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 from Ted Greiner <tedgreiner at yahoo.com> -----
 
I assume most of you saw the Lancet editorial about 3
weeks ago asking Kofi Annan to take this appointment
seriously, to do it in a more transparent way, and not
to automatically take an American. Looks like that
effort was in vain.

Note in the info immediately below from
opensecrets.org that Veneman served on a Nestle-funded
organization as well as the board of the first company
to get a GM vegetable onto US supermarket shelves.

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Ann M. Veneman
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY (2001-2005)

Corporate Connections:
Calgene/Monsanto; Pharmacia; Pfizer
  
Personal Finances 

Ann Veneman announced after the 2004 elections that
she was stepping down. She was replaced by Michael
Johanns.

Between her tenure at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (under President George H.W. Bush) and
being named head of California’s Department of Food
and Agriculture in 1995, Ann Veneman served on the
board of directors for Calgene Inc. In 1994, Calgene
became the first company to bring
genetically-engineered food, the Flavr Savr tomato, to
supermarket shelves. Calgene was bought out by
Monsanto, the nation’s leading biotech company, in
1997. Monsanto eventually merged with Pharmacia, and
Pharmacia was bought out by drug giant Pfizer in 2003.
Veneman also served on the International Policy
Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade, a group funded
by Cargill, Nestle, Kraft, and Archer Daniels Midland.


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