Country team Paris recommends...

The Guardian has released a series of State Department cables which show the US Govt bullying European nations into accepting Monsanto's GM 'food' products.

Here is Ambassador to France Craig Stapleton, (who with George W. Bush co-owned the St Louis-based Texas Rangers baseball team in the 1990s):

"Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits.
"The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early victory. Moving to retaliation will make clear that the current path has real costs to EU interests and could help strengthen European pro-biotech voices."

This is pretty astonishing when you consider this is not the US Chamber of Commerce spending corporate money to influence trade regulations in other countries in favor of American products. This is the US State Department, funded by you and I, the taxpayers, bullying allied countries into accepting, against the wishes of their citizens, the genetically modified organisms of a giant multinational corporation. Needless to say, this is not what the State Department is meant to be doing.
(read the full article at the Guardian)