By Julia Conley A far-reaching new scientific analysis found that the weed-killing chemical glyphosate is far more dangerous than U.S. government officials admit, showing a 41 percent increased risk of developing cancer for people who have frequent exposure. Five scientists at the University of Washington…
By Alex Pietrowski In August of 2018 stock prices for Bayer, the company that now owns Monsanto, took a nosedive after a California judge awarded defendant DeWayne Johnson $289 million in damages. From 2012 to 2015 Johnson was a school groundskeeper for the Benicia unified…
By Catherine J. Frompovich One of the most intrepid GMO science researchers for over twenty years, Jeffrey Smith, of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), interviewed Attorney Brent Wisner, the genius lead lawyer who apparently overwhelmed the legal system by finally getting Monsanto’s Papers, which…
By Alex Pietrowski It’s been said that voting with your dollars is the most effective way of creating change in this consumer/capitalist culture; and after years of petitioning major retailers to stop selling products that contain Monsanto’s toxic glyphosate herbicide, it appears that Costco may…
Bayer, the German drugmaker that bought U.S. seed company Monsanto earlier this year, announced on Thursday the sale of a number of businesses, around 12,000 job cuts and 3.3 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in impairments, Reuters reported. Chief Executive Werner Baumann is under pressure to boost…
Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich Many folks think and talk about, while others believe profoundly in, KARMA; that it is the only true system of equitable justice dealt out by a higher authority often referred to as the Universe. Whatever your beliefs about karma are,…
By Green Med Info Bayer greedily bought and swallowed the ‘poison pill’ of Monsanto without considering its true liability. Fifty-seven billion Euros of market cap down the drain later, now their headache is taking on epic proportions… Growing uncertainty about whether San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos…
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer While Dewayne “Lee” Johnson and his lawyers consider whether to accept a lower amount or move forward with a retrial, they called the new ruling “a triumph for our legal system” A judge in California on Monday upheld a landmark verdict in a…
By Julia Conley “You may not have been convinced by the evidence, but we were.” Learning that a judge may overturn their historic decision to hold the chemical company Monsanto-Bayer accountable for manufacturing cancer-causing weedkillers, several jurors are demanding that their verdict in a case decided in August…
By Ruchi Shroff Cancelling out Monsanto’s name and keeping only that of Bayer, does not mean forgetting the wrongoings of a company which, according to the verdict of the Monsanto Tribunal of The Hague, is stained with crimes of ecocide. With Bayer’s official takeover of Monsanto, the giant multinational also inherits its liabilities….
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 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…
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 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 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,…
By Stacy Malkan DeWayne Johnson, a 46-year-old father dying of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, became the first person to face Monsanto in trial this week over allegations the company hid evidence about the cancer-causing dangers of its Roundup weedkiller. Johnson is the first of some 4,000 people suing Monsanto in state…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The battle has begun in one of the most historical David vs Goliath trials. It’s the long-awaited trial of the millennium featuring dying man and school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, who is taking Monsanto to task, arguing that the chemical giant’s Roundup herbicide is…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze In a powerful essay for Environmental Health News entitled “Monsanto’s Ghostwriting and Strong-arming Threaten Sound Science – And Society,” Sheldon Krimsky has blown the lid off a number of Monsanto scandals that have been buried in the mainstream corporate news per business…
By Sustainable Pulse What influenced you in your time at Reuters to start uncovering the dirty secrets of the food and chemical industries? It actually was simply a process of doing my job – researching and reporting on the evolving big business of agriculture. Reuters assigned…
