The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. The merger is conditional on the divestiture of an extensive remedy package, which addresses the parties’ overlaps in seeds, pesticides and digital agriculture. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition…
By Stacy Malkan Everyone loves a feel-good story about the future. You’ve probably heard this one: high-tech foods enhanced by science will feed the 9 billion people expected on the planet by 2050. Food made in labs and crops and animals genetically engineered to grow faster and…
By Markab Algedi Thiamethoxam is a pollinator killing pesticide that is known to be a bad decision if people who insist on using pesticides (because the agrichemical industry tries to cultivate a situation where average farmers have little option but to use some kind of pesticide)….
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The American mainstream corporate media has turned into a literal madhouse in the period of the last two years. Any doubt whether or not mainstream outlets are actually propaganda outlets should have been erased around the time of the 2016 elections….
By Stacy Malkan The world’s largest pesticide and seed companies want you to believe they are on the side of science. High-tech foods are the future, they say, and people who raise concerns about their pesticides and genetically engineered seeds are “anti-science.” The Atlantic magazine…
The new German government will aim to end the use of glyphosate herbicides “as fast as possible”, according to the draft deal to establish a new German coalition government published on Wednesday on the homepage of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party. The draft states; “We…
By Andrea Germanos “Farmers and consumers from all over Europe have made it clear that they are fed up with current policies that benefit huge food and agriculture corporations, at the expense of the environment, peasant farming, and public safety,” said Adrian Bebb, Friends of the…
By Colin Todhunter One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools…
By Jessica Corbett “The fight for market share is achieved at the expense of the weakest links in the chain: farmers, and workers.” As the European Commission considers a proposed mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto, new research published Tuesday illustrates how corporations are monopolizing the global food system—jeopardizing…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor States like Oregon, California, Texas, Montana and Iowa just simultaneously nuked the ability to have seed laws. Claws of Big Ag found puppeteering legislators. With little to no fanfare at all, the states passed “seed preemption laws” that essentially shut down public discourse on seeds…
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. A new study published in Clinical Rheumatology exposes how vaccine manufacturers used phony placebos in clinical trials to conceal a wide range of devastating risks associated with HPV vaccines. Instead of using genuine inert placebos and comparing health impacts over a number…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD Polluting Foreign Copper Mining Corporations like Canada’s PolyMet [controlled by Switzerland’s Glencore] and Canada’s Twin Metals [controlled by Chile’s Antofagasta] Meet the Definition of Sociopathic Entities A photo of a massive Antofagasta open pit copper mine in Chile. The…
By Phillip Schneider It has been rumored for years that Monsanto plans to take over the cannabis industry with genetic engineering just as they’ve taken over the corn and soy industries. Although they have always denied having any intentions to do so, at this point…
By Jason Erickson Predictive medicine – or “precision health” as it is sometimes known – is a trend in healthcare that is growing exponentially. Perhaps the greatest indication to date that this is slated to be the future of disease prevention and patient care is…
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer Tribunal Finds Monsanto Endangers Right to Food, Health, Environment If the crime of ‘ecocide’ were recognized in international criminal law, the activities of Monsanto could constitute such a crime, panel declares Biotech giant Monsanto “has engaged in practices which have negatively…
By Brandon Turbeville Set to become the world’s largest seed technology company, if it is successful in acquiring Monsanto – Bayer’s Adrian Percy, a global head of Research and Development with Bayer, has publicly bemoaned the fact that consumers in Europe are staunchly resisting genetic engineering…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD (When Trump’s Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington, DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, Holocaust Deniers, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for…
By Anna Lappé, Lisa Palmer Mergers puts food workers and small-scale farmers at risk and increase vertical integration, hurting farmers’ ability to compete. (CD) When you look to the year ahead, what do you see? Ensia recently invited eight global thought leaders to share their thoughts. In this…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A recent lab analysis found a startling amount of Monsanto’s weedkiller in common consumer goods. Around 29 popular American foods were tested by an FDA registered laboratory commissioned by Food Democracy Now! in conjunction with The Detox Project. The Detox Project is gaining access to newer…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Despite the public ire growing against monolithic chemcial corporations like Bayer; the chemical and seed companies are merging to become an even bigger force of contention for consumers and the eco-system at large. Bayer and Monsanto recently “got married” and one…
