Agriculture
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New Global Review Shows Five-Fold Increase in Pest Resistance to GM Crops
A new global assessment, released Tuesday by the University of Arizona, helps scientists explain why cases of pest resistance to genetically modified crops increased by more than fivefold in the past decade, yet some pests remain suppressed. Continue reading
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Is Google Helping Monsanto Hide the Truth?
This week, the EU Parliament banned Monsanto lobbyists from attending any meetings there—because the Biotech Giant refused to show up for hearings into allegations that it had interfered with safety studies. Continue reading
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A Short History of Glyphosate
6 September 2017 — Sustainable Pulse A Short History of Glyphosate The Detox Project and Sustainable Pulse has created and published Wednesday the first ‘Short History of Glyphosate’, which identifies some important dates during the scandalous history of the World’s most used herbicide. 1961: Glyphosate was patented in the U.S. as a Descaling and Chelating… Continue reading
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Video: Did Monsanto Write Seed Policy in Malawi?
Tim Wise from the Small Planet Institute explains how a new seed policy in the southern African country of Malawi threatens farmers’ rights to save, exchange, and sell their seeds, and how a former Monsanto official turned out to be one of the policy’s co-authors Continue reading
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Monsanto/Bayer: #mergerfromhell
Bayer and Monsanto just filed their merger for approval — and European regulators could approve it in less than three weeks… Can you send an email to the European Commissioner for Competition, Margarete Vestager and ask her to stop this merger from hell? Continue reading
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Make that call to MIchael Gove to ban Glyphosate!
The European Commission hasn’t learnt a bit. They officially presented a proposal to licence a toxic pesticide called glyphosate for ten more years, even though we’ve just submitted over 1.3 million ECI signatures for verification. The Commission is moving forward on glyphosate before they have to address our ECI, and now it is national ministers… Continue reading
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Degeneration Nation
After decades of trying to reform public policy on food and farming, including an intense four-year battle to force mandatory labeling of GMOs (rudely terminated in 2016 when Congress and the Obama administration rammed through the outrageous DARK Act), food activists and conscious consumers find ourselves wondering “what’s the use of lobbying the government?” Continue reading
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Europe says no to glyphosate!
A staggering 1.3 million Europeans signed the Stop Glyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI). Together we’ve told the European Commission to ban Monsanto’s favourite pesticide, to reform the EU’s pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use. We’ve done it — and only just in time! Continue reading
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One Brit MEP is trying to stop the ban on dangerous pesticides! Mail your MEP Now!
A single British politician is trying to stop plans to ban bee-killing pesticides from our fields for good. In just 24 hours, some British MEPs – politicians on a powerful European committee – will be asked to reverse plans to permanently ban these dangerous pesticides. But there are hundreds of thousands of us reading this… Continue reading
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Support the Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides
A historic ban on bee-killing neonics is being proposed in Europe — but the pesticide lobby and its political friends are desperately trying to stop it. Continue reading
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Ban Glyphosate!
We need 1-million signatures. A successful ECI guarantees us a right to a public hearing in the European Parliament, and compels the European Commission in Brussels to spell out what action it will take in response. Continue reading
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Ten Theses on Farming and Disease By Rob Wallace
The corporate business model helps pathogens and pests to spread across the world. The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it. Continue reading
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Toxic Relations: Stop Colluding with Monsanto and the Agrochemical Industry! By Rosemary Mason and Colin Todhunter
Rosemary Mason outlines how Monsanto has conspired to keep its money-spinning, disease-causing product (glyphosate-based) Roundup on the market via a combination of deception, the manipulation of science and regulatory processes and the co-option of key figures – the same company that was also involved in the cover up of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Continue reading
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More on Monsanto’s Glyphosate Coverup
Internal corporate communications uncovered by the courts show that Monsanto conspired with an EPA deputy director to stop reviews of the effects of glyphosate by government agencies. The same EPA official also tipped off the company to a glyphosate report released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, giving Monsanto the time it needed… Continue reading
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‘It Comes Down to Monopoly Control of the Aftermarket’
Janine Jackson: Copyright and farmers don’t generally appear in the same story. They do now, thanks to the argument, recently reiterated by agricultural machine maker John Deere, that farmers shouldn’t be able to independently access the operating software in their tractors, for example, because they don’t own that part, they just license it. As our… Continue reading
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Monsanto Tribunal: Report from The Hague
We assembled to hear the opinions of the five judges who presided over the International Monsanto Tribunal. After taking six months to review the testimony of 28 witnesses who testified during the two-day citizens’ tribunal held in The Hague last October, the judges were ready to report on their 53-page Advisory Opinion. Continue reading
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Bees: The jury has retired
Last month, with your support, the Bee Defenders Alliance were at the European Court of Justice standing up for the bees. This group of independent scientists and beekeepers were taking on the world’s biggest pesticide companies – Bayer, Syngenta and BASF. I delivered them your message of support along with messages from over 57,000 Sum… Continue reading
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In the European Court of Justice with the BeeDefenders
16 February 2017 — SumOfUs I’m writing to you from the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, where I’ve just delivered messages of support from you and over 57,000 other SumOfUs members. The team here are so grateful to know that you’re standing beside them. Right now, the BeeDefenders are in court defending the bees… Continue reading
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Monsanto Celebrates Approval of New Dicamba Herbicide and Fights Dirty to Silence Cancer Scientists
22 November 2016 — Dr Mercola The U.S. EPA has approved Monsanto’s new weed killer, XtendiMax, which goes along with its Roundup Ready Xtend cotton and soybeans — GE plants designed to tolerate both glyphosate and dicamba With this approval, use of dicamba on cotton and soy fields is expected to jump from less than… Continue reading
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Syngenta and Bayer both knew its pesticides killed Bees
Thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests, previously unpublished field trials commissioned by the two neonic manufacturers have been released showing that two neonic pesticides seriously harm bee colonies in high concentrations. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 