Like USRTK, the 23-year-old Organic Consumers Association began as a group preoccupied with pesticides and genetically modified organisms. The Organic Consumers Association has also been the only organization to grant money to USRTK every year since its inception. While the self-described “investigative research group” has acquired other contributors, the Organic Consumers Association has far and away remained the largest, with its gifts to USRTK amounting to almost double the sum received from the next biggest donor. For the first two years of USRTK’s existence, the Minnesota-based OCA was its lone funder, with contributions swelling as years passed, and totalling more than $1 million this year, according to USRTK’s own reporting. That theory posits that pandemic-safety protocols are a prelude to a new global regime of government and corporate control.įilings with the Internal Revenue Service and the state of California show that USRTK launched in 2014 on a $44,500 grant from the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). However, The Daily Beast found that public documents, including USRTK’s own disclosures, show even as the group does not advocate against vaccines, its roots run into a vitriolically anti-vaccine organization that has promoted conspiracy theories about the Sept.
Right to Know has undergirded New York Times reporting on the food system, and outlets ranging from Vanity Fair to the National Review to the Washington Examiner to The Intercept have cited the group’s inquiries into the origins of COVID-19.īut the Oakland-based “truth and transparency” organization’s own provenance has gone largely unexamined, even as public interest and political furor over the controversial lab-leak theory-and the even more broadly disputed notion that the novel coronavirus was the result of engineering-have steadily escalated. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/Photos Getty Images
0 kommentar(er)
