[Editor’s note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.]
Bloomberg Businessweek has written another anti-Monsanto article….
It’s not the first time members of this team of Peter Waldman, Lydia Mulvany, Tiffany Stecker, and Joel Rosenblatt have presented their anti-Monsanto beliefs to Bloomberg readers, what is distinct this time is that they have essentially copied and pasted talking points from an organic food industry trade group, Organic Consumers Association, to try and create belief in the science equivalent of the Obama Birther conspiracy – that a company is controlling agricultural scientists.
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Reminiscent of tobacco companies, it also funneled money to front groups, according to a plaintiffs’ court filing.
You see what they did just now? They invoked tobacco companies – even more hated than Monsanto – repeat a claim by an industry trade group whose clients compete with farmers who use Monsanto, and then give themselves a safety valve by noting it is not them saying [the American Council on Science and Health is] a “front group” for Monsanto, it is lawyers, without ethically disclosing the lawyers were told that by the trade group. You can Google for five seconds and find that out, if facts matter.
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s response at the bottom of our excerpted version of the Bloomberg article.]
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