Cornell University takes $5.6 million from Gates Foundation, partners with Biotech Industry to produce pro-GMO propaganda
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Governments have teamed up with the biotech industry in the past to demonize critics of genetically modified foods and crops, as well as promote efforts to propagandize their use. Now, it seems, academia is teaming up with the industry as well, and for the same reasons.
In a recent announcement, officials at Cornell University said the institution would join a multi-million dollar campaign in an effort to “depolarize the charged debate” centered around GMOs. And the biotech industry, with its bought-and-paid-for supporters, are behind the new push.
According to a report from Food & Water Watch, an organization that tracks, among other things, GMO use around the world, the university has launched a website to host the propaganda effort, called Cornell Alliance for Science. So far, there is little on it, but it does, at least, list pro-GMO partners of the effort. They include the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, or ISAAA, an entity funded by Bayer, Monsanto and CropLife, which in turn is also funded by biotech and agrochemical companies including BASF, DuPont, Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta.
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