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Genetically modified organism

Earlier this month the State Supreme Court of West Virginia dealt a huge blow to the biotech company Monsanto, ordering it to pay $93 million to the…
It is often said that if it can be imagined, it will inevitably be done. And such a sentiment could not be any truer in…
A Danish authority has now declared glyphosate a human carcinogen and says “don’t use it.” Will this declaration begin a rash of warnings from around…
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to hide the…
An increasing number of countries are banning Monsanto’s cancer-linked Roundup herbicide, a.k.a. glyphosate. Others are banning Monsanto’s GMOs. Meanwhile, Monsanto-funded U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton…
Contrary to the beliefs of some, science is not an impenetrable body of settled fact that must be defended at all costs in the name…
Want more proof that Monsanto’s demise is imminent? In a recently published Nielsen study of 30,000 consumers, 80 percent of respondents said they would pay more for foods that indicate a degree…
When news circulated that the first people to consume a new GMO banana would be student guinea pigs at Iowa State University, the university community…
How did the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act (Proposition 37), get defeated in 2012 despite the state's high level of food awareness of activism?…
I am an organic farmer in Ecuador. My wife and I moved here almost five years ago from Chicago to retire. I knew almost nothing…
In 2012, Professsor Seralini of the University of Caen in France led a team that carried out research into the health impacts on rats fed GMOs (genetically modified organisms). The two-year long…
If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people’s consent if it is to…