Tag: Monsanto
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Neil Young Takes on Monsanto and GMOs
“Let the farmers grow what they wanna grow.” This is a line in Neil Young’s first single off his anti-GMO album The Monsanto Years, which came out June 29 of this year. The song is called “A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop,” and it calls out Starbucks and Monsanto. Listen to the song and…
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A Must-Watch Video About Monsanto and GMOs
Monsanto now has control over as much as 90 percent of seed genetics on the planet. Why does this matter? Watch this humorous, entertaining, and chillingly accurate 5-minute video to find out. Then tell everyone you know. Want to take action? Share this video! And if you want to go further, you can join the Food…
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Monsanto, RoundUp and Junk Science
By Michael Hansen, Ph.D • Senior Scientist with Consumers Union Last weekend demonstrators joined a March Against Monsanto in some 428 cities in 38 countries, including more than 240 cities in the U.S. alone. What exactly has so many people riled up? Monsanto, of course, is an agrichemical and biotech giant, responsible for more than…
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The Daily Show takes on Monsanto
In this Daily Show special report, Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi find out that greedy farmers have threatened the livelihood of Monsanto’s heroic patent attorneys. Spoiler alert: It’s hilarious! (Apologies for the 30 second ad.)
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BREAKING NEWS: GMO labeling has the votes to win in Oregon
UPDATE: Oregon’s GMO Labeling initiative is now “too close to call”. The latest data has Oregon’s Measure 92 trailing by less than 850 votes, with a mandated recount now a certainty. Get the latest vote count data here: oregonvotes.gov/results/2014G/1029276478.html Watch the stunning Fox News story about the historic shift from “no” to “too close to call” here.…
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Huge news for the birds and the bees
Albert Einstein once said that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years to live.” Whether or not his statement is exactly accurate, it highlights how deeply dependent we are on bees for our food and nutrition. Traditionally, beekeepers have reported annual hive losses of 5 to…
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U.S. Government Ties El Salvador USD 277 M Aid Package to Monsanto’s GMO Seeds
It has come to light that the U.S. government is withholding $277 million in aid money from El Salvador in order to pressure it to accept Monsanto’s GM seeds. The President of the El Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technologies (CESTA), Ricardo Navarro, has demanded that the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Carmen Aponte, stops…
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Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies are Spinning the Bee Crisis to Protect Profits
Michele Simon was a speaker in the 2012 Food Revolution Summit. Recently she released a report, produced in tandem with Friends Of the Earth, to bring attention to the dire situation of declining bee populations caused by pesticides. You can find the report here, and read a summary below. If you like to eat, then you should care about what’s…
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Study: Glyphosate Doubles Risk Of Lymphoma
Scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer have found what appears to be a strong link between pesticide exposure and a blood cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Analyzing 44 individual research projects published since 1980, the scientists, writing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, said that people exposed to the…
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All Eyes on Washington State for GE Food Labeling
By Michele Simon While the food movement has been gaining steam in recent years, tangible policy wins have been sparse due to by powerful industry lobbying. One significant victory that appears within reach is the labeling of genetically engineered foods. The narrow loss last fall of Proposition 37 in California has inspired 26 other states to propose…
