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
ILSI Wields Stealthy Influence for Food, Agrichemical Industries
The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization founded in 1978 by Alex Malaspina, a former senior vice president at Coca-Cola who worked for the...
January 10, 2019
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...
January 4, 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
Chemicals on Our Food: When “Safe” May Not Really Be Safe
Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows; regulatory protections questioned This article was originally published in Environmental Health News. By Carey Gillam Weed killers in...
November 27, 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
Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project: Monsanto, Bayer, Chemical Industry PR Messengers
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 objective...
October 7, 2018