Agriculture
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An engineer, an economist, and an ecomodernist walk into a bar and order a free lunch . . . By Stan Cox
Stan Cox says ecomodernists are far better at inventing technological fantasies than at finding ways to solve environmental crises Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides – Editors’ picks 18 July 2018
18 July 2018 — Sustainable Pulse CRISPR Could Be Causing Extensive Mutations And Genetic Damage After All CRISPR has been heralded as one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science, but there could be a hidden and potentially dangerous side effect to the wonders of its genetic editing technology, a new study reveals. Source: www.sciencealert.com/ A systematic investigation of… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 4 July 2018
4 July 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Loophole Could Exempt Over 10,000 GMO Foods from GMO Labeling Law Loopholes proposed by the Trump administration could exempt over 10,000 – or one out of six – genetically modified foods from a new GMO disclosure law, according to an EWG analysis. The draft rule may exempt foods produced… Continue reading
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What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science
The Monsanto Papers are a treasure trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 as part of a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. They tell a lot about how Monsanto actively subverts science, both in the company’s practices and the way it abuses science’s moral authority to… Continue reading
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Beekeepers at the Bayer AGM
With your help, we sponsored beekeepers’ attendance at the shareholder meeting and directly confronted Bayer about its bee-killing pesticides. The beekeepers joined a group of incredible SumOfUs volunteers, and together we made our protests heard, handed out leaflets and staged a mock-funeral for “the last bee”. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides: Editors’ picks
23 May 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Monsanto in Epic Fail with Attempted Attack on Global Glyphosate Study The peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts from the pilot phase of the Global Glyphosate Study were revealed last Wednesday in a Press Conference at the European Parliament. The results of the short-term pilot study showed that glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) were… Continue reading
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Global Glyphosate Study Pilot Phase Shows Adverse Health Effects at ‘Safe’ Doses
The results reveal that glyphosate based herbicides (GBHs) were able to alter certain important biological parameters, mainly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity and the alteration of the intestinal microbiome. Continue reading
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Toxic Truth: New Evidence for Banning Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller
As reported this week in the Guardian, new tests show that when Roundup’s key active ingredient, glyphosate, is combined with other chemicals to create the final product, the herbicide is more toxic to human cells than glyphosate alone. Continue reading
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Agrochemicals and Institutional Corruption: Pleading with the Slave Master Will Not Set You Free By Colin Todhunter
Environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis. As set out below, she asks these top officials some very pertinent questions about the EU’s collusion with the agrochemical corporations. Continue reading
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A massive win for the bees
The EU voted for a near-complete ban on three neonics — pesticides that pose a deadly risk to bees and other pollinators. And it’s your actions and the work of our partners across Europe that made this happen. Continue reading
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‘Poison Papers’: US and Canadian Regulators Colluded with Manufacturers of Highly Toxic Substances
3 May 2018 — TRNN Dr. Jonathan Latham explains how the EPA and Canada’s Health Protection Branch concealed fraudulent tests of dangerous pesticides Continue reading
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What the FDA isn’t telling you about weedkiller in your food
3 May 2018 — Organic Consumers Association ESSAY OF THE WEEK Busted. For two years, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has been testing your food for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. According to internal FDA emails, test results show that hundreds of commonly consumed foods contain glyphosate. Yet so far, none of that information has… Continue reading
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EU Bans Neonics!
I’m writing quickly to let you know some breaking news: WE WON! The EU neonics ban just passed. Continue reading
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Organic Bytes: What will it take to get this chemical banned?
26 April 2018 — Organic Consumers Association [First, a whinge about the the UK environmental movement: It sucks! Organisations like Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace with millions in resources can’t even manage a weekly newsletter like this one from OCA, a US-based organisation or another I carry here, Sustainable Pulse. Greenpeace do have… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 25 April 2018
25 April 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks UCSF Places Secret Agrichemical Industry Documents including Monsanto Papers Online The University of California, San Francisco Industry Documents Library placed online several collections of agrichemical industry documents on Thursday, including some acquired and donated by U.S. Right to Know, a consumer and public health watchdog group. The… Continue reading
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Planning to join Elon Musk on Mars? Then pay no attention to this
5 April 2018 – Organic Consumers Association [Although OCA is a US-based organisation, I only wish we had something similar here, in the UK. Friends of the Earth? I don’t think so. WB] ESSAY OF THE WEEK Fish Facts Think “factory farm” and most of us envision millions of chickens and pigs crammed into dismally… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 22 March 2018
22 March 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks European Commission Clears Bayer’s Acquisition of Monsanto, Subject to Conditions The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. The merger is conditional on the divestiture of an extensive remedy package, which addresses the parties’ overlaps in seeds, pesticides and… Continue reading
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GMOs and Pesticides – Global Breaking News
17 January 2018 — Sustainable Pulse US Organic Food Movement Protests USDA Interference in Animal Welfare Standards The U.S. organic food movement, representing dozens of brands, thousands of organic farmers and millions of organic consumers, as well as retailers, certifiers, and organizations, has published an open letter in the Washington Post. The cosigners are demanding that… Continue reading
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GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice By Colin Todhunter
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 