Into the Weeds of Roundup: Monsanto and the Public’s Right To Know
Reading Time: 5 minutes A chemical company facing lawsuits sought to block an investigation of its internal documents. What were they hiding?
Monsanto’s Roundup Harms Bees, Report Confirms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Roundup has recently been proven to annihilate bees — pollinators essential to food production. Add it to the list of practices that have been killing them for 70 years.
Conflict of Interest Questions Dog Former EPA Official
Reading Time: 3 minutes A former EPA official involved in a controversial study of the health effects of Monsanto’s glyphosate is being taken to court by public interest advocates who want to know more about his ties to the company and the chemical industry.
Big Ag’s Wild Game of Monopoly Endangers Food Diversity
Reading Time: 6 minutes Agriculture’s biggest deal ever — the Bayer-Monsanto merger — would leave farmers and consumers paying more for less, and could accelerate a catastrophic decline in the diversity of what we plant and eat.
After Monsanto Binge, Bayer Could Dictate What We Eat
Reading Time: 4 minutes If Bayer completes its takeover of Monsanto, it would become a company with Orwellian control over how we grow our food and what we eat.
“GMOs? Hell, No!” A Report from an Anti-Monsanto Rally
Reading Time: 7 minutes In late May, hundreds marched down Broadway to protest against Monsanto, which the marchers decried as a serial creator of toxic agricultural products, with as much corrupting influence over their government as Goldman Sachs.
Monsanto’s 50 Years of Death From Above and Below Is About to End
Reading Time: 14 minutes Monsanto has given us PCBs, Agent Orange, Roundup and GMOs. For over two decades the company has shaped agribusiness. Find out in this week’s podcast how all that is about to change.
GMO Makers, Their Puppets in Academia, and The New York Times
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are GMO (genetically modified organisms) foods good for you and the environment? Whom should you go to for answers? Scientists necessarily know more about such stuff than the rest of us — but be careful. The ones you are most likely to hear from are actually propagandists paid for by the biotech industry. And from what you can read about it in the mainstream media — especially The New York Times — the industry’s grip on academia and the media is much tighter, wider, and deeper than you would ever guess.
One Farmer’s Powerful Plea: Stop Monsanto
Reading Time: 1 minute How evil is Monsanto? Let this farmer tell his stunning story….
From the “Hell in a Handbasket” Department: Domestic Drones and Tainted Milk?
Reading Time: 3 minutes So have you heard? Any day, there will be these mini-drones, little unmanned planes, following you around. And no, you won’t have to be a member of the Taliban. Just an American who is suspected of something or other. When you aren’t panicked about this new, inevitable expansion of the police state, you can at Read More