Anonymous Scientists Say Their Work is Suppressed on GMOs, Neonics

The Environmental Working Group has submitted a letter to the US Department of Agriculture following an investigation which revealed earlier this year that scientists who submit work on neonicotinoids and the long-term effects of GMOs find their livelihoods in jeopardy, and their scientific credentials ruined.

Anonymous scientists are revealing that companies ‘such as Monsanto’ have made it very difficult for scientists to report the truth about their findings.

PEER executive director Jeff Ruch explains:

“Scientists who are submitting works on neonicotinoids or the long-term effects of GMO crops, trigger corporate complaints back through the chain of command, and finally find that their careers are in jeopardy.”

To most of us, it isn’t ‘news’ that the USDA, CDC, and FDA have been suppressing real science, but as Gary Ruskin, director of the pro- labeling group US Right to Know, in a March 30 letter to the US House and Senate agricultural committees demanding an investigation writes:

“If true, this is a major scandal at the USDA. . . It is not the proper role of the USDA to engage in a cover up for Monsanto and other agrichemical companies.”

Watchdog group PEER has filed a petition demanding that the USDA reform its so-called “scientific integrity policy,” but as long as known supporters of companies like Monsanto are running these agencies, isn’t that kind of like sending a letter to the CEO of Exxon telling on BP for their latest oil spill?

How Biotech and Government Work Together

List of former-Monsanto players now in government roles:

• “Tom Vilsack, the pro-biotech former governor of Iowa, now head of the USDA

• Michael Taylor, the former Monsanto Vice President, now the FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods

• Roger Beachy, the former director of the Monsanto-funded Danforth Plant Science Center, now the director of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

• Islam Siddiqui, the former Vice President of the Monsanto and Dupont-funded pesticide-promoting lobbying group, CropLife,  now the Agriculture Negotiator for the US Trade Representative

• Rajiv Shah, the former Gates Foundation agricultural-development director served as Obama’s USDA Under Secretary for Research Education and Economics and Chief Scientist, now head of USAID

• Ramona Romero, the corporate counsel to Dupont, nominated by President Obama to serve as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture”

Why would you write a letter to the people who receive a paycheck from Monsanto and expect it to change anything at all?

In my honest opinion it is too late for letters – at least when they addressed to agencies who have already made it very clear that they care very little about public opinion. Our vote at the grocery store, or actions on a grassroots level (such as growing our own food) and the arrest of the fraudulent and lying CEOs of these companies as well as politicians is the only thing that will correct the food supply.

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Post written byChristina Sarich: Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga.

5 responses to “Anonymous Scientists Say Their Work is Suppressed on GMOs, Neonics”

1. The real science are always under attack by these evil corporation Monsatan, biotech, FDA and drug company. Because it ruin their profits and it is not about safe guard for our health.

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2. Monsanto’s government ties: If you believe this is a conflict of interests, please share!
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3. Conspiracy FACT, not conspiracy theory. The FDA goes all-out to suppress science.

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4. To most of us, it isn’t ‘news’ that the USDA, CDC, and FDA have been suppressing real science

   I’d like to know how the FDA, CDC and USDA are “suppressing” science exactly. These agencies don’t have control over peer-reviewed journals and at best may only be able to affect some funding decisions in the USA. They’d have no ability to affect grant funding in other countries. Sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense to me.

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   • These agencies prosecute, intimidate, and retaliate against people who research, practice, or promote effective natural treatments that would cause a loss of income to the pharmaceutical industry.  They try to ruin their reputation, bring false charges, take away their licenses, and imprison them.  I read about it frequently, starting with a Readers’ Digest article in the 1990’s that told about industry corruption getting into the FDA, that the FDA was partly staffed with industry insiders, and threatened people within the FDA who raised objections to the approval of dangerous but lucrative drugs.  These agencies have a lot of blood on their hands.  See for example:
     Cancer: The Forbidden Cures (documentary)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMYAoiCSsI
     Flashback: FDA abused power of federal government to smear whistleblowers and protect corporations  http://www.naturalnews.com/049557_FDA_whistleblowers_pharmaceutical_corporations.html
     Whom does the FDA work for?  http://www.anh-usa.org/whom-does-the-fda-work-for/
     The FDA is covering up scientific misconduct  http://www.sciencealert.com/the-fda-is-covering-up-scientific-misconduct-an-investigation-has-found
     Burzynski documentary reveals true agenda of FDA and cancer industry to destroy cancer cures that really work  http://www.naturalnews.com/032998_Burzynski_cancer_cures.html#

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