Monsanto Wins The Rubber Dodo Award
Monsanto wins! Monsanto wins! Well… sort of. I mean, Monsanto wins the Rubber Dodo Award. Earlier this month, Monsanto was the recipient of the Center for Biological Diversity’s 2015 Rubber Dodo Award, one of the biggest awards you DO NOT EVER want to win. What’s the Rubber Dodo Award for? It’s …given annually to those who have done the most to destroy wild places, species and biological diversity. The...
Glyphosate Lawsuits
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world. Back in March The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that they consider glyphosate to be “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Now people are beginning to sue. The glyphosate lawsuits claim Monsanto knew more about...
Did GMOs Save the Papaya?
The ringspot virus Joni Kamiya’s father runs a third-generation papaya farm located on Oahu’s North Shore. This is all the more reason to listen up when she touts the benefits of GMOs in the papaya – it’s one thing to hear the positives of GMOs from biotech company advocates, quite another from someone who benefits from them personally. The papaya ringspot virus was prevalent for decades and managed for a long...
Monsanto Fire – GMO Facility Nearly Destroyed
Monsanto Fire A Monsanto research facility in western France caught fire in late October. France has a long history of non-GMO activism, increasing speculation that arson was to blame. The fire started in multiple locations, strongly suggesting a deliberate rather than accidental cause, but investigators were unable to find any electrical problems or other potential causes for an accidental blaze. They did report smelling gasoline at...
RESOLVING THE CONTROVERSY
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