Monsanto’s Best-Selling Herbicide Roundup Linked to Infertility January 21, 2012 Print Version Andre Evans Activist Post A recent study has found that Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide may be responsible for causing infertility. After reviewing the many already well-documented negative impacts Roundup has on the environment and living creatures, it is no surprise to add yet another [...]
Leaked: US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. Nations like France, which have moved to ban one of Monsanto’s [...]
News: FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use December 26, 2011 Print Version Source: Wired With no notice other than a holiday-eve posting in the Federal Register, the US Food and Drug Administration has reneged on its long-stated intention to compel large-scale agriculture to curb over-use of agricultural antibiotics, which it had planned to [...]
Merry Monsanto — Military Industrial Agriculture December 24, 2011 Print Version Owen Myles, Contributing Writer Activist Post Today I read an article on slashdot titled “New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops“. Before you navigate away from this article, please be assured they were not citing the National Enquirer. The study was conducted in France, [...]
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Mental Illness, Obesity December 16, 2011 Print Version By Mike Barrett Activist Post It seems that the good bacteria found in your gut may actually be destroyed with every bite of certain food that you eat. While antibiotics typically hold first prize in depleting the body’s gut flora levels, [...]
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Mental Illness, Obesity December 16, 2011 Print Version By Mike Barrett Activist Post It seems that the good bacteria found in your gut may actually be destroyed with every bite of certain food that you eat. While antibiotics typically hold first prize in depleting the body’s gut flora levels, [...]
Monsanto PR Firm Reportedly ‘Ended’ by Anonymous December 9, 2011 Print Version By Mike Barrett Activist Post It seems that Monsanto may be having a rough week. Not only was the company hit by a press release declaring them the worst company of 2011, but a group of Anonymous hackers claim to have actually completely [...]
Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious November 26th, 2011 Via: NPR: If the virus evolves to spread as easily between people as seasonal flu, however, it could cause a devastating global pandemic. So in an attempt to stay ahead of H5N1, scientists have been tweaking its genes in the lab to learn more about how [...]
Millions of Bees Mysteriously Die in Florida October 2, 2011 Print Version Source: CBS Florida officials are abuzz as to how millions of honey bees were killed in Brevard County. Several beekeepers in the county have reported lost colonies this week. Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company told Stuart News Thursday he lost [...]
Attack of the Monsanto Superinsects August 31, 2011 Print Version By Tom Philpott - Mother Jones Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered [...]
State Dept. Aggressively Pushed Genetically-Modified Crops to Help Agribusiness Giants August 28, 2011 Print Version Source: All Gov. The latest release of government files from WikiLeaks shows that the State Department has repeatedly pushed push foreign governments to approve genetically-engineered crops and promote the international business interests of corporations like Monsanto and DuPont. U.S. officials have used [...]
Iodine-131 also found in Philadelphia-area sewage plants; July 22nd, 2011 (ENENews) – Cancer patients’ urine suspected in Wissahickon iodine-131 levels, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 2011: Since [early April], officials have found more iodine-131 in the Wissahickon, and at several sewage treatment plants along the creek. [...] The source they now suspect was a surprise. Iodine-131 [...]
Did the USDA Just Deregulate All New Genetically Modified Crops? July 18th, 2011 Via: Mother Jones: In a surprise move, the agency green-lights Roundup Ready lawn grass—and perhaps much, much more. It’s a hoary bureaucratic trick, making a controversial announcement on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend, when most people are daydreaming about [...]
Europe paves way for GM crop bans July 8, 2011 Source: Guardian The European Parliament on Tuesday backed plans to let member states choose whether to ban the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops on their territory, giving a detailed list of grounds on which such bans could be imposed. The House voted to amend [...]
Agent Orange Being Used to Clear Rainforrest in Brazil July 7th, 2011 Via: Treehugger: Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War — and now it’s being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers [...]
