Margot (Margo) Gray
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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Bruce Chasse was kind of a big deal in his field.
He was a food scientist with decades of experience, an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois, a former researcher at the NIH.
So when Bruce Chasse weighed in on something, people listened.
One of the things he liked to weigh in on was GMOs and herbicides.
He was a vocal defender of both.
Chassie defended GMOs in the media and on stages to audiences around the world, like in this presentation at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment.
You wouldn't know it from his speeches, but Bruce Chassie was not independent.
He was working with Monsanto, a major producer of GMOs and herbicides.
And he wasn't alone.
Several other academics were doing the exact same thing, defending GMOs in public while quietly collaborating with the company that made them.
I'm Margo Gray.
This week on Campus Files, how one of the most powerful companies in agriculture recruited academics into its PR war.
Tom Philpott has covered food and agriculture policy for almost two decades.
He's seen a lot change in that time, but one thing has stayed the same.
One company has dominated what American farmers grow, Monsanto.
Monsanto's market power is even more impressive when you look at the company's origins.
Monsanto didn't start as an agriculture company.
It started as a chemical producer.
Monsanto made a lot of chemicals that were very good for business and very bad for people.
One of those was the chemical known as PCBs.
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