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June 23, 2021
Multiple lawsuits are pending in the United States alleging the weedkilling chemical paraquat causes Parkinson's disease, and the first case to go to trial over the allegations against Syngenta over...
June 23, 2021
Glyphosate Fact Sheet: Cancer and Other Health Concerns
Glyphosate, a synthetic herbicide patented in 1974 by the Monsanto Company and now manufactured and sold by many companies in hundreds of products, has been associated with cancer and other health...
June 10, 2021
(Updated June 10 with state regulatory announcement about seed company clean-up efforts.) An "environmental catastrophe" unfolding in Nebraska is drawing scrutiny from around the United States and...
June 10, 2021
Bill Gates has radical plans to change our food. What’s on the menu?
We update this blog regularly with news and tips about Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation's agricultural development agenda. Why are we tracking Gates? Read our introductory post. And please sign up...
May 26, 2021
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...
May 13, 2021
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...
April 19, 2021
Move to consolidate U.S. paraquat litigation as cases mount against Syngenta
Lawyers suing Swiss chemical company Syngenta are asking a U.S. judicial panel to consolidate more than a dozen similar lawsuits under the oversight of a federal judge in California. The move is a...
April 9, 2021
Monsanto’s Campaign Against U.S. Right To Know: Read the Documents
Update 3.16.21: The Northern California Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists honored U.S. Right to Know with the James Madison Freedom of Information Awards for our work submitting...
March 16, 2021