(CD) — In the wake of a U.S. court ordering Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to man who says its weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer, Vietnam has called on the agrichemical giant to pay reparations to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. “This case is a precedent that rejects previous arguments that the herbicides supplied to the U.S. military by […]
A few blogs previously, I wrote about the recent decision in the courts against IG Farbensanto (our nickname here for "big agribusiness" and their […]
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Apropos of today's main blog, Mr. B.H. sent this along: owning a weather insurance company is a great thing, especially when one is in […]
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Just a little over a week after an Environmental Working Group (EWG) report showed that potentially unsafe levels of glyphosate had been discovered in oat products, including Cheerios, General Mills (the maker of Cheerios) has been slapped with a lawsuit. The company has decided to remove the phrase “Made with 100% Natural Whole Grain Oats” from the labels of its Nature Valley granola bars.
Robot fruit-pickers, cereal Roundup and a raw, bloody veal heart + this day in history w/the raid of the Camden 28 and our song of the day by Cat Power & Lana Del Rey on your Morning Monarchy for August 22, 2018.
Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss.
A study of dozens of popular oat-based breakfast foods delivered sobering news this week when almost all of the products examined by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) were found to contain the chemical glyphosate.
“We’re very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they know,” said Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at EWG, in a statement.
Hi folks... Ms. Caitlin Hoff, who has a resource page of Roundup litigations, was kind enough to contact me and inform me of that […]
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(CD) — A study of dozens of popular oat-based breakfast foods delivered sobering news this week when almost all of the products examined by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) were found to contain the chemical glyphosate. “We’re very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they know,” said Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at […]
Pot pathogens, Paris pissers and pet prescriptions + this day in history w/the Taliesin massacre and our song of the day by Trevor Moore on your Morning Monarchy for August 15, 2018.
