With increasing demand for plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy, researchers in the UK are looking for more sustainable alternatives to imported soy beans. They are working to develop a new kind of pea that lacks the typical flavor of peas and could be a more neutral-tasting substitute. “The world has changed,” Claire Domoney, a […]
Monsanto has officially broken ground on a $975 million expansion to its Luling plant in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. The facility will manufacture dicamba, a controversial herbicide used in the company’s new XtendiMax weedkiller for GMO soybeans and cotton. Despite the company’s promise to bring 120 new full-time jobs to the area, it seems many […]
Before Inauguration Day, the Trump era has opened with an extremist agenda that poses an alarming threat to our people, our environment and the core values we share about justice, fair play and our commitment to leave future generations a livable world. Already, we’ve seen a set of cabinet nominees dominated by fossil fuel advocates, […]
One of the main concerns of the anti-GMO crowd is the supposed outsized influence that the biotech industry has over academia, science and public policy. For instance, you might have heard of the term “Monsanto shill“—which refer to professors, scientists and politicians who are paid to push certain products. 13 Academics Who Are Shills for […]
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has been nominated to serve as U .S. Ambassador to China in Donald Trump‘s Administration, a pick that has some of Big Ag’s biggest players celebrating. Donald Trump has chosen Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as ambassador to China. Twitter Branstad is the longest-serving governor in U.S. history with 22 non-consecutive years […]
An article in Sunday’s New York Times has struck a blow to the argument that genetically modified (GMO) crops will help “feed the world.” A New York Times report concluded that, compared to Western Europe, the United States and Canada have “no discernible advantage” in yields after embracing GMOs.Flickr Investigative reporter Danny Hakim’s piece argues […]
By Christina Sarich One of Monsanto‘s former companies, among nine contractors responsible for creating Agent Orange, sprayed more than 20 million gallons of the herbicide on an area of South Vietnam about the size of the state of Massachusetts between 1962 and 1971. In a caustic plot twist, the Vietnamese government says it hopes to […]
India is steeped in a synthesized controversy created by Monsanto on the first GMO crop supposedly approved for commercialization. Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert India’s patent laws: Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, Essential Commodities Act and Competition Act. It is behaving as if there is no […]
On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and a small band of supporters set off on a 241-mile march across western India. Gandhi had devised the walk as an act of nonviolent protest against the British colonial government’s salt monopoly, which placed tariffs on the mineral and forbid Indians from producing it. Upon arriving at the […]
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