Tag: pesticides

Monsanto tastes defeat

May 9, 2007

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Tom Philpott, Grist.Org, May 8, 2007 Monsanto has barreled its way toward dominance over the global seed market with strong-arm tactics and friends in high places. As evidence of the former, the roguish company once threatened to sue me — then a neophyte blogger with 30 readers — on the most trivial grounds possible. As…

Spray fight hits home: Plantation workers in Nicaragua to get day in U.S. court for pesticide they say ruined their health

Dec 4, 2006

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LETTA TAYLER, NEWSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006 For years, Francisco Antenor drove his tractor past the banana plantations of this tropical village as they were sprayed with pesticide. Droplets fell like dew on his copper-hued skin, which is now spotted like a Dalmatian’s.

Thousands in human chain protests at Coke, Pepsi plants in India

Jan 21, 2005

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MANDIDEEP, BHOPAL (AFP) Jan 20, 2005 Thousands of students and farmers on Thursday surrounded Pepsi and Coca-Cola factories in a “Quit India” campaign, accusing the US giants of selling soft drinks laced with pesticides. They lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a five-kilometre (three-mile) chain around a Pepsi bottling plant at this central Indian township, an AFP…

Dec 3rd is ‘No Pesticides Day’: PAN calls for Paraquat ban

Dec 3, 2003

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STOP Paraquat! On the occasion of global “No Pesticides Use Day” this December 3, the international Pesticide Action Network (PAN) calls for the global ban and phase out of the production and use of paraquat, one of the most dangerous and controversial herbicides in the world. The international Pesticide Action-Network launched December 3 as the…

"Clean is a relative word", says Indian Pepsi chief

Aug 19, 2003

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Rajeev Bakshi, the head of Pepsi in India, was grilled recently by Anil Thakraney (he of “F*** not Bhopal again!” fame). Bakshi claimed that the testing process used in the report that damned Pepsi, Coke and a dozen minor brands (many also owned by the big two) was flawed. Asked why Indian samples of Pepsi…

Coca Cola scandal deepens, killings begin

Aug 17, 2003

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Despite selling poisoned drinks, and spewing out carcinogenic sludge from their plants, sucking the ground dry, thus destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and forcing local people to trudge for miles in search of alternative water sources, it seems that American multinationals Coke and Pepsi, like Enron and Union Carbide before them, are being protected…

Dow wants to test poisons on humans

Aug 3, 2003

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in Shameless

In 1998 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned testing poisonous chemicals on humans. Now under pressure from the chemical industry, led by Dow Chemical, the Bush administration is moving to endorse such testing and the EPA has begun lifting the ban, despite despite strong opposition from the medical community. According to Dr Joseph Mercola,…