A lobbyist who has been making the media rounds saying the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is safe for humans to drink refuses to drink glyphosate when a French TV news host offers him a glass. — Read the rest

Mountain Dew strikes again! This time, a woman in Missouri used the carbonated soft drink to poison her husband — by mixing it with Roundup weed killer.

In May and June, 47-year-old Michelle Peters allegedly served her hubby bottles of Mountain Dew spiked with both the weed killer and insecticide, because, as she said in courts, he didn't appreciate the 50th birthday party she threw for him. — Read the rest

If you're a picky eater like me, you probably prefer lettuce without glyphosate or Escherichia coli. But after you rinse, you are faced with the problem of wet lettuce. How do remove the water from the lettuce's hydrophilic surface? By subjecting it to a centrifugal pseudo-force!

Back in 2018, evil got a shot in the arm when Nazi collaborators Bayer were allowed to buy Big Ag monopolists Monsanto, celebrating the marriage by getting rid of the Monsanto name (on the grounds that Monsanto's tactics had tarnished their reputation even worse than Bayer's use of concentration camp slaves and fatal medical experiments on Jews and others imprisoned by the Nazis, to say nothing of their notorious product Zyklon B).

The weed killer glyphosate, better known as Monsanto's RoundUp, is touted by the manufacturer as a perfectly harmless herbicide. But a study led by bee experts at the University of Texas, Austin found that RoundUp leads to disruptions in the gut biome of honeybees and is responsible for the colony collapse disorder that's plagued bees for the last decade. — Read the rest

Farming is undergoing a quiet but radical transformation as machine learning and automation innovations reduce waste. One especially promising new technology targets individual weeds.

Monsanto is facing over 100 lawsuits in a Federal district court in San Francisco brought by people who attribute their non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to exposure to glyphosate in Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer, and as part of the discovery process, it submitted internal documents to the court that detailed shenanigans in the company's internal science and its dealings with regulators and the press.

The Monarch butterfly is headed to rapid extinction in the eastern US, reports Scott K. Johnson, because its complex ecosystem continues to collapse.

…humans are responsible. The life cycle of the monarch is tightly linked with the milkweed plant. Females lay almost all of their eggs on these plants, and the larvae happily munch on them when they hatch.

It’s unclear how much exposure would be cancerous, or why glyphosate leads specifically to this kind of cancer.