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Monsanto, DuPont Spend Millions to Defeat California Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
With biotech giant Monsanto leading the way, big agribusiness firms and food manufacturers have vastly outspent organic food and alternative health firms in an effort to defeat California's Proposition …
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In the Shadow of Paraguay’s Coup: Social Movements Mobilize for Democracy
The coup gave birth to new forms of repression. It also unwittingly created a new panorama of leftist social movements.
How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse
The entire American food system is built on one crop — corn. And that is really bad news.
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Monsanto’s Quiet Coup: Will Congress Limit Scope and Time for GMO Reviews?
After a series of court defeats over the past few years, Monsanto and friends are trying to use Congress to make an end-run around the courts and current law.
Paraguay’s Bitter Harvest: Monsanto and Rio Tinto Reap Benefits From Coup Government
Paraguay's new president Federico Franco fast-tracked negotiations with the mining giant Rio Tinto for a $4 billion aluminum plant on the banks of a river there.
Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods: Whose Side Are You On?
This November, California voters will have an opportunity to vote on a simple, yet important ballot initiative called Prop 37 u2013 the California Right to Know Act. If approved, …
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Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and Gross National Pain
The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get …
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Monsanto Trumps Food Safety and Democracy (Again)
Monsanto successfully intimidated the state legislature from voting on a bill that would have required GMO labelling.
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In Fight With Monsanto, Mother Nature Doesn’t Quit
So much of Monsanto's poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally developed a resistance to it.
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