Food is sacred no matter what country or what culture you come from: it’s how families bond with each other at the end of the day, how we nourish ourselves, a way to connect with strangers and so much more. For thousands of years our food producers have treated [...]
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There’s a lot more to the Monsanto Company than meets the eye: aside from its line of toxic herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, they’ve also been involved in everything from the production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War to cancer-causing PCBs. While the company continually states that [...]
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The Bayer corporation has officially become the “new Monsanto,” having bought the St. Louis-based agrochemical and GMO company in June of last year. Since then, many activists have been calling for a boycott of the company and its products. But Bayer’s products, including their best-selling aspirin pills, prescription [...]
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A California jury has ordered Monsanto to pay up after 17 days of testimony in the case of a couple both suffering from separate cancers in connection with their long-term use of Roundup. Alberta Pilliod, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma brain cancer in 2015, and her husband [...]
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Monsanto and its cancer-linked herbicide glyphosate have become a major problem for its new parent company Bayer, as its CEO just admitted his company will be “massively” affected by herbicide litigation, a tornado of lawsuits that shows no signs of slowing. In France, Monsanto and Bayer have been hit [...]
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The toxic, synthetic pesticide glyphosate has grabbed major news headlines across the world lately because of its causal effect in the cancer trials of at least two people, terminally ill groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson and fellow California resident Edwin Hardeman. But while the harsh effects of glyphosate exposure in [...]
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The majestic monarch butterfly is a symbol for biodiversity and environmental health in North America, a land once teeming with wildlife. But now the iconic species may be on the verge of dying out due to habitat loss, overuse of pesticides, and other similar factors. Recently, it was said [...]
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The Monsanto Company has had its paw prints on practically every branch of the U.S. government in recent years, with former employees infiltrating countless different departments and task forces. On the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas is a widely known Monsanto supporter and ex-corporate lawyer for the company who [...]
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As far as major chemical conglomerates go, it’s hard to top the newly formed Bayer-Monsanto mega corporation in terms of sheer size and market control. At the time of their merger, the two companies, now under the Bayer and Bayer Crop Science umbrellas, were expected to own more [...]
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Recently, a changing of the guard of sorts happened in Monsanto’s home city of St. Louis, as the company’s infamous signs were taken down and replaced by those of Bayer’s new GMO American GMO crops division, which expects an operating budget in the billions of dollars next year. But while [...]
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