NY organic farms advocate Alliance for Science eviction

Posted 8/21/12

ROCHESTER, NY — Some 67 organic farmers in New York State have sent a letter to the Dean of Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and to the Trustees of the University requesting that …

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NY organic farms advocate Alliance for Science eviction

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ROCHESTER, NY — Some 67 organic farmers in New York State have sent a letter to the Dean of Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and to the Trustees of the University requesting that the university evict the Alliance for Science from the campus.

Funded largely by $5.6 million from the Gates Foundation, the farmers say since 2014, the Alliance for Science has been spreading propaganda for genetic engineering under the cover of creating a “balanced” view of biotechnology.

“Yet there is no balance to this – nothing in the materials or programs of Alliance for Science is anything but entirely pro-biotechnology. They are without balance or significant critical evaluation of the range of agricultural systems and technologies that exist in food production today,” noted Elizabeth Henderson, an organic farmer from Wayne County.

“Careful examination of the Alliance for Science website reveals not a single critical assessment of genetic engineering, none of the reasonable questions that ecological precaution suggest, and no significant evaluation or critique of the impact of the use of genetically engineered seed.”

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