Hey, wait a minute: I thought the Environmental Protection Agency was faithfully helping us carry out Barack Obama's Marxist revolution by crushing big business. But this morning I read that the EPA has doubled the amount of glyphosate (Monsanto's Roundup…
Posts tagged as “Monsanto”
During the past decade, South Dakota State University entomologist Mike Cantangui did research that showed Monsanto's genetically engineered corn may contribute to the spread of cutworms. Three years ago, Monsanto board member and SDSU president David Chicoine saw to it…
Dakota Rural Action has sounded the alarm on House Bill 1048, which appears to take away important due process protections that South Dakota farmers have against unwarranted search and seizure of their property by Monsanto and other litigious Big Ag…
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and the Legislature are brewing up another scheme to favor Big Ag over small farmers. This time, they want to take away your property rights. Take a look at House Bill 1048. It's innocuously…
Young Madison journalist Becky Froelich helps write up Charlie and Allen Johnson's longstanding organic farm operation down in Orland township— —edit: Make that Charlie, Allen, and Aaron Johnson. According to Froelich, Aaron was toiling away selling seed and ag products…
Here's something else about which Kristi Noem has been silent on the House Agriculture Committee: the "Monsanto rider." Section 733 of the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations Bill provides Monsanto and other biotech companies with a stunningly unconstitutional gift. Suppose a…
Here's a round-up of research not being conducted at a South Dakota university run by Monsanto executive board member David Chicoine: Monsanto's flagship herbicide Roundup damages mouth cells and DNA: To reflect occupational exposure, human buccal epithelial cells were exposed…
Dr. Newquist draws our attention to new research (Gassman et al., 2011) that finds Monsanto's Bt corn contributing to the spread of western corn rootworms. Dr. Newquist says Monsanto isn't wholly to blame for these evolving superbugs; he says we…