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Chapter 7: Muscling the Media
The biotech industry uses its considerable resources to mold public opinion about genetically modified foods. In addition to promoting a one-sided image of the foods as safe and necessary, they stifle coverage about health and environmental damage. For example, a Fox TV station canceled a news series, a publisher canceled a book contract, scientific journals refused papers, and a printer shredded 14,000 magazines, all due to fear of lawsuits by Monsanto. Other stories presented in this chapter describe how the industry manipulates news that is reported. Also presented is the story of Ignacio Chapela, Ph.D., who claims that a senior Mexican official who did not want him to publish incriminating evidence about GMO contamination threatened him and his family.
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