German ag minister Christian Schmidt has sent a letter to all states within the country announcing his intent that Germany will “opt out” of genetically modified crop cultivation, using new European Union provisions allowing that action. This move follows a similar ban announced by Scotland. Until now, Germany has tightly restricted cultivation of GMO crops, […]

Plunging stock markets, disappearing debt and weakening currencies have encouraged investors to buy about $25 billion in U.S. farmland over the past decade. A small slice of that cash has come from investors keen to own land managed with “sustainable” technologies: non-GMO diversity instead of chemical-dependent, biotech monocultures.  We expect those ecologically mission-minded investment firms

Finally, a research organization has assembled a virtually complete spectrum of information on glyphosate’s health effects — and published it in a single, well-written document. The 80-page report, titled “Banning Glyphosate,” was released Aug. 20 by the Institute of Science in Society. You can review it at this link. Eight world-recognized researchers cooperated to assemble a

Dr. Arden Andersen, who holds a post-doctorate degree in public health, looked right in the eyes of his farmer audience at a Des Moines seminar a couple of winters ago: His accusation went something like this: “How are you going to explain to your grandson who develops diabetes at age five, your granddaughter who can’t

A new study accepted for publication in the scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicity examines a wide range of research on glyphosate in conjunction with its chemical adjuvants, which are used to enhance effectiveness in killing weeds.  Glyphosate is one of the most-studied compounds known. But it has almost always been used alone in toxicology