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Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK? The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter […]
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – ‘The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures’ – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state: “As the science against glyphosate safety mounts and lawsuits threaten its chemical manufacture’s profits, the next generation of […]
“They Were Saying Horrible Things” – How Monsanto Tried To Discredit Journalists, Rockstars And Other ‘Roundup’ Critics
“They Were Saying Horrible Things” – How Monsanto Tried To Discredit Journalists, Rockstars And Other ‘Roundup’ Critics Discrediting adversarial journalists and even a legendary rock star who had criticized the health hazards of roundup weedkiller. Silencing activists and alleged victims of the company’s roundup weedkiller. These Harvey Weinsten-esque tactics were employed by Monsanto owner Bayer […]
Monsanto/Bayer Giant Moving to “Genome Edit” Fruits and More
Monsanto/Bayer Giant Moving to “Genome Edit” Fruits and More Not surprising, Monsanto, today hidden behind the Bayer logo, as the world leader in patented GMO seeds and the probable carcinogenic Roundup herbicide with glyphosate, is attempting to quietly patent genetically modified or GMO varieties of fruits using controversial gene-editing. The “beauty” of this for Monsanto/Bayer […]
GM Crops, Pesticides, Corporate Duplicity: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent in Its Life!
GM Crops, Pesticides, Corporate Duplicity: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent in Its Life! Open Letter to Bayer CropScience “This charming company operated a factory and camp at Auschwitz during the WW2. The UK and US governments are now allowing it to control global farming methods, GM crops, so-called ‘advanced technologies’ and pesticides.” – Rosemary Mason […]
Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food?
rganicconsumers.org/ Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food? An update on the situation with glyphosate In November 2016, a very concerning report — Glyphosate: Unsafe On Any Plate — was released by The Detox Project and Food Democracy Now!, raising the alarm of the high levels of glyphosate in the US food supply and the […]
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents Lawyers involved in a California lawsuit against Monsanto claim to have “explosive” documents concerning the Bayer-owned agrochemical giant’s activities in Europe, according to Euronews. “What we have is the tip of the iceberg. And in fact we have documents now in our possession, several hundreds documents, that have not […]
Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History
Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History We will continue to reclaim citizens’ rights, as well as those of small and medium producers, who, despite being crushed by the current market mechanisms, are the only ones providing us with healthy and nutritious food “According to Reuters, the number of lawsuits brought against Bayer’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
