Margot (Margo) Gray
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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But maybe the most significant role these academics played was when it came to regulation.
In 2011, the EPA was weighing a rule that would have forced companies like Monsanto to hand over much more of its safety and environmental data.
Monsanto wasn't gonna let that happen.
They quietly helped to organize a meeting between EPA officials and two industry-friendly academics, Bruce Chasse and Nina Federoff, a former professor at Penn State.
After meeting with the EPA, Bruce Chasse reported back to Monsanto that the meeting had been very surprisingly productive.
Ultimately, the regulation never passed.
We can't say exactly what role that meeting played, but we do know this, academics were helping Monsanto make its case, and it wasn't just individual professors.
Universities were part of the picture too.
Monsanto and its academic allies had a pretty good thing going.
Both sides benefited.
Professors received funding for their labs and for travel.
They got speaking invitations, press coverage, a wider audience for their research.
And Monsanto?
Monsanto got something it couldn't manufacture in-house, credibility.
Independent seeming experts who could step in to defend its herbicides when a bad headline hit or when regulators started circling.
But the relationship extended beyond a handful of professors.
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