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Monsanto calls glyphosate ‘safe’ after AP report

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Monsanto Co. is calling for more controls on agrochemicals, including its Roundup line of glyphosate-based weed-killers, in response to an Associated Press report about concerns that illegal pesticide applications are harming human health in Argentina. “If pesticides are being misused in Argentina, then it is in everyone’s best interests - the public, the government, farmers, […] Continue reading →

Genetically Modified Organisms: And Leftist Hysteria Over Monsanto

Rachel Alexander The left is in a frenzy over the American agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto and other agribusinesses that tinker with crop genetics. Is there any truth to their scare stories asserting that we’re being poisoned with “Frankenfood,” breeding new strains of superbugs and superpests? Genetically modified crops, known as GMOs (genetically modified organisms), have […] Continue reading →

US farmers challenging Monsanto patent claims appeal to Supreme Court

Public advocacy groups and farmers have joined forces to challenge biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically engineered seed patents, and to halt the company’s aggressive lawsuits against anyone whose fields are contaminated by their GMOs. Seventy-three US farmers, seed companies, and public advocacy groups appealed their case against Monsanto Co. to the Supreme Court on […] Continue reading →

Kucinich Calls Out Monsanto: Americans Demand GMO Labeling

  “In 1992 the Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the functional equivalent of conventional foods. They arrived at this decision without testing GMOs for allergenicity, toxicity, anti-biotic resistance and functional characteristics. As a result hundreds of millions of acres of GMO crops were planted in America without the knowledge […] Continue reading →