About the Authors

Sheldon Krimsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Krimsky, Tim Schwab

sheldon.krimsky@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tim Schwab

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon Krimsky, Tim Schwab

Affiliation Food & Water Watch, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

Sheldon Krimsky is a voluntary, unpaid board member of the non-profit public interest organization The Council for Responsible Genetics. Tim Schwab has no interest to declare other than his being an employee for Food and Water Watch, a non-profit public interest organization. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SK TS. Funding acquisition: SK. Investigation: SK TS. Methodology: SK TS. Project administration: SK TS. Supervision: SK TS. Validation: SK TS. Visualization: SK TS. Writing – original draft: SK TS. Writing – review & editing: SK TS.