When it comes to Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, both the mainstream scientific community and our regulatory establishments have failed us. In September 2012, I attended a nutrition conference where Dr. Don Huber from Purdue University was ...
Not much, apart from football, unites the Colombian people. If a 2014 Interior Ministry survey called “The Power of Football” is to be believed, then 94 percent of the Colombian population say that football is either important ...
The US is considering approving the product even as Monsanto juggles multiple multi-million dollar lawsuits from cancer patients over its deadly Roundup herbicide. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The United States Department of Agriculture is ...
“Only the Trump administration would aggressively promote the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance on wildlife refuges.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a ...
“These ugly emails reveal the utter contempt that Monsanto has for public health and for consumers, including mothers who only want to protect their kids’ health.” In just-released emails, a Monsanto executive expressed his desire ...
“I doubt anything can be done to overturn the EPA actions at this point, at least not quickly. The administration has demonstrated it has no respect for scientific conclusions, court orders, or public demands for ...
A San Francisco federal court awarded a Sonoma County landowner $80.3 million on March 27, in the second lawsuit against Monsanto’s popular herbicide, RoundUp. Edwin Hardeman, 70, is one of 11,200 product users who have ...
According to a recent study, glyphosate, the primary pesticide in the weed killer Roundup, was found in popular beers and wines. In recent years, scientists and public health groups have conducted studies that found glyphosate ...
Your beloved pet Fido and Garfield may be consuming glyphosate, but at levels researchers deem safe. According to a new study, researchers from Cornell University found that glyphosate is present in cat and dog foods. ...
“Thus, the jury could conclude that Monsanto acted with malice by consciously disregarding a probable safety risk.” After much speculation that a San Francisco Superior Court could overturn last August’s landmark verdict against Monsanto (now ...
A new study found that glyphosate destroys the good bacteria in the digestive systems of the bees, making them more susceptible to infection. Researchers from the University of Texas in Austin have demonstrated that herbicide ...
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 ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) just released a report that found glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, in all but two of the 45 conventional breakfast cereals, snack bars, and granola brands it ...
(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 ...
The jury deliberation of the Johnson vs. Monsanto case began this week after closing arguments debating the tie between Roundup herbicide and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma were voiced Tuesday. The verdict of this high-profile case in the ...
Laboratory data denying a causal connection between the herbicide Roundup and one San Francisco man’s cancer has been the focus of dispute in the Monsanto lawsuit that has now crossed into its third week. San ...
California says weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer, but California also sprays it into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta which is home to much of the water supply for central and southern California. California government officially put ...
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 ...
How about some pesticides with your scoop of Phish Food or Cherry Garcia? According to a new lawsuit, that’s what you’re getting when you order ice cream from beloved American ice cream company, Ben and Jerry’s. ...
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 ...
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 ...