Prepare to Mutate

The biotech rider instead was introduced anonymously as the larger bill progressed - little wonder food activists are accusing lobbyists and Congress members of backroom dealings. The Food Democracy Now and the Center for Food are directing blame at the Senate Appropriations Committee and its chairman, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. According to reports, many members of Congress were apparently unaware that the "Monsanto Protection Act" even existed within the spending bill, HR 933; they voted in order to avert a government shutdown.

I assure you. In some boardroom somewhere, three guys are slapping high-fives while two other guys cut campaign checks. It turns out those Enron dudes were pikers. This is the real stuff right here.

  Charlie Pierce

And really, for all the hoopla about sequestration and government shutdown - it's all a game of smoke and mirrors so that shit like this can take place.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.