| Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest |
truthoutLike Mr. Stephens, most of the farmers in the Manhattan courtroom were plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed last year by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association against Monsanto. The plaintiffs, none of whom use Monsanto seeds, ...
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| Youth to benefit from donation to Paton Public Library |
1380 KCIMPaton, Iowa -- Kids in the summer reading program at the Paton Public Library will benefit from the $2500 donated by Lora Smalley of Paton through the Growing All Communities program with Monsanto. Smalley donated the money to the library and Library ...
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| Oral Arguments Presented in Landmark Organic Lawsuit Against Monsanto |
eNews Park ForestFederal District Court Judge Nancy Buchwald heard oral arguments on January 31 on a pre-trial motion filed by Monsanto to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) on behalf of family farmers, seed businesses, ...
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| Waitrose Sparks Facebook Row |
International Supermarket NewsUp-market retailer Waitrose has been embroiled in the centre of a social media storm after selling a variety of broccoli linked to the biotech company Monsanto. Bellaverde sweet stem broccoli is grown from seed sold by Monsanto subsidiary Seminis and ...
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| Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results) |
Huffington PostWith apologies to Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday was this week, it's the best of times and the worst of times for Monsanto, the agribusiness giant that is aggressively marketing genetically engineered crops -- and millions of tons of pesticides ...
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| Friday Finds: McDonalds' Pink Slime Problem |
unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog)... Republicans are so intent on eliminating “unnecessary” environmenta... by Jessica Knoblauch: Monsanto's herbicide harms plants it's meant to protect Monsanto's popular herbicide Roundup may be harming more than just weeds, reports Reute.
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| Whole Fraud |
CounterPunchWFM's most recent attack on OCA predictably backfired, throwing gasoline on the fiery debate surrounding my previous essay “The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto.” In that essay, written in January 2011, I criticized WFM and several other well-known ...
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