Posted June 24, 2020
In recent years, farmers have been spraying an increasing amount of volatile herbicides – namely dicamba and 2,4-D – that are causing widespread damage to trees, native plants and natural areas across the Midwest and South. Read more.
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Bayer Scraps U.S. Plans to Produce Crop Chemical Blocked by Court
Posted June 24, 2020
Bayer AG said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly $1 billion project to produce the chemical dicamba in the United States, but said the move is unrelated to a federal court decision that blocked sales of weed killers based on the product. Read more.
Federal Court Case to End Water Fluoridation is Underway — But No Media Coverage
Posted June 20, 2020
Dr. Paul Connet of the Fluoride Action Network is suing the EPA over adding toxic fluoride to the drinking water of 200-million Americans and says that it is a deliberate addition of a substance that damages the brain. Children and the fetuses in pregnant women are especially susceptible to brain damage. Read more.
Nonprofits Sue Nestle Purina Pet Food for Deceptive Marketing of Cat Food
Posted June 20, 2020
Nonprofits Toxin Free USA and Clean Label Project filed a lawsuit against Nestlé USA and Nestlé Purina PetCare Company for deceptive marketing and sale of cat foods labeled as “natural” and with “no artificial preservatives.” Lab tests reveal that certain Purina cat food products contain the synthetic herbicide glyphosate and the artificial preservative ethoxyquin. Read more.
EPA thumbs nose at court order, says farmers can still use illegal dicamba herbicides
Posted June 12, 2020
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday declared it would not immediately honor a court ruling handed down last week that banned certain herbicides made by three of the world’s largest chemical companies. The move by the EPA amounts to a generous gift to BASF, Bayer and Corteva Agrisciences whose dicamba herbicides were deemed by the court to have been approved by the EPA illegally. Read more.
Court Shoots Down US EPA Approval of Dicamba Pesticide
Posted June 12, 2020
The Ninth Circuit court has dealt a blow to chemical company Monsanto by vacating the US Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the controversial pesticide dicamba, saying the agency failed to properly assess the risks of its widespread chemical use, according to a report for Courthouse News. Read more.
Dangerous Nano-particles Contaminating many Vaccines: Groundbreaking study
Posted June 12, 2020
A 2017 study of 44 types of 15 traditional vaccines, manufactured by leading global companies, has uncovered a very troubling and previously unreported fact: The vaccines are heavily contaminated with a variety of nanoparticles. Many of the particles are metals. We’re talking about traditional vaccines, such as HPV, flu, Swine Flu, Hepatitis B, MMR, DPT, tetanus, etc. Read more.
An Aluminum Adjuvant in a Vaccine is an Acute Exposure to Aluminum
Posted June 10, 2020
Aluminium salts are common adjuvants in vaccines given to children. Their physical, chemical and biological properties have recently been reviewed [1]. However, a debate continues as to whether neonate and infant exposure to aluminium through vaccination is biologically significant with respect to their exposure to aluminium through other routes and especially diet. Read more.
Bayer reaches deal to settle 85,000 cancer lawsuits over Roundup weedkiller
Posted May 27, 2020
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals company Bayer has reached verbal agreements to resolve a substantial portion of an estimated 125,000 US cancer lawsuits over use of its Roundup weedkiller, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The deals, which have yet to be signed and cover an estimated 50,000 to 85,000 suits, are part of a $10bn (£8.2bn) Bayer plan to end a costly legal battle the company inherited when it acquired Monsanto in 2018, the people said. Read more.
Having Trouble getting Pregnant? Science says eat Organic, regulate Pesticides
Posted May 27, 2020
If you’re trying to get pregnant and raise healthy children, recent science suggests you should consider switching to an organic diet and voting out politicians who put the pesticide industry in charge of our nation’s health laws. Read more.
