{"id":81,"date":"2012-08-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-whistleblowers-show-sued-fox-and-lost.html"},"modified":"2012-08-30T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:00:00","slug":"the-whistleblowers-show-sued-fox-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-whistleblowers-show-sued-fox-and-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"The whistleblowers show sued Fox (and lost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/trWcqxrQgcc\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef017c318add58970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef017c318add58970b-pi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\nFox News hired Jane Akre and a couple of other reporters as an\ninvestigative unit and did a snazzy promo about that.\nThe first case they investigated was Monsanto&#8217;s bovine growth hormone, RBGH.\nThis is the whistleblower story behind the\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/monsanto-made-fox-rewrite-80-times-about-rbgh-in-florida-cows.html\">\nFox Can Lie lawsuit.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nITN in the U.K. reporting about Health Canada&#8217;s report on bovine growth hormone:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nMonsanto&#8217;s engineered growth hormone did not comply with safety requirements.\nIt could be absorbed by the body, and therefore did have implications\nfor human health.\nMysteriously, that conclusion was deleted from the final, published version\nof their report.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThat was for a product that U.S. EPA had approved with little or no testing.\nFox&#8217;s investigative unit had the story, but Monsanto threatened to sue Fox.\nWatch\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/trWcqxrQgcc\">the video<\/a> for the details.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/trWcqxrQgcc\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEventually, Akre sued Fox.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/rbgh\/akrewins.cfm\">\nShe won,<\/a> but\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/monsanto-made-fox-rewrite-80-times-about-rbgh-in-florida-cows.html\">\nFox won on appeal.<\/a>\nAn appeal that established that Fox can lie.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPS: Owed to Paul Hollands.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News hired Jane Akre and a couple of other reporters as an investigative unit and did a snazzy promo about that. 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