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→Campaign to Undermine Organic Agriculture: adding notes from Koberstein and Murphy article (JM)
===Campaign to Undermine Organic Agriculture===
====Center for Global Food Issues====
Monsanto partially funds the anti-organic [[Center for Global Food Issues]], a project of the right-wing [[Hudson Institute]]. It is run by [[Dennis Avery]]<ref name="GMW">GMWatch, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060823053352/http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=15&page=A Profiles: Dennis T. Avery], archived by the Wayback Machine August 23, 2006.</ref><ref>GMWatch, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070911060515/http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=48&page=1&op=1 Dennis Avery: Big Daddy of E.co-Lie], archived by the Wayback Machine September 11, 2007.</ref> and his son [[Alex Avery]]. See also Hudson's anti-environmental and pro-biotech spinmeister [[Michael Fumento]], who secretly took at least $60,000 from Monsanto. See also Bill Berkowitz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080408235004/http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=105 Hudson Institute: Home of the indicted and the exposed], ''Media Transparency'', January 18, 2006.
'''For more, see [[Monsanto and the Campaign to Undermine Organics]].'''
====Monsanto Funding and Shutdown of Organic Farming Research at University of Hawai'i-Manoa====
''Read the article, "[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/04/12803/silencing-hector-valenzuela The Silencing of Hector Valenzuela]," by Paul Koberstein and Eliza Murphy, ''Cascadia Times/PR Watch'', May 20, 2015.''
From the article:
:In 1993, Dr. Hector Valenzuela, then a non-tenured professor of tropical plant and soil science at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa, began a long-term research project to determine whether it’s possible to grow crops in the state without synthetic pesticides. Valenzuela, who in 1990 received his Ph.D. in vegetable crops from the University of Florida, established the first long-term organic farming research project in Hawai`i and the Pacific region. [...]
:But it all came to an end inexplicably in 1998 when Charles Laughlin, then the dean of CTAHR, shut down the organic farming research project. Valenzuela recalls the dean’s exact words: “You can no longer use those plots.” [...]
:“I saw the removal of my field laboratory as an infringement of my academic freedom,” he says. “The college prevented me from exploring new methods of agriculture that challenged the college’s central vision about the future of agriculture in Hawai`i.” [...]
:In June 2010, one month after Hashimoto denied Valenzuela’s academic freedom complaint, CTAHR received a $100,000 donation from Monsanto for scholarships. Then in November 2010, Monsanto donated $20,000 to fund Gene-ius Day, a program at the college that introduces students from grades 4 through 12 to “basic genetics and the function of DNA.” And in September 2011, Monsanto gave an additional $500,000 to the college, bringing its total donations to CTAHR to $620,000 within a period of a little more than a year.
===Genetic Pollution, or 'How to Succeed Without Really Trying'===
