Articles by Michele Simon

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Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning the Bee Crisis
Michele Simon, Friends of the Earth - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2014

As my new report with Friends of the Earth details, three of the leading pesticide corporations — Bayer, Syngenta, and Monsanto — are engaged in a massive public relations disinformation campaign to distract the public and policymakers from thinking that pesticides might have something to do with bee death and destruction.

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Why Humane Meat Is an Oxymoron
Michele Simon - Alternet, 24 May 2010

Niman then proceeded to bury herself even deeper in the ethical morass by making the astonishing claim that animals suffer a lot in the wild, since it’s such a dangerous world out there, and aren’t they better off under the care of humane, kind ranchers like her husband? This sounded chillingly like the arguments for slavery. You know, blacks were really much better off getting free room and board and they weren’t treated all that badly were they?

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