Monsanto

Activists, Farmers, Indigenous People March Against Monsanto

May 22, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, health, Monsanto

By Nika Knight for CommonDreams. Anti-corporate activists, organic farmers, Indigenous peoples, environmental groups and others took to the streets across six continents and over 400 cities on Saturday in a global grassroots march against bioengineering giant Monsanto. "The fight against corporate control of our food is global," a food sovereignty campaigner with UK-based nonprofit Global Justice Now rallied the crowd marching in London. The grassroots March Against Monstanto campaign began in 2013 as a coordinated movement to "take back the food supply." This year's march takes place amid allegations of collusion and industry rigging of the regulatory processes surrounding the company's toxic weedkiller Roundup and GMO crops in Europe and the United States.

West Coast Cities Sue Monsanto To Pay For Chemical Cleanup

May 20, 2016 Sarah Gilman, www.hcn.org Resist! Chemicals, Lawsuit, Monsanto, West

By Sarah Gilman for High Country News - Portland, Oregon’s Willamette is no wilderness river. But on a spring day, downstream of downtown, wildness peeks through. Thick forest rises beyond a tank farm on the west bank. A sea lion thrashes to the surface, wrestling a salmon. And as Travis Williams, executive director of the nonprofit Willamette Riverkeeper, steers our canoe under a train bridge — dodging debris tossed by jackhammering workers — ospreys wing into view. The 10-mile reach, known as Portland Harbor, became a Superfund Site in 2000.

Glyphosate Report Raises Questions Over EPA’s Ties To Monsanto

May 11, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Educate! EPA, glyphosate, Monsanto

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is questioning why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted and then suddenly pulled its highly anticipated risk assessment of glyphosate, the main ingredient in weedkillers such as Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Roundup. On April 29, the EPA’s Cancer Assessment Review Committee published a report online about glyphosate concluding that the chemical is not likely carcinogenic to humans. However, even though it was marked “Final” and was signed by 13 members of CARC, the report disappeared from the website three days later.

68 Monsanto-Owned Companies To Boycott

May 7, 2016 Liivi Hess, www.thealternativedaily.com Resist! boycott, GMOs, Monsanto

By Liivi Hess for The Alternative Daily - The controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been raging since their introduction in the mid-1990s. The many scientists, organizations, governments and members of the public who are against GMOs have expressed concerns about the safety of the foods themselves, as well as the agricultural practices they are proliferating. On the other hand, corporate agricultural forces and food manufacturers have promoted GMOs, touting them as the solution to the world’s food shortage problem and an important foundation for the future of humankind.

Monsanto Profits Drop 25% As Farmers, Individuals Go Organic

April 12, 2016 Mike Barrett, www.globalresearch.ca Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto, Organic

By Mike Barrett for Global Research News - For Monsanto’s 2nd quarter, total sales for Monsanto dropped 13%; with one of Monsanto’s top-sellers, corn seeds, falling 11%. The biotech giant cites an “unfavorable agricultural market” for its losses. While the company is admittedly still seeing profits in the billions, the continuous decline paints a bleak picture for the agricultural giant. It means that the massive grassroots movement against Big Biotech giants such as Monsanto is working, and that our collective voice is being more than heard.

Monsanto’s Evil Twin: Disturbing Facts About Fertilizer Industry

April 12, 2016 Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

By Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins for Organic Consumers Association - What do you know about the worldwide chemical fertilizer industry? If you’re like most people, not much. There’s plenty of press coverage and consumer awareness when it comes to genetically engineered food and crops, and the environmental hazards of pesticides and animal drugs. But the fertilizer industry? Not so much—even though it’s the largest segment of corporate agribusiness ($175 billion in annual sales), and a major destructive force in polluting the environment, disrupting the climate, and damaging public health.

Petition Demands EPA Revoke License Of Glyphosate

April 7, 2016 Lydia Wheeler, www.thehill.com Resist! EPA, Herbicides, Monsanto, Petitions

By Lydia Wheeler for The Hill - More than 14,000 people have signed a petition that asks the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke the license for glyphosate — the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. “Recent tests have found glyphosate/Roundup in our water, urine, breast milk, food, beer and now, wine — even organic wine from vineyards which do not use Roundup,” Moms Across America wrote in the Care2 petition. Last April, the United Nations World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released a scientific assessment that found glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

Breaking News: Monsanto Dark Act Defeated In Senate

March 16, 2016 the Center for Food Safety, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

By the Center for Food Safet for Ecowatch. The US Senate refused to include a policy rider in the must-pass federal omnibus spending bill that would have blocked states from implementing mandatory genetically engineered (GE) food labeling laws. Three states—Connecticut, Maine and Vermont—have passed such laws, with Vermont’s slated be to be the first to go into effect in July 2016. All three democratically passed laws would have been nullified, while any future state GE labeling legislation would have been preempted. More than 30 states have introduced bills to labeling GE foods in just the past few years. This is an amazing people powered victory over one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Monsanto wanted this badly to stop the labeling movement at the state level, but the people defeated them.

Widow Sues Monsanto Over Husband’s Cancer

March 13, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Cancer, glyphosate, health, Monsanto

By Lorraine Chow for EcoWatch. Cambria, CA - A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Monsanto Co. by the widow of a prominent Cambria, California farmer alleging that Monsanto had known for years that exposure to glyphosate—the main ingredient in the agribusiness giant’s flagship weedkiller Roundup—could cause cancer and other serious illnesses or injuries. The lawsuit, which seeks wrongful death and punitive damages, was filed today in Los Angeles federal court by attorneys Michael Baum, Cynthia Garber and Brent Wisner of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of Kennedy & Madonna on behalf of Teri McCall. Teri McCall claims Roundup caused her husband of 40-years, Anthony Jackson “Jack” McCall, to develop terminal cancer after he used the herbicide on his 20-acre fruit and vegetable farm for nearly 30 years.

The United States of Monsanto?

March 12, 2016 Wenonah Hauter, www.commondreams.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Legislation, Monsanto

By Wenonah Hauter for Common Dreams - This week thousands of Americans took time out of their busy days to call their Senators to demand that they vote against the DARK Act, a bill sponsored by Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, which would prevent consumers from knowing if the food they eat and feed their families contains genetically engineered (GMO) ingredients. Their support for GMO labeling was echoed by more than 600 organizations, including farming and fishing groups and food companies, representing tens of millions of members and customers who this week also urged the Senate to reject this troubling bill.

Pave Grand Canyon, Monsanto’s Clean Slate & Activists In City Hall

March 10, 2016 Staff, www.occupy.com Resistance Report Grand Canyon, Monsanto

By Staff of Occupy - This week, the Grand Canyon is so breathtaking and gorgeous that we just can't stand it any longer. Let's talk about the two big plans to destroy this pristine beauty and what you can do about it. Next up, Monsanto is poisoning people, but that's nothing new. And after four decades, one measly clause in a house bill could wipe their legal slate clean. Finally, Daniel Lee has occupied the streets, organized and appeared at rallies and actions for years. Now, he's taking that fight into a bid for political office. But first, an ode to a stoic beauty.

EU Countries Launch Rebellion Against Glyphosate

March 6, 2016 Staff, www.sustainablepulse.com Resist! European Union (EU), glyphosate, health, Monsanto

By Sustainable Pulse. The Netherlands and Sweden have joined France on Saturday in coming out strongly against the re-licensing of glyphosate-based herbicides in Europe. The remarkable rebellion against the World’s most used herbicide is likely to delay the expected March 8 EU vote by member countries on the re-licensing of the chemical. Public pressure against glyphosate in countries across Europe has been intense, with nearly 1.5 million people petitioning the EU’s health commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis, for a ban on the substance, the Guardian reported. After a Dutch parliament vote opposing the renewal of glyphosate’s permit, the Netherlands called for a postponement of the EU-wide decision.

Doctors Warn Monsanto Larvicide Is Behind Birth Defects

February 21, 2016 Staff, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! health, Monsanto, Pesticides

By Mint Press News Desk. RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Brazil — Doctors’ groups from Brazil and Argentina warn that it may be a larvicide used to kill mosquitos — not the Zika virus — that’s behind a sudden spike in cases of microcephaly in Brazilian newborns. Most medical authorities, including those from the Brazilian government and the World Health Organization, suspect that Zika is causing a sharp increase in microcephaly, an extremely rare birth defect that causes reduced brain development and lifelong developmental difficulties. The ties between the virus and microcephaly are considered strong but largely circumstantial. Outside of Brazil and French Polynesia, none of the pregnant women infected with the virus have produced microcephalic infants. And while Colombia had identified 2,100 diagnosed cases of Zika in pregnant women as of Feb. 1, there have been no reported cases of microcephaly.

Monsanto’s Minions In Senate Move To Kill GMO Labeling

February 21, 2016 Staff, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food Safety, GMOs, Labeling, Monsanto

By the Organic Consumers Association. Now that we’re so close to our first big GMO labeling victory—Vermont's mandatory labeling law scheduled to take effect July 1—Monsanto is going with the only strategy it has left to block it: a Senate version of the DARK Act. Roberts’ Senate bill is not identical to H.R. 1599, or what we refer to as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act. But it aims to accomplish the same thing: block states from passing mandatory GMO labeling laws. If Roberts' bill makes it through the Senate, either as is, or with a "compromise" that involves delaying the implementation of Vermont's law, mandatory labeling will die.

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