Monsanto Lobbying: An Attack On Us, Our Planet And Democracy - TruePublica
By Corporate Europe Observatory
– Corporations like Monsanto have limitless resources to buy political
power through lobbying. Not only are they represented by numerous
lobbying associations at every level from local to global, they also
have an army of hired-gun lobbyists, fund scientists to act as their
mouthpiece, and participate in ‘greenwashing’ projects.
EU institutions and the US government often actively solicit
corporations to lobby them, giving corporations privileged access to
decision-making. This perverse symbiosis allows corporations to capture
decision-making, but leads to hollowed out democracy, environmental
disaster, and grave social injustice.
There are roughly three fields of industry lobbying: directly
targeting decision-makers; PR and propaganda; and undermining science.
Broadly three types of actors exist: those giving the orders, those
following them, and those who are accomplices to these attempts.
This short guide, published at the occasion of the International
Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague, exposes some of Monsanto’s key lobbying
strategies and tools, illustrated with examples from different parts of
the world.
