GMO

Transforming the Food We Eat With DowDuPont

Transforming the Food We Eat With DowDuPont

By Stacy Malkan The world’s largest pesticide and seed companies want you to believe they are on the side of science. High-tech foods are the future, they say, and people who raise concerns about their pesticides and genetically engineered seeds are “anti-science.” The Atlantic magazine will provide a platform to those industry talking points in […]

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    Monsanto’s Roundup Destroys Healthy Microbes in Humans and in Soils

    Monsanto’s Roundup Destroys Healthy Microbes in Humans and in Soils

    By Julie Wilson We’re only beginning to learn the importance of healthy gut bacteria to our overall health—and the relationship between healthy soil and the human microbiome. We know that the human microbiome, often referred to as our “second brain,” plays a key role in our health, from helping us digest the food we eat, […]

    Hold the Plum Pudding: U.S. Food Sampling Shows Troubling Pesticide Residues

    Hold the Plum Pudding: U.S. Food Sampling Shows Troubling Pesticide Residues

    By Carey Gillam Sometimes the truth about our food is not very appetizing. As many gather this holiday season for shared family meals, it is likely that they’ll be serving up small doses of pesticides with each plate passed, including a prevalent type shown to be harmful to children and reproductive health. New data released […]

    Some Bigelow Tea Not ‘Natural’ Because It Contains Glyphosate, Lawsuit Says

    Some Bigelow Tea Not ‘Natural’ Because It Contains Glyphosate, Lawsuit Says

    The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has filed a lawsuit against R.C. Bigelow, Inc. alleging that glyphosate—the world’s most widely used weedkiller—can be detected in some of the company’s popular tea products. But the consumer interest group is not suing Bigelow due to the presence of the controversial chemical in its tea products (an estimated 0.38 […]

    EPA Says Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Contradicting IARC

    EPA Says Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Contradicting IARC

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on Monday a human health and ecological draft risk assessment for glyphosate, concluding that the widely used—and highly controversial—pesticide is “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” According to the EPA’s announcement, the assessment “found no other meaningful risks to human health when the product is used according […]

    Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide

    Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide

    Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a controversial pesticide linked to 3.1 million acres of crop damage in nearly two dozen heartland states, according to Reuters. The cash-back offer comes as several states are considering restrictions on the use of […]

    Is Big Food’s Lobbying Arm on the Brink of Extinction?

    Is Big Food’s Lobbying Arm on the Brink of Extinction?

    By Katherine Paul At the height of the GMO labeling battle, we not-so-fondly referred to the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) as “Monsanto’s Evil Twin.” Last week, a former GMA executive told Politico that to him, the food industry lobbying group seems like “the dinosaur waiting to die.” For consumers who blame the GMA for engineering […]