By Alex Constantine (Public service repost) Dr. Joe Schwarcz of Montreal’s McGill University is a well-known media “popularizer of science,” and clearly on someone’s payroll. Whose: A consortium of biotechnology companies, including Monsanto (see funding ...
October 31, 2013 Farmers in Argentina have been using Monsanto‘s genetically engineered soybean seeds and pesticides since the 1990s. They’ve increased crop yields so much that Argentina is now the third largest soy producer in the world and the country’s farmers are convinced ...
democratherald.com | July 4, 2010 In response to Rich Kellum’s letter (June 27, 2010) : Chemical companies make really good dough. It is not silly or outrageous to ask them to pay some of their ...
By Hannah Gurman Asia Times | Aug 18, 2010 In last month’s blitzkrieg tour of Central and Southeast Asia, two of the four stops made by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton share the ...
” … There are concerns about Kagan beyond her pro-biotech stance. During her Senate confirmation hearings for Solicitor General, she agreed with Republican Senator Lindsay Graham on the controversial War on Terror power of the ...
” … The foundation bought 500,000 shares of [Monsanto] stock between April and June; on Friday, the total value was $27.6 million. … Several foundation employees have ties to the company, including some in leadership positions. ...
Anonymously added to a recent budget bill, the controversial rider would protect U.S. biotech companies from litigation if their GMO seeds turn out to be dangerous. Anger over the “Monsanto Protection Act” is growing like ...
By Colin O’Neil, Agriculture Policy Director and Emily Cassidy, Research Analyst, Environmental Working Group Remember when we told you that some farmers were illegally spraying the herbicide dicamba on Monsanto’s new GMO crops? Well, the situation ...
DALLAS, TEXAS, July 9, 2015 — Today, the City of San Jose filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company, a sustainable agriculture organization, for alleged contamination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the city’s stormwater that flows ...
The New Challenge to Monsanto In a challenge delivered to Monsanto’s headquarters on May 20, 2015, US public interest attorney Steven Druker calls on that corporation to find any inaccurate statements of fact in his new book: “Altered Genes, ...
WASHINGTON – Monsanto Co. called on the World Health Organization on Tuesday to withdraw a claim that the most widely used weed killer in the world could cause cancer, with the seed giant accusing the ...
The History of a chemical company Monsanto is now instantly recognized as the company dominating the global food supply with its more than 7000 current worldwide patents. But today’s Monsanto is not a corporate newcomer. Although its literature heralds the company ...
Monsanto will pay nearly $2.4 million to soft white wheat growers and wheat organizations to settle litigation over an unauthorized release of biotech wheat in Oregon. That works out to an average of less than $300 ...
By JOYCE NELSON Finally, a little-known aspect of the crisis in Ukraine is receiving some international attention. On July 28, the California-based Oakland Institute released a report revealing that the World Bank and the International ...
According to new information from the Organic Consumers Association, Monsanto is partnering with media conglomerate Condé Nast to help spread its message. Condé Nast is the publisher of such magazines and sites as: Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Wired, Golf ...
By Reivin Johnson Monsanto has been accused of silencing at least one scientist who explores the potential risks associated with the company’s genetic modification technology called RNA interference (RNAi). Vicki Vance, Jr. Professor of Botany at the University ...
“We will get Roundup recalled, and we will have an impact on the chemical treadmill,” said Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America. By Andrea Germanos MintPress News, May 29, 2014 It’s time for Monsanto’s Roundup to stop ...
“… The settlement, reached in February 2012 to resolve dozens of suits over Monsanto’s disposal of dioxin waste at a now-defunct facility in Nitro, W.Va., includes a $21 million fund that will pay for the medical testing ...
Photo: Approximately 75 people participated in March Against Monsanto Windsor-Essex County, that was part of a world wide day of protest against the agricultural biotechnology company, Monsanto, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star ...
August 21, 2013 Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) has had one of the most up-and-down years of the stocks we track. Shares of the ag behemoth have been unable to get on a run in 2013, as ...
June 19, 2013 Last week, the term “bee-washing” emerged in public conversation. It doesn’t refer to some new bee cleaning service, but to the insidious efforts of Monsanto and other pesticide corporations to discredit science ...
Also see: “Organic farmers can’t fight Monsanto patents in court“ June 11, 2013 “Trust us, we’re Monsanto.” That’s pretty much all the untrustworthy company had to say to win yet another round in a drawn-out ...
Also see: “Monsanto turns to Blackwater for increased security, intelligence and ‘infiltrate activist groups’” ” … Blackwater has reportedly been tasked by Monsanto to collect intelligence on activists rallying against genetically modified crops and other ...
Related — The Monsanto Protection Act: “Monsanto law undermines democracy, public health” — “It takes away the power of U.S. courts to block the planting and sale of genetically modified seeds, even if evidence indicates they are harmful.” ...
April 18, 2013 As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners ...
Photo: GMO protestors march along Kamehameha Avenue in Hilo. Photo by Nate Gaddis. Hundreds of Big Island residents took part in a “March to Evict Monsanto” this morning along Kamehameha avenue. The event began at ...
Some class members plan to appeal a $93 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto By Kate White The Charleston Gazette, February 20, 2013 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some class members plan to appeal a ...
Many farmers have decided to forego growing corn and soybeans due to the “inevitable contamination that will result”. By Charlotte Silver Aljazeera, January 14, 2013 Monsanto has established a conveniently intimidating reputation as “a ruthless prosecutor ...
Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man By Wayne Barrett The Investigative Fund, September 13, 2012 In his Bain years, the GOP nominee helped fashion Monsanto into a biotech giant. Though Mitt Romney has been campaigning for president ...
By Lisa Baertlein Reuters, October 11, 2012 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An intense advertising blitz, funded by Monsanto Co and others, has eroded support for a California ballot proposal that would require U.S. food makers ...
By Anne Sewell Digital Journal, October 7, 201 Washington – Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 74-year-old soybean farmer, will have his day in court against Monsanto in the US Supreme Court next year. Bowman was originally ...
OXNARD, Calif., Sept. 12, 2012 — On Wednesday, September 12 activists calling themselves the Genetic Crimes Unit (GCU) shut down shipping and receiving access points at Monsanto’s Oxnard seed distribution facility located at 2700 Camino ...
TAKE ACTION: Mexican Farmers Take On Monsanto By Callie Brazil on May 30 Goals: Support the efforts of small farmers in Mexico working against a law that would undermine farmers’ rights, and tell the Mexican ...
Also see: “Apparently there was a riot-and it stopped Monsanto in Nepal!” http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=34626 By Nicole Hasham Sydney Morning Herald, May 8, 2012 “Glyphosate is one of the biggest [weed resistance] problems because it’s such ...
By Justin Cox Patch Davis, March 16, 2012 Protesters gathered in front of the Monsanto office on Fifth Street as part of a nationwide protest against the agricultural bio-tech company Friday morning. Monsanto employees did ...
