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INTRODUCTION TO GM

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SCIENCE SUPPORTS REGULATION OF GENE EDITING

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GENE EDITING MYTHS AND REALITY

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M. V. Rao
 India
Former vice chancellor, Acharya N. G. Ranga University, Hyderabad, India. Former consultant to the World Bank and a former director of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Makes exaggerated claims for the benefits of GM crops.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

C Kameswara Rao
 India
Founder of the Bangalore-based Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FBAE).
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: Indian Biotech Industry Up Against the Wall
See also: S. Shantharam, Ron Herring 

Raum für Landwirtschaft
de.png (16×11) Germany
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 
Links to: Red Flag Consulting, FleishmanHillard, Lincoln Strategy Group, Agriculture et Liberté, Free to Farm, Liberta di coltivare, Libertad para consultar, Rolnictwo Dobrej Praktyki, Vrijheid om te Boeren 

Alan Raybould
 UK
Member of the UK's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). Raybould is a veteran of Syngenta, where his speciality was getting its GMOs approved and boosting their public "acceptance". He receives a Syngenta pension.
Articles: 
100% of members of UK government's GMO advisory body ACRE have potential or actual conflicts of interest
Links to: 
Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), Syngenta, Jim Dunwell, Ben Raymond, Peter Lund

Ben Raymond
 UK
Member of the UK's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). Has current research funding from GMO and agrochemical giant Bayer Crop Science and a BBSRC industrial partnership award with Corteva Agriscience. Corteva dominates the CRISPR gene editing patent landscape.
Articles: 
100% of members of UK government's GMO advisory body ACRE have potential or actual conflicts of interest
Links to: 
Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), John Innes Centre, Syngenta, Alan Raybould, Jim Dunwell, Peter Lund

Peter Raven
 USA
President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which has taken money from Monsanto. Lobbies for GM crops.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Monsanto

Chengal Reddy
 India
President of the Federation of Farmers Associations. Has had a long association with Monsanto and lobbies for GM crops.
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: The Fake Parade
See also: Federation of Farmers Associations, Monsanto

S. Jayapal Reddy
 India
Profiles: Powerbase 

Red Flag Consulting
ie.png (16×11) Ireland
Dublin-based political firm that led the pro-glyphosate campaign by setting up fake grassroots farmer groups in "the eight most important EU countries." The  campaign was run in tandem with a US consultancy, Lincoln Strategy. The firm was also accused in Le Monde of having breached French data privacy laws, along with other Monsanto PR agencies such as FleishmanHillard, Lincoln Strategy 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 
Links to: FleishmanHillard, Lincoln Strategy Group, Agriculture et Liberté, Free to Farm, Liberta di coltivare, Raum für Landwirtschaft, Libertad para consultar, Rolnictwo Dobrej Praktyki, Vrijheid om te Boeren

Regulatory Horizons Council
 UK 
Five member UK government-appointed advisory body that is supposed to provide the government with "impartial, expert advice on the regulatory reform required to support (the) rapid and safe introduction" of innovative technologies. It has been pushing for GM deregulation. 
Articles: Partners in crime: Owen Paterson and Matt Ridley. Or why you can't keep a bad man down 
See also: Matt Ridley, Joyce Tait

Resources for the Future
 USA
Washington-based 'conservation' research organisation with funding from major US corporations.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Leonard Gianessi, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy

Viscount Matt Ridley
 UK
Journalist and peer who has long attacked environmentalism, promoted GMOs and engaged in extreme climate scepticism. Advisor to his brother-in-law, the disgraced politician and former environment minister Owen Paterson, and to his think tank UK 2020. One of only five members of the government-appointed Regulatory Horizons Council. Served twice on the Lords' Science and Technology Committee. Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture. On the advisory council of Sense About Science.
Profiles: Powerbase and DeSmog
Articles: Partners in crime: Owen Paterson and Matt Ridley. Or why you can’t keep a bad man down
See also: Owen Paterson, Sense About Science, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture, Regulatory Horizons Council, UK 2020, Breakthrough Institute

Vic Robertson
 UK
Journalist who writes pro-GM and anti-organic articles for the Scottish press.
Profiles: Powerbase

Clare Robinson
 UK
Former head of science communication at the John Innes Centre. Led projects promoting GM to schoolchildren.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Gatsby Charitable Foundation, John Innes Centre, Lord David Sainsbury

William Rolleston
 New Zealand
Chairman of the Life Sciences Network, a PR firm which lobbied for the acceptance of GM crops in New Zealand. Chairman, Federated Farmers of New Zealand.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Communications Trumps, GenePool, Life Sciences Network, Norrey Simmons 

Rolnictwo Dobrej Praktyki
pl.png (16×11) Poland
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 
Links to: Red Flag Consulting, FleishmanHillard, Lincoln Strategy Group, Agriculture et Liberté, Free to Farm, Liberta di coltivare, Raum für Landwirtschaft, Libertad para consultar, Vrijheid om te Boeren

Pamela Ronald
 USA
Professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis, co-author of the book Tomorrow’s Table, and a prominent champion of GMO foods. On the advisory board of the Cornell Alliance for Science, a Gates-backed PR campaign that promotes the GMOs and pesticides. Founding board member of Biofortified. Affiliated to the Breakthrough Institute. Has multiple ties to the agrichemical industry front group the Genetic Literacy Project and its executive director, Jon Entine. Appeared on tax forms as a board member of the Science Literacy Project - the parent organisation of the Genetic Literacy Project. Founding director of Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy (IFAL) to train faculty and students at UC Davis to promote GMO crops and pesticides. Made Jon Entine a senior fellow of IFAL and an instructor and mentor in a UC Davis science communications graduate program. IFAL co-hosted the "Biotech Literacy Project boot camp" with the Genetic Literacy Project and the Monsanto-backed group Academics Review. Key note speakers included Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute. Signatory of An Ecomodernist Manifesto. Receives speaker fees from the agrichemical industry. Was embroiled in a scientific scandal that forced her to retract two major articles in science journals. Featured prominently in the film Food Evolution.
Profiles: USRTK and Powerbase
Articles: Can the Scientific Reputation of Pamela Ronald Be Salvaged? 
Union of Concerned Scientists' response to Pam Ronald attack
Union of Concerned Scientists respond again to Pam Ronald's attacks
See also:
 Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, Biofortified, Anastasia Bodnar, Karl Haro von Mogel, Breakthrough Institute, Ted Nordhaus, Food Evolution 

Rick Roush
 USA
Director of the Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program at University of California, Davis. Pro-GM activist who was embroiled in a conflict-of-interest incident over a paper he published in the journal Science.
Profiles: Powerbase

Rothamsted Research
 UK
Agricultural research institute (formerly known as the Institute of Arable Crops Research or IACR) that was part of the consortium that carried out the UK GM farm-scale trials. The institute and many of its scientists have links with industry.
Profiles: Powerbase 
Articles: 'Science one, whining greenies nil', Smelling a corporate rat 
See also: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Alan Dewar, Nigel Halford, Peter Lutman, Mike May, Maurice Moloney, Guy Poppy, John Pickett

Royal Institution
 UK
Headed for many years by Susan Greenfield. Originally housed the pro-GM and pro-industry lobby group, the Science Media Centre headed by Fiona Fox.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Fiona Fox, Susan Greenfield, Living Marxism, Science Media Centre

Royal Society
 UK
Claims to be the world's oldest scientific organization. Traditionally received public funding, but now also receives funding from biotech corporations. Has lobbied for GM crops and its Fellows led the attacks on Arpad Pusztai following his research that found ill effects of a GM food.
Profiles: Powerbase 
Book chapter: The 'Star Chamber' (Chapter 6 of Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat, by Andy Rowell) 
Articles: Strange Bedfellows, Pro-GM Food Scientist Threatened Editor
See also: Brian Heap, Peter Lachmann, Aaron Klug, Michael Lipton, Robert May, Sense About Science, Tony Trewavas, Mike Gale

Max Russell-Bennett
 UK
An apparently imaginary citizen whose questioning email was sent out with an AgBioWorld press release falsely claiming that thousands had died in the Indian state of Orissa as a result of resistance to GM food aid. The email was traced to Monsanto Belgium.
Profiles: Powerbase
Article: Fake Blood on the Maize
See also: AgBioView, AgBioWorld, Monsanto, Channapatna S. Prakash

Judith Rylott
 UK
Married to Paul Rylott. Has worked for Aventis and Bayer.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Aventis, Bayer, Paul Rylott

Paul Rylott
 UK
Until spring 2004, chairman of the lobby group, the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), which was founded by the big GM companies. Previously worked for Aventis and Bayer and for UK GM regulator SCIMAC. Married to Judith Rylott.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Aventis, BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Monsanto, Judith Rylott, Syngenta

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