO's. we're asking President Obama to reverse his decision for the safety of American Consumers.

The decision to place any corporate executive into a cabinet position is a poor one, but the idea of allowing a Monsanto employee, former or current to sit in leadership of the Department of Agriculture's FDA is tantamount to not only letting the fox guard the henhouse but actually frying the chickens and hand-feeding them to Renard with a silver spoon!

Cut FDA ties to Monsanto