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04/08/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Biotech industry trying to eliminate all FDA regulation of genetically edited ranch animals by shifting authority to the USDA, which has totally sold out to Monsanto

Biotech companies that can genetically engineer farm animals to have “designer” characteristics – like cows without horns (yes, cows really are supposed to have horns) – can make a whole lot of money selling these animals to farmers. Unfortunately for them, farm animals are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which subjects these […]

10/22/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Pro-GMO Stanford professor Henry I. Miller exposed as fraudster after allowing Monsanto to ghostwrite his media editorials

The amoral Monsanto corporation has been caught yet again fabricating news about its controversial weedkiller Roundup. Uncovered documents that attorneys now suing the world’s most evil corporation are calling the “Monsanto Papers” reveal that the St. Louis-based chemical giant schemingly wrote up a pro-Roundup editorial back in 2015 that Forbes published as if it had […]

09/26/2017 / By Mike Adams

Stanford University fellow Henry Miller exposed as academic prostitute for Monsanto who peddled fake editorials to Forbes.com

A long-time science propagandist for the GMO industry, Henry I. Miller has just been exposed as an academic prostitute for Monsanto. Named a “Robert Wesson Fellow” covering so-called “Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University,” Henry Miller has just been exposed as a science fraud and professional liar who shills […]

09/01/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Keith Kloor exposed as a biotech industry shill for pimping GMOs (and smearing environmentalists)

Freelance journalist Keith Kloor’s penchant for writing pro-GMO articles goes beyond personal bias. In a recent piece for the Huffington Post, contributor Paul D. Thacker shows just how hard the NYU adjunct journalism professor has worked with “experts” on the GMO industry’s payroll to get corporate talking points published as journalism. Kloor has written pro-GMO […]

08/28/2017 / By Ethan Huff

REUTERS now in bed with Monsanto, committing journalistic fraud to cover up evidence of harm from toxic agricultural poisons

House Republicans are going to bat for Monsanto, the world’s most evil corporation, which is having a very difficult time maintaining any semblance of a positive reputation in the public eye after it was revealed that its most famous weed killer causes cancer in humans. In an effort to steer the narrative back in its […]

08/27/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

GMO “safety” has been systematically and deliberately falsified

The safety of genetically modified foods is a matter that has long been under debate. Despite mountains of evidence showing the harms caused by GMO foods, some high-profile scientific institutions and scientists have defended the products. The mainstream media and government officials tend to take their arguments at face value given their authority, but closer […]

08/09/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Editor of science journal that forced retraction of Seralini GMO study entered a promotional contract with Monsanto right before smearing the research

On March 20, 2015, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) unleashed a firestorm with its analysis of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides, including glyphosate. Their finding that “the herbicide glyphosate and the insecticides malathion and diazinon were classified as probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)” has resulted in at least […]

07/24/2017 / By News Editors

The Biotech industry is taking over the regulation of GMOs from the inside.

The British non-profit GMWatch recently revealed the agribusiness takeover of Conabia, the National Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology of Argentina. Conabia is the GMO assessment body of Argentina. According to GMWatch, 26 of 34 its members were either agribusiness company employees or had major conflicts of interest*. (Article by Jonathan Latham, PhD republished from Independentsciencenews.org) Packing a […]

07/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Absurd: Scientists claim new GM purple rice will save you from cancer and diabetes

A new type of rice could soon be joining the usual brown and white varieties on the shelves of your grocery store: purple rice. Chinese scientists have developed a type of rice through genetic modification that they say can lower your risk of some types of cancer and diabetes. On the surface, this sounds like […]

05/09/2017 / By News Editors

Dirty money, dirty science: How the GMO industry really operates

The biotech industry’s web of attempts to buy credibility, by laundering its messages through supposedly independent academic scientists, is unraveling and beginning to reveal the influence of a huge amount of industry money on the independence of academic agricultural science. Some of this process was revealed recently in The New York Times. Many of these […]

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