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$750 Million GMO Rice Settlement Moves Forward

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 02.14.2012

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Rice growers met a threshold to move forward with a $750 million settlement over genetically modified rice, the company blam...

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What Can Give You Economic Misery, an Embolism, and a Backyard Full of Elephants?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.09.2012

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Cliff Schecter

Although when it comes to the specific date of our mass death, Harold Camping might as well be talking Chinese nuclear development with Herman Cain, i...

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Another Agribusiness Disaster on the Horizon

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neoncotinoids, Bayer, Epa, Pancho, Mass Bee Deaths, Joseph Decant, Michael Barret, Cor Monoculture, Clothianidin, Green News
John DeCock

There's no reason for concern about the mass death of bees through Colony Collapse Disorder. No reason at all, unless you happen to be a living being who is planning to sustain life by eating food.

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Seeds of Life: Seed Industry Structure (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rebecca Gerendasy

Understanding the organizational structure of the seed industry may seem a pursuit into the arcane, and wonkish world of academics, and private seed breeders. This is certainly not the case.

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Big-Pharma Backed Marijuana Spray Approved As Medicine, But Consumers Of The Natural Herb Still Face Jail

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Armentano

British health regulators have approved the sale and marketing of Sativex, an oral spray consisting of natural cannabis extracts as a treatment for symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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DK Matai

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FDA May Tighten Rules On Omniscan, A GE MRI Drug

BusinessWeek / ProPublica | Jeff Gerth | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing further regulation of three drugs used to create high-contrast images on MRI scans, based on a new a...

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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Kimbrell

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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Packaged Deceit: How Dietary Supplements and Fortified Foods Fool You

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael F. Jacobson

For years, Bayer has marketed its selenium supplements to men as a way to prevent prostate cancer. But the evidence that selenium prevents prostate cancer is as skimpy as Paris Hilton's bikini.

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Goodbye to You, Yaz

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Doug Bremner

Yaz wasn't approved to treat PMDD and acne, and in any case, not all women have PMDD or untreated acne, even though the makers of Yaz probably wish that that was the case.

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Birth Control Pill Yaz's False Advertising: Doesn't Help Acne, Pre-Menstrual Syndrome

New York Times | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has just introduced a new $20 million advertising campaign for Yaz, the most popular birth control pill in the United...

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Bayer to pay $97.5M to settle kickback probe

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- German medical conglomerate Bayer will pay $97.5 million to settle U.S. government allegations that it paid kickbacks to medical supplie...

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Researcher: 22,000 Died Amid Delayed Bayer Drug Recall

Reuters | Ransdell Pierson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open hea...

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