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 ...
We must take these public health choices out of the hands of corporate executives and put corporations in their proper place: subservient to public welfare. (Common Dreams) Should constitutional rights be used to shield corporations ...
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 ...
When methyl parathion was sprayed on Maui cornfields on July 15, 2014, Bayer Monsanto knew full well that this use was prohibited. (By Beyond Pesticides) Bayer’s Monsanto endangered public health and the environment by knowingly ...
When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Aurelia Skipwith’s nomination to lead the US Fish and Wildlife Service breaks a glass ceiling but leaves many environmentalists worried. A former Monsanto executive may become the new boss of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
“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 ...
The historic $250 million punitive damage verdict awarded against Monsanto may be overturned due to insufficient proof the company acted with malice. Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos granted a tentative ruling that would overturn a ...
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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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. ...
A former employee whom Tesla Motors labeled as disgruntled and a saboteur has filed a whistleblower complaint against the electric car manufacturer. Martin Tripp, the whistleblower, also hired the services of Meissner Associates, a New ...
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 ...
For the second time in two years, India imposed cuts on the royalties local seed companies pay to the agriculture giant, Monsanto. Monsanto controls 90 percent of the local Indian market for cotton seeds and ...
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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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