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10/25/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Monsanto / Bayer now facing over 8,000 lawsuits alleging its glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide causes cancer

A California judge has issued a landmark ruling that affirms the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate, the primary active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos ultimately sided with jurors in the case of Dewayne Johnson, a school groundskeeper who developed a severe and fast-moving form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from repeated […]

07/10/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Scientific American confirms: Atrazine herbicide is a “sex-changing weed killer” that turns male frogs GAY

A scientific study has reaffirmed that a popular weedkiller manufactured by Syngenta and used on crop fields all across the United States is so damaging to the endocrine system that it can actually turn natural-born males into females. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the paper by researchers from the […]

06/12/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Celebrity chef arrested for allegedly attempting to murder a giant tree using Roundup herbicide and a drill

Television personality and former 2014 “Top Chef” contestant Adam Harvey, 33, has reportedly been arrested by Brooklyn police after he was caught trying to kill his neighbor’s 60-year-old tree using buckets of Roundup (glyphosate) herbicide and a hand drill. Harvey is apparently upset about the fact that the towering silver maple partially blocks sunlight from […]

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