Cornucopia’s Take: As more farmers develop cancer after years of handling Roundup, their stories are being heard. Monsanto maintains the safety of its products, citing a lack of research showing health risks, even in the face of empirical evidence. Ties between Monsanto and EPA raise questions about safety and regulation KCRW by Karen Foshay RoundUp… Read more »

Global Research by Christina Sarich Source: Glendon Rolston China has zero tolerance for many GMOs. They’ve made this clear by refusing US exports that contain genetically modified ingredients – not even in the parts per million range. Due to the recent contamination of hay from RoundUp ready GMO alfalfa, the Chinese government has now blacklisted hay from the… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: A report by the Environmental Working Group finds varying amounts of glyphosate in cereals and snack bars made with oats. Over the last decade, glyphosate has been increasingly employed as a desiccant for cereal grains, allowing the entire crop to be harvested at once. The gratuitous use of glyphosate has contaminated soil and… Read more »

Sustainable Pulse Monsanto announced Wednesday that sales in the company’s agricultural productivity segment, which includes its probable carcinogen Roundup herbicide, fell 34 % to $820 million. Monsanto’s shares fell over 2% as a result. The Biotech giant also said Wednesday that it now plans to cut a total of 3600 jobs, or about 16 %… Read more »

For the first time since 1996, acres of Roundup Ready genetically modified soybeans could drop as more farmers decide to plant non-GMO. The Organic & Non-GMO Report Low commodity soybean prices, attractive premiums, and rising prices for genetically modified soybean seed are leading American farmers to plant more acres of non-GMO soybeans this year. Representatives… Read more »

Center for Food Safety Kevin Golden Washington, D.C. – In a decision handed down today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a nationwide ban on the planting of genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa pending a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The Court determined that the planting of genetically modified… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: The U.S. National Toxicology Program is now analyzing, for the first time, the top-selling glyphosate-based herbicides on the market. They are finding the inert ingredients, added to enhance application and effectiveness of glyphosate, among other things, make the formulations markedly more toxic than glyphosate on its own. Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, has… Read more »

GreenMedInfo by Sayer Ji The GM farming system has made exposure to Roundup herbicide a daily fact of our existence, and according to the latest US Geological Survey study its probably in the air you are breathing… A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, accepted for publication online ahead of print in the journal Enviromental… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: The discovery of glyphosate in vaccines points to the likelihood that the inert ingredients in Roundup, which make the herbicide more toxic than glyphosate alone, are also present. The effects of injecting Roundup into children are unknown. What is known is that this toxic chemical is dispersing widely across the environment. Glyphosate Found… Read more »

Reuters by Carey Gillam Source: Jack Originally published Oct. 15, 2015: Personal injury law firms around the United States are lining up plaintiffs for what they say could be “mass tort” actions against agrichemical giant Monsanto Co that claim the company’s Roundup herbicide has caused cancer in farm workers and others exposed to the chemical…. Read more »