The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Desiccating crops disperses toxic glyphosate—and we’re eating it

The herbicide glyphosate, classified by WHO as a probable human carcinogen, is showing up in alarming levels in commonly ingested foods. A lot of our exposure is due to desiccation of crops—a widespread farming practice using glyphosate spray to dry crops pre-harvest, so they can be harvested at a specified time. Nearly all conventional crops […]

California judge expedites Monsanto cancer trial for ailing couple

In one of over 9,300 lawsuits against Monsanto, claiming its weed killer Roundup causes cancer, two California residents in their 70s are suffering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou has expedited their trial, expected to begin on March 18, 2019, in light of their illnesses and shortened life expectancies. Bayer purchased Monsanto last […]

As Roundup lawsuits mount, Bayer cuts 12,000 jobs, considers settling lawsuits

German drug maker Bayer may be feeling buyer’s remorse over its purchase of pesticide/GMO giant Monsanto. Faced with mounting lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller’s link to cancer, Bayer recently announced it would cut around 12,000 jobs, more than 10 percent of the company’s workforce. Bayer, which purchased Monsanto for $63 billion earlier this year, has […]

Ignoring evidence of damage, EPA continues to approve weed killer

Since 2015, when Monsanto launched soybean and cotton seeds genetically modified to resist dicamba, use of the toxic weed killer has surged. Since then millions of acres of soybeans and other broadleaf crops have been decimated by dicamba drift, amounting to millions of dollars in losses. Early in 2017, when dicamba was first allowed on […]

GM potato now classified as high-risk by Non-GMO Project

The Non-GMO Project recently added J.R. Simplot’s genetically modified Innate White Russet potato to its list of high-risk foods. Being moved from Monitored-Risk to High-Risk occurs when the likelihood of GMO contamination in the conventional and non-GMO supply chain reaches a certain threshold—due to widespread commercial availability of the variety. Engineered through a method of […]