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Food Giant’s Power Tactics
Confidential agreements show tough terms for smaller companies Salon.com By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, Associated Press Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.’s business practices reveal how the world’s biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found. With Monsanto’s… Read more »
GM crop escapes into the American wild
Transgenic canola found growing freely in North Dakota Nature Natasha Gilbert A genetically modified (GM) crop has been found thriving in the wild for the first time in the United States. Transgenic canola is growing freely in parts of North Dakota, researchers told the Ecological Society of America conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, today. The scientists… Read more »
Effects of Sublethal Doses of Imidacloprid on Young Adult Honeybee Behaviour
[For the full article, including all graphics and figures, click here.] Source: Martin LaBar Plos One by Carolina Mengoni Goñalons and Walter Marcelo Farina Materials and Methods Study site and animals The study was carried out during the summer-autumn seasons of 2012 to 2014 in the experimental field of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of… Read more »
Monsanto Gives up Fight for GM Plants in Europe
DW The world’s largest producer of seeds, Monsanto, has apparently given up on attempts to spread its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe. A German media report said the firm would end all lobbying for approval. The world’s largest producer of seeds, Monsanto, has apparently given up on attempts to spread its genetically modified plant… Read more »
Pesticides Found in GM Soy; Vermont Orders Labels
Credit: USDA Living on Earth with Steve Curwood A recent study found “extreme levels” of the herbicide glyphosate, linked to birth defects and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, in genetically modified soybeans farmed in Iowa. The US federal government doesn’t recognize a material difference between GM and non-GM crops but Vermont will require all genetically modified foods carry… Read more »
GM Crop Could Cause Liver Failure: Scientist
Sean Cowan, The West Australian A world-renowned scientist has warned that one of the CSIRO’s genetically modified wheat varieties has the potential to cause a deadly disease that attacks the liver. In his report on GM wheat that is expected to be released today, New Zealand genetics lecturer Jack Heinemann, from the University of Canterbury,… Read more »
Can a Soil-less Growing System be “Organic”?
Organic Agriculture and Hydroponics The USDA’s National Organic Program is allowing the certification of hydroponic operations despite the law governing organic agriculture which clearly states that nurturing the fertility of the soil is an integral part of organic management. When food grown without soil is allowed to carry the organic label, the environmental and health… Read more »
How Widespread Is the Use of Glyphosate in Our Food Supply?
EcoWatch by Carey Gillam, U.S. Right to Know Source: Tamina Miller As the active ingredient in Monsanto’s branded Roundup weed killer, along with hundreds of other weed-killing products, the chemical called glyphosate spells billions of dollars in sales for Monsanto and other companies each year as farmers around the world use it in their fields and… Read more »
