Tag: Monsanto

US Supreme Court Declines Bayer/Monsanto Bid To Challenge Glyphosate Cancer Rulings

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US Supreme Court Declines Bayer/Monsanto Bid To Challenge Glyphosate Cancer Rulings
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid from Bayer-owned Monsanto that aimed to challenge thousands of lawsuits claiming its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer – a potentially costly ruling, AFP reported Tuesday. The high court did not explain its decision, which left intact a $25 million ruling in favor of a California man who alleged he developed cancer after using the chemical for years.… Read the rest

Court Sides in Favor of Petitioners; Overturns EPA Decision that Glyphosate (in Roundup) is Safe for Humans, Imperiled Wildlife

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Court Sides in Favor of Petitioners; Overturns EPA Decision that Glyphosate (in Roundup) is Safe for Humans, Imperiled Wildlife
  Thanks to the petitioners who took legal action, the EPA must now re-evaluate glyphosate’s risks.   From Sustainable Pulse: US Appeals Court Forces EPA to Reassess Glyphosate on Health and Environmental Impact In a historic victory for farmworkers and the environment on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its represented farmworker and conservation clients by overturning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision that the toxic pesticide glyphosate is safe for humans and imperiled wildlife.… Read the rest

Forbes retracts attack on paper showing link between glyphosate and cancer

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Forbes retracts attack on paper showing link between glyphosate and cancer
22 February 2019 Forbes has pulled an article by Geoffrey Kabat attacking the new meta-analysis confirming a link between glyphosate and a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The American business magazine, has long been the platform of choice for defending Monsanto’s products and attacking the company’s critics. It was on Forbes that article after article appeared attacking Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini’s study, which found harmful effects from Monsanto’s GMO maize and Roundup herbicide, shortly after its publication in 2012.… Read the rest

When Even The Pope Disapproves: Pope Francis Delivers Harshest Statement Yet Against GMOs

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When Even The Pope Disapproves: Pope Francis Delivers Harshest Statement Yet Against GMOs
Pope Francis Celebrates World Food Day With Powerful Polemic Against GMOs And The Biotech Industry As biotech and GMOs come under an increasingly harsh spotlight on the news that Bayer and Monsanto are planning an unholy $66 billion merger that would give the combined entity control over 29 percent of the world’s seeds, more and more people are waking up to the frightening direction all of this could be heading.… Read the rest

Alarming: Monsanto and Bayer Combined Would Be Selling Nearly A Third Of The World’s Seeds

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Alarming: Monsanto and Bayer Combined Would Be Selling Nearly A Third Of The World’s Seeds
Power Corrupts: Merger Of Monsanto And Bayer Would Mean A Third Of The World’s Seeds Controlled By One Entity If Monsanto worries you, not only in terms of the company’s ability to get away with poisoning the earth from top to bottom, screwing the poorest farmers while squeezing the literal life out of them when the company’s wild promises fail to materialize, but also with the reach of its seemingly unending power to call the shots when it comes to humanity feeding itself, we’ve got some bad news for you.… Read the rest

Monsanto’s ‘Suicide Seeds’ And The Plight Of The Indian Farmer As Told In Haunting Photographs

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Monsanto’s ‘Suicide Seeds’ And The Plight Of The Indian Farmer As Told In Haunting Photographs
‘Suicide Seeds’ And Monsanto’s War Of Attrition On Indian Farmers, In Photographs The cycle of news has seemingly come and gone when it comes to the mass suicides of Indian farmers. When the stories first broke a few years ago about how thousands, and then tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands of farmers in India were committing suicide, reportedly due to their indebtedness to Monsanto among other factors, people around the world reacted in shock and horror.… Read the rest

Film ‘Transgenic Wars’ Connects The Dots On The Consequences Of Genetically Engineered Food Around The World

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Film ‘Transgenic Wars’ Connects The Dots On The Consequences Of Genetically Engineered Food Around The World
Global Consequences And Connecting The Dots On Gmos: Independent Film ‘Transgenic Wars’ Makes A Huge Impact When we talk about the problems with genetically modified crops and their effects on humans and wildlife, we often end up talking in very abstract terms. There is the honeybee die-off, likely caused by the ubiquity across the U.S. of Monsanto’s glyphosate-laden Roundup. Then there are the numbers, the crop acres that are devoted to growing GMO soy and corn in the U.S.,… Read the rest

Food Security And Corporations: How Monsanto And Bayer Merging Could Be Even Worse News Than We Thought

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Food Security And Corporations: How Monsanto And Bayer Merging Could Be Even Worse News Than We Thought
Food Insecurity In The Era Of Mega-Mergers: How Monsanto And Bayer’s Unholy Marriage Could Be Even Worse Than We Thought Power is a funny thing. Well, not that funny, and certainly not funny-haha, not to the vast majority of us who have little power of our own. But once a person or group has power they tend to exploit it just as much as they can.… Read the rest

Nutritionists Wouldn’t Eat These So-Called Healthy Foods On A Dare–Neither Should You

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Nutritionists Wouldn’t Eat These So-Called Healthy Foods On A Dare–Neither Should You
Here Are Some Trickster Foods That Try To Fool You Into Thinking They Are Healthy–They’re Lying! We discuss truth in advertising here quite often. These days is seems like everyone is trying to pull the wool over our eyes in some way or another, be it government agencies, politicians, or the corporations that run them, it is very difficult to not be assaulted with at least some modicum of B.S.… Read the rest