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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keith Reding, Ph.D</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regulatory Policy Lead</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monsanto</font></div><div style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="mailto:h.keith.reding@monsanto.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">h.keith.reding@monsanto.com</font></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">W: 314-694-6615</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">C: 314-809-9624</font></div><div style="text-align: left; 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</font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At a recent soiree at Union Station, the D.C. power elite gathered in an anti-public health confab dressed up as a celebration of women that should concern anyone who cares about the health and rights of women and children.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Independent Women’s Forum drew an <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWFGala25&src=typd" style="text-decoration-line: none;">impressive array</a> of Republican politicians to its annual gala <a href="https://www.womanofvalorgala.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sponsored by</a>, among others, the American Chemistry Council, the tobacco company Philip Morris, the cosmetics industry trade group, Google and the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Speakers included House Speaker Paul Ryan and Trump adviser<b> Kellyanne Conway, who won the IWF <a href="https://www.womanofvalorgala.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Valor Award</a> for being a “passionate advocate for limited government”</b> who does not embrace “the idea that being a woman is a handicap.” Conway is also an IWF board member.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So what is the Independent Women’s Forum? IWF got its start 25 years ago as an <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13091/confirmation-how-not-so-independent-womens-forum-was-launched-aid-clarence" style="text-decoration-line: none;">effort to defend</a> now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as he faced sexual harassment charges. The group has since <a href="https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/independentwomensforum/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">raised millions</a> from the secretive foundations of the Koch brothers and other right-wing billionaires to carry out its mission of “increasing the number of women who value free markets and personal liberty.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the world of the IWF—a group Joan Walsh described in </span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-the-feminists-doing-the-koch-brothers-dirty-work/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">The Nation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> as</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> “the ‘feminists’ doing the Koch’s dirty work”—that means defending the freedom of corporations to sell toxic products and pollute the environment, while trying to frame that agenda as good for women and children.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">E-cigarettes should be approved because of the <a href="https://www.heartland.org/template-assets/documents/LS%20-%20Studies/September%201%202017/9-1-2017%20FDA%20Letter_FDA-2017-D-3001.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unique biological needs</a> of women, for example, and climate science education is <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iwf-launches-balanced-education-for-everyone-campaign-89786397.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">too scary</a> for students. (The e-cig letter is “standard Philip Morris PR,” <a href="https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/independentwomensforum/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">says</a> tobacco industry expert Stan Glanz, and Greenpeace <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/front-groups/independent-womens-forum-iwf/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">classifies</a> IWF as a “Koch Industries climate denial front group.”)</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Women can also benefit by ignoring “alarmist” concerns about toxic chemicals, according to an IWF lecture series <a href="https://publichealth.wustl.edu/events/food-fear-find-facts-todays-culture-alarmism/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sponsored by Monsanto</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To give you a sense of the messaging on chemicals: Moms who insist on organic food are arrogant, snobby “helicopter parents” who “need to be in control of everything when it comes to their kids, even the way food is grown and treated,” according to Julie Gunlock, director of IWF’s “Culture of Alarmism” project, as quoted in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2014/04/19/the-tyranny-of-the-organic-mommy-mafia/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">article</a> titled “The tyranny of the organic mommy mafia” that was written by an IWF fellow.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the IWF gala, Gunlock posed for a photo op with Monsanto staffer Aimee Hood and Julie Kelly, who writes articles casting doubt on climate science and pesticide risk, and <a href="https://usrtk.org/food-for-thought/julie-kelly-cooks-up-propaganda-for-the-agrichemical-industry/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">once even called</a> climate hero Bill McKibben “a piece of shit.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gunlock and Kelly are “rock stars,” <a href="https://twitter.com/achood4mu/status/930981249631555584" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hood tweeted</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m framing this,” Monsanto employee <b>Cami Ryan</b> tweeted in return.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Put a frame around the whole shindig and behold the absurdity of corporate-captured politics in America, where policy leaders openly embrace an anti-women “women’s group” that equates “freedom” with eating toxic pesticides, at an event sponsored by the chemical industry,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> a tobacco company, an extremist group that wants to <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/alec-koch-industries-gerrymander-denver/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">do away with</a> a voter-elected Senate and the world’s most influential news source.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile in the rational world</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">In just the past few weeks, the Journals of the American Medical Association published a</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2659557" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">Harvard study</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">implicating pesticide-treated foods in fertility problems, a</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2658306" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">UC San Diego study</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">documenting huge increases in human exposure to a common pesticide, and a physician’s</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2659554" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">commentary</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span></font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">urging people to eat organic food</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Recent science suggests that if you want to get pregnant and raise healthy children, you should reject the propaganda that groups like the Independent Women’s Forum are trying to sell.</font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I wrote about those studies in more detail here, “<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trying-to-get-pregnant-science-suggests-eat-organic_us_5a0e3622e4b0e30a95850584" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trying to get pregnant? Science suggests: eat organic and regulate the pesticide industry</a>”.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mainstream groups have been giving similar advice for years.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics <a href="https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Makes-Recommendations-to-Reduce-Children%27s-Exposure-to-Pesticides.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recommended</a> reducing children’s exposure to pesticides due to a <a href="https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/e1765" style="text-decoration-line: none;">growing body of literature</a> that links pesticides to chronic health problems in children, including behavioral problems, birth defects, asthma and cancer.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2009, the bipartisan <a href="https://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualreports/pcp08-09rpt/pcp_report_08-09_508.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">President’s Cancer Panel</a> reported: “the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The panel urged then-President George W. Bush “most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our Nation’s productivity, and devastate American lives.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately for our nation, acting on that advice has not been possible in a political system indentured to corporate interests.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate capture of health and science</font></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For decades, pesticide corporations have manipulated science and U.S. regulatory agencies to keep the truth hidden about the health dangers of their chemicals.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The details are being revealed by hundreds of thousands of pages of <a href="https://www.toxicdocs.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">industry documents</a> turned loose from <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">legal</a> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/chemical-industry-herbicide-poison-papers/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">discovery</a>, <a href="https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/poison-spring-the-secret-history-of-pollution-and-the-epa/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">whistleblowers</a> and <a href="https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FOIA requests</a> that have been examined in <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/carey-gillams-presentation-to-european-parliament-hearing-on-the-monsanto-papers-glyphosate/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">government hearings</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/business/monsantos-sway-over-research-is-seen-in-disclosed-emails.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">by</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/09/monsanto-continued-selling-pcbs-for-years-despite-knowing-health-risks-archives-reveal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">many</a> <a href="https://www.ehn.org/monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-smear-campaign-2509710888.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">media</a> <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/04/monsanto-ghostwriting-stanford-university-hoover-institution-fellow/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">outlets</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For a synopsis of Monsanto’s “long-running secretive campaign to manipulate the scientific record, to sway public opinion, and to influence regulatory assessments” on its herbicide glyphosate, see this essay by my colleague Carey Gillam in <a href="https://undark.org/article/corporate-science-monsanto-policy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Undark magazine</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As one example of government/corporate collusion: in 2015, on the Obama administration’s watch, the EPA official in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of<b> glyphosate</b>allegedly bragged to a Monsanto executive about helping to “kill” another agency’s cancer study, as <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/monsanto-accused-of-ghost-writing-papers-on-roundup-cancer-risk" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bloomberg reported</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Suppressing science has been a bipartisan, decades-long project. Since 1973, Monsanto has presented dubious science to claim the safety of glyphosate while EPA largely looked the other way, as Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman documented for <a href="https://inthesetimes.com/features/monsanto_epa_glyphosate_roundup_investigation.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">In These Times</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown and Grossman spent two years examining the publicly available archive of EPA documents on glyphosate, and reported:</font></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Glyphosate is a clear case of ‘regulatory capture</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’ by a corporation acting in its own financial interest while serious questions about public health remain in limbo. The record suggests that in 44 years—through eight presidential administrations—EPA management has never attempted to correct the problem. Indeed, the pesticide industry touts its forward-looking, modern technologies as it strives to keep its own research in the closet, and relies on questionable assumptions and outdated methods in regulatory toxicology.”</span></font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The only way to establish a scientific basis for evaluating glyphosate’s safety, they wrote, would be to “force some daylight between regulators and the regulated.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Limited government means freedom </strong><strong>to </strong><strong>harm</strong></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Trump’s Washington, there is no daylight at all between the corporations selling harmful products and the agencies that are supposed to regulate them.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt </b>is <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112017/scott-pruitt-epa-investigation-scientists-advisory-board-gao-congress" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pushing scientists off advisory boards</a> and stacking the EPA with <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/11/09/21275/behind-scenes-look-scott-pruitts-dysfunctional-epa?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=1994ea169a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-1994ea169a-100390577&mc_cid=1994ea169a&mc_eid=3c20ad03a5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">political appointees</a> connected to the oil, coal and chemical industries, many of whom are connected to climate science deniers.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As one of his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/health/pesticides-epa-chlorpyrifos-scott-pruitt.html?r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">first official actions</a>, Pruitt tossed aside the recommendation of EPA’s scientists and allowed Dow Chemical to keep selling a pesticide developed as a nerve gas that is linked to brain damage in children.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Kids are told to eat fruits and vegetables, but EPA scientists found levels of this pesticide on such foods at up to 140 times the limits deemed safe,” Nicholas Kristof wrote in a scathing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/opinion/sunday/chlorpyrifos-dow-environmental-protection-agency.html?r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">NYT op-ed</a>. “Trump’s most enduring legacy may be cancer, infertility and diminished I.Q.s for decades to come.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Pruitt has gone so far as to put a chemical industry lobbyist <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/us/trump-epa-chemicals-regulations.html?r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">in charge of</a> a sweeping new toxics law that was supposed to regulate the chemical industry.</b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s all so outrageous – but then, it has been for a very long time.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That sweeping new toxics law, which passed last year in a <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060039241" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hailstorm of bipartisan glory</a>, was <a href="https://www.ceh.org/what-people-are-saying-about-chemical-reform/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">opposed by</a> many environmental groups but <a href="https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscripts/ACC-news-releases/ACC-Lauds-Passage-of-Senate-Bill-to-Reform-TSCA.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lauded by</a>—and reportedly <b><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Questions-raised-on-authorship-of-chemicals-bill-6137823.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;">written by</a>—the American Chemistry Council.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The $800 billion chemical industry lavishes money on politicians and lobbies its way out of effective regulation. This has always been a problem, but now the Trump administration has gone so far as to choose chemical industry lobbyists to oversee environmental protections,” as Kristof described it.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The American Academy of Pediatrics protested the administration’s decision on the nerve gas pesticide, but officials sided with industry over doctors. The swamp won. The chemical industry lobby, the American Chemistry Council, is today’s version of Big Tobacco…”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Someday we will look back and wonder: What were we thinking?!”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The character of our country</font></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A decade ago, the Independent Women’s Forum presented its Valor Award to Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s largest breast cancer organization – a group that has also drawn criticism for taking money from <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166" style="text-decoration-line: none;">polluting corporations</a> and promoting <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/kfc-fights-breast-cancer-fried-chicken/story?id=10458830" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unhealthy food</a> and <a href="https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/10/14/perfume-marketed-to-benefit-breast-cancer-may-contain-toxic-chemicals/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">toxic products</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the 2007 IWF gala, in an acceptance speech she called “<a href="https://www.iwf.org/news/2434899/Remarks-by-The-Honorable-Nancy-Brinker:-The-Character-of-Our-Country" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Character of our Country</a>,” Brinker warned that millions of lives will be lost unless America acts to avert the coming “cancer tsunami.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But then, she said: “My friends, this is not a problem of politics. When it comes to cancer, there are no Republicans or Democrats, no liberals or conservatives.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather, she said, invoking vagueness as she stood before a group that tells women not to worry about pesticides, at an event awash in corporate cash, beating cancer is a matter of summoning the will to make cancer a “national and global priority!”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But that is exactly a problem of politics. It’s about Republicans and Democrats, both of whom have let Americans down by failing to confront the chemical industry. It’s about summoning the political will to get chemicals linked to cancer, infertility and brain damage off the market and out of our food.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the meantime, we can take the advice of science: eat organic and vote for politicians who are willing to stand up to the pesticide industry.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article first appeared in <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-politics-of-infertility-and-cancer_us_5a1d9f5ae4b0e6631c44bbc4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Huffington Post</a>.  </font></p><div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_environment" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both;"><div class="author-bio"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stacy Malkan is co-director of <a href="http://usrtk.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Right to Know</a>,</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">q how does it feel to work for hated cor?</font></div><div><div class="views-field views-field-nothing answered-by-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 1rem; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="views-label views-label-nothing" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Response from</span> <span class="field-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://gmoanswers.com/experts/aimee-hood" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Aimee Hood</a>, <span class="expert-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Regulatory Communications and Information Management Lead, Monsanto Company</span> · Thursday, 10/31/2013 2:38 pm</span></font></div><div class="views-field views-field-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I have worked for Monsanto for 20 years, and my father worked for the company for 35 years as well.  I am proud to work for Monsanto, and I can comfortably say that my colleagues at Monsanto are as well.  In fact, Monsanto continues to be recognizedas a great place to work.  Employees are aware that others have a negative perception of our company and we understand that we need to be better at communicating the good things that we are doing.  Here are some recent examples of recognitions that we have received:</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#12 on the Top 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces (Great Place to Work® Institute, Oct. 2013)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#14 of the Top 20 Employers (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em>, 2013)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#42 on Top 50 Companies for Diversity (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">DiversityInc</em>, 2013)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the Top 50 Companies for Executive Women (National Association for Female Executives, 2013)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#44 on the 22<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">nd</span> Annual “Top 50 Employers” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Minority Engineer, </em>2013)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#11of the 40 Best Companies for Leaders (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chief Executive</em>, 2013)<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</strong></font></li></ul><p class="p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More information on these recognitions can be found <a href="http://news.monsanto.com/recognition" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">here</strong></a>.   </font></p><p class="p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p class="p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, I am proud to say that in 2012, Monsanto Company and Monsanto Fund – our philanthropic arm – collectively provided more than $32.2 million across the globe in support of various causes such as rural farming, education programs, and ending hunger.  Monsanto also encourages its employees to volunteer in the community; in fact, I received a US Presidential Award for Service this year for my volunteerism.  Additionally, more than 4,600 employees logged more than 54,000 volunteer hours in the Americas alone.  I discussed more about how our company gives back to our community in the post on GMO answers <a href="http://gmoanswers.com/ask/how-does-your-company-give-back-communities-and-farmers-who-welcome-chance-grow-crops-you" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">here</a>.</font></p><p class="p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p class="p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lastly, our company is focused on sustainability to feed a growing world knowing that it is predicted that 9 billion people will inhabit the earth by 2050. Our <a href="http://sustainability.monsanto.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">2012 Sustainability Report</a> was released in June 2013 and highlights progress on our three-fold sustainable agriculture goal: produce more, conserve more and improving lives and progress on five of our signature partnerships: Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program, Mississippi River Watershed Partnership, Water Efficient Maize for Africa, Brazilian partnership with Conservation International, and Project SHARE (Sustainable Harvest – Agriculture, Resources, Environment) in India.   I hope this give you a bit of insight on why I have always been and continue to be proud to say that I am a Monsanto employee.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="47" data-ved="0ahUKEwjzve7M7KrYAhWBZSYKHQnWBNUQFQgvKAAwAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; 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word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Response from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aimee Hood</span>, Regulatory Communications and Information Management Lead,<span style="font-weight: bold;">Monsanto</span> Company · Thursday, 10/31/2013 2:38 pm. I have worked for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monsanto</span> for 20 years, and my father worked for the company for 35 years as well. I am proud to work for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monsanto</span>, and I can comfortably say that my<wbr /> ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="71" data-ved="0ahUKEwjzve7M7KrYAhWBZSYKHQnWBNUQFQhHKAQwBA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://robynobrien.com/online-bullying-and-a-lesson-on-anonymity/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Online Bullying and a Lesson on Anonymity - Robyn O'Brien</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv _SWb" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;">https://robynobrien.com/online-bullying-and-a-lesson-on-anonymity/</cite></font><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="_Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=aimee+hood+monsanto&oq=aimee+hood+monsanto&aqs=chrome..69i57.5736j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b4" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwjzve7M7KrYAhWBZSYKHQnWBNUQ7B0ISTAE" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="text-align: left; border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a></font><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwjzve7M7KrYAhWBZSYKHQnWBNUQqR8ISjAE" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eSQFVSzS0nUJ:https://robynobrien.com/online-bullying-and-a-lesson-on-anonymity/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li></ol></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eSQFVSzS0nUJ:https://robynobrien.com/online-bullying-and-a-lesson-on-anonymity/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="">Oct 14, 2015 - </span>I am pro-gm, work for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monsanto</span> and get hate like that everyday. No one deserves it!! —<span style="font-weight: bold;">Aimee Hood</span> (@achood4mu) October 14, 2015. It was kind and rang true as the words of a mom. I thought about her response, the civility of it and how we are probably both teaching our kids how to navigate in this world ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eSQFVSzS0nUJ:https://robynobrien.com/online-bullying-and-a-lesson-on-anonymity/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">==</font></a></div></div>