Posted April 4, 2018
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Bee Population Under ‘Grave Threat’ as Trump Administration Lifts Pesticide Ban
Posted August 17, 2018
An Obama-era ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides and cultivation of GMO crops on US wildlife refuges has been lifted, leaving the nation’s bee population under threat. The ban on the pesticides, commonly referred to as neonics, was originally imposed by the Obama administration as a result of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. Read more.
Fox: Almond Milk Found Containing Real Milk Recalled in 28 States
Posted August 17, 2018
The FDA issued a recall yesterday for certain half-gallon cartons of Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk because it was found to contain real milk. The issue involved 145,254 half-gallon cartons across 28 states. Read more.
Court to EPA: Chlorpyrifos Ban is On!
Posted August 17, 2018
As of Thursday morning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 60 days to finalize its ban of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. This was the ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on August 9. The judges determined that EPA broke the law by allowing continued use of the pesticide despite scientific evidence linking it to harmful impacts on children’s developing brains. Read more.
Unsettled Science: Monsanto Loses Big in Landmark Roundup Cancer Trial
Posted August 17, 2018
Dewayne Johnson and his legal team have made history with the recent court decision handed down in San Francisco. Being dubbed ‘The verdict heard around the world,’ global headlines are buzzing as they break the news of the precedent-setting legal loss for agrochemical giant Monsanto. Found guilty on all counts, Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289M to Johnson who claimed exposure to the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused his cancer. Read more.
One Man’s Suffering Exposed Monsanto’s Secrets to the World
Posted August 17, 2018
* Company’s own records revealed damning truth of glyphosate-based herbicides’ link to cancer. It was a verdict heard around the world. In a stunning blow to one of the world’s largest seed and chemical companies, jurors in San Francisco have told Monsanto it must pay $289m in damages to a man dying of cancer which he claims was caused by exposure to its herbicides. Read more.
Monsanto Witness Admits Calculations Were Wildly Wrong
Posted August 17, 2018
Attorneys Robert F. Kennedy and Kevin Baum, who are involved in the US cancer litigation on the side of the cancer sufferer plaintiff Dewayne Johnson, have written a crushing commentary on the expertise of Monsanto’s bought-in witness. The witness, Dr Warren Foster, reportedly made elementary errors in his use of “historical control data” to dismiss findings of increased tumours in glyphosate-exposed mice. Read more.
The Planned Destruction of the American Dairy Farmer
Posted August 10, 2018
A public hearing was held at the Fire Hall in Lairdsville, Pennsylvania, on July 24 to voice concern over the current financial crisis facing dairy farm families throughout America–aptly termed, the economic “Dairy Depression”. Organized by Farm Women United (FWU), the event called for similar hearings to be held across the countryside to gather testimonies that “Congress itself should be gathering but refuses to do so in what is the most outrageous and blatant example of dereliction of duty by federal legislators in modern American agricultural history that is patently undermining the Constitutional rights of American family dairy farmers.” Read more.
Monsanto’s Herbicide Expert has Bad Day in Court
Posted August 10, 2018
Johnson is one of thousands of plaintiffs to file suit against Monsanto in state court over the alleged link between Roundup and NHL. More than 450 other lawsuits filed in federal court are currently pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Since the start of the Johnson trial, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., co-counsel to Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, has provided running commentary of the events in court each day. Here’s his post for day 14 of the Monsanto trial: Read more.
Will Supplements be Regulated as Drugs? Action Alert
Posted August 10, 2018
It’s music to the ears of the FDA—but terrible for consumers. We need to tell the administration: supplements under the law are food, not drugs! Action Alert! Read more.
