The David Wills Story: Setting the Record Straight
Posted 3/27/08
After a decade of character assassination leveled at him by a multi-million dollar NGO, David Wills is speaking out to set the record straight. [more...]

David Wills (Part II) - The IFCNR Years
Posted 3/27/08
Part two in a series of three interviews with David K. Wills. [more...]

David Wills - Helping Create Humanely Raised Veal
Posted 3/27/08
An interview with Randy Strauss on how David Wills helped Strauss Brands produce humanely raised veal. [more...]

David Wills: Making Red Lobster Truly Green
Posted 3/27/08
An interview with former Red Lobster executive W. Richard "Dick" Monroe on the influence of David Wills on Darden Restaurants Inc. [more...]

NGO ANTI-HUMAN BIAS EXPOSED AT CITES
Posted 6/9/07
In a paper released at COP 14 at the Hague, a coalition of NGOs exposes their innate bias against humans. [more...]

WHY DO NGOS BUY STOCK?
Posted 5/25/07
IFCNR looks at why NGOs buy shares in corporations. [more...]

Looking at the NGO Community
Posted 3/19/07
IFCNR's perspective on activities within the NGO community. [more...]

Shifting Animal Rights' Views
Posted 2/27/07
IFCNR advice can cause an about face by animal and environmental activists. [more...]

Consumers Union: Just Another Anti-Biotech NGO?
Posted 6/7/06
IFCNR's views on the emergency of Consumers Union/Consumers Reports as just another anti-biotech NGO. [more...]

NGO Watch: 30 December 2005
Posted 12/30/05
A select look at the year-end antics of the NGOs. [more...]

NGO Watch: 8 November 2005
Posted 11/8/05
HSUS is alive, well and very busy as evidenced from its activities in the Washingon DC area. [more...]

Greenpeace Bullies or Ethical Corporations
Posted 10/18/05
Greenpeace announced its campaign to force seafood retailers to carry only "sustainable" products. [more...]

HSUS Pushes Ballot Question Against Arizona Pig & Veal Farmers
Posted 9/30/05
HSUS's already gearing up for its 2006 animal rights agenda with proposed ballot questions on veal and hog farm practices in Arizona. [more...]

Never Underestimate the Power of PETA
Posted 9/1/05
Tyson Foods and Feld Entertainment are learning first hand to never underestimate PETA. [more...]

PETA Enters NGO Anti-Seafood Campaign with a New Twist
Posted 8/22/05
Why is the animal rights community entering into a domain reserved for the enviro groups? [more...]

NGO Watch: 11 July 2005
Posted 7/11/05
Short articles on the NGO sector. [more...]

Part 3 - Defining Monsanto
Posted 6/3/05
Part 3 in a series looking at why Monsanto is the center of NGO ire over agricultural biotechnology. [more...]

Part 2 - Who is Monsanto? Enter the Activists
Posted 5/31/05
Part 2 of a series examining why Monsanto is the center of the green and animal groups' crusade against biotechnology. [more...]

Who is Monsanto & What's Happened to the Environmental Movement?
Posted 5/27/05
Part one of a series of articles on the crucifixtion of a corporate name, Monsanto, and the mutation of the environmental and animal rights movements. [more...]

Dollars & Nonsense: G.R.A.C.E.'s New Ploy to Bribe Teachers
Posted 1/22/05
The same NGO players attacking biotechnology are trying to sway America's youth to act, think, and live according to the NGO ideology. Note the latest ploy to manipulate school children. [more...]

NGO Watch: 17 November 2004
Posted 11/17/04
With the U.S. Presidential Elections over, NGOs are gearing campaigns against food sourcing into high gear. [more...]

NGO Watch: 7 October 2004
Posted 10/7/04
Senate report calls NGOs "partisan"...Kerry talks "Use", votes straight NGO protection agenda...HSUS & FUND to wed? [more...]

USDA Food Animal Conference: A Window on Animal Rights Tactics
Posted 9/24/04
The recent USDA symposium on future trends in animal agriculture provided, largely ignored, lessons in NGO tactics in their war against modern agriculture. [more...]

The Difference Between Peter Singer & Me
Posted 8/23/04
A very personal view of the animal rights ideology. [more...]

Wayne Pacelle's Coronation: A Change of Power & Focus at HSUS
Posted 4/27/04
The second most important event this year in NGO history is the election last week of Wayne Pacelle as head of HSUS. [more...]

The NGO Army Marshaled Against Global Aquaculture
Posted 4/9/04
When the NGO community targets a lucrative industry, they swarm. Global Aquaculture is the perfect model of this phenamenon. [more...]

NGO Certification: The Tar Baby for Every Resource Industry
Posted 4/8/04
Today its a push for seafood certification. Tomorrow the eco-label will be on coffee, tea, beef, corn, wheat. The prospects for ethical corporations forming unions with NGOs are not appealing in the least. [more...]

MSC Controversy Points to Need for Non-NGO Eco-Labeling
Posted 2/27/04
Eco-labels are a controversial issue. WWF controls a significant portion of NGO-originated label certifications. The recent controversy over the Marine Stewardship Council give added credence to the IFCNR call for UN labels. [more...]

Sierra Club & Greenpeace Dominate NGO Watch
Posted 1/30/04
What's the real story about the powerstuggle within the Sierra Club and what's up Greenpeace's sleeve for New England grocers? [more...]

Anti-Farm NGOs Cash in on
Posted 11/10/03
Internet "Flash" movies are the latest NGO tool in the campaign against modern agriculture. [more...]

PETA's KFC Protest Symptomatic of NGO Food Supply Fight
Posted 9/29/03
KFC tried to appease PETA. Instead the company found itself facing the lead charge of the NGO campaign to control the global food supply chain. [more...]

Greenpeace Accused of Illegal Money Laundering Scheme
Posted 9/24/03
Greenpeace was served with a dose of its own "medicine" as NGO Public Interest Watch accused the self-styled global morality monitor of unethical and possibly illegal behavior. [more...]

Pesticide Suit Against EPA Poses Serious Questions for Farmers
Posted 9/16/03
Lawsuits alleging the EPA is failing to protect the nation's children against harmful pesticides has serious implications for farmers. [more...]

GREENPEACE TARGETS INTERIOR DEPUTY SECRETARY GRILES
Posted 8/30/03
The same coalition aligned against biotechnology is tryig to oust Interior's Deputy Secretary Stephen Griles. [more...]

PAN Growing in Influence Over NGO Food Campaigns
Posted 8/4/03
Behind many of the campaigns hectoring agricultural biotechnology is probably a member of the Pesticide Action Network. [more...]

PETA Sues KFC After KFC Talks, Bows & Empowers its
Posted 7/8/03
KFC's treatment by PETA illustrates what any resource-reliant entity can expect when it opts to compromise with animal rights and environmental groups. [more...]

A New NGO Watchdog Enters the Fray
Posted 6/26/03
Who watches the watchdogs? NGOs claim to be global monitors of governments and corporations meddling with nature's resources. Now a new group is hoping to monitor the global monitors. [more...]

Ag Biotechnology is Also Target of Lawyers War Against Big Food
Posted 6/23/03
No aspect of the food industry is safe from the Big Food legal strategies now being devised. [more...]

PETA, HSUS Questioned by Charity Watchdog
Posted 5/19/03
A leading charity watchdog group took a look and found PETA and HSUS lacking. [more...]

NGOs FOCUS ANTI-GMO ATTACKS ON CORPORATE INVESTORS
Posted 4/21/03
NGOs are now focusing on corporate shareholders in the latest phase of their campaign against genetically engineered foods. [more...]

TAXING US TO MAKE THEIR MENU CHOICES
Posted 4/17/03
Whether the goal is to force out biotech foods, meat consumption, or shut down shrimp farms, the idea that imposing a tax to alter diets should be examined with great scepticism. [more...]

NGO WATCH: 15 April 2003
Posted 4/15/03
Brief view of the NGOs. [more...]

IFCNR Delivers Paper to IAFWA Animal Use Committee
Posted 4/3/03
The following discussion of NGOs was presented by IFCNR's Director of Publications at the Animal Use Committee of the International Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies on March 28th. [more...]

NGO Tuna War: a Model for all Resource Users
Posted 1/23/03
All resource-reliant enterprises from fisheries to farming, from biomedical research to timber should pay heed to the struggle between Earth Island Institute and Mexico over tuna. [more...]

NGO WATCH: 08 January 03
Posted 1/8/03
News and views of current NGO activities. [more...]

NGO Activist Groups Plan to Meet the Press
Posted 1/7/03
NGOs are planning conferences on the campuses of two U.S. university: one in California and one in Florida. [more...]

Consumers Union Joins the NGO Attack on American Agriculture
Posted 12/16/02
Consumers Union's recent study on drug-resistance in poultry places the group at ground zero in the NGO campaign against American agriculture and agricultural biotechnology. [more...]

NGO WATCH: 21 November 02
Posted 11/22/02
Snapshots of NGO activities. [more...]

HSUS Tells IRS It's Only Worth $103 MIllion
Posted 11/20/02
A view of The Humane Society of the United States through its IRS form 990 for 2001. [more...]

Florida's Vote on "Hog Crates" Was Not Just About Pigs
Posted 11/6/02
Animal rights activists won an important victory in Florida with their ban on sow "gestation crates." It's a win that will have direct consquences with all aspect of animal husbandry, on the farm and elsewhere. [more...]

NGO WATCH: 30 October 02
Posted 10/30/02
News items on NGO activities. [more...]

Colorado's Wayne Allard: NGO Hero or NGO Foe?
Posted 10/24/02
Wayne Allard is the Senate champion of HSUS. This election year, he's the whipping boy for the Sierra Club. [more...]

The NGO Dilemma: Anything That May Benefit Humans is Not Allowed
Posted 10/15/02
Organic food and wind-powered energy, guaranteed to draw NGO praise, right? Wrong! [more...]

Matriarch of Animal Rights Community Dead at 84
Posted 10/15/02
Dedicated to animals, socialite Christine Stevens played fixer, funder, and front on Congress and to high society for more controversial animal rights groups. [more...]

In the NGO Sights: "Corporate Agriculture"
Posted 10/4/02
The NGO campaign timetable says Agriculture's time in the barrel is now. [more...]

NGO WATCH: 20 September 02
Posted 9/20/02
News items on activities of NGOs. [more...]

NGOs Enlist Chefs for Anti-Biotech Fish Campaign
Posted 9/18/02
Although no genetically modified fish are poised to hit conumer plates, U.S. anti-biotech NGOs are enlisting help in their fight against biotech-aided seafood. [more...]

ANIMAL ACTIVISTS RENEW ASSAULT ON TRANSGENIC LAB ANIMALS
Posted 7/18/02
Animal rights activists refocus on transgenic lab animals. [more...]

Animal Rights 2002
Posted 7/3/02
News briefs from the Animal Rights 2002 Convention [more...]

Tides Center/Tides Foundation: The Epicenter of the NGO Storm
Posted 6/11/02
Based on public lands at the Presidio in San Francisco, the Tides Center and Tides Foundation are among the most influential and little known sources of NGO influence and funding. [more...]

Coppelman Named Director of Anti-Ag Antibiotic NGO
Posted 6/10/02
Animal rights NGOs created yet another front group. This time the aim is to eliminate use of antibiotics in all animal farming. [more...]

Greenpeace Again: This Time It's China's Cotton
Posted 6/5/02
Greenpeace claims a report it funded and that was researched by its advisor in China shows biotech cotton is bad for the environment. [more...]

Greenpeace and Biotech: Truth or Deliberate Scare
Posted 6/2/02
The claim that Mexico's maize/corn is genetically contaminated by bioengineered hybrids maybe false but to activist groups like Greenpeace, that is of no consequence. [more...]

British Prime Minister Blasts Biotech Foes
Posted 5/22/02
Britain's Prime Ministerr Tony Blair spared no punches in condemning animal and environmental rights groups driving science from England and Europe. [more...]

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Posted 5/20/02
A profile of one of the "activist" groups working for the organic food industry and against biotech agriculture. [more...]

IFCNR's Guide to NGOs Available Now
Posted 4/30/02
IFCNR's first edition "Guide to Influential Environmental and Animal Rights Non-Governmental Organizations" is a must read reference. [more...]

When NGOs Trample the Truth, No One Benefits
Posted 4/26/02
Greenpeace is "confiscating" food from Swiss grocers' shelves and clamoring for sanctions against Life Science firms. Africans are starving while Greenpeace operatives trash perfectly nutritious and safe food. [more...]

Greenpeace: Who They Are
Posted 4/24/02
This profile was excerpted from IFCNR's newly published "Guide to Influential Environmental and Animal Rights Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)" 1st Edition. Buy your copy for $20. Contact IFCNR@cs.com [more...]

IFCNR SPECIAL REPORT: How NGOs Became So Powerful
Posted 2/20/02
HOW NGOs CAME ABOUT: How Do They Prosper, And How Can They Be Stopped? [more...]

ELF/ALF Terror Claims of "No Harm to Humans" is Nonsense
Posted 2/4/02
Eco-terror harms humans, animals, and the environment. Claims to the contrary ignore reality. [more...]

Hearings into Eco-Terror Set for February 12th
Posted 2/4/02
Hearings by Rep. Scott McInnis into the alarming increase in eco-terror activities are back on track. [more...]

IFCNR "Guide to NGOs" Now Available
Posted 1/3/02
The first edition of IFCNR's Guide to environmental and animal rights NGOs is a unique view of this influential network of organizations. [more...]

French Biotech Vandal Gets Jail Sentence
Posted 12/21/01
Jose Bove of Confederation Paysanne got jail for biotech vandalism in France. [more...]

Why is IATP Campaigning Against Biotech Agriculture?
Posted 12/6/01
The Insititute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is a leading voice against biotech hybridize crops. Why? Follow the money. [more...]

NGO Scare Tactics Turn Neighbor Against Farmer
Posted 11/13/01
UK farmers willing to participate in GM crop field trials are feeling the heat exterted by NGO scare campaigns. [more...]

Greenpeace Blasts Canadian Grocer/Minister
Posted 11/1/01
Greenpeace's on-going war against genetically engineered food saw the biotech critic hanging signs from Canada's largest grocery chain demanding GM labeling now. [more...]

India's NGOs Want NO GMOs for Ten years
Posted 10/23/01
Illegally planted Bt Cotton in India was ordered destroved barely weeks before the federal government is expected to approve GMO cotton for commercial plantings. [more...]

NGOs Tell Retailers: No GMO Fish
Posted 10/22/01
Friends of the Earth and two other NGOs have launched their campaign telling restaurants and grocery chains to condemn GMO fish. [more...]

ECOnference 2001 Seeks "New" Activist Recruits
Posted 10/19/01
Stop by George Washington University October 19-21 and watch E-NGOs recruit student environmental activists. [more...]

Ben & Jerry's Raising a Ruckus Over Capitalism
Posted 10/18/01
Ice cream maker, Ben & Jerry's, is not only part of one of the great global trade conglomerates, it is funding the groups working to destroy global trade and global traders. [more...]

NGOs Say They Will Test Bt Corn for Allergens
Posted 10/12/01
Angered over the expected approval by the US Environmental Protection Agency of Bt corn, NGOs say they will run allergy tests on the biotech corn. [more...]

Greenpeace Asks Novartis to Recall Gerber from Philippines
Posted 10/8/01
Greenpeace, claiming GMO's are contaminants, is demanding the Swiss firm of Novartis recall its Gerber babyfood products from Philippino store shelves. [more...]

PETA -The Mother of No-Holds Barred NGO Activism
Posted 10/8/01
Don't let the street theater antics of PETA mislead you into discounting their effectiveness and influence. [more...]

Greenpeace Angered Over UN Refusal to Ban US GMO Corn Exports
Posted 10/7/01
Greenpeace is trying to outlaw Bt corn by declaring Mexico a global "contaminated" biodiversity center for corn. [more...]

Friends of the Earth: Not So Friendly to Business or Science
Posted 10/7/01
Friends of the Earth is vying with Greenpeace for a slice of the anti-globalization/anti-biotech NGO pie. [more...]

Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia: Searching for the Pony
Posted 7/6/01
Yvon Chouinard and his company, Patagonia, are prime financial movers behind the anti-corporate and anti-biotech movements, an odd position for a capitalist running a company that makes "high tech" outdoor gear. [more...]

ELF Welcomes Biotech as the Newest Eco-Terror Target
Posted 6/21/01
They don't file tax returns with the IRS or send out fund-raisers. They do burn and vandalize and rage against anyone they feel threatens their Mother, Earth. They are ELF and ALF, a marriage of convenience. [more...]