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Nebraska Farmers Launch Cancer Case against Monsanto’s Roundup

By SustaniablePulse,Four Nebraska farmers have stated in a U.S. lawsuit that “despite Monsanto’s claim that its Roundup weed-killer is safe enough to drink” the widely used herbicide gave them...

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Chemical Industry Ties Destroy ‘Unlikely Carcinogen’ Glyphosate Assessment

By SustainablePulse, The FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) released an assessment Monday, which concludes that the controversial weedkiller glyphosate is “unlikely to pose a...

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European Commission Fails to Push Through Glyphosate Re-Approval

By SustainablePulse, A decision on whether or not to re-approve the controversial toxic substance glyphosate for use in Europe was postponed Thursday for the second time, following disagreement among...

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European Trade Unions Join Fight against Glyphosate Herbicides

By SustainablePulse, Trade unions across Europe have joined the Great Glyphosate Rebellion by urging the European Union to take precautionary action on the use of glyphosate, the world’s most widely...

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UCSF Presentation Reveals Glyphosate Contamination in People across America

By DetoxProject, Glyphosate, the most used herbicide in the World, has been found in the urine of 93% of the American public during a unique testing project that started in 2015.Glyphosate, labeled...

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Great Glyphosate Rebellion Continues as Europe Refuses Temporary License...

By SustainablePulse, The Great Glyphosate Rebellion continues at full pace in Europe as a new European Commission proposal for a temporary license extension of 18 months failed to receive support from...

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Glyphosate link with rheumatoid arthritis shown in new study

By GMWatch, Exposure to livestock may have protective effectA new study on the wives of pesticide applicators showed that women who used the pesticides glyphosate and maneb/mancozeb had a higher risk...

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Thirty-one organisations call on EU Commission to stop any extension of...

By GMWatch, European Food Safety Authority and German risk assessment institute BfR are in contempt of the law in claiming glyphosate is unlikely to pose a cancer risk, say groupsIn an open letter,...

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Monsanto just made a massive mistake

Monsanto just made a massive mistake: One of its weed killers seems to be wiping out valuable crops, too. Oops.Tom PhilpottMother Jones, Aug 17,...

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Pigweed War Reaches Far Beyond Farmland

When Jason Smith was a boy in the 1980s, a farmer could drive into town, stop at a dealership and buy a seemingly endless variety of Bush Hog blades. Everyone he knew mowed field edges and had a ditch...

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U.S. workers sue Monsanto claiming herbicide caused cancer

A U.S. farm worker and a horticultural assistant have filed lawsuits claiming Monsanto Co.'s Roundup herbicide caused their cancers and Monsanto intentionally misled the public and regulators about the...

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How GMOs, Pesticides and Processed Foods Contribute to Common Bowel Disorders

By Dr. MercolaInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — not to be confused with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) — is an autoimmune disease that can have very serious consequences. (IBS, on the other hand, is a...

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Popular American Foods Contaminated with Monsanto’s Glyphosate Weedkiller

Carolanne Wright – Classified as “probably carcinogenic” by the World Health Organization, glyphosate — the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and the world’s most widely used herbicide — has been...

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Argentinian Federal Prosecutor Requests Ban on GMO Crops over Glyphosate Fears

Argentinian Federal Prosecutor Fabián Canda has officially filed a request to the Federal Administrative Court of Buenos Aires to prohibit the sale of GMO seeds that are designed to be grown with...

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GMO maize NK603 is not substantially equivalent to its non-GMO counterpart

A new analysis using cutting-edge molecular profiling methods shows the genetic engineering process caused large increases in two potentially toxic compounds in a Monsanto Roundup-tolerant maize....

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Groundbreaking Study Shows Roundup Herbicide Causes Liver Disease at Low Doses

A new study published Monday in Scientific Reports, an online, open access journal from the publishers of Nature, has shown that the glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide causes non-alcoholic fatty liver...

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Community Meetings in Pima County Arizona on Show that Monsanto Greenhouse...

Pima County has scheduled five community meetings to provide information and receive comments on the proposed Monsanto greenhouse facility. The Pima County Board of Supervisors has tasked County...

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Breaking: New Independent Study Shows that Monsanto's Weedkiller Roundup...

The weedkiller Roundup causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease at very low doses permitted by regulators worldwide, a new peer-reviewed study shows. The study is the first ever to show a causative...

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Members of the Europe Union Parliament Demand to See More of Monsanto's...

The four Green MEPs who requested access to unpublished industry studies on glyphosate have put in a second request to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) asking for more information.In their...

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Monsanto, EPA Seek to Keep Talks About Glyphosate Cancer Review a Secret

Monsanto Co. and officials within the Environmental Protection Agency are fighting legal efforts aimed at exploring Monsanto’s influence over regulatory assessments of the key chemical in the company’s...

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