Glyphosate Archives

Anti-GMO activists use FOIA to bully mother-scientist nutrition and lactation expert

Kavin Senapathy | September 10, 2015

USRTK has wielded FOIA requests as a weapon to bully scientists. Michelle McGuire, a globally respected nutrition expert, is the ...

Effective science communication, personal engagement changes anti-GMO bloggers mind

Julee K | September 9, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I used to be ...

GMOs and herbicide resistant weeds stumbling blocks to sustainable farming

Richard Kamchen | September 3, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Have we become more ...

Séralini and other researchers critical of GMOs publish study claiming glyphosate may lead to liver, kidney problems, but scientists skeptical

Brian Bienkowski | September 1, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Long-term exposure to tiny ...

Kashi cereal has Non-GMO label–and glyphosate residue

Hank Campbell | August 28, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Not only does organic ...

A mess: PLOS mistakenly publishes rejected ADHD-herbicide paper, retracts it

Ivan Oransky | August 27, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. PLOS One has retracted ...

Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine

Andrew Kniss | August 21, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an opinion piece was ...

GMO critics claim safety consensus manufactured by industry lobbyists, fellow travelers

Timothy Wise | August 20, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A Tufts researcher, Sheldon Krimsky, ...

Are GMOs and herbicides safe? New England Journal of Medicine commentary casts doubt

Charles Benbrook, Philip J. Landrigan | August 20, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this commentary to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note: For a profile ...

Environmental activists claim “misguided war” on invasive plants is big business for Monsanto, glyphosate

Andrew Cockburn | August 19, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Nowadays, the notion that ...

GMOs changed how pesticides used, cutting overall usage but raising health questions

Jennifer Hsaio | August 17, 2015

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs have been changing ...

Activists threaten adoption of virus resistant GMO cassava that could rescue Africa’s staple

Isaac Ongu | August 14, 2015

Anti-GMO activists caught spreading scare stories and lies about virus resistant and nutritionally enhanced GMO cassava ...

Nutritionist Michelle McGuire responds to attacks in wake of ‘glyphosate not in milk’ study

Michelle McGuire | August 11, 2015

Washington State lactation scientist target of USTRK FOIA and anti-GMO activist attacks after finding glyphosate not in human breast milk ...

Biotech professor’s emails show no misconduct in battling anti-GMO propaganda, but Monsanto tie noted

Keith Kloor | August 7, 2015

Michelle McGuire, a nutrition scientist at Washington State University in Pullman, was stunned when anti-GMO activists asked to read her ...

Glyphosate carcinogenic? WHO clarifies conflicting declarations

August 3, 2015

A statement by the World Health Organization's cancer research branch, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), classifying the ...

WHO’s IARC’s new target: Red meat, which may be classified, along with glyphosate, as carcinogen

Deena Shanker | July 31, 2015

In March, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) made headlines when it declared that glyphosate, ...

Farmers now planting generic GMO soybeans as Monsanto patent expires

Antonio Regalado | July 31, 2015

Billy Maddox planted 100 acres of Roundup Ready soybeans this year. The big news is he didn’t pay Monsanto a ...

Video: Monsanto spars with Australia’s Undercurrent over glyphosate, ‘world food domination’

Dan Graetz, Daniel Kruithoff, Jen Dainer | July 30, 2015

The Guardian hosted a scathing video on Monsanto's business practices and history by Undercurrent, an online news show. It then ...

Food and ideology don’t mix: There’s not one way to feed world

Tamar Haspel | July 28, 2015

There’s an unbreachable divide between advocates of modern conventional agriculture and, essentially, everyone else, from the mainstream (organic, local, anti-GMO) ...

Hero of Neil Young’s anti-GMO doc ‘Seeding Fear’ is confessed thief

Jon Entine, Rebecca Randall | July 27, 2015

Neil Young has followed up his anti-GMO attack album with a new propaganda mini-doc about the evils of Monsanto. Now ...

Open letter to Consumer Reports: Organic alternatives to glyphosate not necessarily safer

Jeff Gillman | July 27, 2015

Dear Consumer Reports, In the article Beat Those Weeds (Which was, somewhat ironically, published in the YOUR ADVOCATE section of ...