Advocates of genetically modified foods, Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides, and firm believers in the Environmental Protection Agency are still arguing that low levels of glyphosate exposure are perfectly safe for human beings. The amount of glyphosate considered to be safe according to the European Union is 17 times less then the Environmental Protection Agency here in […]
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Monsanto’s Round-Up Weedkiller has, at this point, reached a level of notoriety that was last achieved by a chemical when LSD escaped from its labs in the 1950s and landed firmly on the tongues of a nation’s youth. Perversely, this new chemical is getting nowhere near the fear-mongering and propaganda that was so eagerly heaped […]
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The agricultural behemoth Monsanto invented the glyphosate-based herbicide known as RoundUp and began to market it to the public in 1974 after Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was almost universally banned. IIn the late 1990s the use of Roundup skyrocketed, thanks to Monsanto’s clever marketing strategy in which genetically engineered seeds were used to grow food crops that […]
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