Tag Archives: Monsanto
Coca-Cola and Pepsi Lobbying the FDA for a GMO Labeling Law?
High-level executives from some of the U.S.’s largest food corporations are meeting with the FDA behind closed doors this week to lobby for a mandatory federal GMO labeling law. Could … Continue reading
Roundup and other pesticides directly linked to Parkinson’s, neurodegenerative disorders
The dangers associated with pesticide exposure are much more far-reaching than previously thought, as illustrated by a shocking study recently published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology. It turns out that … Continue reading
The top 10 breakfast cereals most likely to contain Monsanto’s GMO corn
By now, nearly everyone interested in healthy living is aware of the recent research linking Monsanto’s GMO corn to cancer tumors and an increase risk of premature death in both men and … Continue reading
Brazil Soy Group Warns Farmers Against Monsanto Seed
Dow Jones Newswires The grains producers’ association in Brazil’s top soybean-growing state, Mato Grosso, warned farmers this week not to plant a new variety of transgenic soy it says Monsanto … Continue reading
Americans Fight Back Against GMO Food With Occupy Monsanto
So you’ve just enjoyed your dinner of sausages, mashed potato, sweet corn and onion gravy, washed down with a healthy glass of papaya juice and followed by an equally … Continue reading
Top 10 Lies Told by Monsanto on GMO Labeling in California
By: Michele Simon The battle in California over Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods containing GMOs, is really heating up. Millions of dollars are already being poured into the opposition campaign, … Continue reading
Eating This Could Turn Your Gut into a Living Pesticide Factory
By Dr. Mercola A new generation of insect larvae is eating the roots of genetically engineered corn intended to be resistant to such pests. The failure of Monsanto’s genetically modified … Continue reading
Monsanto Gives $4.2 Million to Kill California GMO Labeling Initiative
New campaign finance reports reveal that Monsanto Co. just contributed $4.2 million to defeat Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered food. That is the largest contribution in the race. … Continue reading
GMOs cause animals to lose their ability to reproduce, scientists discover
Farmers have been saying this has happened to there livestock for years now and no one want to listen, this video was shot in 2000 And now walmart is selling … Continue reading
Why a Major Food Organization Is Teaming Up With Monsanto to Block Your Right to Know What’s in Your Food
Big Food companies like ConAgra, Smucker, Hormel, Kellogg, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo want to block Proposition 37 By Ronnie Cummins [The California Ballot Initiative to label genetically engineered food is] “a serious, … Continue reading
Monsanto’s engineered crop hits stores unlabeled, but Wal-Mart isn’t worried
By Monica Eng As the Midwest crunches into sweet corn season, a new type will be appearing on grocery store shelves — even though shoppers have no way to recognize it. … Continue reading
Occupy Monsanto to Shop for Truth at Trader Joe’s
Food Activists Demand Trader Joe’s Provide Proof Foods Sold in Stores are not Contaminated by Monsanto On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Occupy Monsanto’s agents of change with the Genetic Crimes … Continue reading
GMO wars – Monsanto suing DuPont to see who will dominate the world’s food supply
by: Jonathan Benson Biotechnology giant Monsanto is suing one of its largest rivals, DuPont, for what the company says are violations of a licensing agreement established between the two firms … Continue reading
The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods
By: ARI LEVAUX New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA. Update 1/12: Thanks to science and … Continue reading
Egypt’s legal battle to regulate Monsanto’s GMOs
In 2008, Egypt reached an agreement with the US-based Monsanto Corporation to import, grow and sell the company’s genetically-modified maize. The first shipment of 70 tons arrived in Egypt in … Continue reading
Factory Fed Fish: Monsanto’s and Cargill’s Plans for the Ocean
By Dr. Mercola The mass cultivation of genetically modified (GM) soybeans has a hugely detrimental environmental and health impact worldwide. As it stands, soy is widely used in our diets, in processed … Continue reading
Stand-off looms over U.S. plans to cut GMO crop oversight
By Charles Abbott and Carey Gillam (Reuters) – Efforts to write benefits for biotech seed companies into U.S. legislation, including the new Farm Bill, are sparking a backlash from groups … Continue reading
Monsanto weeds have taken root throughout academia
The highly respected publishing group Oxford University Press (OUP), which is considered to be the largest university press in the world, appears to be actively diluting its rigorous publishing standards at the … Continue reading
Get ‘Em While They’re Young: Biotech Industry Organizes Brainwashing Campaign For American Youth On The Marvels Of GMOs
The introduction of genetically modified foods and food ingredients into the American diet has been a smashing success for agribusiness interests and the food manufacturing companies. With the US Department of … Continue reading
Monsanto Launches Massive Campaign to Stop GMO Labeling
We’ve gone on at great lengths discussing the dangers of genetic modification. Monsanto’s GMO corn has been linked to weight gain and organ function disruption, while GMO crops and pesticides destroy our farmland and environment. … Continue reading
The ‘Monsanto Rider’: Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?
By Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne … Continue reading
How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education
Student research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards. “When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing … Continue reading
St. Louis groups step into labeling debate
St. Louis area residents are stepping into the growing debate over labeling of genetically modified foods. On Saturday, the Gateway Green Alliance and Safe Food Action St. Louis plan to protest in … Continue reading
Seeds of doubt: Brazilian farmers sue Monsanto
Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been … Continue reading
Monsanto planted GM alfalfa before USDA approved it, federal agency knew all along
(NaturalNews) A little more than a year ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made the disastrous decision to deregulate Monsanto’s Roundup-Ready alfalfa, even though the agency’s sham of an … Continue reading
Opting for This “Cheaper Food” Could Make You Age Faster
By Dr. Mercola Twenty years ago today, former Monsanto lawyer and present FDA deputy commissioner Michael Taylor declared genetically engineered foods “substantially equivalent” and declared they would not need to be labeled for consumers. … Continue reading
Government tyranny: Illinois Department of Agriculture secretly destroys beekeeper’s bees and 15 years of research proving Monsanto’s Roundup kills bees
(NaturalNews) An Illinois beekeeper with more than a decade’s worth of expertise about how to successfully raise organic, chemical-free bees is the latest victim of flagrant government tyranny. According to … Continue reading
BeesFree Gains Foothold Over Rival Monsanto
Colony Collapse Disorder is killing bees all over the world. For the last half decade, this mysterious affliction has been growing increasingly more deadly and spreading prolifically, to the point where … Continue reading
Frankenfoods (GMO’s) at Whole Foods Market
by DON FITZ, DANIEL ROMANO and BARBARA CHICHERIO Even in a city full of people working for Monsanto, virtually everyone wants labels on food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). And … Continue reading
Monsanto’s Deep Roots In Washington
It’s planting season, which brings to mind one of the most ubiquitous names in agribusiness: Monsanto. Love it or hate it — and there are plenty of people on either … Continue reading
The World According To Monsanto
By Brad Japhe Check out this feature-length documentary that takes a comprehensive look at the history of Monsanto–the world’s largest Biotech Agribusiness. The overwhelming influence that this multinational corporation wields over … Continue reading
Monsanto and ArborGen set their sights on GM trees and grass
Not satisfied to own or control our food crops, Monsanto and its spinoff ArborGen have also set their sights on genetically modified trees and grasses. Despite a groundswell of objections … Continue reading
Former Monsanto lawyer now FDA Czar leads raids on Amish organic producers & governs the food safety laws
How much you want to be Michael Taylor is getting kick backs from Monsanto heck maybe even a weekly pay check. Mike G ——— You don’t need to have a degree … Continue reading
HIV tainted GM corn strains? HIV From Corn?
The president of a bio tech firm developing HIV tainted GM corn strains was appointed to the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development in 2002. Now, in 2010, studies … Continue reading
US: Veg coalition urges study of new Dow, Monsanto seeds
A coalition of vegetable growers is calling on US regulators to study a new generation of crops developed by Dow Chemical and Monsanto. The coalition is concerned that crops are … Continue reading
Roundup herbicide linked to Parkinson’s-related brain damage
Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, Roundup, has now been linked to Parkinsonism related disorders according to research reported in the Neurotoxicology & Teratology journal. This month a new and alarming study has … Continue reading
Monsanto Bt Crops: Genetically Modified Corn Linked To Soil Ecosystem Threat
By Ryan Villarreal Bioengineering agricultural giant Monsanto has touted the safety of genetically modified crops, but a new study has found that insecticide-containing corn can be harmful to the overall … Continue reading
Monsanto props up weak GM crop price
NOTE: There’s a relatively tiny amount of GM canola being grown in Australia despite, as this article makes clear, Monsanto underwriting the price to prop it up and bags of … Continue reading
Monsanto to carry out new GM maize trials in Pakistan
The multinational agriculture firm Monsanto has been given government permission to conduct a third round of trials of its (GM) maize in Pakistan. Monsanto’s ‘VT Double Pro’ corn is a pest-resistant GM maize variety … Continue reading
Will Vermont Cave to Monsanto or Lead the Way?
My opioion is that the feds are going to put pruser on them like they did with Texas when Texas tried to get ride of the TSA. There are to … Continue reading
Four dollars for a gallon of water? The dream of Monsanto and other corporations wanting to privatize water
Four dollars for a gallon of gas is ridiculous enough, but $4 for a gallon of water could someday became a reality, that is if oil tycoons like T. Boone … Continue reading
Farmers demand feds probe Monsanto and Dow over crops and chemicals
Here are a few of the stories about this. Yes the stories are about the same thing but have different takes on it. Mike G ——— Farmers demand feds probe … Continue reading
The perfect drug? Monsanto hooks Nepal on GMO corn
They always talk about how people are starving, so we need GMO crops, but what they don’t say is they say we need it because GMO will reduce the words population because … Continue reading
Shocking Stealth Cause of Birth Defects
By Dr. Mercola Roundup Ready soy is now being cultivated on a massive scale across the globe, along with the exponentially increasing use of the herbicide Roundup. Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” … Continue reading
Monsanto new dirty trick I mean debuts Ground Breakers program
There propaganda: Beginning this spring, farmers will have an opportunity to participate in Monsanto’s new, on-farm trial program being introduced as Ground Breakers. The new program will give farmers first-hand … Continue reading
Group pushes November ballot initiative to label foods with GMOs
By Stephanie Cary You stand in the aisle of your local grocery store to read the labels of foods you’re buying. You think you know what you’re putting in your … Continue reading
Monsanto sued for poisoning farmers
A lawsuit filed this week claims that the Monsanto corporation, “motivated by a desire for unwarranted economic gain,” knowingly poisoned farmers that were pressured to use the company’s chemicals. Farmers … Continue reading
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