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 ...
Whole Foods Market admits it sells genetically modified foods: “The reality is that no grocery store in the United States, no matter what size or type of business, can claim they are GE-free. … we ...
“… This week, the company is in the news again. This time, the news is not about what they are doing (i.e. proliferating genetically modified organisms), but rather about how they are doing it, using ...
Albuquerque Express (Source: Business Journal) | April 16, 2011 … sending shares in the chemical and seed company on a wild ride. Monsanto (NYSE: MON) stock started the week at about $67, but surged close to ...
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development | April 4, 2011 In a case that some are calling a reversal of traditional roles, biotechnology giant Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified (GM) seeds are the target ...
“… Looking at six companies, Dow Chemical, BASF, Bayer, Dupont, Astrazeneca (Syngenta), and Monsanto, Idiot Cycle exposes corporate-government collusion in the release of carcinogenic chemicals, but also reveals how some of the same chemical companies ...
By Dr. Mercola Food Consumer | March 26 2011 Victoria Inness-Brown conducted a personal two and a half-year experiment on the effects of aspartame, probably the worst of the artificial sweeteners on the market. Her ...
” … A newly discovered and widespread ‘electron microscopic pathogen appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings.’ … The organism has been found in high concentrations of Roundup Ready ...
By Anthony Gucciardi Natural News | January 05, 2011 Bacteria The manufacturers of the most prevalent sweetener in the world have a secret, and it`s not a sweet one. Aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in ...
Operation Whitecoat: “… Many experiments that tested various biological agents on human subjects, referred to as Operation Whitecoat, were carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the 1950s. The human subjects originally consisted of volunteer ...
“… Critics say neotame is even more toxic than aspartame, and call for independent research (not studies funded by the manufacturer) to evaluate its effects. They allege that Monsanto’s studies on humans lasted only one ...
By Chris Hinyub Intependent Voter Network | December 24, 2010 Acting on information from a “key intelligence source,” CBS News claimed that terrorists are trying to poison our food supply on Monday. This may come ...
By George Monbiot (Excerpt) The Guardian, December 13, 2010 There are daily attempts to control and influence content in the interests of the state and corporations: attempts in which money talks. … I’m not talking here ...
Roundup Resistant Weeds Threaten Crops By Jimmy Mengel Green Chip Stocks | October 26, 2010 Monsanto has created a monster, and is now begging competitors to help them kill it … Their flagship herbicide Roundup ...
By John Byrne Raw Story | September 16th, 2010 Also on list: Royal Caribbean, Deutsche Bank, Chevron Almost three years ago exactly — Sept. 17, 2007 — a cadre of guards from the security firm ...
” … 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. ...
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 ...
By David Biello Scientific American | August 6, 2010 Outside a grocery store in Langdon, N.D., two ecologists spotted a yellow canola plant growing on the margins of a parking lot this summer. They plucked ...
by Eliot Marshall Science Insider | July 7, 2010 The agribusiness giant Monsanto was rebuffed in a ruling handed down yesterday by the European Court of Justice over the company’s patented Roundup Ready technology. (Monsanto’s ...
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 ...
” … Email trail shows how biotech group helped watchdog to draw up analysis of GM crops … and prompted two advisers to quit … advisers who have criticised the close relationship between the Food Standards ...
” … 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 ...
by Sara Novak | TreeHugger | May 30, 2010 Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti “a ...
By Sam Ali | DiversityInc. | May 11, 2010 Dismissing studies that hurt their industry as “junk science.” Sowing doubt in the public’s mind about the harm caused by their products. Paying scientists to produce ...
By Aaron Turpen | NaturalNews.com | March 29, 2010 (NaturalNews) Genetically modified organisms (GMO) or genetically modified crops (GM Foods) are fast becoming the only type of staple crops grown in the United States. Over ...
By Eric Savitz Barron’s | January 13, 2010 Genetically-modified corn sold by Monsanto (MON) causes organ damage in rats, according to a paper by three French scientists published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences. ...
by Trish NelsonFoodConsumer.org | 29 Nov 2009 France’s highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier ...
BBCOctober 15, 2001 France’s highest court has ruled that US agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had ...
