Glyphosate
Talking Biotech: University of Florida’s Kevin Folta on fear-mongering claims of glyphosate-in-vaccines, food
University of Florida's Kevin Folta refutes fear-mongering claims of glyphosate in vaccines and food ...
Glyphosate found in US honey
The Food and Drug Administration, under public pressure to start testing samples of U.S. food for the presence of a ...
South American farmers increasing acreage of Monsanto’s new GMO soy
South American farmers are expected to sow 57 percent more area with Monsanto Co's second-generation, genetically modified soybean seed Intacta ...
Delayed by IARC designation, EPA glyphosate reassessment punted to next administration
For anyone who thought EPA’s glyphosate risk assessment would arrive sometime soon, think again. The new target is for the ...
Farmers struggling to counter activist demonization of safe herbicide glyphosate
Is agriculture reacting to the GMO debate when we should be focusing on protecting glyphosate? These are questions we need ...
GMO myth busting: Behold the dandelion, the weed with farm busting superpowers
What does it mean to say that weeds are developing a "resistance" to glyphosate or another pesticide? Is this related ...
Members of Congress want answers on EPA’s delayed evaluation of glyphosate
When Congress reconvenes [in September], lawmakers will continue to press the Environmental Protection Agency about why it’s withholding their report ...
How should we evaluate impact of substituting glyphosate for more toxic herbicides?
A new paper was just published in the journal Science Advances that analyzes pesticide use data for farmers in the U.S. . . The authors['s] ...
Europe’s battle over glyphosate ‘was never about science’
André Heitz is an agronomist and a former international civil servant for the United Nations. . . . [T]he European Commission ...
Environmental Protection Agency in New Zealand finds ‘no glyphosate-cancer link’, rebukes WHO’s IARC
A new report on glyphosate [patented originally under the trade name Roundup], commissioned by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), says ...
WHO IARC reviewer reiterates no health concerns for glyphosate safe ‘if used as directed’
A leading Canadian public health official has commended New Brunswick's review of a controversial herbicide . . . Dr. John McLaughlin, ...
Ontario farmer: Milkweeds, monarch butterflies and GMOs–What should science-minded farmers do?
I see no scientifically credible reason to be less diligent in removing milkweeds and other unwanted plants from my crop ...
How Monsanto’s ‘big bet’ on dicamba tolerant GMOs may have backfired
. . . . Back in April, [Monsanto] bet big on dicamba, announcing a $975 million expansion of its production facility. . . The chemical ...
Monsanto’s new GMO soybeans are making a hot mess for farmers
. . . The leaves are gone from the . . . peach trees on Bill Bader’s orchard . . ., and soy ...
Internal conflict in French government affecting EU policy on glyphosate, other agrochemicals
A duel in the . . . French government is shaking up Europe’s food and farming sector, turning the Continent’s political ...
Is campaign against glyphosate using misinformation to spread message?
. . . [W]hen did it become totally acceptable for groups who oppose anything . . . to routinely spread spurious information ...
War in Europe—Battle over glyphosate
The battle over glyphosate rages on in Europe, creating a lot of question marks over whether the popular herbicide will ...
New Zealand’s EPA finds glyphosate ‘unlikely to be carcinogenic’
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) commissioned Dr Wayne Temple, a toxicologist and former Director of the New Zealand National Poisons ...
Blind precaution: Europe’s obsession with Precautionary Principle blocks agricultural innovation
The EU has created a regulatory jungle, chocking agricultural innovation, by depending on the non-science based precautionary principle ...
EU’s new glyphosate restrictions enforced differently throughout Europe
Glyphosate use in parks and public spaces in the UK is likely to be little affected by a recent EU ...
‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’ back, as Facebook lifts block: Neidenbach on home planting of GMOs
What happens if you grow GMO crops in your home garden? ...
Rogue GMO wheat in Washington State? Latest anti-GMO attempt to pump scare fizzles
Unnecessary anti-GMO panic highlights bankruptcy of current crop agricultural regulatory system ...
Video: Implications of Brexit on glyphosate regulation in U.K.
Tom Heap reports on the use of Glyphosate, a herbicide used for crops, where an ever-growing call to ban it, ...
Is precautionary principle in pesticide, GMO regulation making EU import dependent?
The EU’s use of the precautionary principle on agricultural technologies is a bad, broken compass. How far lost are we? ...
Global trade treaties on firing line: Cartagena Protocol, relic of earlier era promoting GMO fears
The Cartagena Protocol, started with the best intentions, may be out of date ...
Glyphosate controversy never about science but rather ‘activist’s war on Big Ag’
. . . [W]hat exactly makes glyphosate such a controversial issue? One must look no further than the . ...
Do GMOs risk “unintended” health or environmental consequences, as critics maintain?
Concerns about unintended consequences, the backbone of criticism from anti-GMO activists, are actually more likely to occur in traditionally bred ...
