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Setting the record straight on false accusations

19 October 2017

Dr Christopher Portier’s work on glyphosate and IARC

GM crops “not the answer” to UK food security – top GMO promoter

19 October 2017

Instead of the farming industry pinning its hopes on GM crops in the post-Brexit UK, growers should focus on the way they farm

MEPs vote for glyphosate ban in three years

19 October 2017

MEPs reject the EU’s pesticide approvals system

Glyphosate: Monsanto tries one last manoeuvre to save Roundup

18 October 2017

Monsanto facility

The St Louis firm is involved in a smear campaign targeting the American toxicologist Christopher Portier

India's Andhra Pradesh investigates planting of Monsanto's unapproved GM cotton

17 October 2017

Panel will investigate how 15% of the state’s cotton acreage has been planted with an unapproved GM strain developed by Monsanto and may bring criminal charges

Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto blamed for farmers' deaths in Maharashtra

17 October 2017

Swiss company Syngenta, Germany’s Bayer, and Monsanto draw flak for recent deaths due to pesticide exposure in the cotton belt of Yavatmal

MEPs call on the EU Commission to phase out glyphosate by 2020

17 October 2017

European Parliament audience

Call comes within days of EU Parliamentary hearing on the “Monsanto papers” and glyphosate’s toxicity

Block Bayer-Monsanto merger, says major new legal study

16 October 2017

Authors say merger would reduce competition and raise prices and farmer dependency

Glyphosate persists – and European topsoils are contaminated with it

16 October 2017

Tractor Spraying Roundup Glyphosate

Denmark, the UK and Portugal have the highest detection frequency

The fatal chain: Failure of Bt cotton, increased sprays, poisoning deaths

16 October 2017

Indian Farmers Picking Cotton

The root cause of the pesticide poisonings of farmers is in the failure of Bt cotton, leading to an increased number of pesticide sprays

January 18, 2016

Published by Farmers Relief at January 18, 2016