Claims that Gates Foundation backs pro-GMO campaign 
New analysis by US non-profit organisation Right to Know claims that millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation are being used to run a campaign promoting GMOs and pesticides for the benefit of agrochemical corporations. The report, published in The Ecologist magazine, alleges that the Cornell Alliance for Science, launched at Cornell University in 2014 with a $5.6m grant from the Gates Foundation, is operating as a public relations campaign that promotes genetically engineered crops and foods. The UK-based campaign group Global Justice Now recently released a report arguing that the Gates Foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the world, is funding strategies that promote multinational corporate interests at the expense of social and economic justice.

A new analysis by U.S. Right to Know published in The Ecologist magazine documents how millions of dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are being used to run a propaganda campaign out of Cornell University that promotes GMOs and pesticides for the benefit of agrichemical corporations.

The analysis documents how the Cornell Alliance for Science, launched in 2014 with a $5.6 million grant from the Gates Foundation, is operating as a public relations campaign that promotes genetically engineered crops and foods using the same inaccurate messaging and unscrupulous tactics the agrichemical industry uses to push its agenda for chemically intensive, GMO agriculture.

Under the guise of “standing up for science,” the Cornell Alliance for Science routinely makes unscientific statements about GMOs, the report found.

The Cornell Alliance for Science partners with chemical industry public relations operatives to teach “science” to students offers fellowships for GMO advocates including what the author, Stacy Malkan, deems to be “an ethically questionable journalism fellowship.”

Earlier this week, the U.K.-based campaign group Global Justice Now released a report making the case that the Gates Foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the world, is funding strategies that promote multinational corporate interests at the expense of social and economic justice.