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Stacy Malkan

@stacymalkan.bsky.social
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Writer, author, co-founder @usrighttoknow.bsky.social

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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Check out our latest Review, which covers the most recent developments regarding new #GMOs, including the industry’s global push to remove regulatory safeguards from these products, the battle over #patents, and the large-scale genetic damage that #CRISPR can trigger. gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
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Review 578: New GMOs
Welcome to Review 578, which covers the latest developments regarding new GMOs, including the industry’s global push to remove regulatory safeguards from these products. For why deregulating GMOs is a...
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U.S. Right to Know @usrighttoknow.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Mexico’s effort to keep #GMO corn out of its food supply continues, despite a negative trade ruling. In a recent interview, USRTK's @stacymalkan.bsky.social discusses Mexico's strong science-based case for restricting GM corn and glyphosate. kpfa.org/episode/mexi...
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Harassment of scientists at plastics treaty talks: “verbally harassed, yelled at" ... "He interrupted to yell across the room to say that I was fear-mongering” ... employees of a US chemicals giant “formed a ring” around her and bombarded her ... www.source-material.org/plastics-sci...
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Manufactured Doubt – SourceMaterial
The plastics industry is taking lessons from Big Oil to undermine science
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Rebecca Raney @fairleyraney.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In 2016, I went into combat with an insurance carrier and fought until I won. Now I want you to know how to fight these companies. Here’s how to start: #HealthInsurance www.threads.net/@rebecca.ran...
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Rebecca Raney (@rebecca.raney.author) on Threads
In 2016, I went into combat with an insurance carrier and fought until I won. That June, I watched a medical team revive my son on a gurney. Two days after he was released from the hospital, I recei...
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CHE @che-healthenv.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This important conversation is coming up later today! 10am PT/1pm ET - not too late to register: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
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Behind the Scenes at EPA: What’s gone wrong & what does it mean for our work ahead?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plays a critical role in safeguarding publichealth and the environment by regulating pollutants, enforcing environmental laws, andoverseeing various...
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congrats @stuartgillespie.bsky.social - looking forward to reading this
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you're not familiar with our work @usrighttoknow.bsky.social here's a look at our front page. Our award-winning investigative team is amazing!
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Genetically engineered salmon production ends as AquaBounty shutters last facility, reports @foeus.bsky.social -citing "decades of controversy, widespread market rejection and legal and regulatory challenges" foe.org/news/aquabou...
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Genetically Engineered Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility
AquaBounty Technologies is ending production of all genetically engineered salmon after years of controversy, market and legal challenges.
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#Healthwire @usrighttoknow.bsky.social is doing fantastic reporting on emerging public health science that matters to the health of all our families! ❤️
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"The issue of Mexico as our top market raises questions about the GMO corn we send there. @usrighttoknow.bsky.social has published or reproduced a series of articles on this issue." @marionnestle.bsky.social www.foodpolitics.com/2024/12/2720...
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What's new in food trade? A collection of items. - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
Food trade is always a big issue, but it’s one I have a hard time keeping up with.  It’s in the news right now because President-elect Trump is threatening to increase tariffs with unsettling effects....
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Have you experienced this? We would like to hear your stories. DM me stacy@usrtk.org
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Intimidation against health advocates: "Unhealthy commodity industries engage in corporate political activity, using diverse practices, including intimidatory tactics, to thwart, delay and dilute regulations that threaten their businesses." academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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Intimidation against advocates and researchers in the tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food spaces: a review
Abstract. Unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) engage in corporate political activity, using diverse practices, including intimidatory tactics, to thwart,
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
See for example my reporting on the many critiques of the Gates Foundation's agricultural interventions in #Africa from researchers, food security experts, food sovereignty groups, and faith leaders in Africa. usrtk.org/bill-gates/c...
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Critiques of Gates Foundation's agricultural interventions in Africa
Fact sheet on the Gates Foundation links to resources from African groups, researchers, food security experts describing Bill Gates problematic interventions in African food systems.
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What's new in #GMO science? A lot. 🧵 As Timothy Wise and I report for U.S. Right to Know, a new analysis from Mexico's science and tech agency is among the most thorough reviews to date of current science assessing potential health risks of #GM corn + #glyphosate usrtk.org/gmo/new-scie...
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New scientific analyses underpin Mexico’s restrictions on GM corn and glyphosate due to health risks
A new scientific analysis prepared by CONAHCYT argues there are unacceptable health risks for Mexican people who consume GM corn and glyphosate.
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Stacy Malkan @stacymalkan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Great discussion. Yes science is political. And we need to get real about the "systematic, profit driven dismantling of societal trust in science by vested interests" as @tspampatti.bsky.social points out bsky.app/profile/tspa...
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Rebecca Raney @fairleyraney.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you're not familiar with our work @usrighttoknow.bsky.social, here's a look at the front page:
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Organophosphate insecticide malathion induces Alzheimer’s disease-like cognitive impairment in mice: evidence of the microbiota-gut-brain axis. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Organophosphate Insecticide Malathion Induces Alzheimer’s Disease-Like Cognitive Impairment in Mice: Evidence of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
Evidence suggests that exposure to organophosphate pesticides increases the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, but the mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigated the effects of malathion on A...
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