Monsanto

Seattle Becomes 6th City To Sue Monsanto Over PCB’s

January 31, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Monsanto, PCB's, Seattle, Toxic Chemicals

By Lorraine Chow for EcoWatch. Seattle joins the growing list of cities in the American West that has slapped Monsanto with a PCB lawsuit. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, is a highly toxic chemical that the company manufactured decades ago. The complaint, filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleges that Monsanto knew that the chemicals were polluting the environment and causing harm to people and wildlife, said Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes. Monsanto has faced a spate of PCB contamination lawsuits over the decades and several this year alone. In 2015, the cities of Spokane, San Diego, San Jose and Oakland also sued the company over PCB-contaminated sites. It has been reported that Monsanto allegedly knew that PCBs were toxic well before the 1979 ban but continued production of the profitable compound anyway. Think Progress reported: "In a 1970 internal memo, agrochemical giant Monsanto alerted its development committee to a problem: Polychlorinated Biphenyls—known as PCBs—had been shown to be a highly toxic pollutant."

Berkeley Votes To Sue Monsanto For PCB Contamination

January 14, 2016 Walter Einenkel, www.dailykos.com Resist! Berkeley, Monsanto, Water

By Walter Einenkel for Daily Kos - California, like many places in the United States, has pollution problems. The Bay Area’s waterways have some of the worst plastic pollution around. Monsanto used to produce chemicals, once used far and wide to lubricate machinery, in inks, paints, caulking, and more—called PCBs. PCBs are most likely straight-up cancer-causing poison. Over the decades, many places around our country have found outrageous levels of PCB contamination in their waters. Places like New York are embroiled in controversies surrounding PCB contaminators who prefer to have tax breaks than actually pay to clean up the polluted mess they made.

Organic Farmers Score Victory In ‘David And Goliath’ GMO Fight

January 6, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto, Oregon, Pesticides

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Jackson County, Oregon wins new protections against cultivation of genetically engineered crops. Organic farmers are racking up new victories in the fight against 'franken-food', as a growing number of counties line up to bar genetically engineered (GE) crop cultivation throughout the country. A federal judge in Jackson County, Oregon recently upheld a consent decree that designates the region a "GE-free zone," a ruling which officially protects the decree from appeal, granting new protections to farmers, consumers, and the environment.

Monsanto Will Go On Trial In International Court

December 4, 2015 Staff, www.organicconsumers.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

By Staff of Organic Consumers Association - PARIS – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will put Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, on trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016. The announcement was made at a press conference held in conjunction with the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, November 30 – December 11, in Paris.

$10 Million Challenge To Monsanto: Prove Your Crops Are Safe

November 13, 2015 Staff, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! GMOs, Monsanto

By Staff of Mint Press News - MINNEAPOLIS — An outspoken opponent of Monsanto’s genetically-modified crops recently challenged the agribusiness giant to prove that it’s working with safety assessment standards for its GMO soybeans and other products. If Monsanto follows through, the challenger’s Boston-area property could be at stake. Shiva Ayyadurai, an American scientist with a PhD in systems biology from MIT, challenged Monsanto Corporation to disprove a study published in Agricultural Sciences, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

100+ Monsanto Employees Crash Presentation On GE Crops & Pesticides

November 7, 2015 Ashley Lukens, www.http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/blog/4098/last-week-on-molokai Educate! Monsanto

By Ashley Lukens for Center For Food Safety - On Oct 14th, I presented the findings of our Pesticides in Paradise report on the island of Moloka‘i. At around 5:45 PM, about 15 minutes before the presentation was going to start, 100+ Monsanto employees, all dressed in neon yellow shirts, arrived. As I stared at the long line of workers, men and women of all colors and ages and sizes, entering the building, there was a moment when I wanted to walk away. I walked to the bathroom and sat with my face in my hands. I am not brave enough for this confrontation. I am not the right person to deliver this message. I am not strong enough for the yelling and fighting that will likely ensue. Deep breaths. Air punches.

Europe – Big Problem For Biotech Industry

October 22, 2015 Jim Goodman, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

By Jim Goodman for Popular Resistance. Wonewoc, WI - The US farm press is a segment of the media that most people never see. The glossy magazines tell farmers everything they need to know in order to be successful, efficient and progressive--- that is, in constant growth mode. Most have no subscription fees, there are plenty of advertisers to cover costs. Editorial content is clearly tailored to keeping advertisers happy. By supporting the trend to bigger farms, they also support the sale of bigger and more expensive machinery. Labor management articles clue farmers in on how to keep the growing Hispanic agricultural labor force productive. Editorials endorsing Genetically Modified (GM) seed, the associated pesticides and their inherent ability to feed the world are frequent and insistent.

Monsanto To Cut 2,600 Jobs As World Rejects Products & Practices

October 19, 2015 Staff, www.theantimedia.org Educate! Monsanto

By Staff of Anti-Media - St. Louis, MO — Monsanto — the world’s largest seed producer and chemical-biotech giant — recently announced it would cut 12% of its employees due to an historic decline in stock value. As Bloomberg reports: “Monsanto Co. said it will eliminate 2,600 jobs as part of a cost-savings plan, joining a growing list of major corporations struggling to contain the damage from the decline in world commodities prices. “The St. Louis-based agricultural giant announced the reductions — the equivalent of 12 percent of its workforce — as it reported a loss of 19 cents a share in the fiscal fourth quarter and warned profit would remain weak through 2016.”

Lawsuits Piling Up Against Monsanto’s Herbicide Glyphosate & Cancer

October 17, 2015 Carey Gillam, www.reuters.com Resist! Monsanto

By Carey Gillam for Reuters - Personal injury law firms around the United States are lining up plaintiffs for what they say could be "mass tort" actions against agrichemical giant Monsanto Co that claim the company's Roundup herbicide has caused cancer in farm workers and others exposed to the chemical. The latest lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Delaware Superior Court by three law firms representing three plaintiffs. The lawsuit is similar to others filed last month in New York and California accusing Monsanto of long knowing that the main ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, was hazardous to human health.

Activists Prepare for 2015 Food Justice March at Nation’s Capitol

October 14, 2015 Nick Meyer, www.march-against-monsanto.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

By Nick Meyer for March Agaisnt Monsanto - The Monsanto Company has thrived in large part due to their secrecy, and our ignorance (fueled by willful media ignorance, of course). But in 2015 more people than ever before are waking up, and standing up, to the Monsanto machine, resulting in what may have been the most difficult year in their long, sordid history. This year alone, Monsanto has been reeling from the following events and developments: Roundup Causes Cancer, WHO Shows- According to the World Health Organization, Monsanto’s flagship, best-selling weedkiller, Roundup, is a “probable human carcinogen.”

Why Is There So Much False Monsanto GMO Propaganda?

October 10, 2015 Katherine Paul, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Monsanto

By Katherine Paul for Organic Consumers Organization, The Monsanto public relations machine has done a stellar job in recent years of reducing the GMO debate to one that pits “pro-science advocates” against “anti-science climate-denier types”—with Monsanto portrayed as being squarely planted in the pro-science camp. But that well-oiled machine may be starting to sputter. Turns out that Monsanto executive solicited pro-GMO articles from university researchers, and passed the “research” off as independent science which the biotech giant then used to prop up its image and further its agenda. We know this, thanks to thousands of pages of emails obtained by US Right to Know, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Monsanto And Its Promoters vs. Freedom Of Information

October 4, 2015 Ralph Nader, www.blog.nader.org Create! Democracy, FOIA, Monsanto, Ralph Nader, Transparency

By Ralph Nader for The Nader Page - As the FOIA approaches its 50th year, it faces a disturbing backlash from scientists tied to the agrichemical company Monsanto and its allies. Here are some examples. On March 9th, three former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – all with ties to Monsanto or the biotech industry – wrote in the pages of the Guardian to criticize the use of the state FOIA laws to investigate taxpayer-funded scientists who vocally defend Monsanto, the agrichemical industry, their pesticides, and genetically engineered food. They called the FOIAs an “organized attack on science.” The super-secretive Monsanto has stated, regarding the FOIAs, that “agenda-driven groups often take individual documents or quotes out of context in an attempt to distort the facts, advance their agenda, and stop legitimate research.” Food safety, public health, the commercialization of public universities, corporate control of science, and the research produced by taxpayer-funded scientists to promote commercial products are all appropriate subjects for FOIA requests.

Monsanto’s Documents Reveal Truth Of Toxicological Dangers

September 25, 2015 Richard Gale and Gary Null in Organic Consumers, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto, Public Health

By Richard Gale and Gary Null in Organic Consumers - Over the years a large body of independent research has accumulated and now collectively provides a sound scientific rationale to confirm that glyphosate is far more toxic and poses more serious health risks to animals and humans than Monsanto and the US government admit. Among the many diseases and health conditions non-industry studies identified Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and autism since Roundup has been shown to instigate aluminum accumulation in the brain. The herbicide has been responsible for reproductive problems such as infertility, miscarriages, and neural tube and birth defects. It is a causal agent for a variety of cancers: brain, breast, prostate, lung and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Other disorders include chronic kidney and liver diseases, diabetes, heart disease, hypothyroidism, and leaky gut syndrome.

Mayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law In Guatemala

September 23, 2015 Christin Sandberg, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Guatemala, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Monsanto, Social Movements

By Christin Sandberg in Intercontinental Cry - On September 4th, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan territory, groups of indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when congress finally repealed the legislation that had been approved in June. The demonstrations were concentrated outside the Congress and Constitutional Court in Guatemala City during more than a week, and coincided with several Mayan communities and organizations defending food sovereignty through court injunctions in order to stop the Congress and the President, Otto Perez Molina, from letting the new law on protection of plant varieties, known as the “Monsanto Law”, take effect.

Monsanto Pays “Independent” GMO Researcher For Study

August 18, 2015 Cassius Methyl, www.theantimedia.org Educate! Corruption, GMO, Information, Monsanto, Science

By Cassius Methyl in The Anti-Media - In January of 2015, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Oakland organization U.S. Right to Know requested email records between academics, scientists, and representatives of Big Agriculture. The FOIA requests were sent to 14 scientists at four public universities, requesting information on communications and email records. The FOIA findings included communications of well-known, staunch proponents of GM crops like Kevin Folta, a professor and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Gainesville, who received a $25,000 grant from Monsanto. The emails reveal the funds could “be used at [his] discretion in support of [his] research and outreach projects”. About 4,600 pages of emails, among other records, were obtained from Folta.

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