When farmer Darvin Bentlage surveyed his southwestern Missouri soybean fields in August, he knew something was amiss in one of them. “I’ve...
Tag: Pesticides
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...
Environmentalists say they’ll try to sue German, EU authorities over glyphosate
Environmentalist groups said on Monday that Germany and the European Union had broken the rules when assessing the safety of...
French Court Temporarily Bans Two Pesticides Over Possible Threat to Bees
Bees are behind a French court ruling that suspended the license for two pesticides made by Dow Chemical. Friday’s preliminary ruling by an...
Keepers warn of ‘bee-mageddon’ after France authorises controversial insecticide
French bee keepers are up in arms over the authorisation of an insecticide they warn could sound the death knell...
6 Ways This Ivy League University Is Acting Like a PR Firm for Junk Food, GMOs and Pesticides
Consumers lose when professors get their marching orders from Big Ag and Big Food. If a scientist has a relationship...
Monsanto and the Causes of Cancer: Did Former US EPA Official Influence the European Food Safety Authority’s Verdict on Glyphosate Herbicide?
EFSA fails to provide evidence to support its decision to dismiss a key study showing glyphosate is carcinogenic. The European...
Monsanto in Mexico | Breaking News: Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ban on Transgenic Corn
Moderator’s Note: We have been waiting for news on this important case, the latest, and perhaps the last, in a ten-year...
Pima County has better options than Monsanto
As a Pima County planning and zoning commissioner for the past 12 years, I have witnessed the county’s impressive record...
SHAKA Movement – Year in Review
It has been an exciting and challenging year for SHAKA Movement and the sister organization SAFE and the Safe Action Fund....