The Federal Reserve bought $3 million in the company's bonds before they were downgraded, bringing taxpayers' total stake to $7 million. Even Xzibit gets pulled into the GMO fray. Elections Affect Climate Progress ... ›, Outdoor Brand Patagonia Wants You to 'Vote the A**holes Out ... ›, The most competitive Senate races of 2020 ›, Election 2020: The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2020 ... ›. While Monsanto's former shareholders are completely off the hook, their Bayer counterparts look uncomfortably exposed. Clean, safe water supplies will become scarce in many parts of the country. The discussion is important, writes Johnson, but very abstract. For the past several years, he’s been a regular on the ant-GMO lecture circuit and as the subject of the documentary, “David Versus Monsanto” helped paint the company in an unflattering light. How dare they or anyone else gamble with the health and safety of innocent people.

It was 1957 and this was the “House of the Future,” a prototype modular house created by Monsanto, in collaboration with M.I.T. Monsanto invented the herbicide glyphosate and brought it to market under the trade name Roundup in 1974, after DDT was banned. Many memes reference a piece of legislation dubbed Monsanto Protection Act, which addressed issue of crops whose legality was challenged. You seem to point that the only thing Monsanto lacks is spin control, and all their problems are only due to PR. That’s when things turned sour. Glyphosatedisrupts sulfate transport from the gut to the liver, and may lead over time to severe sulfate deficiency throughout all the tissues, including the brain. :/. These include imbalances in gut bacteria, impairment in enzymes involved with detoxifying environmental toxins, mineral deficiencies and amino acid depletion. This law means we can finally protect women from the toxic exposures they currently face on every trip to the salon. But Will We Take It? Lightning-induced fires are also torching Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Colorado and New Mexico. But the damage had been done. Energy supplies will become increasingly unstable and more costly (because most U.S. power plants need a steady supply of cooling water to operate).

Moreover, the report predicts that already compromised roads, bridges, and the safety of pipelines all over the country will be vulnerable to damage from violent storms and flooding. In 2009, Greenpeace activists held a letter to Monsanto's China CEO and a bowl of rice to protest in the lobby of a building where Monsanto has its office in Beijing. Over the past decade, Monsanto has become a pop cultural bogeyman, the face of corporate evil. Monsanto invented the herbicide glyphosate and brought it to market under the trade name Roundup in 1974, after DDT was banned. When the independent studies were released they showed that Monsanto wasn’t just feathering the data, they were providing entirely falsified information. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Overgrowth of clostridia, specifically C. difficile, is a well-established causal factor in colitis.

Shareholders are taking fright over a case linking Roundup weed killer to cancer.

The idea that our food might be adulterated or cause harm is an easy thing to get worked up about. "It's an all-out assault on everything for the public interest. Philosoraptor gets in on the anti-Monsanto action. Obesity: An experiment involving the transfer of a strain of endotoxin-producing bacteria from the gut of an obese human to the guts of mice caused the mice to become obese. “The Terminator,” as it was ingeniously dubbed by environmentalists, could not be saved and replanted by farmers, ostensibly forcing the farmers to have to buy fresh seed every year. Alzheimer's disease: In the lab, Roundup causes the same type of oxidative stress and neural cell death observed in Alzheimer's disease. During his… Read more », […] A Pew Research Center survey found that 57 percent of Americans think “GM foods are generally unsafe to eat.” And a survey by Consumer Reports found “more than 70 percent of Americans say they don’t want genetically modified organisms in their food.” But Monsanto keeps pushing GM food through the approval process in spite of widespread public revulsion and vitriol.