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...
September 16, 2019
Monsanto Roundup Trial Tracker: New Developments
March 18, 2019: Jurors Want to Hear From Plaintiff Again Today marks the beginning of the fourth week of the Hardeman V. Monsanto Roundup cancer trial, and jurors were still deliberating over the...
September 10, 2019
Monsanto’s Campaign Against U.S. Right To Know: New Documents
Internal documents released in August provide a rare look into the public relations machinery at Monsanto, and how the company tried to contain an investigation by U.S. Right to Know into its...
September 8, 2019
Tracking the Agrichemical Industry Propaganda Network
Propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view Just four corporations now control more...
September 8, 2019
Nina Fedoroff: Mobilizing the authority of American science to back Monsanto
As a president and board chair of AAAS from 2011-2013, Dr. Fedoroff advanced agrichemical industry policy objectives. She now works for a lobbying firm. Documents obtained by U.S. Right to...
June 18, 2019
Bayer Internal Emails Says Seeks to “Regain Public Trust” Amid Monsanto Mess
With legal and shareholder pressure mounting, Bayer AG on Thursday was preparing to launch an initiative to "regain public trust" after its acquisition last year of Monsanto Co. brought Bayer...
June 13, 2019
(UPDATED June 5 with comment from Scientific Reports) The authors of a newly published paper examining the impacts of exposure to the world’s most widely used herbicide declared some shocking...
June 5, 2019
Bayer’s Shady PR Firms: FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, FTI Consulting
In the latest PR scandal to engulf Bayer, journalists at Le Monde reported May 9 that they obtained a "Monsanto File" created by the public relations firm FleishmanHillard listing a "multitude of...
May 21, 2019
Don’t weaken the California Public Records Act
Update: On May 2nd, Assemblymember Laura Friedman announced that she will not advance the legislation to the Assembly floor in 2019. U.S. Right to Know opposes AB 700, legislation to weaken the...
May 7, 2019
State public records laws help uncover wrongdoing at public universities
See our post about why journalism and public interest groups are opposing AB700. Legislation is pending in the California Assembly (AB700) to weaken the California Public Records Act by...
April 19, 2019