02/02/09 Soybean Misbehavior

02/02/09 Soybean Misbehavior

You come to expect a certain amount of bad behavior from parties holding particular levels of government office or certain businesses, but from the American Soybean Association?! The recently supposed antics of the Soybean Export Council employees reads like a Harold Robbins novel. Who would have thunk it. Soybean check off money used to fund improper sexual relations at a foreign office; knife fights at office functions, and engaging in conflicted interests were all part of the long list of allegations. Officials deny any and all such allegations and instead declare them imaginary ravings of a disgruntled former employee. And that they may very well be, but the damage has been done. Now the only thing that can set things right, be the allegations true or false in their origin, is to follow through with a thorough investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Agriculture. Producers and the American public need to know that monies are being used for that which they were intended: research and promotion; not sex and sin in the city.
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