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01/17/2019 / By News Editors

12 reasons why even a low level of glyphosate exposure is unsafe

Proponents of GMOs and Glyphosate-based herbicides and staunch believers in the EPA have long argued that low levels of glyphosate exposure are safe for humans. Even our own EPA tells us that Americans can consume 17 times more glyphosate in our drinking water than European residents. The EWG asserts that 160 ppb of glyphosate found in breakfast cereal is […]

09/04/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Vietnam demands Monsanto pay hundreds of millions in damages to victims of Agent Orange

A recent U.S. court ruling that forced Monsanto to pay out more than $289 million to school a groundskeeper who got terminal cancer after using its Roundup weed killer is reigniting calls by Vietnam for the company to compensate victims of its Agent Orange chemical. Monsanto supplied Agent Orange to the U.S. military during the […]

07/12/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Global chemical giants knew about the health dangers of dioxins DECADES before Vietnam

Among the many horrors of the Vietnam War was the United States military’s spraying of Agent Orange, a highly toxic defoliant, throughout the rainforests of the South Pacific. This egregious military action resulted in countless injuries and deaths – its lingering effects still rearing their ugly head today in veterans who were exposed to it […]

04/20/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

A match made in Hell: Monsanto-Bayer merger gets the green light… farmers are worried, as they should be

As hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto for personal injury and wrongful death move forward, German pharmaceutical company Bayer has been given the green light to acquire Monsanto in a deal surpassing $60 billion. The mega monopoly merger was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice in April. Instead of breaking monopolies up, the U.S. encourages monopolies […]

02/20/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

GMO corn driving up use of dangerous pesticides

A very dramatic rise in the use of pesticides on Vermont dairy farms was uncovered following a recent public records request. According to the pesticide use data from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the use of glyphosate more than doubled in the years from 2014 to 2016, while corn-related pesticide use climbed […]

05/23/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Science-based GMO website filters out corporate propaganda

In 1992, scientists at the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) made a ruling that has forever changed our world. Over a quarter of a century ago, the FDA sold out to corporations and boldly proclaimed that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were a safe and efficient means of food production. At the time they stated, “the agency is not […]

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