By Lisa Egan At best, stress can interfere with your happiness and productivity. At worst, stress can be a slow killer: It can adversely affect your immune, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and central nervous systems, especially when it is experienced chronically. Avoiding stress entirely is impossible. Many of…
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer While Dewayne “Lee” Johnson and his lawyers consider whether to accept a lower amount or move forward with a retrial, they called the new ruling “a triumph for our legal system” A judge in California on Monday upheld a landmark verdict in a…
By Meadow Clark Americans are eating fake foods. It’s sad but true that many American staples are fraudulent. Going to the grocery store and searching for whole, nutritious foods is like running a gauntlet of lies. The American food system is as fake as a…
By Julia Conley “You may not have been convinced by the evidence, but we were.” Learning that a judge may overturn their historic decision to hold the chemical company Monsanto-Bayer accountable for manufacturing cancer-causing weedkillers, several jurors are demanding that their verdict in a case decided in August…
Nonprofit organizations Beyond Pesticides, GMO Free USA and Organic Consumers Association filed a lawsuit against the Pret A Manger restaurant chain for the deceptive marketing and sale of certain bread and other baked goods as “natural food,” after the products tested positive for glyphosate, a component…
The scientific journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology has issued a rare “Expression of Concern” and requested corrections to articles it published that failed to fully disclose Monsanto’s role in reviews of glyphosate’s cancer risks. The journal said all five articles it published in a 2016 supplemental issue titled “An Independent Review…
Did you know that many of our crops are sprayed with the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller before harvest? It’s a pre-harvest crop-drying process known as desiccation. It’s the main reason our wheat is toxic! The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies…
By Jon Queally While it has been widely established by the scientific community that the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids (or neonics) have had devastating impacts on honey bees and other pollinators, new research shows that Monsanto’s glyphosate—the world’s most widely used chemical weed-killer—is also extremely…
The first ever home-use strip tests for identifying glyphosate residues, have been released to the public on Wednesday. It is now possible for people everywhere to find out whether the world’s most used weed-killer is in their food or water, in the comfort of their…
By Alex Pietrowski Global populations of bees and pollinator insects are being decimated at an alarming rate, and in recent years we’ve learned that use of neonicotinoid pesticides are largely to blame. But, as researchers are now confirming, the most used (and overused) herbicide in the world,…
By Sayer Ji, Founder, GreenMedInfo From White Castle to ‘Organic’ Burger Joints like Bareburger, a bloody GMO burger is quickly gaining mass adoption. But is it as safe, healthy, and good for the planet as they claim? It’s no surprise that after $400 million dollars…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Since independent labs in the United States have been finding glyphosate residue in all kinds of foods such as cereal, granola, snack items and even natural food brands – it’s no surprise that Canada should find the same contamination issue in their treasured…
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne When I was about 8 years old, my brother David who was 5 years older asked the most profound question I have ever heard. He simply said, “Why is there not nothing?!” For thousands of years, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and other…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s ‘flagship product’ Roundup®–now owned by Bayer Pharmaceuticals [1], apparently has contaminated every last bastion of healthful food production and naturally-grown field crops. The latest and most unfortunate producer of clean and organic grain products, Bob’s…
By Sustainable Pulse Citing a recent report by the Environmental Working Group finding traces of the ‘known carcinogen’ glyphosate in Cheerios, Quaker Oats and other oat-based breakfast foods, plaintiffs Tamara Frankel and Natasha Paracha said Friday that Bob’s Red Mill knew its oat products contain…
By Ruchi Shroff Cancelling out Monsanto’s name and keeping only that of Bayer, does not mean forgetting the wrongoings of a company which, according to the verdict of the Monsanto Tribunal of The Hague, is stained with crimes of ecocide. With Bayer’s official takeover of Monsanto, the giant multinational also inherits its liabilities….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has just placed an immediate suspension on importations of any herbicides that contain glyphosate. It is unclear at this point what prompted the sudden suspension of glyphosate products – but could it be that the…
by Sustainable Pulse Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, which produced the deadly herbicide Agent Orange for the U.S….
By Catherine J. Frompovich Early in August 2018, the U.S. legal system, via jury trial—not one of the “kangaroo” Administrative Law Courts which apparently always find in favor of their owners using “arbitration”—dealt a significant legal, financial, moral and even possible operations-ceasing blow to Bayer-Monsanto…
By Rosanne Lindsay, ND, MA The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped organ in the front of the neck that produces the hormones which regulate the body’s metabolism, including heart rate, body temperature and weight. Those who understand the consequences of an underactive thyroid have received a…
