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2026-03-18 18:55:34 UTC

Bayer is the sole US supplier of the white phosphorus involved in these war crimes. And Trump is protecting Bayer and boosting its white phosphorus production, along with its production of #glyphosate, which incidentally Israel is also using as a weapon of war. More on this: https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20643-trump-s-executive-order-is-about-weapons-as-much-as-weedkiller
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2026-02-19 17:44:05 UTC

Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across America’s heartland. But Big Ag, #Bayer, and the pesticide industry are firmly embedded in the White House. #glyphosate https://investigatemidwest.org/2026/02/18/pesticide-use-and-cancer-risk-rise-together-across-americas-heartland/

2026-02-19 14:32:59 UTC

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What Trump’s doing isn’t just about spurring the domestic production of #glyphosate: “The Defense Production Act provides a pathway for companies to be shielded from certain liability suits”, as the New York Times notes. In other words, giving Bayer the kind of legal immunity it’s been begging for.
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2026-02-19 13:45:38 UTC

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And RFKJr agrees with the EO: ‘Donald Trump’s executive order puts America first where it matters most — our defense readiness and our food supply. We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/trump-boost-weedkiller.html

2026-02-19 13:37:12 UTC

Trump’s #glyphosate executive order a ‘big middle finger to every MAHA mom’. ‘First President Trump sided with Bayer/Monsanto on glyphosate at the Supreme Court, and now he’s elevating it through the Defense Department.’ https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2026/02/ewg-trumps-glyphosate-executive-order-big-middle-finger-every
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2026-02-16 15:01:52 UTC

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Farmers’ groups, scarred by decades of agrarian distress, view AI-driven ag as the next corporate Trojan horse. Andhra has experimented with zero-budget natural farming under the previous YSRCP regime; tech-heavy models from Seattle feel like a reversal favoring multinationals.
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2026-02-16 14:26:54 UTC

Why people oppose Bill Gates’ visit to Andhra Pradesh? Among other reasons, Gates’ promotion of corporate-backed seeds and agri-tech revives anxieties linked to the #GMO Bt cotton era and farmer indebtedness, when suicides spiked. https://www.metroindia.net/news/articlenews/why-people-oppose-bill-gates-visit-to-ap-35480

2026-01-27 21:17:01 UTC

Jonathan Lundgren, former US Government #GMO advisor has spent three decades studying how we grow food. His conclusion: ‘Industrial agriculture’s days are numbered.’ https://8point9.com/lundgren-industrial-agricultures-days-are-numbered/

2025-04-02 15:56:20 UTC

Monarch populations have begun dropping significantly due to loss of their primary host plant, the milkweed. This loss is caused by a widespread use of herbicides in agriculture, specifically #glyphosate on #GMO crops. https://ungvanguard.org/41298/news/monarch-butterfly-populations-drop-linked-to-habitat-loss-and-pesticides/

2025-03-09 16:27:57 UTC

Trump wants Europe to buy more U.S. farm goods. But if Trump wants Europeans to eat more American food, he’ll have to convince them to swallow something even tougher: U.S. food safety standards. Europeans might buy American software, movies and weapons, but they aren’t keen on U.S. beef pumped with hormones, chlorine-washed chicken or #GMO corn. Pesticides are another flash point. Today, over 70 different #pesticides banned in the EU remain widespread in U.S. farming.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-wants-europe-to-buy-more-us-farm-goods/

2025-03-06 15:42:52 UTC

Argentina and Paraguay: Civil society organisations call for suspension of #GMO HB4 wheat due to its failure, as Bioceres (the Argentine #Monsanto) sees its income plummet. https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20518/

2025-01-14 16:24:00 UTC

Study finds that amphibians are harmed by #glyphosate, including at levels detected in water. Amphibians play crucial role in ecosystems. Any impact on their populations can disrupt entire food webs, with potentially serious consequences for the ecosystem. https://www.pan-uk.org/study-finds-that-amphibians-are-harmed-by-glyphosate/

2025-01-08 15:49:12 UTC

Glyphosate threatens manatee immune systems, new University of Florida study finds. The researchers found that #glyphosate can reduce immune cell activity by more than 27.3%, potentially compromising the threatened species’ ability to fend off disease. https://ufhealth.org/news/2025/herbicide-threatens-manatee-immune-systems-uf-study-finds

2024-12-28 12:25:33 UTC

US Wins Controversial Ruling in
GM Corn Dispute with Mexico. The tribunal’s ruling will not undo the fact that Mexico’s precautionary policies are indeed justified by a wealth of scientific evidence. The US presented outdated research full of conflicts of interest. Mexico’s evidence of risk from #GMO corn and glyphosate should prompt consumers and govts the world over to take a closer look at these controversial products and the lax US regulatory processes Mexico exposed
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/12/u-s-wins-controversial-ruling-gm-corn-dispute-mexico/
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2024-12-20 18:24:24 UTC

Aspen is a natural fire guard. Why has British Columbia spent decades killing it off with glyphosate? And the ecosystem costs of spraying #glyphosate are ‘huge,’ says professor of forest ecology Suzanne Simard. “It’s devastating.” https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-glyphosate-forestry-impact-aspen/

2024-11-15 09:10:43 UTC

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to present constitutional safeguard for NON-#GMO corn in coming days. "This will be in the constitution as this is the best defense we have for biodiversity as well as for our health." https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/mexicos-sheinbaum-present-constitutional-safeguard-non-gmo-corn-coming-days-2024-11-14/

2024-11-09 11:36:09 UTC

European Parliament urged to call for immediate investigation into Poison PR. MEPs alerted to clear-cut evidence of foreign interference in critical #EU policy making by US government-funded Poison PR firms, who were awarded a contract worth up to $4.9 million of US taxpayers' money to help torpedo the EU’s Farm to Fork (F2F) policy aiming to cut pesticide use https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20476/

2024-10-09 12:13:48 UTC

Field study finds using #biodiversity instead of #pesticides can reduce crop damage and even increase yields. Using biodiversity within a plant species means different plant genotypes can cooperate to help fend off herbivorous insects. In addition: “Overall, mixing cultivars increased crop biomass, leaf area index, photosynthetic rate, and water-use efficiency by 5.1, 7.2, 8.5 and 4.3%, respectively, and decreased disease incidence by 24.1%.” https://phys.org/news/2024-10-field-biodiversity-pesticides-crop-herbivores.html

2024-10-09 08:58:27 UTC

Revealed: the US govt-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics. At the heart of this big investigation is former #Monsanto man Jay Byrne and his PR firm v-Fluence, who've been involved in dirty tricks ops against #GMO critics for decades. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics