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Anne Veneman's Friends Monsanto U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Veneman was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Calgene Corporation and instrumental in promoting their Biotech agenda. (1 rating) More about this connection... International Policy Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade, Veneman also served on the International Policy Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade, a group funded by Cargill, Nestle, Kraft, and Archer Daniels Midland. (0 ratings) More about this connection... World Trade Organization Veneman was in Seattle to tell the WTO to move more aggressively to remove so-called "technical barriers to trade. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Norman Borlaug The USDA secretary is so tightly tied to Biotech the agency had a 90th birthday party for Borlaug sharing cake and celebrating Government and Industry working hand in hand. (0 ratings) More about this connection... DAN G. AMSTUTZ June '03 Amstutz appointed by USDA Secretary Veneman to head Iraq's agricultural reconstruction. Veneman was keen to see U.S. agribusiness play a significant role in Iraq's future. (0 ratings) More about this connection... George H. W. Bush Began government career at USDA in 1986 as Deputy Secretary under Bush 1 Administration, she announced the agency would no longer regulate the GMO FLAVR SAVR tomato from former employer, biotech Calg... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Frankenfood Helped set USDA GMO crop notification process where corporations only "inform" the Department that they are conducting a field trial. She has board seats and associates who also benefit from lax pol... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Operation Iraqi Freedom June '03 Cargill's Dan Amstutz was appointed by USDA Secretary Veneman to head Iraq's "agricultural reconstruction". Veneman was keen to see U.S. agribusiness play a significant role in Iraq's future... (0 ratings) More about this connection... George W. Bush As an industry insider who knows how to make government serve corporate agribusiness Veneman was for Bush's USDA. She's promoted the agenda in US, WTO, Iraq and USAID programs and put more insiders ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Biotech Brigade Employed by Monsanto, US Secretary of Agriculture, Monsanto, revolving door leader, key player and beneficiary$$ (0 ratings) More about this connection... Patton Boggs LLP After USDA she left for practice with the high-power law firm and lobby group, Patton Boggs and also severed on the Board of Directors of Calgene, Inc., which became the first company to market genet... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Calgene Board of Directors of Calgene, Inc., which became the first company to market genetically-engineered food. Calgene became part of Monsanto. (0 ratings) More about this connection... James Watt A number of attorneys who worked for Watt at the his Mountain States Legal Foundation later assumed positions of responsibility in the federal government, including Ann Veneman and Gale Norton, both ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Richard E. Lyng “Secretary Lyng shared many friends and colleagues and touched the lives of so many people. Today while we mourn his loss, we also celebrate a remarkable man and an inspiring life journey,” Veneman s... (0 ratings) More about this connection... American Meat Institute - AMI The award is named after the late Dick Lyng (1918-2003), former president of the American Meat Institute (1973-79) and secretary of agriculture under President Ronald Reagan. Past recipients of the L... (0 ratings) More about this connection... H. Res 252 On May 13, 2003, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced that the United States, Argentina, Canada, and Egypt would file a WTO case against the Europ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... National Cattlemen's Beef Association NCBA Ann Veneman is a former beef industry lobbyist. She is now USDA secretary. Her spokeswoman is Alisa Harrison, who was once director of public relations for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Elsa Murano from usda bio- Secretary Ann M. Veneman’s logical choice for USDA’s top food safety officer (0 ratings) More about this connection... Alisa Harrison Both former lobbyists for the beef lobby, Veneman hired Harrison to work at the USDA, nothing promotes industry better than a well heeled lobbyist, or two.. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Dale Moore Former executive director for legislative affairs at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, hired by Veneman as Chief of Staff at USDA. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Partner in the Public Law and Policy Practice Group of DC-based lobbying and law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and January 20, 2001, Ann Veneman was named Secretary of USDA. (0 ratings) More about this connection... K Street Project Before rejoining USDA, from 1999 until her recent swearing-in Veneman was a partner in the law firm of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott in Sacramento, Calif., where she specialized in food, agricult... (0 ratings) More about this connection... NAFTA - effective 1-1-94 During her previous tenure at USDA Veneman was actively involved in the Uruguay Round of negotiations concerning the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the North American Free Trade Agree... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Monsanto's American Government Monsanto employee before and after term as US Secretary of Agriculture. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Creekstone Farms Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman. Ms. Veneman, a former food-industry lobbyist, has exchanged increasingly tense letters with Japanese agriculture officials, who expressed disappointment at her C... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Japan Barred From Testing for Mad Cow - The USDA doing industriy's bidding refused to allow a small beef producer to test all his meat for mad cow and Japan would not accept it without testing. Veneman, a... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Ed Rendell March 23, 2004 (ENS) - Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman travelled to Hookstown in the Ohio River basin on Monday to announce a 15 year, $146 million Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) a... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Harriet Miers She is a close friend of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman. (0 ratings) More about this connection... National Institute of Food and Agriculture - NIFA (NIFA was proposed and created by the biotech interests of the task force.) Official Report to Congress below - "The USDA Research, Education and Economics Task Force was appointed by Secretary Ann ... (0 ratings) More about this connection...