Monsanto Solicited Academics to Bolster Pro-GMO Propaganda Using Taxpayer Dollars

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Monsanto Solicited Academics to Bolster Pro-GMO Propaganda Using Taxpayer Dollars

Tuesday, 20 October 2015 00:00
By Katherine Paul, AlterNet | News Analysis


The Monsanto public relations machine has done a stellar job in recent years of reducing the GMO debate to one that pits "pro-science advocates" against "anti-science climate-denier types" - with Monsanto portrayed as being squarely planted in the pro-science camp.

But that well-oiled machine may be starting to sputter.

Turns out that Monsanto executive solicited pro-GMO articles from university researchers, and passed the "research" off as independent science which the biotech giant then used to prop up its image and further its agenda.

We know this, thanks to thousands of pages of emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). And because a host of news outlets-including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg, the StarPhoenix and others - are now running with the story.

For anyone who has paid attention, this latest scandal should come as no surprise. As Steven Druker writes in his book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, "For more than 30 years, hundreds (if not thousands) of biotech advocates within scientific institutions, government bureaus, and corporate offices throughout the world have systematically compromised science and contorted the facts to foster the growth of genetic engineering, and get the foods it produces, onto our dinner plates." .............(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33296-how-monsanto-solicited-academics-to-bolster-their-pro-gmo-propaganda-using-taxpayer-dollars

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Shocked, I'm shocked, I tell you!

Maybe the Monsanto shills will drop that from their talking points, but I doubt it. It will probably be another couple decades before the spin is unwound enough.