What’s the real reason this ad opposing GM foods was rejected?

Big Pharma’s not the only game in town.

We’ve got giant chemical companies, like Monsanto and Dow, pulling the strings, too.

And at the top of their agenda is genetically modified crops.

The CEO of a natural soap company learned that lesson when he wanted to run a paid editorial about the dangers of GM food.

And he was certainly willing to put his money where his mouth was!

For close to $10,000, David Bronner, head of a company his grandfather founded called Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, was told he could run his ad.

He wrote a well-composed essay explaining how GM crops are bringing back older and highly toxic herbicides.

Things like the “new” one from Dow I told you about — the one that contains a chemical used in Agent Orange.

Bronner said that GM crops are causing more pesticide use that “contaminates our food and water while lining the pockets of the chemical companies.”

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

But it looks like that message was one that two prestigious journals, Science or Nature, wouldn’t touch.

The sales manager at Science said all she needed was his credit card number to charge the $9,911 to. Then a few hours later, the essay was rejected.

The bigwigs at the publication’s explanation? They didn’t want to do “battle with the GMO industry.”

Same story at Nature. Only it refused to even say why Bronner’s money wasn’t good enough for them.

How ironic that journals called Science and Nature don’t want to talk about — or protect — either.

Sources:
“Why did top scientific journals reject this Dr. Bronner’s ad?” Tom Philpott, October 20, 2014, Mother Jones, motherjones.com