Apr 23, 2018 | Chile-All, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, GMOs, Indigenous Peoples, Monsanto & Glyphosate, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Glyphosate is widely known for its role in agriculture due to the domination of GMO crops modified to resist this toxic herbicide. But it also has a significant role in industrial forestry. Yesterday at the Gen-Earth event I spoke at in Toronto, I had the great...
Aug 4, 2017 | Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Forests, Social Media News
Image courtesy of The Intercept This week’s Earth Watch guest on KPFK-FM’s Sojourner Truth Radio Show was Carol Van Strum, activist, organizer and writer behind the “Poison Papers”. The “Poison Papers” are recently unveiled...
Jan 20, 2016 | GMOs, Monsanto & Glyphosate, Social Media News
A new blog post by Marcia Ishii-Eiteman of Pesticide Action Network takes a critical stance on President Barack Obama’s lack of focus on reining in the power of corporate agribusinesses like Monsanto. Last year, the White House released a memo indicating a need...
Jul 23, 2015 | GMOs, Monsanto & Glyphosate, Social Media News
Here’s a less commonly seen legal perspective on the GMO debate from Dean Seman and Richard Ranieri with The Legal Intelligencer. Will GMOs and herbicides be at the root of the next crop of bodily injury claims? While the recent glyphosate exposure toxic-tort...