Nick Tabor writes in The New Republic:

“Excessive-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of inflicting most cancers and Parkinson’s. However three states are actually contemplating payments that might forestall these lawsuits.

Six years in the past, the multinational company Bayer made one of many worst purchases in American enterprise historical past: It purchased Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, for $63 billion. Monsanto was already being sued by a faculty groundskeeper within the Bay Space who stated his publicity to the weedkiller had given him non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Two months after the merger, a jury awarded the groundskeeper $289 million. Since then, Bayer has been pummeled with lawsuits, and between settlements and jury verdicts, it has been required to pay out greater than $14 billion to plaintiffs. Its inventory has misplaced 70 p.c of its worth.

Determined to reassure traders, the corporate has been preventing again with each means at its disposal. Its newest effort: lobbying state legislatures to defend it from future lawsuits and to annul no less than among the 50,000 claims which might be presently energetic.

Since January, payments to defend pesticide producers from lawsuits have been filed in three states the place Bayer has a significant company presence: Missouri (the place Monsanto is headquartered), Idaho (the place it has a phosphate mine), and Iowa (the place it has a producing plant). Daniel Hinkle, an lawyer with the American Affiliation for Justice, who works with trial lawyer associations all through the nation, predicted that if these payments succeed, Bayer will push comparable laws in a lot of different states subsequent 12 months.”



Read about how if the bills succeed, they will limit the only mechanism left for holding the manufacturers of these products accountable for the damage they cause

Take Motion defend the well being of your state: Make Your State the First to Ban Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller!

Andrew Jacobs writes for the New York Instances:

“Huge poultry farms have acquired tens of millions of {dollars} for his or her losses. Animal welfare teams contend that help reinforces inhumane cullings of birds uncovered to the virus.

The extremely deadly type of avian influenza circulating the globe since 2021 has killed tens of tens of millions of birds, pressured poultry farmers in the US to slaughter whole flocks and prompted a quick however alarming spike within the worth of eggs.

Most just lately, it has contaminated dairy cows in a number of states and no less than one individual in Texas who had shut contact with the animals, officers stated this week.
Officers say the compensation program is geared toward encouraging farms to report outbreaks shortly. That’s as a result of the federal government pays for birds killed by culling, not those who die from the illness. Early reporting, the company says, helps to restrict the virus’s unfold to close by farms.”

Read about the culling often results in unnecessary suffering and more

From Reuters: US is ’18 months or so’ away from finding bird flu vaccine, says agriculture secretary

With this latest information, we advocate revisiting these articles by our Political Director Alexis Baden-Mayer

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Ercilia Sahores, Worldwide Director, Natural Customers Affiliation writes:

In 2020 Mexico introduced the ban on the usage of glyphosate, setting April 1, 2024 because the deadline to fully ban its use. This was a giant victory for civil society, organizations, farmers, activists and former official governments who after years of stating the hazards of pesticides have been lastly heard.

Earlier this week, nonetheless, throughout one in every of his early morning conferences, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador introduced that the deliberate April 1 glyphosate ban was to be postponed with out offering any new date for the prohibition.

Natural Customers Affiliation in Mexico together with its sister group, Vía Orgánica, have supported the combat towards glyphosate and the protection of non-GMO corn with funding, campaigning and organizing. This information got here as a giant shock for a lot of teams and coalitions like ours, who’ve been working within the protection of life, well being, biodiversity and meals sovereignty for many years.

However the delay within the ban of glyphosate won’t cease us. What we have now seen and what we’re experiencing in Mexico is, within the phrases of Víctor Toledo Manzur, former Secretary of Atmosphere and Pure Sources of the present authorities, an “agroecological revolution.” There are 7 million hectares in Mexico (17297376.7 acres) producing meals with out utilizing glyphosate or different herbicides, with over 4.5 million agro ecological producers. The Nationwide Council for Science and Expertise (Conahcyt) has developed six options to glyphosate (three of them 100% Mexican): bioherbicides with 90% effectiveness.

Regardless of the heavy lobbying – that has been exercised towards Mexico after the section out of GMO corn imports and the ban on glyphosate from highly effective world agrochemical firms and the strain from US commerce officers – organized civil society and a part of the federal government stays robust, exhibiting options, offering options and organizing in order that the ban on glyphosate turns into a actuality. We are going to proceed relying in your assist to make this occur for the well being of our complete planet.

For more information about this disappointing development read this report by By Carey Gillam and Johnathan Hettinger

Angela Braden stories in Mothers Throughout America:

“A promising leap towards extra meals sovereignty within the US has been the deregulation of native meals manufacturing and gross sales on the state degree. A number of states have handed payments to legalize or broaden uncooked milk distribution, “cottage meals” gross sales, and on-farm slaughter — rules that had been prohibitive to conventional small farms up to now.

“Cottage meals” legal guidelines allow the sale of small-production-foods with out the burdens of totally licensed retail meals. State cottage meals legal guidelines restrict gross sales by the kind of meals merchandise offered, the areas of sale, and the quantity of income {that a} cottage meals manufacturing could make to obtain the protections of the regulation. A cottage meals operation doesn’t must be licensed, regulated, or inspected, by state regulation.

Read about how loosening of the regulatory noose for small to medium farmers would also encourage more regenerative and organic practices. 

Find a regenerative farm near you with Regeneration International’s Farm Map

Evaluation by Dr. Joseph Mercola:

“STORY AT-A-GLANCE

* Sleep might assist jump-start the glymphatic system, which flushes waste out of your mind

* Throughout sleep, neurons generate electrical alerts that generate rhythmic mind waves, propelling cerebrospinal fluid by the mind

* These electrical waves might increase the operate of the glymphatic system, serving to cerebrospinal fluid penetrate deeper into the mind and decide up waste, enhancing the cleansing course of

* By enhancing your mind’s skill to filter particles, sleep might scale back your danger of mind ailments, because the accumulation of metabolic waste is a number one reason for neurological issues

* Correct sleep can be vital for summary studying, reminiscence consolidation and psychological well being”

Learn more about this activity that takes up about one-third of our lives

Whitney Bauck writes in The Guardian:

“The primary 12 months that the Hudson Valley Seed Firm tried rising yakteen at their farm in upstate New York, the heirloom number of Palestinian gourd shortly unfold till its vines have been sending their tendrils throughout a full acre of land. Born of a partnership with the artist, researcher and conservationist Vivien Sansour, that pilot plot was simply one in every of many items of proof supporting Sansour’s thesis: that saving Palestinian heirloom seeds may gain advantage not simply Palestinians, however might assist feed a whole planet in disaster.

Sansour is the founding father of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, a undertaking that started in 2016 to preserve Palestinian heritage and tradition by saving heirloom seed varieties and telling the tales and historical past from which they emerged.

‘The mission of the seed library is to revitalize and preserve a dwelling archive of our heirloom seeds,’ stated Sansour. ‘Not only for Palestine, but additionally for the world.’”

Read about how the seeds from the library have already begun to ‘grow wings’ and make their way around the globe

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes writes in Eco Watch:

“It’s no secret that trendy people have ravaged the planet. We now have decimated ecosystems to make manner for monocrop agriculture, the elevating of beef cattle and improvement. Ecosystems that had maintained a fragile steadiness for tens of millions of years have been was ecological wastelands with cascading damaging results on biodiversity, humanity and important biogeochemical processes like Earth’s water cycle.

Rewilding is the reversing of damaging impacts on pure environments by the restoration and conservation of ecosystems, wilderness areas and their pure processes, and it’s important for the survival of most life on our planet.

Rewilding entails reintroducing native species and permitting nature to heal and nurture itself. Doing so cannot solely restore biodiversity, however it might probably defend endangered species, forestall flooding and assist mitigate local weather change.”

Learn about why rewilding is important to us all

“It’s unlawful to kill your missus,
Or put poison in your previous man’s tea,
However poison the rivers, the seas, the skies,
and poison the minds of individuals with lies,
Its all within the curiosity of free enterprise,
Nonetheless it’s completely authorized” ~ Ewan MacColl, singer-songwriter

The corporate that swore up and down that PCBs have been “protected” has additionally, for many years, been mendacity in regards to the security of its flagship product, Roundup weedkiller.

Now they’re determined to reassure traders and preventing again by lobbying state legislatures to defend it from future lawsuits and to annul no less than among the 50,000 claims which might be presently energetic.

It’s simply one in every of so many revelations.

Monsanto workers ghost wrote research that have been handed off as authored by “unbiased scientists.”

Monsanto workers colluded with former EPA officers to bury the reality about Roundup and glyphosate.

Monsanto orchestrated assaults on the World Well being Group company after a panel of 17 worldwide scientists unanimously concluded that glyphosate is a possible human carcinogen.

Monsanto was additionally behind forcing a scientific journal to un-publish a research exhibiting that glyphosate in very low ranges might trigger most cancers.

For many years, Monsanto has been poisoning “the rivers, the seas, the skies” and the “minds of individuals with lies.”

It’s all executed within the title of a “free enterprise” system that provides firms a free experience.

But it surely’s something however “free” for the remainder of us, caught with the hospital payments (or worse), and the tab for cleansing up the mess.

We now have little hope that authorities companies or policymakers will defend the environment or our well being towards those that poison within the title of “free enterprise.”

This can be a combat we should combat, along with your assist, we’ll. 

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Jagriti stories in WorldLifestyle:

“These days, microplastics seem like all over the place, from the arctic to deep into folks’s lungs, which may be very regarding. Plastic progressively degrades into microscopic microplastics that people eat, drink, and breathe in. Inevitably, microplastics discover their manner into pure meals techniques and rivers, the place they’ll ultimately find yourself in your plate.

Although it’s not possible to completely keep away from microplastics, we might make intentional efforts to cut back our publicity to microplastics to a big extent. Listed here are some methods to hopefully keep away from microplastics:”

Check out these 10 ways to lower microplastics in your life

Frank Becker writes in Aol:

“Whereas I used to be doing a little web browsing this spring I got here throughout some articles discussing useful native vegetation so as to add to your panorama. I initially skimmed over the content material, however seen a hefty variety of feedback on the article and determined to see what the reason for the dialogue was.

Many have been fast to level out that article had listed a ‘burning bush’ as a really helpful species to plant. The priority was based mostly on the extraordinarily invasive species Euonymus alatus, which additionally has the frequent title ‘burning bush.’

What I shortly realized is a few very useful native vegetation can simply be confused with extremely invasive non-native vegetation merely due to overlapping frequent names. This may result in a number of confusion whereas making an attempt to make choices when buying vegetation.

‘Burning bush’ and ‘burning bush’ are two very totally different vegetation and are on the alternative finish of the spectrum of their worth as a plant in our panorama and their related ecosystem advantages. Appears simple sufficient to know proper? Clearly, having vegetation with shared frequent names will be extremely complicated.”



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