A federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi whose rice seed was contaminated with a genetically altered strain.
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Here in America Monsanto has been given a blank check for a decade, feeding an uniformed population of growing obese diabetics a Roundup Ready diet.
Monsanto-Funded Research Echoes Organic Center's "Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use …" Report, Concluding that Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds Threaten Future of Herbicide-Tolerant, Genetically Engineered Crops January 18, 2010
Bee toxic Movento pulled from market for proper evaluation
The seed is an ABC News segment, the comments below are mine.
Even though deep snowdrifts cover his fields in eastern Kansas, Luke Ulrich, a corn and soybean farmer here, is thinking about spring. It's time to buy seed again, but hundreds of seed companies have gone under in the past two decades.
Many Newsviners know that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck the capital city of Haiti, devastating the city and killing or injuring thousands of residents there. Fewer Newsviners realize that they have earnings sitting in their accounts.
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In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics. by sonia shah
This is Mortimer. He stands guard over the driveway and some of our garden areas. I just love Mortimer ... he always has a smile on his face. Mortimer is my Foto Friday photo for Newsvine Photographers
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FEW companies excite such extreme emotions as Monsanto.
Farmers on the Vine has not initiated any private discussions.