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Report Copyright Violation | Media attacks Trump over pesticides and GMOs on wildlife refuges, but nobody links to the memo (here’s why) During the Obama era, the entire fake news media completely ignored the problem of GMOs and neocotinoid pesticides that devastate honey bee colonies. Suddenly under Trump, however, GMOs and pesticides have been weaponized by the fake news media to claim Trump will destroy the environment. The latest assault comes from a wave of extremely deceptive, misleading stories that now claim the Trump administration has reversed an Obama-era regulatory decision that banned the use of neonics and GMOs on national wildlife refuge lands. Yet a Natural News investigation finds that none of the media’s stories link to the memo in question, violating a basic rule of journalism.
Stunningly, no media organization links to the memo. Once you review the memo, you’ll discover why. In this story (below), we link to both the original 2014 memo as well as the 2018 memo that’s now being attacked. As you’ll see here, the use of GMOs outlined in both memos is practically identical.
Now you know why the fake news media refused to link to the memo. Reuters, the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, AlterNet, Yahoo News and thousands of newspapers and local media outlets are citing the claim of a non-profit that says they read a memo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They claim the memo completely reverses the Obama-era pesticide ban. But a factual reading of the two memos (one from 2014, one from 2018) shows this interpretation to be highly inaccurate, if not deliberately deceptive. [ link to www.naturalnews.com (secure)] It gets old but better to call it out and stay informed. |
