Monsanto
As Bayer absorbs ‘much loathed’ Monsanto, will consumers aim their anger at the aspirin maker?
The public seems to loathe Monsanto. A recent poll ranked the company among the 20 most hated in America (nearly every other name ...
Viewpoint: IARC’s defenders ignore cancer agency’s flawed research, conflicts of interest
I woke up .... to find an article by Neil Pearce, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ...
Viewpoint: Monsanto is no victim, but Roundup-cancer verdict isn’t backed by science
At the outset, let’s stipulate — as the lawyers might say — that the chemical giant Monsanto is not well ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Biotech startups race against ‘Big Ag’ to develop gene-edited crops
Calyxt Inc, an eight-year-old firm co-founded by a genetics professor, altered the genes of a soybean plant to produce healthier ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Soybean farmer sues dicamba manufacturers, seeks injunction on sale of popular herbicide
A northeast Nebraska farmer has sued herbicide manufacturers, saying his neighbors’ use of the company products damaged his soybean crop ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: North American scientists, IARC officials conspired to misrepresent glyphosate health risks
On March 20, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that it had classified glyphosate, the active substance ...
Ugandan legislator on why his nation needs to ‘wake up’ on GMOs
Robert Kafeero Sekitoleko is an engineer, legislator and chairperson of the Sectoral Committee on Science and Technology in Uganda’s Parliament ...
25 years of GMO crops: Economic, environmental and human health benefits
Since the first GMO crop was developed in 1994, genetically modified foods have provided countries around the world with economic, ...
Viewpoint: How Germany’s anti-GMO, pro-organic politics benefit US ag companies
Editor's note: The following is a satirical letter written by Reinhard Szibor, professor emeritus of human genetics and forensic medicine at the ...
Did the EPA and Monsanto conspire to hide glyphosate’s health risks?
A recent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee repeated the debunked conspiracy theory that Monsanto manipulated the EPA to hide evidence ...
Viewpoint: Unlikely alliance between environmentalists, farmers and big ag companies aims to improve soil health
Here are three startling facts about the planet Earth: It currently hosts seven and a half billion people. Its carrying ...
