Big ag, monsanto dominate research colleges and switch them intopro-industry propaganda machines

In that old days before food and agriculturalcorporations consolidated in to the behemoths we all know them as today,farming institutions of greater learning were devoted toconducting impartial research into cutting-edge food production andcrop systems that achieved positive results society in general. However nowadays, theseformer "land-grant" colleges have largely mutated intopro-industry, propaganda machines funded and controlled bycorporate agro-titans like Monsanto that steer research efforts infavor of genetically-modified (GMOs) and chemical-based cropsystems.
 Inside a scathing indictment of the sinister, and quickly growing,type of farming fascism, Tom Philpott from Mother Johnson dissects a current Food & Water Watch (FWW) report that is freely revealed that corporateagriculture and also the pharmaceutical industry have essentially boughtout farming research education as you may know it. Schools anduniversities that when received the majority of their research fundingfrom the us government now receive it from Monsanto, DuPont,yet others, as well as their research efforts be affected by it. Schools that started as cultivators of 'open-source' agriculture arenow incubators of patented, corporate agriculture Institutions of greater learning like the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UofI) for example, or Iowa Condition College (ISU) were initially founded as land-grant schoolsThat meansthe authorities assisted fund their building on federal landfor the objective of researching and teaching agriculture, science,and engineering for public benefit. However nowadays, a lot of theseland-grant schools have basically been absorbed by privateinterests with little concern for anything apart from their ownprofits. "The thought of the land grants or loans ended up being to generate farming research,funded by the us government, that achieved positive results society as awhole. And that is virtually how things selected the firstcentury," creates Philpott.
"However, beginning within the eighties, thefederal government began to level off its purchase of agresearch [...] This is when food and agribusiness companies, whichwere then while consolidating in to the vast globalenterprises we all know today, started to funnel immeasureable cashinto land grants or loans." But the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)That accustomed to more carefully represent the interests of thepeople, is becoming simply an instrument for marketing industryinterests instead of public interests. So if the fundingcomes in the USDA or from private industry, it isessentially all now going for the promotion of GMOs andchemical-crop systems -- little, or no, can be used to developimprovements in non-GMO, organic, and sustainable agriculturesystems. Mother Johnson commenter Linda Ferris stated it best when she authored, "The 'sellout' by schools and colleges isn't any surprise for visitors whohave resided in towns around any of the systems mentionedin the content [...] This (farming schools) is Monsanto's newincubator of technology and propaganda -- a factory of creating moneyon a budget by controlling these institutions and taking advantage of theirstudents to complete their research and work."