Each year, a familiar-yet-demoralizing sight appears on the horizon as researchers study the Gulf of Mexico, the 617,800-square mile salt water area stretching from Florida to Louisiana and the Texas coast line: the annual “dead zone.” The area, which has already been hit hard by chemicals sprayed in [...]
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This past Saturday, demonstrators took to the streets of Switzerland’s third-largest city to protest against one of the world’s most notorious chemical and GMO giants: Bayer, which also became the parent company of Monsanto in 2018. While the German agrochemical giant hasn’t faced nearly the same type of [...]
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Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto was originally seen as a smart one for the German company because of their similar business models based on GMO seeds and pesticides. But now, after the company was just ordered to pay over $2 billion dollars to two cancer victims over the use [...]
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The San Leandro, California-based company Memphis Meats has denied a report from an ABC station out of Mississippi that its lab grown meat products will be available for the first time this summer, saying that it was based on false reporting. The report originally said that the state [...]
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While walking the aisles of the closest supermarket and browsing the produce section, it’s easy to see how “conventional” food can be misconstrued as something “normal.” But the cold, hard truth of the matter is that normalizing a system of toxic pesticides, genetically engineered, lab-created food like Roundup Ready corn [...]
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While many companies fight against using genetically modified ingredients, and others do not care that they are using them, the first company to openly brag about being pro-GMO has officially arrived on the scene. That company is Ethos Chocolate, which is creating and selling its product with hopes that [...]
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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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“What’s being done to our food in the name of profit?” It’s an omnipresent question that becomes more important with each passing year. Our produce is being gassed, sprayed with chemicals, and even genetically manipulated to the point where it’s becoming and harder to keep track of how many different [...]
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When the Trump administration approved the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos from the Dow Chemical Company, with whom they have an extra cozy relationship since Inauguration Day in January 2017, a public outcry ensued that was ultimately unsuccessful. The chemical has been linked to severe developmental delays in children and [...]
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Is Bill Gates a hero humanitarian, or simply another in a long line of extravagantly rich business tycoons with only his own best interests at heart? That depends on who you ask, but the Microsoft co-founder is a polarizing figure to say the very least. One of his [...]
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