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French town’s failed pesticide ban reignites national campaign against Bayer’s Roundup weed killer

Eddy Wax | 
Daniel Cueff’s failed crusade to ban pesticides in his tiny Breton village lays bare the deep political contradictions at the ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron challenges legality of town’s glyphosate weed killer ban

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax, Eline Schaart | 
French President Emmanuel Macron told a mayor from Brittany who ordered a ban on the use of pesticides near his ...
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Anti-GMO ‘volunteer reapers’ destroy experimental crops, claiming research violates EU biotech rules

Raphael Lecocq | 
Individuals claiming to be volunteer mowers destroyed two test plots of oleic sunflower on August 13 in the Hérault [France] ...
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20 French mayors ban glyphosate, spurring new legal battle over Bayer’s controversial weed killer

Forrest Crellin, Pierre-Henri Allain | 
Some 20 French mayors have banned glyphosate from their municipalities, defying the government, which is now taking legal action to ...
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Savagnin Blanc: The 900-year-old grape still used in wine making today

Helen Briggs | 
DNA from ancient grape seeds shows the grapevine behind a local vintage has been cultivated continuously for 900 years. Ancient ...
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Almost 10% of French farms now organic, as switch from conventional hits new record

Gus Trompiz | 
A record number of French farms switched to organic production [2018], helped by the grains sector catching on to the ...
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French farmers destroy 18,000 hectares of rapeseed, double previous estimates, after discovering illegal GMO crops

Gus Trompiz | 
French farmers destroyed a total of 18,000 hectares of rapeseed, more than double the area initially expected, following the discovery ...
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Pesticides increase cancer risk for farmers? Rethinking the ‘irrefutable consensus’

Philippe Stoop | 
Though it may seem otherwise, the term 'irrefutable' is not at all flattering ...
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Why the Enlightenment wasn’t so enlightened after all

Henry Martyn Lloyd | 
We view the Enlightenment period as a period of rationalism and reason, but this is far from the truth ...
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French president Macron backtracks on proposed glyphosate ban in wake of scientist, farmer protests

Sarah Elzas | 
French president Emmanuel Macron says that the phasing out of glyphosate-based weed killers in France by 2021, as previously announced, ...
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As glyphosate debate rages, French politician urges EU to take ‘science-based’ approach to pesticide regulation

Gerardo Fortuna | 
French MEP Angélique Delahaye believes that policymakers must tell citizens what is currently possible and what is not when it ...
Even as public opposition to glyphosate grows, some French winemakers denounce ban of Monsanto's Roundup Pro 360

Even as public opposition to glyphosate grows, some French winemakers denounce ban of Monsanto’s Roundup Pro 360

Marie Pujolas | 
On January 15, 2019, the Administrative Court of Lyon [France] banned [Monsanto's] “Roundup Pro 360,” a herbicide containing  glyphosate. The ...
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French court bans Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup Pro 360 weedkiller, citing ‘potential health risks’

A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto's glyphosate-based weedkillers on [January 15] over safety concerns, placing an ...
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French regulators launch re-evaluation of glyphosate products

Xavier Bonnardel | 
The National Health Security Agency (ANSES) is tightening [its] grip around the herbicide king [glyphosate]. On December 15, it will withdraw ...
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Eating organic food reduces risk of some cancers, controversial study claims

Katy Askew | 
A French study published in the JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association[ Internal Medicine journal links eating organic food ...
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CRISPR gene editing offers hope for struggling French seed maker Vilmorin

Gus Trompiz | 
U.S. sanctions against Iran and a slide in Turkey’s currency are contributing to an uncertain short-term outlook for seed maker ...
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Sustainability failure: Anti-GMO France’s 10-year effort to slash pesticide use boosted spraying by 12%

Erik Stokstad | 
In 2008, the French government announced a dramatic shift in agricultural policy, calling for pesticide use to be slashed in ...
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France’s neonicotinoid ban a ‘dead end’ for farmers who need to fight pests

Sophie Guyomard | 
The ban on the use of neonicotinoids as of September 1, 2018 is leading to agronomic dead ends for many ...
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How anti-GMO research is manufactured: Challenging two Séralini-lab studies that fueled renewed safety concerns over GMOs and glyphosate

Marcel Kuntz | 
In the wake of the decision by a California federal court concluding that Monsanto’s Roundup, whose active ingredient is glyphosate, ...
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French National Assembly rejects glyphosate weed killer ban for second time

The heated debate lasted all night, but the [French] National Assembly rejected all amendments to include a [glyphosate] herbicide ban ...
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New environment minister says France will stick to 3-year phase out of weed killer glyphosate

The [French] President Emmanuel Macron has committed to phase out the herbicide glyphosate in three years. The new Minister ...
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France’s neonicotinoid ban just took effect. How will it impact farmers?

A ban on five neonicotinoid pesticides [entered] into force in France on [August 31], placing the country at the forefront ...
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Resignation of French environmental minister could be a win for glyphosate supporters

François Allard-Huver | 
The surprise announcement of the resignation of Nicolas Hulot .... is part of .... a series of .... big differences ...
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Video: French anti-GMO activists target agricultural cooperative in dicamba, glyphosate protest

At dawn on Monday, August 27th, [French] GMO protesters rallied in Glomel .... As early as 6 am, they blocked access ...
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Viewpoint: France’s agricultural policies giving rise to ‘green totalitarianism’

Michel Gay, Thierry Levent | 
[France] is slowly drowning reason in a mass of ideologies that stifle common sense. On glyphosate, the French Association for ...
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Grapes genetically resistant to mildew rot could cut pesticide use and French wine prices at the same time

Jon Fingas | 
French wineries have to use a lot of pesticide to keep their grapes healthy, and that's both expensive and costly ...
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Amid activist claims Germany colluded with Big Ag to soften glyphosate regulations, Europe may switch evaluation responsibility to France

Simon Marks | 
Monsanto’s quest to keep its controversial weedkiller Roundup on the European market faces another challenge. The European Commission is pushing for ...
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