In his inaugural speech, Boris Johnson said that he wants to “liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.”
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In his inaugural speech, Boris Johnson said that he wants to “liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.”
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After years of falling farm income and an intensifying U.S.-China trade war – JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks are massively decreasing their agricultural loan portfolio.
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Austria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill banning all uses of the super-toxic weedkiller glyphosate.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her country’s lower house on Wednesday that glyphosate use will eventually die out – a stunning proclamation given that Bayer just purchased this product in its acquisition of Monsanto.
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The USDA announced the discovery of unapproved GMO wheat plants in Washington state and said there is no evidence that it had entered the food supply.
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France added 5,000 organic farms last year, and its total organic acreage now accounts for 7.5% of all farmland in the country.
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Starbucks is investing $100 million in a newly created fund — to be managed by Tesla investor Valor Equity Partners — to promote companies developing new technologies and products for the food and retail industries.
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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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Major French retailer Carrefour is joining up with other with food companies, including Danone, to launch “MiiMOSA Transition”, a crowdfunding project to help farmers switch to organic farming.
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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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India’s Supreme Court just ruled that Monsanto can claim patents on its GM-cotton seeds, a decision that is expected to encourage other ag-biotech companies to increase their investment in the country.
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A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging that Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer has issued a ruling that could severely restrict evidence that the plaintiffs consider crucial to their cases.
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At an Investor Seminar in London, the world’s biggest yogurt maker said that it expects to triple the size of the plant-based business to $5.75 billion by 2025.
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The small Indian state of Sikkim went 100% organic in 2016 and is now showing the rest of the world that an agricultural policy devoid of toxic chemicals is a profitable and prosperous model. Love it!
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In a quest to grow its organic food business, French retailing giant Carrefour has named Danone CEO Emmanuel Faber to a special advisory committee.
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With California’s landmark court case ruling that Monsanto’s Roundup was responsible for a groundskeeper’s cancer, the number of lawsuits against the company has grown to more than 8,000.
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As part of its partnership with Alibaba, Kroger will now be selling its Simple Truth organic and natural products to Chinese consumers.
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Danone Manifesto Ventures is planning to have invested in 20-25 food startups by 2020, with a focus on healthy drinks, snacks, baby food and alternative protein sources.
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A strain of unapproved GMO wheat from Monsanto was found in Canada, which prompted Japan and South Korea to halt imports from the country.
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Germany is close to banning the use of the herbicide glyphosate in household gardens, parks and sports facilities, along with serious limits for its use in agriculture.
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A new report has found that lockers installed at Whole Foods’ locations have resulted in an increase in “micro visits” to the stores.
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In an important ruling, the EU’s General Court said that consumer and environmental groups could challenge the way the European Commission authorizes the sale of GMOs.
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A European court has ruled that mutagenesis, a gene-editing technique, is exempt from GMO rules.
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A lawsuit against the retailer claims that it sold organic eggs laid by hens raised in enclosed structures when the package labels said the birds had access to the outdoors.
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