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GMO Answers is a Marketing and PR Website for GMO Companies
It’s billed as a forum where consumers can get straight answers from independent experts about genetically engineered foods, and some journalists take it seriously as an unbiased source, but the GMO...
View ArticleBig Week for Big Ag Players Monsanto and Dow
Monsanto Shareholders Meeting Draws Fire An array of GMO and pesticide critics spoke out at Monsanto Co.’s annual meeting of shareholders on Friday, Jan. 29 in the company’s hometown of Creve Coeur,...
View ArticleNot Just For Corn and Soy: A Look at Glyphosate Use in Food Crops
By Carey Gillam As the active ingredient in Monsanto’s branded Roundup weed killer, along with hundreds of other weed-killing products, the chemical called glyphosate spells billions of dollars in...
View ArticleConflict of Interest Concerns Cloud Glyphosate Review
By Carey Gillam It’s been a little more than a year since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research experts upended the agrichemical industry’s favorite child. The group, the International...
View ArticleGlyphosate ‘Revolution’ Growing — Consumers Want Answers
By Carey Gillam They’re calling it a glyphosate “revolution.” Consumers around the world are waking up to the fact that they’re living in a world awash in the weed-killing pesticide known as...
View ArticleFDA Tests Confirm Oatmeal, Baby Foods Contain Residues of Monsanto Weed Killer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is quietly starting to test certain foods for residues of a weed killing chemical linked to cancer, has found the residues in a variety of oat products,...
View ArticleBefore the Holiday Feast: New Data on Pesticides in Food Raises Safety Questions
As American gather their families to share a Thanksgiving meal this week, new government data offers a potentially unappetizing assessment of the U.S. food supply: Residues of many types of...
View ArticleUSDA Drops Plan to Test for Monsanto Weed Killer in Food
By Carey Gillam The U.S. Department of Agriculture has quietly dropped a plan to start testing food for residues of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer and the key ingredient in...
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Canadians Report Weed Killer Detected in 30 Percent of Food Tested
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has gone where the U.S. government dares not tread – testing thousands of foods commonly consumed by its citizens for residues of a controversial herbicide linked...
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Coming Soon – Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the...
It’s the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it’s in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto’s Roundup by...
View ArticleFDA Resumes Testing Foods For Weed Killer, Safety Questions Grow
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resumed its first-ever endeavor to evaluate how much of a controversial chemical is making its way into the U.S. food supply. And the tests can’t come soon...
View ArticleOf Mice, Monsanto and a Mysterious Tumor
Call it the case of the mysterious mouse tumor. It’s been 34 years since Monsanto Co. presented U.S. regulators with a seemingly routine study analyzing the effects the company’s best-selling herbicide...
View ArticleMonsanto Spin Doctors Target Cancer Scientist In Flawed Reuters Story
In a well-orchestrated and highly coordinated media coup, Monsanto Co. and friends this week dropped a bombshell on opponents who are seeking to prove that the company’s beloved Roundup herbicide...
View ArticleCollusion or Coincidence? Records Show EPA Efforts to Slow Herbicide Review...
Newly released government email communications show a persistent effort by multiple officials within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slow a separate federal agency’s safety review of...
View ArticleGlyphosate ‘Revolution’ Growing — Consumers Want Answers
By Carey Gillam They’re calling it a glyphosate “revolution.” Consumers around the world are waking up to the fact that they’re living in a world awash in the weed-killing pesticide known as...
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The Misleading and Deceitful Ways of Dr. Kevin Folta
Kevin Folta, Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Horticulture Sciences Department at University of Florida, has provided inaccurate information and engaged in misleading activities in his efforts to...
View ArticleFDA Tests Confirm Oatmeal, Baby Foods Contain Residues of Monsanto Weed Killer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is quietly starting to test certain foods for residues of a weed killing chemical linked to cancer, has found the residues in a variety of oat products,...
View ArticleMy Friend Died From Cancer Today
By Carey Gillam My friend died from cancer today. His was a short, eight-month-long battle for survival, but it was a brutal one. Now his wife and young children are not planning for Christmas; instead...
View ArticleHold the plum pudding: US food sampling shows troubling pesticide residues
By Carey Gillam Sometimes the truth about our food is not very appetizing. As many gather this holiday season for shared family meals, it is likely that they’ll be serving up small doses of pesticides...
View ArticleCorporate power, not public interest, at root of science committee hearing on...
(First published in Environmental Health News) Score another point for corporate power over protection of the public. U.S. Rep Lamar Smith, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on...
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