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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 · @BenjaminHCCarr

847 followers · 2161 posts · Server hachyderm.io

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#Roundup #Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in #FalseAdvertising Settlement
Roundup Manufacturers Had No Evidence for Claiming Its Weedkillers Were Safe
#Agrochemical giants #Bayer CropScience and #Monsanto violated a 1996 agreement to stop making false and misleading claims about the safety of its popular weedkillers, New York’s attorney general found.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062023/roundup-weedkiller-settlement-neww-york-ag/

#roundup #weedkiller #falseadvertising #agrochemical #Bayer #monsanto

Last updated 1 year ago

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza

51 followers · 391 posts · Server sfba.social

Truthdig - Monsanto and the Battle Over Scientific Consensus - Truthdig

#TheSwirl: a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. #Monsanto has funded agroscience departments and #research institutes and the #agrochemical #industry has blurred “the lines between reliable and biased #science” in such a way that “makes it impossible to either discredit or believe the #ScientificConsensus” on #glyphosates like #Roundup.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/monsanto-and-the-battle-over-scientific-consensus/

#theswirl #monsanto #research #agrochemical #industry #science #scientificconsensus #glyphosates #Roundup

Last updated 2 years ago

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza

51 followers · 391 posts · Server sfba.social

#TheSwirl: a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. Monsanto has funded agroscience departments and #research institutes and the #agrochemical #industry has blurred “the lines between reliable and biased #science” in such a way that “makes it impossible to either discredit or believe the #ScientificConsensus”.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/monsanto-and-the-battle-over-scientific-consensus/

#theswirl #research #agrochemical #industry #science #scientificconsensus

Last updated 2 years ago

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Mirka Fries · @mirkafries

237 followers · 32 posts · Server bhre.social

France's loi Egalime, the first law to ban the export of certain #pesticides from the EU, contains serious loopholes that allow #agrochemical corporations to continue making dangerous exports and maintain double standards

#agrochemical #pesticides

Last updated 2 years ago

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GRAIN · @GRAIN

48 followers · 18 posts · Server mstdn.social

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Who profits under #UPOV?

As UPOV has expanded, the global #seed market has been taken over by a cartel of #agrochemical companies. Today, just four of these companies control half of the US$47 billion seed market.

➡️ https://grain.org/e/6921

#StopUPOV #DefendFarmersSeeds #seeds #biodiversity #pesticides #agribusiness #food #agriculture #Bayer #Syngenta #Corteva #BASF #seedlaws #patenting

#patenting #seedlaws #basf #Corteva #syngenta #bayer #agriculture #Food #agribusiness #pesticides #biodiversity #seeds #defendfarmersseeds #stopupov #agrochemical #seed #UPOV

Last updated 2 years ago

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GRAIN · @GRAIN

73 followers · 27 posts · Server mstdn.social

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Who profits under #UPOV?

As UPOV has expanded, the global #seed market has been taken over by a cartel of #agrochemical companies. Today, just four of these companies control half of the US$47 billion seed market.

➡️ https://grain.org/e/6921

#StopUPOV #DefendFarmersSeeds #seeds #biodiversity #pesticides #agribusiness #food #agriculture #Bayer #Syngenta #Corteva #BASF #seedlaws #patenting