When is a Fact Not a Fact?

When is a fact not a fact? When the fact is put out by AFACT, (American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology).

AFACT claims to be a genuine people’s activist organization. “It is AFACT. American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology (AFACT) was organized by farmers frustrated by the loss of safe and valuable management tools with no scientific justification and no economic compensation.”

The truth is, that “fact” from AFACT isn’t a fact at all. It’s corporate spin from public relations professionals.

AFACT is the creation of the industrial agriculture corporation Monsanto and its lobbyists, and continues to be funded by Monsanto.

Monsanto makes bovine growth hormone (rBST or rBGH), and the mission of AFACT includes the goal to “Support the development of agricultural technological advances”… including bovine growth hormone.

After this connection was exposed, additional public relations from Monsanto tried to claim that AFACT’s board members are free to make decisions as they choose. Do a little critical thinking about that claim. Would AFACT continue to get funding from Monsanto if it started telling consumers to avoid milk that uses the bovine growth hormone manufactured by Monsanto? For that matter, do you think that Monsanto and their lobbyists chose people to serve on the board of AFACT who were at all inclined to act against Monsanto’s corporate interests?

Of course not. AFACT is AFICTION.