Bayer Stock Crashes After Monsanto Cancer Verdict Upheld by Judge; Analyst Estimates 800 Billion in Future Liability

October 26, 2018 GMO

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 Bolanos would rule in favor or against Bayer’s appeal of […]

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Judge Considers Monsanto Appeal, Jurors Demand Court Respect Verdict

October 17, 2018 GMO

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 be upheld. Gary Kitahata and Robert Howard are among the […]

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Bayer Slashes Earnings Forecast over Rise in Roundup Cancer Cases

September 20, 2018 GMO

Bayer has slashed its earnings forecast Wednesday due to, amongst other things, a growing global legal battle surrounding the carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup. The weaker earnings forecast adds to a number of challenges facing the German drugmaker as it braces for years of legal wrangling over the cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers. Bayer said the number of plaintiffs […]

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St Vincent and the Grenadines Suspends Imports of Glyphosate Herbicides

August 29, 2018 GMO

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 recent courtroom verdict-heard-round-the-world had something do with safety fears? Groundskeeper […]

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Glyphosate Set for Legal Battle in Sri Lanka over Kidney Disease Deaths

August 20, 2018 GMO

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 disease of unknown etiology (CKDu), which has killed an estimated […]

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Monsanto Appeal Attempt Fails as California Lists Glyphosate as Known Carcinogen

August 17, 2018 GMO

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 Proposition 65 list of carcinogens. This decision leaves in place […]

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Children May Be Eating Cereal Laced With Monsanto’s Toxic Weed Killer

August 15, 2018 GMO

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 for Environmental Health (CEH). Sadly, the results are not really […]

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Want To Stop Roundup Spraying? Then Tell Congress To Do Just That

August 8, 2018 GMO

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 a 501(c)(4) organization, which has an online petition that allows […]

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Brazil Court Suspends Glyphosate; What About Doing That, EPA & FDA?

August 7, 2018 GMO

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 judge in Brazil take such action, when regulatory officials in […]

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Monsanto Ghostwriting Journal Papers, Internal Documents Reveal

July 9, 2018 GMO

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 as usual. Krimsky is a Lenore Professor of Humanities and […]

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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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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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Glyphosate – What’s Your Level of Exposure?

May 3, 2018 Natural Health News

By ANH-USA ANH-USA staff underwent testing for glyphosate exposure, and the results were shocking! Action Alert! Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is a toxic chemical that is becoming virtually ubiquitous in the modern world. Exposure to this chemical is associated with a number of health concerns, including cancer. A number of alarming reports also suggest that […]

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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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Glyphosate Residues Discovered in Almond Milk, Bread and Veggie Burgers

February 21, 2018 GMO,Top

New laboratory testing commissioned by Moms Across America has shown the presence of the world’s most used herbicide – glyphosate – in almond milk, vegetarian burgers, bread and Skippy’s “100% Natural” peanut butter and Lipton’s “100% Natural” Mint and Green tea. The new round of testing follows on from similar testing commissioned by Moms Across America on popular U.S. orange juice brands […]

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The Monsanto Cover-Up – “Decades of Deceptive Tactics to Make Billions of Dollars”

February 13, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Monsanto and human health have never had a good relationship. Despite having been involved in the creation and application of Agent Orange resulting in the deaths and lifelong crippling effects to many American and Vietnamese people and the environment, the corporation did not hang its head in shame but instead rose to […]

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Germany Will Phase Out Glyphosate Herbicides ”As Fast As Possible”

February 12, 2018 GMO

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 will with a systematic minimalisation strategy significantly restrict use of […]

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