Kevin Folta’s kick-ass garden
GMWATCH, December 15, 2020

We received this interesting article from a gardener who wished to remain anonymous because of the vitriol often aimed at anyone who criticizes Kevin Folta.

Kevin Folta may be a professor of horticulture in Florida – a state renowned for its verdant gardens, where you can grow vegetables all year long – but I’ve never had him down as a kindred spirit when it comes to plants and gardens.

So it really caught my attention when I saw someone quizzing Folta on Twitter about his "kick-ass garden".

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Folta’s wife accuses him of "trying to hide" corporate monies
GMWATCH, April 15, 2018

She alleges Folta was paid $400 an hour by Bayer

In another extraordinary development in the saga of Dr Kevin Folta, one of the most prominent defenders of glyphosate and GMOs, his own wife has accused him of trying to hide monies paid to him by corporations. Folta denies all her charges.

Folta is already suing the New York Times, and its two-time Pulitzer prize winning reporter Eric Lipton, for defamation over a front-page article that used Folta as a prime example of how some academics had become "actors in lobbying and corporate public relations campaigns". The article also accused him of not having disclosed the extent of his ties to Monsanto.

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Americans Feel The Crunch as Food Lines Grow
By James Fitzgerald, December 3, 2020

Food lines on a scale not seen since the Great Depression are springing up across America, and official unemployment rolls suggest 22 million people are out of work, as pandemic restrictions hit small businesses and workforces of all kinds.

The much mooted "Dark Winter" of Covid-19 is here, if media reports are to be believed. Medical pundits predicted in this second wave as early as February, suggesting that it was going to be a multi-year pandemic. Their bravado and cynicism seemed premeditated when other factors are taken into consideration: the "viral strain" has yet to be identified specifically and the PCR-led statistics are inherently flawed, given the very high false/positive rates of the test. The lockdowns, protests, mask mandates and variable and contradictory messages from health bodies, including the World Health Organization, have only added to public confusion and distress. Food lines are now a visible manifestation of the malaise and shuttered response to an "illness" that could have been mitigated by early intervention protocols, such as hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) zinc and azithromycin.

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