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...
December 12, 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
Top Findings of the U.S. Right To Know Investigations
Since 2015, U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit consumer and public health watchdog group, has obtained thousands of pages of documents revealing – for the first time – how food and pesticide...
October 22, 2018
Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project: Messengers for Monsanto, Bayer and the Chemical Industry
Jon Entine is executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project and principal of the public relations firm ESG MediaMetrics, whose clients included Monsanto. Entine portrays himself as an...
October 7, 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
Independent Women’s Forum: Koch-Funded Group Defends Pesticide, Oil, Tobacco Industries
[caption id="attachment_8188" align="alignright" width="517"] This article in Huffington Post describes the 2017IWF gala sponsored by tobacco and chemicalcompanies.[/caption] TheIndependent...
October 6, 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