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04/04/2022
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By News Editors
Syngenta’s Monsanto moment
As Yogi Berra might say: It’s déjà vu all over again. (Article by Carey Gillam republished from CareyGillam.Substack.com) Five years ago, the once seemingly invincible Monsanto Co. was dealt its first searing courtroom loss over allegations that its glyphosate weed killer causes cancer and Monsanto worked to hide the risks. That loss was followed by another, and another and the […]
07/30/2021
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By News Editors
From Stroessner to Syngenta: Paraguay’s soy conflicts
The ‘soybeanisation’ of the Paraguayan economy has had a devastating impact on the country’s ecology, rural populations and democratic process, but it has been lucrative for foreign corporations and the domestic oligarchy. (Article by Owen Schalk republished from Alborada.net) In 2003, the agrichemical behemoth Syngenta published a controversial advertisement in Argentinian newspapers. It showed a map of South […]
05/21/2021
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By Nolan Barton
Syngenta weed killer trial moved to June, explores whether paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease
A highly anticipated first-ever trial pitting farmers against the global agricultural giant Syngenta AG over allegations that Syngenta’s paraquat weed-killer causes Parkinson’s disease has been moved to June 1 due to a combination of scheduling and COVID issues. The trial, titled Hoffman V. Syngenta, is supposed to begin Monday, May 10, at St. Clair County Circuit […]
07/07/2019
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By Cassie B.
Now Big Ag is trying to own the REST of your food: Syngenta claims they invented non-GMO tomatoes
Have you ever thought about where tomatoes come from? A quick internet search might tell you that they’ve been around since the time of the Aztecs, who ate them in ancient Mesoamerica as far back as 700 A.D. But that’s not what Swiss agrochemical giant company Syngenta would like people to believe. In fact, they’ve […]
03/25/2018
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By David Williams
Stronghold of all the world’s seeds in the Global Seed Vault reaches the one million mark
The world’s largest repository of crop seeds recently celebrated its 10th-year anniversary. And to mark the occasion, it received shipments of more than 70,000 additional crop varieties from a total of 23 different institutions for it to store. This new shipment just about bumped up its number of stored seeds over the one million mark. […]
09/14/2017
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By Michelle Simmons
New study confirms Bayer’s neonic pesticides are destroying honeybee pollinators… yet the EPA does nothing
A new study affirmed that neonicotinoid pesticides — also known as “neonics” which are chemically related to nicotine — harm both honey bees and wild bees, as reported by BBC. Researchers found that the chemical exposure decreased the survival of honey bee hives during winter, while bumblebees and solitary bees produced fewer queens. The study, […]
06/12/2017
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By Russel Davis
Dangerous monopoly on the horizon as five of the “Big 6” agricultural corporations now looking to merge
Six of the world’s biggest agricultural companies known as the “Big 6” may soon form a dangerous monopoly as interest in proposed mergers has become more pronounced in the last few years. For instance, Dow Chemical and DuPont proposed a merger in December 2015, but are slated to eventually separate their merged agriculture, materials science, and specialty products […]
06/11/2017
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By Tracey Watson
Monsanto and other biotech chemical giants just OUTLAWED seed exchanges in Africa … Seed colonization is nearly complete
Monsanto has become infamous for covering up the connection between glyphosate – which constitutes 50 percent of its Roundup weed killer product – and cancer, particularly non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. When the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) determined in 2015 that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans,” there was an immediate backlash […]
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