Monsanto

Soybean fields in parts of Arkansas, Missouri, and Tennessee are plagued by “superweeds” that have become resistant to glyphosate, the main ingredient in biotech company’s Monsanto’s RoundUp herbicide. Farmers are now dousing the plants with illegal chemicals to try and kill the rogue weeds.

(COMMONDREAMS) A new legal opinion penned by two former Justice Department officials bolsters warnings that the proposed merger between agroindustrial giants Bayer and Monsanto “is a five-alarm threat to our food supply and to farmers around the world.”

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials said last week that an unapproved variety of wheat was found growing in a Washington state field, though there are no signs that it made its way into commercial grain shipments.
The Monsanto-produced wheat is a RoundUp-resistant variety that was never commercially released. USDA officials said it was discovered in a farmer’s planted field. Department officials are in the process of testing the farmer’s wheat harvest for the GMO variety, but so far none has been found.

Lead water, Veep Vilsack and cow butts + this day in history w/Man on the Moon and our song of the day by Deerhoof on your Morning Monarchy for July 20, 2016.

Al Franken, a reliable Monsanto Senator (source)by Gaius PubliusLet's look at this story from a couple of angles. First, here's what happened recently in Vermont, as told by Thom Hartmann (my emphasis everywhere):

People in pain are putting down pills for pot; another breakthrough take the piss out of the power company; and DuPont's guilty, but their dummy company's taking the fall on a double-edged edition of GNNW.

People in pain are putting down pills for pot; another breakthrough take the piss out of the power company; and DuPont's guilty, but their dummy company's taking the fall on a double-edged edition of GNNW.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-07-11%20Ellen%20Brown.mp3"][/audio]Voter initiatives like California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” have many celebrating the legalization of the long-demonised plant. But as Ellen Brown writes in her new article, “The 'War on Weed' Is Winding Down – But Will Monsanto/Bayer Be the Winner?” the push toward legalisation is being steered by corporate interests for potential profit, not a concern for public health.