By Aaron Kesel, Natural Blaze There is a meme going around by a Monsanto social sciences lead that ranks glyphosate as less toxic than table salt, baking soda, cacao and vitamin D. Glyphosate, the key ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is less toxic than caffeine and table…
By Aaron Kesel, Natural Blaze Monsanto stopped the launch of a new chemical product called NemaStrike designed to be applied to crop seeds to protect them from worms and other bugs on Wednesday after reports indicated that it caused strange rashes on people, Reuters reported. The company said it conducted three…
By Aaron Kesel, Natural Blaze Two samples of five major U.S. brands of orange juice including Tropicana and Minute Maid tested positive in lab results for contamination with Monsanto’s cancer-causing chemical, glyphosate, Moms Across America reported. The average American consumes about 2.7 gallons of orange juice per year…
By Aaron Kesel, Natural Blaze Monsanto sued Arkansas regulators of the Plant Board last Friday for banning another one of its controversial herbicides, this time it’s the company’s Dicamba product, not Roundup, Associated Press reported. Dicamba is an herbicide that selectively kills weeds. It is commonly used in combination with other…
By Katherine Paul On October 19, 2017, the World Food Prize will have been ceremoniously bestowed on yet another cheerleader for degenerative agriculture. This year’s award goes to Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina of Nigeria, president of the African Development Bank, and a proud supporter of Big…
Montreal: Investigations by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Ecology Action Centre and the Quebec network Vigilance OGM reveal that the world’s first sale of genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) salmon could have gone exclusively into the Quebec market. “Quebeckers could have unknowingly eaten the…
By Amanda Froelich The shocking videos and photographs have sparked controversy about the ethics (and health implications) of genetically modifying animals. If you take the time to scroll through the Duroc Cambodia Facebook page, you’ll see a frightening amount of photos showcasing extremely muscular pigs. Understandably, the…
By Mac Slavo Leaked internal documents from Monsanto condemn the already-struggling giant to maintain some level of integrity. The company has been caught red-handed using a ghostwriter to craft their own independent safety reviews to be published in scientific journals. According to this report, plaintiffs suing the…
By ARYA HUMAN GENE EDITING: A summary overview of the science, research, regulations, ethics and hazards of Gene Editing/CRISPR An International Summit on Human Gene Editing hosted by the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, the UK Royal Society and the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor If we don’t get a handle on it, our natural environment will not be the same. – Beekeeper, Richard Coy Farmers across the Midwest are being divided – neighbor against neighbor as the dicamba crisis continues to mushroom. Dicamba is an old…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Yesterday the French government announced a 2022 deadline to phase out the use of glyphosate – the active ingredient to herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup. Roundup is the world’s best-selling herbicide and is used agriculturally, industrially and even on individual lawns everywhere. While many…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor GMOs Found in Nearly All of Mexican Corn Products, Roundup Too In case you thought GMOs hadn’t quite proliferated most food products – well, in the 20 years that they have been commercially available for free trade, GMOs have and blanketed the world like smallpox…
By Brandon Turbeville Genetic modification is now taking on a new appearance. Although if you were to read many reports announcing arrival of the new technique it would sound as if it is an entirely new and separate process. Because plants are able to “turn off”…
By Brandon Turbeville While most of the focus has centered on glyphosate in terms of dangerous pesticides, there is another weed killer that is posing a danger to crop growers – dicamba. Although not the only state affected by the growing dicamba controversy, Ohio has been…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is calling for an immediate halt on imports to South Africa of Monsanto’s high-risk second-generation gene-silencing GM maize meant for human consumers. African Center for Biodiversity reports: In an open letter to African biosafety regulators, AFSA rejects…
By Tony Cartalucci Urban farmer Curtis Stone who runs a successful urban agriculture business as well as workshops and free online videos to help others join the urban agriculture revolution, has recently put out a very positive message regarding GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in the…
By Dr. Stephanie Seneff Glyphosate, often sold under the brand name “Roundup,” is the most widely used weed killer in the U.S. Glyphosate is a “non-selective herbicide,” which means it kills many plants, not just weeds. It kills them by interfering with the production of…
By Matt Agorist In 2015, the fake news website, World News Daily Report created a massive Internet hoax that still gets spread around today. The hoax claimed that Monsanto was creating a genetically modified cannabis to supply to the cannabis industry. Although it’s not entirely…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Recently, investment banker David S. Levin was given the platform of CNBC Africa to tell African readers why GMOs are a wonderful thing that they should accept post haste. His piece is a “A New York investor’s view of Africa and other emerging economies.”…
Ottawa – August 7, 2017 – AquaBounty revealed on August 4, in its quarterly financial results, that it has sold approximately five tonnes of genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon fillets in Canada.(1) This is the world’s first sale of GM fish for human consumption…
