Confirmed: Monsanto Caught Working With Harvard Staff to Spread Pro-GMO Propaganda
By John Vibes
It seems that Monsanto’s reach extends to the most prestigious of collegiate institutions.According to email messages obtained by the Boston Globe,
Harvard professor Calestous Juma received instructions from biotech
giant Monsanto on how to present a paper on a topic suggested by the
company. Juma did not disclose this connection with Monsanto.
The 2014 policy paper, titled Global Risks of Rejecting Agricultural Biotechnology,
was widely distributed with the help of a marketing firm provided by
Monsanto, which “would ‘merchandize’ the papers online, disseminate them
to the media, and schedule op-eds, blog posts, speaking engagements,
events, and webinars.”
Eight other professors received the email in 2013 from Eric Sachs,
Monsanto’s head of regulatory policy and scientific affairs, asking them
to write a series of papers and providing a detailed strategy for
public persuasion.
