A leading agricultural professor at the University of Saskatchewan let Monsanto pick the topic and even edit a scientific paper on GMO foods -- and then didn’t tell anyone about Monsanto’s unethical involvement.

And that’s not all. The prof also saw no problem with letting Monsanto coach him on public relations or handpick attendees to a prestigious academic symposium at the university.

Allowing scientists to be used as sock puppets for giant, destructive corporations like Monsanto is totally unethical. It questions the very foundations of academic freedom and has no place in a Canadian university.

Tell the University of Saskatchewan to sever its ties with Monsanto.

It’s one thing to publish a paper supporting the use of GMO foods: that’s exactly the kind of debate Canadian scientists and agricultural researchers should be having. But when a multi-billion-dollar multi-national corporation with a horrible ethics record like Monsanto is grooming academics to be its spokespersons--without even disclosing it--well, let’s just say the whole situation stinks.

Monsanto is no friend of science. It has a massive, disgraceful record of bullying scientists it disagrees with and showering those that help its profit margins with money and prestige. Dr. Peter Phillips, the prof behind this scandal, had his Monsanto-designed paper distributed widely by the corporation itself.

Hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members have signed countless petitions keeping Monsanto’s abusive behaviour toward farmers and scientists in check and keeping its bee-killing pesticides off our shelves. We need to show Monsanto this kind of unethical behaviour won’t be tolerated.

Demand the U of S and Dr. Phillips end their relationship with Monsanto.

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