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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After the approval of the European Union, it is now the turn of the American justice system to validate the marriage between two giants: the American pesticides and seeds giant Monsanto and the German chemicals conglomerate Bayer. A union sealed for the astronomical sum of 66 billion dollars. Plant protection products, seeds,
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Two years of debate, a frantic NGO campaign and a vote at the end of the suspense: the glyphosate soap opera has put the spotlight on complex and contested decision-making processes in the European Union, which promises to learn from them. Opponents of
PlusThousands of U.S. farmers filed lawsuits in 2017 against Monsanto and dicamba, a herbicide marketed by the group. Dicamba is a volatile herbicide that spreads to nearby fields and devastates almost everything in its path. You thought you knew about glyphosate? There's something better: dicamba! The services of
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Arnaud Apoteker, who was for a long time in charge of the GMO campaign for Greenpeace France, was one of the key players in obtaining a ban on the cultivation of GMOs in France. A fierce opponent of the use of pesticides, particularly glyphosate, he was the linchpin and general coordinator of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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GMO crops took the world by storm in 2016, after marking time for the first time in 2015, with an increase of 3% in planted area to 185.1 million hectares in 26 countries around the world. This is according to a report by the ISAAA (International Service for Agricultural Research and Development).
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In Burkina Faso, Monsanto's days are numbered. The multinational is withdrawing from the country. The introduction of its GMO cotton in 2009 did not really go as planned: presented as a miracle solution to pest attacks, the new variety ended up mainly destroying the quality and the quality of the cotton.
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A symbolic tribunal against Monsanto was held in The Hague (Netherlands) from 14 to 16 October 2016. Objectives: to address the legal responsibility of companies and states for global environmental degradation in the light of existing international law; and to convince of the need to introduce
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The Citizen's Court exercise is intended to explain Monsanto's failures to respect the rights to health, food, a healthy environment, freedom and access to information, the rejection of war and the protection of life. Multinational companies that make
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"The lawsuit that opens today is fictitious, but the law is real! "Corinne Lepage, who opens the two days of the Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague on 15 and 16 October, explains the scope of the legal exercise. "To ask questions in law because the law is insufficient to
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From 14 to 16 October 2016, the Monsanto Tribunal, an international civil society mobilization of historic proportions, will expose Monsanto's toxic products and the crimes attributed to this company against human health and the environment. Five eminent experts will be called upon to judge the multinational company.
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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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The string is big but the vast majority of the press and international observers pretended not to see it. It must be said that the headlines are raucous: 108 eminent Nobel Prize winners have taken up the pen to condemn Greenpeace's anti-GMO campaigns for "crime against humanity"! All
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Chemical manufacturers producing phytosanitary products and pesticides are engaged in a merciless war to save their business. Public opinion, more or less relayed by the European or national authorities, is upwind against glyphosates, Roundup and other bee-killing neonicotinoids. In this
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All California wines are said to contain glyphosate. Fourteen of Germany's greatest beers, too. The active principle of Roundup, Monsanto's powerful weed killer, glyphosate is considered by many studies to be highly dangerous to health. Everybody is in turmoil. And meanwhile, the Commission
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