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05/23/2018
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By Edsel Cook
The politics surrounding GMOs: Bureaucrats don’t care about the environment and are more interested in money
By and large, government bureaucrats in America and Europe don’t care two sticks about the environment or public health. They only care about the profits promised by big businesses that are using GMOs to take over the world’s food supplies, an article in GreenMedInfo stated. It started in the U.S. in the 90s. The executives […]
04/05/2018
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By Lance D Johnson
Arkansas court rules with Monsanto, grants farmers right to spray toxic Dicamba herbicide that causes horrific crop damage to nearby farms
Millions of acres of U.S. crops were damaged in 2017 by a dicamba-based herbicide, manufactured by Monsanto and BASF SE. Dicamba herbicide is specifically designed to be sprayed on genetically modified, dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton. These GM crops have been genetically engineered to withstand dicamba; however, the herbicide is very volatile. Dicamba drifts in the wind and can […]
10/26/2017
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By Janine Acero
Largest oceanic dead zone ever measured is in the Gulf of Mexico; scientists conclude pollution caused by industrial agriculture
Scientists have recently announced the largest oceanic dead zone ever recorded, located in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. A dead zone is an area of water that is unable to support marine life – it is almost completely devoid of oxygen due to extreme […]
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