Marion Douet wrote for Reuters today, Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France. The farmer who wonthe case remarked, “I am alive today, but part of the farming population is going to be sacrificed and is going to die because of this,” Francois, 47, told Reuters. He and other farmers suffering from illness set up […]
The Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association (OSGATA) are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monsanto’s attempts to control seeds. Wake Up World wrote 19 September 2011, Case Update: 270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto The 83 family farmers, small and family owned seed businesses, and agricultural organizations challenging Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seed filed papers […]
Somebody oughta. Tom Philpott wrote for Mother Jones 19 July 2011, SEC Investigates Monsanto’s Roundup Biz The SEC is investigating Monsanto’s tactics for defending the market for its herbicide, Roundup. The news emerged just before the July 4 holiday weekend, during Monsanto’s press conference about its quarterly financial earnings. Company execs boasted of a 77 […]
The “dark side of the industrialized food system.” as related (accurately) by Birke Baehr at TEDxNextGeneration Asheville. Conventional farmers use chemical fertilizers made from fossil fuels. Then they mess with the dirt to make the plants grow. They do this because they’ve stripped the soil from all nutrients from growing the same crop over and […]
If 1 PPM glysophate can kill a human fetus within 12 hours, where are the right-to-lifers on this? In this radio interview, a farmer gives his view of Monsanto’s strategy and tactics for infesting farmland and the food supply even more with their poisons, after they already feed poisoned hay to cows which concentrate it […]
Quantum physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva foresees The Future of Food, in three parts. Part 1: There are only two applications that have been commercialized in these twenty years of genetic engineering. One is to make seeds more resilient to herbicides, which means you get to spread more Roundup, you get to spread more […]
Doug Gurian-Sherman writes No seeds, no independent research: Multibillion-dollar agricultural corporations, including Monsanto and Syngenta, have restricted independent research on their genetically engineered crops. They have often refused to provide independent scientists with seeds, or they’ve set restrictive conditions that severely limit research options. In case you wondered why all the research seems to come […]
Tom Philpott asks in Grist about Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides …Monsanto has been forced into the unenviable position of having to pay farmers to spray the herbicides of rival companies. If you tend large plantings of Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” soy or cotton, genetically engineered to withstand application of the […]
Robert Langreth writes in Forbes that Forbes Was Wrong On Monsanto. Really Wrong. Forbes made Monsanto the company of the year last year in The Planet Versus Monsanto. I know because I wrote the article. Since then everything that could have gone wrong for the genetically engineered seed company….has gone wrong. Super-weeds that are resistant […]
Andrew Pollack writes in the New York Times that After Growth, Fortunes Turn for Monsanto: As recently as late December, Monsanto was named “company of the year” by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a different accolade from Jim Cramer, the television stock market commentator. “This may be the worst stock of 2010,” he […]