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Tractor spraying glyphosate

Bayer faces billion-dollar losses related to legal claims of deadly Roundup herbicide

Health & Medicine

Monsanto, makers of the widely used herbicide Roundup, faces claims of consumer deception, costing its new parent company, Bayer, more than $20 billion in lost market value.

Herbicide spreading

An FDA scientist finds traces of weed killer in many common foods

Environment
A man test-sprays glyphosate in a field with tall grass while wearing a blue pack on his back containing the chemical.

Inside Monsanto’s day in court: Scientists weigh in on glyphosate’s cancer risks

Justice
Monsanto protest

Protests and cancer concerns raise doubts for Roundup’s future in Europe

Health
A trader checks stacked boxes of cotton before loading them onto a truck inside a cotton processing unit in Kadi near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

Are GMOs really behind India’s farming success?

Environment
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An employee at a Seattle co-op stocks produce near a sign supporting a 2013 ballot initiative in Washington state that would have required labeling of GMO foods. The initiative failed, with record amounts of money spent to defeat it.

GMO lobbying is a booming business as labeling laws increase

Business

The battle over labeling GMO foods has prompted food companies to pour $27 million into lobbying efforts — just in the last six months. With a lawsuit arguing that Vermont’s GMO labeling law is unconstitutional and fights to stop labeling initiatives in other states, the big food lobbying push is likely to keep growing.

Monsanto corn seeds, Mon 810, are grown in only five countries in the European Union. France, Germany, Italy are among those who have banned GMOs as a precaution.

This Italian farmer is fighting for the right to grow genetically modified corn on his land

Environment

Italy is a fiercely anti-GMOs. It’s one of a handful of countries to ban them outright. But European law is trumping them, and it has opened a window for one Italian farmer who is growing GMO corn anyway.

Monsanto corn seeds, Mon 810, are grown in only five countries in the European Union. France, Germany, Italy are among those who have banned GMOs as a precaution.

This Italian farmer is fighting for the right to grow genetically modified corn on his land

Environment

Italy is a fiercely anti-GMOs. It’s one of a handful of countries to ban them outright. But European law is trumping them, and it has opened a window for one Italian farmer who is growing GMO corn anyway.

French study raises questions about health effects of genetically modified corn

Environment

A group of French scientists are raising questions about the safety of genetically modified corn. The scientists say, specifically, that Roundup Ready corn causes tumors in rats, and therefore isn’t safe in humans — a claim wholly rejected by Roundup producer Monsanto.

Fighting GM foods, and the weeds they cause

Use of genetically modified crops and the weedkiller Roundup have given rise to new, pesticide-resistant “superweeds.” The Center for Food Safety is trying to stop the GM crops before they spread.

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