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07/12/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Flawed testing and compromised regulatory agencies have conspired to keep harmful pesticides on the market

Even in 2018, as we have more access to information than ever before, some people seem willing to give pesticides the benefit of the doubt. They can’t be that bad, they reason, or they never would have gotten approval. Surely there are tests that show they’re not as dangerous as people think, right? The answer […]

07/01/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

EPA in bed with Monsanto / Bayer, burying studies that show glyphosate causes cancer

With so much scientific evidence supporting the fact that glyphosate causes cancer, how can anyone still believe that weed killers that contain it, like Monsanto’s Roundup – now part of Bayer – are somehow safe? The answer is simple: The company has the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its pocket, and they’re all too willing […]

03/09/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Pesticide safety: Flawed risk assessment tests were driven by too much industry influence

“If pesticides are so dangerous, why are they allowed to be sold and used?” If you’ve ever tried to convince someone how important it is to buy organic produce, you might have heard this line. Answering honestly can get you labeled a conspiracy theorist pretty quickly, but according to one NGO, nine out of ten […]

11/01/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Henry Miller, corporate prostitute: Endorses GMOs, tobacco, radiation, DDT, glyphosate

For many years, he was a namesake at Forbes where he published authoritative-sounding articles promoting genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and other biotechnological products. But Henry I. Miller is hardly the esteemed academic that he wishes everyone perceived him as being, at least as far as his corporate conflicts of interest are concerned. You see, Miller has […]

04/30/2017 / By Mike Adams

WARNING SIGNS: Code words in latest executive order indicate Trump may be getting sucked into the GMO / pesticide swamp

In the realm of swampy corruption and murky politics, it doesn’t get any murkier or “swampier” than the GMO / pesticide industry, which profits from the mass poisoning of the environment and the food supply with toxic, disease-promoting chemicals. While this “poison industry” enjoyed enormous government protection under both Bush and Obama administrations, clean food […]

02/07/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Fake claims: Foreign “organic” producers suspected of fraud

As the nation’s appetite for organic food is growing at roughly 15 percent per year, fake organic products are flooding the market. After suffering years of decline during the recession, the industry’s share of the U.S. food consumption now accounts for five percent, and that number is going up fast. In fact, fresh organic foods […]

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