Professor Gives Away Grant from Monsanto

A University of Florida horticulture professor targeted by activists for accepting $25,000 from the biotech company Monsanto is donating the money to a food pantry program, the Gainesville Sun reported.

Professor Kevin Folta, who chairs the UF horticultural sciences department, came under fire from a group opposed to genetically modified plants.

Folta said he received threats related to the grant and wanted to give the money back to quiet the anti-GMO groups.

The Gainesville Sun reports that the activists said the relationship compromised Folta’s independence as a scholar, which he denied. S