Environmental for Food Justice

Cartoon woodblock etching of the Lancashire Witch Trials.   Moderator’s Note: Over the past six years, we have been tracking and analyzing why the official risk science on GMOs is experiencing a legitimation crisis. We have noted how many risk scientists have sold their expertise to the highest corporate bidder and are finally becoming incapable of obscuring the truth by cherry-picking the evidence in order to serve their corporate masters. Some of the reasons for the legitimation crisis facing pro-GMO scientists include: 1.       Their inability to refute the well-established fact of gene flow and increasing occurrence of introgession events threatening the genomic integrity of center of origin land race varieties and their wild relatives; 2.        A tendency to ignore, flippantly dismiss, or purposefully misinterpret growing evidence of environmental and public health harms associated with the use of transgenic crop technologies...

Internet troll. Credit: Splitreason . World Food Prize winner outlines shift in strategy FOCUS ON CONSUMERS NOT JUST GROWERS Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | May 2, 2014 Robert Fraley, Monsanto’s Chief Technology Officer and this year’s winner of the dubious World Food Prize, recently admitted that Monsanto made a huge strategic error by focusing educational outreach on growers and ignoring consumers. An interesting analysis of this admission is presented in an overlooked report by Joan Faus published in the April 12, 2014 edition of El País   ( Spain).  Faus quotes Fraley admitting the error: “In the last twenty years almost all of our communication activities and education have been focused on farmers and it went very well. But the mistake we made is that we did not put enough effort toward consumer education.” Faus attended a press conference hosted last month by Fraley in St. Louis with invited members of the European press corps. The extended session revealed much about th...