Reuters By Carey Gillam and Chuck Abbott KANSAS CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. agricultural regulators on Friday said despite a court ban, they would allow commercial planting of genetically modified sugar beets under closely controlled conditions while they complete a full environmental impact statement. The move marks the second-such boost by the United States for contested… Read more »
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Organic Grower Inspires Beet Lawsuit
‘Everything I said to my fellow seedsmen, the judge has now agreed with’ Capital Press By Mitch Lies PHILOMATH, Ore. — Frank Morton said he was told he should sue the USDA if he didn’t like Roundup Ready sugar beet seed being produced in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. “I was literally told three times that if… Read more »
Battle Over Beets
Corvallis Gazette-Times By Bennett Hall Organic seed producer Frank Morton has been warning people for years that genetically modified organisms pose a serious threat to the Willamette Valley’s vegetable seed industry. Now he thinks his worst GMO nightmare may be coming true. Roundup Ready sugarbeets – a patented variety engineered by Monsanto to tolerate the… Read more »
Gut-Wrenching: New Studies Reveal the Insidious Effects of Glyphosate
By Pamela Coleman, PhD Farm and Food Policy Analyst The Cornucopia Institute Credit: Tim McCabe, USDA NRCS Glyphosate is the active ingredient in one of the most heavily used herbicide in the world: Monsanto’s Roundup®. The industry claims that Roundup® is quite safe, but authors of a recent article in the scientific journal Entropy reach… Read more »
Blowing in the Wind
Dealing With Roundup Herbicide Drift This article first appeared in the newsletter of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. by Eric Herm Credit: USDA As an organic and non-GMO cotton farmer, I wake up each and every morning to an uneasy notion: We are surrounded and heavily outnumbered. Roundup Ready cotton crops encircle most of… Read more »
Monsanto’s Roundup Linked to Cancer, EPA Sides with Monsanto
Cornucopia’s Take: Over 800 cancer patients are suing Monsanto for failing to warn them about the risk of cancer associated with Roundup. Cornucopia will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. You can avoid toxic, synthetic pesticides by eating organic and local food from trusted producers. Patients: Roundup gave us cancer as EPA official… Read more »
Judge in Landmark Roundup Cancer Case Reduced Awarded Damages and Denied Monsanto’s Appeal
Cornucopia’s Take: After consideration, Judge Bolanos opted not to grant Monsanto a new trial regarding DeWayne Johnson’s allegations that their product, Roundup, caused his cancer. However, she lowered the amount of punitive damages awarded to Johnson. Bayer, which now owns Monsanto, is expected to file another appeal. Monsanto trial: judge rejects bid to overturn landmark… Read more »
Federal Judge Halts Planting of Commercialized Genetically-Altered Crop
Judge Orders Complete Environmental Review of Monsanto’s Gene-Altered Alfalfa San Francisco, CA — A Federal judge ruled on May 3 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) 2005 approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) “Roundup Ready” alfalfa was illegal. Judge Charles Breyer called on USDA to ban any further planting of the GE seed until… Read more »
Roundup Weedkiller Linked To Global Epidemic of Fatal Kidney Disease
GreenMedInfo by Sayer Ji The mystery of what is causing thousands to die each year from a fatal kidney disease may now be solved, with evidence pointing to the world’s most heavily used herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) as the primary culprit. A new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthproposes a link… Read more »
Known Health Concerns About Glyphosate, the Main Ingredient in Roundup
Cornucopia’s Take: Use of the herbicide glyphosate has skyrocketed around the world since the introduction of crops genetically engineered to be Roundup Ready (resistant) in 1996. While the EPA insists that glyphosate does not cause cancer in humans, some research reviews have come to different findings. U.S. Right to Know seeks transparency in the food… Read more »
