Glyphosate
Roundup for breakfast? Checking the math on claims that glyphosate infects breakfast foods
No one wants .... to give their children a breakfast that is contaminated with weed killer. That’s why a new ...
Plaintiff’s story convinced jury of glyphosate-cancer link, but other courts may rule the herbicide is safe
Despite a San Francisco jury’s verdict [August 10th] that the cancer .... of a Bay Area school groundskeeper was caused ...
Viewpoint: Verdict in glyphosate trial suggests environmental activists are fair-weather fans of science
[A]re scientists supposed to be the folk heroes of environmental activists or not? When the subject is climate change they ...
Viewpoint: France’s agricultural policies giving rise to ‘green totalitarianism’
[France] is slowly drowning reason in a mass of ideologies that stifle common sense. On glyphosate, the French Association for ...
In wake of California jury’s glyphosate verdict, New Zealand likely won’t revisit conclusion that herbicide is safe
A lot has been said about a recent court case ruling about Monsanto’s Roundup ..... Adding to the mix, in ...
Viewpoint: Jury’s glyphosate cancer ruling doesn’t change fact that all farmers need pesticides to grow food
It may seem like Judgment Day has come for glyphosate, with a California jury slapping $289 million in damages on Monsanto Co ...
A farmer’s view on educating consumers about GMOs, pesticides and sustainable food
My family’s farm began in 1880s with a sod house and an intrepid couple—the Banmans—willing to brave the unforgiving Canadian ...
Glyphosate and cancer—revisited
I’ve already written about this topic back in 2015. Much of the information below is from that original blog post, ...
Organic Times: New satire site takes Onion-like look at crop biotechnology activists
Agriculture is a serious topic. While farmers in the developing world struggle to save their crops from pest invasions and ...
Roundup trial: California jury’s glyphosate verdict spurs effort to ban the herbicide in Europe
A landmark court ruling in the U.S. holding Monsanto liable for causing cancer through its glyphosate-based weedkiller is adding fuel ...
Reflections on the glyphosate cancer ruling: Citing court decisions is common tactic among science deniers
Most people have probably seen the recent news that Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million following the ruling ...
Are Roundup-cancer lawsuits about profit, politics or public health?
You might think that the popular weed killer known as Roundup is causing cancers around the world thanks to alarming ...
Celiac disease: What’s behind the surge in diagnoses?
A few years ago, the book “Wheat Belly” became a hit, as it pointed to new “scientifically engineered” strains of ...
European farmers already pondering what life without glyphosate might be like
In the aftermath of the European Parliament’s 355-204 vote opposing the renewal of the popular herbicide glyphosate in 2018 for households ...
Does glyphosate cause cancer? Jury says says ‘yes’ but years of research show the herbicide is safe
Can anyone make sense of the debate over glyphosate, the active molecule in the most widely used herbicide [Roundup] in ...
With glyphosate-cancer legal battles poised to escalate, what are the ramifications for agriculture if the herbicide is restricted?
Now that a jury in San Francisco has decided that exposure to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) was responsible for California groundskeeper ...
Brazil’s public health agency will appeal judge’s nationwide suspension of glyphosate
Brazil-based agrochemical companies plan to appeal a ruling suspending the use of best-selling weed killer glyphosate .... an industry spokeswoman ...
Monsanto Roundup trial: First lawsuit alleging glyphosate-cancer link goes to jury
A trial in which a school groundskeeper alleged that his use of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused his terminal cancer ...
Brazilian judge suspends glyphosate use, citing concerns about herbicide’s toxicity
A Brazilian judge has suspended the use of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, a widely employed herbicide for soy and ...
Congressional committee cuts funding to IARC over WHO agency’s controversial glyphosate-cancer finding
The House Committee on Appropriations has withheld funding for the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer—which receives about $2 million from ...
Glyphosate cancer lawsuits ‘needlessly alarm’ the public abut a ‘critical farming tool’
[A] federal district judge presiding over class-action litigation in California [recently] made a troubling decision that will reverberate across the ...
Viewpoint: How organic activists use intimidation and character assassination to attack GMOs
In Part 1, I described the vendetta by the Russian government's propaganda apparatus against technologies like fracking and modern genetic ...
Even as managed honeybee colonies hit record numbers, another threat to their health is identified: Mystery viruses
The quest to figure out what's behind honeybee deaths has become as much a political question as a scientific one. Recent ...
Monsanto, expert witness spar over validity of IARC’s glyphosate-cancer finding
An agricultural economist refuted Monsanto's assertion that the International Agency for Research on Cancer "cherry picked" studies to conclude that Monsanto's ...
Monsanto defends its internal testing in Roundup cancer trial
A Monsanto scientist denied on [July 24th] that the company based its assertions that its Roundup weed killer doesn’t cause ...
Video: Cancer patient testifies against Monsanto in Roundup weed killer trial
It is the first time St. Louis-based Monsanto Company has had to defend one of its products, Roundup, in front ...
Roundup trial: Monsanto lawyers grill expert witness for omitting key details around alleged glyphosate-cancer link
Lawyers for Monsanto attempted on [July 20th] to undermine a Chicago oncologist’s opinion that its Roundup weed killer caused a ...
