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  • IRRI is also part of the [[Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research]] (CGIAR), an association of public ...tion are in wide decline or are stagnating. And even when looked at from a national economic level, it is not clear that the price has been worth paying. In th
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  • ...''' (ILSI) is an industry-backed organisation that specialises in lobbying national and international agencies such as the [[US Environmental Protection Agency ...or - chair since 2003 of [[European Food Safety Authority]] GMO Panel, the group of experts responsible for the risk assessment of GM crops<ref>EFSA, 2009.
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  • ...[[Chamber of Grain Exporters of the Argentinean Republic]], and America's National Corn Growers Association. {{ref|3}} Another key member of the IGTC is the [[National Corn Growers Association]]. NCGA is a trade association with a direct finan
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  • ...have been Prof [[Anthony Trewavas]], Prof [[Chris Leaver]] and the former National Farmers' Union President, [[Ben Gill]] (nicknamed 'Biotech Ben' by the sati ...international academies of science. He also gave evidence to the working group who produced the Royal Society's 2002 report on GM. He served on the Govern
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  • ...V. McGraw, Iowa State University, Pennsylvania State University, a farmer group and investment researcher OTR Global found the latest seeds failed to deliv As at July 2011, Jones is on the board of directors of the GM industry lobby group [[ISAAA]] and is a science adviser to the [[Danforth Center]].<ref>Jonathan
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  • ...lso on the non-executive advisory council for the pro-vivisection campaign group β€˜[[Understanding Animal Research]]’ in 2009<ref name="who2009">Understa ...Ethics Advisory Committee, the Scottish Medicines Consortium Task & Finish Group on improving access to medicines for patients with rare diseases and the De
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  • ...lated company that is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. FBL Financial Group has given thousands of stock options to its directors, including the presid ...e Mississippi Farm Bureau passed a resolution 'rebuking' the Farm Bureau's national leadership for 'conflicts of interests.'
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  • In 2007 he became Chair of the [[National Network of Science Learning centres]]. ...s funding from large food companies (eg Bestfoods, the giant ($8b) US food group later taken over by Unilever) as well as front organizations for the drinks
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  • ...ed (GM) crop companies: [[BASF]], [[Syngenta]], [[Novartis]], the umbrella group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (see below), as well as the [[Cr ...0,000, the same amount of money that was originally proposed for the whole national Public Debate on GM in the UK, held in 2003.<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://soci
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  • Lachmann chaired the [[Royal Society]] expert group which produced the Society's first report on GM crops in 1998. Entitled &#3 ...f [[Sense About Science]]. He is also an advisor to the [[Genetic Interest Group]], to which SmithKline Beecham have also been controversially linked.
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  • ...bed in their book, ''Toxic Sludge is Good for You'', as an "industry front group that produces PR ammunition for the food processing and chemical industries In the same article, the Canadian National Farmers Union vice president Terry Boehm is quoted as saying the best news
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  • ...www.cgfi.org/materials/key_pubs/fear_profiteers.pdf The Fear Profiteers]", National Center for Public Policy and Junkscience.com, February 2002, p73.</ref> ...umer Alert]]. He was also part of the pro-GM/anti-organic 'No More Scares' group with [[Michael Fumento]], [[Steven Milloy]] and ACSH&#39;s [[Elizabeth Whel
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  • ...ked by extreme sarcasm and aggression. When Dr. David Rall, founder of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, was fatally injured in a car ac The publisher of the Junk Science website is a front group called Citizens for the Integrity of Science, (CFIS). The Board of CFIS inc
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  • ...olumbia Forest Alliance]]. The Alliance, although presented as a 'citizens group', was the brainchild of PR firm [[Burson-Marsteller]].<ref>"[http://www.cit *National Association of Forest Industries (Australia), speaking tour of Australia, (
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  • ...and world-class consultants collaborating to transform education at local, national and international levels'. ...on Unit; he is a consultant advisor to [[OECD]]/CERI and is Chair of the [[National Institute for School Leadership]] in Washington; he is on the board of the
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  • ...which is a group of 14 farm commodity organizations, including ASA, the [[National Corn Growers Association]] and the [[American Farm Bureau Federation]]. It
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  • ...ticle] in the science journal Nature describes NCFAP as 'a pro-GM industry group' and, looking at the invariably industry-supporting claims emerging out of ...proponent's wildest hope, but is, in reality, the prediction of an expert group based on extensive results from 40 studies of 27 biotech crops all across t
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  • ...er]] in 1989 and incorporated as a Foundation-funded, independent research group in 1992, β€œto advance environment and health policies through sound scienc ...ith [[Patrick Michaels]] at press conference organised by the [[Wise Use]] group, [[Consumer Alert]]. Singer and [[Robert Balling]] have also spoken at Wise
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  • ...ng countries. Though the panel that drew up the report was presented as 'a group of independent scientists', this does not bear examination. ...ere were no significant problems with GM. He was also on the Royal Society group that organised a partial 'peer review' of Pusztai's work while it was still
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  • ...'''Bridget Ogilvie''' is the Vice Chair of the controversial pro-GM lobby group [[Sense About Science]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20041204034152/www ...ed to provide funding to [[Sense About Science]]. In a letter to the lobby group's director, [[Tracey Brown]], in November 2002, the Wellcome Trust set out
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