Cornucopia’s Take: Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is the active ingredient in many herbicides since its debut in agribusiness. Scientists have yet to determine exactly how glyphosate is causing health problems, but studies show that specific ailments arise in animals even with exposure to low doses of the chemical. Glyphosate is not allowed… Read more »
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U.S. Researchers Find Roundup Chemical in Water, Air
Reuters By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Significant levels of the world’s most-used herbicide have been detected in air and water samples from two U.S. farm states, government scientists said on Wednesday, in groundbreaking research on the active ingredient in Monsanto Co’s Roundup. “It is out there in significant levels. It is out… Read more »
Heavy Use of Herbicide Roundup Linked to Health Dangers: Study
Reuters By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – Heavy use of the world’s most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed report, published last week in the scientific journal Entropy, said evidence indicates that residues of “glyphosate,” the… Read more »
Groups Sue U.S. Over GMO Crops in Wildlife Refuges
Lawsuit involves crops in eight Midwestern states. Fourth in a series of similar legal actions. Plaintiffs claim Roundup Ready crops hurt environment. Reuters By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – Environmental and food safety groups filed suit on Wednesday against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, demanding it end the cultivation of genetically modified crops on Midwestern… Read more »
How “Extreme Levels” of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Independent Science News by Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra Soybeans Credit: USDA NRCS Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes the absence of toxins, whether man-made or from other sources. Surprisingly, almost no data exist… Read more »
Organic Soy is More Nutritious than GE or Conventional Soy
Cornucopia’s Take: According to a recent Norwegian study, organic soy contains more protein and lower levels of saturated fat. The USDA continues to disallow any marketing language comparing organic products favorably with conventional. To really bring things into focus, the scientists also found that genetically engineered soy contains very high levels of glyphosate. The USDA… Read more »
Jury Concurs Roundup is Carcinogenic and Monsanto Knew, Company Stock Plummets
Cornucopia’s Take: A jury handed down a verdict late Friday in Dewayne Johnson’s case alleging his cancer was caused by Roundup and that Monsanto failed to warn the public of its potential danger. They awarded Johnson $289 million. Although Monsanto is appealing, the precedent is set for the pending 4,000 other cases regarding Roundup. Monsanto… Read more »
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Tied to Butterfly Decline
Triple Pundit By RP Siegel The great American satirist, H.L. Mencken once said, “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” He might have been talking about biotechnology in general or Monsanto’s approach to controlling weeds using their Roundup Ready crops. But then again, it depends on which problem… Read more »
Dow’s New GE Corn Would Rely on Toxic 2,4-D Herbicide
KEYE-TV Austin By Barbara Kessler -Green Right Now In the brave new world of bio-tech agriculture, the big pesticide/herbicide makers have argued for years that their genetically modified crop manipulations would reduce the use of chemicals. It made sense, that tactic. Almost everyone agrees that our health and the environment would benefit from reduced pesticide… Read more »
Center for Food Safety Condemns Monsanto’s Monarch Recovery Pledge as Greenwashing
Center for Food Safety Source: Ken Slade Center for Food Safety today (April 6, 2015) sharply criticized Monsanto’s announcement that it is giving $4 million toward monarch population restoration. Two decades of the company’s top-selling crop system – Roundup Ready corn and soybeans – has nearly eradicated milkweed, the monarch caterpillar’s sole source of food,… Read more »
