Biotech industry emails reveal academic GMO prostitutes acknowledging their roles as paid shills while lying to the public
by: Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews.com
Monday, October 12, 2015
One of the arguments supporters of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) often give in defense of the controversial technology is that the scientific community has supposedly come to a consensus that biotechnology is a safe and effective way to produce food. What they’re not telling you is that many of the so-called scientists and academics who endorse GMOs in the public realm are being paid to do so by the very corporations pushing these GMOs for profit.
U.S. Right to Know, a non-profit organization that advocates for honesty in food labeling, recently published a series of emails gathered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that expose massive collusion between what has come to be known as “Big Food” and a number of front groups operating under the guise of academia. In short, multinational GMO corporations such as Syngenta and Monsanto are conspiring with university professors, scientists, and others to push GMOs and crop chemicals in exchange for favors, vacations, and cash payouts.
The group explains that these emails, which have been published at GMO.news, clearly demonstrate how Monsanto and others are using an academic veneer to peddle their public relations talking points to the masses. The goal of this, of course, is to feign GMO safety and effectiveness by creating the illusion that “science” supports Monsanto’s agenda.
“The agrichemical and food industries are spending vast sums of money to convince the public that their food, crops, GMOs, additives and pesticides are safe, desirable and healthy,” reports U.S. Right to Know’s Gary Ruskin. “These emails reveal how Monsanto and its partners use so-called ‘independent’ third-party scientists and professors to deliver their PR messaging. Since the companies themselves are not credible messengers, they use these scientists and professors as sock-puppets to shape the media narrative on food issues, particularly GMOs.”
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