By Jessica Murray The corrupt company has been linked to the deaths of 300,000 farmers. After illegally pushing a form of Bt cotton into India and Africa over 10 years ago, agrochemical company Monsanto is now losing millions of dollars due to farmers now planting their own indigenous seed….
Op-Ed by Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze Definition of Anthropogenic: “an adjective used to describe the environmental pollution and pollutants that originate from human or corporate activity.” Conscientious whistleblowers in the honor-the-earth, protect-the-water and assorted other environmental movements regularly point out the…
CORPORATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM CHARLOTTETOWN, March 5, 2017 – Growing concern over corporate marketing for a genetically modified (GM) apple in a March 7 webinar for high-school students has led groups to write a joint letter to provincial Ministers of Education, asking them to remove…
By Daisy Luther If you prefer to avoid genetically modified foods, here’s another one to avoid. GMO potatoes will be joining GMO apples at a store near you very soon – if they aren’t there already. Last week, the FDA added their approval (again) to…
By CBAN Friday, March 3, 2017. Charlottetown – Today, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Kids Right to Know, the Council of Canadians and Earth Action PEI are alerting teachers and students about corporate public relations inside “Agriculture in the Classroom” activities, in particular a webinar on…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Glyphosate is the main chemical active in several brands of agricultural and corporate farming herbicides used in the growing fields; in GMO seed crop cultures; and in what’s called “preharvest staging” [1]. That’s when the herbicide is sprayed several days [3…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Could it be true? Could you and your family be paying top dollar for imported foods that aren’t the least bit organic? According to a report by the Alliance for Natural Health U.S. we have a situation where we are importing…
By Amelia Kinney Brazil joins the growing number of countries rejecting GMO imports from the United States. Brazil joins the growing number of countries rejecting GMO imports from the United States. In the last decade, bio-technology and gene modification in large-scale agriculture has become a…
By Brandon Turbeville A recent series of focus groups conducted by researchers at the University of Adelaide is now demonstrating two things clearly: first, that Big Ag is growing increasingly desperate in its attempts to convince average consumers to continue purchasing their toxic products…
By Deirdre Fulton Big Ag could score some big wins under newly confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, roughly 325 food and farm groups warned on Monday, urging Sessions to reject agricultural mega-mergers that would put corporate interests above public health, small farmers, and the environment. In…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Did you know that the European hamster is endangered in western Europe? Cannibalism doesn’t help. The wild European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) has been dying off at an unprecedented rate and a new paper demonstrates why. Researchers first had to realize the…
By Daisy Luther If a food company invented a new version of a typical food and then packaged it in a box without the ingredients, etc. listed on the packaging, there would be quite the outcry. So why is it that Okanagan Specialty Fruits is allowed…
By The Max Planck Institute Genetically modified organisms for pest control could end up as contaminants in agricultural products throughout the globe. “There’s a fly in my soup.” This statement conjures up the image of a dead fly in a bowl of soup rather than…
Illegal approval of dicamba use on engineered crops will harm farmers, environment WASHINGTON – Farmers and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit on Friday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Monsanto’s new “XtendiMax” pesticide. The approval of the pesticide company’s latest version of the…
By Derrick Broze Despite new research indicating health concerns and conflicts of interest related to Genetically Modified foods, the corporate media has, once again, remained silent. In late December, a series of studies and news stories went largely unreported and ignored by the corporate, deadstream…
As the world of technology continues to progress, farmers around the world are curious about the technologies that will change the landscape of agriculture in the 21st century. After all, farming and agriculture at-large was changed dramatically in the 20th century, with mechanization, advanced irrigation…
By Alex Pietrowski In addition to the other documented risks of Monsanto’s Roundup, a cutting-edge study using molecular profiling reveals that it also causes liver disease, even at doses currently approved by regulators. Researchers at King’s College London have discovered that the popular weedkiller Roundup…
By Makia Freeman The Biotech industry assures the public that GMOs are substantially equivalent to their non-GMO or near-isogenic counterparts. In fact, the whole idea of substantial equivalence has been spun into existence by Big Biotech as a clever way to peddle their wares – but they…
By Brandon Turbeville GM proponents who constantly drone on with untrue claims that the science has clearly demonstrated GMOs as safe were dealt yet another blow shortly before Thanksgiving this past year. This is because yet another study has been published demonstrating the negative health…
By Marco Torres Due to current levels of soil depletion, genetic modification and pesticides, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today. But what’s the nutritional difference between a carrot in 1950s and one…
