【摘要】在转基因辩论中，克林顿夫人一贯支持化学公司。他在爱荷华州的主要竞选操盘手是是前孟山都公司的说客杰里·克劳馥，他也是爱荷华州政治领域以及和克林顿竞选团队的老手。克林顿夫人支持转基因生物的历史可以追溯到她早期在阿肯色州罗斯律师事务所担任律师的时代，该律师事务所代表着孟山都等农业企业的领导层。……根据克林顿基金会的财务数据，孟山都向克林顿基金会的资助在501250美元到100万美元之间。陶氏化学公司，顶级的GMO公司之一，资助额在100万美元到500万美元之间。】
【原文标题】希拉里·克林顿的孟山都的关系引起的绰号：“恶魔食品的新娘”
：S.A.米勒 冷眼向洋看世界 翻译
华盛顿时报，2015年5月18日
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/17/hillary-clinton-gmo-support-monsanto-ties-spark-ba/
“转基因食品的新娘”失去了自由派活动分子的支持，他们转而支持伯尼·桑德斯。
希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿与农业综合企业巨头孟山都的密切关系以及鼓吹基因作物的立场，令爱荷华州的环保人士称其为“转基因食品的新娘” —— 这对她为了在总统竞选中赢得民主党团支持而讨好自由派活动分子的努力又增添一个败笔，在该州自由派对民主党团具有重要影响。
克林顿夫人支持的转基因作物玉米和大豆，在爱荷华州的经济中占据主导地位。克林顿夫人的这一立场遭遇强烈反对，这在三县民主党人的一次会议上表现出来，那次会议上评估了对前国务卿的支持。
大批女性曾强力支持希拉里，但转基因问题出现以后，她们转而支持佛蒙特州参议员伯纳德·桑德斯，后者强力挑战民主党对希拉里的提名。
“我很惊奇，因为这些妇女曾经真心支持希拉里，但当她们发现了希拉里与孟山都的关系，她们就像躲避一个烫手的山芋那样放弃了希拉里。”爱荷华州沃斯县民主党主席詹姆斯·贝格说：“这可是个大问题，”他说，“竟然还有人热衷于全部使用转基因食物。”
这个问题让自由选民多了另一个理由怀疑克林顿夫人，之前他们已经不信任克林顿夫人了，那是因为她与他的丈夫前总统克林顿长期与华尔街保持亲密关系并奉行中间主义理念。
克林顿夫人本周在爱荷华州的第二轮活动中将可能把转基因辩论放到次要位置。周一和周二的两站她将争取草根民众的支持并讨论扩大该州小企业的想法。
根据最近昆尼皮亚克大学的调查，在爱荷华州的民调中，克林顿夫人拥有巨大的优势，以60%领先桑德斯的15%。虽然尚没有迹象威胁到克林顿夫人，桑德斯先生4月30日参加角逐后的支持率在民意调查中有小幅上升，他的自由主义的议程也符合自由党活跃分子的主流。
“爱荷华州是一个农业大州，但我们必须明白，我们在这个国家生产的食物可能正在导致巨大的健康问题，而且很可能将没有机会做出弥补”，贝格先生说，“你甚至无法把这种除草剂清洗掉，因为就在植物本身内部，而你将消化它，它将进入你的身体。这不是一件好事。”
转基因生物包括用生物工程在实验室制备的种子，它们具有一定的特征，比如抗除草剂，尤其是孟山都广泛施用的农达除草剂。在美国绝大多数玉米和大豆都已经被转基因。虽然它们大部分它进入动物饲料，但是在出现在流行的加工食品成分中，如高果糖玉米糖浆和豆油。
爱荷华州的玉米产量在全美国居首位，大豆产量也名列前茅。
农商企业的支持者声称转基因作物抗虫害、干旱和寒冷的天气，增加产量和减少使用农药。
但是，环境保护主义者认为，转基因食品是不健康的，并导致过量使用农药。
一项新的科学研究带动进一步加剧了环保人士的的担忧，这项研究发现，农达除草剂可能与一系列健康问题和疾病有关，包括帕金森病，不孕不育和癌症。在科学期刊《熵》上个月发表的研究报告也证明，农达除草剂的主要成分草甘膦，其残留已经在食品中发现。
在转基因辩论中，克林顿夫人一贯支持化学公司。
他在爱荷华州的主要竞选操盘手是是前孟山都公司的说客杰里·克劳馥，他也是爱荷华州政治领域以及和克林顿竞选团队的老手。
克林顿夫人支持转基因生物的历史可以追溯到她早期在阿肯色州罗斯律师事务所担任律师的时代，该律师事务所代表着孟山都等农业企业的领导层。
就在去年，克林顿夫人在圣迭戈的一次生物技术行业会议上发表了有偿讲话，她支持转基因生物，并建议高管和投资者给转基因产品打造一个光鲜的形象。
“基因修饰”听起来很邪恶，“抗旱”听起来则像是你想要的，她说，“要多加小心，这样就可以不会马上暴露危险。”
大农业公司也大量资助克林顿基金会，克林顿夫人掌管美国国务院的时候，该家族慈善基金会位于被指控“收费服务”的漩涡中心。
根据克林顿基金会的财务数据，孟山都向克林顿基金会的资助在501250美元到100万美元之间。陶氏化学公司，顶级的GMO公司之一，资助额在100万美元到500万美元之间。
劳拉·胡布卡说，希拉里对孟山都和转基因食品的支持，是导致2008年她在艾奥瓦州预选中尴尬地排在第三名的因素之一。劳拉·胡布卡是霍华德、米切尔、沃斯三县民主党俱乐部副主席，该三县位于艾奥瓦州北部与明尼苏达接壤的边界区域。
“我们在环境方面十分积极，”胡布卡女士说。 “如果她走出来公开反对孟山都和它对我们农民玉米生产的所作所为，那将太好了。只要我们的玉米产量现在说话。孟山都做的许多事情让我们不高兴。”
胡布卡女士说，克林顿夫人完全可以做出弥补，也就是在转基因问题上走出来。
“好像她是在几个问题上都出格了，比如移民问题，[和]最近的警察问题，”胡布卡女士说， “我们希望看到她转过来反对孟山都。这将是很棒。”
爱荷华州立大学政治科学系主任马克·谢利说，希拉里很有可能化解环保人士的反对，因为农业是大多数爱荷华州居民的钱袋子问题。
“爱荷华州的经济与农业如此密切结合，与农业直接密切相关的行业，如农具制造，种子公司和食品加工，总之农业企业的利益往往被视为其对该州政治气候的晴雨表。”
“不过，重要的是也要注意，民主党党团成员往往倾向于用话题中的明显利益吸引群众，这在该党的表现就是，党团成员比党本身更为激进。”谢利先生说。
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英文原文：
Hillary Clinton’s Monsanto ties give rise to nickname: “Bride of Frankenfood”
on 18 May 2015.
“Bride of Frankenfood” losing crucial liberal activist support to Bernie Sanders over GMO issue
EXCERPT: “I was surprised, because these women were really pushing for Hillary until they found out about the Monsanto connection, and then they dropped her like a hot potato,” said James Berge, Democratic Party chairman for Worth County, Iowa. “It’s quite a big issue,” he said. “There’s people who are just wild about all the use of GMOs.”
Hillary’s agribusiness ties give rise to nickname in Iowa: “Bride of Frankenfood”
By S.A. Miller
The Washington Times, May 18, 2015
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/17/hillary-clinton-gmo-support-monsanto-ties-spark-ba/
* “Bride of Frankenfood” losing crucial liberal activist support to Bernie Sanders
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ties to agribusiness giant Monsanto, and her advocacy for the industry’s genetically modified crops, have environmentalists in Iowa calling her “Bride of Frankenfood” — putting yet another wrinkle in her presidential campaign’s courtship of liberal activists who are crucial to winning the state’s Democratic caucuses.
The backlash against Mrs. Clinton for her support of genetically modified organisms (GMO), which dominate the corn and soybean crops at the heart of Iowa’s economy, manifested itself at a recent meeting of the Tri-County Democrats, where members gauged support for the former secretary of state.
A large faction of women voiced strong support for Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy until the GMO issue came up, prompting them to switch allegiances to Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, a liberal stalwart challenging her for the Democratic nomination.
“I was surprised, because these women were really pushing for Hillary until they found out about the Monsanto connection, and then they dropped her like a hot potato,” said James Berge, Democratic Party chairman for Worth County, Iowa.
“It’s quite a big issue,” he said. “There’s people who are just wild about all the use of GMOs.”
The issue gives liberal voters another reason to be skeptical of Mrs. Clinton, whom they already distrust because of her cozy relationship with Wall Street and the centrist philosophy that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, long embraced.
Mrs. Clinton likely will keep the GMO debate on a back burner when she makes her second swing through Iowa this week. She has scheduled stops Monday and Tuesday to rally grass-roots support and discuss ideas to expand small businesses in the state.
She enjoys a massive advantage in the polls in Iowa, leading Mr. Sanders 60 percent to 15 percent in a recent Quinnipiac University survey. While not an overt threat to her, Mr. Sanders has inched up in the polls since he entered the race April 30, and his liberal agenda is popular with the party activists.
“Iowa is a big agricultural state, but we’ve got to realize some of the food that we are producing in this country is going to cause great health effects down the road, and then it’s probably going to be too late to try to fix it,” said Mr. Berge. “You can’t even wash this pesticide off, because it is in the plants themselves, and you are digesting it, and it goes into your body. It’s not a good thing.”
GMOs include seeds engineered in a laboratory to have certain traits, such as resistance to such herbicides as Monsanto’s widely used Roundup. Most of the corn and soybeans in the U.S. are genetically modified. Much of it goes into animal feed, but it also is in popular processed food ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and soybean oil.
Iowa leads the country in the production of corn and ranks among the top producers of soybeans.
Agribusiness interests claim that GMO crops are more resistant to pests, drought and cold weather, increasing yields and limiting the use of pesticides.
But environmentalists argue that genetically modified food is unhealthy and promotes excessive use of pesticides.
A new scientific study bolstered environmentalists’ concerns by finding the herbicide Roundup could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility, and cancers. The study published last month in the scientific journal Entropy also reported evidence that residue of glyphosate, a chief ingredient in the weed killer, has been found in food.
In the GMO debate, Mrs. Clinton has consistently sided with the chemical companies
Her top campaign operative in Iowa is former Monsanto lobbyist Jerry Crawford, who’s also a veteran of Iowa politics and Clinton campaigns.
Her history of backing GMOs dates back to her early days in Arkansas as a lawyer with the Rose Law Firm, which represented Monsanto and other agribusiness leaders.
Just last year, Mrs. Clinton gave a paid speech at a biotech industry conference in San Diego, where she championed GMOs and advised the executives and investors to give their products an image makeover.
“‘Genetically modified’ sounds Frankensteinish. ‘Drought-resistant’ sounds like something you’d want,” she said. “Be more careful so you don’t raise that red flag immediately.”
Big ag also has been a big donor to the Clinton Foundation, the family charity at the center of pay-to-play accusations involving foreign donors while Mrs. Clinton ran the State Department.
Monsanto gave the foundation between $501,250 and $1 million. Dow Chemical Company, which is among the top GMO players, gave between $1 million and $5 million, according to financial disclosures by the Clinton Foundation.
Mrs. Clinton’s support for Monsanto and genetically modified food was one of the factors that contributed to her embarrassing third-place finish in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, said Laura Hubka, vice chair of the Tri-County Democrats, a club in Howard, Mitchell and Worth counties along the state’s norther border with Minnesota.
“We are very environmentally active,” said Ms. Hubka. “It would be great to hear her come out and speak against Monsanto and what it has done to our farmers as far as our corn production now. There’s a lot of things Monsanto has done that [have] made us unhappy.”
Ms. Hubka said that Mrs. Clinton could make amends by getting out in front of the GMO issue.
“It seems like she is out in front of several issues [like] the immigration issue, [and] she’s been out in front of working on police issues that have come up recently,” said Ms. Hubka. “We are hoping to see her make a turn also against Monsanto. That would be fantastic for us.”
Mark Shelley, chairman of the political science department at Iowa State University, said that Mrs. Clinton likely would be able to weather opposition from environmentalists at the caucuses because farming is a pocketbook issue for most Iowans.
“So much of Iowa’s economy is connected to agriculture directly, and to closely related industries such as farm implement manufacturing, seed companies and food processing, that agribusiness interests are often seen as having outsize influence on the state’s political climate,” he said.
“It is important to note, though, that Democratic caucuses tend to attract people with more active interests in issues, which in that party translates to caucus attenders who are generally more progressive-leaning than the party as a whole,” Mr. Shelley said.
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