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
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...
April 26, 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
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: 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 2015,...
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