Agriculture
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Bayer Hunts Down Journalists
4 June 2019 — Dr Mercola Story at-a-glance Monsanto compiled veritable hit lists containing hundreds of names and other personal information about journalists, politicians and scientists, including their opinions about pesticides and genetic engineering Monsanto’s so-called “stakeholder mapping project” was first uncovered in France, but now it appears Monsanto likely had multiple lists to track… Continue reading
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Agricultural Memory and Sustainability By Dr. Kelly Reed
A significant overhaul of the current global food system is needed to meet the challenges of feeding a growing world population and many stress that this is only achievable by changing diets, food production and reducing food waste. Continue reading
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Monsanto, Scientific Deception And Cancer by Binoy KAMPMARK
Money may not be able to buy the purest love, but it can buy the best, life-ending cancer. For Monsanto, giant of rule and misrule in matters of genetically modified crops, known for bullying practices towards farmers, things have not been so rosy of late. Ever the self-promoter of saving the world an agricultural headache… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 23 May 2019
23 May 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Monsanto Kept ‘Watch Lists’ in Seven EU Countries – Bayer Bayer’s public relations headaches over its mammoth takeover of Monsanto intensified Tuesday, as a scandal about “watch lists” of pro- or anti-pesticides figures kept by the US group snowballed across Europe. Source: www.afp.com The German group said the lists… Continue reading
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Sustainable Pulse: Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 16 May 2019
16 May 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Brands Set to March on US EPA over Glyphosate Concerns – Interview with MegaFood On May 23 a group of top brands and members of the public are set to march to the offices of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver a vital petition, which aims to… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 9 May 2019
9 May 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks White House Has “Monsanto’s Back on Pesticides,” Newly Revealed Document Says Internal Monsanto records just filed in court show that a corporate intelligence group hired to “to take the temperature on current regulatory attitudes for glyphosate” reported that the White House could be counted on to defend… Continue reading
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Bayer-Monsanto is panicking
Bayer’s bosses just suffered a massive blow: this has never happened before. Last Friday Bayer gathered its investors for what it hoped would be a run of the mill annual meeting. But after a marathon 13 hours, 55.5% of Bayer’s own shareholders voted against the Bayer board. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
2 May 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Bayer Shareholders Vote Against Board over Monsanto Merger Bayer chief executive Werner Baumann was dealt a blow Friday at the German chemical giant’s annual general meeting, amid tensions over last year’s decision to buy US seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto, as disgruntled shareholders voted against management. Source: AFP At… Continue reading
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Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine By F. William Engdahl
As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage. A second US court jury case just ruled that Monsanto, now a part of the German Bayer AG, must pay… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 11 April 2019
11 April 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Links to Cancer Shown in New US Federal Draft Report on Glyphosate A draft US federal report has confirmed links between glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller, and some forms of cancer. The report could have a damaging impact on Bayer/Monsanto’s attempt to defend the large number of… Continue reading
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Presidential Candidate Says ‘Ban Roundup!’
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is the first federal legislator and presidential candidate to call for a ban on Roundup weedkiller. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 4 April 2019
4 April 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Panera Bread Faces Lawsuit after Glyphosate Contamination in Products is Revealed Nonprofits Clean Label Project and GMO Free USA have filed a lawsuit against Panera Bread for deceptive marketing and sale of certain bread products, sandwiches and other goods as “clean,” after products tested positive for glyphosate, the main ingredient… Continue reading
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The fight for life v. Monsanto/Bayer AG
In this conversation with Chris Hedges, environmental activist and author, Vandana Shiva, talks about Monsanto/Bayer AG and other big AG players interests in India and her fight to protect life forms, seed varieties and farmers. Continue reading
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Why The World Needs Hemp Plastic
The problem of the world’s plastic obsession is that it’s never-ending. In 2017, the global plastic consumption reached new peaks, with an estimated eight million metric tons of plastic ending up in the oceans on an annual basis, including some 102.1 billion plastic bags from America alone. Despite the push to reduce, reuse, and recycle,… Continue reading
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URGENT: Govt Warns Of HISTORIC Spring Flooding – 1000’s Of Farms Destroyed, Skyrocketing Food Prices
We have never seen catastrophic flooding like this, and the NOAA is now telling us that there will be more major flooding for at least two more months. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that “historic, widespread flooding” would “continue through May”. Continue reading
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Why Fake Meat and Eliminating Livestock Are Really Bad Ideas By Ronnie Cummins
24 March 2019 — Dr Mercola Story at-a-glance Our chemical and fossil fuel-intensive system of industrial agriculture is belching out 43 to 57 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution that has dangerously destabilized our climate The driving force of Big Food Inc. and their army of chemical farmers, food processors and marketers is the idea… Continue reading
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US jury finds Monsanto’s Roundup was a ‘substantial factor’ in causing man’s cancer
Monsanto/Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer was found to be a “substantial factor” in causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a California man, as the trial proceeds to its next phase to determine liability and damages. Continue reading
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Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene? By Ian Angus
Forget jokes about crossing the road. New research identifies chickens as a vivid symbol of the transformation of the biosphere in our time Continue reading
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The Assault On UK Food and Environment Rules in Brexit Trade Deal With USA
By Lawrence Carter – Unearthed: US agribusiness lobby calls on Trump to target UK food and environment rules in Brexit trade deal. American agriculture interests have flooded the US government’s trade agency with demands to pressure the UK into slashing food standards after Brexit, official documents show. Continue reading
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Defining a safe operating space for food systems in the Anthropocene
A food system revolution is urgently needed, to provide healthy diets for all while preventing irreversible damage to the Earth System. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 