Rod Leonard, a consumer activist and executive director of the Community Nutrition Institute, writes in an article for the Agribusiness Examiner that Foreman made a food safety decision in her role as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture that led to the presence of dangerous bacteria in poultry:Ĭarol Foreman. Īn article for the Agribusiness Examiner calls Foreman a former "outspoken lobbyist on behalf of Monsanto's rBGH: (a GM bovine growth hormone that is banned in Europe and Canada but allowed in the US). Her old lobby firm, now called Heidepriem & Mager, has as some of its current clients American Home Products Corporation, Dow Chemical, SmithKline Beecham, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories and Monsanto and Upjohn's parent company Pharmacia. The firm's clients included: Aetna Life and Casualty Company Alliance for Justice, American Home Products, CIGNA, Hoffmann-La Roche, Independent Sector, Monsanto, Procter & Gamble, the Rockefeller Foundation (which has been instrumental in funding GM projects around the world), and the 1988 Dukakis/Bentsen and 1992 Clinton/Gore presidential campaigns. įoreman was president of the lobbying firm Foreman Heidepriem & Mager from 1982 to 1999. Someone who has the incredible ability to sell herself inside the beltway as a 'consumer advocate' while pulling in huge money as a biotech and food industry lobbyist. John Stauber, managing editor of PR Watch, calls Foreman
She was Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the Jimmy Carter administration (1977-81). Between 19 she was the executive director of the CFA. Carol Tucker Foreman is director of Consumer Federation of America's (CFA) Food Policy Institute.
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