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Bayer and Other Seed and Pesticide Companies Pressured Researchers to Omit Pictures and Results from Study

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Bayer and Other Seed and Pesticide Companies Pressured Researchers to Omit Pictures and Results from Study
  Bayer has been in the spotlight for trying to avoid compensating people who became sick from using its Roundup weed killer, it seems the company is likewise to be complicit for trying to conceal risks associated with its insecticides. It wasn’t alone. From U.S. Right to Know: Agrichemical giant Bayer helped fund a study by university academics, then pressured them to omit photos that implicated a defective insecticide-treated seed product as a threat to bees, according to communications obtained by U.S.… 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

Monsanto In Conflict With Government Of Argentina Over Royalties Collected On Its GMO Seeds

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Monsanto In Conflict With Government Of Argentina Over Royalties Collected On Its GMO Seeds
Monsanto Shows Its True Colors: Demands Royalties On Second-Generation Seeds From Struggling Farmers In Argentina Don’t you just love that moment in a movie or television show when the shady guy, the sketchy one whom you have grown to love to hate over the course of the program finally is revealed to be the dirtbag he truly is for all to see?… Read the rest