French Beekeepers Go After Bayer After Glyphosate Found in Honey

June 26, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze “I’m not going to be like everyone else, I’m going to file suit against Monsanto” A beekeeping cooperative in northern France has filed a legal complaint against Bayer, the German chemical giant that recently merged with Monsanto after finding traces of glyphosate in their honey. The herbicide was detected by Famille Michaud, one of France’s […]

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Dying Man Testifies Against Monsanto This Week, First Trial on Roundup’s Link to Cancer

June 22, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Dying Man’s Lawsuit Set to Go This Week Claims Monsanto Hid The Cancer Dangers Of Roundup For Years A 46-year-old school groundskeeper is now at the forefront of the fight against Monsanto, despite the fact that he may not have much longer to live. Monday, June 25th marks the historic date that […]

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“Serious Flaws” Found in Journal Standards, Document Review Shows

June 12, 2018 GMO

By Gary Ruskin When vital public health research reports are published in refereed journals, there is a heightened expectation that they meet professional standards of scientific integrity. But a new paper published in the Journal of Public Health Policy finds that those standards have been egregiously and intentionally violated with respect to papers dealing with a popular pesticide. […]

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Monsanto Relied on These “Partners” to Attack Top Cancer Scientists

June 8, 2018 GMO

By Stacy Malkan This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations planto discredit the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in order to protect the reputation of Roundup weedkiller. In March 2015, the international group of experts on the IARC panel judged glyphosate, the key ingredient […]

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Goodbye Monsanto; Hello Bayer On “Steroids”

June 7, 2018 Big Pharma,GMO

By Catherine J. Frompovich Oh, how prognosticating words about Monsanto apparently have come true! And people say there’s nothing to astrology! Moneywatch published online on June 5, 2018, “As Bayer Monsanto merger closes, a toxic corporate name to be retired” not quite five years after I published the article “GMOs: What Do The Stars Say […]

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The Name Monsanto is Gone – Bayer Will Drop Name From New Mega Corporation

June 4, 2018 GMO

By Heather Callaghan, Editor Monsanto: Your name is erased but your history still haunts the world today. Called the “merger from hell,” the newly approved mega-merger of Bayer and Monsanto is sending waves of dread through the health conscious community. Turns out, it’s causing Bayer a little dread, too. Apparently, the protests against Monsanto from environmentalists, consumers […]

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Canada’s Decision to Allow Monsanto’s Mega-Merger with Bayer Worries Farmers, Environmental Groups

June 1, 2018 GMO

Ottawa – Canada’s Competition Bureau has approved a merger between seed and pesticide companies Bayer and Monsanto, creating the largest seed and pesticide company in the world. “This is an unprecedented level of corporate control over seeds and pesticides,” said Lucy Sharratt of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. Four companies will now control around two […]

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It’s OFFICIAL – Bayer Monsanto Merger Going Through Despite Anti-Trust Law

May 30, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The US Department of Justice, once considered the office that would protect the American economy from the fatal cancer of monopoly has now officially become the office that facilitates monopoly through legal loopholes. It’s hard to argue with the consistency of the DOJ, though, since the office has done nothing to prevent […]

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The Company that Is Taking Over Monsanto Knowingly Gave Thousands of Children HIV

May 30, 2018 Big Pharma,Video

By Matt Agorist The Big Pharma giant Bayer has just won approval from the US Justice Department for the $62.5 billion dollar takeover of the agrichemical behemoth Monsanto. The deal, which was solidified on Tuesday, has many people on edge knowing that Bayer, a company with a sordid history of corruption is merging with Monsanto, […]

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Dying Man’s Lawsuit Claims Monsanto Hid The Cancer Dangers Of Roundup For Years

May 24, 2018 GMO

  By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze A 46-year-old school groundskeeper is now at the forefront of the fight against Monsanto, despite the fact that he may not have much longer to live. Monday, June 25th marks the historic date that the terminally ill man will be in the first trial that links Monsanto’s weedkiller to cancer. DeWayne […]

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Breakthrough in Explosive Lawsuit Against Monsanto

May 23, 2018 Uncategorized

By Jon Rappoport A San Francisco lawsuit against Monsanto and its weedkiller, Roundup, is moving forward. And it’s just received a new green light from the judge in the case. Monsanto’s lawyers are bracing for a deep level of attack, which they were hoping to avoid. The judge has ruled the jury can hear testimony […]

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Glyphosate Hurts Gut Microbiome, Genes and Sexual Development at “Safe” Dose

May 16, 2018 GMO

By Heather Callaghan Glyphosate-based herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup are used the world over. In fact, Roundup is still the most popular and widely used weedkiller in the entire world. Pesticide propagandists are fond of leaning on the idea of “safe” dose, but can there really be a safe dose for a substance that causes breast cancer […]

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March Against Monsanto 2018 Global Protests – Be There This Weekend

May 15, 2018 Food Freedom

WORLDWIDE– Hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens will hit the streets May 19th, 2018 for the 7th international March Against Monsanto grassroots campaign. The global events will take place in hundreds of cities on six continents with the objective to further educate and raise awareness about Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds and the increasingly toxic food […]

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USDA Wants Deceptively Cute Images for GMO Labels, But Cuts the Phrase Genetically Modified

May 13, 2018 GMO

By Andrea Germanos “The images are just as insulting to consumers as the law, which the chemical and junk food industry lobbyists spent $400 million to pass.” –Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Association The public comment period is now open on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s just unveiled proposal for food labeling of products using GMOs—a plan that would have labels […]

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Monsanto Tries to Stop Lawsuit But Judge Greenlights Case Against Roundup’s Misleading Label

May 10, 2018 GMO

Beyond Pesticides (BP) and The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today responded to a federal judge’s ruling against Monsanto Co.’s motion to dismiss the groups’ lawsuit, filed in April, 2017. Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, the lead plaintiff in the case, said: “In the face of EPA’s poor regulation of pesticides, misleading pesticide product labeling […]

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California Defeats Monsanto in Court to List Glyphosate as Carcinogen

April 23, 2018 GMO

A California Appellate Court sided with the State of California and Center for Food Safety (CFS) on Thursday, affirming that Monsanto’s glyphosate pesticide can be listed as a known carcinogen under Proposition 65. Monsanto’s lawsuit challenged the 2015 announcement by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) that it intended to list glyphosate, the active ingredient […]

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Environmentalists and Farmers Seek Court Decision Halting Use of Dow’s ‘Agent Orange’ Pesticide

April 17, 2018 GMO

By Earthjustice Late [last] Wednesday, a coalition of environmental organizations and farmers represented by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed new legal papers in federal court seeking the reversal of Scott Pruitt and the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of Dow Chemical’s toxic pesticide, Enlist Duo. The novel pesticide is a combination of glyphosate and 2,4-D, to […]

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The Approved Monsanto-Bayer Merger Could Spell Disaster for a Budding Cannabis Industry

April 11, 2018 Big Pharma

By Phillip Schneider After selling off enough assets to win anti-trust approval, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has approved a mega-merger between Monsanto and Bayer, two of the world’s leading chemical/biotech companies. Although polling has shown that over 90 percent of farmers are concerned about the merger, the DOJ and European Commission have given the […]

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Merger From Hell Approved by DOJ, Warnings of Agrichemical Chokehold on Food System

April 10, 2018 GMO

By Andrea Germanos Watchdog groups sounded alarms on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the proposed mega-merger of Bayer and Monsanto has cleared its final regulatory hurdle in the United States. The reported approval from the Justice Department came “after the companies pledged to sell off additional assets,” the Journalreported, and despite concerns raised by hundreds of food and farm […]

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USA Approves Bayer-Monsanto Mega Merger

April 10, 2018 GMO

  Canada could be next April 10, 2018. On Monday April 9, the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States Department of Justice has agreed to allow a merger between seed and pesticide companies Bayer and Monsanto, creating the largest seed and pesticide company in the world. A US approval means that Canada could […]

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