Chlorpyrifos: common pesticide tied to brain damage in children

Chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide, is strongly linked to brain damage in children. These and other health concerns have led several countries and some U.S. states to ban chlorpyrifos, but the...

October 22, 2020

Bayer’s Monsanto headache persists

The migraine that is Monsanto doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon for Bayer AG. Efforts at settling the mass of lawsuits brought in the United States by tens of thousands of people who...

October 1, 2020

Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded another $10 million last week to the controversial Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign housed at Cornell that trains fellows in...

September 30, 2020

Cornell Alliance for Science is a PR Campaign for the Agrichemical Industry

Despite its academic-sounding name and affiliation with an Ivy League institution, the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) is a public relations campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates...

September 23, 2020

The Monsanto Papers: Roundup (Glyphosate) Cancer Trials Key Documents & Analysis

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September 23, 2020

International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a Food Industry Lobby Group

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with 17 affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group...

September 21, 2020

Thailand’s reversal on glyphosate ban came after Bayer scripted U.S. intervention, documents show

A year ago Thailand was set to ban the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate, a move applauded by public health advocates because of evidence the chemical causes cancer, along with other harms...

September 17, 2020

Glyphosate in chicken poop used as fertilizer is hurting food production, researchers say

Scientists brought more bad news to light regarding the widely used herbicide glyphosate, better known as Roundup, in a new research paper published this month. Researchers from the University of...

September 9, 2020

Key pesticide industry PR group CBI closes; GMO Answers moves to CropLife

The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI), a major public relations initiative launched two decades ago by leading agrichemical companies to persuade the public to accept GMOs and pesticides,...

September 2, 2020

Council for Biotechnology Information, GMO Answers, CropLife: pesticide industry PR initiatives 

The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) was a public relations campaign launched in April 2000 by seven leading chemical/seed companies and their trade groups to persuade the public to accept...

September 2, 2020