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by culi 1582 days ago
I don't see what your point is with bringing up Kevin Folta... He's also been criticized by the New York Times[0] and articles published in Nature[1]. I feel like criticizing his industry connections is pretty uncontroversial

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18146

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My point is that CMD is quick to attack Kevin Folta (speaks favorably of conventional ag), but fail have same level of investigation of USRTK or Charles Benbrook[0] (university professor who sat the board of various organic organizations and takes money to write pro-organic studies). Why aren't then giving Benbrook the same coverage as Folta? My point is they pick who to watch based on their agenda.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Benbrook