New research should nail the coffin lid shut on a toxic bee-killing pesticide
Press Release - January 10, 2012
Entire food chain found to be contaminated, from soil to pollen to dead bees
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The Sierra Club, with over 1.3 million members and supporters, calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately suspend the registration of the insecticide clothianidin, based on new scientific evidence of extensive contamination in bees and soil.
USDA Scientist Reveals All - Glyphosate Hazards to Crops, Soils, Animals, and Consumers
Don Huber painted a devastating picture of glyphosate and GM crops at UK Parliament Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji
In less than an hour, Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University and USDA senior scientist (see Box) delivered to the UK Houses of Parliament a damning indictment of glyphosate agriculture as a most serious threat to the environment, livestock, and human health [1].
Don Huber
Judge rejects challenge to biotech alfalfa
A federal judge has rejected allegations by biotech critics that USDA violated environmental laws by fully deregulating transgenic alfalfa.
U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti has refused to overturn the agency’s approval of the crop, which was genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate herbicides.
The Center for Food Safety and other critics claimed in its lawsuit that USDA failed to properly evaluate the potential for Roundup Ready alfalfa to cross-pollinate with conventional and organic crops.
BT GENE IN GM CROPS HARMFUL FOR GROWTH
A team of Indian scientists has found that genetic modification (GM) will have a detrimental effect on the growth and development of plants.
This is the first time that scientists have found that the Bt gene will trigger major problems in plants like stunted growth and sterility. Thus far, studies have centred on the toxicity of the Bt gene to animals and human beings.
SCOTTS UNVEILS ERADICATION PLAN FOR GMO BENTGRASS
SALEM -- Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. executives were surprised last fall to learn plant escapes from an Idaho field of transgenic bentgrass were found several miles away in irrigation canals south of Ontario, Ore.
Scotts fieldmen for several years had monitored the area between the regulated trial near Parma, Idaho, and the Snake River border between Idaho and Oregon. The fieldmen had never seen escapes near the river, said Paula Bodey, a vice president for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.
