Posted September 25, 2020
What Happened: In 2018, Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at Keele University, who is considered one of the world’s leading experts in aluminum toxicology, published a paper in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine & Biology showing very high amounts of aluminum in the brain tissue of people with autism. Read more.
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Residents Livid with Glyphosate say They’ll Chase Spray Helicopters out of their Communities
Posted September 18, 2020
On Monday night, Peter Ganong noticed a pair of helicopters had landed just across the road from his house in Brockway, about 56 kilometres north of Saint Andrews. Read more.
Bayer Links Deals with Three Roundup Cancer Law Firms as Settlement Progresses
Posted September 18, 2020
Bayer AG has reached final settlement terms with three major law firms representing thousands of plaintiffs who claim exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Read more.
Study Confirms GM Roundup Ready Crops to Blame for Monarch Butterfly Decline
Posted September 4, 2020
The decline in the eastern North American population of the monarch butterfly population since the late 1990s has been attributed to the loss of milkweed during the summer breeding season and the consequent reduction in the size of the summer population that migrates to central Mexico to overwinter (milkweed limitation hypothesis). Read more.
Judge Gives EPA One More Chance to do its Job and Halt Fluoridation of Drinking Water
Posted September 4, 2020
In August, a landmark David-versus-Goliath federal lawsuit brought by citizens against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to end fluoridation of drinking water took another giant step forward. The lawsuit—spearheaded by a coalition of nonprofits and individual citizens—resulted in a two-week trial in June (via video conference) that synthesized the findings of hundreds of studies, including two landmark birth cohort studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. Read more.
Plight of Organic Farmer “Poisoned” in Pesticide attack becomes cause celebre in France
Posted September 3, 2020
An organic farmer in Provence who claims he was poisoned by jealous neighbours with pesticides they poured onto his vegetables has become a cause célèbre in France, which is facing a growing backlash against intensive agriculture. Read more.
Glyphosate levels in children and adults drop dramatically after one week of eating organic
Posted August 14, 2020
A peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Research found that levels of the pesticide glyphosate in participants’ bodies dropped an average of 70% after six days on an organic diet. The study is the first to examine how an organic diet affects exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer AG’s weedkiller Roundup®, the most widely used pesticide worldwide. It also indicates that for the general population, the food they eat is a primary way they are exposed to this pesticide. Read more.
Dramatic Decline Found in Western Bumblebee Populations
Posted August 7, 2020
A federal review of existing data unveils an alarming trend for the western bumblebee population, which has seen its numbers dwindle by as much as 93% in the last two decades. Read more.
COVID-19 How Can I Cure Thee? Let me Count the Ways
Posted July 24, 2020
Probably never before in history has anything or any event mixed fact, fiction, fear, and confusion like the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2020. Political and medical “experts” have been in abundance, primarily regurgitating the same message as though it was something new every time they get interviewed: wash your hands, maintain social distancing, and wear a mask as much as possible. And the public and the news media always take great comfort that an “expert” told them the truth. Trouble is, you can always find another “expert” of equal credentials who will offer a completely contradictory perspective. Understandably, this generates much of the fear and confusion noted above. Read more.
A Skeptical Farmer’s Monster Message on Profitability
Posted July 24, 2020
Adam Chappell was a slave to pigweed. In 2009, several years prior to the roller coaster rise and fall of commodity prices, he was on the brink of bankruptcy and facing a go broke or go green proposition. Drowning in a whirlpool of input costs, Chappell cut bait from conventional agriculture and dove headfirst into a bootstrap version of innovative farming. Roughly 10 years later, his operation is transformed, and the 41-year-old grower doesn’t mince words: It was all about the money. Read more.
