An Arkansas judge on Friday dismissed a Monsanto Co lawsuit aiming to stop Arkansas from blocking the use of a...
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A win! Buffer zones around CA schools
After years of pressure from communities across California, the state’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) finally took action last week to protect...
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...
THE ORGANIC FOOD AND FARMING MOVEMENT CALLS FOR THE REGULATION OF NEW GENETIC ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AS GMOS
During our General Assembly in New Delhi (India), on 12 November 2017, IFOAM – Organics International adopted a global position(link is...
German Government Negotiators Agree to Reduce Use of Glyphosate Herbicides
Sources in the German Social Democrats (SPD) party have informed Sustainable Pulse on Thursday that the reduction in the use of...
This Weed Killer Is Wreaking Havoc on America’s Crops
When farmer Darvin Bentlage surveyed his southwestern Missouri soybean fields in August, he knew something was amiss in one of them. “I’ve...
SF debates continued use of pesticides to kill vegetation, rats
“Pesticides are scary.” That’s how Chris Geiger, the Department of the Environment’s toxics reduction coordinator, described at a recent meeting...
Flawed EPA Analysis Rejects Finding That Glyphosate Is a Probable Carcinogen
For Immediate Release, December 18, 2017 Contact: Nathan Donley, (971) 717-6406, ndonley@biologicaldiversity.org Flawed EPA Analysis Rejects Finding That Glyphosate Is...
Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide
Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a...
Seeds of disaster: Burkina Faso’s troubles with Monsanto’s GM cotton
Bobo-Dioulasso — In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because...