2016

Regulators must be made to see that the proposed mergers of big agribiz companies are bad for business, bad for farming and ultimately bad for the consumer, writes Pat Thomas

Some of the honey showed residue levels double the limit allowed in the European Union

P.C. Kesavan, member of SC’s Technical Expert Committee, said that giving limited time to analyse the data will amount to “fooling the people”

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. (Gore Vidal)

Meanwhile the planet crumbles.  And what are we not discussing? What are the mainstream sock puppet media ignoring altogether? How are deceived? Let me count the ways.

Deal would create the world's biggest seeds and pesticides company

“Can’t a girl have a sick day or two? Don’t get me started, because when it comes to overqualified women having to try a hundred times harder than under qualified men to get a break, or even a level playing field, well, we know that story.” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
This is mendacity on human growth hormone. A profound contempt for clarity, transparency and leveling with the American citizen and potential voter. It’s simply mind-boggling. The enemy of limpid and bare truth. Beyond corrupt. Putrescence personified. America will learn a lesson this time.

Monsanto’s board is set to meet on Tuesday to decide whether to approve a sale to Germany’s Bayer for more than $65 billion

According to the Slovak Food Chamber, the government should treat TTIP with caution and assess possible negative impacts on public health and the economy

As GMO drought tolerant wheat evaporates, is Monsanto shedding failures to sweeten Bayer deal?

Look carefully. Three beams. Three beacons. Three? Yes, three. Why?