The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly $6 billion on agricultural development programs with a key focus on expanding industrial agriculture in Africa. Leading experts in food security, Africa’s leading civil society network, and hundreds of groups around the world say the foundation’s “green revolution” agricultural program for Africa is exacerbating hunger, … [Read more...] about Critiques of Gates Foundation agricultural interventions in Africa
Fact sheet: EPA exposed for hiding chemical risks, favoring corporate interests
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a long and well-documented history of questionable conduct when it comes to regulation of chemicals important to the profit centers for many large and powerful corporations. Numerous examples show a pattern of agency actions that allow for the use of dangerous chemicals by consumers, farmers, groundskeepers and others despite … [Read more...] about Fact sheet: EPA exposed for hiding chemical risks, favoring corporate interests
200 Organizations Ask Gates Foundation to Stop Funding ‘Failed’ Green Revolution
Billions of dollars in aid and subsidies for industrial agriculture in Africa are harming food security in one of the world’s hungriest regions, according to a network of African groups asking donors to switch their funding to African-led efforts and agroecology. In a letter delivered Tuesday, 200 organizations led by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa asked the … [Read more...] about 200 Organizations Ask Gates Foundation to Stop Funding ‘Failed’ Green Revolution
Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
Here is a reading list about what is known and not known about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, accidents and leaks at biosafety and biowarfare laboratories, and the health risks of gain-of-function (GOF) research, which aims to increase the host range, transmissibility, infectivity or pathogenicity of potential pandemic pathogens. For more information about the U.S. Right to Know … [Read more...] about Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
Glyphosate Fact Sheet: Cancer and Other Health Concerns
Glyphosate, a synthetic herbicide patented in 1974 by the Monsanto Company and now manufactured and sold by many companies in hundreds of products, has been associated with cancer and other health concerns. Glyphosate is best known as the active ingredient in Roundup-branded herbicides, and the herbicide used with “Roundup Ready” genetically modified organisms … [Read more...] about Glyphosate Fact Sheet: Cancer and Other Health Concerns
FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
In July 2020, U.S. Right to Know began submitting public records requests in pursuit of data from public institutions in an effort to discover what is known about the origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease Covid-19. We are also researching accidents, leaks and other mishaps at laboratories where pathogens of pandemic potential are stored and … [Read more...] about FOI documents on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs
