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07/21/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Monsanto.news covers all of Big Biotech’s evil acts and atrocities, past and present

Monsanto has been at the forefront of GMOs, toxic pesticides and herbicides, and the development of other noxious chemicals and products, for decades. As the Bayer-Monsanto merger looms closer, it’s been revealed that the Monsanto name will likely be wiped from existence — but their dirty past will not be cleaned away so easily. A […]

07/12/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Global chemical giants knew about the health dangers of dioxins DECADES before Vietnam

Among the many horrors of the Vietnam War was the United States military’s spraying of Agent Orange, a highly toxic defoliant, throughout the rainforests of the South Pacific. This egregious military action resulted in countless injuries and deaths – its lingering effects still rearing their ugly head today in veterans who were exposed to it […]

04/20/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

A match made in Hell: Monsanto-Bayer merger gets the green light… farmers are worried, as they should be

As hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto for personal injury and wrongful death move forward, German pharmaceutical company Bayer has been given the green light to acquire Monsanto in a deal surpassing $60 billion. The mega monopoly merger was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice in April. Instead of breaking monopolies up, the U.S. encourages monopolies […]

02/20/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

GMO corn driving up use of dangerous pesticides

A very dramatic rise in the use of pesticides on Vermont dairy farms was uncovered following a recent public records request. According to the pesticide use data from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the use of glyphosate more than doubled in the years from 2014 to 2016, while corn-related pesticide use climbed […]

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