A review of the the list of presenters at yesterday's FDA hearings reveals a number of well-known anti-biotech activists who registered only as "consumer" for their affiliation.
Also, several organizations listed presenters under different organizational names in order to get multiple presenters although they actually were from the same organizations.
'Consumers'
- Don Fitz is the director of the St. Louis-based Gateway Greens, member of the Missouri Green Party and Greens USA. Gateway is also affiliated with The Organic Consumers Association. Fitz organizes the annual "Biodevastation" protests and "Days of Rage" anti-bitoech protests.
- Tammy Shea is the spokesperson for the Gateway Green Alliance and coordinator for the St. Louis Animal Rights and Vegetarian Societies. She is a well-known anti-biotech activist.
- Laura Ticciati is the co-founder of Mothers for Natural Law, an outgrowth of the Maharishi Institute. She is a well-known anti-biotech activist and organic advocate.
- Ronald Nigh is the President of Asociacion de Dana, A.C, a Chiapas, Mexico-based organic cooperative. Nigh lives in Mexico promoting organic agriculture conversions.
- Jane Alexander is an organic/natural food and vegetarian consultant and "health journalist" and the author of The Detox Plan (Journey Editions, 1998) and other pro-organic publications.
- Paul Fehribach is a co-owner of an organic/natural food company called The Laughing Planet.
Multiple Presenters
- Neil Levin of Fruitful Yield and James Roza of Now Natural Foods. Fruitful Yield organic markets are a subsidiary of Now Foods and Levin is listed as a marketing manager for Now Foods. Levin and Roza work together in the same office.
- Laura Ticciati, a "cnsumer" and Melinda Perrin, Mothers for Natural Law. Ticciati is co-founder and director of Mothers for Natural Law, an outgrowth of the Maharishi Institute which also registered a presenter David Fisher.
- Debbie Dunbar Ortman, Organic Consumers Association and Joseph Menelson, Center for Food Safety. OCA and CFS co-sponsor the Purefood campaign to promote organic agriculture and oppose biotechnology.
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