Right-Wing CORE Works Hand in Hand with Monsanto
By Jonathan Matthews, 2005
Meet the civil rights group whose rhetoric comes from Wise Use, whose support comes from Monsanto, and whose agenda coincides precisely with that of George W. Bush.
A couple of years back I wrote a piece called ‘The Fake Parade’. It was about a march at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg that had been widely reported as a protest by poor Third World farmers in support of GMOs. A leading light of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation declared the march “a turning point” because “real, live, developing-world farmers” had begun “speaking for themselves”. What they had to say seemed pretty unpalatable to the environmental and development NGOs that have raised concerns over GM crops.
A commentary on the march in The (London) Times was headlined, “I do not need white NGOs to speak for me” while, during the march itself, a “Bullshit award” was presented to the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva for being “a mouthpiece of western eco-imperialism”.
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According to James McCarthy (2002),[1] the most prominent Wise Use groups receive most of their support from resource extraction industries (Amoco, British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon/Mobile, Marathon Oil) as well as the American Farm Bureau, Dupont, Yamaha, General Electric, General Motors, National Cattlemen’s Association, and the National Rifle Association). The policies and political orientations of groups in the wise use movement range from some who self-identify as free-market environmentalists, to industry-backed public relations groups and mainstream think tanks, to some militia groups and fundamentalist religious groups. Major organizations promoting wise use ideas include Alliance for America, the American Land Rights Association, the Cato Institute, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, People for the West, the Blue Ribbon Coalition, and the Heartland Institute. — From Wikipedia