Environment
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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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China’s Determined March Towards An Ecological Civilization By Andre Vltchek
So, are we now dealing with the thoroughly hopeless scenario? Did the world go mad? Is it ready to get sacrificed for the profit of the very few? Are people simply going to stand passively, watching what is happening around them, and die, as their world goes literally up in flames? It appeared so, until… 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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Frack Off April Newsletter: Fracking Industry Counts Cost Of More Delays
Diary of events covering anti-fracking actions across the UK. Excellent Resource. Continue reading
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Shell knew about climate threat decades ago by Jessica Corbett
Royal Dutch Shell’s scientists warned the oil giant about the threat that fossil fuel emissions pose to the planet as early as the 1980s, according to a trove of documents obtained by a Dutch journalist and published Thursday at Climate Files. 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, 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
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Shocking Study Shows Glyphosate Herbicides Contain Toxic Levels of Arsenic
A shocking new study published in Toxicology Reports has shown that the current regulatory assessments of the world’s most used herbicides are wrong, with ingredients such as arsenic being regularly found in Glyphosate based herbicides and other pesticides at toxic levels. Continue reading
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Trump Suppressing Biggest National Security Threat
While the Trump Administration censors the term ‘climate change’ for government institutions, the Pentagon highlights the urgency of the crisis Continue reading
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Michael Gove: Plastic containers update
A group of influential MPs have just told the government that the UK needs a plastic bottle deposit return scheme. Continue reading
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Why the Revolution Will Not (but Must) Be Televised By Jim Naureckas
The problem is, the energy companies are some of the richest, most powerful entities on Earth. Corporations are designed to act like organisms with a single goal, maximizing profits. And the fossil fuel industry’s future profits—roughly four-fifths of them—depend on extracting that excess carbon and burning it, climate and civilization be damned. They have been… Continue reading
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