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Peter Lachmann
 UK
Former vice president and biological secretary of the Royal Society and former president of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences. Deeply involved in the attacks on Arpad Pusztai.
Profiles: Powerbase 
Book chapter: The 'Star Chamber' (Chapter 6 of Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat, by Andy Rowell)
Articles: Pro-GM Food Scientist 'Threatened Editor'Strange Bedfellows
See also: Royal Society, Ed Dart, Brian Heap, Robert May, Sense About Science

Chris Lamb
 UK
Former director of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK and also co-founded the plant biotech firm Akkadix.
Profiles: Powerbase  
Article: Two-faced science
See also: John Innes Centre

Lyndon LaRouche
 USA
Lyndon LaRouche, the American former-Marxist cult leader, was one of the first people to use the term "terrorist" in relation to environmentalists.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

Chris Leaver
 UK
Former head of the department of plant sciences at Oxford University and consultant for Syngenta. One of the most privileged voices on GM crops in the UK.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Royal SocietySyngenta

Lexington Communications
 UK
PR and lobbying firm that counts major biotech firms and groups among its clients.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Mike Craven 

Liberta di cultivare
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One of the fake farmer groups defending glyphosate set up by PR agencies working for Monsanto
Articles: Fake "Farmer Willi" part of an international fake parade
How lobbyists for Monsanto led a 'grassroots farmers' movement against an EU glyphosate ban
Faux groupes d'agriculteurs de Monsanto: les coulisses d'une manipulation 
See also: Red Flag ConsultingFleishmanHillardLincoln Strategy GroupAgriculture et LibertéFree to FarmRaum für LandwirtschaftLibertad para consultarRolnictwo Dobrej PraktykiVrijheid om te Boeren

Libertad para consultar
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One of the fake farmer groups defending glyphosate set up by PR agencies working for Monsanto
Articles: Fake "Farmer Willi" part of an international fake parade
How lobbyists for Monsanto led a 'grassroots farmers' movement against an EU glyphosate ban
Faux groupes d'agriculteurs de Monsanto: les coulisses d'une manipulation 
See also: Red Flag Consulting, FleishmanHillard, Lincoln Strategy GroupAgriculture et Liberté, Free to FarmLiberta di coltivareRaum für LandwirtschaftRolnictwo Dobrej PraktykiVrijheid om te Boeren

Liberty Institute
 India
Anti-regulation think tank founded by Barun Mitra, who lobbied for GM crops in India. It is part of right-wing coalitions like the International Consumers for Civil Society (ICCS) and the International Policy Network (IPN).
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: AgBioWorld, International Policy Network, Barun Mitra

Conrad Lichtenstein
 UK
Professor of molecular biology at Queen Mary College, University of London, genetic engineer, and member of industry-funded lobby CropGen.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: CropGen

Life Sciences Network
 New Zealand
PR group that lobbies for GM food and crops.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Communications Trumps, GenePool, Norrey Simmons

Limagrain
 France
Farmers' cooperative which has grown into the world's fourth biggest seed company. Invests heavily in biotech research.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Biogemma, Pierre Pagesse 

Lincoln Strategy Group
 USA
American consulting firm that ran a pro-glyphosate campaign in Europe in tandem with Red Flag Consulting that involved setting up fake grassroots farmer groups in "the eight most important EU countries." The firm was also accused in Le Monde of having breached French data privacy laws, along with other Monsanto PR agencies such as FleishmanHillardRed Flag Consulting and FTI Consulting, during the EU glyphosate renewal campaign.
Articles: How lobbyists for Monsanto led a 'grassroots farmers' movement against an EU glyphosate ban 
Fake "Farmer Willi" part of an international fake parade
PR company accused of using 'tobacco lobbyist tactics' to promote weedkiller linked to cancer
Faux groupes d'agriculteurs de Monsanto: les coulisses d'une manipulation 
See also: FleishmanHillardRed Flag ConsultingAgriculture et Liberté, Free to FarmLiberta di coltivareRaum für LandwirtschaftLibertad para consultarRolnictwo Dobrej PraktykiVrijheid om te Boeren

Michael Lipton
 UK
Former development economist at the Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex and a strong supporter of GM and GM "Golden Rice".
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Gerard Barry, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Golden Rice Network, International Rice Research Institute, Ingo Potrykus

Martin Livermore
 UK
Director of the Scientific Alliance and former PR man for DuPont. Runs his own consultancy, Ascham Associates, and claims to have "extensive networks in the food chain, public sector, NGO and think tank communities".
Profiles: Powerbase 
Articles: Sowing seeds of doubt: DuPont attempts to influence anti-GM food campaigners 
Synthetic independence: spinning it softly
See also: Ascham Associates, Scientific Alliance, Sense About Science, International Policy Network

Living Marxism 
 UK
Formerly the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Party. It morphed into a publication called LM, which takes a pro-corporate, pro-technology line on such controversial issues as genetic engineering, cloning, geoengineering, nuclear power etc.
Profiles: Powerbase 
Articles: Invasion of the Entryists: How did a cultish political network become the public face of the scientific establishment?
Interview with George Monbiot about the LM network
See also: Claire Fox, Fiona Fox, Science Media Centre, SpikedTracey Brown 

LM group
 UK
Loosely constituted political grouping sharing an anti-environmentalist, pro-corporate ideology. Its members have infiltrated the UK science establishment at the highest levels.
Profiles: Powerbase  
Resource: LM Watch
Articles: Invasion of the Entryists, Inside LM
Interview with George Monbiot about the LM network
Who's pulling Boris Johnson's strings on GMOs?
See also: Tracey Brown, Martin Durkin, Claire Fox, Fiona Fox, Frank Furedi, Institute of Ideas, Science Media Centre, Munira Mirza

Peter Lund
 UK
Member of the UK's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). Lund was involved in attempts to develop GM plants containing antifreeze proteins. Has current career interests in biotechnology applications for various industries, including the pharmaceutical industry.
Articles: 
100% of members of UK government's GMO advisory body ACRE have potential or actual conflicts of interest
See also:
Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE)Jim DunwellBen RaymondAlan Raybould 

Peter Lutman
 UK
Head of the weed ecology research group at Rothamsted Research, which carried out the UK government's farmscale trials on GM crops. Lutman also works for the industry lobby group CropGen.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: CropGen, Rothamsted Research 

Mark Lynas
 UK
Environmental writer who starting in 2010 began to turn himself into a professional GMO promoter via articles, books and talks, and eventually his paid work for the (Cornell) Alliance for Science - a PR campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase GM crop acceptance, especially in Africa. Cofounder and Senior Strategist of WePlanet (formerly known as RePlanet), the ecomodernist campaign group for GMOs, nuclear power and synthetic food. Featured in the film Food Evolution.
Profile: USRTK 
Book review: The Dubious Virtue of Apostasy: How a former activist saw the GMO light and is being amply rewarded for it
Background briefing: Leading environmentalists set record straight about Mark Lynas
Articles: The Repentant Environmentalist Part 1, The Repentant Environmentalist Part 2Lynas backs down and apologises to the Soil Association
Biotech ambassadors in AfricaMark Lynas slammed for exploiting African farmers' images to promote GMOs
Science, Dogma and Mark LynasWhy Mark Lynas Changed His Mind
Lynas, Lies, and Marketing 
Is the Alliance for Science's lead researcher on misinformation a pathological liar?
Peer-reviewed critique published of Mark Lynas's article in which he accused GMO critics of spreading "misinformation"
Lynas brands himself a climate activist, but works behind the scenes with the agrochemical industry
Report:
African farmers accuse Mark Lynas of unethical and misleading use of their images
See also: Jay Byrne, Cornell Alliance for Science, RePlanet, Patricia Nanteza, Hidde BoersmaOwen Paterson, Sarah Evanega, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stewart Brand, Patrick Moore, Breakthrough InstituteFood Evolution, Keith Kloor

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