After years of pressure from communities across California, the state’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) finally took action last week to protect...
Month: January 2018
24.012018January 31, 2018
Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Opinion Piece, a Hit on Organic Food
By Stacy Malkan “The campaign for organic food is a deceitful, expensive scam,” according to a Jan. 19 Newsweek articleauthored by Dr. Henry...
15.012018January 15, 2018
THE ORGANIC FOOD AND FARMING MOVEMENT CALLS FOR THE REGULATION OF NEW GENETIC ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AS GMOS
By AdministratorIn Articles, FeaturedTags Cancer, Chemicals, General Assembly in New Delhi, GMO, Organic
During our General Assembly in New Delhi (India), on 12 November 2017, IFOAM – Organics International adopted a global position(link is...
12.012018January 15, 2018
German Government Negotiators Agree to Reduce Use of Glyphosate Herbicides
By AdministratorIn Articles, Breaking News, FeaturedTags Chemicals, Environmental Impact, Europe, Glyphosate
Sources in the German Social Democrats (SPD) party have informed Sustainable Pulse on Thursday that the reduction in the use of...
10.012018January 15, 2018
This Weed Killer Is Wreaking Havoc on America’s Crops
By AdministratorIn Articles, Breaking News, FeaturedTags Chemicals, Dicamba, Environmental Impact, Pesticides
When farmer Darvin Bentlage surveyed his southwestern Missouri soybean fields in August, he knew something was amiss in one of them. “I’ve...
09.012018January 15, 2018
SF debates continued use of pesticides to kill vegetation, rats
By AdministratorIn Articles, Breaking News, FeaturedTags California, Cancer, Chemicals, Glyphosate, Pesticides, World Health Organization
“Pesticides are scary.” That’s how Chris Geiger, the Department of the Environment’s toxics reduction coordinator, described at a recent meeting...