Email of intrigue: “IARC is killing us!”
As researchers we often look to documents to shed new light on issues important to food policy. Sometimes, they simply reflect what we already know. That’s the case with one new communication...
April 19, 2018
SciBabe says eat your pesticides. But who is paying her?
[caption id="attachment_5069" align="alignright" width="265"] SciBabe's bad science tries to make the pesticide industry look good.[/caption] Blogging under the name SciBabe, Yvette d’Entremont...
March 31, 2018
Are You Ready for the New Wave of Genetically Engineered Foods?
A version of this article was first published in Common Ground Magazine March 2018 (PDF version). By Stacy Malkan Everyone loves a feel-good story about the future. You’ve probably heard this...
March 16, 2018
Report from the Glyphosate Daubert Hearings
Update 3/19: Judge Chhabria ordered an additional hearing for two of the plaintiffs' witnesses. Follow Carey Gillam on Twitter for more updates about the legislation and we continue to post documents...
March 15, 2018
GMO Answers is a Crisis Management PR Tool for GMOs & Pesticides
Update May 2018: Tax records show that the Council for Biotechnology Information, a chemical industry trade group, paid Ketchum public relations firm more than $11 million from 2013-2016 to to run...
March 1, 2018
Grocery Manufacturers Association — key facts
Summary * GMA is the leading trade group for the junk food industry * GMA hides list of its own corporate members * GMA was found guilty of money laundering * Opposed legislation to...
March 1, 2018
Biotechnology Innovation Organization — key facts
Summary The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), formerly the Biotechnology Industry Organization, is the world’s largest trade association for biotechnology, genetically engineered foods...
March 1, 2018
CropLife International — key facts
Summary CropLife International (CLI) is a trade association founded in 2001 representing the manufacturers of the world’s largest manufacturers of genetically engineered seeds and pesticides....
March 1, 2018
Jon Entine and Genetic Literacy Project Spin Chemical Industry PR
Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a central player in Monsanto and the agrichemical industry’s public relations efforts to promote genetically engineered foods and...
March 1, 2018