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 the...
February 1, 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 three...
February 1, 2019
Pamela Ronald’s Ties to Chemical Industry Front Groups
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 genetically engineered foods....
December 27, 2018
Hank Campbell’s Maze of Monsanto-Loving Science Blogs
Update 12/6: As this article was about to publish, Hank Campbell was removed from the staff roster of the American Council on Science and Health, the organization he has led as president since July...
December 6, 2018
Val Giddings: Top Operative for the Agrichemical Industry
Val Giddings, PhD, is a key player in agrichemical industry efforts to oppose transparency and safety regulations for genetically engineered foods and pesticides. Emails obtained by U.S. Right to...
November 9, 2018
Keith Kloor: The Agrichemical Industry’s Favorite Writer
Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and an adjunct journalism faculty member at New York University who has written for Nature, Science Insider, Slate and dozens of articles for Discover...
November 1, 2018
Cornell Alliance for Science is a PR Campaign for the Agrichemical Industry
Despite its academic-sounding name and affiliation with an Ivy League Institution, the Cornell Alliance for Science is a public relations campaign to promote genetically engineered foods and...
October 7, 2018
Alison Van Eenennaam: key outside spokesperson and lobbyist for the agrichemical and GMO industries
Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD, a cooperative extension specialist in animal genomics and biotechnology at the University of California, Davis, is a leading promoter of genetically engineered animals,...
October 5, 2018
How Tamar Haspel Misleads Readers of the Washington Post
Tamar Haspel is a freelance journalist who has been writing monthly food columns for the Washington Post since October 2013. Haspel’s columns frequently promote and defend agrichemical industry...
August 23, 2018
Impossible Burger Fails to Inspire Trust in the GMO Industry
By Stacy Malkan For anyone who wonders why consumers aren't inspired to trust the GMO industry, consider this bizarre statement from Impossible Foods Chief Communications Officer Rachel Konrad in...
July 6, 2018