"Monsanto Accepts $66 Billion Bayer Takeover"
"Monsanto has accepted a takeover offer from Germany's Bayer at $128 a share, the BBC has learned."
Source: BBC News, 09/14/2016
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"Zika, Miami And Innovative Alternatives To Pesticides"
"As locally acquired cases of Zika continue to gradually grow in Miami, officials are still hamstrung in deploying a promising technology to fight the mosquitoes that transmit the virus, Aedes aegypti. There are 22 locally acquired cases in Florida, 19 primarily in the Wynwood area of Miami, two in Broward County, and a new case in Palm Beach County."
Source: Forbes, 08/15/2016
"Pesticides Threaten Golf Courses, Homes, Businesses In NY"
"A mysterious green residue started coating golfers’ shoes last spring at Rye Golf Club. Players joked about wiping the gunk off, but angry questions mounted as the lush course transformed into a field of dustbowls."
Source: Gannett, 07/27/2016
Damning Probe Finds EPA 'Turning Blind Eye' to Toxic Chemical Cocktails
"Despite the EPA's claims, information on dangerous synergistic effects is publicly available. In fact, the agro-giants collected it themselves."
Source: Common Dreams, 07/22/2016
U.S. Farmers Struggle To Feed The Country's Appetite For Organic Food
"Consumer appetite for organic foods reached $13.4bn in the US last year – so why is only 1% of the country’s cropland dedicated to organic farming?"
Source: Guardian, 07/21/2016
"Will New Chemical Regulations Keep Toxics off Our Plates?"
"There has been a lot of discussion lately about the chemicals that get added to our food and sprayed on or around it while it’s growing. But science shows that even if we removed the pesticides and additives, we’re all eating and drinking a number of other chemicals with unintended consequences every day."
Source: Civil Eats, 06/15/2016
Restricted Pesticides Easy To Buy In Winnipeg Despite Ban, I-Team Finds
"Manitoba's cosmetic pesticide ban was supposed to keep weed killers like Roundup out of the battle against pesky yet harmless weeds, but a CBC News investigation found store after store flouting the rules."
Source: CBC News, 05/31/2016
"Bayer Makes Takeover Offer For Agriculture Giant Monsanto"
"German drug and chemicals-maker Bayer has made a takeover bid for agricultural giant Monsanto in a deal that could create the world's biggest supplier of seeds and pesticides."
Source: BBC News, 05/20/2016
"Glyphosate Unlikely To Pose Risk To Humans, UN/WHO Study Says"
"Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller brand, has been given a clean bill of health by the UN’s joint meeting on pesticides residues (JMPR), two days before a crunch EU vote on whether to relicense it."
Source: Guardian, 05/17/2016
In India's Drought Crisis, Suicides Increase Among Farmers Deep In Debt
"Tukaram Jadhav was barely surviving off of his tiny cotton farm when he killed himself last September. His widow, a petite mother of two, pulls her purple sari tightly around her, and says she discovered her husband as he lay dying."
Source: NPR, 05/16/2016
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