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Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back Charles Sprague Pearce The Arab jeweler c1882 There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals. At some point, […]
The Big Tech Backlash of 2018
The Big Tech Backlash of 2018 Herbert Ponting Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctica 1911 Something must be terribly wrong with the world. A few days ago Elizabeth Warren agreed with Trump on China, now Bernie Sanders agrees with him about Amazon. What’s happening? Bernie Sanders Agrees With Trump: Amazon Has Too Much Power Independent Vermont […]
The Science of a Vanishing Planet
The Science of a Vanishing Planet Dorothea Lange Gravestone St. George, Utah 1953There are numerous ways to define the Precautionary Principle. It’s something we can all intuitively understand, but which many parties seek ways to confuse since it has the potential to stand in the way of profits. Still, in the end it should all […]
The Oligopolization of Food Supply Hits a Snag
The Oligopolization of Food Supply Hits a Snag Three companies to control 60% of world’s seed and pesticide markets. German drug and agrichemicals giant Bayer has suffered a setback in its efforts to acquire the world’s biggest seed company, Monsanto. Bayer had reckoned on winning regulatory approval for its $63.5 billion takeover bid at the […]
Resisting Tyranny: Struggling for Seed Sovereignty in Latin America
Resisting Tyranny: Struggling for Seed Sovereignty in Latin America The Latin America Seeds Collective has just released a 40-minute film (‘Seeds: Common or Corporate Property?) which documents the resistance of peasant farmers to the corporate takeover of their agriculture. The film describes how seed has been central to agriculture for 10,000 years. Farmers have been saving, […]
Monsanto, Bayer and Neoliberalism: A Case of Hobson’s Choice
Monsanto, Bayer and Neoliberalism: A Case of Hobson’s Choice A Bayer marketing professional recently stated on Twitter that critics of GMOs deny choice to farmers. It’s a common accusation by the pro-GMO lobby. In a previous article, I noted the idea that GMOs offer increased choice is erroneous and that, by implication, corporations like Bayer or […]
Monsanto In Court Again As Powerful New Herbicide Accidently Kills 3.6 Million Acres Of Crops
Monsanto In Court Again As Powerful New Herbicide Accidently Kills 3.6 Million Acres Of Crops Monsanto thought they had developed an amazing scheme to corner the Midwest farming market when they developed new genetically engineered seeds that were resistant to their new herbicide called dicamba. The resistance of Monsanto’s new magical seed crops to dicamba […]
Betrayal!
Shutterstock Betrayal! The pervasive & defining crime of our age Let me apologize in advance for what may be an upsetting piece of writing for some of you. If you’re in a state of shock or exhaustion from recent events, perhaps you should skip this one. I don’t offer this analysis in order to further […]
BUSTED! Monsanto Caught Writing Their Own Independent Safety Reviews
BUSTED! Monsanto Caught Writing Their Own Independent Safety Reviews Leaked internal documents from Monsanto condemn the already-struggling giant to maintain some level of integrity. The company has been caught red-handed using a ghostwriter to craft their own independent safety reviews to be published in scientific journals. According to Natural News, plaintiffs suing the agricultural company […]
Neil Young Slams Obama, Bayer, Says Fuck Monsanto!
Neil Young Slams Obama, Bayer, Says Fuck Monsanto! Photo © Brian Bruner / Brian Bruner Photography In addition to providing a stunning performance during the 31st Farm Aid concert in Bristow, VA Neil Young stole the show at the press conference before the event began. While Farm Aid has always been focused on saving family farmers who are […]
Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse
Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse defotoberg | Shutterstock.com News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. Bayer’s crop chemicals business is the world’s second largest […]
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle Ben Shahn Daughter of Virgil Thaxton, farmer, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio 1938Recently, I posted a two-tear old article on facebook.com/TheAutomaticEarth that was shared so many times it seems to make sense to use it for an Automatic Earth article as well. The article asks how toxic the wheat we eat is […]
Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe
Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe NeydtStock | Shutterstock.com This week, a Standing Committee of plant scientists from 28 member states in Europe is likely to endorse the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) findings so that the European Commission (under pressure from Monsanto, Glyphosate Task Force and others) can re-authorise glyphosate for another nine years. This is […]
Monsanto Claims A Breach Of Its Constitutional Rights
MONSANTO CLAIMS A BREACH OF ITS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS The Monsanto Company is again under fire as a recent report states that Glyphosate, the main ingredient in the company’s money-making Roundup herbicide, is the most widely used herbicide chemical in the world. Studies have suggested that this chemical is a possible human carcinogen. In fact, the […]
