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03/13/2019 / By Rhonda Johansson

Tenneessee restricts use of Monsanto herbicide dicamba as damage to food crops spreads

Monsanto remains unfazed with Tennessee’s recently imposed restrictions against its dicamba pesticides. The state officially became the fourth in the nation to ban or limit the use of dicamba after evidence was presented suggesting that drifting from the herbicide compromised surrounding crops not genetically modified to withstand it. Tennessee followed Illinois, Kansas, and Arkansas in […]

02/28/2019 / By Tracey Watson

It’s time to look at soil health: Synthetic fertilizers, herbicides have taken an enormous toll, with long-term consequences

The thing about soil is that you cannot tell how healthy it is just by looking at it, and it can take years to determine the long-term effects of what you put in to it. For this reason, agrochemical companies have been able to push the use of harmful pesticides and other chemicals for decades […]

02/24/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

Glyphosate found to attack our immunity: Here’s how to reverse its effects

If you’ve had the misfortune of getting sick this winter, there’s a good chance the experience has left you seeking ways to enhance your immunity. While eating foods rich in vitamins and using herbs like echinacea can make a difference, there’s one way you can help out your immune system that you might have overlooked: […]

02/14/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

Some of the most popular orange juice brands found to be contaminated with glyphosate weedkiller

Many people think of orange juice as a health food because it comes from fruit. Although it’s undoubtedly better to eat the whole fruit from a nutritional standpoint, drinking orange juice certainly isn’t bad, right? The scary truth is that if you consume one of the many popular brands of orange juice recently found to […]

02/14/2019 / By Ethan Huff

“Determined” French farmer who became disabled following exposure to Monsanto’s “Lasso” weedkiller now suing chemical giant

For more than a decade, French farmer Paul François has been seeking justice against Monsanto, the world’s most evil corporation, over injuries he incurred as a result of using the Missouri-based chemical giant’s “Lasso” weedkiller on his crops. And despite numerous setbacks, he’s still just as “determined” as ever, according to his lawyer, to achieve […]

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 […]

01/16/2019 / By Earl Garcia

Evidence suggests glyphosate standards are failing to protect the public

Current standards for glyphosate use may not be effectively protecting the general public against the chemical’s adverse health effects, a team of health experts suggest. Despite there being more than 1,500 clinical studies done on the effects of glyphosate exposure in the last decade, there is still a severe lack of a systematic monitoring system […]

01/16/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

The science is pouring in: You’re probably eating Roundup herbicide in “excessive” levels

How much Roundup have you consumed this week? This question might sound like a joke, but the amount of the toxic weed killer that people consume unwittingly is certainly no laughing matter. Most people have no idea just how widely used this chemical is. Now that Monsanto has genetically engineered crops to stand up to […]

12/27/2018 / By Ethan Huff

First-ever comprehensive project finds that 93% of Americans have glyphosate in their bodies

If you think the proliferation of crop chemicals throughout the environment isn’t all that big of a deal, think again. A comprehensive analysis of glyphosate in particular – glyphosate being the main ingredient in Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) Roundup herbicide – found that a shocking 93 percent of all people have the chemical lingering inside their […]

12/09/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Journal corrections on glyphosate review confirms what we’ve been saying for years: Monsanto released ghostwritten papers declaring supposed “safety” of their pesticides

Monsanto, the manufacturer of the popular glyphosate herbicide Roundup, does such a good job of trying to downplay the health dangers of glyphosate that you might almost be tempted to believe them. When detractors try to claim that Monsanto themselves were behind studies that supposedly show the pesticides are safe, it’s easy for the firm […]

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