As part of their new 2-year testing program, The Detox Project and Mamavation found that best-selling organic pea protein products were contaminated with glyphosate.
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As part of their new 2-year testing program, The Detox Project and Mamavation found that best-selling organic pea protein products were contaminated with glyphosate.
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In recently released records, it was revealed that a domestic policy adviser at the White House said, “We have Monsanto’s back on pesticide regulation.”
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With the fear of lawsuits from nearby cannabis growers, the livelihood of organic avocado farmers in California is hanging in the balance.
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A jury in California has awarded a couple $2 billion for Monsanto’s Roundup causing them cancer, the third legal victory of its kind.
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In defiance of the federal government, California decides to cancel the registration of this brain-harming pesticide in the state.
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Despite the fact the Trump administration’s own officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry found a link between glyphosate and cancer just a few weeks ago, the EPA has announced that this herbicide is safe.
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A federal appeals court has given the EPA 90 days to justify why the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos should stay on the market.
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30 environmental and farm advocacy groups have urged the EPA to deny Monsanto’s request to increase the spraying of dicamba.
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A sobering look at how both Democrats and Republicans have put the interests of chemical companies ahead of American citizens.
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Experts are growing increasingly concerned about what this chemical is doing to the soil’s microbiome and how glyphosate poses a real threat to long-term food security.
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A jury has awarded Edwin Hardeman $80 million in damages, whose lawyers argued that the glyphosate-based herbicide caused his cancer after more than two decades of Roundup usage on his property.
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Private property owners in Portland, Maine can now only use organic treatments for gardens and lawns.
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Over the past two years, dicamba has been widely sprayed on Monsanto’s GMO soybeans and cotton, causing damage unprecedented in the history of modern agriculture.
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A German newspaper is reporting that organic imports into the EU from China, Turkey and India are the ones most tainted with pesticides.
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The Environmental Working Group has released its annual Dirty Dozen list, and right on cue, the pro-pesticide group the Alliance for Food & Farming is outraged.
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In another blow to Bayer/Monsanto, a California court ruled that the company’s weedkiller caused cancer, only 8 months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case.
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In a bid to save its critically important Biscayne Bay, Miami has banned the super-toxic weedkiller glyphosate, something that other Florida cities have already done.
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Many French winemakers want to wean themselves off the toxic herbicide, but they need help from the government in order to accelerate this transition.
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Another day, another story of widespread glyphosate contamination. This time, U.S. Pirg found the toxic weedkiller in 19 out of 20 beer and wine brands tested, including organic ones.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that in 2018 it issued so-called “emergency” approvals to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide the agency considers “very highly toxic” to bees — on more than 16 million acres of crops known to attract bees.
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A new peer-reviewed study compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four families across the country on a non-organic and organic diet. The results? Pesticides in their bodies dropped up to 95% within one week on an organic diet.
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Some encouraging news out of Europe. A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkillers over safety concerns, placing an immediate ban on Roundup Pro 360 in the latest legal blow to the Bayer-owned business.
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A new report from the peer-reviewed scientific journal Environmental Sciences Europe shows that the EPA ignored a large number of peer-reviewed independent studies that link glyphosate to cancer in humans, instead using research paid for by Monsanto to support the agency’s position that glyphosate is not carcinogenic.
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Shocking but not shocking. The Guardian is claiming that EU regulators literally copy-and-pasted sections from Monsanto’s own studies when creating an “independent” safety report on the controversial weedkiller glyphosate.
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