Margot (Margo) Gray
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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They spent roughly a million dollars a day on ads.
But the opposition didn't seem to be coming from Monsanto alone.
Their quotes were everywhere, in newspapers, on TV, on the radio.
And in the month leading up to the election, Stacey says things started to unravel.
The activists weren't the ones driving the conversation anymore.
On election day, Prop 37 lost.
Monsanto won.
Stacey and her colleagues at US Right to Know suspected some of these professors had ties to Monsanto, but they couldn't prove it.
So they got creative.
When someone works at a public university, their emails are public record.
So Stacey filed records requests.
Many of the documents involved a professor at the University of Florida, Kevin Folta.
He ran the plant science department there.
Stacey had always been suspicious about his relationship with Monsanto, though Kevin Folta strongly denied it.
On this occasion, Monsanto agreed to give Kevin Fulta an unrestricted grant of $25,000, meaning there were no formal limits on how the money could be used.
Fulta responded to the acceptance letter by saying, Another academic Stacey had been suspicious about was Bruce Chassie, a professor at the University of Illinois.
Like Fulta, Chassie regularly said that he didn't receive funding from industry.
Eventually, Stacey had gathered enough documents to share some of them with the New York Times.
And in 2015, the paper put the story on its front page.
The headline read, Food Industry Enlisted Academics in GMO Lobbying War Email Show.
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