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| These Emails Show Monsanto Leaning on Professors to Fight the GMO PR War
For a blockbuster piece last month, the New York Times' Eric Lipton got a first look at a massive cache of private emails between prominent public university scientists and GMO industry executives and flacks. Lipton paints a fascinating picture of the place occupied by public universities in the PR and lobbying war between the agrichemical/GM seed and organic food industries.
[READ MORE] But his piece, excellent as it is, may actually underplay the extent to which Monsanto, other ag-biotech companies, and their trade groups and hired PR guns rely on friendly professors as foot soldiers in the industry's battle against regulators and critics. We've gotten our hands on other emails from the cache. Here are six revelations that didn't make it into the Times.   | |||||||||
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