Monsanto’s Super Weeds Come Home to Roost
Charles Marqulis Generation Green There’s been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors’ herbicides, in what many see as a last…
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EU food safety chief forced to quit GM lobby role
Jemima Roberts and Tom Levitt The Ecologist Questions raised over why European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) chair Diana Banati failed to make clear her connections…
Gene Giants Stockpile Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops in Bid to Become Biomassters
Surge in Corporate Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops Threatens Biodiversity and Signals Grab on Land and Biomass Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault ETC Group Nagoya, Japan —…
Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides
Image: Big Grey Mare – Grist Tom Philpott Grist Monsanto’s ongoing humiliation proceeds apace. No, I’m not referring to the company’s triumph in our recent…
Agriculture Secretary and Ex Monsanto Lobbyist Defends Dropping Potatoes From Federal Food Program for Low-Income Mothers
Dan Joseph CNS News Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says there is nothing wrong with eating potatoes in moderation, even though the federal Women, Infants and…
Genetically Modified Foods and the Monsanto Initiative
Dees Illustration S. Paul Forrest Activist Post Deception, manipulation, propaganda and profit: These words have become the basis of the American corporate and political landscape…
7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty
Dees Illustration Activist Post Think we have a free market? Think again. Think it was free market capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again….
Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
Silvia Ribeiro Pravda A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater…
Monsanto, Dupont compete for dominance of new GM soybeans approved by the USDA
David Gutierrez Natural News The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has now approved the first crop genetically modified for increased consumer appeal, promising to spark…
Obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research post
Tom Philpott Grist The long-simmering debate about Obama’s ag policy — whether it represents a new paradigm, agribusiness as usual, or some enigmatic combination —…
After Growth, Fortunes Turn for Monsanto
Andrew Pollack NY Times As recently as late December, Monsanto was named “company of the year” by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a…
Study Shows Monsanto Roundup Herbicide Link to Birth Defects
William Engdahl Global Research A major new scientific study has confirmed growing conviction that the world’s most widely used chemical herbicide, Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup is…
Public outcry is working to stop GMOs
Jonathan Benson Natural News The fight against genetic modification (GM) seems like a never-ending, uphill battle. But Lord Melchett, former director of Greenpeace and current…
Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner
Global resistance has halted the biotech giants, reports Environment Editor Michael McCarthy from the IoS co-sponsored Sustainable Planet Forum AFP/Getty Image The Independent The tide…