This edition of the Global Research News Hour explores issues around the recent approval of a merger between German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer and the American Agrochemical giant Monsanto. Author and Public Banking Institute Chair Ellen Brown discusses the economic and political clout of the new entity. writer Nick Meyer speaks about the May 19th March Against Monsanto, Dr. Stephen Frantz challenges descriptions of the GMO/Agrochemical industry as safe, sustainable and benevolent, and Vandana Shiva shares her big picture views of agro-chemical agriculture as an artifact of a colonial, patriarchal system, and ways to move beyond it.
Posts for Tag: big agro
The Bayer-Monsanto merger: empowering a life-destroying cartel (2018)
Psychological operations & mind control - Scott Kesterson and Dr. Lee Merritt
Whales dying in huge numbers: food supply attack genocide?!
The gardening secret they don't want you to know about - grow massive plants & tons of food without fertilizers, manures, or pesticides
Nanotechnology used in over 2,000 food items goes unlabelled due to weird FDA loophole
First-ever long-term study reveals Monsanto’s Roundup causes severe liver damage (2017)
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop drying agent used to kill weeds. Glyphosate was discovered by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970. By 1974, Monsanto had introduced it into the market under the trade name Roundup.
Since Roundup became available, there have been a series of controversies. There are numerous studies suggesting that the amount of glyphosate detected in people’s bodies has gone up exponentially. It has been found in human blood, urine, body tissue, and almost everywhere else in the body. [Full article]
