Les pesticides, fongicides et autres herbicides développés dans les labos de Bayer depuis des décennies ont ruiné l’environnement et la santé humaine. On s’aperçoit tous les jours des dégâts et de l’ampleur des résidus toxiques partout autour de nous et en nous. Mais face à ce bilan désastreux, Bayer ne
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C’est une première. Une sorte de mariage de la carpe et du lapin entre l’écologie et la filière viande bovine. Pour la première fois, elles font front uni contre les dérives de la mondialisation. Dans un nouveau rapport publié ce 26 mars, le Think Tank de la Fondation Nicolas Hulot,
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Pure plagiarism. In literature, it's not very pretty, but in public health, it's very serious. In 2017, the European Union extended the use of glyphosate, the famous herbicide from the firm Monsanto/Bayer, for five years. This authorisation is the result of an expert report that plagiarized the use of glyphosate.
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American farmers will be able to use dicamba in their crops. This pesticide, a cousin of glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto-Bayer. Highly controversial, it was the subject of fierce discussions but finally the American authorities have just renewed its authorization. Volatile, it spreads to neighbouring fields and devastates everything, or almost everything,
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It can be seen all over the world: the buzzing of bee colonies is dying out and hives are collapsing. Bees, these vital pollinators for our food, are disappearing in a terrifying ecological armageddon: 35 % of the world's food production is directly linked to the free service offered by
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The German group Bayer is going to abolish the Monsanto brand as soon as it has finalised its takeover of the American GMO and pesticide giant, thus removing a name that is synonymous for its detractors with the excesses of agrochemicals. "Bayer will remain the name of the company. Monsanto, as a company name, will not
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For a long time now, people have been talking in the columns of UP' Magazine about CRISPR-Cas9, this formidable or terrifying - depending on one's point of view - tool of genetic modification. An invention by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Chapentier that is the subject of a fierce patent battle. But Monsanto, without intimidating itself
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The gastronomic news website Atabula publishes an open letter against the invasion of agrochemicals in our plates, following the announced merger between Bayer and Monsanto. A hundred of great French chefs such as Yannick Alléno, Olivier Roellinger, Mauro Colagreco or Michel and Sébastien Bras denounce "this danger for our plates". What is the
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The German chemical giant Bayer has just announced the purchase of the GMO pesticide and seed manufacturer, the American Monsanto, for the astronomical sum of 66 billion dollars. This announcement is the end of an arm wrestling match that has been going on for four months. Update of the article published on
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On paper, bees should rejoice: their main enemy, responsible for the death of 300,000 hives a year, pesticides from the neonicotinoid family have been banned. During the second reading of the biodiversity law in the House of Commons, MEPs adopted a
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