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September 8, 2021
Glyphosate Fact Sheet: Cancer and Other Health Concerns
Glyphosate, a synthetic herbicide patented in 1974 by the Monsanto Company and now manufactured and sold by many companies in hundreds of products, has been associated with cancer and other health...
August 23, 2021
The Northern California Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists honored U.S. Right to Know today with the James Madison Freedom of Information Awards in the nonprofit organization...
May 16, 2021
Monsanto’s Campaign Against U.S. Right To Know: Read the Documents
Update 3.16.21: The Northern California Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists honored U.S. Right to Know with the James Madison Freedom of Information Awards for our work submitting...
March 16, 2021
Bayer’s Shady PR Firms: FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, FTI Consulting
Originally posted May 2019; updated November 2020 In this post, U.S. Right to Know is tracking public deception scandals involving PR firms that agrichemical giants Bayer AG and Monsanto have...
November 11, 2020
Related reporting: Gates Foundation's failing green revolution in Africa (7.29.20) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded another $10 million last week to the controversial Cornell...
September 30, 2020
Cornell Alliance for Science is a PR Campaign for the Agrichemical Industry
The Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) is a public relations campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to train fellows around the world, especially in Africa, to promote and...
September 23, 2020
Key pesticide industry PR group CBI closes; GMO Answers moves to CropLife
The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI), a major public relations initiative launched two decades ago by leading agrichemical companies to persuade the public to accept GMOs and pesticides,...
September 2, 2020
Council for Biotechnology Information, GMO Answers, CropLife: pesticide industry PR initiatives
The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) was a public relations campaign launched in April 2000 by seven leading chemical/seed companies and their trade groups to persuade the public to accept...
September 2, 2020
GMO Answers is a Marketing and PR Campaign for Pesticide Companies
Updates: GMO Answers is now funded by CropLife International, the trade group representing the largest pesticide companies and run by Ketchum public relations firm. (It was previously funded...
August 31, 2020