After years of denying its flagship product Roundup causes cancer, the Monsanto Company has officially been found guilty in federal court, after a San Francisco jury ruled in favor of a school groundskeeper dying from the disease. Dewayne Johnson, who has long served as a pest control manager in a San Francisco Bay Area school

The cause of the shocking recent rise of autism spectrum disorders has been widely debated in many different circles, and everyone seems to have their theory. Some reports have stated that increased diagnosis and recognition are the biggest and most important reasons for the increased numbers of reported cases, while others point to environmental and

As far as natural and organic companies go, there are few more trustworthy and ethical than Nature’s Path, which has even gone as far as to purchase vast acres of “conventional” farmlands and convert them to organic in order to meet its growing supply and demand challenges. Unlike Cascadian Farms, which is owned by the

The world of GMOs is an insane one: scientific experiments have included the following: rice with human genes, “spermicidal” corn, and genetically engineered foods of all kinds ranging from corn to tomatoes. What most people don’t realize, however, is that GMO tomatoes are not currently on the market, although conventional tomatoes are sprayed with toxic

One of the biggest problems with the genetic engineering experiment being run by Monsanto and Bayer is the fact that it is simply so impossible to contain. Novel genes are being spliced into familiar plants ranging from corn to soy to grass, and these scientific experiments are being unleashed on the unsuspecting populace in ways

The Monsanto-Bayer merger came to light with a ton of controversy, but now, it appears to have slipped the radar screen as the two companies quietly merge into a monstrous entity that could control more than a quarter of the world’s pesticides and seeds market. The two companies were able to receive anti-trust approval in

As Monsanto and Bayer continue to work out the enormous, laundry list of details as to how they will merge and become one single, united company, new developments happening behind closed doors in laboratories are casting even further doubt on their business model of genetically altered foods and chemicals. Prior to Bayer’s takeover of the

The controversy over GMOs and Roundup is well known across the country, although people still insist on buying these crops. But few people know about another controversial chemical produced by Monsanto (now Bayer), dicamba, which is sprayed on soybeans and other crops but oftentimes drifts far away and “hits unintended targets.” It may sound like

While the genetically modified food experiment that hit store shelves in the mid-1990s is now seen as the norm on grocery stores (they’re in between 70-80% of all products by one recent count), many countries worldwide continue to institute some sort of ban on the crops. And for most of these countries, clear, common sense

If you haven’t followed the ongoing GMOs and pesticides controversy, you probably don’t know just how widespread the issue is, like so many people walking around nowadays consuming food that is harmful to both their bodies and the environment. But the truth of the matter is that pesticides are everywhere in our food supply, as