The pharmaceutical and biotech lobby in Government Initiative ZP Soon they fulfilled the worst expectations on health and environment with the new government of Zapatero. The play of the disappearance of Cristina Narbona and the Ministry of Environment, or more accurately, the absorption by the Ministry of Agriculture (this particular chemical, industrial and assignments to GM food lobby) of the Environment portfolio has been much discussed. Is interpreted, and the facts begin to confirm, as a attempt to end a critical political voice and that of Narbonne itself, and a ministry that could be an obstacle to the current development model is unsustainable and therefore environmentally unhealthy practice that the Government.
Post to run a second term, won the first with a "social" policy, the PSOE is opting to give a more market profile, more PROEMPRESA the new Executive. Narbonne bothered, in many cases was getting his pro Ecology is a Ministry, and this is necessarily contrary to logic pro-market government, any government in Europe today. Narbonne
bothered and "charge" of the result of an entire Ministry, the Environment, would be too shocking, it has come to Agriculture, which has a tradition of favoring large companies over small and medium-sized farms ; to promote intensive industrialization and toxic chemicals from the field, and that is now the guarantor of the interests of big biotechnology industry, ie GM foods (Spain is the country with the largest area of \u200b\u200btransgenic crops Europe).
The new Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Minister Elena Espinosa will continue to support the inclusion on our plates of GM products and therefore endangering our health and the environment. And have in their hands all part of Environment not previously managed and led Narbonne with an acceptable result. But the pro GM lobby not only control most of the decisions of Agriculture, as it has been doing over the last decade, the Government has placed ZP Cristina Garmendia as Minister of Research and Development. In the book Conspiracies toxic, with numerous examples explain the phenomenon of "revolving doors" (transfer executives from public to private or vice versa). This is again a textbook case. Garmendia was to enter the government of Zapatero, president of the English Association of Biotechnology Enterprises (Asebio), the largest GM food lobby and biotech drugs in Spain (which are other lobbies such as the Foundation or the largest multinational antam GM in the world: Monsanto or Pioneer), and also brings much of the biotechnology pharmaceutical industry (Bayer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche, Schering Plough, Esteve-directing Farmaindustria-or-creators Gilead Sciences Tamiflu / Bird Flu-).
This business until a few days ago, in 2000 founded Genetrix, a private company in the biotechnology sector. Garmendia, do not waste your time and also is president of the Foundation Inbiomed that publicly funded, is dedicated to genetic research farmasanitarios purposes.
The Ministry of Science and Innovation is key to the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, one of the medical journals which acts as spokesman for the same, has reported that its establishment "has been very well received by the industry." Large laboratories Garmendia see one of their own, "will good support to avoid excessively harmful legislative developments for the sector, "argues that publication.
Keep in mind that half the previous legislature, the Ministry of Health underwent a radical change. The minister Elena Salgado, who like many media specializing in health issues have not liked anything published Farmaindustria, was moved to the Ministry of Public Administration. Instead entered current Minister Bernat Soria, very much in pharmaceuticals. As published Post Pharmacist: "The minister wanted to turn Bernat Soria this term in the momentum of the English pharmaceutical industry, "including addressing the possibility of a change in patent law, '"Farmaindustria true philosopher's stone.
Cristina Garmendia If you want to take forward the draft-law change is now their competition after the new powers of his ministry, will have to have with the Ministry of Industry, which also has legislative powers on patent issues. The newspaper cited recalls that "at the forefront of industry will in the coming years, Miguel Sebastian, a friend and political protector of Cristina Garmendia and is on rise for your friendship with Rodríguez Zapatero.
If I have not miscounted, the biotechnology industry (consisting of the transgenic pro and pharmaceuticals) have four ministers and four ministers at their disposal: Agriculture, Health, Innovation and Industry. And have seen its authority undermined the Environment.
Some things, as I say, begin to change, at worst, of course. For just one example. Last weekend TVE broadcast a report on GM food. As an account in a letter to the program that aired a person who has worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and has witnessed the ups and downs of pro GM lobbyists in it, was removed (due to technical problems) the involvement of the only critical voice with the theme of National Modificados Genéticamente (OMG´s) aplicados a la agricultura, la de Juan Felipe Carrasco, de Greenpeace.
Además, se utilizaron imágenes de la deforestación de la Amazonia para el cultivo de soja transgénica justamente para lo contrario, para explicar las bondades de estos organismos que no son necesarios y que sólo traen beneficios a muy pocas empresas privadas. ¿Estará cambiando la línea editorial de la tv pública al ritmo de los cambios pro corporaciones en el Gobierno ZP?
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