Professors have ties to Monsanto

[sumdumguy]

CBC article this morning proves that academics are on the take. Surprise!

[westernvicki]

Research needs funds.
Funds come from somewhere: ie; Harvard & Fat.

What role could farm levy dollars play in unbiasing research?

[sumdumguy]

Donating funds is one thing but altering data, revizing news releases, that puts into question the validity of research results. This suggests to me that large donors are the tail wagging the dogs.

[fjlip]

Same SHIT happening in ALL the CLIMATE bullshit...$$$$talks, rots everyone one involved!

[tweety]

Do you even know who Gary Ruskin is and the organic industry funded witch hunt anti gmo anti bio group he belongs to that targets university professors with foia?

Learn something before you go off on yet another tangent.

[URL="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/us-right-to-know/"]https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/us-right-to-know/[/URL]

[westernvicki]

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&u act=8&ved=0ahUKEwiEyZLHpODTAhUr4YMKHf3HBkoQFghDMAU &url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fthet wo-way%2F2016%2F09%2F13%2F493739074%2F50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat&usg=AFQjCNEzlbjnFMdv_6LA8a3u4AxoFqy_5g&sig2=ub A794mnZPEK-uprE_XNrQ

Heres another tangent.

[chuckChuck]

It is pretty obvious that the seed and chemical Industry is pulling the strings at many institutions with some researchers and professors, but not all. If you speak up and express concerns you wont get funding from them that is for sure, in some cases they will stifle your career. Any industry that has a product to sell and a lot invested, will go to great lengths including "influencing" key individuals.

I fail to see the connection to climate science. Is there any evidence that the solar, wind, and hydrogen fuel cell industries are funding climate science? Not that I am aware of. In the US it is NASA and NOAA which have done a lot of the research. They are funded by government. You may disagree with their conclusions and recommendations or whether we should do anything about carbon emissions, but their research is independent from selling a product.

The independence of research is very important. If it is only done by those who have products to sell guess what the the outcome will be. They are in the business to sell products not to recommend agronomic alternatives that will save farmers money.

[Braveheart]

I can't speak to motives of researchers. All I know is, the innovation that companies have brought to farming here including hybrid seed, chemistry, new fertilizer products, input and output traits in canola, etc., has helped us build wealth on our farm.

Whether researchers are paid or not, as long as we have the choice to use or not use a companies' goods I can make my choice. If their ethics bother me I can say goodbye.

[sumdumguy]

Do you even know who Gary Ruskin is and the organic industry funded witch hunt anti gmo anti bio group he belongs to that targets university professors with foia?

Learn something before you go off on yet another tangent.

[URL="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/us-right-to-know/"]https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/us-right-to-know/[/URL]

Let's just forget the research. We'll just let every self-serving interest group write up their own research. No need for farmers, governments and universities to be paying for it. And besides that, we will believe every word of it. You think Tweety?

[tweety]

IF there was a true third party arms length watchdog, then yes. But this scumbags' only purpose is very different by attacking scientists and making media articles like the CBC one out of nothing at all to sell overpriced organic food.

Hundreds of hours of wasted time for hardworking scientists just so people like you sumdum can feel good about yourself trying to take agriculture to the stone age. Despicable.

[sumdumguy]

IF there was a true third party arms length watchdog, then yes. But this scumbags' only purpose is very different by attacking scientists and making media articles like the CBC one out of nothing at all to sell overpriced organic food.

Hundreds of hours of wasted time for hardworking scientists just so people like you sumdum can feel good about yourself trying to take agriculture to the stone age. Despicable.

Or make people accountable! I am tired of the B.S., yours included!

[tweety]

You're delusional.

[westernvicki]

50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

Just in case you missed that in the quote: this was Harvard. Ivy league.

Everyone has a fiddle.

[westernvicki]

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja &uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi-j9nw0-HTAhVl_IMKHeipAfcQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgrist.or g%2Farticle%2F2012-01-12-american-beef-consumption-is-at-a-50-year-low%2F&psig=AFQjCNEhVQDhjfMcWkDEPdL1P8ZLTIunAw&ust =1494379538855766

And this is the graph if you do not care to down load or google on the changing trends in meat consumption because of the focus on fat being bad for us, taken from this data the quote is
"-american-beef-consumption-is-at-a-50-year-low".

Not just sugar benefited from the focus on fat being bad for us meanwhile, poultry was flagged as lean, beef as not.: poultry consumption increases, beef, even after farmers adapt to lean beef, declines.

Go figure, 50 years later the statictics verify that investing in blaming fat for obesity and poor health worked, focus on fat not sugar, we could graph, obesity, diabetes etc etc, but the proof is research drives agendas. And research is never free.

[westernvicki]

http://www.divineeatingout.com/food-1/sugar-consumption-now-vs-100-years-ago