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GM crops will continue to be banned in Britain after Brexit, says Michael Gove

December 24, 2017 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: December 24, 2017

Michael Gove, Britain’s environment secretary, indicates that food made from genetically modified organisms will continue to be banned in the United Kingdom after Britain leaves the European Union. The US is expected to push for more GM-based foods to be… [read]

Monsanto Now Paying Farmers To Use Controversial Chemical

December 12, 2017 by Michael Edwards

Monsanto Co says it will give cash back to U.S. farmers who purchase a controversial weed killer, XtendiMax with VaporGrip, a dicamba-based herbicide. The herbicide has been linked to widespread crop damage. Monsanto is offering the cash incentive even as… [read]

How To Avoid GMO Apples

December 10, 2017 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: December 10, 2017

Up to 400 Midwest grocery stores started selling pre-sliced packages of the “Arctic Apple”. The company marketing the apples won’t say which stores are selling them and they won’t label the apples “GMO” because according to Intrexon’s CEO: We didn’t… [read]

A Million Consumers Call to Block Monsanto Bayer Merger

December 7, 2017 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: December 7, 2017

Farming, environmental, and consumer groups have delivered a petition with over a million signatures to the Department of Justice asking them to block the merger between German pharmaceutical company Bayer and agricultural giant Monsanto. The petition was delivered days ahead… [read]

USDA Drops Glyphosate Testing Plans, Makes Monsanto’s Life Easier

April 7, 2017 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: December 28, 2017

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is no longer planning to test samples of corn syrup for glyphosate residue. Plans to test for the herbicide were coordinated between the USDA and the Environmental Protection Agency and scheduled to begin in April… [read]

Monsanto Wants the Omega-3 Fatty Acids Market

March 8, 2017 by Kristina Martin

What’s the next phase in omega-3 fatty acid supplementation? If biotechnology and agricultural trading giants like Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and Cargill have anything to say about it, the future is soy and canola. There is no way to meet the… [read]

Lawsuit Alleges that Monsanto Influenced the EPA’s Classification of Glyphosate

February 24, 2017 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: February 27, 2017

In 2015, the World Health Organization categorized glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen. A new lawsuit, filed on behalf of cancer victims, claims the Environmental Protection Agency had the information to label glyphosate as carcinogenic two years earlier and instead… [read]