2016

Prolegomenon. Let us begin with an immutable fact of human behavior, specifically contemporary American behavior. Americans simply hate the truth. The troublesome truth, the uncomfortable and (dare I remind you) the inconvenient truth. Truth that bristles and frightens and awakens and piques. Truth that confronts us with the lie of contemporary fable masked as history. History, as Tolstoy reminds us, would be a wonderful thing if only it were true. Truth would be a wonderful thing if only it were pleasant.

Genotoxity and carcinogenicity studies are included

Plan would give national governments the power to ban the use of GMOs as ingredients in human food and animal food, even if the European Food Safety Authority says they are safe

Fake News? That’s redundant.

For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year — a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States

Monsanto Chief Technology Officer Robb Fraley stood before about 200 soybean farmers, a Bayer executive by his side, and asked for their support for the two companies’ proposed merger

Commercial approval of engineered bentgrass given despite failed efforts to stop its spread from old experiment plots

Rachel Parent, who campaigns for clear GMO labelling, gives a personal account of the Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague

Citizens/environment will not be impacted by novel experiment releasing millions of GE mosquitoes

Companies have failed to file completed applications