Genetic Literacy Project: PR Front for Monsanto, Bayer and the Chemical Industry
Genetic Literacy Project is an influential front group that partners with Bayer and other chemical companies to promote GMO foods and pesticides and argue for deregulation. Bayer paid the Genetic...
July 14, 2022
Center for Food Integrity: PR for processed foods, pesticides and GMOs
The Center for Food Integrity (CFI), formerly the Grow America Project, is an industry-funded 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that conducts research, lobbying and public relations campaigns to...
April 26, 2022
IFIC: How Big Food Spins Bad News
Documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know and other sources shine light on the inner workings of the International Food Information Council (IFIC), a trade group funded by large food and agrichemical...
April 12, 2022
International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a Food Industry Lobby Group
The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with 17 affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group...
March 22, 2022
Confronting potential food industry ‘front groups’: IFIC case study
New study in Globalization and Health Confronting Potential Food Industry ‘Front Groups’: Case Study of the International Food Information Council’s nutrition communications using the...
February 12, 2022
EPA exposed for hiding chemical risks, favoring corporate interests
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a long and well-documented history of questionable conduct when it comes to regulation of chemicals important to the profit centers for many large...
September 30, 2021
EPA’s “scientific integrity” program lacks teeth, group alleges
Insiders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have alleged dozens of violations of the agency’s “scientific integrity” policy over the last few years, including complaints of political...
September 28, 2021
EPA whistleblower testifies her advocacy for stronger health protections drew agency retaliation
Children’s health expert Ruth Etzel on Monday testified in a public hearing that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) worked to silence and harass her, removing her from a top-level position...
September 13, 2021
African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens
Billions of dollars in aid and subsidies for industrial agriculture in Africa are harming food security in one of the world’s hungriest regions, according to a network of African groups asking...
September 8, 2021
Chlorpyrifos: common pesticide tied to brain damage in children
Scientific research shows that chlorpyrifos, a widely used insecticide, is strongly linked to brain damage in children. These and other health concerns led several countries and some U.S. states to...
August 19, 2021