By Brianna Acuesta Just one more reason why Monsanto and other Big Ag corporations are horrible. Big Agricultural companies, such as Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer, are often criticized for a variety of reasons: their use of GMOs and how they contaminate organic crops, the toxicity…
By Christina Sarich Nobel Laureates who have been pushing the genetically modified organism agenda deep into scientific circles are being lambasted by a group called the Union of Latin American Scientists Committed to Society and Nature (UCCSN-AL). A whopping third of Nobel laureates recently slammed…
By Whitney Webb A new study published by a group of Brazilian researchers in the journal Phycologia shows that Monsanto’s most popular herbicide Roundup negatively affects life in freshwater ecosystems. More specifically, legal levels of Roundup, as well as those of its main ingredient glyphosphate,…
By Derrick Broze The biotechnology giant Monsanto has now partnered with the Broad Institute to develop seeds using genetic or genome editing technology. On Thursday, Monsanto announced a new partnership with the Broad Institute, a project of MIT and Harvard that focuses on a biomedical…
By Brandon Turbeville In addition to providing a stunning performance during the 31st Farm Aid concert in Bristow, VA Neil Young stole the show at the press conference before the event began. While Farm Aid has always been focused on saving family farmers who are…
By Catherine J Frompovich This is an “anthology” of sorts about the etiology of the current cancer epidemic-pandemic. C-A-N-C-E-R is the word that strikes horror in the hearts and minds of every human alive. However, that always was not the case. I’m old enough to…
By Heather Callaghan Even though government agencies like the FDA and USDA are supposed to inspect and test food samples – and the USDA does do that – neither of them have tested for glyphosate residues for decades even though it is the world’s most…
By Natural Blaze Bayer’s Takeover of Monsanto Triggers Anti-Competition Fears: Groups in Canada request Competition Bureau review Thursday September 15, 2016. Ottawa. Reports that Bayer has confirmed its $66-billion takeover of Monsanto are triggering concerns over increased corporate control in the seeds and pesticides markets from…
By Christina Sarich One of Monsanto’s former companies, among nine contractors responsible for creating Agent Orange, sprayed more than 20 million gallons of the herbicide on an area of South Vietnam about the size of the state of Massachusetts between 1962 and 1971. In a…
By Heather Callaghan Previously, we reported that Bayer AG – one of the world’s largest crop chemicals business, second only to Syngenta – was out to acquire or “merge” with Monsanto – the multinational seed and biotech corporation – in one of the biggest mergers in…
By Brandon Turbeville In late June 2016, over 100 Nobel laureates signed a letter attacking the environmental organization Greenpeace and calling on the group to end their opposition to GMOs. The letter asks Greenpeace to end its attempt to block golden rice from being introduced into the…
By Brandon Turbeville The possibility of a merger between German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer AG and multinational seed and pesticide corporation Monsanto Co. has just increased with the recent rounds of discussions between the two companies. Having been in discussion regarding Bayer’s potential purchase…
By ANH-USA We are sure there will be many more such attacks coming. Earlier this summer, Congress defied the will of voters in passing a phony GMO labeling bill. This “mandatory” labeling bill is anything but mandatory: it allows companies to choose how to inform consumers…
By Brandon Turbeville In late August 2016, Monsanto withdrew its application which sought approval for its new version of genetically modified cotton seeds in India. There has been a dispute between Monsanto and New Delhi for quite some time surrounding prices Monsanto charges for the…
By Catherine J Frompovich September 1st, 2016 I received an email from the Washington State Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, in which he gave the following updated report that I think readers may be interested in knowing. Why? Because it addresses how issues are strategized and apparently…
By Bernie Suarez It was a great moment in America back in 2013 when the famous food chain Chipotle announced it was committing to eventually serving only foods that were verified non-GMO. That’s non genetically modified organism food. At the time, Chipotle was also the…
By Christina Sarich In India’s poorest state, farmers are setting world-breaking records growing rice and other staple foods, without the help of genetically modified organisms, and none of Monsanto’s billion-dollar herbicides. With the biotech industry claiming that the world can only be fed with heavily-doused…
By Daisy Luther Monsanto – the company we all love to hate as they spread their chemically-laden tentacles across the planet – took a big legal hit today. And by big, we mean an amount that would boggle the minds of most of us ordinary mortals. A…
By Ariana Marisol When you look at labels, do you pay more attention to non-GMO labels, or USDA Organic labels? It is important to remember that the two are not the same. Megan Westgate, the Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project thinks that their labeling…
By Catherine J Frompovich When is the word “natural” misleading in advertising? That’s the basis for a lawsuit filed August 25, 2016 against General Mills, maker of the brand Nature Valley Granola Bars, who label their products’ packages with the words “Made with 100% NATURAL…
