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University Scientists Conspired with Monsanto on GMOs; Black, Afro-Indigenous Farmers Food Sovereignty Prize
University Scientists Caught Conspiring with Monsanto to Manipulate Public Opinion on GMOs. Last weekend, the New York Times released a stunning expose of how Monsanto and the biotech industry enlisted allegedly independent public university scientists in a deceptive campaign to lobby state legislators in Pennsylvania, interfere with ballot initiatives in Oregon and Colorado and paper over risks of high pesticide usage on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize. We especially commemorate them as a vital part of our food and agriculture system—growers and workers who are creating food sovereignty, meaning a world with healthy, ecologically produced food and democratic control over food systems.
