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Today the five international judges for the Monsanto Tribunal presented their legal opinion, which include key conclusions, both on the conduct of Monsanto and on the need for important changes to international laws governing multinational corporations.
The judges conclude that Monsanto has engaged in practices that have impinged on the basic human right to a healthy environment, the right to food and the right to health. Additionally, Monsanto’s conduct has a negative impact on the right of scientists to freely conduct indispensable research.
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The Center for Biological Diversity and U.S. Right to Know submitted Freedom of Information Act requests this week seeking public records to determine whether Monsanto inappropriately influenced the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial conclusion that glyphosate does not cause cancer.
The requests target communications between the EPA’s pesticide office and Monsanto employees regarding the agency’s cancer assessment of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup and the most popular herbicide in the world.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has gone where the U.S. government dares not tread – testing thousands of foods commonly consumed by its citizens for residues of a controversial herbicide linked to cancer. And the findings are less than appetizing.
Read moreMonsanto is staring down yet another lawsuit over its glyphosate-based product, Roundup.
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Politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle have celebrated the Trump administration's attack on the Syrian government—yet the strike effectively helped ISIS and endangered the Syrian civilians the U.S. claimed it was protecting.
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Prestigious Pulitzer Prizes on Monday were awarded to investigations that tackled President Donald Trump, Big Ag, and international offshore tax havens, rewarding reporters that took on today's powers-that-be.
The Pulitzer Prizes this year came "in the face of a combative stance from President Trump, who has called the news media 'the enemy of the American people,'" as the New York Times noted.
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Researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center exposed mice to dust taken from hog farm barns and housed them in boxes with several different CO2 levels. The higher the exposure to CO2, the more inflammation the mice experienced.
The study suggests industrial hog farms should take carbon dioxide into account when examining ventilation and workers’ safety equipment.
Read moreIf you know Art Cullen, it's not exactly a surprise to learn his initial words upon watching the livestream of the Pulitzer announcements and learning he'd won for editorial writing.
Big-paper editorial writers, perhaps laboring in well-appointed individual offices in relative urban splendor, be apprised: Writing editorials is merely one of a multiple daily duties of Art Cullen, Monday's Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing.
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MASON CITY, Ia. — An overflow crowd turned out for a City Council meeting last May 3 in anticipation of a final vote for construction of a $240 million, 600,000-square-foot pork-processing plant on Mason City’s southwest side. Processing up to 10,000 pigs a day, it would be the state’s second-largest of its kind.
State and local officials stood ready to welcome it with generous subsidies. Realtor Dick Mathes addressed the council in favor, citing job losses and Prestage Foods' promise to add up to 2,000 jobs in four years. But the 14 supporters there to speak were outnumbered by 47
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