All posts tagged with Monsanto

(Natural News) Bans on genetically modified crops imposed by state and local governments in the Pacific Northwest are perfectly legal, meaning that there is nothing the federal government or Big Food and Monsanto can do about it, a federal appeals court has ruled. As reported by The Daily Astorian, federal statutes do not preempt or […]

(Natural News) There’s no surefire way to tell what you’re really eating for dinner these days. Food labels only brush the surface, distracting everyone with meaningless concepts like total calories. The most important information that the consumer needs to know goes unmeasured; it is kept silent. Our ancestors weren’t confronted with the same problems we […]

(Natural News) Monsanto has some sketchy ties with the US government regarding the manufacturing of deadly white phosphorus. It is possible that the Pentagon and chemical giant are in bed together. Monsanto is known for it’s ugly lawsuits against indigent farmers over genetically modified seeds. The company is also infamous for many alleged crimes against humanity, including spreading billions […]

(Natural News) The EPA has just approved the widespread use of a highly toxic herbicide called dicamba, a chemical which poses serious health risks to both animals and people. In doing so, the agency has turned its back on its legal obligation to assess any threat to endangered species, as well as its responsibility to […]

(Natural News) The almighty Monsanto has recently come under fire, after the World Health Organization labeled the main ingredient in the company’s popular Roundup weed killer product to be a human carcinogen. Monsanto is currently in damage control mode in an effort to pick up the pieces from this public relations disaster. In reality, Monsanto […]

(Natural News) The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a group of researchers and policy observers in the EU who work to hold corporations accountable and shed light on the global power structure. CEO engages in lobbying to mitigate the poverty and social injustice caused by finance, international trade, the environment and food and agriculture practices. Their work, according to Tele Sur TV, included the […]

(Natural News) Credit Suisse has been making headlines recently, but for all the wrong reasons. If funding the Dakota Access Pipeline wasn’t enough reason to dislike the bank, how about their involvement in 2 additional massive monopoly makers? The food and energy markets have huge mergers which will allow the corporations to dominate at our […]

(Natural News) A recently released “state of the science” review by the Pesticide Action Network International (PAN) contains a wealth of research that documents the adverse environmental and human health impacts of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides.  The review’s findings emphasize the need for these compounds to be permanently phased out. Health and environmental advocates say the monopoly […]

(Natural News) Could the reign of Monsanto’s premier weedkiller finally be coming to an end? One can only hope. There are rising concerns over Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, and it seems as though the EPA may finally be paying attention. Roundup was introduced to the marketplace some 40 years ago, and has been growing in […]

(Natural News) Monsanto, one of the world’s leading producers of foods containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, recently announced that they were getting away from the GMO game slightly as they have purchased a new technology from the Broad Institute. This new method, CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, allows scientists to […]