Genetic Engineering
GMO = Genetically Modified Organism
GMOs are created in a lab, by inserting a gene from one organism into another unrelated organism, producing plants and animals that would never occur in nature. No long-term safety studies have been done on humans, but animal studies link the consumption of GMOs to an increase in allergies, kidney and liver disease, ADHD, cancer, infertility, chronic immune disorders and more.
Genetically engineered (GE) versions of stevia have received the green light for widespread and unregulated use in food, including Cargill’s “nonartificial stevia,” a GE-derived synthetic biology product designed to mimic components of the real thing. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled stevia leaf and crude stevia extracts “unsafe food additives."
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On April 25, 2019, the California Assembly unanimously passed AB-619, a bill that would put a temporary moratorium on the use of glyphosate, preventing localities from using any
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In 2019, two bills on glyphosate were introduced in the Hawaii state legislature.
One was killed:
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Four bills to ban or restrict the use of glyphosate (the main ingredient in Monsanto’s
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A bill to ban glyphosate (the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller
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Our Millions Against Monsanto campaign to ban glyphosate is gaining steam in statehouses across the country.
Which U.S. state will be the first to ban glyphosate-based weedkillers like
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has stood firm against industry pressure and confirmed that it is giving the 2019 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to two Sri Lankan scientists, Sarath Gunatilake and Channa Jayasumana, who hypothesized a connection between glyphosate herbicide exposure and chronic kidney disease.
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It seems like you can’t go to a restaurant nowadays without seeing an Impossible Burger, Beyond Meat burger, or other meat-substitute burgers on the menu. But what’s the deal with these burgers?
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Agrochemical giant Monsanto has pleaded guilty to spraying banned pesticides on research crops on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2014, and will have to pay $10.2 million in criminal fines for spraying and illegally storing the pesticide which has been classified as an “acute hazardous waste.”
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After several months out of the headlines, lawyers for both sides of the nationwide Roundup cancer litigation are gearing up for overlapping trials in the new year as several more cancer patients seek to blame Monsanto for their diseases.
Six trials are currently set to take place starting in January, with one in February, two in March and additional trials scheduled almost every month from April through October 2021. Thousands of additional plaintiffs still are working to get trial dates set for their claims.
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