Monsanto owner Bayer and US officials pressured Mexico to drop glyphosate ban Details
Internal government emails show actions similar to those by Bayer and lobbyists to kill a proposed ban in Thailand in 2019
EXCERPT: “We’re seeing more and more how the pesticide industry uses the US government to aggressively push its agenda on the international stage and quash any attempt by people in other countries to take control of their food supply,” said Nathan Donley, a biologist with the CBD conservation group. -
Carey Gillam
[links to sources at this URL] Internal government emails show actions similar to those by Bayer and lobbyists to kill a proposed ban in Thailand in 2019
Bill Gates, Climate Warrior – and Super Emitter Details
Bill Gates has a new book out:
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. But some people are less than amused at having to take lessons on the climate crisis from a billionaire who, in the words of the ETC Group, “made a fortune skirting government regulations with monopolistic practices, and holds a significant financial stake in the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry.”
The following article by Tim Schwab makes clear just how extensive those fossil fuel investments are and how much they are at odds with Bill Gates’ claims. But at the same time as holding significant financial interests in fossil fuel extraction and fossil fuel dependent industries, quite apart from having a massive personal carbon footprint, Gates is also embracing large-scale planetary interventions via risky geoengineering.
Soya founder Paul Tergat said: “I wish to pay tribute to our partners for seeing beyond the challenges and indeed, the adversity of Covid-19 and sharing their little resources towards making the Soya 2020 recognition awards and sports symposium possible.”
Soya panel chairman Chris Mbaisi noted that this year’s event will be different from the previous one mainly because many sports men and women were barred from sports participation due to the pandemic.
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“The event will be different from previous as we shall not be rewarding top performances in area of sport but rather recognising efforts and possibilities during the year 2020, because sports is a resilient human endeavour, we shall host a sports symposium and a gala night to honour a few people who made an effort to overcome adversity,” Mbaisi said.
Sepa tells SHC Keamari ‘gas leakage’ deaths were caused by soya bean dust
Karachi
February 12, 2021
Parameters of carbon monoxide and particulate toxic matters were exceeding the prescribed limits of the provincial environmental quality standards during the soya bean and pet-coke handling at the Karachi port in February last year when 17 people died in the Keamari area and hundreds of others were affected.
This was stated by the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) on Thursday in a report submitted to the Sindh High Court (SHC) on the alleged gas leakage incident.
Filing the final report in respect of the gas leakage incident in Keamari, the Sepa director general (DG) said a Sepa team visited the Karachi port where a ship was anchored loaded with soya bean imported from the United States on the berths 10 and 11, which was being unloaded. The SHC was informed that the environmental watchdog’s team observed high intensity of dust emission during the process of unlo
Glyphosate and Roundup disturb gut microbiome and blood biochemistry at doses that regulators claim to be safe Details
New study reveals evidence for potential cancer-causing damage. Report: Claire Robinson
Glyphosate and the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup disrupt the gut microbiome by the same mechanism by which the chemical acts as a weedkiller, and these effects happen even at low doses that regulators claim to be safe, a newly published study has found.[1]
The new study was conducted by an international team of scientists based in London, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, led by Dr Michael Antoniou of King’s College London. It is published today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.