Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor of U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group working globally to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health, environment and food system. She investigates and reports on pesticide and food industry PR and lobbying operations. Stacy is author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (New Society Publishers, 2007), and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of health groups that exposed hazardous chemicals in personal care and baby products, and pressured companies to reformulate to safer products. Her work has been featured in Time magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, Nature Biotechnology, Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. She has appeared in several documentary films including The Human Experiment produced by Sean Penn, Pink Skies, Stink Movie, and Not so Pretty now airing on HBO Max.
Contact Stacy: stacy@usrtk.org
Follow Stacy on Twitter: @StacyMalkan
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New: Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide, by Stacy Malkan with Anna Lappé and Kendra Klein, PhD. (December 2022)
Ongoing series of articles tracking Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation’s agricultural development efforts and political influence over global food systems.
Fact sheets on key players in the pesticide industry’s science denial and product defense PR campaigns: Tracking the pesticide industry propaganda network
More of Stacy’s reporting:
- The Ecologist: Gates ‘failing’ green revolution in Africa (8.14.22)
- Investor’s Business Daily, The future of food requires transparency and integrity, with Carey Gillam (7.24.18)
- TruthOut, Secret documents expose Monsanto’s war on cancer scientists (7.16.18)
- EcoWatch, Impossible Burger fails to inspire trust in GMO industry (7.6.18)
- CommonGround Magazine, The New (Sneaky) GMO 2.0 Rush: What could go wrong, what you should know (3.18)
- HuffPost, The Politics of Infertility and Cancer (11.28.17)
- HuffPost, Having trouble getting pregnant? Science suggests: eat organic and regulate the pesticide industry (11.20.17)
- HuffPost, Monsanto Fingerprints Found All Over Attack on Organic Food (6.16)
- HuffPost, Food Evolution GMO Film Serves Up Chemical Industry Agenda (6.16)
- EcoWatch, Neil deGrasse Tyson Fans Deserve More than Twisted Tale on GMOs (6.16)
- Time magazine, Johnson & Johnson is Just the Tip of the Toxic Iceberg (3.16)
- Alternet, Bill Gates is on a mission to sell GMOs to Africa, but he’s not telling the whole truth (3.16)
- The Ecologist, Why is Cornell University Hosting a GMO Propaganda Campaign? (1.16)
- Nature Biotechnology, Standing up for transparency (1.16)
- HuffPost, Why we made the Story of Cosmetics, with Annie Leonard (2011)
- Spinning Food: How food industry front groups and covert communications are shaping the story of food , by Kari Hamerschlag, Anna Lappe and Stacy Malkan (2015 report)
