Gene Editing Mishaps Highlight Need for FDA Oversight
A Midwestern company’s quest to genetically engineer the world’s first hornless dairy cows hit a snag this summer when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found extra genes in the cows that...
October 17, 2019
10 Revelations from the U.S. Right to Know Investigations
You can support the USRTK investigations by contributing to our fall fundraising drive. Internal Monsanto documents released in August provide a rare inside look at how pesticide and food...
September 19, 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
Key points: 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...
June 18, 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’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
Monsanto Relied on These “Partners” to Attack Top Cancer Scientists
Related: Secret Documents Expose Monsanto's War on Cancer Scientists, by Stacy Malkan This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredit the...
March 31, 2019
Jay Byrne: Meet the Man Behind the Monsanto PR Machine
Monsanto’s former Director of Corporate Communications Jay Byrne, president of the public relations firm v-Fluence, is a key player in the covert propaganda and lobbying campaigns of...
February 1, 2019
Pamela Ronald’s Ties to Chemical Industry Front Groups
Updated in June 2019 Pamela Ronald, PhD, a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis and author of the 2008 book “Tomorrow’s Table,” is a well-known advocate for...
December 27, 2018
Mark Lynas Promotes the Agrichemical Industry’s Commercial Agenda
Mark Lynas is a former journalist turned promotional advocate for genetically engineered foods and pesticides who makes inaccurate claims about those products from his perch at the Cornell Alliance...
December 19, 2018