Anonymous Takes Down Monsanto.com–Their Message: We Fight for Farmers
Note: Monsanto was also one of the original founders of the GE tree company ArborGen. The President and CEO of ArborGen, Barbara Wells, led Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready soy division in Brazil. GMO soy in...
View ArticleStudy Shows Monsanto’s RoundUp Herbicide Induces Changes in Vertebrate Animals
Note: More damning evidence regarding the toxic products of Monsanto: that company we love to hate. –The GJEP team New Study Is First to Show That Pesticides Can Induce Morphological Changes in...
View ArticleVideo: The tainted forest — toxic herbicides in Oregon’s forests
By Ingrid Lobet, Aug 14, 2012. Source: Center for Investigative Reporting In Oregon, a conflict is brewing between timber companies and residents over a little-known practice: the widespread use of...
View ArticlePesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study
Note: Poor old Monsanto, they just can’t seem to catch a break. Who would have thought that making crops resistant to herbicides would mean that lots more would be used…oh yeah, we did and so did lots...
View ArticleVictory! Environmental review to delay two engineered crops
Note: More stringent environmental review is no funeral pyre for genetically engineered (GE) crops. However, this news – in addition to another recent USDA decision delaying the deregulation process...
View ArticleSyngenta discredits critics, spends millions, to protect atrazine
By Clare Howard, June 17, 2013: Source: Environmental Health News To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide atrazine, Syngenta Crop Protection launched an aggressive...
View ArticleColombia: Peasants attacked, 2 killed by military and police
Note: For extremely graphic and sobering video of the events that unfolded in Colombia last weekend, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0S6CrFNGk...
View ArticleCommon agricultural chemicals shown to impair honey bees’ health
July 24, 2013. Source: University of Maryland Commercial honey bees used to pollinate crops are exposed to a wide variety of agricultural chemicals, including common fungicides which impair the bees’...
View ArticleThe rise of superweeds – and what to do about it
January 20, 2014. Source: Union of Concerned Scientists A policy brief by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), entitled “The Rise of Superweeds – and What to Do About It”, has raised the alarm on...
View ArticleThe scientist who took on a leading herbicide manufacturer
By Rachel Aviv, February 10, 2014. Source: The New Yorker In 2001, seven years after joining the biology faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, Tyrone Hayes stopped talking about his...
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