Bayer: Further Links, Contacts and Resources
Further Links, Contacts and Resources
Groups Campaigning on Bayer
- Coalition against BAYER-Dangers (CBG formerly Bayerwatch) http://www.cbgnetwork.org
Amazing German campaigning and research group focusing on Bayer. Active since the early 1980's. Campaigning for environmental protection and secure jobs at BAYER - worldwide! They have an excellent website with an archive of their Keycode Bayer newsletter available on-line
- BayerHazard http://www.bayerhazard.com
Web-based activists focusing on Bayer's involvement in GM crops. Downloadable leaflets and other agit-prop.
- Pesticides Action Network (PAN) UK http://www.pan-uk.org/
Useful Information about the Chemical Industry
- Investigative Report: 'Toxic Deception: Chemical Industry Trade and Research Associations', by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle and the Center for Public Integrity, Common Courage Press, 1999. (http://www.publicintegrity.org/toxic_deception.html)
Toxic Deception shows how the industry uses campaign contributions, junkets, job offers, 'scorched-earth' courtroom strategies, misleading advertising and multimillion-dollar public relations campaigns to keep their products on the market no matter how great the potential dangers.
- A list of Chemical Industry Trade and Research Associations by the Centre for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/toxic_tradegrps.html)
- Find out how the chemical industry spins, distorts, and twists the facts to suit its purposes -- and to prevent the public from finding out how dangerous their products really are, at: http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/
- As a free service to the chemical industry, ChemExpo provides information on an elaborate list of trade associations. http://www.chemexpo.com/info/associations.cfm
- Business and Human Rights: A Resource Website, Chemical Companies. http://www.business-humanrights.org/Chemical.htm
Information about lobbying efforts, Pharmaceutical Industry
- Report 'The Other Drugs War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists', July 2001, by Public Citizen, Congress Watch http://dev.citizen.org/documents/pharma.pdf
- Link to up-to-date stories on Bayer by the Financial Times http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT31CBQFGQC&live=true