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GM corn found in over 90% of tortillas in Mexico

21 September 2017

Glyphosate also detected

UK govt to pursue GMO obsession in post-Brexit partnership with US

21 September 2017

Possible strategic areas of collaboration named as synthetic biology, GM research

Monsanto’s new weedkiller, dicamba, divides farmers

21 September 2017

Monsanto’s GM dicamba-tolerant seeds and the weedkiller that they’re grown with have turned some farmers against the company and alarmed regulators

EPA to allow use of dicamba next year, but with safeguards

20 September 2017

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to allow farmers to spray the weedkiller dicamba next year, but with additional rules for its use

How Monsanto manufactured “outrage” at glyphosate cancer classification it expected

20 September 2017

Internal company records show not just the level of fear Monsanto had over the impending IARC review, but that company officials expected IARC scientists would find cancer connections to glyphosate

Commission claims of EU agencies’ “thorough scrutiny” of glyphosate data fail to convince

19 September 2017

Pile of reports

Expert reports suggest agencies did not examine the original studies

Bangladesh: Cultivation of Bt brinjal must stop

19 September 2017

Farmers were beguiled into cultivating this GM crop only to incur losses because of the crop’s poor harvest

Philippines: Congress urged to probe golden rice

19 September 2017

A resolution directing an inquiry on GMO golden rice has been filed at the House of Representatives in an effort to stem the imminent re-introduction of the crop

“GM seed choice shouldn’t be dictated”: Italian farmers question EU court ruling

19 September 2017

Not all Italian farmers welcome a European court ruling allowing growers to cultivate GM corn in Italy

Dicamba lawsuits mounting

15 September 2017

Farmers in at least 10 states are involved in lawsuits claiming various levels of loss and damage due to dicamba-tolerant GM technology and the number of suits is climbing

January 18, 2016

Published by Farmers Relief at January 18, 2016