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</font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oxford Study Attacks Regenerative Agriculture — Monsanto Ally?</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2506308904" data-authors="John Roulac" data-headline="Oxford Study Attacks Regenerative Agriculture — Monsanto Ally?" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The British Empire has schooled the world in colonialism, with resulting devastation in India, Africa and the Americas. While the colonies' revolutionary army was successful in defeating the British redcoats more than 240 years ago, today we face a new kind of threat from the United Kingdom.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A University of Oxford think-tank, the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN), has come out with a report, <a href="https://www.fcrn.org.uk/projects/grazed-and-confused" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Grazed and Confused</em></a>, that likens 100-percent grass-fed beef to that produced on a 10,000-cow confined animal feedlot operation (CAFO) like Harris Ranch on Interstate 5 in Central California—calling them basically the same in <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate</a> impacts.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Think, for a moment, how absurd that is. One has to wonder why this Oxford think-tank is being so deferential to <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/monsanto" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Monsanto</a> and the GMO/fertilizer industry, which profits via the planet-killing, health-destroying CAFO model.</font></p><p><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Monsanto Connection to Oxford University</font></strong></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It seems that Monsanto has deep and enduring connection to the University of Oxford (UO). Monsanto has <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TxWFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Monsanto+oxford+university&source=bl&ots=U71GpW5Vzu&sig=-4ofrTkA-Tyr9u4q8cq5HJxXXlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv9YKg3uHWAhWi6oMKHVMBAw4Q6AEIQDAE#v=onepage&q=Monsanto%20oxford%20university&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">paid out to UO through various business ventures</a> more than $50M pounds ($75M US).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, Oxford University Press has published a flattering book, written by Robert Paarlberg, full of Monsanto puffery: <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Food-Politics-What-Everyone-Needs/dp/019538959X/?tag=alternorg08-20" target="blank" data-amzn-asin="019538959X" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know</a>.</em></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/dec/08/smoking.frontpagenews" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2006, the Guardian reported</a> that UO professor and Oxford resident Dr. Richard Droll wrote and testified that Monsanto chemicals did not cause cancer, while he "was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oxford University has advertised a <a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBS414/monsanto-senior-research-fellowship/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Monsanto Senior Research Fellowship</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The search function on the FCRN website produces only one link for Monsanto (a very favorable article on CRISPR, a new GMO 2.0 technique). How could a supposed climate independent food research group not be writing about the high impacts of the agrochemical sector within the areas in which it claims expertise, such as health, food access, environment and climate change?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FCRN website makes the following statement:</font></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our principles of impartiality, academic rigor, and interdisciplinarity inform our vision of a fair, healthy, and ethical food system that sits within environmental limits.
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They fail to mention their university's conflict of interest regarding Monsanto. Why are they silent about Monsanto's role in creating an unhealthy and unethical food system? It's convenient for Monsanto and the giant synthetic fertilizer industry to have this "green credentials" think tank to discredit the small ranchers who have created a soil-health building meat production system that has no use for Monsanto merchandise.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the U.K.'s wealthy families and investors hold vast acreages in Argentina, where cancer rates have skyrocketed in towns near the heavy spraying of Monsanto RoundUp on GMO soy fields. Now perhaps FCRN is just an anti-meat cheerleader. Either way, the report is damaging.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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