Monsanto
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European Commission still trying to ram through the renewal of the licence for Roundup
Fresh from its latest glyphosate defeat, the European Commission is still trying to ram through the renewal of the licence for Monsanto’s favourite weedkiller. After EU member states voted down a ten-year license, the chemical lobby couldn’t even secure a five-year one either. But rather than accept that this battle is lost, the European Commission… Continue reading
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Killing Us Softly—Glyphosate Herbicide or Genocide? By F. William Engdahl
On October 25, 2017 the European Union Commission again announced that it lacked the necessary member state votes to approve a ten year license extension for weed-killer glyphosate. They will try again. Behind this seeming routine announcement is one of the hottest battles over food and human health the world has seen since the 1972… Continue reading
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UK to ban bee-killing pesticides
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the UK will back a permanent ban on bee-killing pesticides. Incredibly, more than a million of us have taken part in the campaign to ban bee-killing pesticides from British fields. Here’s just a snapshot of what we, as 38 Degrees-ers, have done together: Continue reading
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MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO JUST SAID NO!
On Thursday, November 9, the EU Parliament again failed to agree on whether to allow European farmers to spray glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, for another five years. The chemical’s license expires on December 15 (though there’s an additional 18-month grace period). Continue reading
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European Member States Continue Great Glyphosate Rebellion with 10 Year License Refusal!
An initial round of votes Wednesday on the proposed 10 year re-license for glyphosate by European Union (EU) member states has failed to reach a majority and has thus forced the European Commission (EC) to consider a phase out or shorter license for the world”s most used herbicide. Continue reading
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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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EU Commission set to approve Glyphosate!
The EU Commission is about to approve Monsanto’s favourite weedkiller chemical for another decade — unless we convince three key national governments to stop it. Call on the German, Italian and French government to reject the EU Commission’s disastrous proposal to approve glyphosate! 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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EU Nixes Bayer/Monsanto Merger
Great news: The European Commission just announced they won’t greenlight the Bayer Monsanto merger. Continue reading
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Monsanto Shill Fired by Forbes By Dr. Mercola
A common corporate tactic, well-honed by the tobacco industry, is to use “third-party experts” to bring the industry’s message to the public under the cloak of independent opinion or expertise. The idea is that academic types are far more credible than industry employees when it comes to defending the industry’s position. Over the years, I’ve… Continue reading
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Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
Ever since they classified the world’s most widely used herbicide as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a team of international scientists at the World Health Organization’s cancer research group have been under withering attack by the agrichemical industry and its surrogates. 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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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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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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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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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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