CRIIGEN: Congenital Malformations in Children from Pesticides?
In January 2009, a farming couple contacted CRIIGEN because two of their three children were born with congenital malformations. One had a somatotropic deficiency, an imperforate anus and a small...
View ArticleFeeding the World: Genetically Modified Crops v Agricultural Biodiversity
The growing demand for food poses major challenges to humankind. We have to safeguard both biodiversity and arable land for future agricultural food production, and we need to protect genetic diversity...
View ArticleSamsel and Seneff: Glyphosate Enhances Damaging Effects of Environmental Toxins
This study shows that glyphosate, the active ingredient of roundup, enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins. Full study here: Gly, Modern...
View ArticleDr Hilbeck: Farmers Have Seed Choices Restricted by GM Crops
This study finds that there is “no evidence that restrictions and regulations of GM crops in Europe have decreased seed choices for farmers in the non-adopting countries Austria, Germany and...
View ArticleDr. Hans-Wolfgang Hoppe: Glyphosate Found in Human Urine Across Europe
People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of the weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe. Find Full Paper...
View ArticleDr. Thongprakaisang: Glyphosate Induces Growth in Human Breast Cancer Cells
This study shows that Glyphosate exerted proliferative effects only in human hormone-dependent breast cancer, T47D cells, but not in hormoneindependent breast cancer, MDA-MB231 cells, at 10-12 to 10-6...
View ArticleProfessor Heinemann: GM Crop Production is Lowering US Yields and Increasing...
University of Canterbury researchers have found that the biotechnologies used in north American staple crop production are lowering yields and increasing pesticide use compared to western Europe. Find...
View ArticleDr Spisak: Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood
A new study shows that contrary to reassurances from industry and regulators, complete genes – including GM genes – can pass from food into human blood. Full Paper Here:...
View ArticleNew Study Shows GM Soy is Unsustainable in Argentina
The GM soy-based agro-export model as currently configured in Argentina is socially and ecologically unsustainable, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The Paper:...
View ArticleDr Krüger: Chronically Ill Humans Have Higher Glyphosate Levels than Healthy...
This German based new study concludes that Glyphosate residue could reach humans and animals through feed and excreted in urine. Presence of glyphosate in urine and its accumulation in animal tissues...
View ArticleDr. Swanson: GM Crops and Glyphosate Linked to U.S. Health Deterioration
A new correlation study has been published in the Journal of Organic Systems has linked the world’s number one herbicide, glyphosate, to a huge increase in the incidence of chronic diseases across the...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization: Glyphosate Is A Probable Human Carcinogen
The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency has declared the world’s most widely used weedkiller – glyphosate – a “probable human carcinogen” in a move that will alarm the agrochemical industry and...
View ArticleDr Jayasumana: New Research Supports Glyphosate Connection to Chronic Kidney...
New research supports the possibility that combined exposure to heavy metals and glyphosate has a synergistic effect leading to high levels of heavy metals accumulating in the kidneys. This in turn...
View ArticleOccupational Glyphosate and Sun Exposure Linked to Increase in Skin Cancer
People who are exposed to glyphosate herbicides and some fungicides in their work are more likely to suffer from an aggressive form of skin cancer called cutaneous melanoma, a new Italian / Brazilian...
View ArticleDr Parks: Women Who Use Glyphosate Have Higher Risk of Developing Rheumatoid...
A new study on the wives of pesticide applicators showed that women who used the pesticides glyphosate and maneb/mancozeb had a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis than non-users of...
View ArticleDr. Hoppin: Glyphosate Exposure Linked to Respiratory Problems in Farmers
GM crops have been engineered to tolerate being sprayed with the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate. Now these have been found to be among a number of pesticides that are associated with allergic and...
View ArticleDr Spisak: Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood
A new study shows that contrary to reassurances from industry and regulators, complete genes – including GM genes – can pass from food into human blood. Full Paper Here:...
View ArticleNew Study Shows GM Soy is Unsustainable in Argentina
The GM soy-based agro-export model as currently configured in Argentina is socially and ecologically unsustainable, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The Paper:...
View ArticleDr Krüger: Chronically Ill Humans Have Higher Glyphosate Levels than Healthy...
This German based new study concludes that Glyphosate residue could reach humans and animals through feed and excreted in urine. Presence of glyphosate in urine and its accumulation in animal tissues...
View ArticleDr. Swanson: GM Crops and Glyphosate Linked to U.S. Health Deterioration
A new correlation study has been published in the Journal of Organic Systems has linked the world’s number one herbicide, glyphosate, to a huge increase in the incidence of chronic diseases across the...
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