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Kloor's connection to a pro-GMO group has been raised by Dave Murphy, the Executive Director of Food Democracy Now! (FDN). FDN describes itself as "a grassroots movement of more than 650,000 farmers and citizens dedicated to reforming food, agriculture and environmental policy and access to healthy food."
In September 2015, Murphy wrote to ''Science,'' the magazine of the AAAS, and Nature magazine about Kloor's writing regarding the non-profit group U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) for filing public records requests about the communications of corporations or front groups with agriculture professors who opposed the California proposition that would have required labeling of GMO foods,.<ref>Keith Kloor, ScienceMag, Feb. 11, 2015, accessed Jan. 2016, http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2015/02/agricultural-researchers-rattled-demands-documents-group-opposed-gm</ref> but which That proposal was defeated in 2012 after a multi-million dollar ad campaign underwritten by industry.<ref>Rebekah Wilce, Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch.org, Nov. 7, 2012, http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11844/direct-democracy-results-ballot-propositions-across-country</ref>
Kloor's story described the background of USRTK's president, Gary Ruskin, in pushing for GMO labeling, and quoted some of the professors who had received the requests expressing concerns. One of the quotes featured was from the University of Florida's Kevin Folta, whom Kloor quoted as claiming he would be smeared for having innocent communications with companies: "They will show I have 200 e-mails from big ag companies. While it is former students … or chitchat about someone’s kids, it won’t matter. They’ll report, ‘Kevin Folta had 200 emails with Monsanto and Syngenta,’ as a way to smear me.”<ref>Keith Kloor, ScienceMag, Feb. 11, 2015, accessed Jan. 2016, http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2015/02/agricultural-researchers-rattled-demands-documents-group-opposed-gm</ref>
