'Corn's utter dominance of American agriculture comes at the expense of our environment, our health and some of our farmers.' Last Week Tonight John Oliver
Brilliant ending stay with it! youtube.com/watch?v=MI78WO…

Bayer’s latest PR campaign seeks to align the company with farmers.

But to truly stand with farmers and pesticide applicators is to expose Bayer’s PR spin and push the EPA to follow the science on glyphosate. Stacy Malkan Anna Lappé Kendra Klein

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This NY Post Opinion column claiming the 'bee-pocalypse' is 'stupid' quotes a Bayer-funded front group leader. Here's more on pesticide PR guy Jon Entine usrtk.org/industry-pr/jo…

'In an experiment in the early 80's, Johnson fed a component of Scotchban to rats and found that PFOS accumulated in their livers...When I asked why that mattered to the company, he took a sip of coffee and said, “It meant they were screwed.”
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Tucked away in this story on the Bayer Leverkusen soccer team is a great primer on the corporate history of Bayer, which makes Roundup, neonicotinoids and other pesticides. Bravo Seb Stafford-Bloor The Athletic
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Microplastics found in every human testicle in study - via The Guardian Damian Carrington theguardian.com/environment/ar…

For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... propublica.org/article/3m-for…

Aspartame carcinogenic potential revealed through network toxicology and molecular docking insights. ' #aspartame has the potential to impact various cancer-related proteins, potentially raising the likelihood of cellular carcinogenesis...' Via Scientific Reports
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Thank you chairs CathyMcMorrisRodgers, Brett Guthrie & Morgan Griffith. We are honored.

“We commend the U.S. Right to Know for uncovering the notes from the DEFUSE Project grant application that revealed Daszak’s deception, as well as members from both sides of the aisle who worked to

Researchers from UC Berkeley UC Merced & Stanford University conclude that “early life #organophosphate #pesticide #exposure has been linked with poorer #neurodevelopment from infancy to adolescence.” 🚼 #organic #children #children shealth Blog: ow.ly/qunF50RGgZF

The financial crisis of 2008 unleashed a huge wave of land grabbing; 15 yrs on, global land prices have doubled and farmers are being squeezed from all sides.

What is driving pressures on farmland? What can be done to achieve equitable access? New report from IPES-Food

Does Melinda French Gates see this? Will her approach be different?

'From Big Agriculture to Big Education to Big Finance, Bill Gates has become an important partner and invaluable front man for business interests, escorting corporate ideology into public life under the banner

Her divorce from Bill Gates made Melinda French Gates an independent multi-billionaire--current net worth around $11b.

Her divorce this morning from Gates Foundation appears even more lucrative. She's taking an additional $12.5 billion👇

No one should control this much money

The U.S. should join Mexico to improve food systems rather than responding to corporate pressure to export without limits. Read more of our coverage and analysis of the U.S.-Mexico GM corn dispute: iatp.org/food-sovereign…

Mexico/US #GMO corn trade dispute: 'Mexico is taking a different approach to create greater resiliency and healthier alternatives' for food systems.' commondreams.org/opinion/gm-cor… Karen Hansen-Kuhn