{"id":124028,"date":"2023-01-17T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2023\/01\/17\/meet-the-merchants-of-poison-the-front-groups-spin-groups-pr-partners-pesticide-companies-use-to-defend-glyphosate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:05:19","slug":"meet-the-merchants-of-poison-the-front-groups-spin-groups-pr-partners-pesticide-companies-use-to-defend-glyphosate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/meet-the-merchants-of-poison-the-front-groups-spin-groups-pr-partners-pesticide-companies-use-to-defend-glyphosate\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Merchants of Poison: The Front Groups, Spin Groups, PR Partners Pesticide Companies Use To Defend Glyphosate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from the <a href=\"https:\/\/usrtk.org\/news-releases\/new-report-reveals-pesticide-industrys-disinformation-and-science-denial-playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Merchants of Poison report<\/a> which details what internal corporate documents reveal about how Monsanto (now Bayer) ran it\u2019s science-denial and disinformation campaign to protect sales of glyphosate-based Roundup. This section examines what the documents show about the many \u201cindustry partners,\u201d including front groups, trade groups, PR and spin groups, the pesticide companies relied on to spread their product defense messaging. Our analysis shows that seven of the front groups named in the Monsanto documents, and six of the trade associations that aided the company, spent more than $1.4 billion in five years (2013-2019) on product defense efforts like those described in this report, including on glyphosate defense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tactic 3: Cultivating Third Party Allies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As pressure mounted in the European Union to ban glyphosate in the wake of the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iarc.who.int\/featured-news\/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">cancer report<\/a>, members of a new group called Freedom to Farm began appearing at agricultural events and farmers\u2019 markets across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the Merchants of Poison report which details what internal corporate documents reveal about how Monsanto (now Bayer) ran it\u2019s science-denial and disinformation campaign to protect sales of glyphosate-based Roundup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":124029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,1000,1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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