The anti-biotech activist Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farms CEO and recent White House nominee to a trade advisory committee, seems to enjoy highlighting bad news. Even when it's bogus-when the news is in fact not bad at all-he manipulates it to serve his personal, ideological campaign against modern agriculture. 

 

That's what happened last week when the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the United Nations, claimed that the world's most popular weed killer may cause cancer.

 

Hirshberg talked to every reporter who would listen, calling this one more reason to get behind his “Just Label It” initiative, which demands warning labels on packages of food with genetically modified ingredients.

 

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