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Michael Taylor
Type Individual
Position Director Attorney
Political Party Other
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Michael Taylor's Friends
Monsanto
Attorney for Monsanto who rewrote the "regulations" for Genetically Modified foods. His brilliant addition is the "substantial equivalence" measure which says if the nutrition measures are the same ...


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Food Safety Research Consortium
Monsanto attorney who rewrote the food laws and invented the blank check known as "substantial equivelence" is on the steering committee.


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Pew Charitable Trusts
Pew's RFF has hooked up Monsanto's biotech attorney to shape public opinion about GMO's which are out of the closet after 10 years of covert growth.


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Pew AgBiotech Buzz
Michael Taylor is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and Director of the Risk, Resources and Environmental Management division. As the creator of the biotech loopholes for Monsanto's ...


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King & Spalding LLP
He practiced food and drug law and was a partner in the law firm of King & Spalding for ten years and VP for Public Policy at Monsanto Company.


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Frankenfood
Taylor rewrote the laws for the "substantial equivalence" policy which made it possible to have no liability or restrictions for the biotechs.


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U. S. Department of Agriculture
He was Administrator of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from 1994 to 1996, Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration from 1991 to 1994.


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FDA Food and Drug Administration
Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration from 1991 to 1994, and an FDA staff lawyer and Executive Assistant to the FDA Commissioner from 1976 to 1981.


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Resources for the Future
Taylor is director of RFF Center for Risk Management, before this he rewrote the food laws for Monsanto to have a blank check in the GMO's. Industry couldn't have a better friend.


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Tipper Gore
Although Taylor gained employment with FDA under George H.W. Bush, Taylor's a bi-partisan He's the second cousin of Tipper Gore, our former VP's wife. Washington is a cozy town.


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Biotech Brigade
Monsanto attorney at Burson Marsteller who rewrote the food laws for "substantial equivalence" policy at USDA, now at PEW Biotech group.


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National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy (NCFAP)
NCFAP was spun out of RFF as an independent organization in 1992. RFF's Director of Risk, Resource, and Environmental Management is Michael R. Taylor, Monsanto's former vice-president for public pol...


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The Rockefeller Foundation
Monsanto's former lawyer Mike Taylor, now at Resources for the Future and Monsanto's former cow growth hormone lobbyist Carol Tucker Foreman (now back at Consumer Federation of America), are all gett...


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Coca-Cola
Taylor left the FDA for King and Spaulding. Taylor was the firm's specialist in food and drug matters pending before the FDA. During his tenure at King and Spaulding Taylor's client included Coca-Col...


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Bill Clinton
During his days at King and Spaulding, Taylor also authored more than a dozen articles critical of the Delaney Clause, a federal law passed in 1958 prohibiting the introduction of known carcinogens t...


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Margaret Miller
Under Taylor as Deputy Commissioner for Policy at FDA (1991-94). Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994...


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Suzanne Sechen
Under Taylor as Deputy Commissioner for Policy at FDA (1991-94). Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994...


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rBGH/rBST
One of Taylor's duties was to represent Monsanto's efforts to get its bovine growth hormone approved by the FDA. Taylor left King and Spaulding in 1991 to rejoin the FDA, this time as Deputy Commissi...


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Monsanto's American Government
Lobbyist attorney for Monsanto who drafted biotech substantial equivalence policy at USDA.


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University of Maryland - Biotechnology Institute
Michael R. Taylor is a Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he conducts research on policy, resource, and institutional issues that affect the success of public health ag...


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James Maryanski
Maryanski's quote in Senate testimony "Subsequently, FDA established an informal process by which firms can inform the Agency that they have completed a food or feed safety assessment. FDA requests t...


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Bodies and Evidence
According to public interest attorney Steven Druker, who has studied the FDA's internal files, "During Mr. Taylor's tenure as Deputy Commissioner, references to the unintended negative effects of bi...


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BNF No. 000001
Taylor rewrote the food lasw to create the policy which allowed this to be marketd without testing or regulation. Link to his document image at 00001 below with the first ever approval.


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Hillary Clinton
Monsanto in Government- Clinton years - Taylor was Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto and a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm King & Spalding. In addition, he served as Administrator...


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Donna E. Shalala
Taylor served under Clinton appointees, Donna Shalala/HHS and Daniel R. Glickman/USDA Michael Taylor was Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto and a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm ...


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Daniel Robert Glickman
Taylor served under Clinton appointees, Donna Shalala/HHS and Daniel R. Glickman/USDA Michael Taylor was Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto and a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Ki...


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George H. W. Bush
Starting in 1980, he worked for FDA for 4 years as executive assistant to the commissioner. In 1984 he joined King & Spaulding and remained there until 1991; during that time the law firm represented...


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Congress
March 17, 1994 Last month Taylor signed the FEDERAL REGISTER notice warning grocery stores not to label milk as free of rBGH, thus giving Monsanto a powerful boost in its fight to prevent consumers f...


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“message force multipliers”
John supports the substantial equivalence policy

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Robert B. Horsch
The “penultimate draft” of Taylor’s 2002 paper was reviewed by Dr. Robert Horsch, a Monsanto executive for more than 25 years, who left in 2006 to work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It st...


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Christine Lewis Taylor
Meet the Missus — Christine Lewis Taylor wife of Monsanto lobbyist Michael Taylor who wrote the loophole legislation that allowed untested GMO foods to be put into the food supply as "substantially e...

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Resolve Inc.
Taylor has morphed from Monsanto’s VP into a “research professor” at George Washington University School of Public Heath and Health Services. He also spends his time writing policy at a number of ind...


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Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS
From 1994 to 1996, he served at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety.


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Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
“I am pleased to welcome Mike Taylor back to the FDA,” Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., said in announcing Taylor’s appointment. “His expertise and leadership on food safety ...


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