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  Nature 2, Monsanto 0 – GE fails again - by frog

  
  
  
  We know already that genetically modified crops do not improve yields. Surprisingly, Monsanto has admitted that one of their pest resistant cotton crops no longer resists the pests. How long did it take nature to thumb its nose at Monsanto? Monsanto’s advice to farmers? Use our Bollgard II version, it’s better. But the science doesn’t [...] read more
  March 11, 2010 10:38 am - 33 Comments
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  Monsanto and Michael Pollan discuss food production - by frog

  
  
  
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  October 13, 2008 8:39 am - 1 Comment
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  Trustworthy food - by frog

  
  
  
  You can normally tell a substance has become less food and more controversy when it acquires a name such as MON863.  That’s the moniker of one of Monsanto’s genetically modified varieties of maize. It struck controversy last year when an independent French study showed that, despite it being approved for human consumption in 2006, it [...] read more
  October 10, 2008 11:34 am - No Comments
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  USDA Suspends Pesticide Reporting to Benefit Monsanto - by frog

  
  
  
  Celsias reports that the safety of our food supply is under further threat by the USDA’s decision to stop reporting on pesticide use. On May 21, the US Department of Agriculture, or USDA, announced that it would stop its annual publication on the kinds and amounts of pesticides applied to crops in the U.S. This [...] read more
  June 23, 2008 11:30 am - 14 Comments
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  The whole gamut – food subsidies, genetic engineering, oil prices and wind turbines - by frog

  
  
  
  Here’s a few Friday links. The US Congress has just approved a US$290 billion Farm Bill that gives lucrative subsidies to farmers and cuts international aid programmes. By diverting subsidies and benefits to powerful agricultural industries such as sugar, dairy, timber and salmon, authors of the bill ensured support from both Republicans and Democrats. Paul [...] read more
  May 16, 2008 8:38 am - 28 Comments
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  The world according to Monsanto - by frog

  
  
  
  Two weeks ago I mentioned a French documentary that examined genetic engineering company Monsanto. Here’s the entire documentary for those of you you want to see it. As with most information about Monsanto, it is scary viewing: Hat tip: Celsias read more
  April 10, 2008 7:55 am - No Comments
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  Monsanto is $660 poorer - by frog

  
  
  
  I alluded, in an earlier post, to the legal battle between small Canadian farmer, Percy Schmeiser, who was being sued by Monsanto for having round-up ready canola on his land without having paid for them. It seems that Schmeiser did win a law case after all. It wasn’t the 1998 case for which he became [...] read more
  March 28, 2008 8:37 am - 1 Comment
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  A bad year for food, a good year for GE - by frog

  
  
  
  Celsias reports that the world’s non-genetically engineered food crops are rapidly being contaminated as seeds from GE crops blow around on the wind and snuggle up into plantations where they were never welcome. As a result of genetically contamination of non-GMO crops in Europe, the U.S., Mexico, Australia and South America, the biotech food industry [...] read more
  March 28, 2008 7:41 am - 1 Comment
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  This summer Monsanto is back - by frog

  
  
  
  This summer, once you are bored with the beach, the picnics and the bike rides (and maybe the occasional game of monopoly while you wait for the rain to clear), you might be looking for something else to do, something retro – maybe a little bit 2001/02.  Because one of the international superstars of the [...] read more
  December 13, 2007 2:46 pm - 37 Comments