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February 18, 2007
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Genetically modified food is destroying human health, the environment and the social fabric of rural Canada, said an international spokesperson for farmers' rights.
Saskatchewan's foxes and deer are dying, and its people are succumbing to alarming rates of prostate and breast cancer from chemicals used in the province's canola production.
Those chemicals are administered by agrichemical giant Monsanto, said Percy Schmeiser, who spoke Thursday night to a standing-room only audience in the Alumni Theatre at Thompson Rivers University.
Saskatchewan's foxes and deer are dying, and its people are succumbing to alarming rates of prostate and breast cancer from chemicals used in the province's canola production.
Those chemicals are administered by agrichemical giant Monsanto, said Percy Schmeiser, who spoke Thursday night to a standing-room only audience in the Alumni Theatre at Thompson Rivers University.
February 1, 2007
News
A new report from GRAIN reveals the new lobbying offensive from the global seed industry to make it a crime for farmers to save seeds for the next year's planting. This briefing traces the recent discussions within the seed industry and explores what will happen if a plant variety right becomes virtually indistinguishable from a patent.
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February 16, 2007
Scientific Study
A secret feeding study of Monsanto GM potatoes, conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and suppressed for 8 years, showed that the potatoes did considerable damage to the organs of the rats in the study (1) (2). In comparison the rats in the "control groups" which were fed on normal potatoes or on a non-potato diet were healthier, and had much less organ and tissue damage. This research, fully supported by Monsanto through the provision of the GM potatoes, was conducted at approximately the same time as Arpad Pusztai's research in the Rowet
February 14, 2007
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The "diableros" (hand truck hostlers) from Lagunilla market clustered around La Lupita's Ricos Tacos in the rough and tumble barrio of Tepito were not smiling. "Yesterday these cost me six pesos. Today, it's eight. Tomorrow, who knows, ten?" complained Rodrigo Aldama, 28, pointing at the three greasy tacos on his paper plate, "Vitamin T is rich man's food now." Vitamin T, a staple of urban diet here, includes tacos, tostadas, tamales, tortillas, and most any kind of street food concocted from corn.
January 26, 2007
News
From Terra Daily.com
The US agrochemical giant Monsanto was fined 15,000 euros (19,000 dollars) in a French court Friday for misleading the public about the environmental impact of its flagship herbicide Roundup.
A former chairman of Monsanto Agriculture France was found guilty of false advertising for presenting Roundup as biodegradable and claiming that it left the soil clean after use. Monsanto's French distributor Scotts France was also fined 15,000 euros.
The US agrochemical giant Monsanto was fined 15,000 euros (19,000 dollars) in a French court Friday for misleading the public about the environmental impact of its flagship herbicide Roundup.
A former chairman of Monsanto Agriculture France was found guilty of false advertising for presenting Roundup as biodegradable and claiming that it left the soil clean after use. Monsanto's French distributor Scotts France was also fined 15,000 euros.
February 12, 2007
News
Evidence has emerged that the Monsanto chemical company paid contractors to dump thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste in British landfill sites, knowing that their chemicals were liable to contaminate wildlife and people. Yesterday the Environment Agency said it had launched an inquiry after the chemicals were found to be polluting underground water supplies and the atmosphere 30 years after they were dumped...
For Full Story: environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,2011024,00.html
For Full Story: environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,2011024,00.html
February 1, 2007
News
Biotech crop giant Monsanto Co.'s proposed purchase of the nation's largest cottonseed company [ Delta & Pine Land Co. of Scott, Mississippi] is alarming some farmers and agribusiness competitors...
Some opponents are pushing for congressional hearings on the deal, which Washington observers say are unlikely. Letter-writing campaigns are sparking interest among states' attorneys general; 32 have requested information from Monsanto. Staff at a Minneapolis public-relations firm are e-mailing appeals for an outcry in regions where no cotton is planted...
Some opponents are pushing for congressional hearings on the deal, which Washington observers say are unlikely. Letter-writing campaigns are sparking interest among states' attorneys general; 32 have requested information from Monsanto. Staff at a Minneapolis public-relations firm are e-mailing appeals for an outcry in regions where no cotton is planted...
January 25, 2007
News
Web Note: This so-called 'study" is a joke; they didn't even do anything to determine the origin of the supposedly conventional "BGH" injected milk - so they have no way to know how much, if any, of that milk came from cows injected with rBGH.
Importantly, this does nothing to question the origin of milk labeled as bgh-free -- if anything, it calls into question how much rBGH is actually being used (probably very little)
Importantly, this does nothing to question the origin of milk labeled as bgh-free -- if anything, it calls into question how much rBGH is actually being used (probably very little)
January 5, 2007
News
EXTRACTS: He was recruited for the position by Rob Horsch, a former Monsanto executive who left for the foundation last fall. Both will be working to fund projects aimed at small farmers in the developing world.
[The Monsanto-funded Danforth Center's president, Roger Beachy] said it won't hurt to have two people familiar with St. Louis researchers holding the strings to the Gates Foundation's large purse.
[The Monsanto-funded Danforth Center's president, Roger Beachy] said it won't hurt to have two people familiar with St. Louis researchers holding the strings to the Gates Foundation's large purse.
December 8, 2006
News
A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that he held a paid consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, the Guardian can reveal.
Sir Richard Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business.
Sir Richard Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and now better known for its GM crops business.
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