By Heather Callaghan, Editor In 2016, France’s National Assembly voted to totally ban the bee-killing pesticides known as neonicotinoids by September 2018. Now, the time has come to make good on that plan, the country announced on Saturday. While farmers are incensed by this move, beekeepers are even angrier. Earlier…
By April McCarthy Prepared sashimi products are where you’re likely to find genetically modified salmon, the CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company that produces the fish, told investors, but they won’t say who they’re selling to. Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has just placed an immediate suspension on importations of any herbicides that contain glyphosate. It is unclear at this point what prompted the sudden suspension of glyphosate products – but could it be that the…
by Sustainable Pulse Three U.S. NGOs jointly announced Thursday that they have resolved a consumer-protection action filed by the groups against General Mills in 2016, concerning General Mills’ labeling of its Nature Valley Granola Bars as “Made with 100% Natural Whole Grain Oats.” The complaint stated that the granola…
by Sustainable Pulse Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, which produced the deadly herbicide Agent Orange for the U.S….
The plaintiff in a new class action law lawsuit against General Mills claims that the company knew about the presence of glyphosate in its cereal but chose not to act on that knowledge. Editor’s note: although General Mills donated over a million to quash GMO-labeling…
Professor Channa Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and the families of deceased farmers are set to take Bayer/Monsanto and other glyphosate herbicide manufacturers to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka over the link between glyphosate-based herbicides and fatal chronic kidney…
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear a challenge to a key provision of the state’s landmark chemical consumer-disclosure law, Proposition 65, brought by Monsanto. The chemical maker was seeking to force California to remove glyphosate, found in the company’s Roundup products, from the…
By Caroline Cox / Independent Media Institute Quaker Oats “Life” and “Squares” cereals. Gerber and Beechnut baby oatmeal. Cheerios. Store brand “O” cereals from Target, Safeway, Walmart, Trader Joe’s and Kroger. All those products were contaminated with glyphosate (often sold as Roundup) in recent independent testing conducted by the Center…
Bayer AG, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, is in panic after a huge share sell off on Monday morning, following the decision from a landmark legal case in San Francisco, which judged that the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. SEE: Jury Ruled Monsanto…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Recently, we wrote a report revealing that chemical company BASF was a member of the Organic Trade Association. It turns out, Cargill is, too! How is this allowed to be? That would be like a massive animal rights organization allowing trophy hunters and…
Farming, Food Safety, and Environmental Organizations Call on DOJ to Block Bayer-Monsanto Toxic Mega Merger Groups deliver 97,325 comments to DOJ opposing the merger WASHINGTON – A coalition of farming, consumer, and environmental groups delivered 97,325 public comments to the Department of Justice today, urging…
by Heather Callaghan, Editor BREAKING NEWS! It is with great relief that we announce the following: Monsanto corporation – now a part of Bayer – lost the trial of the century against a man dying of cancer, his cancer alleged to be caused by Roundup herbicide….
By Catherine J. Frompovich Have you ever wanted to tell off someone in high places about something you really didn’t like? Well, you now have a chance to do so regarding the dangerous agricultural herbicide Roundup®. The Organic Consumers Organization’s lobbying arm Citizens Regeneration Lobby is…
By Catherine J. Frompovich The international news agency Reuters reported August 6, 2018, A Brazilian judge has suspended the use of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, a widely employed herbicide for soy and other crops in the country, according to legal filings. (Source) Why would a…
WASHINGTON – Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to abide by the mandatory deadlines Congress set in the 2016 genetically engineered (GE) food disclosure law. That law required that its regulations be finished by two years after…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor It is so interesting how the various powers running the U.S. over the years, with the media serving as “the 4th branch” of government, have projected the idea of oppression onto Middle Eastern countries to an outrageous degree. The U.S. is hush about…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze As Big Ag develops new and more effective ways of genetic engineering, it is also developing new and more effective means of marketing and propagandizing the public. For instance, while citizens across the world march against and protest genetic engineering conducted by…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today published its ruling on the legal status of food and feed crops derived from certain new genetic modification techniques. It gave clear confirmation that organisms from these new gene editing techniques are covered by existing EU GMO regulation. Reacting to…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Yesterday a report by Living Maxwell revealed that the often overlooked GMO/chemical giant, BASF, is actually a member of the U.S. Organic Trade Association. This realization sent waves of ire throughout the worldwide community of organic advocates. As a result of this revelation,…
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