Why we’re tracking Bill Gates’ plans to remake our food systems

This blog by Stacy Malkan is updated regularly with news and tips about Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation's agricultural development efforts and political influence over global food systems. Why...

February 26, 2021

Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate

By Stacy Malkan In his new book on how to avoid a climate disaster, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discusses his plans to model African food systems upon India’s “green revolution,”...

February 25, 2021

Why we’re tracking Bill Gates’ plans to remake our food systems

Hundreds of groups oppose the Gates-led expansion of chemical industrial agriculture in Africa in lead-up to controversial UN World Food Summit  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent...

February 25, 2021

Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, the head of an organization involved in research that genetically manipulates coronaviruses, discussed hiding his role in a statement published last year...

February 15, 2021

Pesticide-contaminating plant closed; See Nebraska regulatory documents regarding AltEn neonicotinoid problems

UPDATE - In February, roughly  a month after after reporting revealed the dangers of the AltEn plant's practice of using pesticide-treated seeds, Nebraska state regulators ordered the plant...

February 8, 2021

International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a Food Industry Lobby Group

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with 17 affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group...

January 13, 2021

Nature journal adds “Editor’s note” highlighting concerns about the reliability of study linking pangolin coronaviruses to origin of SARS-CoV-2

On November 9, 2020, U.S. Right to Know released emails with senior authors of Liu et al. and Xiao et al., and staff and editors at PLoS Pathogens and Nature journals. These studies have provided...

November 12, 2020

Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology 

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

Despite its academic-sounding name and affiliation with an Ivy League institution, the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) is a public relations campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates...

September 23, 2020

Vermont Supreme Court to Hear FOI Case about Professor’s Food Industry Group Documents

Media Advisory For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 10, 2020 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 What: The Vermont Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in U.S....

September 10, 2020