#Monsanto

Bartow J. Elmore.  Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future.  Norton, 2021. I was interested to read this book for three reasons. I was familiar with Elmore’s his excellent previous book, Citizen Coke, which I blogged about in 2014. I ran into Bart Elmore in, of all places, the

In my view, one of the strongest reasons for public distrust of GMOs is the behavior of the GMO industry, with the secretive, aggressive, corporate behavior of Monsanto as the most glaring example. I saw this myself. In the late 1990s, I was at a meeting of food industry executives, among them

Week killers do their job but also cause problems: illness among people exposed to them (especially farm workers), induction of resistance, and killing weeds in places they are not supposed to be. Illnesses: The most well known is the non-Hodgkins lymphoma associated with use of glyphosate

Author: Robby Berman / Source: Big Think U.S. PIRG tested 20 beers and wines, including organics, and found Roundup’s active ingredient in almost all of them. A jury on August 2018 awarded a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma victim $289 million in Roundup damages. Bayer/Monsanto says Roundup is totally

The Guardian’s account of the verdict: Monsanto ordered to pay $289m as jury rules weedkiller caused man’s cancer Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former groundskeeper, won a huge victory in the landmark case on Friday, with the jury determining that Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer