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Jury: Bayer must pay $1.5M to AK, MS rice farmers

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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Monsanto Offers More Losses to American Farmers

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 Confirms Roundup Resistant Threat

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

Big Win for Bees: Judge Pulls Pesticide

Bee toxic Movento pulled from market for proper evaluation

Monsanto GMO Ignites Big Seed War

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.

Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief

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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Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

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

Foto Friday: If I Only Had a Brain ...

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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Monsanto The parable of the sower, The debate over whether Monsanto is a corporate sinner or saint

FEW companies excite such extreme emotions as Monsanto.

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