In the latest development in the dicamba saga, EPA approved over-the-top application for years to come of three dicamba herbicides. As DTN reports, Bayer’s Xtendimax, BNSFs Engenia, and Syngenta’s Tavium dicamba-based herbicides were each granted five-year registrations with a new restrictions, including a cutoff date of June 30 for soybeans and July 30 for cotton, […]
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On October 30, 2020 Dr. Benbrook testified via video to the Philadelphia City Council in support of a proposed municipal ban on herbicide application in city parks and other public lands. His written statement accompanying this testimony is shared in its entirety below. It reviews the key public health implications of rising herbicide use for […]
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Guest Blog by Alan Guebert from farmandfoodfile.com Reprinted by permission of the author. In a year of too many dark days, Monday, Sept. 14 was a particularly dark day for every American for two reasons. First, on Sept. 14, ProPublica, the non-profit, investigatory news group, published a 3,100-word exposé on how global meatpackers used their […]
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Hygeia Analytics has featured news and blogs on organic integrity the last two weeks, beginning with our August 27th coverage of the cover story “Produce Without Pesticides” in the October 2020 issue of Consumer Reports. On that same day Hygeia was proud to share an excellent guest blog by Larry Jacobs, founder and President of […]
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By: Brian Baker Brian is a scientist specializing in organic practices, standards, and regulations. He has analyzed the impacts of organic food and farming on the environment and human well-being for several decades. Demand for organic food in the US continues to grow, but the domestic supply has been unable to keep pace. Sales […]
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On March 6, 2017, Hygeia posted a guest blog by Lynn Clarkson, then President of Clarkson Grain, one of the largest suppliers of U.S. grown organic and non-GMO grain and soybeans in the domestic and global market. His blog was based on a letter Lynn had sent to several newly minted Trump Administration officials, in […]
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Note from Hygeia — We invited Larry Jacobs (far right in photo), founder and president of Del Cabo and Jacobs Farm, to share his experiences in producing organic herbs and vegetables free of non-compliant pesticide residues. His history with illegal pesticides on organic foods spans decades. He has lost crops and markets in his company’s […]
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By: Dr. Chuck Benbrook Many people ask me — Why the big punitive damage awards in the Roundup-Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL) litigation? Easy answer — Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) lousy product “stewardship” behavior. Company representatives and others up and down the herbicide supply chain have been reassuring Roundup users for almost a half-century that Roundup is as […]
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Hygeia Note — A lively discussion has unfolded on GM_Ag focused on a novel COVID-19 drug therapy — inhaled budesonide, along with antibiotics and zinc. Many questions arose over the thin and anecdotal evidence suggesting that budesonide-based therapy is the magic COVID-19 cure sought the world over. But the exchanges also yielded a compelling analysis […]
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The unfolding litigation over the contribution of Roundup use and exposure to over 100,000 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in the U.S. has been one of the biggest food and ag stories worldwide for a couple of years now. Just a few weeks ago, Bayer/Monsanto announced a $10 billion-plus settlement of a majority of the […]
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