How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education
Posted By Dr. Mercola | May 15 2012
In another example of "follow the money," a new report by Food and Water Watch has found that a quarter of research funding at land grant universities comes from corporations, giving big companies like Monsanto a stronger foothold than ever in higher education. According to AlterNet, $7.4 billion flowed from big corporations to agricultural research in 2006―an astounding amount that's compounded by the fact that, in 2005, a third of agricultural scientists also reported consulting for private industry.
In the most egregious cases, corporate boards and college leadership overlap; in 2009, for example, South Dakota State's president joined Monsanto's board of directors. While some people might say it shouldn't matter whose board a college president sits on, the implications are huge because corporate funding can influence the results of supposedly "scientific" studies done at the respective universities. A perfect example, AlterNet said, is what happened with a team of researchers at the University of Illinois who were funded by a statewide fertilizer "checkoff" after they published work on how fertilizer affects organic matter in the soil.
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