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10/27/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Tennessee becomes the fourth state to restrict the use of Monsanto herbicide

Tennessee has become the fourth state to impose restrictions on Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, dicamba. Farmers in the state have stated that the herbicide has drifted to neighboring farms, damaging crops that have not been genetically-modified to withstand it. Tennessee follows Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas in holding global giant, Monsanto, responsible for environmental damage. Dicamba is the […]

10/04/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Monsanto caught ghostwriting its own “independent safety reviews” that were published in science journals

Leaked internal documents from Monsanto condemn the already-struggling giant to maintain some level of integrity. Plaintiffs suing the agricultural company are alleging that Monsanto self-wrote several “independent” scientific reviews that “proved” that RoundUp’s main ingredient, glyphosate, was not a carcinogen. This set of internal Monsanto e-mails (which can be seen online) show that the reviews […]

09/05/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Food crops produce more output when they have healthy soil microbes, research confirms… yet glyphosate kills soil life

In an attempt to tease out the nature vs. nurture conundrum in the development of plants, a team of researchers from the University of Queensland analyzed scores of plant genera along the Cooloola dunes from the Great Sandy National Park on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. It was determined that the presence and level of soil microorganisms […]

07/21/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Chemical pesticides, industrial pollution and ecological destruction causing sixth mass extinction on planet Earth

A peer-reviewed analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences classified this age as one of “biological annihilation” — one that has prompted the planet’s sixth mass extinction event. Scientists behind the study threaten that should no policies be made to address this issue now, we may soon be facing catastrophic biodiversity changes. […]

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