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The takeaway: China Tobacco remains a mystery to the outside world despite employing half a million Chinese, and being one of Chinas largest tax generators
In an email the summer before the papers publication, Monsantos William Heydens shared with co-author Gary Williams that he sprouted several new gray hairs during the writing of this thing. Heydens also noted he would be attaching text, tables and references. [31] In the wake of the papers publication, Lisa Drake, Monsantos lead on government affairs, sent out a congratulatory email to her colleagues with the subject line: Kudos on Publication of Roundup Tox[icology] Paper. [32] In the email, Drake praised her colleagues and cited seven of them for their hard work over three years of data collection, writing, review and relationship building with the papers authors. She singled out another five colleagues for their moral and budget support and counsel and advice. She also thanked specific consultants for helping us pull this together through infinite edits and reviews. Now that the paper was published, Drake noted, the public affairs strategy begins to kick in globally, what Monsanto called its freedom to operate initiative to promote sales of its glyphosate-based herbicides
Research links neonicotinoids to: Bee deaths and colony collapse Harm to butterflies and other beneficial insects Declines in bird populations Contamination of waterways Even small amounts can impair bees ability to forage, navigate, and reproduce
