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Engineered Food Crisis: Agri Biotech Motivated by Monopoly Control and “Sacred GMO Cash Cow”
We are currently seeing rising food prices due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates like Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, ADM and Bunge. Continue reading
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Europe and the UK’s vast shipments of banned, bee-killing ‘neonics’
By Crispin Dowler: 10 minute read: The European Union and the UK are shipping thousands of tonnes of ‘neonicotinoid’ pesticides (neonics) to poorer countries, years after banning the chemicals from their own farms to protect bees, a new Unearthed and Public Eye investigation has found. Continue reading
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Bayer Confirms End of Sale of Glyphosate-Based Herbicides for US Lawn & Garden Market
29 July 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Bayer have announced that they will no longer sell glyphosate-based herbicides to U.S. gardeners as of 2023, following the costly litigation battle over their cancer causing weedkiller Roundup. Read More Continue reading
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Trial lawyers accuse Monsanto, Bayer of “pay-to-appeal scheme”
26 April2021 — US Right to Know The lawyers who led the nationwide U.S. Roundup litigation through three trial victories and forced Monsanto owner Bayer AG into an $11 billion settlement have notified a federal court that they have uncovered evidence of fraud in a secret deal between Monsanto and a lone plaintiff’s lawyer who Continue reading
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New study: low levels of glyphosate altered gut microbiome
A new animal study found that low levels of the weed killing chemical glyphosate and glyphosate-based Roundup can alter the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that may harm health. Continue reading
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German Government Uses Lockdown to Sneak Deadly Pesticide
Using the conditions of the most recent coronavirus lockdown, the German government’s agriculture minister has made a stealth decision, without open debate, to re-instate a banned class of systemic insecticides known as neonicotinoids. The German move follows a similar move by the French Macron government and puts the entire food security of the EU in… Continue reading
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New study reveals dramatic rise in global pesticide poisonings
In a comprehensive study released today, scientists report that pesticide poisonings on farms around the world have risen dramatically since the last global assessment 30 years ago. Based on an evaluation of available poisoning data from countries all over the world, the researchers conclude that there are about 385 million cases of acute poisonings each… Continue reading
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Exposing Monsanto’s secret documents
Did you know Monsanto had “fusion center” to monitor and discredit journalists and public health groups? And U.S. Right to Know was a prime target. Continue reading
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EPA Finds Glyphosate Is Likely to Injure or Kill 93% of Endangered Species
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation today finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. Continue reading
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Bayer seeks to profit both from weedkiller linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and drug to treat it
Personal injury and civil rights attorney Ben Crump has denounced Bayer Corporation for seeking to profit both from the sale of its weedkiller Roundup, which has been linked to non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and a new Bayer drug to treat the disease. Continue reading
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Bayer’s Monsanto headache persists
Efforts at settling the mass of lawsuits brought in the United States by tens of thousands of people who claim Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides gave them cancer continue to inch forward, but are not addressing all outstanding cases, nor are all plaintiffs offered settlements agreeing to them. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 22 September 2020
22 September 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Thailand’s Reversal on Glyphosate Ban Came after Bayer Scripted US Intervention, Documents Show A year ago Thailand was set to ban the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate, a move applauded by public health advocates because of evidence the chemical causes cancer, along with other harms to people Continue reading
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Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 13 July 2020
13 July 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks India Set to Restrict Who Can Spray Glyphosate Herbicides in Big Blow for Bayer Glyphosate is the most used weedkiller in India with over 675,000 Kg of it spread on Indian farmland in 2018-2019, however a new change on who is allowed to spray glyphosate, which is Continue reading
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Phony experts with veiled conflicts of interest polluting debates on endocrine disruptors, glyphosate, GMOs
One of France’s leading daily papers, Le Monde, just published an article on how “a group of toxicologists with tenuous expertise and veiled conflicts of interest are working to derail the implementation of European regulations” on endocrine disruptors – synthetic chemicals that are toxic at very low doses. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 12 June 2020
Chemicals manufacturers BASF and Bayer have been given enormous payouts of Covid-19 support cash from the British government just weeks after announcing plans to distribute billions to shareholders in dividends. Continue reading
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Nature can’t be patented
It’s official and we won: Conventionally-bred animals and plants are not patentable. [1] It may seem obvious to us, but corporations like Bayer (buyer of Monsanto), Syngenta and Carlsberg fought hard against this outcome. Without a patent, they cannot control and profit from the biological information in those plants and animals! Continue reading
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Glyphosate Overuse Leads to Serious Immune System Concerns
16 May 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editorial By Henry Rowlands, Sustainable Pulse Director In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating the global psyche, it is of course important to delve deeper into the background reasons for the failure of our immune systems to be able to cope with the serious threat of infectious Continue reading
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Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: Continue reading
The New Dark Age 