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
Alison Van Eenennaam: key outside spokesperson and lobbyist for the agrichemical and GMO industries
Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD, a Professor of Cooperative Extension in Animal Biotechnology and Genomics at University of California, Davis, is a leading promoter of genetically engineered animals,...
April 12, 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
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...
September 27, 2021
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September 8, 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 that works to increase acceptance of genetically engineered foods around the...
September 23, 2020