Tag: Monsanto

Monsanto, the biotech giant, has become the poster-child for all that’s wrong with our industrial food and farming system.

Long Beach says it has “incurred substantial costs” cleaning up the chemicals and is seeking compensatory and punitive damages for public nuisance and costs of suit.

Biodiversity and small farmers are the foundation of food security, not corporations like Monsanto which are destroying biodiversity and pushing farmers to suicide.

Monsanto has vehemently denied cancer claims of its blockbuster product and has demanded a retraction of the IARC report.

The cartoonist drew a cartoon depicting the ridiculous profits Big Ag makes in contrast to local farmers.

Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir have published two new interactive maps showing where glyphosate is being sprayed in California’s Bay Area and Portland.

The currently catastrophic, but largely unrecognized, greenhouse gas damage from chemical farms and industrial food production and distribution must be reversed.

Monsanto maintains that their product is safe, and that the recent arguments over glyphosate or purely “political.”

Monsanto’s latest earnings report comes amid a wave of companies announcing plans to label genetically modified ingredients to comply with Vermont’s law, resulting in many large food corporations losing profits.

"We will not stand for cronyism. We will not stand for poison. That’s why we March Against Monsanto."