Stacy Malkan
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Oakland, CA, United States
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Gift Ideas: Best 2019 Books and Movies About Our Food System
If you like to give friends and family the gift of knowledge about our food, we're here with recommendations for 2019 books and movies that illuminate the issues close to our hearts. Kudos to the journalists and filmmakers who are exposing how powerful food and chemical industry interests impact our health and the environment. → Read More
Influential Science Nonprofit ILSI Exposed as a Food Industry Lobby Group
The International Life Sciences Institute is a corporate-funded nonprofit group with chapters around the world that claim to conduct "science for the public good," but documents released in a new study reveal that... → Read More
Bayer Investigates Its Shady PR Firm After 'Monsanto File' Scandal in France
In the latest PR scandal to engulf Bayer, journalists at Le Monde reported May 9 that they obtained a "Monsanto File" created by the public relations firm FleishmanHillard listing a "multitude of information" about 200 journalists, politicians, scientists and... → Read More
Glyphosate Spin Check: Tracking Claims About the Most Widely Used Herbicide
Amid global debate over the safety of glyphosate-based herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup, numerous claims have been made to defend the product's safety. → Read More
Impossible Burger and the Road to Consumer Distrust
For anyone who wonders why consumers aren't inspired to trust the GMO industry, consider this bizarre statement from Impossible Foods Chief Communications Officer Rachel Konrad in defense of the Impossible Burger, a veggie burger made more meat-like via genetically engineered yeast. → Read More
One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers
In her new book, out now from Rodale Books, Leah Segedie explains what the science is saying about the impact of hormone-disrupting chemicals on male fertility. → Read More
Transforming the Food We Eat With DowDuPont
The world's largest pesticide and seed companies want you to believe they are on the side of science. High-tech foods are the future, they say, and people who raise concerns about their pesticides and genetically engineered seeds are "anti-science." The Atlantic magazine will provide a platform to those industry talking points in exchange for... → Read More
Newsweek and USA Today Need Standards for Opinion Writers
Please ask Newsweek and USA Today to strengthen their conflict-of-interest standards for opinion writers. → Read More
Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Opinion Piece, a Hit on Organic Food
A newly released Monsanto document provides more details about how Monsanto's propaganda and lobbying operation works, and the key role Henry Miller plays within it. → Read More
Koch-Funded Anti-Climate Group Tells Women to Ignore Concerns About Toxic Chemicals
A chemical industry front group defends the freedom of corporations to pollute. At a recent soiree at Union Station, the D.C. power elite gathered in an anti-public health confab dressed up as a celebration of women that should concern anyone who cares about the health and rights of women and children. → Read More
The Politics of Infertility and Cancer
At a recent soiree at Union Station, the DC power elite gathered in an anti-public health confab dressed up as a celebration of women that should concern... → Read More
Trying to get pregnant? Science suggests: eat organic and regulate the pesticide industry
If you’re trying to get pregnant and raise healthy children, recent science suggests you should consider switching to an organic diet and voting out poli... → Read More
Pushing Toxic Chemicals and Climate Denial: The Dark Money-Funded Independent Women’s Forum
The Independent Women's Forum is an influential 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to shift the blame for health or environmental problems away from corporations. → Read More
Monsanto's 'Jaw-Dropping' Deception Exposed in 'Whitewash'
Carey Gillam's new book is available now from Island Press: Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science. She gives an interview → Read More
Republicans Rush to Monsanto's Aid Touting Industry-Biased Reuters Report
Flawed reporting has emerged as a key lobbying tool for the embattled agrichemical company. In their latest attempt to shield Monsanto from accountability, House Republicans have seized upon the flawed and biased reporting of a Reuters journalist whose work has emerged as a key lobbying tool for the embattled agrichemical company as it faces lawsuits, regulatory threats and a wave of awful press… → Read More
FAIR
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. . → Read More
Are Corporate Ties Influencing Reuters Science Coverage?
In a front-page series titled The Monsanto Papers, the French newspaper Le Monde described the attacks as "the pesticide giant's war on science," and reported → Read More
Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
A key weapon in agribusiness's war against the UN's cancer agency has been the reporting of Reuters' Kate Kelland. → Read More
Neil deGrasse Tyson Owes Fans a More Honest Conversation About GMOs than 'Food Evolution'
By promoting Monsanto's corporate propaganda, Tyson risks losing many of his devoted fans. Neil deGrasse Tyson has inspired millions of people to care about science and imagine themselves as participants in the scientific process. What a hopeful sign it is to see young girls wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words, “Forget princess, I want to be an astrophysicist.” → Read More
Neil deGrasse Tyson Fans Deserve More Than Twisted Tale on GMOs
Neil degrasse Tyson owes it to his fans to broker a more honest conversation about GMOs—one that involves not just the views of genetic engineers and industry. → Read More