The list of corporate cronies who will soon run the new sad reality show in Washington DC gets uglier by the day.

Here’s one appointment that may have escaped your notice. Under the incoming Trump Administration, the CEO of the company that brought us Napalm, Agent Orange, Chlorpyrifos, 2,4-D and, along with Monsanto, GMO crops, will head up the “American Manufacturing Council.”

It’s a safe bet that Andrew Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical, won’t care one whit about how much poison his company unleashes on you and your food.

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On December 10, President-Elect Donald Trump pulled Dow’s Liveris up on stage at the Deltaplex Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., to announce that the head of the chemical giant will lead Trump’s “American Manufacturing Council.”

As the two men “showered each other with praise,” said a Wall Street Journal report, Liveris reportedly told the crowd, “I tingle with pride listening to you.”

Does Liveris “tingle with pride” over the fact that Dow’s Agent Orange killed more than 400,000 people during the Vietnam War? Or that more than a million people still suffer disabilities and chronic illness from exposure to Agent Orange?

Is Liveris proud that Dow continues to market chlorpyrifos, a chemical known to cause brain damage in kids, despite being ordered to pay a $2-million fine to the state of New York for illegally marketing this dangerous chemical as “safe?”

We know for a fact that Liveris is proud of Dow’s latest soy and corn crops, genetically engineered to withstand massive amounts of Enlist Duo, a toxic concoction made from Dow's 2,4-D and Monsanto’s glyphosate. Yep, Liveris is "tingling with pride” over Dow’s latest poison, even though the EPA estimates that once these crops are unleashed, kids ages 1 to 12 could consume levels of 2,4-D that the World Health Organization, Russia, Australia, South Korea, Canada, Brazil and China consider unsafe.

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In a list of talking points drafted by Trump’s National Advisory Committee for Agriculture and Rural Issues, this was talking point #10:

The Trump-Pence administration will use the best available science to determine appropriate regulations for the food and agriculture sector; agriculture will NOT be regulated based upon the latest trend on social media.

With Dow’s CEO in charge of the “American Manufacturing Council,” there’s no doubt that the so-called “best available science” will be as pro-poison and pro-GMO as it gets. 

“We’ve got ideas and we’ve got plans,” Liveris told the cheering crowd in Grand Rapids.

Well, so do we. Now more than ever we need your support to help execute those plans.

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In solidarity,

 

Ronnie Cummins
International Director

 

 

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