20/July/22

 

Bayer has failed twice to get its appeals of cases it has lost in the Roundup/cancer litigation in front of the Supreme Court, but now it has a cunning plan. According to attorneys from those cases, Bayer is paying a man who has a different type of cancer (not one that the courts have linked to glyphosate herbicide exposure as they did the other plaintiffs’ Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) and who lost his case against the company, to appeal his unwinnable case. And if he drops the appeal, he has to pay Bayer damages of about $100,000! This is an attempt by the company to get its pre-emption case in front of the Supreme Court. That pre-emption case argues that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act's labelling provisions, which would be based on the US Environmental Protection Agency's view that glyphosate does not pose a risk, pre-empt California state law mandating labelling of carcinogens. A hard-hitting article spells out why pre-emption on the basis of the EPA approval is ridiculous. Investigate Midwest

 

 

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by warning of a food crisis. But according to FAO and IPES there is no risk of food supply shortages. So why are many countries facing food insecurity? What is crucially being overlooked by most diagnoses of the current food crisis is how the problem does not lie in a lack of supply, or lack of market integration, but instead in how the food system is structured around power, a new report by Navdanya International shows. Navdanya International

 

 

In Ghana, 30 journalists have been schooled on GMOs. The reporters' training on the safety of GMOs was organised by the (Cornell) Alliance for Science, a GMO PR outfit funded by the Gates Foundation, which coordinates closely with the agrichemical industry. Just think how much of the country’s reporting that affects! @GMWatch on Twitter

 

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