Raising awareness about the risks of continuing “agribusiness as usual” has become more important than ever. A typical weekend for 26-year-old Juvel Ingal is perhaps atypical for most. On Saturdays, she spends her time at ...
Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people. In 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that ...
A huge cattle ranch business is flouting bans designed to protect the rainforest and selling its cows to the world’s largest meat company. (By Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal, Dom Phillips, Daniel Camargos, Mie Lainio, André Campos, Diego Junqueira, The Bureau of Investigative ...
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life, but only for its ability to generate profits.” Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping and comprehensive plan to transform American agriculture on Sunday, centered ...
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, animals rights activists and one of the biggest turkey farms in the U.S. found reason to celebrate together. Turkey farming giant Norbest has released 100 turkeys in the spirit of ...
And the Oscar of best policy goes to… Sikkim, India for going all organic. The Sikkim region of India has won a coveted UN award for achieving the world’s first 100 percent organic agricultural state. According ...
Tomasi suffered from a serious illness due to his exposure to pesticides and despite his physical pain, raised his voice to denounce the multimillionaire agribusiness companies responsible. (NewsClick) Fabián Tomasi, who contracted severe toxic polyneuropathy ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A report released this summer by the nonprofit group The Cornucopia Institute helps consumers avoid ‘factory farmed’ dairy products in light of disturbing revelations uncovered in a 2017 Washington Post investigation of major organic brands. ...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer has taken a stock market dive owed to its newest acquisition Monsanto, and recent media surrounding the carcinogenic impacts of their products. After a San Francisco court sided with a groundskeeper ...
Activists from the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) marched and protested at Petaluma Farms in Sonoma County, California for the second time in recent months after receiving “horrifying footage of birds rotting to ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A federal judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of the most widely used pesticide in the world, glyphosate. Under the ruling, new products may not be registered in the country until the ...
A new documentary interviews families of Argentinian tobacco farmers and asks the question, “Can Monsanto chemicals permanently alter your child’s genes?” While on vacation in the northern Misiones province of Argentina French journalist, documentary filmmaker ...
(BeyondPesticides) A legal complaint filed by a Kansas farmer claims industry giant, Monsanto, knew its new dicamba-formulated product would harm other crops, but marketed and sold it anyway, damaging thousands of acres of crops. The lawsuit, filed by ...
(Beyond Pesticides) Ecologically-based farming systems contain far fewer pests and generate much higher profits than their conventional, chemical-based counterparts according to research published in the journal PeerJ earlier this year by scientists at South Dakota State University ...
A body of evidence from over 100 individual experiments included in 23 combined studies reveals that pesticides are dumbing down bees. A new study analyzed years of bee evidence and found 23 studies related to ...
A new Mexican firm, Applied Biotech, has developed a natural pesticide from molecules that make chili peppers hot. Capsaicinoids are the molecules that give chili peppers their heat, and the Mexican startup has harvested this chemical ...
(MPN.com, by Whitney Webb) MEMPHIS – Several African-American farmers from Memphis, Tennessee are suing a seed company they claim intentionally sold them defective soybean seeds in a bid to put them out of business. According ...
Monsanto is facing the first ever lawsuit over its flagship product and weedkiller Roundup on Monday. Thousands of pages of discovery documents related to the case were analyzed by researchers who found that Monsanto has been ...
A joint report conducted by IowaWatch and with Science in the Media, a University of Northern Iowa project, reveals that 444,559 students and teachers are at risk of pesticide exposure and poisoning in Iowa. Local ...
Monsanto is in hot water as it’s facing the first of thousands of lawsuits targetting the weed-killer, Roundup. A California man suffering from terminal cancer claims the herbicide’s active ingredient, glyphosate, is responsible for his ...
The Renewable Fuel Program, a program in place since George W. Bush, is causing tension between the corn and oil industries. The White House just announced they may step aside and let Congress handle the ...
Congress wants to spend millions peddling corporate talking points on GMOs. (OtherWords) While Congress hasn’t accomplished much in 2017, it did manage to pass a budget resolution — and within that budget, a sum of ...
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