Monsanto Relied on These “Partners” to Attack Top Cancer Scientists
This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredit the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit, the International Agency for Research on...
May 31, 2018
AgBioChatter: Where Corporations, Academics Plotted Strategy on GMOs, Pesticides
AgBioChatter is a private email listserver used by the agrichemical industry and its allies to coordinate messaging and lobbying activities. List members include pro-industry academics, senior...
May 31, 2018
Biofortified Aids Chemical Industry PR & Lobbying Efforts
Biology Fortified Inc., known as “Biofortified,” is a nonprofit organization that works closely with the agrichemical industry and its collaborators on public relations and lobbying campaigns to...
May 31, 2018
Academics Review: The Making of a Monsanto Front Group
Academics Review, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization launched in 2012, claims to be an independent group but documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know revealed it is a front group set up with the...
May 31, 2018
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...
May 31, 2018
Center for Food Integrity Partners with Monsanto
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...
May 31, 2018
SciBabe says eat your pesticides. But who is paying her?
[caption id="attachment_5069" align="alignright" width="265"] SciBabe's bad science tries to make the pesticide industry look good.[/caption] Blogging under the name SciBabe, Yvette d’Entremont...
March 31, 2018
Are You Ready for the New Wave of Genetically Engineered Foods?
A version of this article was first published in Common Ground Magazine March 2018 (PDF version). By Stacy Malkan Everyone loves a feel-good story about the future. You’ve probably heard this...
March 16, 2018
GMO Answers is a Crisis Management PR Tool for GMOs & Pesticides
Update May 2018: Tax records show that the Council for Biotechnology Information, a chemical industry trade group, paid Ketchum public relations firm more than $11 million from 2013-2016 to to run...
March 1, 2018
Grocery Manufacturers Association — key facts
Summary * GMA is the leading trade group for the junk food industry * GMA hides list of its own corporate members * GMA was found guilty of money laundering * Opposed legislation to...
March 1, 2018