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Showing Original Post only (View all)Monsanto Fingerprints Found All Over Attack On Organic Food [View all]
Academics Carry Monsantos Message
Academics Review was co-founded by two independent professors ... on opposite ends of the planet, Bruce Chassy, Ph.D., professor emeritus at University of Illinois, and David Tribe, Ph.D., senior lecturer at University of Melbourne. They claim the group only accepts unrestricted donations from non-corporate sources.
Yet two email exchanges in 2010 reveal plans to find corporate funding for Academics Review while keeping corporate fingerprints hidden.
Monsantos motives in attacking the organic industry are obvious: Monsantos seeds and chemicals are banned from use in organic farming, and a large part of Monsantos messaging is that its products are superior to organics as tools to boost global food production.
Academics Review was co-founded by two independent professors ... on opposite ends of the planet, Bruce Chassy, Ph.D., professor emeritus at University of Illinois, and David Tribe, Ph.D., senior lecturer at University of Melbourne. They claim the group only accepts unrestricted donations from non-corporate sources.
Yet two email exchanges in 2010 reveal plans to find corporate funding for Academics Review while keeping corporate fingerprints hidden.
Monsantos motives in attacking the organic industry are obvious: Monsantos seeds and chemicals are banned from use in organic farming, and a large part of Monsantos messaging is that its products are superior to organics as tools to boost global food production.
Byrne shared an opportunities list of targets comprised of people, groups and content critical of GMOs and Monsanto: Vandana Shiva, Andrew Kimbrell, Ronnie Cummins, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Michael Pollans book In Defense of Food, the movies Food, Inc and The World According to Monsanto, and topic cross-over on all the risk areas of ag-biotech (out crossing/ contamination, bees, butterflies, human safety, etc...).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-malkan/monsanto-fingerprints-fou_b_10757524.html
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AR is an industry funded marketing arm, so is the organic funded organization that wrote the OP.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#28
An industry whose entire marketing strategy relies on disinformation isn't legitimate
Major Nikon
Jul 2016
#53
Denmark and Russia going organic and GMO free - organic movement growing big time
womanofthehills
Jul 2016
#42
It's truly sad to see the type of hyperbole in the OP pushed in a progressive forum.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#20
That letter is a pretty good example of how both sides are filled with nutcases
Chathamization
Jul 2016
#46
As the Nobel Laureates point out, and I certainly agree, anti-GMO crap is, in fact, a crime...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#47
"The climate is always changing! Why are people worried about climate change?" -Rightwing cranks
Chathamization
Jul 2016
#49
This is a very poor response, completely consistent with the scientific illiteracy of anti-GMO...
NNadir
Jul 2016
#50
Sorry, but your statement was as ignorant as the right-wing climate change denier rhetoric.
Chathamization
Jul 2016
#51
Yet if you're a self-described "skeptic," all corporate spin and claims go unquestioned
villager
Jul 2016
#16
The piece in the OP is written by an organization funded by the organic industry.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#24
That so-called Nobel-Greenpeace story is a Biotech Huckster, Inc. PR Poo Party
Scientific
Jul 2016
#32
No one is avoiding anything other than your repeated avoidance of correcting misinformation.
HuckleB
Jul 2016
#87
No need to pretend anything. The facts speak for themselves. This is Biotech PR hookwinkery
Scientific
Jul 2016
#41
Sure, look at how many genuine scientists have claimed chemtrails are nonsense
Major Nikon
Jul 2016
#56
You do realize that that SAME issue predates GMOs and applies to hybrids, right?
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#84
Monsanto and the organic food corps are both primarily involved in generating profit
bhikkhu
Jul 2016
#40
Organic is fine for small scale gardening, etc. But at large scale production levels..
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#59
True, just thinking of people who have their own little tomato gardens and stuff and decide to...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#63
That's an argument to have everyone switch to a vegan or vegetarian diet...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#71
You know that says nothing about organic farming, organic farming is industrial farming...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#72
The issue is that our "organic" is very destructive to the environment, generally speaking...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2016
#74