12/November/21

 

Brazil on Thursday became the first country to allow imports of flour made with genetically modified wheat, though shipments of the new variety developed in Argentina are unlikely anytime soon due to opposition from Brazilian millers and global consumers. Reuters

 

 

Farmers in the American South may not be able to see the invisible menace as it spreads from field to field, but a chemical vapour has been quietly drifting in the hot summer air over the past few years, damaging everything from fruit orchards to soybean crops. Many Southern growers — especially in Arkansas, one of the epicenters for this problem — are mad about it. They’ve begun to fight back, calling for the EPA, state officials, or anybody to step in. For now, dangerous droplets continue to billow into the atmosphere and drift as the wind blows, threatening, as a court put it, to “tear the social fabric of farming communities” asunder. An excerpt from a new book by Bartow J. Elmore, Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future, tells the story of how this chemical storm came to be. It’s a historical account that shows how genetic engineering firms sold farmers a food future that is actually a toxic past. That past, of course, is not even past. Southern Foodways Alliance

 

 

Bayer has earmarked billions of dollars to settle lawsuits over the cancer-causing weedkiller Roundup. Investigative journalist and author of The Monsanto Papers Carey Gillam joins laywer Mike Papantonio to share her personal experience throughout the Bayer-Monsanto debacle, built upon a decades-long cover-up by researchers who downplayed the dangers of their hallmark product. The Ring of Fire